Chinese President, IOC President entered
Chinese President Hu Jintao, IOC President Jacques Rogge into the VIP seats
Host: beautiful welcome fireworks around the field, flowers bloomed over the Bird's Nest, activating the ancient sundial. Above the Bird's Nest, the sundial, which looks particularly beautiful and rich in shadows cast by the sun to determine the time to time the date, the light of time emitted by the sundial lights up the Bird's Nest, lighting up the rectangular percussion array of 2008 percussions.
Countdown:
Host: a dazzling halo, activated the ancient sundial. A unique multimedia device opens 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. With the sound of percussion, huge numbers appear, each time the light and shadow of the digital encounter, are heralded by the Beijing Olympics every second approaching, let us travel through time and space, together with the countdown, with shocking rhythm, stirring the millennium of the motherland's thousands of miles of territory, stirring the Chinese nation's rushing blood, *** with the Olympic light to meet the arrival of the light.
Welcome fireworks:
Tonight the stars are shining brightly, August China to the fire of enthusiasm to invite guests from all directions, wide range of guests from all corners of the world, tonight the ceremonial fireworks full of sky, midsummer Beijing witnessed the wonders of the Kingdom of Heaven, casting the pinnacle of glory.
(Host) Welcome Mr. Hu Jintao, President of the People's Republic of China, and Mr. Jacques Rogge, President of the International Olympic Committee.
Welcome Ceremony:
The night sky is bright, the sound of the percussion is loud, and the friendship is boundless. Next we will see a welcome ceremony with the charm of the unique Chinese classical art to welcome 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.
Historical footprints:
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 straight to 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 step by step the time when the dream will come true. seven years ago when the Seven years ago, when the Chinese submitted the bidding 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's yesterday and today.
Dream Five Rings:
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 have 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.
National Flag Entry:
(Singing of the Motherland)
A melodious song "Singing of the Motherland" resounded over the Bird's Nest, and 56 children of various nationalities entered the venue clustered around the five-star red flag.
Raising the flag of the People's Republic of China and singing the national anthem of the People's Republic of China
Site host: Ladies and gentlemen, please rise, raise the flag of the People's Republic of China and play the national anthem of the People's Republic of China.
(Play the "Chinese People's **** and the National Anthem")
When the bright five-star red flag flutters in the wind, and the gorgeous fireworks bloom with the most brilliant expression of ancient China, this night belongs to the soaring China, and this joy belongs to the Beijing of the Olympic Games.
Opening Ceremony Cultural Performance: "The Beautiful Olympics" Previous: "Splendid Civilization"
Painting Scroll:
With the beginning of a short film, we will see a painting scroll of China that spans space and time and has a beautiful mood, which tells the story of China that is vast and thick and has far-reaching meanings, 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 literary house, ink, paper and inkstone, which emanate the classical Chinese flavor. In the elegant sound of the guqin, we see the complete process of producing a painting, paper production, ink and ink coloring, and framing it into a scroll. Tonight's story will begin with this graceful and 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 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 dancer's movements, the undulating ink lines appeared on the clean 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 confined to resemblance, but more about the charm, the unique body language of the dancers, reflecting the unique interest and flavor of Chinese ink painting.
At this moment, the painting is completed, and the paper, which did 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.
Text:
Chinese characters are one of the oldest scripts in the world, and the ancient 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 the 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, and 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.
Opera:
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, and we are all familiar with the Peking Opera, the national treasure, which is rich in performances and has a long history, and has been called the Oriental Opera by the world. Gorgeous event theater, surrounded by thousands of actors, came to the field, Beijing opera costumes of string puppets, exquisite workmanship, craftsmanship refined, they are alive and well to express the theater stage to convey the mood and charisma.
Silk Road:
The show, titled "Silk Road," represents the two links between land and sea in ancient China, the Silk Road on the road and 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 over 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 was already rough at this point, and the long scroll in the middle of the field was already choppy, with oars slipping and oarsmen fighting the waves, reflecting the courage and wisdom of the Chinese to challenge nature.
Rituals and Music:
Five long scroll paintings of China, accompanied by classical dances by the actors, recreate the grandeur of the ancient Chinese state of rituals 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.
Literary Performance "Beautiful Olympics" Next: "Brilliant Era"
Starlight:
Infinite starlight, romantic melody, the ancient scrolls are extended in the new era, implying a happier and more harmonious life today. The pianist and the child play a 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. The ancient scroll stretches 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. As a kite floats on the bird's nest, let us wish that their dreams can fly on the wind.
Nature:
The performance of Tai Chi embodies the mingling of tradition and the future, and expresses the harmony between man and nature to achieve 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 hopes 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 a certain force, holding their breath and paying attention, and in an instant, countless birds emerged above the Bird's Nest, as if to tell us that this is the green home to which they are fondly attached.
Dream:
A fantastic blue planet is rising at the moment, slowly 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.
Theme song singing "Me and You" (Singer: Liu Huan, Sarah Brightman)
Entrance of the Chinese delegation:
The flag bearer is the famous basketball player Yao Ming, who is serving as the flag bearer of the Chinese Olympic delegation for the second time. 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 for Earthquake 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 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, the three Olympic Games of the three dynastic, there are 469 people is the first time to participate in the Olympic Games.
Last torchbearer:
Lighting up 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, has a deep love affair with sports.
The Beijing Olympic flame is lit, and at this moment, the Olympic flame is blooming 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 the hope of the flame on Mount Olympus in Athens 100 years ago to the Olympic flame finally lit in the night sky of Beijing 100 years later, the Western civilization which was born in ancient Greece and the Eastern civilization which 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.