What do you think about the opening ceremony of Guangzhou Asian Games today?

After more than two years of careful preparation, the opening ceremony of Guangzhou Asian Games will be officially staged in Haixinsha Island on November 12th. This audio-visual cultural feast created by many top artists at home and abroad is splendid, with many highlights worthy of attention besides the lighting ceremony of the main torch tower.

trapeze, fireworks in full bloom around the waist, boat of the ocean and the emblem of the Pearl River

-the most noteworthy highlight of the opening ceremony of the Guangzhou Asian Games

Xinhuanet Guangzhou Sports Special on November 11th (Reporter Wang Yong and Jia Wenjun) After more than two years of careful preparation for the opening ceremony of the Guangzhou Asian Games, it will be officially staged in Haixinsha Island on November 12th, which is an audio-visual cultural feast created by many top artists at home and abroad.

Highlight 1: The "trapeze" that makes the audience feel suffocated

It's exciting for one person to dive from the roof of nearly 8 meters. What about the feeling of 18 people diving from the roof of 8 meters in unison? "Sail of White Clouds" is such a thrilling, exciting, romantic and warm nine-minute performance jointly created by artists and Wulin boys of Tagou Martial Arts School in Henan. During the rehearsal, the scene of many dives in the program has made the audience feel nervous and almost suffocated.

The music of this program is sometimes passionate, sometimes romantic and lyrical. The composer of the blockbuster X-Men and Kung Fu Panda, john powell, and the music director of the closing ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games jointly wrote and produced it.

18 athletes, with the cooperation of 1284 operators and 1 technical support personnel on the ground, performed a fascinating three-dimensional performance from the front of the audience, which was more than 8 meters high. This is a new attempt to be bold and creative and challenge the limits, not only for Asia, but also for the world. In this unique space, they have embraced many sports elements such as surfing, mountaineering, swimming, hurdles, etc., which have demonstrated the vigorous development of China's national fitness campaign and wonderfully interpreted the faster, higher and stronger sportsmanship of mankind. In the end, more than 18 athletes turned into eight huge eagles flying with wings. Fly to the blue sky and sprint into the future.

Highlight 2: The "boat of the sea" created by the master dancer even the acrobats once retreated.

2 fisherman girls stood by the sea with fishing lights in their hands, watching the men set foot on the long sea "Silk Road". In the powerful bugle call, Qi Xin, 6 frolicters, joined hands to carry a huge ship. Like every departure, the vast and mysterious sea challenges them, and makes life generate a national strength!

This "giant ship" with a length of 28.8 meters, a width of 8 meters and a height of 18 meters is an "ocean boat" built by Mark Fischer, the world's top dancer, and Miao Peiru, a China dancer. It can roll and rotate 36 degrees horizontally and vertically. Sailors played by 45 acrobats and dancers, led by a boatswain, sailed into the sea and fought in the stormy waves. In the peaks and valleys of lightning and thunder, the sailors shouted and shouted, and the sailing ship was sometimes thrown to the peak and sometimes fell into the bottom, and the ship was bumping and shaking ... The sailors fought to the death with the huge wind of the waves. It is beyond imagination to perform on such a special stage as a rolling rock boat. In the end, acrobats from Henan were chosen to perform in the mast and other parts of the ship. However, after the original ship was installed in Guangzhou at the end of December last year, when they rehearsed for the first time, they could not find the center of gravity and could not perform the action performance when they got on the ship with a little shaking. For a whole week, it was completely used to adapt to this extremely "simulated" ship, and many of these acrobatic masters with stunts backed out. Finally, the difficulties such as seasickness were overcome, and the rehearsed "boat of the sea" was magnificent and became a wonderful attraction at the opening ceremony of the Guangzhou Asian Games.

the third highlight: the visual spectacle carved by the largest lighting group in the world

Sha Xiaogang, 48, is the lighting director of the opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Games. Sha Xiaolan, the lighting director of the opening ceremony team of Guangzhou Asian Games, carved the night sky in Guangzhou into a rare visual spectacle with the colors and shapes of lighting, which is a rare master work.

The opening ceremony of the Asian Games held on Haixinsha Island with the Pearl River as the stage and the city as the background gave Sha Xiaolan seven kilometers of space on both sides of the Pearl River to fully display his and his team's talents. They used more than 2, searchlights, more than 2, computer lights and more than 5, professional lamps to create the world's largest performance art of a lighted city.

