On February 4th, the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics came to a perfect end, and Chinese presented a romantic ice and snow feast for the world in her own way, and the literary chief writer of the opening and closing ceremonies was Yu Lei, the general director of the "National Treasure" of the Central Radio and Television Corporation, who served as the chief writer of the four CCTV Spring Festival Gala and the deputy director of this year's Spring Festival Gala. Three years ago, she joined the creative team of the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics, how does the literary creativity behind this visual feast proceed and what is the story? Let's hear it.
Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony Literature Chief Writer Yu Lei, General Director of "National Treasures": There is a folder called "2022 Great Rivers and Mountains", I will classify all the documents in it, in fact, there are many ideas, which have been locked three years ago. After such a long process of a little polishing and practice, making it more and more beautiful, and then becoming a real thing presented to the audience, in fact, this is a particularly precious process.
For example, the countdown to the twenty-four solar terms, everyone thinks it is very good, so how to use the picture to present it? We are illustrating the twenty-four solar terms or what, and the director says whether we can give each solar term a sentence so that the world can understand. I made a big list and gave the director a lot of choices, and I said that we can go in the direction of phenology and folklore, and then we can go in the direction of ancient poetry, or we can take a modern expression. Talking to the director in the studio, the director said that each festival was accompanied by an ancient poem, and then we started the project.
The first version is twenty-four solar terms, the next 10 numbers have poems, and it is also very wonderful, when the snow is heavy, we chose the snow full of bow knives, when the picture with the ice knife wiped on it, there is this kind of athletes ready to go, in preparation for the Winter Olympics temperament, and then at one time, we use Zhu Xi's thousand purple and red is always spring, in fact, we want to tell the world, we work together to meet a spring that belongs to all mankind.
Because everyone was a little reluctant to shout together in a lively state, and then we were thinking about where to choose, so the director "broke the wrist of the hero", saying that the last 10 numbers we will stay in the festival, we will feel the big rhythm of the whole scene, or a right choice. We can actually present the full version of the twenty-four solar terms to everyone, and I believe that all of us Chinese people will like it.
(CCTV News Client)