Prior to an Olympic welcoming banquet on February 5 at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, hosted by Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan, Prince of Monaco Albert Ⅱ tried his hand at dough sculpting. The volunteer helping His Serene Highness knead the doe-eyed Bing Dwen Dwen, roly-poly mascot of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, was 26-year-old Lang Jiaziyu, a third-generation inheritor of Dough Figurines Lang (Mian Ren Lang in Chinese), a National Intangible Cultural Heritage item since 2008.