In the preface to the opening ceremony, with the infinite spread of water waves on the ground of Haixinsha Island and the gorgeous laser, the world's largest fountain array was opened, and the water features with a length of 17 meters and a height of 38 meters were magnificent and dreamlike. Under the starry sky, on the Pearl River, four 8-meter-high video giant sails in front of the audience rose proudly. Fireworks and searchlights on both sides of the Pearl River turned Haixinsha Island into an unprecedented Asian "Harmony" ship, which set sail at the south gate of China, the mouth of the Pearl River and the "Asian Games Night".

during the "green minute" of the opening ceremony, in just 6 seconds, the lights turned Guang Zhouta, which was more than 6 meters high, into a towering green tree of life in Asia. The main buildings around Haixinsha Island and on both sides of the Pearl River turn green instantly. Let people find the feeling of green home in the reinforced concrete city, and at the same time, call on the people of the whole city to move a pot of flowers or a bunch of green plants at home to the balcony and window at this moment for the starry sky to see and the world to see. Starting from Haixinsha Island, 2 high-powered LED searchlights at the main venue and on both sides of the Pearl River changed color into green wave corridors. This is a rare exhibition of lighting art that permeates the heart from vision.

Highlight 4: The emblem of the Asian Games on the Pearl River, which is comparable to the "Bird's Nest" dream five rings

Highlights of the opening ceremony on Haixinsha Island are frequent, and there is also a very creative display on the Pearl River near Haixinsha Island. A huge LED optical network with the emblem of OCA and the emblem of the Asian Games flashing alternately flows in the sea sand waters above the Pearl River. From both sides of the Pearl River, especially in the sky above Guangzhou and the surrounding high buildings, you can feel the sportsmanship and romantic elements conveyed by the river emblem.

after the creative element of the opening ceremony of the Asian Games was determined to be "water", Mr. Lu Jiankang, the production director of the opening and closing ceremonies of the Asian Games, came up with the idea of "stretching a picture of the Pearl River". During the performance of the Pearl River cruise on the night of the opening ceremony, the offshore optical network displaying the emblem of the OCA and the emblem of the Guangzhou Asian Games and the floating boat representing the OCA family completed this giant scroll.

Combining the emblem of the Games with the artistic performance of the opening ceremony of the Games by means of high-tech stage display was a great success at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games. At the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games, when the Olympic emblem, the image of the five rings, was unexpectedly raised on the "Bird's Nest" stage in the form of LED optical network, the romantic and aesthetic feeling deeply touched the audience. In the opening ceremony of Guangzhou Asian Games, the LED emblem optical network was chosen to flow along the Pearl River to Haixinsha, which also has strong visibility. It is reported that in order to build this water surface optical network, 5, LED light spots were used, and it took 5 skilled technicians five days to manually weave an LED optical network with a length of 42 meters, a width of 48 meters and an area of more than 2, square meters. After repeated tests, this "water emblem" is not afraid of wind and waves, nor of rain.

Highlight 5: Brilliant fireworks of the world's top masters with Guang Zhouta's "Little Man's Waist" as the core

On the night of the opening ceremony, a Chinese and foreign team composed of Christopher, the world's top fireworks master, and Liu Lin, the top fireworks expert in China, will fully display the spectacular fireworks around the "Little Man's Waist" in Guang Zhouta, which is more than 6 meters high, providing a rare opportunity for Guangzhou citizens and tourists to enjoy it.

Christopher, a famous French fireworks master who was the general designer of fireworks for the opening ceremony of Guangzhou Asian Games, has designed fireworks displays for the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, the opening ceremony of Athens Olympic Games and the Burj Dubai successively. Liu Lin, 54, is the Chinese chief designer of the opening and closing ceremonies of the Asian Games. He is the director and on-site conductor of the opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Olympic Games and the technical coordinator of the fireworks headquarters for the 6th anniversary of the National Day.

They carefully designed the Guang Zhouta, Haixinsha Island and the bridges on the Pearl River as the core, and set off a romantic and wonderful fireworks in the night sky of Guangzhou in the Asian Games City around the theme of the opening ceremony. Guang Zhouta, which is more than 6 meters high, is the main carrier for the 55-second countdown. The "Red Cotton Blossom" outlined by fireworks lines is comparable to the "Big Footprint" of the Beijing Olympic Games.

Zhang Ziyi and Lang Lang teamed up with 18 Shaolin Boys Guangzhou Daily

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Boys sang

It's raining hard

The first highlight of the opening ceremony was the Guangdong nursery rhyme "It's raining hard" sung by children. Performers sit on banana leaves more than ten stories high, from top to bottom, from right to left, or floating or stopping, and the audio-visual effect of the prelude is fascinating. In addition, it rained heavily more than once in the opening ceremony. Although it appeared twice, it felt completely different.

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18 Shaolin Boys

Huge Sail Screen Flying 3

Zhang Ziyi and Lang Lang

Presented the song Time

In the chapter of Sail of White Clouds, two handsome men and women, namely, Lang Lang and Zhang Ziyi, will jointly perform the song Time.

