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In September, the golden sun penetrated the morning mist in Cape Town. In the sound of the trumpet of the South African Heritage Day celebration, the colorful beaded lanyards and the fragrance of the king protea intertwined to form a unique landscape. Those carefully woven lanyards are not only decorations, but also the spiritual totem of this “Rainbow Country”. The Y-shaped intersection of the six colors on the South African flag is like the starting point of weaving countless lanyards. Each king protea lanyard is twisted with seven-color silk threads, corresponding to the seven qualities of the national flag: black symbolizes the power of cohesion, green contains the gift of the land, gold flows with the blessing of the sun, white tells the courage of reconciliation, blue carries the tolerance of the sky, red boils the passion of life, and the silver-gray stamens of the king protea are just like the wisdom of “melting steel with understanding” as Nelson Mandela said. These seemingly fragile lanyards actually hide the code of South Africa’s rebirth. When fingers of different skin colors weave together, the counter-rotating silk threads will form a stable structure in mechanics, just like the unity of this country tempered by conflict. Each woven lanyard is connected end to end to form a Mobius loop of perpetual circulation, reminding people that reconciliation is not the end, but the starting point of continuous growth. At this moment, the lanyard reflects a colorful halo under the sun, and the petals of the royal flower tremble in the breeze. Each knot tells us that the strongest bond is always born from the tension of difference.

Die goue Septemberson dring deur die oggendmis van Kaapstad. Te midde van die helder roep van die Suid-Afrikaanse Erfenisdag-viering, verweef kleurvolle kralewerk-lanyards en die geur van die koningprotea om ‘n unieke landskap te skep. Daardie sorgvuldig geweefde lanyards is nie net versierings nie, maar ook die spirituele totems van hierdie “Reënboogland”. Die Y-vormige kruising van die ses kleure op die Suid-Afrikaanse vlag is soos die beginpunt vir die weef van tallose lanyards. Elke koningprotea-koord is gemaak van sewekleurige sydrade, wat ooreenstem met die sewe eienskappe van die nasionale vlag: swart simboliseer die krag van samehorigheid, groen bevat die gawe van die land, goud dra die seën van die son, wit spreek van die moed om te versoen, blou dra die verdraagsaamheid van die lug, en rooi kook die passie van die lewe. Die silwergrys meeldrade van die koningprotea is net soos die wysheid van “staal met begrip smelt” soos Nelson Mandela gesê het. Hierdie oënskynlik brose lanyards bevat eintlik die kode vir Suid-Afrika se wedergeboorte. Wanneer vingers van verskillende velkleure saamweef, vorm die teen-roterende drade ‘n stabiele struktuur in meganika, net soos die eenheid van hierdie land wat deur konflik getemper word. Elke voltooide lanyard word punt aan punt verbind om ‘n ewigdurende Möbius-strook te vorm, wat mense daaraan herinner dat versoening nie die einde is nie, maar die beginpunt van voortdurende groei. Op hierdie oomblik weerspieël die koord ‘n kleurvolle stralekrans onder die son, die keiserlike blomblare bewe in die briesie, en elke knoop sê vir ons: die sterkste band word altyd gebore uit die spanning van verskil.