2009 National Games of China the colours red, black, yellow, green and blue which are the colours of the Olympic rings and refer to the success of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. The final logo was selected from 3040 entries in a public competition launched in 2007 across mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau. The mascot for the games was a cartoon character called "Taishan Boy" (泰山童子）). It alludes the majestic stone of the Shandong's Mount Taishan. The mascot, dressed in a red shirt and white shorts, is an athletic figure giving the thumbs-up. According to the designer said, the character symbolizes "the spirit of
Blue Is the Warmest Colour as shown here in Adèle's touching reverence for teaching, is another notable characteristic", was noted by a "Film Comment" critic. Kechiche explores how food can evoke varying levels of symbolism, for instance through the sexually suggestive food metaphors of Adèle's liking of the fat on ham and her learning to eat oysters from Emma. Additionally, he looks at how food can be seen as an indicator of social class. Director and screenwriter Abdellatif Kechiche developed the premise for "Blue Is the Warmest Colour" while directing his second feature film, "Games of Love and Chance" (2003). He met teachers "who felt