Chapter 108: Opening Ceremony

On the first of May, the weather was clear and cloudless. At about eight o'clock in the morning, all the school team members from Xiuzhou City stayed in the Xingfa Hotel, and at eight o'clock they all gathered in the open space in front of the hotel, and then under the personal leadership of Vice Mayor Xu Guanghua, they got on the bus and set off towards the Provincial People's Gymnasium.

This year's Provincial Games, naturally Xiuzhou City over the years to pay the most attention to the one, Xiuzhou City from the eight subordinate counties and cities to select a group of sports top students, the formation of nearly 100 people of the talent team, can be said to be unprecedented. Among the nearly 100 participating teams, Xiuzhou Middle School accounted for more than one-third, and there were more than 30 participants, especially the big singer Chen Feng. As the general leader of the Xiuzhou City team, Xu Guanghua naturally attaches great importance to Chen Feng. Last night, I took the time to come to Chen Feng's room, visited him, and said some words of encouragement and cheering to Chen Feng before leaving.

Xiuzhou Municipal Government for this session of the whole body games, it can be said that some money, free of charge to the participating students issued two sets of specially customized Li Ning sportswear, and allowed to keep after the game, in the past, the sportswear of the athletes, either the school pays, or the athletes themselves pay the money, it is rare that the city government pays in full this time, and also gives two sets.

At half past eight, the Provincial People's Gymnasium, which can accommodate 18,000 people, was full, and many of the spectators were long fans who came from abroad, in addition to yellow-skinned people, there were also many black-skinned and white-skinned people, and they were basically in groups, all of them wore a white T-shirt with Chen Feng's portrait printed on the front and the word "Long" on the back, and they also held "Long, come on!" Before the opening ceremony began, this group of people began to sing and dance, holding slogans and shaking, which added a little bit of the atmosphere of the competition to this year's games.

On the backstage screen, the curtain of the "3rd Donghai Provincial Middle School Student Games" is wide and eye-catching. The square in front of the stage is the venue for today's opening ceremony theatrical performance. Colorful flags are fluttering around, and dozens of painting signs promoting sports are placed, like a long corridor, dazzling.

The scene can be said to be colorful flags fluttering, gongs and drums in the sky, sheng trumpets sounding in unison, people are boiling, everyone is immersed in a sea of joy.

"Distinguished guests, leaders, teachers, students: welcome to the venue of the opening ceremony of the third middle school sports meeting in Donghai Province, celebrate the grand and warm opening ceremony, and see the wonderful scenes of the athletes in major schools in Donghai Province, and feel the fruitful results of physical education and teaching in Donghai Province......" The narrator in the radio speaker began to understand, "With the strong support of superior leaders and all walks of life, the scale of this province's middle school sports meeting is unprecedented...... The purpose of holding the Donghai Provincial Middle School Student Games is to effectively implement the requirements of the physical education syllabus of the State Education Commission, people-oriented, physical fitness, unity and progress, and create brilliant concepts and the Olympic spirit of "higher, faster, stronger", and at the same time reproduce the style of the times of the major middle schools in our province......"

The narrator at the scene came to an end. At 9 o'clock in the morning, Liu Yanqing, state councilor and vice secretary of the Donghai Provincial CPC Committee, who was seated on the rostrum, personally announced the opening of the current Donghai Provincial Games for Middle School Students in a loud voice! Sun Jihua, minister of education, delivered a speech: "Enhancing the physical fitness of young people and promoting their healthy growth is a major matter that has a bearing on the future of the country and the nation. The party and the government have always attached great importance to youth sports work and are concerned about the healthy growth of young people. The holding of this National Games in Donghai Province is a concrete embodiment of the implementation of the central government's requirements to strengthen the building of spiritual civilization, an important measure to comprehensively implement the party's education policy and further promote education, and also a centralized review of school sports work in Donghai Province in recent years. Educational administrative departments and schools at all levels should regard the strengthening of school physical education as an important breakthrough and a powerful starting point for the comprehensive implementation of education, extensively carry out sunshine sports for hundreds of millions of students across the country, and form a good atmosphere in which young students love sports, advocate sports, and are healthy and progressive. ”

Zhang Xian, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Zhang Qiang, Vice Governor, and Chen Xiaodong, Director of the Propaganda Department of the Provincial Party Committee, attended the opening ceremony.

Fluttering flags, joyful crowds, brilliant lights, brilliant fireworks, the sports center that can accommodate nearly 20,000 spectators is instantly immersed in the ocean of youth and passion.

