【正文】 think many people are really so surprised that he decided to e here, and I think his decision is less think he probably made the personal decision that he wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to e here, to see this and to be a part of the ceremony, regardless of anyone thinks back at Edwards: This is how the Games of the 29th Olympiad are drummers are beating the countdown in a way that has never been drummers themselves are producing remarkable electrifying Barker: These are the full drums calling up the ancestor 4000 years old, 2008 of t Edwards: They are waiting for the signal, for the final countdown that Beijing has been waiting for seven minute to Edwards: The Bird?s Nest stadium is filled by energy of these drummers with thevery precise message Barker: message is from Confucius saying two and half thousand years old.“Friends e from the happy we are!”Huw Edwards: This is the bird?seye view across the centre of fireworks are creating burning footprints all the way from the Tian?anmen Square, up the central axis, to the Olympic Green and the neo National Barker: So much resonance to the imperial China Confucius, who of course was taboo during the years of the revolution, now is back in are these imperial accesses right through the Forbidden City, and all the identifying marks of five thousand years of the united imperial Edwards: There will be twenty thousand fireworks used for doing this opening ceremony, and the dust creates the Olympic rings represent the five continents, the symbol of Olympic unity, unity of mankind in Barker: You can see the performers suspended, floating through the air and ing down from the huge wires attached to the roof of this is worth mentioning is this is a kind of 21stcentury takeon of Buddhist figures you find on the walls of caves of is the reference to China?s huge northwestern Tang Dynasty spread of the Silk Edwards: The rings, which are magically made of dust, now somehow raise in this stadium, indicating the arrival of the Olympics in Gracie: The genius behind this very original opening ceremony, Zhang Yimou, is very much back in a way, he is the story of contemporary told us the other day that he wanted this ceremony to say to the world: romance, Edwards: What he also says is that China is very proud of its 5000 years of civili is not afraid to modernize.(After the raising of Chinese national flag)Another spectacular display of fireworks, not just over the Olympic Stadium but over the red flag flutters inside the national the red flag saying something about Chinese history as well, Carrie?Carrie Gracie: Well, yes, because that?s about what all we are going to say about Chinese Communism in this opening five stars on the flag signify the unity of the country and the leadership of Chinese Communist we are going to say about a lot more of this kind of images, the traditional, the calligraphy, the culture, the sophistication of ancient Edwards: ?s now going to happen is that we are going to enjoy different phases of Chinese history, different aspects of Chinese culture, some of them quieter, some of them on a very big clever is the way they led us from the little film introducing the theme of the scroll to this actual scroll, which is on the floor of this measures at least 25 meters in width and the length covers the entire length of the arena itself, so believe me, it is this would be the canvas on which lot of tableaus will be Gracie: We are going to say that the wash painting developed in China during the Tang begin, artist puts a few drops of water on ink stone, grinds the ink in circular motion, and then paints with a brush made of wolf hair or horse Edwards: While the painting goes on, the stream of cultural icons of Chinese historical progress flows on the painting scroll cleverly Gracie: This is the Guchin, the ancient sevenstringed instrument we hear at the same are going to see many of Chinese instruments during the course of this opening ceremony, and this is one of the most harmonious to Chinese the whole theme of this ceremony is Edwards: The Guchin, as Chinese say, has a history of three thousand years, and they claim it is the oldest pluck instrument in the ?m sure there will be other views on that, but this is the claim being Gracie: These are ?the three thousand disciples? of Confucius, whether he really had three thousand, no matter, but certainly he does in this they chant is “All those within four seas can be considered as brothers” from The Analects, Confucius?s most famous Edwards: They are holding bamboo slips, a kind of books with scripts carved on the stringed bamboo , the energy created by these men inside this stadiumis three thousand disciples of Confucius are celebrating learning, celebrating Chinese philosophy, and that learning of course takes the forms of books and paper, and of what we are going to see – the printed Gracie: Confucius had the habit of speaking truth to the power when in and out of favor.– Here we have the example of the first movable type system, which was created here in China, out of ceramic blocks, around 1041 was in 1450s for Europe to introduce what generally regarded as the independent invention of moveable type, and that was created by Germany?s Johannes see here the evolution of one character, one special character which holds the clues to everything else this character is “he”, and it means type began in the Sui Dynasty in the sixth Sheng, in the Song Dynasty, improved the matter by making clay types and Chinese school child is told that the movable type is one of the greatest inventions of ancient Chinese civilization, along with the gun powder, the paper, and the is the modern character “he”, the one that you will see written in China Edwards: Peach blossoms, romantic and enjoyable, demonstrating the sweetness，peace and love in Chinese people.第二篇：北京奧運會開幕式解說詞閉幕式解說詞第一節(jié)：相聚一、引子浩瀚宇宙，星移斗轉，200名鼓陣表演