Ancient Greece’s sports spirit is the emphasis on strength, speed, height, skill’s competition, and pay attention to physical fitness and male beauty. The winner is the sports incomparably superior hero,and he can be rewarded by drinking . The winner must pour wine into a large cup which is given to the loser . For the winner, it suggested that they may not be arrogant, also to be modest; and for the loser, drink the wine which is considered as a punishment, because they are either skills or virtue are not standard, it’s a kind of warning. Because of the story,the shape of the crystal trophy of the Olympic Games is just like the wine cup.
According to the records of the western history, at March 18th A.D.978,there was a king named Edward who was murdered in England . The king was riding in a horse, just took a glass of wine from the other people, someone stabbed his back when he was drinking, unfortunately, he died. For this reason, every banquet the British hold have such a ritual: the owner will fill a large glass with wine, and pass among the guests, in turn to sip.Whenever a guest took the glass, not only of his own to stand up but the one sit beside him stands too, surrounds the drinkers to protect. After a circle, it became a “love Cup” as a precious gift dedicated to the first-class guests at that time. Later, people will award “love Cup” to sports competition winners, whether individuals or groups. As long as winning in the competition, they can be respected, and get a “love Cup”. The modern crystal trophy is evolved from the “love Cup”. Until now crystal trophy still retains the marks of “love Cup”. Such as crystal trophy is usually relatively large, most with two long ears, these characteristics are marks of “love Cup”.
Nowadays,crystal trophy becomes diversification.Crystal awards,glass awards and glass trophy can replace the crystal trophy as a honor.And they can as a promotion gift to express the giver’s care and something more.
