China president and the President of the International Olympic Committee entered the stadium.
China, president, Hu Jintao and IOC President jacques rogge entered the VIP table.
Compere: Beautiful welcoming fireworks circled the field, blooming like flowers over the Bird's Nest, activating the ancient sundial. The bird's nest is especially beautiful. The sundial is rich in the shadow cast by the sun to measure the time and date. It illuminates the Bird's Nest and the rectangular array in 2008 with the light of time from the sundial.
Countdown:
Host: A dazzling halo activated the ancient sundial. Unique multimedia means opened the curtain of the opening ceremony. The sundial reflects light on the landmark. Zuo is an ancient percussion instrument in China, made of clay or bronze. As early as the Xia and Shang dynasties, there was a performance of "singing". At the moment, they are conveying the concept of time to us with the rhythm of light. With the knocking, huge numbers appeared. Every digital collision between light and shadow indicates that the Beijing Olympic Games is approaching against time. Let's travel through time and space and count down together. With the shocking rhythm, we will stir the blood of Wan Li, the Millennium motherland and the Chinese nation to welcome the arrival of the Olympic light.
Welcome fireworks:
In August, China warmly invites guests from all over the world and welcomes them. Fireworks are flying all over the sky tonight, and Beijing in midsummer witnessed the miracle of heaven and forged the peak of glory.
(Moderator) Welcome Mr. Hu Jintao, President of People's Republic of China (PRC), and Mr. Rogge, President of the International Olympic Committee.
Welcome ceremony:
The night sky is bright, the voice is loud and the friendship is boundless. Next, we will see a welcoming ceremony with the unique charm of China's classical art, welcoming all friends from afar.
China is famous for its ancient civilization and etiquette. For thousands of years, it has not only created a splendid and long history and culture, but also formed noble moral standards and complete etiquette norms. At this moment, 2008 musicians are chanting loudly the famous sentences written by Confucius in The Analects of Confucius thousands of years ago. We express Beijing's most sincere welcome in a unique way. Welcome all friends who love friendship and peace to Beijing and China, and welcome all friends who love the Olympic movement to join the Olympic family.
Historical footprint:
In the shocking sound, we were pleasantly surprised to see the huge footprints composed of fireworks passing through Tiananmen Square along the central axis of Beijing to the National Stadium. The 29 fireworks footprints symbolize the historical footprint of the 29th Olympic Games, and also mean that China's century-long journey to pursue the Olympic dream is approaching step by step, and the dream will finally come true. Seven years ago, when China submitted its bid report to the International Olympic Committee, it promised the world a green Olympics, a high-tech Olympics and a people's Olympics. Seven years later, the newly born Bird's Nest and the Olympic Forest Park on the central axis became the happiest partners of the solemn Tiananmen Square. These three distinctive Beijing landmarks on the central axis road not only embody the three concepts of the Beijing Olympic Games, but also connect Beijing's yesterday and today.
Dream five rings:
At this moment, there are stars in the Bird's Nest, just like the vast Milky Way falling into the world. The beautiful flying sky dances among the stars, which is beautiful and romantic like a dream, adding a touch of China color to the Olympic rings, branding a memory of China for the Olympic rings, and looking forward to a hundred years as a beautiful dream in the hearts of China people. The Olympic rings composed of starlight radiate dazzling light. The beautiful flying sky holds the shining halo in the night sky in Beijing, which lights up the night in Beijing and the passion in the hearts of everyone who loves peace, friendship and the Olympic Movement. The bright rings will remind us that the Olympic rings were finally printed on the starry sky in Beijing, and let the whole world remember that the memory of the Olympic Games has been filled with the legend of China.
National flag admission:
(Singing "Singing the Motherland")
A melody of "Singing the Motherland" resounded over the Bird's Nest, and 56 children of all ethnic groups gathered around the five-star red flag and entered the venue.
Raise the national flag and sing the national anthem of China people.
Moderator: Ladies and gentlemen, please stand up, raise the national flag of China and play the national anthem of China.
(Playing National Anthem of the People's Republic of China)
When the bright five-star red flag flutters in the wind, the splendid fireworks show the most brilliant expression of ancient China. This night belongs to soaring China, and this joy belongs to Olympic Beijing.
Cultural Performance at the Opening Ceremony: Beautiful Olympics Part I: Brilliant Civilization
Picture scrolling:
With the beginning of a short film, we will see a picture of China with beautiful artistic conception and spanning time and space. It tells a profound story of China, and friends from all over the world will appreciate the elegant oriental charm, understand the long-standing China culture and feel the modern charm of China.
