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Transcript of Beijing Olympic Facts
The 2008 Beijing Olympic
Opening Ceremony
Fact and FiguresFeatures Four Inventions
of Ancient China
National Stadium, also known as the Bird's Nest
Olympic Green in Northern Beijing
The Venue
The stadium was jointly designed by Herzog & de Meuron
Design Office, and China Architecture Design & Research
Group and ARUP. Its construction began on Dec. 24, 2003,
and completed on June 30, 2008. Altogether 45,000 tonnes
of steel was used to build its framework.
The stadium's seating capacity is 91,000, including 11,000
temporary seats. The floor space is 258,000 square
meters.
GROUND FACILITIES
A major elevating platform at the center is 20 meters in
diameter, weighing about 400 tonnes, and can reach 11.4
meters high at a speed of zero to 12 meters per minute.
Two moving lids on the stage serve as a roof. A 36 by 22
meters LED screen is installed on the plates.
On the south and north sides are 30 complementary
platforms, with each 3-meter-wide and 3-meter-long.
GROUND FACILITIES
When the two lids move toward the center, the
complementary platforms will rise and make up the stage.
Two sets of 22-meter-long LED scroll painting were
installed, with a diameter of 22 meters.
With LED images shown on it, the scroll painting can
stretch 147 meters long.
ABOVE-STAGE FACILITIES
Ten steel ropes are hung above the stage, weighing 40
tonnes in all and with a total length of 55 kilometers.
Among the 31 wire devices, 16 sets can carry a load of 300
kilograms each, with a load of 100 kilograms for each of the
other 15. All can move at 3 meters per second and can
function at the same time.
One hundred jumping facilities with a load capacity of 80
kilograms each are set under the rim of the roof edge, which
can move at 3 meters per second and be operated
simultaneously.
LED SCREEN ON THE GROUND
A 147 by 22 meters LED screen is laid at the center.
Approximately 44,000 colorful LED beads are embedded
with a distance of 600 millimeters between each two.
FIREWORKS CELEBRATION
-- 287 points on the top of National Stadium
-- 27 positions in the central area of National Stadium
-- 12 positions in the Olympic Green
-- 29 positions on the axis of the city
-- 4 places in other urban areas
MUSIC
A total of 110 minutes of music was created by
18 composers for the opening ceremony.
LIGHTING
Altogether 2,583 special lights are used and lighting
equipment weighing more than 300 tonnes has been
installed. Electricity load for lighting totals 6,440
kilowatt.
COSTUMES
A total of 15,153 sets of costumes in 47 styles.
REHEARSAL
Some performances have been rehearsed for 13
months. Volunteers began their first mass
rehearsal in March 2008.
Beijing Olympics opening
features four inventions
of ancient China
PAPERMAKING
The invention of papermaking is one of China's special
contributions to the spread and the development of
human civilizations.
Papermaking was represented in Friday's opening
ceremony with a Chinese painting scroll that opened to
begin the performances and a sheet of white paper that
was laid in the center of the scroll.
!!MOVABLE TYPE PRINTINGIn the "writing" part of the opening ceremony was a
performance of movable type printing, which takes an image
of both ancient character case and modern computer
keyboard.
Movable type printing began with engraving printing of Sui
Dynasty (581 AD-618 AD). Bi Sheng of Song Dynasty (960
AD-1276 AD) improved the movable type printing by making
the baked clay into movable characters for type-setting
printing; thus he accomplished a significant revolution in
printing history.
Bi Sheng is known as the first ancestor of printing. The movable type
printing pioneered the modern civilization of mankind.
COMPASS
The compass was introduced to Europe approximately in
the 12th century. Its application to the navigation resulted in
the voyage of Columbus' discovery of the New World and
Magellan's global navigation.
In the "Silk Road" part of the performances, an important
passage for economic and cultural exchanges between
China and Western countries, a performer held an ancient
compass in his hand.
GUNPOWDER
Gunpowder was represented in the display of fireworks
Gunpowder was invented in the Song Dynasty (960 AD -
1276 AD) in China. It is the mixture of potassium nitrate,
sulfur and charcoal -- elements that people took as medicine
in ancient times, hence the name "gunpowder" in Chinese
means "burning medicines".
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