today,The China Central Radio and Television Station's "2026 Spring Festival Gala" released the mascot images - "Qiqi", "Jiji", "Chichi" and "Gangcheng", four horses, lively, cute and high-spirited.The mascot design is inspired by the classic images of horses in different periods in China, and is "wearing" thousands of years of patterns such as flowing cloud patterns and mountain cloud patterns on the upper body, which is full of the beautiful meaning of success and a bright future.
According to CCTV News,The design inspiration of "Qiqi" comes from the Juju statue of the Western Zhou Dynasty; the design inspiration of "Jiji" comes from the Pegasus of the Han Dynasty; the design inspiration of "Chichi" comes from the three-flowered horse of the Tang Dynasty; the design prototype of "Chengcheng" is the Przewalski's horse.
It is understood that, as the only existing wild horse species on earth,Przewalski's horse is a "living genetic fossil" with a long evolutionary history of 60 million years.
Today, China's Przewalski's horse population ranks first in the world, which is an important achievement in my country's biodiversity protection and ecological civilization construction.