Chapter 85 Digital Torchbearer! Recreate the Qiantang Tide with Water as a Gift!
[Fuck! The government doesn’t care about our lives at all for its own benefit!]

[Shit! I'm going to protest. Who wants to join me?]

【I will go with you!】

【I am coming too! 】

Countless people gathered together and headed towards 10 Downing Street!
Similar demonstrations occurred in more than one country.

After the fireworks are over, there will be a Chinese-style welcoming performance.

Through the coordination of the floor screen and the three-dimensional perspective mesh curtain, and with the help of naked-eye 3D visual effects, the beautiful mountain and river scenery is brought to the stage!

Normally, the mesh screen is simply placed on the ground.

But in this Asian Games, China boldly put it in the air!
Each display screen is 5.28 meters wide and weighs 600 kilograms, and will change with the effect of the program!
It is 185 meters long and 20 meters high, equivalent to nine IMAXs!

It is also the largest net curtain in the world!

The opening performance, “Water-Moistened Autumn Glow”, uses water as a gift to invite guests from all over the world.

In the center of the stage, nineteen drums modeled after jade congs were beating violently, and the stage scene kept changing.

A jade bird flew across the sky, and its projection on the ground formed a window leading to Liangzhu.

The opening day of the Asian Games coincides with the autumn harvest of the twenty-four solar terms.

The cute golden mascot Cong Cong is inspired by the jade Cong unearthed from the ruins of the Liangzhu ancient city.

It symbolizes spring flowers and autumn fruits, and a good harvest.

It also carries China’s beautiful vision.

A round fan shape is outlined on the ground, symbolizing unity and friendship, and various Jiangnan elements emerge one by one.

Plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum are all elegant and auspicious, and the calligraphy fonts are elegant and timeless.

Then sweet osmanthus flowers bloomed, like falling golden lotuses, filling the ground with bright light.

Osmanthus is the city flower of Hangzhou, and it also symbolizes the story of winning the first prize. We hope that the athletes can win the championship and achieve good results.

Ink is used in poetry and painting, and brush is used to paint to create landscape paintings.

The mist and rain dye the south of the Yangtze River, elegant and graceful, and the ink painting scroll dances.

Water is the soul of Hangzhou and runs through the entire city.

It is the hazy mist, the water of West Lake, the Qiantang tide, and the Grand Canal from Beijing to Hangzhou that connects the past and the present and runs from north to south!

Connected by water, beautiful scenes appear on the screen one after another.

It displays the Chinese culture that was born from water, paints a poetic picture of the misty Jiangnan region, and evolves into turbulent ebbs and flows.

The dancers dance on the water and leap into the air with the help of wires, with the fastest flying speed reaching nearly four meters per second!

[Ward? These two people can actually fly! ]

[Is this Chinese acrobatics? ]

[Will they really not fall? They look very dangerous! ]

[Of course not. I train for more than ten hours every day. Practice makes perfect! And there are strict protection measures! ]

This season is a good time to watch the tide.

The Qiantang River tide was perfectly reproduced in the Asian Games venue!
The Qiantang tides, such as cross tide, one-line tide, returning tide and fish scale tide, rise and fall one after another.

Through the combination of naked-eye 3D and virtual reality technology, the Qiantang River tide is presented to everyone!

When the tide recedes, spectacular earth trees grow on the mudflats!
An ink painting scroll slowly unfolds.

This is the natural landscape of Qiantang River - tidal tree!

The ebb and flow of the tides, over and over again, with the water constantly washing and irrigating day and night, has created such a spectacle!
[I know this, this is called the Qiantang River Tide!] [I went to see it yesterday, but I stood too close and was almost swept away by the tide. Fortunately, I was pulled back by the locals!]

[I'm so jealous. I went to see it yesterday but didn't see it! ]

[This Qiantang River tide is really shocking! I didn't expect them to be able to reproduce it perfectly! ]

The opening of the Asian Games coincided with the high tide of the Qiantang River.

Many people have heard of the Qiantang River Tide and went to see it, but were unlucky and did not see it.

I didn’t expect that my dream would come true today!
Sitting in the closed venue, you can experience the Qiantang River tide firsthand!
When the tide came, Anna was so scared that she threw herself into Chen Lu's arms!
It seemed as if the tide was really going to crash down in the next second!

It’s so realistic!

"Silly, this is naked eye 3D, not the real Qiantang River tide."

Chen Lu smiled and touched her head, and Anna then stuck her head out.

The Gongchen Bridge represents half of the history of Hangzhou.

Gongchen Bridge, like West Lake, is also an important landmark building in Hangzhou.

With the help of holographic projection, Gongchen Bridge appears above the canal.

It connects the ancient times while leading to the modern times.

The life scenes on both sides of the ancient Hangzhou city are presented together with the modern scenes, forming a dialogue across ancient and modern times!

A poet in a long robe stepped slowly onto the bridge. No matter how far apart we are, we are still neighbors!
"Anna, do you want to participate in the lighting ceremony?" Chen Lu asked with a smile.

"The lighting ceremony? Aren't athletes selected by the country responsible for lighting the fire?"

Anna was very confused. Could ordinary people take part in lighting the torch at the Asian Games?
Chen Lu gave her an affirmative answer.

But other countries can't do that.

But in China, in Hangzhou, in this Asian Games, everyone can light the Olympic flame!

Everyone is a torchbearer!
Chen Lu helped Anna and Sophia register an Asian Games account each.

"You can pinch a face, pick a name, and then you can participate in the lighting of the sacred flame!"

Anna did as she was told, and saw a little man holding a torch jumped out!
"Wow, so amazing!"

The Asian Games in Hangzhou broke the convention that only one person could light the Olympic flame.

Let everyone participate!

The organizing committee has extended an invitation to netizens from all over the world, hoping that they will participate in the first digital ignition ceremony.

This is true not only for the lighting of the torch, but also for the torch relay process.

When the Asian Games completed the collection at the Liangzhu ancient city ruins, the world's first online torch relay event using blockchain technology was launched simultaneously!
In the ink-and-wash space full of Jiangnan charm, people pass the digital torch in their hands to the next person.

This is the real Asian Games for all people!

Using AI technology, we have captured motions tens of thousands of times and drawn hundreds of thousands of design drawings!

Through the coordination of face pinching, motion capture and costume design, the number of possible images of the virtual torchbearer has reached two trillion!

Truly unique, with thousands of faces for thousands of people!
Internet users from over 130 countries around the world participated as virtual torchbearers, with a total number of over 100 million people!

The oldest is 98 years old and the youngest is 12 years old. This is truly an Asian Games for all the people!

Finally, it’s the most exciting moment of lighting!

One by one, virtual torchbearers appeared on the surface of Qiantang River!

They will light the Olympic flame together with the last torchbearer!
When the torchbearers in the real world started running, those in the virtual world also started running together.

These hundreds of millions of virtual torchbearers turned into small dots of light and quickly combined together to form a tall virtual torchbearer image!
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