The "Gongchen Bridge" Connects Ancient and Modern Xinhua News Agency
At the autumnal equinox, the tide of Qiantang swells, and the light of the Asian Games illuminates the shores of West Lake.
With the theme of "Tide Rising Asia", on the evening of September 23, the opening ceremony of the Hangzhou Asian Games was held at the "Big Lotus" Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center Stadium.
With the light of Liangzhu reflecting the glow of the autumnal equinox, Song Yun's picture scroll is elegant everywhere, and the tide of Qiantang in the "big lotus" is surging... An Asian Games event with "Chinese characteristics, Asian style and splendid" set sail.
The opening ceremony of this year's Asian Games incorporates typical symbols and images from China, Zhejiang and Hangzhou, shows the unique charm of oriental aesthetics with the help of high-tech means, and highlights the wonderful integration of sports and culture with the concept of "green, intelligent, thrifty and civilized".
At the opening ceremony, did you understand the ingenuity in those beautiful and stunning moments?
The autumnal equinox is balanced
The traditional solar term harvest is in sight
At 14:50 Beijing time on September 23, we ushered in the autumnal equinox in the 24 solar terms. On this day, day and night, cold and summer, is the most comfortable time for people to feel.
Zhang Fang, director of the Hangzhou Lunar Museum, said that as the intangible cultural heritage of mankind, the 24 solar terms contain profound Chinese wisdom and were discovered by ancestors when observing celestial phenomena. They first discovered the "two solstices", that is, the winter and summer solstices, and then discovered the "two equinoxes", that is, the spring and autumn equinoxes.
"'To' is the extreme, and if there is the extreme, there must be balance, so there is 'dichotomy', which reflects the traditional Chinese culture that pays attention to balance." Zhang Fang said that the autumnal equinox is also the midpoint of autumn and the season when a bumper harvest is in sight.
The director team said that the Asian Games will open at the autumnal equinox, and they hope that the athletes will have a "good harvest" at the event.
Tide Lotus
The "tidal tree" lives on
Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center Stadium is located on the south bank of the Qiantang River. Bao Zengjun and Ye Xiaojie, experts from the Qiantang River Management Bureau of Zhejiang Province, said that the current river channel was gradually moved north during the Ming and Qing dynasties. In the Song Dynasty, the location of the "big lotus" was located in the middle of the river, which was a surging river, and a wonderful scene of "making the tide standing towards the head of the wave" was staged.
The Qiantang Tide was recorded in the Han Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago, and entered a period of strength in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. The director team believes that the tide can best represent the regional characteristics of Zhejiang, and the theatrical performance novella "Qiantang Tide" takes "tide" as the theme, showing the vigorous scene of "tide of water waves", "tide of sports" and "tide of the times".
At the opening ceremony, the "tidal tree" that the audience saw on the large screen was the tidal groove left after the tide of the Qiantang River receded. In order to vividly show the shape of the tide, the group also used a lot of fluid calculation technology to generate a three-dimensional "wave".
Good is like water
Mountains and rivers depend on each other, and walk hand in hand
In the opening theatrical performance, water is the core element throughout. The director team said that water is the source of life and the cradle of human civilization. In Chinese culture, there is the idea that "goodness is like water, and water is good for all things without dispute". Hangzhou is a city born and prosperous by water.
The welcome performance "Water" shows the Chinese wisdom of the water conservancy system outside the ancient city of Liangzhu 5,000 years ago; The "water" in the first part of the performance is a beautiful picture scroll of ink into poetry and painting, smoke and rain dyeing Jiangnan; The "water" in the middle story evolves into the dynamic waves of a choppy and rising river; The "water" in the next part is green water and green mountains, ecological civilization, harmonious coexistence between man and nature, and also symbolizes the state of dependence and hand in hand between China and Asian countries.
Liangzhu culture
Chinese civilization has a long history
As soon as the opening ceremony theatrical performance began, a bird came into the audience's eyes. Its prototype is a jade bird unearthed from the anti-mountain tomb in the Liangzhu site. Liu Bin, director of the Museum of Art and Archaeology of Zhejiang University and president of the Zhejiang Archaeological Society, said that there are not only jade birds in Liangzhu jade, but also many with bird patterns, and the ancestors of Liangzhu regarded birds as the carrier and embodiment of gods.
Located in the northwest of Hangzhou downtown, the Liangzhu Ruins is a sacred place that empirically demonstrates the 5,000-year history of Chinese civilization and was successfully declared a World Cultural Heritage in 2019. The ancient city of Liangzhu, with its beautiful jade, magnificent triple city and large-scale water conservancy projects, proves that China had a great prehistoric rice cultivation civilization and urban civilization at that time.
In the cultural performance, you can also see a series of Liangzhu cultural elements such as jade, divine emblem, and ancient city. The inner and outer jade is a big favorite of the Hangzhou Asian Games, from mascots, torches to medals, many designs have its "elements". Xiang Ming, director of the Zhejiang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, said that the jade is large and small symbolizes heaven and earth, and the central perforation is not only a channel to communicate heaven and earth, but also a rotating axis of the universe, which is the earliest cosmological model of Chinese civilization and an important cultural symbol of Chinese civilization with a long history and broad and profound.
