Last night, the short track speed skating team composed of Qu Chunyu, Fan Kexin, Zhang Yuting, Wu Dajing and Ren Ziwei successfully won the first gold medal of the Chinese delegation's Winter Olympics, and countless people cheered for it. And just the day before yesterday, the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games, full of great power romance, was also extremely shocking.
The opening ceremony became an unprecedented visual feast that went down in history. From the countdown to the twenty-four solar terms, to the water of the Yellow River, to the ice and snow five rings, to the lost little pigeons, to the Yanshan snowflakes as big as a mat, the creativity of each link has hit people's hearts so much. That kind of involuntary romance, shock, touching and pride, I believe that everyone who has seen the opening ceremony can feel empathy.
As the world's first general director to guide the two Olympic Games, Zhang Yimou said that the entire opening ceremony said a sentence: Different snowflakes from all over the world gathered in Beijing to become a snowflake common to mankind.
Behind this highly condensed romantic summary is the combination of countless mental efforts and long-standing traditional culture. The opening ceremony is over, but everything about it deserves to be recorded and remembered.
"The opening ceremony coincided with the spring in the twenty-four solar terms, which is a perfect coincidence, implying that all things grow and a new beginning begins." In Zhang Yimou's view, counting down with twenty-four solar terms and counting down is very unique, and no one in the world may count so many numbers, spring, summer, autumn, winter and spring. In particular, the opening ceremony on February 4 is Lichun, which in itself means good expectations.
Each solar term picture is followed by a popular ancient poem, and the picture taken is also poetic, using poetry to make new interpretations, but it corresponds to the changes of the new era and the new period. This refreshing ingenuity made us feel the strong self-confidence of Chinese culture from the beginning of the opening ceremony.
"The water of the Yellow River rises from heaven" is an ancient poem that we have memorized since childhood, but we probably never imagined that one day it could be so shockingly presented at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics.
First a drop of ink melts in the ice and snow, falls, then the water of the Yellow River rises from the sky, rushing like a picture, and then the clean and pure side of the water slowly rises, which is a unique romance from the combination of device and technology. The next second, the water was upgraded to an ice cube, and the history of the 24th Winter Olympics was carved by lasers. Finally the five rings came out of the ice and snow and hung in the air, and all the athletes came out from under the five rings.
It was a great moment, in one go. Director Zhang Yimou said, "We open our hearts and minds, find the most simple and common place of mankind, and tell everyone that we must 'go to the future together'. ”
"The little pigeon that fell behind" is probably the warmest scene in the opening ceremony, in the program "Shining Snowflakes" performed by the peace pigeon model lantern, there is a child Xu Shuyuan who did not keep up with everyone's pace, a person stood outside the heart-shaped team, it was another child, Guo Yaqian, holding the peace pigeon lantern in one hand, and brought her back to the team with the other hand.
This episode, which many viewers mistakenly thought was a small accident, was actually a specially designed ingenuity of the director's team, "In the end, it is converged into a heart shape." 'Heart' is a warm expression, we designed this 'big pull small', a little friend, that is, there is a small pigeon that has fallen behind, then it will come out of the heart shape, a slightly older child, to pull her back, pull back into the heart shape of the team. We felt it was a very warm picture, very warm, very happy. ”
On the night of the opening ceremony, the "little pigeon that fell behind" was also interpreted by netizens as "a lost child, go home early".
Using traditional fireworks to shoot a welcome pine in the air and greet friends from all over the world with brilliant fireworks is definitely one of the most romantic ideas on the opening night.
Although it is only a short period of ten seconds, the "Welcome Pine" has nearly 1500 rounds of ammunition, and it requires the staff to control the time node and height of each bullet. "Especially the fireworks display for a large event like the Winter Olympics, which is integrated with the whole system, is actually a complicated process." This requires a lot of trial and error, and due to the need for secrecy, the staff in charge of fireworks can only sneak in the fireworks factories in the countryside. "At the beginning, it was put on the ground one by two, and then I tried to tick a silhouette, and after the outline came out, I sent it to Teacher Cai Guoqiang to confirm it, and then adjusted it according to the opinions." Round after round, I have long forgotten how many experiments I have done. ”
The unprecedented torch plan at the opening ceremony was conceived by director Zhang Yimou at four o'clock in the morning. At the opening ceremony ignition ceremony creative meeting two years ago, he excitedly shared with everyone: "I said a lot of small fires and big fires, and at four o'clock in the morning I suddenly thought of a plan to plant a torch. Snowflakes are closed by using the concave and convex concept card, and the torch can also be directly stuck, which is the first time in the world! ”
This innovation, unprecedented in the history of the Centennial Olympic Games, actually paved the way in the countdown. The guide held aloft a snowflake to enter, each snowflake represents a country and region, different snowflakes from all over the world gather in Beijing, and eventually become the most brilliant and unique snowflake torch, and the names of all the participating countries and regions are left on it.
The Western proverb says that "no snowflake in the world is the same", and today, we have let the whole world see that 'the snowflakes of Yanshan Mountain are as big as a seat'. "Different snowflakes from all over the world gather in Beijing today, and we all become one snowflake, representing a concept of greater unity."
Behind the bold innovation is the unshakable cultural self-confidence, as director Zhang Yimou said, "The opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics no longer talks about the strong desire of five thousand years ago, as in the past, saying that we have a lot of family backgrounds and introduce ourselves to the world." But this time we say 'we' out loud, that is, the human beings of the whole world. The opening ceremony is no longer just for me to perform, but for you to perform, for everyone to perform, cultural self-confidence is expressed in this aspect. ”
From "me" to "we", the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics told everyone: "Chinese is like everyone else, so sincere, so kind, so beautiful, so romantic." ”
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