The opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games will not be officially held for three days, and BOCOG has taken strict security measures to prevent the contents of the opening ceremony from being leaked. However, through the rehearsal clips photographed by SBS TV in South Korea, as well as the contents of some press conferences held by BOCOG in the past, the speeches of planning participants, and the media's observation outside the rehearsal site, we can still have a further understanding of the mysterious opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games.
The opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games will be held at 8: pm on August 8, 28. It will be divided into four ceremonies: the opening ceremony, the large-scale theme performance, the athletes' entrance ceremony and the lighting of the Olympic torch, with a total length of three and a half hours. It is known that the main line of the opening ceremony will revolve around the Han, Tang and Song Dynasties, and the performances will reproduce the beautiful scenery of these three periods. At present, it has been confirmed that there will be a three-minute program with the theme of "Chinese rites and music" set in the Tang Dynasty, which will be presented by Shenyang Art School and Chongqing National Art School.
The opening ceremony of the Olympic Games will revolve around a picture scroll. With the melodious music, a giant picture scroll on the ground will slowly unfold, and actors will dance and pose various shapes on this mountain map.
28 disciples of Shaolin Tagou Martial Arts School in Nandengfeng will perform Tai Ji Chuan in white Tang costumes. Liu Haiqin, president of Tagou Martial Arts School, said in an interview that the outstanding performance of the students at the Athens Olympic Games left a deep impression on Zhang Yimou, the general director of the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games, and laid a solid foundation for the school to be selected for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Olympic Games.
On the night of the opening ceremony, * * * set off 3, fireworks, with a total length of about 2 minutes. The range of fireworks ranged from the National Stadium "Bird's Nest" to Juyongguan, the Great Wall, which will surely make Beijing the brightest city in the world.
Cai Guoqiang, the chief designer of visual effects art, said that fireworks were set off throughout the ceremony, and different shapes of fireworks were matched according to the content and progress of the program. At the beginning of the performance, 29 patterns will be displayed in the air at 29 discharge points from Yong 'anmen to the Bird's Nest, symbolizing the 29th Olympic Games coming to China.
When the Olympic flag is raised, fireworks with the Olympic rings will be displayed in the air. When the national flag of China is raised, millions of big red peonies will be thrown at 22 discharge points from the "Bird's Nest" to the "Dragon-shaped Water System" of the Olympic Park, and a golden flying dragon will flash in the fire and shuttle in the night sky. When the flame is lit, the Juyongguan Great Wall and the "Bird's Nest" will set off different fireworks to create an effect of dialogue between ancient and modern times and across time and space.
Cai Guoqiang said that peony and dragon are symbols with strong China elements, and they are the best carriers to present's 5,-year visual image art in China.
Since September last year, BOCOG has publicly solicited photos of children's smiling faces from all over the world, and thousands of photos collected will be displayed on the "Bird's Nest" big screen at the end of the cultural performance. At the same time, 28 smiling faces will be printed in the sky by the chamber pressure projectile. Performers will present a dance with the traditional umbrella shape of China, and use the umbrella to pose children's smiling faces.
The theme songs and singers of the Olympic Games are still kept secret, but the singing form has been established, that is, the "Bird's Nest" is turned into an ocean by using special effects, colorful fish swim freely, and an earth-shaped stage rises from the ground and singers sing on it. The harmonious picture coincides with the Olympic slogan "One World, One Dream".
It is said that there are two theme song singers, but there is still no exact information about the specific candidate.
A Wenchuan link will also be arranged at the opening ceremony to praise the national spirit of Chinese unity after the Sichuan earthquake. According to informed sources, the Wenchuan link is divided into two parts: silence and prayer. Students from Sichuan disaster areas and all over the world will light up and pray together.
In order to focus on the traditional culture and art of all ethnic groups in China, the Olympic Opening and Closing Ceremonies Operation Center selected more than 2 representative programs with the most ethnic characteristics, which were presented before the opening ceremony. This warm-up program called "Celebrating the Olympics with great joy" will last for one and a half hours.
Zhang Jigang, deputy director of the party, said that the programs were initially drawn up from more than 2 provinces, municipalities, autonomous regions, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan Province, including Tibetan dance Auspicious Olympics, Anhui Flower Drum Lantern Dance, Yunnan Yi people's flower waist song and dance, Phoenix Dance and Dragonfly Dance, Jiangsu Hai 'an Flower Drum, Shandong Haiyang Yangko and Shanghai Zizhu Tune.
According to the rehearsal picture of the opening ceremony shot by SBS TV station in South Korea, other performances include drumming, Hua Le playing and ribbon dancing. Some reporters photographed the performers outside the rehearsal with makeup, including the Shaolin Temple monks dressed in white, the Terracotta Warriors dressed in Qin Dynasty costumes, the girls dressed in tight white modern costumes and holding flower umbrellas, and the bachelors dressed in blue Han Dynasty costumes.
In terms of music, some media pointed out that the music used in the opening ceremony was mainly China's characteristics, including the classic song "Moonlit Night on a Spring River", the singing of Beijing Opera and "Singing the Motherland", and the Scottish bagpipes were one of the few foreign musical instruments that appeared in the opening ceremony.
The striking ceremony of lighting the flame will be held at 11: 3 pm. Zhu Hong, deputy director of the Opening and Closing Ceremonies Department of BOCOG, said in an interview in January this year that the ignition method for the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games has been determined, but the details are top secret, and only 1 people in China know it at present. The only certainty is that the ignition method is based on the guiding ideology of "harmony between man and nature", but how to interpret it is still a mystery.
The global audience watching the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games is expected to exceed 4 billion. Zhu Hong said, "Splendid novelty, national characteristics, characteristics of the times and world vision" are the four distinctive features of the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games.
Zhang Yimou, the general director of the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games, said that the opening ceremony will be a cool and touching audio-visual feast. Rick Burch, an Australian creative master who is one of the chief consultants, said that the opening ceremony will shock the whole world, and everyone can expect to be dumbfounded by it.