【正文】 er the Industrial of her national “British manners”, the ceremony presented in London presented a kind of relaxed and personality two Opening Ceremonies have no unified each of them blends with the host country’s culture to form its unique The time clues reflect in cultural differences between Chinese andEnglish Classical Culture Both China and Britain have their own historical and cultural symbols which make contribution to their countries or people more or these two Opening Ceremonies, they mixed their representative events with the artistic elements and then presented perfectly to the Four Great Inventions of Ancient China and the Industrial Revolution in the westPrinting, the pass, gunpowder and papermaking are the four great inventions of ancient are signs of Chinese ancient Beijing’s opening ceremony, people can see the Four Great Inventions in many programs, which have had significant impact in people39。s daily the beginning of the ceremony, colorful fireworks bloomed sequentially along Beijing39。s northsouth axis, which showing the symbol of the 29th Olympic Games by 29 huge Four Great Inventions are magically showed to people with music(Pacific Heritage tone).Though a short video, the ceremony shows the papermaking to the , is about “prints”.In the performance, the prints are like a modern puter keyboards which are ups and appeared in the “Silk Road” program, the actors waved pass like to show people the the London Olympic Opening Ceremony, it is a symbol of the United Kingdom turn into the Industrial Revolution when the bucolic replaced by the tall this moment, the artists are dressed as the reapers, mine workers, steel workers and engineers showing the real Britain where the workshop of the world this stage, there are a lot of inventions which have affected our lives until today, including toilet, flatscreen printing.(Chimneys appeared in the early 18th centuries, and many child laborers’ first job was to clean the , the tallest chimney was built in Northern Ireland which is 138 meters tall, but later more and more chimneys taller than that one.)At the ceremony scene, the music goes to climaxes, and the audience could feel the vibration sense brought from the center of the field, the chimneys began to the fourth chimney rises up, which marking the Industrial Revolution is ing and its influence is the scene, it is full of smoke with six chimneys which may show people an industrialized typical Industrial Revolution brought great changes to the quiet rural Industrial Revolution changed the world, and has farreaching impacts on the Silk Road and the River Culture The ancient Silk Road can be classified into the Sea Road and Overland Silk Road is an important economic and cultural channel between the East and the of the Road, Chinese culture has bee worldfamous and brought lot of Western culture to years ago, Chinese caravan with precious silk, started their trip from Chang39。an(now Xi39。an), passed the Hexi Corridor, and arrived Central Asia, West Asia, and linked the Mediterranean the performance, the “Marine Silk Road“ put on the stage, which is a marine traffic route between China and the rest of the those days, Zheng He went to western countries by the performance called ”Silk Road“ showing the friendship between ancient China and other friendly make friends to each other, learn from each other and help each could see: after the calm, the long scrolls appear the Chinese specialtyporcelain and of the large ceramic exports, Maritime Silk Road also known as the Ceramic Road on the huge paddles seem to be bringing audience thoughts from a variety of popular inland into an the paddles connected with the ancient navigators’ Maritime Silk Road was the traffic trade and cultural exchanges sea lanes between ancient China and this moment, the stadium appears the Monstrous waves on the paddles paddle paddler in the storm, and Wrestle with the rapids, which reflecting the courage and wisdom of Chinese people to challenge the , the scroll turns into a boundless desert and Dunhuang dancers in the desert leading people to begin a friendship turn to the beginning of London’s Opening Ceremony, people could see the Big Ben, the London Eye, Tower Bridge, the Olympic Park and London bowl from west to east along the River the same time people heard the Eton boating song and felt peting spirits that the sports delegation elite wanted to plays a very important role in Britain historyShe is the mother river in with other major rivers on the planet, she is not longest, but the place she flows is the cultural essence of other words, Thames nurtured the brilliant civilization of London39。s main buildings are mostly located on both sides of the River Thames, especially those old buildings and statues which has a hundred years, or even three to four hundred years’ as, the statue of Nelson naval mander in chief, the Westminster church, 39。s Cathedral, the Tower of London, and London buildings through the vicissitudes of life even the baptism from World War II, but they remained the inherent appearance, until today still used by like Britain politician John Burns said: “The Thames is the most beautiful rivers in the world, because it is a flow of history.” Thames’ estuary is full of merchant ships, however, the upper reaches of the river is known as its Silk Road and the River Thames are not what we think of are symbols of culture and are a carrier of culture, which gave birth to the two opening ceremonies put this kind of culture carriers onto the big screen, and show the cultural origins of the two , they have to bring a lot of benefits on material and financial, but their inherent cultural value would be a Demeanors Green Olympics, Humanities Olympics and Technology Olympics are the three concepts of the Beijing Olympic Green Olympics’ connotation is a concept of sustainable development that is to protect the environment, conserve resources, and pr