Narration
Sun Zhengping: CCTV, this is Beijing, the capital of the People's Republic of China.
Zhou Tao: This is the Bird's Nest of the National Stadium, where the opening ceremony of the 29th Beijing Olympic Games is being held. This is the first time in the 112 years since the birth of the modern Olympic Games that it has come to the world's most populous country. The opening of the Olympic Games in Beijing, which symbolizes the unity, friendship and peace of mankind, is the fulfillment of a hundred-year dream of the Chinese people, and it is also a passionate embrace between Chinese civilization, which has stretched over 5,000 years, and the world, which will make an important contribution to the creation of a harmonious world.
Sun Zhengping: When the numbers of the Olympic countdown in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, gradually move toward zero, the moment of Chinese people's dream coming true is counted in seconds. For the arrival of this moment, countless people have sweated and shed tears.
Zhou Tao: for the Olympic five rings, branding a brilliant Chinese memory, but also to the beautiful dream, in the hearts of Chinese people longing for a hundred years.
Sun Zhengping: The five rings of the Olympic Games, exuding a beautiful halo, the beautiful starry sky and the Olympic rings, igniting the enthusiasm of everyone.
Zhou Tao: This bright five rings, let us remember the starry sky of Beijing, finally have the Olympic five rings, the memory of the Olympic Games, from now on there is a Chinese legend.
Sun Zhengping: Welcome to all friends to the Oakpick family. In the shocking sound, we were surprised to see the huge footprints composed of fireworks, along the central axis of Beijing, through Tiananmen Square, straight to the National Stadium.
Zhou Tao: The 29 fireworks footprints symbolize the historical footprints of the 29 Olympic Games, meaning that China's century-long trek in pursuit of the Olympic dream is stepping into the moment when the dream comes true.
Sun Zhengping: At this moment, the Bird's Nest is dotted with stars, like a vast river of stars falling into the earth, the beautiful flying sky singing and dancing among the stars, beautiful and romantic, like a dream.
Sun Zhengping: The picture shows the four treasures of Chinese classical flavor, pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and in the elegant sound of the ancient zither, we see the complete process of the creation of a painting. Paper production, ink coloring, framing into a scroll, tonight's story begins with this fluttering, graceful and ever-changing Chinese scroll.
Zhou Tao: The scroll in the image magically appeared in the middle of the venue, this 70-meter-long giant scroll slowly spread out in front of us, full of the elegant charm of classical Chinese art, the scroll on the ink scroll, presenting rock paintings, ceramics, bronzes, and other representative cultural symbols in the process of the origin and development of Chinese culture.
Sun Zhengping: A dancer dressed in black came to the scroll and used his body as ink to express the spontaneity of Chinese ink painting, and with the dancer's movements, undulating ink lines appeared on the white paper.
Zhou Tao: The elegant melody comes from this monument with a history of more than 1,000 years, which is called "Taikoo Yiyin," pouring out the long history of Chinese cultural heritage.
Sun Zhengping: Chinese ink painting emphasizes the writing of God in shape, not confining itself to resemblance, but paying more attention to the charm. The unique body language of the dancers reflects the unique rhythm of the Chinese ink painting body. The whole scene shows the long history of Chinese culture, not only the ancient bamboo slips, Confucius's Analects masterpiece, which shows the classic and long history of ancient Chinese culture. Similarly, the whole ink painting is also a classic representation of outstanding Chinese painting. The scene is vast and grand, magnificent and expresses the greatness of the Chinese nation.
Zhou Tao: At this moment, the painting is completed. The drawing paper, which was originally spread on the ground, was lifted up in the air, and a chain of interlocking ink paintings was presented in front of us. Chinese characters are one of the oldest scripts in the world. Ancient Chinese characters carry the long and deep history of Chinese civilization, and in this chapter of the performance, we will see the changing charm of Chinese characters.
Sun Zhengping: At this moment, three thousand disciples of Confucius, holding bamboo slips and chanting loudly, slowly step into the middle. The classic quotations from the Analects of Confucius resonate in your ears.
Zhou Tao: On the 70-meter-long scroll, giant bamboo slips appear, presenting the earliest scripts of the Chinese.
Sun Zhengping: In the middle of the complete giant scroll, magically appearing movable type is constantly changing.
Zhou Tao: The entire movable-type printing board, with the breeze blowing over it and the layers of the mountain, like the water waves surging, this and that, full of dynamics, will present us with the evolution of Chinese characters.
Sun Zhengping: In the middle of the printing plates of movable type, the ancient Chinese character "和" appears.