The picture shows Four Treasures of the Study, exuding the classical charm of China, using pen and ink. In the elegant sound of guqin, we saw the whole process of a painting, made of paper, colored with ink and mounted into a shaft. Tonight's story will begin with this beautiful and changeable picture of China.
The picture scroll in the image magically appeared in the center of the venue, and this 70-meter-long huge picture scroll slowly unfolded before us. Melodious piano music, immersed in the water mill, is full of the elegant charm of China's classical art. On the picture scroll, the rolling flow of ink and wash warms up, showing cultural symbols such as evolution, ceramics and bronzes in turn, which is very representative in the origin and development of China culture. A dancer dressed in black came to the scroll and used her limbs as ink, showing the freehand brushwork of China's ink painting. With the dancer's movements, undulating ink lines appeared on the white paper.
Elegant melody comes to this ancient piano with a history of 1000 years. This guqin, named "The Legacy of Taikoo", reflects the long history of China's cultural heritage in the fluctuation of strings. China's ink and wash paintings emphasize vivid expression by form, not by likeness, but by verve. The dancer's unique body language embodies the unique interest and charm of China's ink painting.
At this moment, the painting was completed, the paper that did not exist on the ground was lifted by the air, and a staggered ink painting appeared in front of us.
Text:
Chinese characters in China are one of the oldest characters in the world. Ancient Chinese characters bear a long and profound history of Chinese civilization. In this performance, we will see the charm of Chinese characters in China. At this time, 3000 Confucius disciples chanted loudly with bamboo slips and slowly entered the arena. The classic famous sentences in The Analects of Confucius resounded through their ears.
In the middle of the complete huge picture scroll, a three-dimensional movable type printing body appeared magically, and the square Chinese characters kept fluctuating. The whole movable type printing board is like a breeze, with mountains and hills, like a surging water wave. The dynamic performance will show us the evolution of Chinese characters in China. The word "He" in ancient China appeared in the middle of the movable type printing board, and the second ancient word "He" appeared. At this moment, we have seen the "harmony" of modern fonts, which has developed and changed for thousands of years, expressing Confucius' view of humanistic harmony and highlighting the view of harmony of the Chinese nation. It has a long history and excellent traditions. At this moment, the huge movable type printing board changed the majestic posture of the Great Wall in Wan Li, one of the greatest architectural projects in the history of human civilization. It is the crystallization of the courage and wisdom of the working people in ancient China and symbolizes the unyielding backbone of the Chinese nation.
Numerous three-dimensional peach blossoms appear on the top of the movable type printing board, and the majestic Great Wall is covered with beautiful peach blossoms, which makes people instantly immersed in all love, and a harmonious and romantic peach blossom fairyland expresses the good wishes of the people of China for peace.
Opera:
China opera has a long history and a wide variety. The lively sound of gongs and drums brought us performances of traditional China dramas. The vast area of China has produced many kinds of dramas. Everyone is familiar with the quintessence of Beijing Opera, which has a rich performance and a long history. Known as oriental opera by the world. The magnificent activity stage, surrounded by thousands of actors, took to the stage. The muppets dressed in Peking Opera are exquisite in workmanship and craftsmanship. They vividly displayed the artistic conception and charm conveyed on the stage of drama.
Silk Road:
This performance, named "Silk Road", shows the scenes of the Silk Road on land and the Silk Road on the sea, which connected the land and the sea in ancient China. Make friends, exchange needed goods, learn from each other and benefit each other. The warm and friendly characteristics of the Chinese nation have existed since ancient times, and the two Silk Roads are the best proof. More than 2,000 years ago, China's caravan began to take away precious silk from Chang 'an and enter the European continent via Hexi Corridor. The Silk Road is an important channel for economic and cultural exchanges between China and the West. Painting paper suspended in mid-air has now turned into a vast desert, where Dunhuang dancers dance lightly, leading us to start a friendship journey.
Modern paddles bring our thoughts from the inland with various customs to the endless sea. Paddles are connected, showing the ancient maritime image of China. The Maritime Silk Road is a maritime passage for transportation, trade and cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries in ancient times. At this time, the upper part of the stadium is already choppy, and the long scrolls in the stadium are already choppy, and the paddlers are struggling in the waves, which shows the courage and wisdom of China people to challenge nature.
Ceremony:
Five China scrolls, accompanied by the classical dances of the actors, reproduce the prosperous atmosphere of the ancient town of rites and music in China. The actor is singing Kunqu opera. Kunqu Opera is an ancient traditional art in China, which has been selected into the world intangible cultural heritage list. On the ground, there are five of China's most famous scrolls. They came from the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties.