This year's Donghai Provincial Central School Games is the first provincial comprehensive student sports meeting held after the previous Donghai Provincial Middle School Games was successfully held in 1998, and it is also the most competitive events and participating students in the history of the Donghai Provincial Middle School Games. There are 8 competitions in this year's Games, including track and field, swimming, basketball, volleyball, football, table tennis, martial arts, and aerobics. All cities in Donghai Province sent an unprecedented delegation to participate, with more than 1,000 athletes participating. Including leaders of national ministries and commissions, members of delegations, central journalists, members of provincial and municipal observation groups, as well as dozens of foreign news media, the total scale is about 5,000 people.

After the leaders of the rostrum delivered speeches, the opening ceremony began in the real sense. A large-scale cultural and sports performance began on the square, and the commentator began to explain diligently. There are a total of seven performance themes, namely "Flying Youth", "Talent Gathering", "Wonderful Martial Arts", "Beautiful Dreams", "Yue Opera Song and Dance", "East China Sea Charm", and "Flying Hope".

"Youthful and energetic. Look! They are coming! They are from the performance team of Yongzhou No. 1 Middle School, the red flag in their hands is waving soundly, waving in the wind, and the steps under their feet are firm and powerful, and the momentum is extraordinary. One column after another, stepping on the rhythm of youth, from simplicity to abundance, they express their inner joy with uniform movements, showing the infinite brilliance of youth. The red flags, bright and dazzling, that is not a red flag, that is the red elf, that is the burning youth, that is the fiery dance of life. The surging of youth is unstoppable, and the pace of progress is sonorous and powerful. Spring and Autumn Generation, dreams and success are close at hand, so that every bit of joy is plated with colorful colors. Through trials and hardships, the firm persistence of ideals and beliefs has shown a brilliant dawn for every enterprising. Sweat-soaked clothes, courage and wisdom are intertwined and fused, giving every face a calm smile. The morning glow is clear, the morning fog is boundless, the blue sea is vast on the way forward, the mountains are undulating, the students have been running along the sunshine all the way, the strength is condensed here, and the youth is flying here. Hand in hand, heart to heart, shoulder to shoulder with the blue sky on your shoulder. Slowly rotating in the same direction, each circular trajectory is a round of rising sun, each round of the sun is the glory of the condensation of the power of unity, the young heart with no regrets of youth to write hope, everyone believes, where there is a dream, you can let yourself spread your wings high. ”

The talent show is mainly performed by the students' talents such as piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, etc., which reminds Chen Feng of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games a few years later, and there is actually a bit of a copycat.

The theme of "The Wonders of Martial Arts", Chinese martial arts, with a long history and a broad mass base, is a valuable cultural heritage gradually accumulated by the Chinese nation in the long-term life and struggle practice. Wushu is known as the "legend of flow", which traces the history of martial arts and has a long history. "South fist and north leg, Chinese miracle skills", bows, horses, servants, empty, resting, jumping and jumping;

The sword is the "king of a hundred blades", the sword is the head of the weapon, the gun is the "king of a hundred soldiers", and the "stick is ethereal and varied"; and the martial arts "train the spirit and spirit inside, and train the muscles, bones and skin outside" to fully display the spirit and spirit of contemporary middle school students. Sanda is the essence of Chinese martial arts, with a unique national style, which originated from the production and labor and survival struggle of the ancestors, and has evolved into a treasure in the splendid cultural heritage of the Chinese nation. In Sanda, students are trained to be witty, tenacious, brave, flexible, decisive and other willpower.

The flow of the circle reflects the subtlety and wisdom of the Chinese people, which is the cultural accumulation that stretches up and down for 5,000 years, and is the ultimate embodiment of the spirit of Chinese martial arts.

From the running circle constitutes the figure of Tai Chi Bagua, which contains the spirit of heaven and earth of Chinese civilization, "Tianxingjian, the gentleman should be self-improving; "Classmate Cha is young, in his prime, self-cultivation sincerity, and invigorating spirits!!

This is the spirit of sportsmanship, the pursuit of individual perfection and the transcendence of skills, perennial perseverance, perseverance, perseverance, perseverance, perseverance, perseverance and perseverance. In this move, students are cultivated to be diligent, hard-working, resolute and tenacious.

Chinese martial arts, evergreen, have exercised the body of young people, honed the will of young people, revealed the soul of sports, wrote a glorious history, sounded the horn of this Universiade, and stimulated the infinite enthusiasm of athletes!

