Olympic Culture
From En.2008
The design of the Cultural Festival Symbol shows a human being and a lantern dancing joyfully. Lantern is used at every traditional Chinese festival. It symbolizes reunion and other happy occasions, and assembles the soul of the traditional Chinese culture. The Beijing Olympic Cultural Festival is also one of the predominant cultural celebrations of mankind. The whole country is rejoiced at the occasion, while Beijing is decorated with lanterns and streamers to welcome guests from elsewhere.
Olympic Cultural Festival
The 5th Beijing 2008 Olympic Cultural Festival drew to a close with a rousing chorus of an Olympic song honoring Games volunteers Sunday evening in the Olympic City. This year's festival is the last one prior to the the Games of the XXIX Olympiad next August 2008.
| Cultural Festivals Review | ||
| The Olympic Cultural Festival, held once a year form 2005 - 2008, combines sports and cultural activities such as mass sports, discussion forums, cultural performances, etc. to spread the Olympic spirit and Olympic culture. The goal of the Cultural Festival is to introduce the unique characteristics of Beijing and China to the world by exploiting Beijing's advantages and using all other resources available. |  The Fourth Festival |  The Third Festival |
 The Second Festival |  The First Festival | |
Opening and Closing Ceremonies
A total of 199 talented artists and technicians joined the operation center of the opening and closing ceremonies for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on Friday.
Ceremonies
199 join ceremonies' operation center (photos attached)(2007-07-24)
Beijing tries to dispel rain for Olympic opening ceremony (photo attached)(2007-07-20)
Olympic Opening ceremony tickets getting hot (photo attached)(2007-06-21)
Rehearsals for Opening Ceremony of 2008 Olympic Games to begin in Aug.(2007-06-12)
BOCOG invites opinions on Opening Ceremony (photos attached)(2007-04-14)
Beijing Olympics director inspired by Doha Asiad opening ceremony(2006-12-01)
Song Solicitation
Theme song for the one-year countdown released (photos attached)[2007-08-04]
Official promotional song launched for Beijing's Olympic Countdown[2007-08-04]
Making the Olympic more harmonious[2007-08-03]
We Are Ready is ready! (photos attached)[2007-07-31]
Singing for the Olympics (photos attached)(2007-07-27)
Olympic Songfest campus series debuts(2007-06-21)
