Reflections on the Opening Ceremony of the Ninth National Traditional Sports Games

1 "One mountain, one water and one sage" is the basic idea put forward by the director group at the opening ceremony of the National Games.

Shandong has a long history and profound cultural heritage. Mount Tai, the Yellow River and Confucius are the most representative elements in Shandong, which will be presented to the national audience at the opening ceremony. Classic scenes such as Mount Tai rising from the ground, the Yellow River entering the sea and Confucius Christmas will be presented to the audience in the form of art at the opening ceremony. In addition, the blue waves, lotus flowers and springs, as well as the "Spring City" Jinan with "lotus flowers on four sides and willow trees on three sides, one city with mountains and half a city with lakes" will also be highlighted.

At the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games, the splendid civilization of the Chinese nation, which has stood for 5,000 years, was presented one by one with China characteristics, which was amazing. At the opening ceremony of this National Games, there is also a core prop as a carrier to show Qilu culture. The "giant bowl" screen with a diameter of about 50 meters will be a highlight of the opening ceremony. Kite, wine, shadow play, etc. Those with Shandong characteristics will be mapped on the screen of the "bowl" through the projector, which will have a strong visual impact.

The opening ceremony of the National Games will closely follow the theme of "Harmonious China, National Games", and use sound, light and electricity to create a picturesque and dreamlike realm.

The opening ceremony of the National Games is called the "backup version" of the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games, drawing on the successful experience of Beijing in 2008. The performance began with "Purple Gas from the East". In the next "Qilu Soul", the majestic Mount Tai, the rushing Yellow River, the birth of Confucius ... the beautiful spring city will be projected on a huge curtain by laser. Different from the Olympic scroll, this projection curtain is a huge bowl hanging in the air.

This huge "picture scroll" of the Beijing Olympic Games is full of new ideas, which not only has a strong China flavor, but also plays the role of a super projection screen. The image is constantly changing, leaving a deep impression on the audience. There was a similar idea at the opening ceremony of the National Games ―― the legendary "giant bowl". The "giant bowl", which has been widely concerned by the media before, showed its true meaning during the rehearsal and became the most eye-catching part of the night. Compared with the "scroll" stretched in the venue during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, the "giant bowl" suspended in the air has multi-dimensional advantages, echoing up and down with the performances in the venue, which is more stereoscopic.

At eight o'clock that night, a huge earth was displayed on the "giant bowl", and then the camera zoomed in-China, Shandong, Jinan, Olympic Sports Center ... With fireworks and cheers, the opening ceremony officially began. During the opening ceremony, with the change of the performance scene, the pattern is constantly changing, and the "giant bowl" is sometimes lifted off and landed, and sometimes stretched into a huge "lantern". From beginning to end, the audience's eyes almost revolved around the "giant bowl" until the last theme song of the opening ceremony of the National Games, and the stage of four singers was also built in the middle of the "giant bowl".

It is understood that the weather on the night of the opening ceremony has become the most concerned issue of the organizing Committee, and one of the important reasons is whether the "giant bowl" can play a role. The "giant bowl" hanging in the air is most afraid of strong winds. The wind was not too strong on the night of rehearsal, but the south side of the "giant bowl" had been torn by the strong wind. Earlier, the director group had said that if the wind was too strong on the night of the opening ceremony, they might give up the "giant bowl". According to the performance that night, the role of the "giant bowl" is obviously irreplaceable. If there is no "giant bowl", the effect of the opening ceremony will be greatly reduced.

In addition to the "giant bowl", the 52 sparkling pigeons falling from the sky, the "Yellow River" washed down from the torch platform and the "sailing boat" fighting the waves in the "sea" all reflected the unique creativity of the opening ceremony of the National Games. From a creative point of view, the opening ceremony of the National Games can get high marks.

In addition to dynamic picture effects and magnificent performances, the songs of the opening ceremony of the National Games are also a must. For example, one of the songs is selected from Dream by Li Qingzhao, a famous poetess in Jinan. This song was written by Zhang Hongguang and composed by Wu Tong. It lasted for several months and was sung by the famous singer Cai Qin.

The most interesting theme song is "Wonderful Round", which will be sung by singers from Chinese mainland, Taiwan Province, Hongkong and Macau.

2. Comments on the Opening Ceremony of the 11th National Games

Last night, I watched the grand opening ceremony of the 11th National Games in Jinan, and I was filled with emotion. I want to talk about it in my blog.

Speaking of the opening ceremony of the National Games, it is natural to think of the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games last year, because there are too many similarities between the two opening ceremonies-first, the background is the opening ceremony of a large-scale sports meeting held in the heyday of China; Secondly, it is a visual feast made by using modern advanced video technology, computer technology and fireworks technology; Again, it is an image project with China characteristics. The organizers have done their best to make it top-notch and extreme, regardless of financial and human resources.

