Comment on the Opening Ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games

The light of the sun collected in front of the Temple of Hera in ancient Greece crossed the vast waters of Qianshan, Wuzhou and four oceans, and 9.6 million square kilometers of China land reached the top of the earth at an altitude of 8,844 meters, which was handed down hand in hand by more than 20,000 people all over the world. Today, it finally came to Beijing, the Bird's Nest and the main torch of the 29th Summer Olympic Games.

Heads of state and heads of more than 80 countries, 204 members of the Olympic family,16,000 athletes and coaches, 654.38+10,000 live audiences and billions of TV viewers; East and West, China and the world, we, you and them, stare together and witness together:

At 8 pm on August 8, 2008, a new page in history was born in Beijing National Stadium.

Standing at this moment is like standing in front of the history of an ancient nation. The long road of 5,000 years and the vast light of civilization have left many indelible "Chinese seals" in the long river of human development.

In 2008, quaint faces and 2008 people standing in the center of the Bird's Nest formed a magnificent "array". A dazzling light came from the air like lightning, which aroused the ups and downs of light and shadow on the array, and the deafening sound rumbled like spring thunder. In the Bird's Nest, the audience shouted together with the flashing numbers on the luminous surface:

"5——4——3——2—— 1"

65438+ 10,000 chorus calls for flying to the sky. In the sky, gorgeous fireworks, such as blooming peony, set off the sleepless nights in the Bird's Nest and Beijing.

"It's a pleasure to have friends coming from afar!"

2008 clappers sing, sing, sing, exciting.

At this moment, people can't help looking back on the vicissitudes of time. The only Chinese civilization in the world that has lasted for thousands of years, how many times has it made history like today? How many indelible "Chinese seals" have been left in the long river of human development?

In the center of the Bird's Nest, it is as flat as a huge book case. On the book case, an ancient picture scroll of China unfolds slowly, with a blank sheet of paper in the center.

Guqin sounded and "Mountain Flowing Water" came into play. 15 Dancers dressed in mysterious clothes leap onto the picture scroll, like thick ink filled with profusion, like a fondling pen, using unique body language, sometimes painting, sometimes freehand brushwork, flowing freely and cadencing.

"It's a long way to go in Xiu Yuan, and I'll go up and down!" On the white paper of human civilization, our ancestors carved an indelible mark with such spirit and charm, and wrote their own colorful chapters page by page.

"Show the ancient Chinese civilization to the whole world by the most modern means" is the original intention of Zhang Yimou, the general director of the opening ceremony.

Tonight, more than 65438+100000 performers, with the help of multimedia technology, sound, photoelectric and other image effects, unveiled a corner of the long scroll of Chinese civilization for the global audience. Paintings, figures, operas, the Silk Road, rites and music are presented one by one, as well as the wisdom of the 100 philosophers in the pre-Qin period, the pioneering work of the "Four Great Inventions" and the charm of ancient art such as poetry, music, dance, drama, calligraphy and painting, and architecture. It vividly outlines the vast atmosphere of China's ancient civilization.

However, through this amazing appearance, it is an idea and philosophy that Chinese civilization has respected and guarded since ancient times, and it is the pursuit and yearning of Chinese descendants for peace, harmony and harmony.

At 8 pm on August 8, the 29th Summer Olympic Games was grandly opened at the National Stadium. This is the performance at the opening ceremony. Xinhua News Agency reporter Yang Lei photo

Pieces of hard and square movable type suddenly drift like the wind or flow like water; After a while, it changed from square to round, to yin and yang, and then from round to square, building a patchwork wall. In the dazzling transformation, the only constant is a Chinese character composed of movable type printing molds. It appears in the wind, in the water, in the circle, in the square, and in the singing of actors with different fonts in different times.

The word is "he".

"The Chinese nation has always been a nation that knows how to pursue goodness and beauty, harmony, harmony between man and nature, and harmony between man and nature. It is one of the essences of Chinese civilization. "

Today, 654.38+300 million people in China are struggling to build a "harmonious" society. Similarly, the word "harmony" is similar in spirit to "mutual understanding, friendship and unity" advocated by the Olympic Movement.

Perhaps, it is this word "harmony" that doomed the meeting between the Olympic Games and Beijing tonight.