Zhou Tao: The character "和" has evolved over thousands of years, expressing Confucius' cultural philosophy of "harmony is precious" and demonstrating the long history and fine tradition of the Chinese people's concept of harmony.
Sun Zhengping: This building, one of the greatest architectural projects in the history of human civilization, is the crystallization of the courage and wisdom of the ancient Chinese working people and symbolizes the strong and unyielding backbone of the Chinese nation.
Zhou Tao: Countless three-dimensional peach blossoms appeared on the top of the movable type printing plate, and the majestic image of the Great Wall was gradually covered by soft peach blossoms, as if "spring breeze came suddenly", which instantly put people in a peach blossom fairyland full of spring colors, harmony and romance, and expressed the people's good wishes of loving peace.
Sun Zhengping: the lively sound of gongs and drums, brought us the performance of traditional Chinese opera, China's vast territory has achieved a lot of opera, we all know the national treasure, Beijing opera, rich in performances, a long history, known to the world as the Oriental Opera.
Zhou Tao: Peking Opera costume of string puppets, they live and breathe the performance of the opera stage performance of the hand, eye, body, method, step five major techniques.
Sun Zhengping: This performance, titled "Silk Road", represents the two bonds of friendship between the land and the sea in ancient China, the bonds of the Silk Road on land and the Silk Road on the sea.
Zhou Tao: Make friends, communicate with each other, learn from each other, and be courteous to each other, and the two Silk Roads are the best evidence of this.
Zhou Tao: more than two thousand years ago, the Chinese caravan began to bring valuable silk, from Chang'an, through the Hexi Corridor into China's main road, the Silk Road is an important channel for commercial exchanges between China and the West.
Sun Zhengping: The huge oars take our thoughts from the inland of diverse styles to the boundless sea, the ship and river connection, the Maritime Silk Road, the ancient Chinese and foreign transportation and trade, cultural exchanges on the sea channel.
Zhou Tao: The long scroll in the field has been waves, reflecting the wisdom of the Chinese people.
Sun Zhengping: the long scroll appeared on the Chinese specialty, porcelain and tea. Because of the massive export of ceramics, the Maritime Silk Road, also known as the Maritime Ceramic Road.
Zhou Tao: The actor in the center of the venue, holding a compass, points the way for the warriors in the wind and waves. The Maritime Silk Road, not only illustrates the high level of ancient Chinese navigation technology, but also favorably attests to the historic friendliness and enthusiasm of China as a civilized country. By now, the four great inventions of ancient China are gradually presented in the middle of the performance. Since ancient times, the Chinese people have known how to condense their wisdom in labor, seek development, and write the grand story of China's history.
Zhou Tao: This beautiful dove of peace, today finally released our Chinese Beijing Olympic dream, at this moment the Chinese people are how excited, how proud. In the face of this moment, as every Chinese should be proud of it. We have finally realized our dream, realized our Olympic dream. At this moment, on the shiny bird's nest, a kite floats, which has a wish to fly in its heart, let's bless its dream and be able to fly on the wind. The messenger in green builds a green bird's nest for us. Starlight, the green bird's nest instantly face the crystal clear, exquisite and beautiful scroll, showing the times of China's great rivers and the north and south of the country, conveying a wealth of modern information, to build a picture of the people live in peace and work in harmony.
Sun Zhengping: The screen in the actor's hands, a scene of nature appears, creating a beautiful mood of endless life. Over the stadium, the loud sound of water resonates through the eardrums, over the stadium can not help but remind people of the famous lines of the Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai: "Flying down three thousand feet, suspected of the Milky Way falling nine days" of the waves and expanses. At this time, the children picked up the brush, stood gazing, thousands of tai chi performers were also attracted, as if to tell us that this is the green home they are fond of.
Zhou Tao: mankind for the first time wanted to know what the stars really look like, the Chinese people from generation to generation inherited the story of Chang'e, always obsessed with the dream of flying, and finally mankind with wisdom knocked open the door to the universe, satellite launches, manned spaceflight, space walks, a great creation, always begins with a great dream.
Sun Zhengping: In the beautiful melody of the theme song of the Beijing Olympic Games, 2008 bright smiling faces bloomed like flowers, which were collected from all over the world by the Beijing Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games (BOCOG) after a year's time spent on the performance of the Games.
Zhou Tao: No matter what color, no matter what race, no matter what nationality, no matter what language, a smile is our best expression. A smile can make each other share the same heart and love. The Beijing of the Olympics will be the Beijing of smiles. Olympic Beijing, will use the most beautiful smile, for you to pave the warmest athletic journey ......
August 8, 2008
China. Beijing
Opening of the 29th Olympic Games!