A dazzling halo activates the ancient sundial. A unique multimedia device opened the curtain of the opening ceremony. The sundial reflects light onto the venue's fou. The fou is an ancient Chinese percussion instrument made of clay or bronze. As early as the Xia and Shang Dynasties, there was the performance of "singing with percussion". At this moment, they are conveying to us the concept of time with the rhythm of light. And with the sound of beating, the appearance of huge numbers, each time the light and shadow of the figures of the encounter, are heralded by the Beijing Olympics every second approaching, let us travel through time and space, together with the countdown, with the rhythm of shock, stirring the millennium of the motherland's thousands of miles, stirring the Chinese nation's rushing blood, *** with the Olympic light to meet the arrival of the light.
The stars are shining brightly tonight, and China in August is inviting guests from all directions with fiery enthusiasm, welcoming guests from all over the world, and the ceremonial flowers are filling the sky tonight, and Beijing in midsummer is witnessing the miracle of the Kingdom of Heaven, and casting the peak of glory.
The night sky is bright, the sound of percussion shakes the sky, and the friendship is boundless. Next, we will see a welcome ceremony with the charm of classical Chinese art, welcoming all the friends who have come from afar.
China has always been known as an ancient civilized country and a state of etiquette, and over the past thousands of years, it has not only created a splendid and long history and culture, but also formed a noble moral code and a complete code of etiquette. At this moment, 2008 musicians, while striking the percussion and chanting the famous lines written by Confucius in the Analects of Confucius thousands of years ago, we use a unique way to express Beijing's most sincere welcome. We welcome all friends who love friendship and peace to Beijing, to China, and all friends who love the Olympic Movement to the Olympic family.
In the shocking sound, we were surprised to see the huge footprints made up of fireworks coming along Beijing's central axis road through Tiananmen Square and heading straight for the National Stadium. 29 fireworks footprints symbolize the historical footprints of the 29 Olympic Games, and mean that China's century-long trek in pursuit of its Olympic dream is approaching the moment when that dream comes true. 7 years ago when the Chinese handed over the bid report to the International Olympic Committee, they put their faith in the Olympic Games. Seven years ago, when the Chinese handed over the bid report to the IOC, they gave the world the promise of Green Olympics, Scientific Olympics and Humanistic Olympics. 7 years later, the newborn Bird's Nest on the Central Axis and the Olympic Forest Park have become the most joyful companions of the solemn Tiananmen Square. These three distinctive Beijing landmarks on the central axis not only embody the three concepts of the Beijing Olympics, but also connect the city of Beijing yesterday and today.
The Bird's Nest at this moment is dotted with stars, like a vast river of stars falling to earth. The beautiful flying star singing and dancing in the stars, beautiful and romantic, like a dream, for the Olympic five rings to add a touch of Chinese color, for the Olympic five rings branded a section of China's memory, but also like a beautiful dream in the hearts of Chinese people longing for a hundred years. An Olympic five rings composed of starlight exudes a bright light, the beautiful flying sky to the glittering five rings in the night sky of Beijing, lighting up the night of Beijing, lighting up every love of peace, love of friendship, love of the Olympic movement in the heart of the people leaping passion. This bright five rings will let us remember Beijing's starry sky finally has the Olympic five rings of the marks, more will let the whole world remember, the memory of the Olympic Games from now on there is the legend of China.
When the brightly colored five-star red flag flutters in the wind and the brilliant fireworks bloom with the most brilliant expression of ancient China, this night belongs to the soaring China and this joy belongs to the Olympic Beijing.
With the beginning of a short video, we will see a Chinese painting that spans time and space with a beautiful mood, which tells the story of China that is vast, heavy and far-reaching, and friends from all over the world will enjoy the elegant oriental charm, understand the long-lasting Chinese culture, and feel the modern charm of China.
The image presents the four treasures of the literati, brush, ink, paper and inkstone, which emanate the classical Chinese flavor. In the elegant sound of the guqin, we see the complete process of the creation of a painting, paper production, ink and ink coloring, and framing into a scroll, and tonight's story will begin with this flowing and graceful, ever-changing Chinese scroll.
