Decryption: How did Anhui's "YingkeSong" appear at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics?

The opening ceremony of the 24th Winter Olympic Games in Beijing, which attracted worldwide attention, was solemnly held at the National Stadium on the evening of the 4th.

The "Welcome Pine" fireworks stunned the audience, how did the Welcome Pine from Anhui Province come to be creative?

Zhang Yimou's team exclusive interpretation:

How hard is it to welcome guests to pine fireworks?

"This firework also reflects cultural self-confidence."

"With traditional fireworks, hit a welcome pine in the air."

"It's only ten seconds, but it's nearly 1,500 rounds."

Zhang Yimou, general director of the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics, and the main creative team said this in an exclusive interpretation.

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The fireworks show has three main features

The fireworks display revolved around the theme of the opening ceremony and participated in the opening ceremony performance three times. The first is the countdown to the opening ceremony and the theme of Lichun; the second is the announcement of the opening of the Winter Olympics, that is, the section of welcoming the song; the last paragraph is the farewell of the fireworks after the torch of the Winter Olympics is lit. Each fireworks show has only 40 seconds, and the three fireworks total 120 seconds.

Countdown to ten numbers, with the twenty-four solar terms inverted row in the field to usher in "Li Chun", we played the Chinese character "Li Chun" and English "spring" special effects in the sky with the same grid; with fireworks to show the growth of spring grass, the recovery of all things; live performance children blowing away dandelions, we also specially developed dandelion fireworks.

When the Opening of the Winter Olympics was announced, we carved a grand welcome pine from the top of the Bird's Nest, symbolizing hospitality and welcome. From a distance, the welcome pine is paired with the bird's nest, like a pot of bonsai in traditional Chinese culture, and the bird's nest becomes a beautiful flower pot.

When the torch is lit, we first use special effect fireworks to hit two "big snowflakes", followed by "five colorful rings", and then tens of seconds of "northern scenery, snow drifting in the sky".

This fireworks show has three characteristics, the first is to do the Chinese and English frames we have never done before for special effects modeling; the second is the development and design of "Welcome Pine", the fireworks are exploded from the middle outward to form a circle, pine needles upwards, so to study the fireworks bomb flying process to open (effect), pine needles grow upwards, and finally present is quite perfect; third, over the years the world's fireworks are basically based on colorful, complete Japanese fireworks style, each fireworks show is what there is, This time the fireworks are clean, I pursue the "northern scenery, the sky drifting snow", in addition to the Spring and the five rings, the basic use of monochrome, and the theme of the Winter Olympics is very appropriate, but also more simple atmosphere.

Elements such as welcome pine come from the Chinese culture's pursuit of hope

At the Tokyo Olympic Games in Japan, which just ended less than half a year ago, we can see that they presented a lot of difficulties and sadness during the epidemic, reflecting a Japanese culture of material mourning, very poetic, creative and beautiful, but in Chinese culture, it seems to be more desolate. Our Chinese culture in difficult times always yearn for the light, the pursuit of hope, just the opening day is the Spring Festival, so it will be rehearsed backwards from the twenty-four solar terms, after the "small cold" and "big cold" and finally "Li Chun", the pursuit of a concept of endless life, life never stops, around this theme, there will be Li Chun, Yingke Pine, Northern Scenery and other elements full of energy.

Whether it's snowflakes, ice cubes or welcome pines, the biggest feature of these elements is the color of ice and snow. You may not notice that the huge welcome pine after the announcement of the opening is cedar, and the next "star tour" tries to have a sliding effect, like skating, blowing up will swim a little, are inspired by the winter Olympic ice and snow sports.

Source: Market Star Comprehensive People's Daily, Xinhua Net, Beijing News

Audit: Fan Lihui

Editor: Rui Yang

Proofreader: Chen Wenbiao

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