On the evening of August 8, the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games set off fireworks "historical footprints", with 29 huge fireworks footprints, which walked step by step along the central axis of Beijing from Yongdingmen, Qianmen, Tiananmen, the Forbidden City and Drum Tower to the main venue of the Olympic Games, symbolizing that the 29th Olympic Games entered China and Beijing step by step. This is a "footprint" taken in Tiananmen Square. Xinhua News Agency reporter Hao She

Standing at this moment, it seems to be standing at the new coordinate point of an era. 100 years of hard work and 30 years of earth-shaking. Today, the two ancient civilizations of the East and the West embrace under the Olympic flame. What kind of passionate collision will it breed?

Tonight, the whole world saw the "historical footprint of the Olympic Games" in the sky of Beijing.

Huge, burning fireworks footprints rose from Yongdingmen along the central axis of Beijing "Journey to the West" Ran Ran, crossed Tiananmen Square and walked step by step to the Bird's Nest, the main venue. When the 29th beautiful footprint exploded directly above the Bird's Nest, it immediately turned into a starry sky sprinkled on the ground and gathered in the center of the Bird's Nest to form the Olympic rings with twinkling stars.

The most beautiful image of China ancient art is dancing in the sky, long sleeves are dancing in the air, and the huge five rings rise slowly with the fluttering of the ribbon, like a beautiful myth against the audience.

Zhang Yimou said that he hoped that with the magic five rings, everyone would remember the day when the Olympic Games first came to China.

This magical feeling makes people feel surging and mixed feelings.

From Tianjin Youth, the first time, "When can China host the Olympic Games?" China people's Olympic dream has been 100 years. The process of realizing this dream is complementary to the struggle of China people for national independence, national prosperity and people's happiness. In the process of making dreams come true, China stands in the east of the world with a brand-new look, a responsible image of a big country and a confident and peaceful mind, from backwardness to development, from poverty to well-off, from closure to opening up.

In the center of the Bird's Nest, the picture scroll symbolizing the development of Chinese civilization was opened again, and the original black and white ink painting became colorful. Lang Lang, a young pianist, and a 5-year-old girl are playing soothing and romantic piano music on the picture scroll for the new era and new life.

More than 1000 boys and girls, wearing sparkling stars, built a vivid and crystal-clear bird's nest with their own bodies. A girl in a red skirt flies a colorful kite from the nest of light and shadow.

This beautiful scene full of longing infected the audience. Countless spectators in the stands waved flashlights, and there were thousands of stars on and off the stage. "I suspect that the Milky Way has fallen for nine days."

"The people of China sincerely support and love the Olympic Games." This scene made Croatian Ambassador to China Vilic give a heartfelt admiration. "The Beijing Olympic Games is a beautiful window through which people can enjoy the greatest civilization and the most splendid culture in the world. Through this window, the world will also re-recognize China and identify with China. "

The Olympic Games has this magical power. The quadrennial Olympic Games is the largest comprehensive sports event in the world and a world-renowned cultural exchange festival. On the Olympic night in Beijing today, 204 members of the Olympic family gathered together, and the Beijing Olympic Games became the largest gathering in the history of modern Olympic Games.

"For a large part of ordinary people in China, the Beijing Olympic Games will give them the first opportunity to get in touch with the outside world at zero distance and in a large area, so that China people can truly feel the feeling of a global village." A foreign reporter said this in his report on the Beijing Olympic Games.

Mr. Li, a Beijing citizen lucky enough to get tickets for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, seems to be feeling "this feeling". Today, he arrived at the Bird's Nest early and watched the guests from all over the world pass by him, talking and laughing in various languages. He said half jokingly, "I don't even know which country I am in."

Indeed, sitting in the main venue of the Beijing Olympic Games, I felt a "world around me" atmosphere very strongly. The Bird's Nest, made of 42,000 tons of high-quality steel, is an architectural miracle created by Sino-foreign cooperation. In the performance team of the opening ceremony, many important positions are held by foreign artists or technicians. Needless to say, the people who came to the competition, even the audience in the stands came from all over the world.

Biologists believe that human beings are the only life that can laugh, and smiling is the best way to express goodwill and communication between people.

As early as a year ago, the Beijing Olympic Games collected the smiling faces of children all over the world. Tonight, thousands of smiling faces from all over the world are displayed in front of audiences all over the world-the innocent smiles of children of different races and colors echo the warm smiles of guests from all over the world in the stands.

This smile tells the whole world that on the magnificent stage of the Olympic Games, Beijing is staging a wonderful drama of equal dialogue, exchange and integration with various civilizations in the world.