The image of the scroll magically appeared in the middle of the venue, and the huge 70-meter-long scroll slowly spread out in front of us. The melodious sound of the zither and the dipping of the water mill are full of the light and elegant charm of classical Chinese art. On the scroll, the ink rolls and flows, presenting in turn the evolution, ceramics, bronzes and other representative cultural symbols in the process of the origin and development of Chinese culture. A dancer dressed in black came on top of the scroll and used his body to make the ink stains, showing the spontaneity of Chinese ink painting. With the movement of the dancer, the undulating ink lines appeared on the white drawing paper.
The elegant melody comes to this ancient zither with more than 1,000 years of history, which is called "The Ancient Remains of Sound" and reflects the long history of Chinese culture in its fluctuating strings. Chinese ink painting emphasizes the writing of God in shape, not confining itself to resemblance, but emphasizing the charm, and the unique body language of the dancers reflects the unique interest and flavor of Chinese ink painting.
At this moment, the painting is completed, the original paper, which does not exist on the ground, is lifted up in the air, and an ink painting with interlocking mountains and rolling hills is presented in front of us.
Chinese characters are one of the oldest scripts in the world. The ancient Chinese characters carry the long and profound history of Chinese civilization. At this moment, three thousand disciples of Confucius hold bamboo slips and chant loudly, slowly stepping into the venue, the classic quotations from the Analects of Confucius resonate in your ears.
In the middle of the complete giant scroll, a three-dimensional movable character printing body magically appeared, with the square board Chinese characters bumping and undulating, constantly changing. The whole movable character printing board is like a breeze, layers and layers of mountains, like water waves surging, this and that, full of dynamic performance, will present us the evolution of Chinese characters. In the middle of the movable type printing board, the ancient Chinese character "和" appears, and a second ancient form of the character "和" appears. At this moment, we see the modern character "和", a character that has evolved over thousands of years, expressing Confucius' humanistic concept of harmony, and demonstrating the harmonious outlook of the Chinese nation, with its long history and fine traditions. At this moment, the huge movable type printing plate changes the majestic appearance of the Great Wall of China, 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, symbolizing the strong and unyielding spine of the Chinese nation.
Numerous three-dimensional peach blossoms appear on the top of the movable type printing plate. The image of the majestic Great Wall is covered by graceful peach blossoms, which instantly puts people in a peach blossom wonderland full of spring colors and harmony and romance, expressing the Chinese people's good wishes of loving peace.
Chinese opera has a long history and many varieties. The lively sound of gongs and drums brings us the performance of traditional Chinese opera, China's vast territory has accomplished many types of opera, we are familiar with the national treasure Beijing opera, rich in performances and a long history, known to the world as the Oriental opera. Gorgeous event theater, surrounded by thousands of actors and actresses, came to the field, Peking Opera dress up string puppets, exquisite workmanship, craftsmanship refined, they live and breathe the performance of the theater stage to convey the mood and charisma.
The show, titled "Silk Road", represents the two links between the land and sea in ancient China, the Silk Road on the road and the scene of the Maritime Silk Road. To make friends, to exchange, to learn from each other, to be courteous to each other, the Chinese people's warm and friendly qualities have always been there, and the two Silk Roads are the best evidence of this. More than two thousand years ago, the Chinese caravan began to bring valuable silk from Chang'an, through the Hexi Corridor into the European continent, the Silk Road is an important channel for economic and cultural exchanges between China and the West. The paper suspended in mid-air has been transformed into a vast and boundless desert, and Dunhuang dancers are dancing lightly on top of the desert, leading us on a journey of friendship.
Modern oars bring our thoughts from the diverse inland to the endless sea, oars connected, presenting the image of China's ancient navigation, the Maritime Silk Road is the ancient Chinese and foreign transportation, trade and cultural exchanges on the sea channel. The top of the stadium is already rough at this time, and the long scroll in the field has also been in the sea, oars slipping, oarsmen fighting in the waves, reflecting the courage and wisdom of the Chinese to challenge nature.
The five Chinese scroll paintings, accompanied by classical dances by the actors, recreated the heyday of ancient China's state of ritual and music. Actors singing Kunqu. Kunqu is an ancient Chinese traditional art that has been inscribed on the World Intangible Cultural Heritage list. On the ground are five of China's most famous scroll paintings. They are from the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties.
