The fire collection ceremony for the 4th Asian Para Games in Hangzhou is about to be held. Revealing why we chose to collect it in Guangzhou
On October 12, the fire collection ceremony for the 4th Asian Para Games in Hangzhou will be held at the Guangzhou Asian Para Games Museum. So why did the fire for the Hangzhou Asian Para Games go to Guangzhou to collect? This is inseparable from the holding of the first Asian Para Games in Guangzhou.
As we all know, the Temple of Olympia in Greece is the birthplace of the Olympic movement. The fire lighting for every Olympic Games will be held there. The fire lighting for the Asian Paralympic Games is held in Guangzhou because the first Asian Paralympic Games was held in Guangzhou. The Guangzhou Asian Para Games was held in 2010. It was the first sports event held after the name change of the original “Far East and South Pacific Regional Games for People with Disabilities”. It was also the first time that “two Asian Games” were held in the same city in the same year. At the same time, as the host city of Guangzhou, the Asian Paralympic Committee decided to keep the flame in Guangzhou permanently.
Chen Xuejun, currently Party Secretary and Chairman of the Guangdong Provincial Disabled Persons’ Federation, was a member of the organizing committee and participated in the preparations for the Guangzhou Asian Para Games. He said that the torch relay of the Asian Para Games in Hangzhou was of far-reaching significance in collecting fire from Guangzhou, continuing the concept and purpose of the Asian Para Games, and comprehensively demonstrating the passing on of the torch for disabled people’s sports in Asia.
Chen Xuejun, Party Secretary and Chairman of the Guangdong Disabled Persons’ Federation
Chen Xuejun said that holding the Asian Para Games and the Asian Games in the same city in the same year can greatly save the cost of hosting the games in terms of manpower, material and financial resources. At the same time, it can also take advantage of the effect of national attention to the Asian Games to further expand the Asian Para Games. The influence allows more people to see the spirit of self-improvement and tenacity of disabled people in the competition field, thus making the entire society pay more attention to, care for and care for disabled people.
The Asian Para Games traveling from Guangzhou to Hangzhou also has another special meaning for Chen Xuejun personally. He has been working and living in Guangzhou for more than 20 years, and his hometown is Fuyang, Hangzhou. “Through the opening and closing ceremonies of the Hangzhou Asian Games, I saw the inheritance of traditional culture and the development of science and technology in China and Hangzhou, and deeply felt the tremendous changes in the motherland in the past 13 years.” Chen Xuejun said, hoping that the Hangzhou Asian Para Games will also be in line with the Asian Games. The Games will be equally exciting, and I hope Hangzhou will let the humanitarian flag fly high by hosting the Asian Para Games.
Guangzhou Asian Para Games fire lamp
In order to enhance the solemnity and ritual of fire collection for the Hangzhou Asian Para Games, the Guangzhou Asian Para Games Museum upgraded the Asian Para Games Fire Plaza. Curator Zhang Zeming said that the entire renovation process lasted one year. The main part of the fire platform was a 1:1 replica of the fire basin of the Guangzhou Asian Para Games. The fire burned in it and was surrounded by water, which contrasted with the characteristic Lingnan tree Terminalia elata. At the same time, backed by an LED flame wall that can be converted into 6 modes, it further highlights the majesty of the Asian Paralympic Games fire.
It is reported that after the collection ceremony on October 12, the flames for the Hangzhou Asian Para Games will arrive in Hangzhou by high-speed rail.
Further reading
The past and present life of the Asian Paralympic Games firebrand
Fire collection
On December 3, 2010 (International Day for Persons with Disabilities), the flames of the Guangzhou Asian Paralympic Games were collected at the China Millennium Monument in Beijing. The visually impaired girl from Xinjiang, Adilan Elken, and the 16th Asian Games swimming champion Guangzhou athlete Zhou Jiawei jointly Collect fire. Huang Huahua, executive chairman of the Guangzhou Asian Para Games Organizing Committee and then governor of Guangdong Province, took the fire stick and lit the tinder box in the hand of the fire girl. The fire guards then used the fire in the fire box to ignite the fire lamp and escorted it to Guangzhou.
Torch Relay
On the morning of December 4, 2010, the torch lighting and torch relay launching ceremony was held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. The first torchbearer was Ge Yang, and 20 torchbearers carried out the torch relay in Tiananmen Square.
A total of 660 torchbearers participated in the torch relay of the Guangzhou Asian Paralympic Games. The 7-day relay was carried out in Guangzhou from December 5 to 11, 2010, with a total distance of 2,028 kilometers and a relay distance of 58 kilometers. Various events and ceremonies were held 17 The total number of spectators at the ceremony site and along the route is about 500,000.
The fire will last forever in Guangzhou
On December 19, 2010, at the closing ceremony of the Guangzhou Asian Para Games, the Asian Para Games torch “tide” was used to take out the tinder from the torch tower and light the tinder lamp. The outstanding athletes selected at the time and the hearing and speech-impaired girl “Zhenzhen” brought the fire lantern to the ceremony stage and handed it to the then Asian Paralympic Committee Chairman Datuk Zainal Abu Zalin.
On January 30, 2011, a fire handover ceremony was held in the Guangzhou Asian Sports Cultural Center Square. The Guangzhou Asian Para Games fire, as an important sports cultural heritage of the “two Asian Games” in Guangzhou, will remain forever in the atrium square of the Guangzhou Asian Games Asian Para Games Museum. , becoming the “new scene” of Yangcheng.
2023-10-11 13:58:52
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