On August 8, the 29th Summer Olympic Games was grandly opened in Beijing National Stadium. This is the entrance for athletes. Xinhua News Agency reporter Guo Dayue photo

At this moment, we are standing in the center of the human family, looking forward to everyone's hope and glory, and all continents share "one world, one dream" here.

Greek athlete Ilias Iliadis is the first person to walk on the Avenue of Stars tonight, holding the national flag in his hand. The warm applause from the audience made him more radiant.

Athletes from all countries and regions dressed in costumes, accompanied by folk music from five continents, marched into the venue and began their first appearance at this grand event. Some waved enthusiastically, some danced, and some took pictures while walking, leaving the most unforgettable images for themselves.

As the largest and highest-standard sports event in the world today, the Olympic Games has gathered many world-famous athletes. Whenever the audience finds their favorite star from the team, there will always be a cry of surprise. Many of them have made it their goal to win Olympic gold medals or medals. But everyone knows that only by challenging ourselves and defeating ourselves can we continuously achieve higher, faster and stronger pursuits.

More athletes may not care about medals. But their persistence in their hearts will never lose to any popular star who won the championship.

"It has always been my dream to go to Beijing to participate in the Olympic Games and compete with experts from all over the world." Alan segura, a Costa Rican 20-kilometer race walker, is just an amateur. In order to qualify for the Olympic Games, he even borrowed money to participate in international competitions. Without coach and escort, I struggled on the 20-kilometer race track alone: "These difficulties are too unreasonable for my dreams." Tonight, segura walked into the Bird's Nest as the flag bearer of the delegation, full of pride.

The Olympic Games is a place where countless people's dreams come true, and it is also a big family where people live in harmony, understand each other and share joys and sorrows.

Dana Hussein, 2 1 year-old, is the only female athlete in the Iraqi delegation. For various reasons, she and her teammates almost missed the Beijing Olympic Games. Today, when she walked into the Bird's Nest with other teammates, the audience applauded them after suffering.

Caring for human nature and good feelings are the best embodiment of the Olympic spirit. When the China team finally entered the stadium, it was an amazing and moving scene. Next to Yao Ming, the tall flag-bearer of the China team, there is a child with a small flag in his hands. He is Lin Hao, a primary school student in Yingxiu town, the hardest hit area of Wenchuan earthquake.

This unexpected little flag bearer attracted the audience's attention. Although he was only a second-grade primary school student, when the disaster came, he showed rare courage and took great risks to save two students from the ruins.

His unexpected appearance today surprised the audience. People threw the most applause and the warmest shouts to him and the noblest humanity embodied in him.

This may be the most touching applause at the opening ceremony tonight.

Waiting for a long time, the joy of making dreams come true is particularly hearty. At this moment, China's bright red national flag stands shoulder to shoulder with the Olympic flag in Beijing National Stadium, the flag of 204 Olympic families, Qi Fei.

After a long wait, China's first Olympic gold medalist Xu Haifeng ran into the Bird's Nest with the torch in his hand. In the rhythm of the audience, "Come on, Beijing! Come on for the Olympics! " Amid cheers, He, Li, Zhan Xugang, Zhang Jun and Chen Zhong successively handed over the baton and ran the last baton of the Olympic torch relay.

Under the eyes of the public, standing in the center of the audience was gymnast Li Ning, who undertook the final ignition task. He held the torch high in his hand, and before people realized it, his body was in the air.

The biggest suspense of the opening ceremony of this Olympic Games was finally revealed. Holding the torch, Li walked along the edge of the bird's nest like a spacewalk under the traction of a steel cable. At the same time, a Chinese-style picture scroll slowly unfolds along the "air runway". On the picture scroll, the dynamic images transmitted by the Olympic flame in various places are presented in turn. When the picture is fully unfolded, Li Ning stops not far from the high torch tower.

Suddenly, in the colorful bird's nest, 65438+ ten thousand people seemed to hold their breath at the same time. The theme song of this Olympic Games, sung by sarah brightman, a world-famous singer, and Liu Huan, a male singer from China, begins with a soft, fresh, tender and touching song.

"Come on, friend, reach out your hand, you and me, heart to heart, family forever."

Li Ning gently extended the torch to the front and lit the fuse in front of a light and shadow shot golden phoenix. A flame whirled and ran to the torch tower. Suddenly, the main torch standing on the edge of the Bird's Nest spewed a blazing flame, illuminating the night sky in Beijing.

At this moment, the modern Olympic movement of 1 12 has turned a new page; At this moment, the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation has written a new chapter; At this moment, the glory and dreams of all mankind bloom incisively and vividly!