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Float boats and sailboats

All of them make a beautiful appearance

Float boat parade will become a beautiful landscape. There are also two special boats, one is the sail screen that plays an important role in the performance. When the LED sail screen is unfolded, Haixinsha becomes a big ship, and the other is a huge prop sailboat.

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Nearly 6 young people

sounded the "Germany-hunting drum"

What it looked like, I believe many people have never heard of it or seen it. At the opening ceremony, the audience can see nearly 6 young people beating the "German-hunting Drum" with Guangzhou characteristics.

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Global audience participates in

Green Minute

The link of Green Minute is the only part in the opening ceremony of the Asian Games, which is also a performance art that transcends time and space and has no borders. At that time, all the audience can take the green plants out of the balcony and participate in this green action.

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athletes walk through the rain curtain

The entrance ceremony of athletes on the Avenue of Stars will break the tradition and enter the stadium along the central axis of the water stage, and both sides of the Avenue of Stars will fly with the water curtain, which is like a dream.

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The ceremony of lighting the main torch is so mysterious

How was the Asian Games torch lit? On water, land or air? This has always been regarded as a first-class secret.

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The cauldron rises from the center of the stage

Usually, we will see the already built cauldron for the Asian Games in the main venue of the opening ceremony, but at present, we don't see any trace of the cauldron on the stage during the day. Where is it hidden? The answer is in the "heart" of Haixinsha. In the last part of the opening ceremony, the water stage will become an origin square, and you will see the cauldron rising from the ground.

after the appearance of the cauldron, you will see a sacred ceremony of "gathering water". Forty-five holy water women from all directions in Asia arrived at the center of the venue, filled with civilized water from major water systems in Asia, and collectively poured holy water into the cauldron to complete the ceremony.

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Guang Zhouta now

You will see the world's largest fireworks screen on Liede Bridge, and you will also see huge Chinese characters composed of fireworks on the Guang Zhouta.

(This article is from Dayang. com-Guangzhou Daily)

Related news: The total investment of Guangzhou Asian Games is 5 times that of Beijing Oriental Morning Post

The total investment is 2.5 billion: 122.6 billion

The Beijing Asian Games in 199 was the first time that New China hosted a large-scale international comprehensive sports meeting. In April 1985, the Beijing Asian Games Organizing Committee was established. The following year, the Asian Games project, including the National Olympic Sports Center and the Athletes' Village, broke ground on hundreds of hectares of crop land at the northern end of Beijing's central axis. At the same time, a number of supporting projects were launched one after another. Most sections of the North Fourth Ring Road were completed before the Asian Games, more than 1 years earlier than the completion of the Fourth Ring Road (in 21). The Central Axis Road extended from Gulou Outer Street to the North Fourth Ring Road. The Second Ring Road, the first expressway around the city, which was first built in the 196s, also accelerated its construction, and was finally completed in 1992. It took four years and invested 2.5 billion yuan, which is another large-scale construction in Beijing since the construction of the "Top Ten Buildings" such as the Great Hall of the People in the 195s.

compared with the shortage of funds for the Beijing Asian Games, the Guangzhou Asian Games is not stingy in terms of investment. "In order to run the Asian Games well, 13.6 billion yuan was invested in competition operation and venues, and the remaining 19 billion yuan was invested in key infrastructure construction in Guangzhou during the six years from 25 to 21." Jason Ming, director of the Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of Finance, explained the general distribution of the financial investment of about 122.6 billion yuan. "The 19 billion yuan is divided into four parts, of which only 54.7 billion yuan was spent on opening five new subway lines, and 18.5 billion yuan was spent on road and bridge construction, 19 billion yuan on comprehensive environmental improvement and 16.8 billion yuan on water control."

Sponsor 2: 53

The Beijing Asian Games in 199 needed 2.5 billion yuan, but the country's financial resources were limited and it could not be fully allocated, leaving a gap of 6 million yuan. At that time, more than 1 million people donated money and materials, with 27 million yuan, and the National Association of Self-employed Persons donated 2.5 million yuan. In addition to donations from ordinary people, Jianlibao and Anta became rare sponsors of the Beijing Asian Games, especially Jianlibao, which was designated as the special sports drink for the China sports delegation in the 11th Beijing Asian Games on April 28th, 199 with RMB 6 million. In addition, the total sponsorship amount of Jianlibao reached RMB 16 million.

after a lapse of 2 years, through the reform and opening up and economic system reform, the number of sponsors of Guangzhou Asian Games has reached 53, and the sponsorship amount has exceeded 3 billion yuan. The number and sponsorship amount of this Guangzhou Asian Games have reached the highest in previous Asian Games: the sponsorship amount is large.