Beijing Olympic Games Opening Ceremony

The opening ceremony cast of about 15,000 people consists of three parts of personnel:

The first part is the personnel of professional cultural and artistic groups, from all over the country and various systems of professional cultural and artistic groups of performers;

The second part is the students;

The third part is the cultural and artistic workers from the army and the army's cultural and artistic backbone and cultural and artistic performers.

I. Main Time Period

Before the opening ceremony is officially held, there will be a pre-ceremony performance lasting for 1 hour and 15 minutes

Beginning at 17:45 and ending at about 19:00, *** there will be 28 wonderful performances of programs rich in regional characteristics and ethnic flavors.

Audience counseling will be held at around 19:00 to teach the audience how to better integrate into the opening ceremony.

At 19:56, the countdown begins;

At 20:00, the opening ceremony officially begins, which will last for about three and a half hours and end at about 23:30.

Two, the main process

The first part of the cultural and artistic performances before the ceremonial part

Including a welcome ceremony, the display of the five rings of the Olympic Games, the entry of the Chinese flag, raise the national flag of the People's Republic of China **** and the country of the People's Republic of China, play the Chinese People's Republic of China *** and the country's national anthem. This part is about 14 minutes.

The second part of the cultural performance section

The name of the cultural performance is "Beautiful Olympics", which is divided into the upper and lower parts,

the upper part is called "Splendid Civilization"

the lower part is called "Brilliant Era"

the part of the cultural performance section is about one hour.

In terms of the content of the performance, it will focus on the long history and splendid culture of the Chinese nation, the construction achievements of contemporary China's reform and opening up, and the spirit of the contemporary Chinese people.

In terms of artistic style, it will adhere to the principle of "telling the story of China in the language of the world", fully embodying the national characteristics and characteristics of the times,

Taking the unique "painting scroll" as the clue, it will display the heritage of Eastern civilization in the spirit of Chinese aesthetics, and display the spirit of Chinese aesthetics in the spirit of writing. The opening ceremony will be a modern and international event with the spirit of Chinese aesthetics and the spirit of Chinese writing to show the heritage of civilization, the vibrancy of contemporary China with brilliant colors, and the creative forms of expression of contemporary art.

Singing the theme song

The theme song will be sung for the first time at the end of the opening ceremony's cultural and artistic performances, during the performance of "Dream". Note that the first time here actually means that the song is making its first appearance, and any previous speculation was not correct. The theme song was selected from the Olympic song collection and selection activities held by the Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games over a period of five years and four sessions, and was determined through a special evaluation process. The theme song will be sung by the famous Chinese singer Liu Huan and the famous British singer Sarah Brightman. The two will sing in both Chinese and English, and the song will be more than three minutes long.

Athletes' entrance ceremony, this time the order of athletes' entrance is in accordance with the stroke order of the simplified Chinese characters of the names of the delegations of 205 countries and regions, for example, after the entrance of the delegation of Greece, the first delegation to enter will be the delegation of Guinea, and the delegation of Zambia before the entrance of the delegation of China.

Speech by the President of the Beijing Organizing Committee, speech by the President of the International Olympic Committee

Opening of the Olympic Games by the President of China

Olympic Flag Entrance, Playing of the Olympic Anthem, Raising of the Olympic Flag

Athlete Representatives' Oath of Office, Referee Representatives' Oath of Office

Releasing of the Doves of Peace, Torch Relay in the Arena

Final Flame Lighting ceremony

Final fireworks

This part will take nearly two and a half hours, with the athletes' entrance taking up nearly two hours or so.