2008 Beijing Olympic Games Opening Ceremony of the literary performance chapter

Literary Performance: The Beautiful Olympics (Preface)

Brush, ink, paper, ink stone, the four treasures of the literary house, set the essence of heaven and earth, the 5,000 years of civilization of the Chinese nation, displayed in the scroll of the brush, condensed into a treasure of the world. When the huge scroll on the ground slowly pulled open, the whole audience was shocked. This 147-meter-long, 27-meter-wide giant LED screen, is to show China's 5,000 years of history scroll, the opening ceremony of the show began.

"The ancient legacy of sound", the four great inventions, Chinese characters and opera, China's splendid culture magically displayed. In the midst of the melodious music, the caravans and maps of the Silk Road from more than 2,000 years ago emerged on a long scroll, and thousands of sailors, holding huge yellow oars, formed a huge flotilla, recreating the grandeur of Zheng He's voyage to the West China Sea.

Music, giant oars flying, the sea and sky, waves, two fleet of ships such as a giant dragon flying, the audience cheered like a tide.

Painting

The external master of creation, the central source of the heart.

Between heaven and earth, the painting flows, the ink haloing; heaven and earth is dense, all things are mellow. A long scroll of Chinese paintings expresses the unique space-time concept and philosophical spirit of oriental aesthetics.

The scroll expresses the origin and development of Chinese history and culture. Brush, ink, paper and inkstone are the four treasures of China

1. A real Chinese scroll opens. It tells people that tonight's show will start with a Chinese scroll.

2. In the center of the scroll, a piece of white paper is laid out. Papermaking, one of the four great inventions of ancient China.

3. On the damask surrounding the paper, patterns of the origins and development of Chinese culture flow, including petroglyphs, pottery and bronzes. ......

4. A 1,000-year-old guqin, called the "Legacy of the Ancient Sound," is placed in the center of the scroll.

5. The unique body language of the performers, which contains the interest and flavor of Chinese ink painting.

6. The actors drew auspicious clouds, mountains, rivers and the sun on the paper. The auspicious clouds magically dissipated, leaving only the mountains, rivers and sun.

7. On the ground, the famous ancient Chinese painting "Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains".

Writing

Images refer to things, and shapes and sounds are used to convey meaning.

In human civilization, Chinese characters have a unique beauty. It transforms heaven and earth into images and images into symbols. The small symbols are ever-changing, embracing everything in the universe and conveying the oldest Chinese humanistic concept about man and man, man and nature: "Harmony is precious."

Spring and fall come and go, and the years go by. The wish of "harmony" has been transformed into peach blossoms inside and outside the Great Wall and on the mountains.

Chinese characters are one of the oldest scripts in the world. The ancient Chinese characters carry the long history of Chinese civilization.

1. Confucius' "Three Thousand Disciples". The actors recited the famous line from the Analects of Confucius - "Within the four seas, all are brothers".

2. The disciples hold bamboo slips. This is a book made of bamboo sheets threaded together with words carved on them.

3. The performance of "movable type printing". "Printing with movable type" is one of the four great inventions of ancient China.

4. The performance of "movable-type printing" resembles both the ancient movable-type character disk and the modern computer keyboard.

5. The 897 movable-type printing plates change the character "和" in different fonts. It shows the evolution of Chinese characters and expresses the humanistic concept of Confucius: "harmony is precious".

6. The Great Wall is expressed in the form of lines, which is simple and vivid.

7. Peach blossoms, romantic and pictorial, fully express the good wishes of the Chinese people who love peace.

8, these 897 actors, the whole training for more than 10 months, each one of them has a different dynamic program, all rely on memorization and hard practice to complete.

Opera

All sounds are born from the human heart.

Traditional Chinese opera performances are y rooted in the hearts of folk people. China's vast territory has given rise to hundreds of opera genres.

Chinese opera has a long history and many varieties.

1. Traditional Chinese Peking Opera percussion performance. Peking Opera has been called the "Opera of the East". China is a vast country with many dialects and hundreds of varieties of opera.

2. The flag dancers are dressed as terracotta warriors. On a moving stage, four Peking opera puppets and 800 actors perform joyous scenes of triumph, accompanied by Jinghu and gongs.

Silk Road

The mountains are heavy and there is no way out.

Out of the Yangguan Pass, down the Western Ocean, erecting the Silk Road. The Silk Road connects space, time, and the heart; it crosses mountains and deserts, rivers and lakes, and travels through the dust of history, connecting the hearts of people in the East and the West.

The Silk Road is an important channel for economic and cultural exchanges between China and the West.

1. The actors hold up this piece of paper and walk forward. On the ground is a map of the Silk Road and cultural symbols along the way.

2. The Silk Road is famous for the fact that more than 2,000 years ago, Chinese caravans often traveled from Chang'an (present-day Xi'an, Shaanxi Province) through the Hexi Corridor and into the European continent, carrying valuable silks. "The Silk Road became an important channel for economic and cultural exchanges between China and the West.

3, the performance of the "Maritime Silk Road" "Zheng He went to the West" situation.

