Beijing 2008 Official Mascots: BeiBei, JingJing, HuanHuan, YingYing and NiNi
I am not following the Olympics as much as I used to. My father, however, was watching the Olympic torch relay in various Chinese cities on Astro the whole day. My mother asked me what is the mascot for this Olympics and I truly have no idea, without checking up on the internet.
2008 Beijing Olympics
Coincidentally, I was at a shopping complex at night and they have this display sponsored by Coca Cola and there were the five mascots; five little boys and girls wearing animal costumes.
These five children are named BeiBei, JingJing, HuanHuan, YingYing and NiNi. BeiBei is in a Fish costume, JingJing in the Panda costume, HuanHuan represents the Olympic Flame, YingYing is in the Tibetan Antelope costume while NiNi is in the Swallow costume.
These four animals are animals native to China. In addition to that, they are in the colours of the five Olympic rings. What is most unique is that when you take the first syllable of these five names, you will get “Bei Jing Huan Ying Ni” which means “Beijing welcomes you”. I wonder how long it took the designers to come up with this concept but it is pretty unique in the history of Olympics.
For more information on what each child represents and symbolises, check out the website of the official mascots of Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
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Hi I love your blog we had homework about Beijing and it had questions about the MASCOTS and your blog helped a lot.
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Besides the fireworks and performance done during the Olympic the most unique is their panda dolls and these 5 dolls has an animation too….really different than other Olympics…
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I agree. London will have a difficult time surpassing this standard set by Beijing!
Is Huanhuan an animal or is he just an olympic flame?
Hi Gareth,
BeiBei, JingJing, HuanHuan, YingYing and NiNi are actually boys and girls from China. BeiBei and NiNi are girls while JingJing, HuanHuan and YingYing are boys.
HuanHuan (a boy) is the eldest so he is the big brother.
While BeiBei, JingJing, YingYing and NiNi are in animal (native animals in China) costumes, HuanHuan’s costume is the Olympic Flame.
I hope this answers your question.
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