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奥林匹克运动会是一项国际体育盛事，世界一流的运动员们参与到各种夏季和冬季运动竞赛中。我陶醉于奥林匹克运动会，因为我喜欢看人们是如何不断超越自身体能极限的。我最爱的奥林匹克盛事的部分，就是开幕式。开幕式是奥林匹克运动会的第一项内容，也是奥林匹克最主要的文化价值来源，它会吸引到来自全球大量的观众，主办国也借此获得了向世界展示本国文化新视角的机会。

传统希腊文化强调运动、教育和文化的平衡，因此，国际奥委会要求主办国从开幕式到闭幕式都要融合进这三种思想。显然，对于运动员来说他们的主要目标是赢取奖牌，但对于主办国来说，赢得这场盛会意味着要努力构建其文化价值。首个官方文化项目开始于1912年瑞典奥林匹克运动会。在那里艺术家们像运动员们一样为了奖牌而比拼。然而，针对艺术作品的问题和评价持续增加，从1956年起，这个项目慢慢的消减了。直到1992年，巴塞罗那引入了“文化的奥林匹克盛会”的观念，各国才开始将奥林匹克开幕式作为展示本国文化的舞台。

The Olympic Games are an international sports event in which world class athletes participate in a variety of summer and winter sports competitions. I am fascinated by the Olympics because I like to see how human beings push the physical boundaries further over time. My favourite part of the Olympics is the Opening Ceremony. The Opening Ceremony is the first event of the Games and ‘the main source of Olympic cultural value production’, (Garcia, 2012:23) offering the host country an opportunity to put forward a new vision of its culture to the world, as it attracts the largest number of audiences across the globe.[1]

With the traditional Greek concept of the balance between ‘the body (sport), mind (education) and soul (culture)’ (Garcia, 2012:24) the International Olympic Committee (IOC) requires the host country to ‘blend’ the three ideas during the Olympic Games – from the Opening to Closing Ceremonies. Obviously, for athletes their main aim is to win medals, however, for the host country, to win the Games is to ‘focus on constructing the cultural values of the event.’ (Garcia, 2012:22) The first official cultural programme was introduced in the Sweden Olympics 1912. There were the fine-arts categories where artists, like athletes, competed for medals. Yet, as problems with judgement on artworks continued to rise, from 1956 onwards, the program began to diminish.[2] Until 1992, when Barcelona introduced the idea of a Cultural Olympiad, countries began to use the Olympics Opening Ceremony as an event to present their national identity and culture.

The aim of this dissertation is to find out which cultural values were ‘blended’ into the Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony. I have one research objective,to discover how China uses the Opening Ceremony to represent its country.The main body of this dissertation is structured in five parts. In order to provide a sense of direction, each part is briefly explained.

history of Chinese Culture introduces the three main Chinese belief systems, Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism, and explains how Chinese culture changes from learning to creativity.The Welcome Ceremony explicates why the ceremony began on 8th August 2008, 8:08pm.Artistic Section: The Four Great Inventions refers to paper making, printing, compass, and gunpowder. This part reveals some important ancient Chinese inventions including the Silk R本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。