Last year, I wrote a comment on the night after the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games, which was recognized by many bloggers. Tonight, as the second hometown of Shandong, how can you not write about your feelings? The following are some of my feelings and comments after watching the National Games.

First of all, talk about the overall style and creativity of this opening ceremony.

Since the sports meeting is held in Shandong, it is of course necessary to highlight the characteristics of Shandong. What are the characteristics of Shandong's independence from other provinces in China? Of course, it is a nationally recognized "one mountain, one water and one saint". As soon as the opening ceremony started, Mount Tai, the statue of Wuyue, Confucius, the sage, and the Yellow River rushed into the sea, which really set the tone for the whole performance early-we are all prostitutes in Shandong! We have no room!

More interestingly, in the part of the exhibition hole, the children's voice at the scene twice emphasized the sentence "It's a pleasure to have friends from afar" in the first sentence of The Analects of Confucius, and emphasized this point when reading "Le"-isn't this a warning to Sun, a famous CCTV teacher who mistook "Le" for "Joy" at the opening ceremony of last year's Beijing Olympic Games? Remember me.

After showing the Shandong characteristics, the light and shadow on the scene turned sharply, and a piece of green jumped into the eye. The original exhibition of Jinan, the host city, began. It is not particularly derogatory to say that the National Games is an image project. People in Jinan, Shandong spend so much money to hold a National Games, so they don't publicize themselves and brag about themselves. They're not good enough! So, we saw a beautiful fairyland like a dream, a wet city with pink and green, a gushing and gurgling Wanyan Spring, and even a hundred flowers and lotus nocturnes on the Shili covered bridge ... Fortunately, I have been to Jinan, but I know Baotu Spring in reality. Fortunately, I visited the famous park in Jinan. There is no clear spring, no dream, nothing can compare with Jiangnan! I want to drag myself from the city in the north to the south of heaven by a vat in the stadium. If so, the actor's Ingner will definitely come true!

Speaking of this "vat", let me give a special evaluation. Last year's Beijing Olympic Games,

I don't know where the inspiration came from, but Mou Zi made a large-scale LED "painting axis", which became an important prop and set for the opening ceremony and a major breakthrough in the opening ceremony of previous Olympic Games. In this National Games, the director obviously wanted to challenge the creativity and difficulty of last year, so he made great efforts to design such a huge 360-degree panoramic projection curtain, which was shaped like a vat. It is said that more than 20 large projectors were used to run in all directions of the stadium at the same time, and the gorgeous scene effect was achieved. On TV, the visual impact of this vat is still quite strong, which has played a very good role in usurping the role of the host-the audience and the camera have gone to see the pictures appearing above, who will care about the performances of the live actors? Moreover, the whole "performance" of this vat has been announced to the world: at the opening ceremony of the future sports meeting, people will at most act as an activity background, and the real protagonist has been replaced by a high-tech computer performance or virtual image.

Therefore, watching the whole scene, you can't find a few shots to capture the facial expressions of the actors, and you can't see a few shots that consciously show the dance, body shape and team dynamics. You pity these beautiful and energetic actors. Your earnest efforts are just to set off and enrich a big jar of self-obscenity!

As for whether this cylinder can surpass a painting axis of the Beijing Olympic Games, it's really not comparable, but at least this cylinder is round, and audiences from all directions in the stadium can understand what's inside, which is much better than Zhang Yimou's painting of Zhang Yongyuan walking towards the rostrum!

Finally, talk about the ignition ceremony.

Oh, hey, China has a large population. It takes 5,000 people to light a fire! Everyone lifted the fake torch with a small fan symbolically to the top of the head, and the main torch like a mace was proudly lit there!

Interpreting the torch lighting procedure of the National Games, I really feel that it fully embodies the glorious historical tradition of Shandong chivalrous men-first, a shrew ran out with the torch symbolizing "rising from the pole", and then she lit the torch of her daughter's son-in-law with the torch in her hand. Well, young couples followed the uprising. Then, the young couple had offspring. They are entrenched in the shanzhai, engaged in important work such as striking the iron, farming and security, and have become heroes on all fronts. So these descendants took torches and began to take mountains as kings. However, when they passed the torch to five new stars on each mountain, they suddenly seemed to be inspired by something and decided to go down the mountain to do good and no longer take the mountain as the king. In order to show their determination to repent, they simply gathered 5000 outlaws in Shandong and burned huge maces symbolizing outlaws and bandits! Thus, the torch of the National Games was lit! The audience was overjoyed, not to mention thanking the party!