After more than two years of careful preparation for the opening ceremony of the Guangzhou Asian Games, November 12 will be officially staged on the Haixinsha Island, the audio-visual cultural feast created by a number of top artists from China and abroad, wonderful, in addition to the lighting ceremony of the main torch tower, it is worth paying attention to the highlights of many.
Flying trapeze - the blooming fireworks on the waist of the Little Barbarian - Ocean Boat - the emblem of the Pearl River trips upstream
- the most noteworthy highlights of the opening ceremony of the Guangzhou Asian Games
Xinhua News Network, Guangzhou, November 11, sports special (reporter Wang Chung, Jia Wenjun) after more than two years of careful preparation of the Guangzhou Asian Games opening ceremony, November 12 will be officially staged in the Haixinsha Island, the audio-visual cultural feast created by a number of top Chinese and foreign artists, brilliant, in addition to the main torch tower lighting ceremony, it is worth paying attention to a lot of highlights.
Highlights of the first: the audience felt suffocated by the "trapeze"
A person from the roof of nearly 80 meters down the feeling of excitement, 180 people from the roof of the 80-meter dive feeling? The show's many swooping scenes, during the rehearsal period, had already given the audience a taste of nervousness to the point of almost suffocation.
The program's music is sometimes passionate, sometimes romantic and lyrical, the blockbuster "X-Men", "Kung Fu Panda" composer John Powell and the Beijing Olympic Games Closing Ceremony Music Director Bian Liunian teamed up to write and produce the completion.
180 athletes, in the ground 1284 operators and 100 technical support staff with the cooperation of the audience from the front up to more than 80 meters four eight sail screen unfolded a thrilling three-dimensional performance. This is a bold and creative, challenging the limits of a new attempt, not only for Asia, also applies to the world. They are in this unique space, or across, running, or climbing, swooping, accommodating surfing, mountaineering, swimming, hurdles and many other sports elements ......, demonstrating the vigorous development of China's national fitness movement, a wonderful interpretation of the human faster, higher, stronger sportsmanship. In the end, more than 180 athletes transformed into eight huge wings soaring eagles. Flying to the blue sky, sprinting to the future.
Highlights of the second: choreography masters to create the "Ocean Boat" even the acrobats also once retreated
200 fishermen's maidens handheld fishing lanterns, standing on the beach, watching the men embark on the long sea "Silk Road". In the sound of the powerful trumpet, 600 tide children together, hand pull shoulder to carry a huge ship. Like every departure, the vast and mysterious sea, the challenge given to them, so that the life burst out of the power of a nation!
This 28-8 meters long, 8 meters wide, 18 meters high "giant ship", by the world's top choreographer Mark Fischer and Chinese choreographer Miao Peiru *** with the creation of the "Ocean Boat", can be horizontal and vertical 45 acrobats and dancers play "sailors", under the leadership of a captain, sailing into the sea, fighting in the shocking waves, in the lightning and thunder of the peaks and valleys, "sailors" call and shout, and the ship forward! From time to time was thrown on the crest of the wave, and sometimes into the bottom of the valley, the boat in the bumps, in the rocking ...... "sailors" and the waves of the giant wind to fight to the death. The difficulty of performing on such a special stage as a rocking ship is beyond imagination. Eventually chose to perform in the mast and other parts of the ship are acrobats from Henan, but initially the ship's physical at the end of December last year arrived in Guangzhou to install, the first rehearsal, they got on the boat just a little rocking, can not find the center of gravity, can not perform actions. A whole week, completely used to adapt to this extremely "simulation" of the ship, these acrobatic masters of acrobatics, there are a lot of people beat a retreat. Finally overcame the "seasickness" and other difficulties, rehearsal molding of the "Ocean Boat", magnificent, and become the opening ceremony of the Guangzhou Asian Games wonderful attractions.
Highlights of the third: the world's largest lighting group carved out of the visual spectacle
48-year-old Sha Xiaogang, is the Beijing Olympic Games, Paralympic Games opening and closing ceremonies lighting director. Sha Xiaogang, who is the lighting director of the Guangzhou Asian Games opening ceremony team, put the opening night of the Guangzhou night sky, with the color and shape of the lights, sculpted into a rare visual spectacle, is a rare masterpiece.
