February 4 at 8 p.m
Opening Ceremony of the XXIV Winter Olympic Games in Beijing
Held at the National Stadium
Image source: Xinhua News Agency
From the beginning of the opening ceremony
Netizens were amazed
Romantic creative sessions
Unforgettable
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The Chinese romance at the opening ceremony
Countdown to the twenty-four solar terms
Beijing Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony Performs "Li Chun"
On the day of "Li Chun", the Beijing Winter Olympic Games opened
It also symbolizes friends from all over the world
Greet a new spring together
In this opening ceremony, the addition of a sense of technology makes the visual dimension more abundant. The poetic countdown design, the crystal clear "ice and snow five rings", the romantic and beautiful snowflake torch platform, the dazzling digital light and shadow, the unique environmental protection ignition, paint a magnificent audio-visual feast...
The ground in the inner area of the entire bird's nest is a huge floor screen, showing the ever-changing ice surface, and also through AI technology, the interaction between vision and people, and the interaction between vision and device are realized. Tao Wenting, another sub-director of this link and a teacher at the Military Culture College of the National Defense University, said that the existence of the ground screen also makes many links have a "reflection" presentation, "Director Zhang Yimou is very wise and advanced at this point, and will not appear that the stage is very empty, but the beauty of creating an artistic conception." ”
▲ The scene of the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics, Photo source Xinhua News Agency
Stepping out of the opening ceremony, we can find that traditional Chinese elements are also widely used in all corners of the Winter Olympic Games, from costumes to posters, from ignition tables to tinder lights, Chinese art and aesthetics are spreading and blossoming everywhere.
In the three major winter Olympic competition areas and various Winter Olympic villages, the uniforms of staff, technical officials and volunteers have also become the "walking carriers" of traditional Chinese art. Uniforms are an important clothing design project for the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, and Wu Haiyan, a judge of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games series of uniforms and a professor at the China Academy of Art, pointed out: "Clothing is an important cultural symbol, and winter Olympic clothing is a design project that shows the image of the country, and must be built with the standards of high-quality products. ”
▲ This Winter Olympic Games series of dresses
▲ Inspiration for the series of dresses for this Winter Olympics: "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains"
The series of dresses for this Winter Olympic Games include three sets of plans: "Ruixue Xiangyun", "Hongyun Shanshui" and "Tanghua Feixue", which will appear in the award ceremony of the snow venue, the ice venue and the award square respectively. Ruixue, Xiangyun, Tang Dynasty Treasure Flower... All are distillations of traditional Chinese cultural symbols.
▲ Renderings of uniforms and equipment for the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games
"Color is the most direct stimulus to the human senses, and beyond that is the pattern." The shape of the mountains in the Beijing-Zhang Division, the form of the Great Wall, the green landscape of "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", combined with the brushstrokes, lines and layers of Chinese ink painting charm... Careful observation shows that the Winter Olympic uniforms combine traditional Chinese landscape paintings with the snowy mountains of the core graphics of the Winter Olympics in the pattern, and skillfully combine traditional aesthetics with ice and snow sports and sportsmanship. "It embodies the designer's design concept of combining nationality and artistry."
In addition to costumes, Chinese art can be captured in many design works, including medals, uniforms, icons, facilities, etc., which not only correspond to the current era, but also contain ancient visual cultural elements.
Beijing Winter Olympics Tinder Lights & Changxin Palace Lights
The idea of the Beijing Winter Olympics Tinder Lantern originated from the Changxin Palace Lamp of the Han Dynasty, a cultural relic with the reputation of "China's First Lamp" unearthed in the tomb of Dou Xuan, the wife of Liu Sheng, king of Zhongshan Jing. While drawing on the shape of the Changxin Palace lamp, the red ribbon at the top of the tinder lamp symbolizes the Olympic passion of hard work; the square circle nesting symbolizes the round place of the sky, the silver metal and the crystal clear glass reflect the perfect fit between the national culture and the Olympic spirit; the double-layer structure of the glass ensures that the tinder will not be extinguished in natural environments such as low temperature, severe cold and even 5-6 winds.
Beijing Winter Olympics Tinder Tai & Zun
The ritual tinder table adopts the curved shape of the zun and the pedestal is calm, symbolizing "all things on the ground". The top stretches wide, symbolizing the welcome to the olympic flame of purity. The auspicious cloud pattern gradually turns into snowflakes from the bottom up, symbolizing the spiritual inheritance of the "City of Double Olympics". The red ribbon flutters and circles upwards. The colors of red and silver symbolize the fusion of tradition and modernity, technology and passion.
Winter Olympic Medal & Five Strings Jade Bi
The medals of this Winter Olympic Games are based on the five-string jade bi excavated from the tomb of Yin Xu Women's Good, etc., and the ring on the front of the medal is designed into a five-string shape, and the concave treatment is done between the strings to approach the image of the five-string jade bi. The five rings are concentric and concentric, expressing the cultural connotation of "the unity of heaven and earth, the hearts of the people", and engraved with auspicious cloud patterns and ice and snow patterns. The design on the back of the medal is inspired by the ancient astronomical map, engraved with 24 points and movement arcs, symbolizing the vast starry sky, but also symbolizing the brilliant and brilliant stars of the ice and snow athletes.
Ski Jumping Platform & Dunhuang Mural
Located in Shougang Park, the Ski Jump is a freestyle ski jump and snowboard jumping event venue for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, inspired by the flying streamers in the Dunhuang murals, like a ribbon floating in the air.
Zhang Yimou, general director of the Winter Olympic Games, said that the opening ceremony was determined from the beginning of the design to no longer present Too much of China's 5,000 years of history and culture, and this time hopes to change from showing "me" to showing "we", showing the common human emotions of "going to the future together" and depicting today's new era.
The ignition ceremony of the opening ceremony was undoubtedly the climax of the whole venue. Here, director Zhang Yimou gives the meaning of "me" and "we" to pieces of snowflakes. "Snowflakes" comes from all over the world, and finally converges into a snowflake on the stage of this Winter Olympics, symbolizing the great unity of the world and containing the wish and concept of co-construction. The white snowflakes, composed of the names of various countries, rise quietly in the distant melody. In this instant, "you", "me", "he" become "us".
▲ The scene of the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, Picture source Bilibili, Xinhua News Agency
Editor-in-Charge/Xuan Xuan