On February 4, the highly anticipated opening ceremony of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics will open at 20:00, marking the official opening of this 16-day winter sports feast. When it comes to the opening ceremony of the upcoming Winter Olympic Games, I can't help but think of 14 years ago, also in Beijing, also in the Bird's Nest Stadium, there was a very wonderful Olympic opening ceremony - the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. So before the opening ceremony, we may wish to review the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, while looking back at the classics, we may also find some clues to the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games!
After 14 years, the general director of the two opening ceremonies is the same person - Zhang Yimou, a famous director in the mainland. However, in 2008, Zhang Yimou directed the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games for the first time, and the pressure was quite great; however, he and the cooperative team made extraordinary efforts to come up with a wonderful opening ceremony performance that combined Chinese and Western styles and ran through ancient and modern times! Many of the details of the period are no less than the recent opening ceremony of the Olympic Games.
The opening ceremony was an exciting start from the countdown, with 2,008 dancers symbolizing 2008, and they opened with a very traditional Chinese punch, which was instantly exciting. As they struck, the live ground screen displayed the countdown numbers of "10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1", and as the ceremony began, all the dancers chanted aloud "Friends from afar, happy" to welcome the members of the event from all over the world.
The grand fireworks bloom in Beijing, taking on the shape of 29 footprints, symbolizing the 29 Olympic Games from the past to the present. And these footprints eventually turned into stars falling in the sky, forming a "dream five rings", which presented the Olympic theme in such a beautiful way at the beginning. This was followed by a solemn national flag entry ceremony, which was followed by the singing of the girls in red. 56 children dressed in ethnic costumes surrounded the national flag, symbolizing the unity of 56 ethnic groups! This was followed by a sacred and solemn ceremony to raise the national flag and play the national anthem.
The flag-raising ceremony was completed and the theatrical performance officially began. Director Zhang Yimou's design in the literary and artistic performance part shows his talent as a film director, and in just a few tens of minutes, the Chinese civilization is fully displayed! The four great inventions, pen, ink, paper, opera and martial arts, and other treasures that best represent Chinese civilization have been displayed. At the beginning of the performance, a huge scroll in the center of the venue slowly opened, this scroll is 147 meters long and 27 meters wide, and since then all the performance centers have been around this LED scroll.
In the center of the scroll is a white piece of paper, representing the papermaking techniques in China's splendid civilization. The actors used their unique body language to dance and paint on paper, interpreting the ultimate artistic conception of Chinese landscape painting. In the "Character" subsection, the dancers hold bamboo sticks, symbolizing the step-by-step evolution of civilization; and what is even more shocking is the performance of "movable type printing", 897 dancers use movable characters to transform the "He" characters in different fonts, symbolizing "Harmony is precious", and finally use movable type printing to present the shape of the Great Wall, which represents the indomitable spirit of the Chinese nation.
The "Xiqu" subsection is a link that many audiences can guess, and the most representative of traditional Chinese art is Xiqu. Dressed in mercenary costumes, 800 dancers performed a joyful scene with 4 Peking Opera puppets accompanied by Jinghu and gongs and drums. The "Silk Road" section brings the audience back to the beautiful scene, where a picture of the "Silk Road" slowly advances, symbolizing China's connection with the world. The "Li Le" section shows Kunqu opera, and on the ground there are five long pictures, representing the five dynasties of the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties; in a short period of time, 5,000 years of China are in it!
When the performance entered the modern part, the scene presented the main color of blue, the "Starlight" sub-section was played by the famous pianist Lang Lang and a child to play a beautiful melody, and a huge blue "peace dove" appeared on the scene, representing the Olympic spirit of peace as the main theme. As the play came to an end, the tone of the scene gradually turned green. Entering the "Nature" section, a group of martial arts performers entered the venue and began the performance of Taijiquan, which embodies a kind of harmony between man and nature, and the green picture scroll also fits the theme of the Beijing Olympic Games "Green Olympics, Environmental Protection Olympics".
A huge blue planet appeared in the center of the venue, which is the earth we live on! Many dancers walk on it, symbolizing that everyone is moving towards the Olympic goal of "higher, faster and stronger". In the end, everyone achieved the wish of "one world, one dream", and I am a family in the same world as you! Chinese pop singer Liu Huan and British female singer Sarah Brightman sang the theme song of the Olympic Games "Me and You" as the end of the theatrical performance.
After that, there was the athletes' entrance ceremony, 204 representative teams entered one after another, and as the host, the Chinese team appeared in the last place. The standard-bearer at that time was Yao Ming, the current chairman of the Chinese Basketball Association! Subsequently, Liu Qi, chairman of the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee, and Luo Ge, then president of the International Olympic Committee, delivered speeches at the opening ceremony, and after the announcement ceremony, the Olympic Games officially began.
Finally, the Olympic torch lighting ceremony that everyone is looking forward to, first of all, the Olympic flag will be raised, and the 8 flag bearers are all former athletes who have made outstanding contributions to the mainland sports industry. After the athletes' representative Zhang Yining and the referee's representative Huang Liping solemnly swore an oath, the Olympic torch slowly entered the venue and began the final pass.
The first torchbearer in the venue was the first gold medalist in the history of the Chinese Olympic Games, former shooter Xu Haifeng, followed by Gao Min, Li Xiaoshuang, Zhan Xugang, Zhang Jun, Chen Zhong, these well-known Olympic champions have completed the torch relay. Along with the 7th torchbearer, former Chinese women's volleyball team Sun Jinfang passed the flame to the last torchbearer, former gymnastics Olympic champion Li Ning, everyone knew that the main torch tower would be lit by Li Ning.
Only to see Li Ning slowly rise above the Bird's Nest Stadium, at this time a huge picture appeared above the stadium, with Li Ning's running, the picture scroll gradually unfolded, and finally Li Ning reached the main torch tower and lit the Olympic fire with a flying posture. The grand opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games is over! After reviewing this opening ceremony, are you more looking forward to the opening ceremony of the next Winter Olympic Games?
(Aibao)