The mascot of the 2024 China Central Radio and Television Spring Festival Gala is: Long Chenchen.
On December 6, 2023, the mascot image "Long Chenchen" of the China Central Radio and Television Station's 2024 Year of the Dragon Spring Festival Gala was officially released. As an important spiritual symbol and cultural symbol of the Chinese nation, the image of the dragon has been used throughout literature, art, folklore, architecture, clothing, painting and other fields for thousands of years. The main station’s 2024 Year of the Dragon Spring Festival Gala mascot image highlights the beautiful meaning of good luck, peace and happiness.
Long Chenchen’s color scheme selected traditional Chinese colors such as Dayun, Fanchi, Zhuxia, Yuqi, and Chunchen. "The rosy clouds are blowing in the morning, and the mist is in the evening." The rosy clouds represent the red clouds and the youthful colors of the sun as it rises. Spring is the color of the first melting of ice and snow and the budding of vegetation. The green color it belongs to is the representative color of the Oriental Blue Dragon. The green dragon is one of the four astronomical phenomena in ancient China. It represents spring, hope and growth, and also gives "Long Chenchen" the vitality of winter passing and spring coming, bidding farewell to the old and welcoming the new.
Long Chenchen’s design elements
The 2024 Year of the Dragon Spring Festival Gala mascot seeks design inspiration from the long-standing and well-established Chinese excellent traditional culture, and draws emotional resonance from real life. It is full of the connotation and beauty of the zodiac dragon in traditional culture, and also shows the high-spirited spirit of the Chinese people in the new era.
Long Chenchen extracted the unique ancient dragon nose from the turquoise dragon-shaped vessel unearthed at the Erlitou site in Yanshi, Henan Province as the design element. The structure of the dragon's spine and the dragon's belly pattern came from the earliest recorded " The four ridges and cloud and thunder pattern on the side of the Western Zhou Dynasty He Zun with the word "China", and the decoration on the eyebrow arch and dragon shoulder are taken from the cloud pattern copper forbidden decoration collected by the Henan Museum. They are exquisite and unique, adding to the interest and ancient charm of the mascot. .
The nine giant dragons on the Nine Dragon Wall of the Palace Museum are well known for their exquisite craftsmanship and majestic momentum. Long Chenchen designed the shape of the dragon's claws with reference to the "five-clawed golden dragon" on the Nine Dragon Wall, showing its power and solemnity. The gilt walking dragon collected in the Xi'an Museum is a typical animal-shaped dragon with a jagged back and a long tail that rolls back and curls up. It represents the superb metallurgical technology of the Tang Dynasty. Long Chenchen chose the figure for its majestic and vigorous posture when walking with its head held high. , heroic and high-spirited.
Reference for the above content: Xinhuanet-2024 Main Station Spring Festival Gala mascot officially unveiled