Study On Multi-Culture And Its Value In Olympic Opening Ceremonies

In recent years,with the social, political, economic development, the advancement of technology and electronics industry, and the rapid development of information industry like the typical representative-the information highway, people's lives show a more profound cultural significance. The exchanges and integrations of eastern and western cultures lead the culture in to a multi-cultural structure field where human and nature, tradition and modernity, local and world blending and contradicting with each other. The Olympic Games opening ceremony, as one of the human cultural achievements,is consequently on its way to multi-culture in the context of the diversification.With the successful closing of the 29th Olympic Games Beijing 2008,post-Olympic era is approaching.The multi-cultural form and content in the opening ceremony draw more people's attention.Besides, study on the value of multiculturalism in the Olympic opening ceremony has become the focus of the Olympic cultural. In the new century, the Olympic movement, once promoted in ancient Greece by Renaissance humanism and renaissance, needs to re-examine their own development through the multi-cultural perspective.The Olympic opening ceremonies need more multi-cultural enrichment.What is the historical process of the Olympics opening ceremony cultural development? What is its forming background and reason? What are the characteristics of each stage? What is the value of the process from simplistic culture to multi-culture the process?Based on all the previous Summer Olympics,this paper will make a description on the origin of the Olympic opening ceremonies,the blend of Eastern and Western cultures, and the collision, exchange and development between cultures in different times.Under the guidance of historical materialism and through various methods like literature review, unification of history and logic,experts' advice and case analysis, this paper analyses the multi-culture in the Olympics opening ceremonies and its value, and in-depth explore the ancient Olympic ritual ceremony influenced by the religion of the ancient Greece. From the perspective of History and Philosophy, this paper additionally analyses the Olympic opening ceremonies in different historical periods.Vertically, the Olympic opening ceremonies are divided into ancient and modern ones with the history as the basic point. A deep analysis of the origin, the background and religious influence of the ancient Olympic Games is provide and the cultural development process of Modern Olympic Games is divided into three major periods: new-born imitation period, embryo development period and then multi-cultural period.This study suggests that the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games is not dedicated sports culture or just a festival to meet the visual arts.Today's Olympic opening ceremony is the demonstration of the host country culture as well as different ethnic cultures in the context of globalization, and it embodies the humanistic values,social values and historical values,etc.meanwhile, Its culture also contains the philosophy, aesthetics,literature, history, religion and many other subjects.For instance, simple clothing actors dress is a kind of culture.From the simple religious ritual ceremonies in ancient Greece to the present diverse, international,scientific opening ceremony, the formation of this cultural diversity has experienced a long history of sedimentation.The cultural development is realized through the constant cultural collision and integration of different states,races and disciplines,and this culture will be more diversified over time.