In Chen Feng's opinion, the martial arts performances on this theme are very interesting, but what he doesn't know is that the students of these performances are people from a famous martial arts school in the province, which are private in nature, and according to the national conditions, they are not real public middle school students. What's even less known is that this martial arts school has done a lot of public relations in private in order to win the opportunity to perform in this provincial Chinese Games, so they have carried out strict training for these participating students for more than a month behind closed doors, so that it has the current effect.

After the martial arts performance, it quickly moved on to the theme of "beautiful dreams".

From the thick and deep Chinese martial arts to the lively and lovely umbrella gymnastics performance, today's students have walked through their innocent and lively childhood, with the beautiful dream of "studying for the rise of China", and have grown up vigorously. The small umbrella that rotates, the flowers of the motherland, accompanied by the melodious melody and the drumbeat of the times, they are bathed in the bright sunshine and spread their wings towards tomorrow and the future. From the lively and brisk pace, we see the endless hope of the Chinese nation.

The bright smiling face is sincerely wishing the athletes to carry forward the sportsmanship of "faster, higher, stronger", realize the sports dream of "cleaner, more humane and more united", surpass themselves in the arena, move forward bravely, strengthen confidence, and fight the wind and waves!

Under the sunshine and rain in the new era, they grow up healthy and happy, from innocent children to the pride of the sky, they are the hope of the motherland, the sustenance of the society, in response to the call of the school, exercise from an early age, and love sports. In the near future, running, jumping, and throwing will be the portrayal of their vitality, and moving and jumping will be the epitome of their physical fitness. The small umbrella that rotates is like a bud, flying dreams under the care of the motherland, rushing to the field under the inspiration of ideals, the stars rising in China are the tide of the stadium that shines on the stage, and the flowers of the future of the motherland are the pillars of optimus that hold up the hope of tomorrow!

At this time, the performance team on the field put out the geographical pattern of Donghai Province, symbolizing the ancient and charming East China Sea, the beautiful East China Sea, today we gather here together, together into a happy ocean, ideal wings take off here, the torch of hope is lit here, the main theme of the times inspires us to grow!

After the very visual umbrella drill performance, the performance "Yue Opera Song and Dance" with typical local characteristics began.

Many great nations in the world have an elegant and exquisite performing art, which profoundly expresses the spirit and voice of that nation. The Greeks had tragedy, the Italians had opera, the Russians had ballet, and the British had Shakespearean plays. These are often a source of pride and self-confidence for their nation. And we have too much Yale in China, so much that people don't cherish it, for example, the typical representative is Peking Opera, and every other province has almost every provincial opera, and the representative opera of Donghai Province and Yale is Yue Opera. It has been passed down for thousands of years.

After the end of the Yue Opera song and dance performance, which is very representative of local culture, it is a very large-scale group exercise "Donghai Shen Yun", and more than 600 students participated in the performance, from the provincial standardized school - Hezhou City Middle School High School. The dancing posture and harmonious melody of the Tongguò teenagers show the simple, vigorous, dignified and elegant charm of the East China Sea.

The first red silk dance began, graceful figures, dancing lightly, 280 girls holding red silk, with brisk steps, meandering in. The 28 teams of girls holding colorful silk are discharged, their steps are light, the flowers are vibrant, and they exude the fragrance of *. They are like the rising sun, thriving, dancing the arms of the times. Girls are full of youthful power, calling on us to start from now on, love life, and pay attention to health. The silk dance embodies fiery emotions, singing and dancing bathed in pleasant sunshine. The red silk fluttering is surging with passion, expressing our enthusiasm and welcoming teachers and students. The circle is just like ripples, with affection, and tenderness is like water. The red silk flutters, like the faint melancholy of youth, and the soft posture of the girl seems to take us to appreciate the splendor of spring, the brightness of summer, the depth of autumn, and the solemnity of winter. The melodious melody symbolizes the long journey of physical education in Donghai Province over the years, and the education of Donghai Province has experienced wind and rain, sunshine, growth and glory together.

The melodious music plays a fresh melody, and the light dance is accompanied by a beautiful movement. Red silk is like a burning flame, like a bright smile, athletes, students, to create a great cause of construction, and then show their true passion.

The six phalanx are just like the red ocean, like the waves, like the flames, one by one the young girls full of youthful vitality wave the red silk in their hands, shining, it is the brilliant sunshine shining in the clear sky, and the competition is beautiful, and like thousands of gorgeous flowers blooming delicate and beautiful.

The girls on the field lined up and eighteen small crosses, the cross is like a lilac, affectionate, in the sunny day, they grasp the success, in the flying first blooming flower season, enthusiastically swaying the dream of youth.

