Where will the opening ceremony of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics be held?
Opening ceremony of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics: February 4, 2022 (Friday), the first day of the Lunar New Year. 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony Venue: National Stadium (Bird's Nest).
Why beginning of spring was chosen for the opening ceremony of Beijing Winter Olympics.
1. In order to give full play to the festive atmosphere of the Spring Festival, the elements of the Spring Festival, the Great Wall and the Olympic Movement should be combined to integrate multiculturalism.
2. Show a unique opening ceremony of the Olympic Games and invite people from all over the world to share the joy and excitement of China New Year with us.
3. The mascots of Beijing Winter Olympics "Ice Shield" and Winter Paralympics "Edelweiss" were also officially unveiled. Among them, the "ice pier" combines the panda image with the ice crystal shell, which embodies the characteristics of ice and snow movement in winter; "Snowmelt" shows the traditional culture of China in the form of lanterns and conveys the meaning of festivals.
Highlights of the opening ceremony of Beijing Winter Olympics
Short duration, simple and wonderful.
Different from the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the opening ceremony of this Winter Olympics will be relatively shortened, and artistic performances will naturally be integrated into the process and ceremony, showing a simple and wonderful feature.
Fireworks display at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games on August 8, 2008.
The opening ceremony in 2008 lasted more than 4 hours, but this time it will not exceed 100 minutes. Considering the cold weather in winter, the audience and guests are in the open air, and there are also requirements for epidemic prevention and control.
In addition, there were 15000 actors in the opening ceremony in 2008, but this time it will be greatly reduced to about 3000 actors, which means that we no longer rely on "crowd tactics".
This is the first time that the Bird's Nest has held a large-scale cultural activity in winter. Not only should we consider the cold weather, but also strictly prevent and control the epidemic, which is a big challenge for the director group.
Ignition is expected to be the biggest bright spot.
In 2008, Li Ning's flying ignition has become a classic picture in Olympic history. This time, Zhang Yimou said: "The way of ignition, even the way of torch platform, is our boldest design and change, which has never appeared in the history of the 100-year Olympic Games."
He revealed that this design is to reflect the concept of low-carbon environmental protection, and he was once very uneasy, but he was very happy to get the strong support of the Winter Olympic Organizing Committee and the affirmation of the International Olympic Committee. "I am very happy that the Beijing Winter Olympics can be the first to eat crabs."
He judged that the biggest reaction of the audience to see the ignition mode may be "unexpected", but the concept conveyed will be "understood at a glance", so it is "unexpected and reasonable". "From the beginning of this task, I have been thinking, can the ignition and torch be innovative? It's just our slogan, the concept of low carbon and environmental protection, and there are such opportunities in all aspects. "
It fully embodies the elements of "beginning of spring".
The program design of the opening ceremony highlighted the concept and culture of the unity of human destiny, China promoting 300 million people to participate in the ice and snow sports, and people all over the world enjoying the Winter Olympics.
As the opening day happens to be the first day of China's traditional 24 solar terms-beginning of spring, this important element will also be fully reflected in the program.
From "I" in 2008 to "We" in 2022.
Zhang Yimou introduced that the theme of the opening ceremony was consistent with the slogan of the Winter Olympics-"Join hands with the future".
Specifically, he described it in two sentences-one in China and the other in the west-and Li Bai's poem "Snowflakes in Yanshan Mountain are as big as a seat" and the western saying "No two snowflakes are the same in the world" and "I hope a snowflake can convey the same feelings of human beings. No two snowflakes are the same, but today everyone is gathered in Beijing, * * * is a bright snowflake, and it is a big concept of building human beings with the same destiny and human feelings like' hand in hand facing the future'. "
Zhang Yimou thought that 2008 was the first time to show China to the whole world, so he used large-scale cultural performances to show the 5,000-year-old civilization of China. "In order to show our history, our traditions and the road we have traveled, we should start with 29' big footprints'."
This time, the opening ceremony will be more based on the future, more based on "human beings, * * *". Because you don't need to introduce yourself too much, but say "what we do together, what we can do together".
From "me" to "us", from "talking about history" to "looking forward to the future", Zhang Yimou said that behind this, of course, is the improvement of national strength and status, and the improvement of China people's self-confidence.
Global cooperation and reconstruction under epidemic situation
The global prevalence of COVID-19 virus has brought unprecedented challenges to the Olympic Movement, so the Olympic motto has been added with "More Unity". Promoting global cooperation and reconstruction under the epidemic situation is also an important concept to be conveyed at this opening ceremony.
At present, 18 opening ceremony music is being recorded intensively, and the rehearsal, production and rehearsal of the whole ceremony have been fully launched. In order to achieve the program effect, the underground space of the Bird's Nest has been skillfully transformed to meet the creative needs of performances such as stage lifting.