The snowflakes of Yanshan Mountain were as big as a mat, and the pieces blew down the Xuanyuan Platform. Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai might not have imagined that a thousand years later, his poems would become a reality at the opening ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.
A leaf knows autumn, and a snowflake runs through the opening ceremony. From the entrance ceremony to the lighting of the main torch, snowflake elements are everywhere.
Before the opening of the Beijing Winter Olympics, director Zhang Yimou had "spoiled" the content and style of the opening ceremony in an interview with the media, saying that it could be summarized by "a snowflake and a piece of ice", and the opening ceremony of about 100 minutes was the story of "a snowflake and a piece of ice". Even if Zhang Yimou made spoilers, ordinary audiences still would not think that the "snowflakes" of the opening ceremony were so "huge", "beautiful" and "romantic"!
If the first half of the opening ceremony performance tells the story of "ice", including "the water of the Yellow River comes up from heaven" and then becomes an "ice cube", the host city of the 24th Winter Olympics is displayed in turn, and the "ice and snow five rings" break through the ice. Then, the second half of the opening ceremony is to tell the story of "snowflakes".
Build snowflakes
During the athletes' entrance session, the guide girls of each national and regional delegation held up a guide board in the shape of a snowflake, and the foreshadowing was also buried.
After the entrance ceremony, enter the "Build a Snowflake" session. 91 young girls returned to the stage with snowflake-like guide cards, all the guides lined up, shaped like pieces of snowflakes of each country and region guide card, lined up in a straight line, a straight line into a circle, and finally transformed into a larger snowflake, and this larger snowflake integrated into the olive branch symbolizing peace, this snowflake danced in the "universe", gently brushed across the surface of the "earth", and finally fell back to the center of the stage, the "big as a seat" snowflake creativity is amazing.
At that time, probably no one would have thought that this "big snowflake" was the last main torch tower!
In the "Snowflakes" session before the main torch is lit, children from the "Ma Lanhua" children's choir from Fuping County, Hebei Province, sing the Olympic song "Ode to the Olympics" in Greek. In the song, the "big snowflake" in the center of the stage rises again, and after the singing is completed, the children form a heart shape around the "big snowflake". Zhao Weichang, Li Yan, Yang Yang, Su Bingtian, Zhou Yang, the torch was passed from the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s, and finally to the hands of two post-00s athletes, Diniger-Yilamujiang and Zhao Jiawen, and the two slowly walked to the "big snowflake" in the center of the stage, and the ignition ceremony was coming.
The Chinese delegation entered
The two torchbearers did not make any lighting motion, but directly embedded the last torch in the center of the snowflake! No one expected that the ignition method of the Beijing Winter Olympics would be so simple and bright, and the flying torch and the main torch of the "big snowflake" would be perfectly integrated. There is no fiery fire, only a "micro-fire" that burns flexibly, which is absolutely unprecedented in the history of the Olympic Games in a hundred years.
Main torch
A snowflake eventually becomes a main torch tower; from the previous ignition to today's "no point", the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics practiced the concept of "green Olympics", in the context of global warming, the opening ceremony ignition ceremony made the concept of "low-carbon environmental protection" more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, highlighting China's responsibility and responsibility. The big snowflakes gathered by the names of all the participating countries and regions fully embody China's great concept of promoting the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind.
Choir children sing Olympic songs
Faster, taller, stronger, more united, the Beijing Winter Olympics strive to live up to the new Olympic motto.
The big snowflakes of the Beijing Winter Olympics, the slight fire, the endless life, will surely illuminate the future of mankind. (Huang Kai)