奥运会开幕式的文化阐释——以北京奥运会为例

Cultural Analysis on Opening Ceremony of Olympics——Taking Beijing Olympic Games as an Example

2008年北京奥运会开幕式,充分调用民族经典符号与现代科技手段,以其华美、壮观和构思奇巧得到了全球大多媒体的惊叹和热评。创造性实现了中国文化与奥林匹克精神的交流与融合,展示了中国伟大的古老文明和主动接近西方现代性的迫切宏愿。可以说,这一开幕式既是一场大型的文化事件,也是一场美轮美奂的视觉奇观和娱乐狂欢,其影响力将会在现代人寻找共同体和精神认同方面显示出更为深远的意义。

Magnificence and artful design of Opening Ceremony in Beijing Olympics received almost all the media’s wonderment and praise by using national classic symbol and modern technical means sufficiently.It achieved communication and mergence between Chinese culture and Olympic sprits and showed the urgent wish of Chinese great ancient civilization approaching to western modernization actively.That is to say,the opening ceremony is not only a large-scale cultural presentation,but also a spectacle visual wonder and recreational revelry,which has profound influence in aspect of modern people looking for cooperation and spiritual identity.