National Image Construction from the Perspective of Multimodal Metaphor-A Case Study of the Opening Ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics

The national image is a comprehensive concept with a distinct political feature,including the international image presented to the outside world,and also encompassing the national identity of the people.With the development of globalization,international cultural communication has become a crucial part of shaping the national image,and the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics has become an important opportunity for China to showcase its national image to the world in the post-pandemic era.Based on Forceville’s multimodal metaphor theory,this paper examines the metaphorical phenomena contained in the performance and their functions,effects,and purposes in the construction of the national image.It is found that there are many scenes,images,and narratives in the opening ceremony,including war metaphor,competition metaphor,personification metaphor,and other conceptual metaphors.The focus of this paper is on multimodal metaphor in a broad sense,mainly encompassing auditory and visual modes.Through the use of these multimodal metaphors,the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics builds an image of a vibrant,peace-loving,and responsible country,which not only demonstrates China’s cultural self-confidence,but also expresses the Chinese people’s beautiful vision for the early reunification of the motherland.

Panorama of the Opening-Closing Tectonics Theory in China

The opening-closing tectonics theory, a theory about opening-closing tectonics, is a viewpoint regarding geotectonics suggested by a group of Chinese scientists. Opening and closing are two basic geological movements, which may result in a series of structures. The highest level of opening is the appearance of oceans and the highest level of closing is the consolidation of continents. Based on field investigations, the authors consider that identifying the marks of opening-closing tectonics is the basis of the issue and classifying the types of opening-closing tectonics is the key of the issue. This paper briefly discusses the substance and the future of the study on the opening-closing tecton cs in China. The authors hope to share relevant information with geoscientists in the world in this field.

Analysis of the Heat Transfer Efficiency of an Automobile Engine under Different Grille Opening and Closing Conditions

Computational Fluid Dynamics is used to assess the thermal(heat transfer)performances of an automobile engine considering different grille opening and closing degrees.For this purpose the entire vehicle is modelled and three fundamental aspects are examined,namely,the open area of the air intake grille,the position of the upper and lower grilles and their shape.The results show that the opening area and position of the grille have some influence also on the aerodynamic characteristics of the automobile.With an increase in the opening angle of the grille,the CD(Drag Coefficient)value of the whole vehicle becomes higher.When the air intake grille of the car is fully open or closed,the CD value is 0.35434 or 0.31777,respectively,that is,the flow resistance in the engine compartment accounts for 10.32%of the CD value for the whole automobile.

Late Precambrian Scissors--Type Opening--Closing Tectonics and Its Dynamics in South China

In this paper the author first reviews 6 major advances in the study of Precambrian geologyand tectonics of South China during the last decade, and then proposes the following new modelof Late Precambrian scissors-type opening-closing tectonic evolution in the region. (1) Besidesthe Middle-Late Proterozoic low-grade metamorphic basement, there existed a LateArchaean-Early Proterozoic medium- to high-garde metamorphic basement in South China;both of them formed the united Yangtze-Cathaysia (craton) at the end of the Early Proterozoic,with the Jiangxi-Anhui-Zhejiang palaeogulf extending into the inland and the Jiangxi-Anhui-Jiangsu Peninsula lying on the northern side of the palaeogulf.(2) From the Middle Proterozoic,the present Guangxi-Guizhou-Hunan area in the western-central oldland was subjected toextensional rifting and became a rift trough, thus resulting in counterclockwise rotation of the'Cathaysian block' and clockwise rotation of the 'Yangtze block'; moreover, the southwardcompression of the Dabie-Jiaonan block which split from the southern margin of the NorthChina plate and was accreted to the northern margin of the Jiangxi-Anhui-Jiangsu Peninsula ledto the scissors-type closing of the Jiangxi-Anhui-Zhejiang palaeogulf during the Middle-earlyLate Proterozoic, which further influenced the Early Palaeozoic tectonic evolution of the region.

Kocel Steel Foundry Grand Opening Ceremony

On May 9, 2006 the Grand Opening ceremony of Kocel Steel Foundry Co., Ltd. was held in the National Economic and Technological Development Zone in Yinchuan City, Ningxia, China. Kocel Steel Foundry Co., Ltd. is a large scale enterprise producing steel castings and it is jointly established by Ningxia Kocel Group, Changcheng Suzaki Machine & Foundry Co., Ltd. and Voestalpine Giesserei Linz GmbH, Austria. At am 8:55 as the brass band played the grand music and the firecrackers were lighted up, the leaders and guests came into the ceremony place in the warmly applauds. The honored guests included CHEN Jian-guo, Party Secretary of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region; WANG

‘International Museum Day 2019’ China Main Venue Opening Ceremony Held in Hunan

The "museum fever" has become a new fashion of Chinese social culture, and the cross-border integration and innovation of "muscum+" has become a new engine for promoting high-quality development.