At this time, the commentator in the loudspeaker also said enthusiastically: "We are moved, for the province's sports industry to experience the baptism of eventful years; we are proud, for our province's sports workers have a mind of all rivers; we are proud, for the province's sports industry for many years of vigorous development, we imagine, for our province's sports industry to run towards a more brilliant tomorrow......"

The red silk dance of these girls came to an end, followed by the red flag dance of the boys, and the red silk of the girls. Masculine, feminine beauty, sincere students, full of strength, magnificent melody, surging passion. to form a magnificent and colorful picture.

In the last part of the "Hope for School", thousands of students in the square gathered together and released the white dove of peace in their hands, and of course, countless colorful balloons, the scene was as grand as it was. Let Chen Feng, who has seen some of the world, also be a little dizzy, very surprised, not to mention some students who have not watched a large-scale competition before, and some foreigners who came specially to make such a grand and breathtaking middle school sports meeting in a province of China, it can be said that in a certain way, the Donghai Provincial Government has greatly raised its national prestige and made a face for its own country in front of foreign friends. In their country, it is basically impossible to hold such a large opening ceremony in parliament, and if someone passes the budget, they will be impeached and accused of wasting taxpayers' money. In China, the public basically does not have the self-consciousness or concept of taxpayers, and they all think that the money belongs to the government anyway, and they don't spend my money, and they don't feel distressed, but they don't know that the government spends your money, but many people don't realize this.

"Every bird wants to soar in the clear sky, however, the sun is not always so bright, the sky is not always so wide, and the road of life is full of difficulties and bumps. We are young people in the new era, the masters of the future, moving forward bravely, guarding hope, let us spread our wings and soar in a brilliant tomorrow with our best wishes for this Universiade......"

After the group cultural performance, the next procedure is the entrance ceremony of the sports teams of Donghai Province.

First, four flag bearers led the entry team into the venue with bright red flags in their hands. The venue resounded with the stirring "March of the Athletes".

The male and female commentators exchanged ideas and began an enthusiastic explanation: "The red symbol of the national flag symbolizes **, the national flag symbolizes the great unity of the Chinese people of all ethnic groups, the national flag represents the motherland, and the national flag walks in front of the big team, indicating the patriotic feelings of contemporary middle school students who put the motherland first." No matter where you go, when you see the five-star red flag, you can't help but feel a solemn and sacred patriotic feeling: I belong to the five-star red flag and belong to China. Adding color to the national flag, the majesty of the country, the glory of the national flag, and the glory of the motherland are the most noble responsibilities and spiritual realms of our middle school students. ”

Behind the national flag team came the emblem phalanx of the Donghai Provincial Central Games, and then the various teams.

The drum and bugle corps is composed of a certain junior high school student in the provincial capital, and it looks majestic and high-spirited; the colorful flag corps, with 50 colored flags fluttering in the wind, red like fire, pink like xia, yellow like clouds, and blue like tide. Colorful, festive and warm; wreath streamer team, composed of 90 female students, they hold colorful flowers, wreaths to the sports meeting, streamers are written "develop sports, enhance people's physique"; flowers, symbolize beauty, rings, imply unity, this is the meaning of our sports meeting, the smiling faces of young girls are more brilliant than spring flowers, full of warm smiles to the guests, teachers and classmates participating in the sports meeting; dragon team, a long dragon like a mist and clouds flipped and flew across the rostrum. The dragon and phoenix are auspicious, adding to the festive atmosphere of the games. The dragon dancer is the students of a vocational school in the provincial capital, all of them are full of vitality, the tiger and the dragon are blended, and they are full of youthful vitality. The dragon symbolizes China, the descendants of the dragon have become a great nation in the world, and have been respected by the world, and the spirit of the dragon and horse is the spirit of the times of our Chinese nation.

After the referee's team walked by, it was finally the turn of the athlete teams from various cities in Donghai Province to enter the field.

The first to appear was of course the Qiantang City athlete team where the provincial capital is located, and at its own main venue, it naturally attracted the warmest applause from the audience.

The number of their team is also the largest among the teams, with more than 230 athletes, more than double the number of participants in the previous edition. In addition to the administrative order issued by the superiors, the main reason is that this session of the Chinese Games is unusual, it is to be broadcast live at home and abroad, as the representative team of the provincial capital of Donghai Province, the big brother of each city, of course, hopes to win the most championships in this sports meeting, to save the face of his big brother, otherwise, it will be a big loss at home and abroad. Therefore, occupying the political advantage, their representative team is a lot more than other cities in terms of numbers, so that the other city teams dare not speak out, and the number of their representatives is limited.