Recently, a hanfu enthusiast draped in a red Doupeng (hanfu cloak) hanfu ski look shot a video in a ski resort has received a lot of attention from netizens.
Beijing Winter Olympic Games into the countdown, recently, a girl in hanfu galloping snowfield, valiant posture attracted the netizens exclaimed: “like the flight on a sword!” “What magic Chinese kung fu!”.
This cool girl is called “Xiao Mei“, post-90s, senior skiing enthusiast, but also an outdoor sports blogger. The other day, “Xiao Mei” attended an event at an indoor ski resort in Chengdu and was filmed skiing in hanfu. In the video, “Xiao Mei” valiantly completed a series of snowboarding movements, red Doupeng in the white snow on the wind.
She said, “The sport of skiing is still relatively niche in China, I hope more people can understand and love it, and I chose hanfu because I want more foreign friends who are focused on the Beijing Winter Olympics to understand the beauty of Chinese costume, and also my own way to promote the Beijing Winter Olympics.”
For the unexpected popularity of the video, “Xiao Mei” was a little surprised while happy, “I was at an event in Chengdu that day, and I happened to have the Chinese costume with me, so I put it on.”
In fact, this is not the first time she wore hanfu skiing, last year she wore the same hanfu in the natural ski resort in Xinjiang Altai.
“But it is the first time to wear hanfu skiing indoors. As the Beijing Winter Olympics are approaching and skiing is one of the events of the Winter Olympics, I want to use this way of skiing in hanfu to let more foreign friends who are concerned about the Winter Olympics feel the charm of Chinese costume.”
Xiao Mei said she was led by a friend around 2015 to like skiing, has always liked outdoor sports, she was particularly fascinated by the feeling of flying down, and slowly became a ski ‘enthusiast'.
In order to ski, Xiao Mei went to many places, “I prefer the natural ski resort. In February 2019, I went to Altay to do two months of volunteer work.”
Last year, Xiao Mei became a promotional ambassador for skiing in Xinjiang Altay, “I now live in Xinjiang Altay for a period of time every winter.”
As an outdoor sports blogger, at the end of October, Xiao Meiparticipated in a live broadcast initiated by Xinhua News Agency with the theme of the Winter Olympics, “I introduced some rules and equipment of indoor skiing and skiing to the netizens in the live broadcast, the sport of skiing is still relatively niche in China, I hope more people can understand and love it, but also my own way to assist the Beijing Winter Olympics.”
