Hulunbuir, Xinhua News Agency, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- Igniting the light in my heart -- the "14th Winter" cauldron was lit.
Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhu Wenzhe.
Set foot in the holy snow country and sing melodious hymns. On February 17, the opening ceremony of the 14th National Winter Games was held in Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. In the first month of the Year of the Dragon, a grand event of ice and snow sports officially kicked off in the northern Xinjiang grassland.
At 8 o'clock in the evening, the opening ceremony of the "14th Winter" officially began in the speed skating hall of the Inner Mongolia Ice Sports Training Center. Outside the venue, the cauldron tower stands quietly.
The "14th Winter" cauldron tower inspired by Xiangyun and Hada is located in the square of the Inner Mongolia Ice Sports Training Center, with strong ethnic cultural characteristics and the surrounding three venues. The brazier of the uppermost hollow structure of the main torch tower has a diameter of 44 meters, decorated with national cultural patterns and matched with three auspicious clouds, set off the auspicious atmosphere. At the neck of the cauldron tower, the concentric circles evolved from the five Olympic rings are arranged upwards in turn, which not only reflects the Olympic spirit, but also expresses the determination of the people of Inner Mongolia to lift the sports flame.
To welcome the flame, Inner Mongolia is ready.
After the passionate recitation of "Ode to Chinese Sportsmanship", the "14th Winter" torch entered the venue surrounded by 14 young people of the new era who stepped on skates. The burning torch rises with courage, hard work, unity and friendship, stirs the enthusiasm and dreams of every athlete, and illuminates people's journey of pursuing excellence.
The torch was handed over to the first torchbearer, Asian Games champion Sun Peiyuan. He held the torch aloft, and the audience turned on the flash lights of their mobile phones and waved them. For a while, the opening ceremony seemed to become a "vast galaxy".
In the cheers of the audience, after the second torchbearer, snowboarder Peng Cheng and the third torchbearer, freestyle skier Liu Yishan, the fourth torchbearer, Winter Olympic champion Wu Dajing held the torch high, ran to the stage, and inserted the torch in his hand into the "Fourteenth Winter" emblem "Winter Rhyme". I saw the digital "flame" "flowing" in the "Rhyme of Winter", and finally "blended" with the stage to become a fiery red "ice hockey", which was hit by the digital "ice hockey players" to the cauldron outside the stadium.
At this moment, the flame of "14 Winters" was lit in northern Xinjiang, and the flower of dreams bloomed on the ice and snow.
We ignite the main cauldron through the method of 'blending data and reality' to realize the linkage between indoor and outdoor. Yang Rong, the chief director of the opening ceremony of the "14th Winter", said, "14 young athletes stepped on the skate blades and surrounded the torch on the real ice surface into the venue, combining the stage performance with the actual ice surface, which is not only the language of art, but also the display of sportsmanship, which is more in line with the spiritual inheritance of the "14th Winter" here and now." ”
The burning flame symbolizes the spirit of the Chinese nation that is endless, passed on from generation to generation, and also reflects the fighting momentum of athletes to live up to their time and continue to pass on the inheritance.
Wang Guifang, the torchbearer who participated in the 14th Winter Torch Relay, represented the Chinese team in the speed skating competition of the 14th Winter Olympics in 1984. "I was only 22 years old at the time, and 40 years have passed in the blink of an eye. The 62-year-old said that as an athlete of the older generation, she hopes to pass on her passion for ice and snow sports to the younger generation of athletes, so that they can chase their dreams on the field.
Look at the blazing flame, it not only ignites people's passion to participate in ice and snow sports, but also ignites the light of people's dreams of tomorrow in winter. (ENDS).