With the "Pearl River as the stage, the city as a backdrop" on the island of Haixinsha held in the opening ceremony of the Asian Games, gave Sha Xiaolan seven kilometers of space on both sides of the Pearl River, to show him and his team's talent. They used more than 2,000 searchlights, more than 2,000 computer lights, *** counting more than 5,000 professional lamps and lanterns, to create the world's largest one light city performance art.
In the prologue of the opening ceremony, with the infinite spread of water waves on the ground of Haixinsha Island, combined with brilliant lasers, turned on the world's largest array of fountains, rippling and haloing the 170-meter-long, 38-meter-high water spectacle, like a dream. Under the starry sky, on the Pearl River, in front of the audience, four eight 80-meter-high video giant sails rising. Fireworks and searchlights on both sides of the Pearl River will be the Haixinsha Island into an unprecedented full light and shadow water features shaping Asia's "Harmony" ship, in China's southern gate, the Pearl River estuary, "Asian Games Night" set sail.
The opening ceremony was carried out to the "Green Minute", just sixty seconds, the lights will be up to more than 600 meters high Guangzhou Tower into a towering green Asian tree of life. Around Haixinsha Island and the main buildings on both sides of the Pearl River instantly turned green. Let people in the reinforced concrete city to find the feeling of green home, at the same time, call on the people of the city at this moment will be at home in a pot of flowers or a cluster of green plants to the balcony and window, so that the stars to see, so that the world to see. Starting from Haixinsha Island, the main venue and the 2000 high-frequency LED searchlights on both sides of the Pearl River changed color to become a green wave corridor. This is a rare display of light art that penetrates from the eyes into the heart.
Highlight four: comparable to the "Bird's Nest" dream five rings of the Pearl River river flow trips of the Asian Games logo
In the Haixinsha Island for the opening ceremony highlights frequently, in the Haixinsha Island, near the Pearl River, there is also a very creative display. A huge LED light network that alternately flashes the OCA emblem and the current Asian Games emblem, flowing in the waters of Haixinsha above the Pearl River, from both sides of the Pearl River, especially in the skies above Guangzhou and the surrounding skyscrapers, are able to feel the sportsmanship and romantic elements conveyed by the emblem on the surface of the river.
In determining the creative elements of the opening ceremony of the Asian Games to "water" as the core, the Asian Games Opening and Closing Ceremony Production Director Mr. Lu Jiankang brain was born in the concept of "stretching a Pearl River scroll", in the opening ceremony the evening of the performance of the Pearl River Parade In the performance of the Pearl River Parade on the evening of the opening ceremony, the display of the logo of the OCA and the Guangzhou Asian Games logo of the sea light network and the colorful boat on behalf of the OCA family **** with the completion of this giant mobile scroll.
The emblem of the Games with high-tech stage display means and the opening ceremony of the Games of art performance combination of techniques, in the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games has been a great success. The opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games will be the Olympic Games emblem - the image of the five rings, in the form of LED light network, unexpectedly rose in the "Bird's Nest" stage above, the romantic aesthetic feeling y moved the audience. Guangzhou Asian Games opening ceremony to choose the LED emblem light network flowing down the Pearl River to Haixinsha, also has a strong visibility. It is reported, in order to create this water surface light network, the use of 500,000 LED light points, by 500 skilled technicians spent 5 days, hand-woven 42 meters long, 48 meters wide, an area of more than 2,000 square meters of LED light network. After repeated tests of this "water emblem" is not afraid of wind and waves, not afraid of rain.
Highlight 5: the Canton Tower "Little Barbarian Waist" as the core of the world's top masters of the brilliant fireworks
The opening night, by the world's top fireworks master Christoph and China's top pyrotechnics expert Liu Lin composed of Chinese and foreign teams, around the Tower of up to 600 meters high, "Little Barbarian Waist", "Little Barbarian Waist", "Little Barbarian Waist", "Little Barbarian Waist", "Little Barbarian Waist", "Little Barbarian Waist".
As the opening ceremony of the Guangzhou Asian Games foreign pyrotechnics chief design of the famous French fireworks master Christophe, has designed the Eiffel Tower fireworks show in Paris, France, the opening ceremony of the Athens Olympic Games fireworks show and the Burj Dubai fireworks show. 54-year-old Liu Lin served as the Asian Games opening and closing ceremonies of the fireworks of the Chinese chief designer, he is the Beijing Olympic Games opening and closing ceremonies of the fireworks supervisor and on-site conductor, the sixtieth anniversary of the National Day The fireworks command department technical coordination experts.
