Why is the meeting called ode to joy?

The opening ceremony was an ode to joy.

"The goddess of happiness, holy and beautiful, shines on the earth. We are full of enthusiasm and come to your temple. Under your brilliance, people are United as brothers. "

The opening ceremony is a coronation ceremony.

The opening ceremony of the Olympic Games is a hymn to divinity in ancient times and a coronation of human nature in modern times. The Olympic Games promoted the same values of mankind. The Olympic rings refer not only to the five continents, but also to the five ideal values of peace, friendship, fair competition, harmonious development of body and mind and "swifter, higher and stronger".

The opening ceremony is globalization.

It transcends country, race, color, wealth, dignity, government, politics, war, conflict, discrimination and all factors that cause interpersonal barriers. In the name of sports, we will provide the beauty of all mankind periodically and alternately, and promote a new era of globalization of peaceful competition and free exchange again and again.

The opening ceremony is a new journey.

The Olympic flame, lit from Athens, the hometown of the Olympic Games, passed to Beijing, China, and burned in the National Stadium, not 130 days, but in 2784. Not through 134 cities and regions, but through five continents. Not 201.88 million torchbearers participated, but people all over the world, including 654,380+300 million people in China.

One World, One Dream-On August 8, 2008, at 8 pm, we opened our doors, welcomed the world and enjoyed the 29th Beijing Olympic Games and our opening ceremony.