At the just-concluded Tokyo Olympic Games, Chinese athletes ended their journey with a score of 38 gold, 32 silver and 18 bronze, equaling the best record of participating in overseas Olympic Games.
In just 17 days, the news about the Tokyo Olympic Games has frequently occupied the headlines, and everyone is not only concerned about the achievements and health of the Olympic athletes, but also many people invariably think of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing 13 years ago.
Beijing 2008 Olympic Games opening ceremony "picture scroll" performance
At 8:00 p.m. on August 8, 2008, the opening ceremony of the 29th Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, which attracted worldwide attention, was held at the National Stadium (Bird's Nest). The epic ceremony left a deep impression on audiences around the world and fully demonstrated the 5,000-year-old Chinese civilization.
At the opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, the curtain was struck in the welcome performance
For a reliving of the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, a visit to the Beijing Olympic Museum is a great choice. In the large-scale props naked exhibition area, you can see the curtain in the welcome performance of the Opening Ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. Through the form of a silk array, combined with sound, light and electricity, the magnificent performance scene of the evening was reproduced. On the other side, you can also see the "Analects" costumes that play the three thousand disciples of Confucius in the text performance, the giant oars and banners in the Silk Road performance, the dragon pillar in the liturgical performance, and so on.
Silk Road
With the theme of "Land and Maritime Silk Road", the Silk Road performance showed the Yang Pass, going to the West, and setting up the Silk Road. The land and maritime Silk Roads highlight the role of "roads", connecting space and time, but also connecting hearts; through the road, we cross the mountains and deserts, cross rivers, lakes and seas, cross the dust and smoke of history, and connect the hearts of the people of the East and the West.
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In ancient times, it was used as a flag for honor guards and something like that.
The actors dressed up as envoys, raised banners, and held up huge "papers" to move forward, and dancers representing the Dunhuang culture in the overland Silk Road danced on the paper. More than 2,000 years ago, the famous "Silk Road" appeared. Chinese caravans often set out from Chang'an (present-day Xi'an, Shaanxi) with valuable silks, passing through the Hexi Corridor and entering the European continent. The "Silk Road" has become an important channel for economic and cultural exchanges between China and the West.
The performance uses huge oars to show the situation of "Zheng He going to the West" in the "Maritime Silk Road". More than 600 years ago, Zheng He of the Ming Dynasty led a fleet of 27,000 people on seven voyages, starting from Quanzhou in China to West Asia and East Africa, creating the famous "Maritime Silk Road". Actors dressed in dark blue costumes wield giant oars to represent the rough sea, and the giant oars in their hands spell out the pattern of giant ships and merchant ships, showing the spirit of the arduous trek and breaking the waves of the pioneers of the "Silk Road" on the sea.
Print type
Chinese characters are one of the oldest scripts in the world. Ancient Chinese characters carry the long history of Chinese civilization. In human civilization, Chinese characters have a unique beauty. It transforms heaven and earth into images, and images into symbols. The small symbols are infinitely changeable, encompassing everything in the universe, and conveying the oldest Humanistic Concept of Man and Man, Man and Nature in China: Harmony is Precious.
Remember the text performance of the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games? Confucius's "Three Thousand Disciples" in the context of the continuous ups and downs of the movable type model to show the evolution of "He", Qi Qi recited the famous sentence in the Analects - "Within the four seas, all brothers are also" scene, which shocked audiences around the world.
Do you know? In the performance that night, each piece of clothing worn by Confucius's "three thousand disciples" was made of 90 meters of yarn, and if the clothes were to be unfolded, the bottom hem was 30 meters in circumference, and the reason why it looked no different from ordinary robes was on the folds.
On the skirt of this dress, Chinese sewers have accumulated more than 300 pleats by hand, each of which is standing outward. Ink color clothes, skirt color from top to bottom is from deep and shallow, the sleeves from bottom to top is from light to dark, the use of a large number of pleats at the skirt, mainly to increase the sense of ceremony and three-dimensional sense of clothing. The feeling of folds stacking gives people an atmospheric, solemn visual effect.
Carved beam "dragon" column
In the past, in the traditional Chinese aesthetic concept, "carved beams and painted columns" would be used to describe a perfect building.
The "Dragon Pillar" used in the opening ceremony performance of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing actually treats the "Bird's Nest" as a palace, and then uses exaggerated techniques to condense a palace into 32 "Dragon Pillars", so that the audience in the "Bird's Nest" seems to return to the glorious dynasties of ancient China. As the performance progressed, between the carved beams and pillars, the classical dancers walked in a graceful manner, as if marching in a Chinese-style corridor, and the etiquette and traditions of the Chinese gradually entered the audience's vision.
The dragon pillar on display at the Beijing Olympic Museum is an important large-scale prop in the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, and the 32 "dragon pillars" are set up to form a magnificent temple of the bird's nest. At the top of the 32 "Dragon Pillar Orchestra Stages" sat 32 musicians, and as the performance entered the climax, the Dragon Pillar slowly rose, rising higher and higher, becoming a tall and majestic "Dragon Pillar", which was erected in the sky. This scene gives people a taste of the grand momentum of the five dynasties of Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties in Chinese history, and the core prop "Dragon Pillar" in it also perfectly interprets the aesthetics of Chinese architecture. After the dragon pillar rises, a golden dragon motif can be seen, reaching a maximum of 9 meters.
Of course, in addition to the above exhibits, the Beijing Olympic Museum also collects and displays items, costumes and props related to the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, comprehensively recording and displaying the grand situation of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. Interested friends can make an appointment to visit in the public account of the Beijing Olympic Museum, and the visit should be based on the latest requirements of epidemic prevention and control.
Source: Beijing Olympic Park