They carefully designed to the Guangzhou Tower, Haixinsha Island and the bridge on the Pearl River as the core, around the theme of the opening ceremony, in the Asian Games city of Guangzhou in the night sky to set off a romantic, wonderful shock of the brilliant fireworks. Countdown link to the 600-meter-high Canton Tower as the main carrier for the 55-second display of the most exciting, fireworks lines outlined in the "Cotton Blossom", comparable to the Beijing Olympic Games, "Big Foot".
Zhang Ziyi and Lang Lang joint 180 Shaolin Kid Guangzhou Daily
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Boys singing at high altitude
"Rainfall"
The first highlight of the opening ceremony is no better than the singing of children's voices of the Guangdong nursery rhymes "Rainfall". Performers sitting on a dozen-storey-high banana leaves, from top to bottom, from right to left, or floating or stopping, the audio-visual effect of the prologue is fascinating. In addition, the opening ceremony more than once in the "falling rain big", although twice, but the feeling is completely different.
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180 Shaolin Kid
Huge sail screen flying 3
Zhang Ziyi and Lang Lang
Dedicated to the song "Time"
In the chapter of the "Sails of the White Clouds", the musical talent Lang Lang and Zhang Ziyi, the two handsome men and women, will join forces to perform the song "Time".
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Flower Boat Sailing Boat
Pixel beautiful appearance
Flower Boat Parade will become a beautiful scenery. There are two special boats, one of which is in the performance process plays an important role in the sail screen, LED sail screen is unfolded, the Haixinsha turned into a large ship, the other is a huge props sailboat.
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Nearly 600 young people
Drums of Hunt
"Drums of Hunt"
"Hunt" is what it looks like, I believe that many people have never heard of it, never seen it. At the opening ceremony, the audience could see nearly 600 young people playing the "Hunde Drums", which are characteristic of Guangzhou.
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Global Audience Participation
The Green Minute
The Green Minute is the only part of the Asian Games Opening Ceremony that involves all the people of the world, and it's a kind of performance art that transcends space and time and knows no boundaries. It is a performance art that transcends time and space and knows no boundaries. All audience members can take part in this green action by physically holding green plants out on the balcony.
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Athletes walk the rain screen
Avenue of Stars Athletes entrance ceremony will break the tradition, along the water stage axis of the Avenue of Stars into the field, and the Avenue of Stars on both sides of the water curtain with the flap, such as a dream.
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Main torch lighting
The ceremony is so mysterious
How is the Asian Games torch lit? On water, on land or in the air? This has been treated as a first-class secret.
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The sacred fire bowl from the stage
The "center of the circle" rose
Usually, we will see the main venue of the opening ceremony has long been built in the Asian Games sacred fire bowl, but so far we do not see any trace of the sacred fire bowl on the stage during the day, in the end, where to hide? The answer is in the "heart" of Haixinsha. In the last part of the opening ceremony, the water stage will be turned into a square of origin, you will see the sacred fire bowl from the ground upward.
After the fire bowl appears, you'll see a sacred "water pooling" ceremony. Forty-five Sacred Water Women from the four corners of Asia arrive at the center of the site holding vessels filled with civilized water from the major water systems of Asia, and collectively pour the sacred water into the Sacred Fire Pit to complete the ceremony.
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Guangzhou Tower Now
Fireworks Giant Characters You'll see the world's largest fireworks display on the Hunt Bridge, as well as giant Chinese characters made up of fireworks on the Guangzhou Tower.
(Source: Dayang Net - Guangzhou Daily)
Related news: Guangzhou Asian Games total investment is 50 times that of Beijing Oriental Morning Post
Total investment 2.5 billion: 122.6 billion
The 1990 Asian Games in Beijing is the first time that the new China hosted large-scale international comprehensive games. in April 1985, the Beijing Asian Games Organizing Committee was established. The following year, including the National Olympic Sports Center, the athletes village, including the Asian Games project, in the northern end of the central axis of Beijing hundreds of hectares of crop land groundbreaking. At the same time, a number of ancillary projects have been launched, most of the North Fourth Ring Road was completed before the Asian Games, more than 10 years earlier than the full opening of the Fourth Ring Road (2001), the Central Axis Road was extended from Gulouwai Street to the North Fourth Ring Road, initially in the 1960s, the first ring road to the city to start construction of the Second Ring Road also accelerated the pace of construction, and finally in 1992 the full opening of the road. It took 4 years and an investment of 2.5 billion dollars, which is another large-scale construction in Beijing following the construction of the Great Hall of the People and other "ten big buildings" in the 1950s.
