22岁的北京姑娘张树颀没有想到，自己用一夜时间创作出来的《飞马惊燕》能从2000多名参赛者中脱颖而出，获得由香港奥运马术公司举办的场地障碍栏杆设计比赛高级组的冠军。这个平时喜爱骑马游玩的首都经济贸易大学大四学生是唯一一个来自中国内地的获奖者，她的作品很有可能出现在奥运会赛场上。

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: Equestrian¹ 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 delicacy² 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 Polytechnic³ 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 motifs⁴ – 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：驯马技术，马在表演时一种优美而复杂的步法

bamboo steamer ：竹制蒸笼

Flying Horse and Startled Swallow：飞马惊燕

knife and horse actress：刀马旦

horse stepping on a flying swallow：马踏飞燕（汉朝著名手工艺品）