Yesterday, the opening ceremony of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics was held as scheduled. It's a pity that at the beginning, because I didn't see it outside, including the countdown to the 24 solar terms, the national flag entry link, the flag-raising ceremony, etc.
When I saw it, it was already "the water of the Yellow River rising from heaven", the water flow condensed into ice cubes, and the five Olympic rings slowly rose. Then athletes from all over the world entered, and the guide signs converged into a large snowflake, which answered the poem "Yanshan snowflakes are as big as a seat".
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The opening ceremony was beautiful and full of Chinese elements. China's traditional culture was perfectly reflected at the opening ceremony. The eye-catching ignition ceremony surprised people. Presumably some people, including me, are still a little uncomfortable, this is the ignition ceremony? But if you think about it, it's a good idea.
In Li Bai's "Will Enter the Wine", "The king is gone, and the water of the Yellow River rises from the sky and flows to the sea without returning." Jun, Gao Tang Mingjing sad white hair, towards the green silk twilight into snow..." It is indeed too famous, as long as anyone who knows a little about Chinese culture will know these verses.
And another of Li Bai's poems, "North Wind Line", says, "The snowflakes of Yanshan Mountain are as big as a mat, and the pieces blow down the Xuanyuan Platform." "It became the essence at the opening ceremony. The snowflakes, including the names of all the countries participating in the competition, also became the final torchbearer.
Therefore, in the opening ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics, Li Bai became the biggest winner. Traditional Chinese poetry has also become the center of cultural display. This is actually the best choice. Traditional Chinese poetry, down to the children who learn the language of teeth and teeth, up to the elderly, can blurt out a few words.
And the romantic poet Li Bai is undoubtedly the highest peak in our poetry. Li Bai has too many verses widely circulated, and my online name "Three People Essay" is taken from the verse "Raise a glass to invite the bright moon, and the shadow becomes three people".
The intensity of traditional Chinese poetry at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics is actually not only the result of the choice of the director team, but also the result of the choice of all our Chinese. At present, there is no art form that can better represent traditional Chinese culture than traditional poetry.
It's just a pity that traditional poetry has now been "marginalized" by the poetry world. In today's poetry world, it is impossible to look at traditional poetry at all. They have been running towards the so-called "freedom" and "colloquialism", abandoning the mood and abandoning the law.
The so-called modern poetry they have worked tirelessly to create is completely unlike poetry. And such modern poetry, which blindly imitates Western poetry, has been ridiculed and ridiculed by everyone, ridiculed and ridiculed.
But they disagree, believing that the West is home to the gods of modern poetry. The reason why we can't appreciate the modern poems they write is because "our poetic aesthetic is a hundred years behind the West."
I hope that through the opening ceremony of this Winter Olympic Games, we can let our poetry circles understand that traditional poetry is not outdated. Our enthusiasm for traditional poetry has not diminished at all, and the vitality of traditional poetry is much greater than they think.
I hope that more publications will be able to publish traditional poetry. I hope that more poets can devote themselves to the creation of traditional poetry. Our traditional poetry is already so good, why do we have to learn from the West? Isn't this the end of the book, the purchase of the pearl and the return of the pearl?
Why should we "learn" from the West? Instead of letting them learn from us? The "gods" of poetry are not actually in the West, but in our traditional poetry. It is not that our poetic aesthetic is a hundred years behind the West, but that the aesthetics of Western poetry are a thousand years behind us.
Large-scale sports events have always been not just about competing for gold medals, but the host country is showing its stage to the world in an all-round way. The opening ceremony of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics really captures the essence of our culture. And the romantic poet Li Bai, of course, became the biggest winner.