Introduction to the artistic performances at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games - text
Official Olympic website, August 8, Beijing time, August 8, 2008, the 29th Olympic Games were held in Beijing, China. The grand opening of the Bird's Nest Stadium. These are Confucius' "Three Thousand Disciples". The actors recited the famous line from "The Analects of Confucius" - "Within the four seas, we are all brothers."
1. These are Confucius’s “Three Thousand Disciples”. The actors recited the famous line from "The Analects of Confucius" - "Within the four seas, we are all brothers."
2. The disciples hold bamboo slips. This is a book made of bamboo pieces strung together with words engraved on them.
3. This is a performance of movable type printing. "Movable type printing" is one of the four great inventions of ancient China.
4. The performance of "movable type printing" looks like an ancient movable type plate and a modern computer keyboard.
5. This is the ancient Chinese word "harmony".
6. It is another ancient Chinese word "harmony".
7. This is a modern word "harmony". The three characters "harmony" represent the evolution process of Chinese characters and also express Confucius's humanistic philosophy: "harmony is the most precious".
8. The Great Wall is expressed in the form of lines, which is simple and vivid.
9. Blossoming peach blossoms, romantic and freehand, fully express the Chinese people’s beautiful wish to love peace.
10. These 897 actors have been training for more than 10 months. Each one has a different dynamic program, which can only be completed by memorizing and practicing hard.
Music:
Composer: Guo Wenjing.
Background introduction:
"The Analects"
"The Analects" is written by the disciples and disciples of Confucius, the ancient Chinese thinker who ranks first among the world's top ten historical celebrities. A collection recorded and compiled after his death was written approximately in the early years of China's Warring States Period (475 BC to 221 BC).
The Analects of Confucius reflects the thoughts of Confucius in a relatively concentrated way and has become a classic work of Chinese Confucianism.
Bamboo Slips
Writing materials from the Warring States Period (475-221 BC) to the Wei and Jin Dynasties (220-420 AD) in China. Bamboo slips are mostly made of bamboo pieces, with one line of writing on each piece. All the bamboo fragments of an article are compiled together and are called "slips".
Bamboo slips are the earliest form of books in ancient China.
Movable type printing
In the Song Dynasty (AD 960.1276), Bi Sheng made clay movable type based on the woodblock printing of the Sui Dynasty (AD 581.618) and calcined it with fire. Later, typesetting and printing were implemented, movable type printing was invented, and a major revolution in the history of printing was completed. Bi Sheng is known as the ancestor of printing.
Movable type printing is the forerunner of modern human civilization, creating favorable conditions for the widespread dissemination and exchange of knowledge.
The evolution of Chinese characters
Chinese characters have gone through the evolution of oracle bone inscriptions, bronze inscriptions, seal script, official script, and regular script. The evolution of different fonts of Chinese characters, including seal script, Li script, Xing script, Kai script and Cao script, has formed a self-contained and unique calligraphy art, which has become a treasure in the treasure house of Chinese plastic arts.
Harmony is precious
The concept of "harmony" in the treasure house of Chinese culture is very rich. Thinkers and scholars of all ages have repeatedly discussed and expressed its connotation. "The Analects of Confucius: Shuer" records a saying by Confucius's disciple Youzi: "Harmony is the most precious thing in the use of etiquette. The beauty of the way of the ancient kings." The original meaning refers to the role of regulations and systems, and the rightness is precious. However, in actual understanding, it has been used for a long time to mediate interpersonal and country-to-country relations, thus giving rise to many principles that lead to harmony.
The idea of ??"harmony is precious" has had a profound impact on the formation and development of Chinese culture and the fine traditions of the Chinese nation.
The Great Wall
The Great Wall is a great miracle in the history of human architecture. After Qin Shihuang unified China in 221 BC, in order to prevent the Huns from the north from invading the south, he renovated and connected the northern Great Wall of the original Qin, Yan and Zhao countries, and it was originally called the Great Wall.
Subsequent dynasties continued to strengthen and expand it. In the Ming Dynasty (AD 1368-1644), the Great Wall stretching 6,700 kilometers from Jiayuguan in the west to Shanhaiguan in the east was integrated into one, completing a massive military defense project.