Application of Opening and Closing Morphology in Deep Learning-Based Brain Image Registration

In order to improve the registration accuracy of brain magnetic resonance images(MRI),some deep learning registration methods use segmentation images for training model.How-ever,the segmentation values are constant for each label,which leads to the gradient variation con-centrating on the boundary.Thus,the dense deformation field(DDF)is gathered on the boundary and there even appears folding phenomenon.In order to fully leverage the label information,the morphological opening and closing information maps are introduced to enlarge the non-zero gradi-ent regions and improve the accuracy of DDF estimation.The opening information maps supervise the registration model to focus on smaller,narrow brain regions.The closing information maps supervise the registration model to pay more attention to the complex boundary region.Then,opening and closing morphology networks(OC_Net)are designed to automatically generate open-ing and closing information maps to realize the end-to-end training process.Finally,a new registra-tion architecture,VM_(seg+oc),is proposed by combining OC_Net and VoxelMorph.Experimental results show that the registration accuracy of VM_(seg+oc) is significantly improved on LPBA40 and OASIS1 datasets.Especially,VM_(seg+oc) can well improve registration accuracy in smaller brain regions and narrow regions.

The Opening Ceremony for the Restructured China Standardization Press

The opening ceremony for the restructured China Standardization Press was grandly held in Beijing on December 1st, Mr. Pu Changcheng, the vice minister of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine （AQSIQ）, Mr. Ji Zhengkun, the administrator of the Standardization Administration of China （SAC）, Li Zhonghai, the chairman of China Association for Standardization （CAS） and the president of the China National Institute of Standardization （CNIS） attended and addressed at the ceremony.

Address by Mr. Zhou Tienong at the Opening Ceremony of the 2013 “Understanding and Cooperation” Dialogue

Distinguished Guests,Ladies and Gentlemen,Dear friends,On behalf of the Chinese Association for International Understanding(CAFIU),I would like to start by extending my warmest welcome to all representatives from home and abroad,who come to attend the 2013"Understanding

Speech on the Opening Ceremony of European Union-China "Energy Cooperation Industry Conference

Ladies, Gentlemen, Friends: Today, I feel greatly honoured to have opportunity to attend European Union-China《Energy Cooperation Industry Conference cosponsored by China State Science and Technology Commission and European Union of Federalists, held in Beijing. On this occasion, please allow me on behalf of the Ministry of Electric Power, People’s Republic of China, to express thanks for China State Science

A Speech Made by the Chairman of WCP International Industrial(Anhui)Co.Ltd.at its Opening Ceremony

What a fascinating and moving applause!What makes us more exciting isthat officials from provincial and municipal levels and friends from home andabroad have come to join us in celebrating this special festival.Ladies andgentlemen,on behalf of WCP,I’d like to extend my sincere thanks to you foryour greetings.

Speech by Mr. Zhou Tienong at The Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Understanding and Cooperation Dialogue

正The 2012 Understanding and Cooperation Dialogue opens today. I'd like to extend heartfelt congratulations to the convening of the Dialogue, as well as my warm welcome to the political leaders and friends from different countries who have come to China for the Dialogue.

Speech by Mr. Eda Satsuki at the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Understanding and Cooperation Dialogue

正Today we convene a great international forum under the strong leadership of the Chinese side. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the sponsors for granting me an opportunity to speak here.

Address in the Opening Ceremony

Dear Mr. Chairman, distinguished guests, experts, and representatives, Good morning. Today, Chinese Pharmaceutical Association and Drug Information Association holds the Sino-Europe Symposium on traditional drugs, inviting representatives of drug regulatory bodies, academic institutions, production enterprises, both from China and the European Union (EU), having in-depth discussion on law and regulations.

Statement by Dr Edward Van Roy Director,Social Development Division,ESCAP at the opening ceremony on 24 October 1995

Distinguished participants,ladies and grntlemen:It gives me great pleasure,on behalf of the United Nations Ecomomic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, to join you today at

Enhancing Understanding and Promoting Cooperation for A More Harmonious World——Keynote Speech at the Opening Ceremony of the 2013 “Understanding and Cooperation” Dialogue

Distinguished guests,Ladies and gentlemen,Dear friends,It gives me great pleasure to meet all of you in Beijing and join you in the 2013"Understanding and Cooperation"Dialogue.Please allow me to begin by extending my warmest congratulations to the opening of this Dialogue,and my

Speech by Former President Festus G. Mogae at Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Understanding and Cooperation Dialogue

正Director of Ceremonies, Your Excellencies, Ministers here present, Chinese State Leaders, Heads of Chinese NGOs, Representatives of International NGOs, Ladies and Gentlemen, Let me first and foremost express my heartfelt gratitude to the Chinese Association for International Understanding for inviting me to

Speech of Tadashi Yamada at the Opening Ceremony of Seminar on “Sino-Japanese Business Cooperation on Environmental Protection”

Distinguished Deputy Secretary-General Liu Kaiyang,Members of CAFIU delegation,Ladies and Gentlemen,This is a commemorable year as it marks the 35th anniversary of the signing of Japan-China Peace and Friendship Treaty.However,it is well-known that the bilateral relationship suffered from considerable fractions and disputes on the Senkaku Islands(Diaoyu Islands)since last year.We still have no ideas or clues on the solving of this problem.It is more worrisome