In the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games 2022, one of the programs in which the “fallen pigeon” was finally brought back to the team by the pigeon’s sister was considered by Chinese mainland netizens as a metaphor for Taiwan.
According to Chinese official media Xinhua News Agency on Feb. 5, the “little dove that fell behind” appeared in a program called “Shiny Snowflakes”, in which the “little dove that fell behind” was played by Xu Shuyuan from Beijing Haidian District Experimental Primary School, who said, “I was a little pigeon who fell in line, and then I found my sister in the crowd, and she led me to the line.”
The report said that the “little pigeon sister” who found her was Guo Yaxi from Beijing Zhongguancun Second Primary School, “I stay at the end of the line every time, waiting for the little pigeon, and then I went back to the group and did not find her, and then I looked out and saw the little pigeon, so I pulled her back. ”
The report said that the sub-venue director Tian Tian, said, “We hope that through the performance of these 660 chorus and dance children, we can show this ethereal, romantic, modern, technological feeling, so in the whole design of the end, it converges into a heart shape, is a warm representation, we designed this ‘big pulls small’, a child, that is, a small dove that fell out of line, then a slightly older child will come out of the heart, to pull her back to the heart-shaped team. We think this is a very warm image, very warm, very happy.”
After the above performance, the “fallen pigeon” was discussed on Weibo by mainland Chinese netizens, many of whom believed that there was a “metaphor” in which the “fallen doves” symbolize Taiwan and “being brought back to the team” implies cross-strait reunification.
Some Chinese said, “The child who got lost will definitely come back,” and others said that all the doves are looking to the southeast, waiting for the doves that fell in line to come back.
The official microblog of the “Central Committee of the Communist Youth League” retweeted the clip of the program at the top of its microblog in the early hours of February 5, and wrote: “The lost child, come home early”.