Literary Performance "Beautiful Olympics" Part II: "Modern People"
Starlight:
Boundless starlight, romantic melody and ancient picture scroll extend in the new era, which means that today's life is happier and more harmonious. Pianists and children play romantic melodies, ushering in a new era. This is Lang Lang, a young pianist in China. The little girl who plays the piano with Lang Lang is only 5 years old. She began to learn piano at the age of 4. The ancient picture scroll stretches in the boundless starlight. The modern part of the performance, from black and white to color, is gorgeous in style, and countless dancers are attracted by color and gather in the center of the picture.
The green emissary in the meeting room was radiant, drawing a starlight picture for us. In front of the audience is a huge dove of peace, symbolizing peace, friendship and sacredness. Tonight, we release this radiant dove of peace, hoping that it can spread the friendship of China to the whole world. There is a kite floating on the bird's nest. Let's wish them a dream of flying in the wind.
Nature:
The performance of Taiji embodies the blending of tradition and future, shows the harmonious coexistence between man and nature, and reaches the realm of harmony between man and nature. Tai Ji Chuan is the most representative boxing in China Wushu. Its characteristic is "combination of dynamic and static, combining rigidity with softness".
The performance in the form of multimedia vividly shows the ancient philosophy of China Kung Fu: the harmony between man and nature. "Flying down three thousands of feet, it is suspected that the Milky Way has fallen for nine days." This is the poetic expression of Li Bai's famous sentences in Tang Dynasty.
Children paint beautiful nature with colorful brushes, and sow green hope with pure childlike innocence. Let's work together to realize our promise and give the world a green Olympics.
At this time, the children put away their brushes, and thousands of Tai Ji Chuan performers seemed to be attracted by some force and held their breath. In a blink of an eye, countless birds appeared above the nest, as if to tell us that this is their green home.
Dream:
At this time, a fantastic blue planet Ran Ran rises and slowly rotates, which is our home. We want to invite every corner of the earth and every friend who can hear our voices to share our dreams, the dreams of the Olympic Games!
We are in the same world, we have the same dream, the dream of unity, the dream of development, the dream of reunion and embracing the world.
Theme Song "You and Me" (Singers: Liu Huan, sarah brightman)
Admission of the delegation of China:
The flag bearer is the famous basketball player Yao Ming, and this is his second time as the flag bearer of the China Olympic delegation. Joining hands with Yao Ming is a second-grade primary school student in Yingxiu Town, Wenchuan County, who has won the glorious title of heroic teenager in earthquake relief. The sports representative of China in this Olympic Games consists of 1099 people and 639 athletes, which not only created the largest number of participants in previous Olympic Games in China, but also was the largest sports delegation in this Olympic Games. The average age of the athletes in the team is 24.4 years old. Among them, 37 people participated in the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, 165 people participated in the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, some athletes participated in three consecutive Olympic Games in Atlanta, Sydney and Athens, and 469 people participated in the Olympic Games for the first time.
Last torchbearer:
Illuminate the face of the last torchbearer, gymnast Li Ning. He held the torch high and embarked on the last glorious journey of the torch relay of the Beijing Olympic Games. This gold medal athlete, regarded as Prince of gymnastics, has deep feelings for sports both inside and outside the stadium.
The flame of the Beijing Olympic Games has been lit. At this moment, the Olympic flame is blooming in the night sky of Beijing.
From 1908 to 2008, the Chinese nation eagerly looked forward to the Olympic movement for a whole hundred years. From 100 years ago, I began to look forward to a flame on Olympia Mountain in Athens, and finally lit the Olympic flame in the night sky of Beijing after 100 years. The western civilization bred by ancient Greece and the oriental civilization passed down for 5,000 years finally complement each other at this moment.
From one person participating in the Olympic Games to 65.438+0.3 billion people working together to host the Olympic Games, China people's love for the Olympic Movement has been integrated into the national blood. Let's unite a happy China and a splendid Beijing tonight. After a hundred years of persistence, the dream of China Olympic Games has finally come true. At this moment, the cadenza belonging to the Beijing Olympic Games has just been played. At this moment, New Beijing and the Great Olympics have attracted the attention of the whole world. In the next 16 days, we will use1300 million China people's sincere smiles to light up Beijing's Olympic journey. In the next 16 days, we will join1300 million people in China to warmly applaud your arduous journey in 2008. I wish athletes from all over the world tenacious struggle and continue to write the Olympic charm in this promising land of Beijing. I wish man called hero courage.