Olympic Cultural Development And Change

Beijing time on August 8 , 2008 is allotted at 20:08, carrying the expectations of 1.3 billion chinese people, the Beijing Olympic Games has finally begun at National Stadium. As the International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge has said - "This is a moving and unforgettable opening ceremony, Beijing Olympic Games as well as imagination, creativity and vitality of praise." This event a tremendous impact on China, it far-reaching significance, is immeasurable. Successful 2001 Olympic bid in the moment, the current Olympic Games, or even longer historical period, it will of our country's sports, economic, political, cultural, and other far-reaching impact.In the long river of human history, the activities of the world are rich and varied, however, since ancient times, in the duration, scale, as well as the symbolic embodiment of the lofty ideas and deep cultural connotation, almost no activity can comparable with the Olympic Movement .Great Olympic Culture,After more than one thousand years of succession and Migration, in countless conflicts and integration, Rely on it`s inclusive, and finally integrated with the Chinese civilization.Olympic culture in the course of development, continuously conflict with the world's different cultures, and the final can integration with the different cultures, people see the world its strong vitality, appeal and inclusive. From the origin of the Olympic culture to the Olympic Games in Beijing today, during the experience of what kind of turning point with the migration, is worth considering.From 776 BC , by the year 393, Continuing 1196years, a total of 293 sessions were held in ancient Olympic Games. the modern Olympic Games revival at 1894. This period has experienced countless change of times , change of dynasties, the baptism of war and disaster. Although the human civilization is not a calm course of development, the Olympic had been given a number of different cultural connotation and value of, but it has not been eliminated and that the pursuit of peace and friendship between the "sacred truce", adhere to the principle of fair competition in sports , organizational models, such as sports competitions are to show people a basic truth: History should not be cut off, and culture there will always be intrinsically linked. For this reason, the Olympic Movement is the treasure house of human culture. and its forms, traditional and spiritual and cultural systems, has had a profound impact on the world sports and the development of civilization.The late 19th century, pioneers such as Pierre de Coubertin, Prompted by Ancient Greek Olympic Games, combined with the needs of the times, lit the fire of the modern Olympic. Keep the centuries, the Olympic Movement has become the world's social and cultural phenomenon. In the process of more than a century, the Olympic Movement has always been closely the theme of sports and social development.Concentrate efforts on the promotion of people's body and will, the spirit of the all-round development, is committed to sports and culture, education, integration, trying to sports as the basic means to promote all-round human development, thereby promoting social progress, and thus the development of human civilization in the process made a significant contribution.In the Olympic movement more than a thousand years of ancient and modern more than one hundred years,the political situation, military conflicts, the baptism of cultural struggle and change, and has formed a huge body of knowledge. From ancient times through various historical periods of the Olympic Culture and the decline in the prosperity of the tortuous development of its cultural migration, is not difficult to find, the Olympic cultural development process is a microcosm of the process of human culture, understand it helps to understand ourselves.