4. More than 600 years ago, Zheng He of the Ming Dynasty led a fleet of 27,000 ships on seven voyages from Quanzhou, China, to West Asia and East Africa, creating the famous "Maritime Silk Road". In the vast deserts and rough seas, the pioneers of the land and sea "Silk Road" traveled hard and broke the waves.

5. The actor holds up an ancient compass. The compass is one of the four great inventions of ancient China.

Rituals and music

Our teacher is the heart, the heart is the eye, and the eye is Huashan.

The map at hand, drawing rivers and mountains for ten thousand miles.

Ink and color, write the sun and moon of heaven and earth.

The strong sound of the world, celebrating the harmony of the earth

Five Chinese scroll paintings, accompanied by classical dances by the actors, reproduce the flourishing weather of ancient China's state of rituals and music.

1. Actors singing Kunqu. Kunqu is an ancient Chinese traditional art, which has been selected as the world's intangible cultural heritage list.

2. On the ground, five of China's most famous scroll paintings. They are from five major dynasties: Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing. In the scene "Starlight", a silver-white piano plays a beautiful romantic melody, the ancient scrolls stretch out in the starlight, and 1,000 performers, dressed in green, flock to the venue, where the modern part of the show begins.

Suddenly, an unexpected scene appeared: the green-clothed people surrounded by silver light, like ten thousand points of stars, composed of a winged dove of peace, crystal clear, full of light. Then, the actors changed shape, green as before, instantly built a huge "bird's nest" in the center of the field, flashing green and silver intertwined light. This scene of sound, light, electricity in the human body on the delicate changes, full of spirituality and magic, leaving an unforgettable impression.

Starlight

New era, new colors, new paintings.

People's happiness and living and working in peace and contentment add youthful colors to the ancient picture scroll.

The scroll of youth extends toward the future in the boundless starlight.

Infinite starlight, romantic melody, the ancient scroll extends in the new era, implying a happier and more harmonious life today.

1. A pianist and a child play a romantic melody to usher in a brand new era. This is Lang Lang, a young Chinese pianist. This little girl playing with Lang Lang is only 5 years old, and she has been learning the piano since she was 4 years old.

2. The ancient scroll stretches out in the boundless starlight, implying that today's road is more beautiful and broader.

3. The modern part of the performance jumps from black and white to color in a gorgeous style.

4. 1,000 performers built a "bird's nest" and a lovely kite flew in the air.

Nature

The earth and the sky are one with me, and all things are one with me.

The dream of human beings to fly, the desire to get close to nature, the wind of Taiji fills the universe.

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 man.

1. Taijiquan is one of the most representative styles of Chinese martial arts. It is characterized by "combination of static and dynamic, rigid and flexible".

2. The multimedia performance vividly expresses the ancient philosophical concept of Chinese Kung Fu: the harmony between human and nature.

3. "Flying down three thousand feet, suspected to be the Milky Way falling into the nine heavens." This is a poetic expression of the famous line by Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai.

4. The Taiji Bagua diagram symbolizes the eight natural phenomena of heaven, earth, thunder, wind, water, fire, mountain and zephyr, which derive the changes of all things in the world.

5. 2008 Taiji actors are lined up in a circular formation. In the traditional Chinese concept, circle is big and complete. This formation is called "Heaven is Round, Earth is Square".

6. The sun, moon, mountains and rivers, which were painted by ancient people, were colored green by the children to express the idea of environmental protection. This is also the core concept of Chinese Tai Chi: "the unity of heaven and mankind".

Blue Planet

Olympic opening history, the largest, heaviest, the latest high-tech model of 18 meters in diameter, weighing 16 tons of liquid crystal planet, only the design, manufacture and installation of this multimedia "Earth" spent more than a year.

Planet in the sky, changing colors and patterns, many actors walking on the "Earth", seems to be out of gravity, full of dreamy colors; sports competitions in the "Earth" interpretation of "faster, Higher, stronger" Olympic spirit.

Dreams

One world, one dream.

You and I, we are one family;

You and I, together we create tomorrow.

Theme song

"You and I, heart to heart, live in the same global village. For the dream, thousands of miles, meet in Beijing ......" London, England singer Sarah Brightman and Chinese singer Liu Huan sang the theme song of the Beijing XXIX Olympic Games "I and You" with deep emotion. This not only reflects the "internationalization" of the combination of Chinese and foreign, but also makes the Beijing Olympic Games and the London Olympic Games hand in hand. The stadium showed 2008 smiling faces of children from all over the world, and the projection screen above the stadium also showed the smiling faces of the children. The heartfelt theme song and the smiling faces of children of different colors vividly interpreted the theme of the Beijing Olympics, "One World, One Dream".

Lyrics of the theme song

We live in the same global village.

For the dream, traveling thousands of miles, meeting in Beijing.

Come on! My friend, stretch out your hand.

You and I, heart to heart, forever family.

You and Me

From one world

We are family

Travel one dream

A thousand miles

Meeting in Beijing

Come together

Put your hand in mine

You and Me

From one world

We are family