22歲的北京姑娘張樹頎沒有想到，自己用一夜時間創作出來的《飛馬驚燕》能從2000多名參賽者中脫穎而出，獲得由香港奧運馬術公司舉辦的場地障礙欄桿設計比賽高級組的冠軍。這個平時喜愛騎馬游玩的首都經濟貿易大學大四學生是唯一一個來自中國內地的獲獎者，她的作品很有可能出現在奧運會賽場上。

Senior Category winning entry "Flying Horse and Startled Swallow" designed by Miss Zhang Shuqi, a 22-year-old student at the Capital University of Economics and Trade (Photo Credit: Equestrian 2008)

The Equestrian Committee (Hong Kong) of Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (the Equestrian Committee) unveiled winners of the Equestrian Events Jumping Fence Design Competition in three categories on April 1, 2007.

These designs will be used as a source of reference in designing the fences for the Jumping Discipline in the Olympic Games Equestrian Event to be held in Hong Kong in August 2008.

Traditional Chinese operatic and folk art provided inspiration for the winning design in the Senior Category. And Chinese tea-drinking is the common theme for the winning designs in the Professional and Junior Categories.

Jumping is one of the three disciplines in the Olympic Equestrian Event. It requires the rider and the horse to clear a series of 10 to 13 obstacles in the prescribed order. The other two disciplines are Dressage (often described as "horses performing ballet") and Eventing (comprising Jumping, Dressage and Cross-Country).

The winning design in the Professional Category features a bamboo steamer containing dim sum, a favorite delicacy in tea-houses all over China for many centuries. It serves as a common link between Beijing and Hong Kong. And so are the chopsticks that form the horizontal fence. The design was the creation of 22-year-old Mr Yeung Chi-hang, a student in the School of Design, Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

The champion in the Senior Category went to Miss Zhang Shuqi, a 22-year-old student at the Capital University of Economics and Trade in Beijing. Her winning entry, entitled "Flying Horse and Startled Swallow", is a modern expression of two traditional Chinese motifs – the "knife and horse actress" in Peking opera, and five "sandy swallow kites" suggestive of the five Olympic rings. As the Jumping horses leap over the fence decorated by the swallow kites, the action is suggestive of the "horse stepping on a flying swallow ", a famous sculpture produced in the Han Dynasty some 2,000 years ago.

Vocabulary:

Dressage：馴馬技術，馬在表演時一種優美而復雜的步法

bamboo steamer ：竹制蒸籠

Flying Horse and Startled Swallow：飛馬驚燕

knife and horse actress：刀馬旦

horse stepping on a flying swallow：馬踏飛燕（漢朝著名手工藝品）

（英語點津boeybb編輯)

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