In the shadow of the National Stadium in Beijing, the now 80,000 seat stadium that was the main competition venue for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, is a wall in which all of the winners’s names were engraved. This painstaking compilation must have taken many months, not only to do but to get the information correct.
The years of sun and rain have tarnished the silver on the left, the gold still stands out and that same sun and rain have also washed the bronze color away on the right. However, the colors have been preserved a bit better in the listing itself.
The red emblem is called “Dancing Beijing” and represents a dancing figure. It is taken from the second Chinese character of the Chinese phrase for Beijing, the “Jing” part, which means “capital”. Beijing is the capital of China.
The color red is highly-regarded in Chinese culture and symbolizes good fortune and joy, so the red background for a dancing figure is very appropriate. The design recalls a Chinese seal or chop.
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