Oriental aesthetics
Smoke and rain, Jiangnan West Lake lotus open
On the huge screen at the opening ceremony, West Lake often appears as a background, with the stone pagoda of the Three Pools Printing Moon in the near view, and the green mountains on the lake in the distance. On the ground screen, the staggered three-dimensional landscape reflects the hazy 3D visual effects of Jiangnan, creating a light smoke and shiny Jiangnan painting scene. The man of the national style painted a painting, and the elegant Qiantang was displayed in front of the audience. On the smokey West Lake, the huge lotus leaves stretched, and the elegant and beautiful woman danced, like a blooming lotus flower.
In June 2011, the West Lake Cultural Landscape was successfully declared a World Cultural Heritage Site. The landscape of West Lake, represented by the ten views of West Lake, clearly shows the aesthetic ideal of Chinese landscape, and has a far-reaching impact on garden design in China and even the world.
Canal sign
The "Gongchen Bridge" connects ancient and modern
The image of Hangzhou Gongchen Bridge appeared at the opening ceremony. The Gongchen Bridge across the canal is the symbol of the southern end of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. The arch bridge, constructed of naked-eye 3D vision technology, jumps over the canal, connecting the ancient on one bank and the modern on the other. With the blessing of AR technology, lanterns with good wishes from ancient and modern times rise up, merging into a river of stars into the distance. In June 2014, the Grand Canal of China was successfully declared a world cultural heritage, and the Gongchen Bridge became a heritage site as a canal hydraulic building.
Zhang Yujie, senior engineer of the intelligent transportation branch of Zhejiang Communications Investment Group Co., Ltd., said that the thin pier thin arch stone arch bridge represented by the Gongchen Bridge is one of the three major types of ancient stone arch bridges in China, which solves the two problems of insufficient stone in the Jiangnan Plain and the need for a certain bridge height for canal boats.
In a sense, Hangzhou is a city born of "luck". Ye Yanping, director of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal Museum in China, said that the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal connects with the Qiantang River in Hangzhou, and then enters the sea through the East Zhejiang Canal after crossing the river, which gives Hangzhou the status of "throat Wuyue and powerful rivers and seas", thus becoming a famous city in the southeast.
Golden cinnamon fragrance
I wish the athletes a successful victory
"Mountain temple looking for guizi in the middle of the month, watching the tide on the pillow of the county pavilion", in the era when Bai Juyi was the "mayor" of Hangzhou, laurel appreciation was compared with watching the tide, and became the two major pleasures of Hangzhou in autumn.
In 1983, the city of Hangzhou identified osmanthus as the city flower. According to the statistics of Hangzhou Municipal Bureau of Gardens and Cultural Relics, the number of osmanthus planted in the city has reached 5 million. Osmanthus can not only be ornamental, but also a gourmet ingredient, which can be used to make osmanthus cake, osmanthus sugar, osmanthus preserves, osmanthus balls, osmanthus sugar root, etc.
During the Asian Games, when the fragrance of gold and cinnamon is wafting, the streets and alleys of Hangzhou can smell the fragrance of cinnamon. At the opening ceremony, hundreds of Hangzhou university students walked into the venue holding golden laurel, jointly lighting up the long "Golden Laurel River", and the simulated osmanthus petals floated out, and the fragrance of osmanthus was amazing, which was also to wish the athletes to fold the laurels in the arena.
National Treasure Masterpieces
Digital technology moves landscapes
At the opening ceremony, the director team made "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" and "Fuchun Mountain Residence Map" move. The two national treasure-level paintings have become moving landscapes through digital technology.
"A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" is the work of the Northern Song dynasty painter Wang Ximeng. It is a silk coloring painting, with large green and green colors, the mountains are long, the vision is wide, and the idea is ingenious, representing the highest achievement of Song Dynasty painting.
"Fuchun Mountain House Map" is a masterpiece of Huang Gongwang, the head of the "Four Yuan Families". It is an ink painting on paper, depicting the beautiful scenery on both sides of the Fuchun River in early autumn, and vividly expressing the vast and continuous landscape of Jiangnan. The whole picture is full of beautiful forests and trees, full of the poetry of the hermit wandering in the forest spring and Xiao San.
Literati Collection
Performing a hidden poetry convention
At the opening ceremony, scenes of literati were arranged, from calligraphy, painting, tea ordering, incense burning, seal carving, sword dance, poetry and other aspects, highlighting the aesthetics of Jiangnan life that "elegance is ordinary everywhere".
Song poetry is another peak of Chinese literature after Tang poetry, and Song poetry also has quite high artistic achievements. The director team said that this performance also hides a poetry conference, including Pan Lang's "making the tide stand towards the waves, holding the red flag flag not wet" after watching the tide, Li Qingzhao's "He Xu light blue and deep red, since it is the first rate of flowers", and Su Shi's "The water is shining and the sun is good, and the mountains are rainy and strange" written by Su Shi after drinking...
Technological aesthetics
3D Sunwia dances with the tide
At the opening ceremony, 3D Sunwia was used for the first time in a large sports field.
The director team said that the 3D Sunwia was specially designed for this opening ceremony, and both actors had 4 wire ropes that controlled different directions, and the fastest flight speed was 4 meters per second. During the flight, the system can automatically detect whether the track is safe and stop the flight to protect the actor if there is a possible frictional collision.
Glasses-free 3D, AR digital dome, 3D Sunwia, fluid computing and 185-meter-wide and 15-meter-high mesh screens have realized the integration of three-dimensional aesthetics and oriental aesthetics, and also realized the two-way rush of technology and art.
(According to Xinhua)
(Responsible editor: Wang Zezi)