"Spring breeze is like a distinguished guest, once it arrives, it will be prosperous" "Heaven and earth begin to make love, all things are beautiful" "Dew is white from tonight, the moon is the hometown of Ming..." The countdown to the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics, with the sense of time of China's twenty-four solar terms, replaces the traditional Arabic numeral countdown method, and shows the Chinese style and Chinese temperament of the opening ceremony to the world at the beginning of the opening ceremony.
Countdown with 24 solar terms
Tell the world about traditional Chinese culture
The opening day of the Beijing Winter Olympics coincided with the "Li Chun" in the 24 solar terms. The festival of "Li Chun" has always been a festival to celebrate the coming spring in the season of ice and snow. The reason why this cold and frozen day is named the beginning of spring is because Chinese believe that new life is often born in the extreme cold. Accompanied by corresponding ancient poems, the twenty-four solar terms counted down to the opening of the Winter Olympics in a natural and philosophical way full of oriental philosophies.
In Chinese culture, the twenty-four solar terms represent a year's cycle of time and the way people get along with nature and the world. Unlike the grandeur of the opening of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the Beijing Winter Olympics 14 years later will slowly open in a calming and breathless and warm atmosphere.
Zhang Yimou, the general director of the opening ceremony, revealed in an interview, "The countdown is often selected from 60, or 30, or from 10 to the beginning of the countdown, generally choose these, the convention is conventional." Like our 2008 man strike, the numbers we chose also started at 60. "But the day of the Winter Olympics is inspired by the fact that it is spring." It occurred to me that since it is Li Chun, a very good cultural meaning, so we choose twenty-four solar terms, calculate the countdown with 24, and start counting from 24, which will be very special. This is actually a very good opportunity for us to talk about China's traditional culture to the whole society. So we have made a concise description in English, using a short film to talk about the ancient lunar calendar of Chinese, its unit of calculation is 24, starting from 24 for a year, and there is another meaning about Lichun, our Lichun is the end of the cold, the first day of the recovery of life and all things. So it's very allegorical, so in such a way, we are all very excited, in fact, it is a very good cultural performance. ”
Relive chinese romance together
Review of the "Winter Olympic Poetry Conference"
In the short film countdown to the opening ceremony, exquisite and diverse video content, with timeless and beautiful ancient poems, from the beginning of the rain to the end of Lichun, every frame is a blockbuster movie level, and the Chinese romance is amazing. Let's take a plate of "Winter Olympic Poetry Conference".
Rain: Sneak into the night with the wind, and the moisturizer is silent
Quote from the Tang Dynasty poet Du Fu's "Happy Rain on Spring Nights". This is a masterpiece that depicts the joy of spring night and rain, and expresses the mood of joy. "Submerged" and "fine" write the opportunity of creation, and the fine spring rain mood is refreshing.
Sting: Spring thunder, all things long
Folk proverb
Spring Equinox: The spring breeze is like a distinguished guest, and it will be prosperous as soon as it arrives
From The Spring Wind by Yuan Ming in the Qing Dynasty. "The spring breeze is like a distinguished guest, and it will be prosperous as soon as it arrives." Come sweep away the snow of a thousand mountains and return to the flowers of all nations. ”
Qingming: It rains a lot during the Qingming Season
From the Tang Dynasty poet Du Mu's "Qingming". "One after another" not only writes the mood of spring rain, but also writes the miserable and chaotic mood of the pedestrians in the rain.
Gu Yu: The wind and rain wash a city of flowers
This sentence comes from the Song Dynasty poet Huang Tingjian's "See twenty brothers advocating and huazi Manxing five songs one of them", "Falling gossamer in March, the wind and rain wash a city of flowers." Unknown East Guo Qingming Wine, what is like West Window Valley Rain Tea. ”
Li Xia: Heaven and earth begin to intersect, and all things are beautiful
This sentence comes from the Ming ren's book "Lotus Life Eight Swords", "The moon of Mengxia, the beginning of heaven and earth, all things are shown together." It means "in the beautiful season of early summer, all things are flourishing and growing densely."