Compared to the Beijing Asian Games, the financial aspects of the stretched, Guangzhou Asian Games in the investment is not "stingy". "In order to do a good job of the Asian Games, the competition operation and venues invested ***13.6 billion yuan, the rest of the 109 billion yuan is the six-year period from 2005 to 2010, Guangzhou in the key infrastructure construction investment." Zhang Jieming, director of the Guangzhou Municipal Finance Bureau, explained the rough distribution of the roughly 122.6 billion yuan of financial investment, "The 109 billion yuan was divided into four parts, of which 54.7 billion yuan was spent on the opening of five new subway lines alone, plus 18.5 billion yuan on the construction of roads and bridges, 19 billion yuan on the comprehensive improvement of the environment, and 16.8 billion yuan on the treatment of water. "
Sponsor 2:53
The 1990 Beijing Asian Games*** required funding of 2.5 billion yuan, but the country's limited financial resources can not be fully allocated, there is still a gap of 600 million yuan. At that time, the country had more than 100 million donations, donations, donated 270 million yuan, the National Association of Individual Households *** donations of 20.5 million yuan. In addition to the donations of ordinary people, Jianlibao, Anta became one of the few sponsors of the Beijing Asian Games, especially Jianlibao, on April 28, 1990 to 6 million yuan was designated as the 11th Beijing Asian Games Chinese Sports Delegation dedicated sports drinks, plus the provision of physical goods as well as the sponsorship of the Torch Relay, the total amount of sponsorship of the Jianlibao reached 16 million yuan.
After 20 years, through the reform and opening up as well as the reform of the economic system, the Guangzhou Asian Games sponsors reached 53, sponsorship amounted to more than 3 billion yuan, this year's Guangzhou Asian Games, the number of sponsors and sponsorship of the amount of money are the most record of the Asian Games: sponsorship of the amount of the Doha Asian Games, 5 times, South Korea's Busan Asian Games, 3.5 times. Sponsors in the Guangzhou Automobile Group's sponsorship reached a record 600 million yuan, Samsung Electronics, 361 ° sponsorship costs are also more than 200 million yuan.
Extra value added
After the successful hosting of the Beijing Asian Games, the Asian Games Village site has become a wind vane in all the ups and downs of the housing market, and today's prices in the Asian Games Village site are absolutely sky-high for people 20 years ago.
The convening of the Guangzhou Asian Games is also widely recognized as bringing a greater comprehensive effect to the city of Guangzhou. According to a study by the Guangzhou Academy of Social Sciences, the Asian Games will add an additional 103.24 billion yuan to Guangzhou's GDP, and the indirect investment in the Asian Games will add an additional 712 billion yuan to Guangzhou's GDP.
Guangzhou Asian Games is coming
Our motherland is really eventful, with the closing of the Beijing Olympics, the opening of the Shanghai World Expo, and ushered in a shocking good news: the 16th Asian Games will be held from November 12 to 27, 2010 in our Guangzhou, as a Guangdong people, I feel very proud, very excited.
Guangdong Province in the south of China, the climate is suitable, although there is no Beijing's spectacular and majestic, no Hong Kong's economic prosperity, but as long as your arrival, I believe that our Lingnan fruit, Guangdong cuisine, clean mountains and green water will allow you to flow back and forth to the future, do not believe to try to wait. According to my understanding of the Asian Games will be set up 41 competitions, is the history of the Asian Games, the largest number of competitions, at the same time, the Asian Games will be held after the tenth Asian Games for the disabled, can be said to be a lot of events.
In the moment of welcoming the Asian Games, as a host, from now on I will take practical action for the success of the Asian Games and efforts to welcome you. One is to start from yourself, from the small things around you, and strive to be a civilized, polite Asian Games propaganda active part, you if you want to know more ...... welcome to write; two is to pay attention to environmental hygiene, calling on everyone to be civilized, polite, protect the environment, care for the public **** hygiene, so that our city is more beautiful; three is to take the Athletes fighting spirit, study hard, grow up to fight for the country.
2010, for us in Guangdong is a special year, we look forward to your arrival "Guangdong welcomes you", let's share this exciting and happy moment, friends.