China News Service, Hulunbuir, February 17th: Title: Close-up of the opening ceremony: The winter snow in northern Xinjiang is like a dream, and together we draw a "new starting point" for China's ice and snow
China News Service reporter Xing Chong Li Aiping
The Inner Mongolia Ice Sports Training Center located in Hailar District, Hulunbuir City, looks like a holy Hada floating and stretched. The light strips are shining brightly at night, and the red lanterns are hung high at the door of the speed skating hall. The snow in the North is like a dream. Tonight, on the eighth day of the Chinese Lunar New Year, the 14th National Winter Games opens in this Chinese border town.
Hada held the promise of ice and snow, and Northern Xinjiang ignited the passion for sports. The Winter Games torch came to Inner Mongolia for the first time, and visitors from all over the world gathered in the grassland "Nadam". This Winter Games, the largest in scale, with the most events and the highest standards, has opened a new chapter in China's ice and snow sports.
Compared with the opening ceremony venues of previous competitions, although the stage of the speed skating hall is small, it can "see the big from the small." The creative team used a variety of image carriers such as ground screens, standing screens, and top circular projections to construct an exquisite light and shadow picture. Here is grassland, snowfield and starry sky. Being among them feels like stepping into a world of ice, snow and glazed glass.
On February 17, the opening ceremony of the 14th National Winter Games was held at the Inner Mongolia Ice Sports Training Center in Hailar District, Hulunbuir City, Inner Mongolia. The picture shows the scene of the opening ceremony. Photo by China News Service reporter Cui Nan
At 8 o'clock in the evening, the folk song "A Pact of Ice and Snow" was played, and the opening ceremony of the "Fourteenth Winter" kicked off.
This is the first major national winter sports event held in China after the Beijing Winter Olympics. As the ice and snow sports "expand southward, westward and eastward", the ice and snow territory continues to expand in China. This Winter Games is the first time for provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities to participate in the unit. Each delegation team entered the venue holding flags and gathered in the "14th Winter Games". "Winter" under the banner.
At about 8:40, the cultural and sports performance with the theme of "Burning Love and Building Dreams in Northern Xinjiang" started. When the dripping water turned into ice and the green was covered with white, the children named "Anda" and "Sainu" in Mongolian began to swim in the Hulunbuir Snowfield. They are the mascots of the "Fourteenth Winter", translated into Chinese as "friends" and "hello".
The melodious sound of the matouqin was played, children held snowflake lanterns, and actors in costumes performed cup and bowl dances to welcome guests from afar. No matter mountains and seas are far away, we will go to the ice and snow appointment together. All ethnic groups will hug together like pomegranate seeds and jointly draw a new chapter for China's ice and snow sports.
On February 17, the opening ceremony of the 14th National Winter Games was held at the Inner Mongolia Ice Sports Training Center in Hailar District, Hulunbuir City, Inner Mongolia. The picture shows the scene of the opening ceremony. Photo by China News Service reporter Cui Nan
The wind and clouds suddenly changed, and the winter grasslands in the north were filled with wind and snow. A group of Mongolian horses trudged hard in the wind and snow. When the ice breaks and the sky breaks, the Mongolian horses that have endured the severe cold gallop and gallop. "Carry forward the Mongolian horse spirit and show the style of the Fourteenth Winter". The hard-working and indomitable Mongolian horse spirit runs through the preparation process of the "Fourteenth Winter" in Inner Mongolia, inspiring the Chinese people to move forward fearlessly.
In the situational dance of "Dream of Winter Snow", snowflakes fall and turn into fairies on the ice, dancing under the pure white moonlight. "Driving 300 million people to participate in ice and snow sports", China's commitment to hosting the Olympics has become a reality, enriching the Chinese people's sports concepts and methods, and the Olympic spirit of "faster, higher, stronger - more united" is stirring. Then on the stage, the ice puck flew in Hulunbuir, the "hometown of hockey", symbolizing China's spirit and ice and snow dream.
At the finale of the cultural and sports performance, students from Beijing Sport University recited "Ode to the Chinese Sports Spirit". "Win glory for the country, selfless dedication, science and truth, abiding by laws and regulations, unity and cooperation, tenacious struggle", the Chinese sports spirit is an important part of the Chinese spirit, and the new era has given new connotation to Chinese sports.
On February 17, the opening ceremony of the 14th National Winter Games was held at the Inner Mongolia Ice Sports Training Center in Hailar District, Hulunbuir City, Inner Mongolia. The picture shows Wu Dajing lighting the torch. Photo by China News Service reporter Cui Nan
At about 9:15, 14 Chinese youths of the new era, surrounded by torches, glided across the ice. The torch was handed over by martial arts Grand Slam winner Sun Peiyuan, snowboarder Peng Cheng, and Winter Youth Olympic champion Liu Yishan before being passed to the two-time Winter Olympics champion Wu Dajing.
At about 20 minutes, Wu Dajing lit a brazier in the shape of the "Fourteenth Winter" emblem in the speed skating stadium, achieving indoor and outdoor linkage through "digital and real integration". The virtual ice hockey players threw the flames like ice hockey into the outfield, blazing. The torch was then lit in the main torch tower located in the central open space of the Inner Mongolia Ice Sports Training Center.
The scenery of the North is covered in silver; the family and the country share the same dream, and China shares the same heart. At the end of the opening ceremony, the theme song "New Starting Point" played. The winter snow in northern Xinjiang is like a dream, and a "new starting point" for China's ice and snow is being drawn together. (over)