Boundless starlight and romantic melodies, the ancient scrolls are extended in the new era, signifying a happier and more harmonious life today. The pianist and the child play the romantic melody, ushering in a brand new era. This is the young Chinese pianist Lang Lang. The little girl playing with Lang Lang is only 5 years old, and she has been learning the piano since she was 4 years old. Ancient scrolls stretch out in the infinite starlight. The modern part of the performance jumped from black and white to color in a brilliant style, and countless dancers were attracted by the colors while converging in the middle of the scroll.
The green-clad messenger in the venue shines brightly, painting us a picture of starlight. Presented to the audience is the giant starlight dove of peace. The dove is a symbol of peace, friendship and holiness, and tonight we release this radiant dove of peace, may it convey to the world the friendship from China. On the bird's nest floats a kite, let us bless their dreams to be able to fly on the wind.
The performance of Tai Chi embodies the mingling of tradition and the future, and expresses the harmony between man and nature, reaching the realm of the unity of heaven and mankind. Taijiquan is one of the most representative styles of Chinese martial arts. It is characterized by the "combination of movement and static, rigidity and flexibility".
The multimedia performance vividly expresses the ancient philosophical concept of Chinese Kung Fu: the harmony between man and nature. "Flying down three thousand feet, suspected to be the Milky Way falling into the nine heavens." This is a poetic expression of a famous line by Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai.
Children use colorful brushes to depict the beautiful nature, and sow green hope with innocent children's hearts, so let's work together to fulfill the promise and give the world a green Olympics.
The children put away their brushes at this time, and the thousands of taijiquan performers also seemed to be attracted by some kind of power, holding their breaths and paying attention, and in an instant, countless birds appeared above the Bird's Nest, as if to tell us that this is the green home to which they are fondly attached.
A fantastic blue planet is rising and rotating, which is our ****home. We would like to invite every corner of the earth, invite every friend who can hear our voice to share our dream, the dream of the Olympics!
We are in the same world, we have the same dream, dream of unity, dream of development, dream of reunion, embrace the world.
China's flag bearer is the famous basketball player Yao Ming, who is serving his second term as flag bearer of the Chinese Olympic delegation. Holding hands with Yao is a second-grade student from Yingxiu Township Primary School in Wenchuan County, who was once honored with the title of Heroic Teenager of Earthquake Resistance and Disaster Relief. This year's Olympic Games, China's sports representatives consisted of 1,099 people and 639 athletes, which not only created the largest number of participants in China's previous Olympic Games, but also the largest sports delegation in the current Olympic Games. The average age of the delegation of athletes is 24.4 years old, of which 37 people had participated in the 2000 Sydney Olympics, 165 people had participated in the 2004 Athens Olympics, and some athletes are continuously participated in the Atlanta, Sydney, Athens, three Olympic Games three dynastic, there are 469 people is the first time to participate in the Olympic Games.
Illuminating the face of the last torchbearer, gymnast Li Ning. He held up the torch across the Beijing Olympic torch relay on the last journey of glory, the gold-medalist athlete who has been made the Prince of Gymnastics, both inside and outside the arena, have a deep love affair with sports.
The Beijing Olympic flame is lit, and at this moment, the Olympic flame is blossoming in the night sky of Beijing.
From 1908 to 2008, the Chinese nation has been eagerly looking forward to the Olympic movement for a whole century, from 100 years ago, when we began to look forward to the flame on Mount Olympus in Athens, to 100 years later, when the Olympic flame was finally lit in the night sky of Beijing, the Western civilization, which was nurtured in Ancient Greece, and the Oriental civilization that has been inherited for 5,000 years are finally shining together at this moment.
From a single person to participate in the Olympic Games to 1.3 billion people *** with the efforts to host the Olympic Games, the Chinese people's love of the Olympic movement has been integrated into the national bloodline. Let us *** with the condensation tonight happy China, gorgeous Beijing, a hundred years of perseverance, finally ushered in the splendid realization of the Olympic dream of the Chinese nation. This moment belongs to the Beijing Olympic Games of the colorful music has just played. At this moment, the new Beijing, the new Olympic Games has gathered the attention of the world. The next 16 days, we will use 1.3 billion Chinese people blossom sincere smile, bright Olympic journey in Beijing, the next 16 days, with 1.3 billion Chinese warm applause applaud your 2008 struggle journey, I wish all the countries athletes tenacity and hard work, in Beijing, this land that nurtures hope to continue to write the world's Olympic charms, and I wish China's heroes to fight the line in Beijing, this piece of land of the warmth of the vast branded China's Olympic legend.