Small full: As for this, the small is full
The ancient book "Explanation of the Seventy-two Waiting For the Moon Order" says: "Xiao Man, in the middle of April." The little one who is full, the thing is as small as it is full. This means that the grains of the crop are gradually full at this time, and it will be harvested after a while.
Mangzhong: The family wheat rice is beautiful, and the song is long everywhere
From the Song Dynasty poet Lu You's poem "Shi Yu", "Shi Yu and Mango Seeds, all four fields are planted with seedlings." The family wheat rice is beautiful, and the song is long everywhere. The old man became an inert farmer and paid for the bamboo bed forever. The decay is short, love this rain and cool. The garden wood sets a strange sound, and the vine hair is fragrant. The warbler's clothes were not wet, and he persuaded me to hold a look. That is, now fortunately, there is nothing to do, the sea is nongsang; the wild old man is not poor, and the song of the land is Yu Tang. "Vividly depicts the busy scene of the "Three Summers". From the "mango seed" to the "summer solstice" solar terms, it began to fully enter the "three summers" of summer harvest, summer seed, and summer pipe, so "mango seed" is also called "busy seed".
Summer Solstice: The green reed still contains powder, and the round lotus begins to disperse
From the Tang Dynasty poet Wei Yingwu's poem "Summer Solstice Summer Escape North Pool". "The day is already cloudy, and the night leak has been long since then. Before the administration of the church, the worries became cold. The public gate has a lot of time, and it is a little busy with the monthly farmers. Living high in the field, bitter and hot. Pavilion afternoon breath group, solo tour of AifangTang. The door is closed and lonely, and the city is high and the trees are green. The green reed still contains powder, and the round lotus begins to disperse. Yu Yan sprinkled annoying hugs, you can be on Hua Xiang. The phrase "green" refers to the emerald green bamboo that still contains powder, and the lotus flowers in the pond have begun to emit a burst of fragrance.
Small summer: the lotus wind sends aroma, bamboo dew drops clear sound
From the Tang Dynasty poet Meng Haoran's poem "Summer Nanting Huaixin Da", which means "the breeze gently sends the fragrance of lotus flowers, and the bamboo leaves gently drip dewdrops and sound", the whole poem not only writes about the refreshing leisure of the summer night water pavilion, but also expresses the nostalgia for friends.
Summer: The night of the opening of the katsura wheel, when the fireworks shine in the air
From the Tang Dynasty Yuan Shu's "Yong 24 Qi Poems In the Middle of June", the great summer is the hottest festival of the year. In such a hot summer, the average poet will think about how to escape the heat. The same is true of Yuan Shu, who in the long night, the poet is too hot to sleep, and unconsciously goes outside the house to cool off. Midnight, refers to 11:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. At night, the poet sees the stars shining brightly, the moonlight clear, and the fireflies that cannot be seen in other seasons.
Li Qiu: The night is as cool as water, sitting and watching the morning glory Vega
From the Tang Dynasty poet Du Mu's "Qixi", the stone steps in the night are cool as cold water, sitting quietly and staring at the morning glory weaver stars on both sides of the Tianhe River.
Summer: Plant one millet in the spring and harvest 10,000 seeds in the autumn
From the Tang Dynasty poet Li Shen's "Mercy Nong", from "one grain of millet" to "ten thousand seeds", figuratively writes the scene of a bumper harvest.
White Dew: Dew from tonight white, the moon is the hometown of Ming
From the Tang Dynasty poet Du Mu's "Remembering Her Brother in the Moon and Night", it expresses the poet's longing for his brother.
In the next 10 solar terms, you also come to challenge it, try to find the corresponding verse?
Spring has arrived, and the excitement has just begun.
Yangtze Evening News/Purple Cow News reporter Zhang Nan