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New Beijing, the Three-Colored New Olympics Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Bidding for the Olympic Games is, in a way, an image-creating undertaking. The first and foremost thing is to let people fall in love with the city at first sight, attracting them by its unique image. What image does Beijing intend to create for itself once it has the opportunity to host the 2008 Olympics? It is known to all that the Beijing Municipal Government has already set the theme for the future games: New Beijing, Great Olympics. For me, the 2008 Olympics will be a great green Olympics illuminated with two more special colors: yellow and red. First, yellow is a meaningful color. The Yellow River is China’s mother river and the cradle of Chinese civilization. We are of the yellow race and descendants of the Yellow Emperor. This color has a special origin and great significance for the Chinese people. Beijing is the capital of New China and previously the capital for nine dynasties in Chinese history. So, yellow will naturally add splendor to the 2008 Games. Secondly, the 2008 Olympics will be a red pageant. Red is another traditionally cherished color for the whole country. We adore red. On big occasions, we like to decorate our homes in red. It is the color of double happiness, representing joyous moments, auspiciousness, enthusiasm and prosperity. Red is one of the most suitable colors to describe the future of Beijing. Beijing, together with the whole country, is becoming more and more prosperous in the process of modernization. Above all, the 2008 Olympics will be a green Olympics. Adding the green ingredient is essential in creating an appealing image, as we can’t deny the fact that Beijing, at the moment, is not as green a city as what we like it to be. Striving for an environmentally appealing city has become a central task for all the citizens of Beijing. Big efforts have been made in pollution control, replanting and beautification of the city. Certainly, all of this is no easy task. But I am sure that all of us have confidence that we will realize these green goals. For now we have the full support and participation of the environmentally conscious citizens. Each citizen is showing great concern for every one of the steps the city government takes. As the saying goes, “United, we stand,” and a green Beijing will be achieved. When our aspiration becomes reality, it will be a unique Olympics. New Beijing, Great Olympics will be weaved of these three superb colors: yellow, red and green. Let us welcome it and look forward to it! Thank you! 08、新北京，三色新奥运 女士们、先生们，下午好。 申办奥运会从某种角度上说是一个塑造形象的工程。首先要着手做的第一件事，也是最重要的事情就是让人们对这个城市一见钟情，以城市自己独特的形象吸引他们。一旦北京成为二零零八年奥运会的主办城市，她会为自己塑造一个什么样的形象呢？众所周知，北京市政府已经为未来的这届运动会设立了主题：新北京，新奥运。对我来说，二零零八年奥运会将会是一次绿色的奥林匹克盛事，与之交相辉映的更有另外两种特别的颜色--黄色和红色。 首先，黄色是一种意味深长的颜色。黄河是中国的母亲河，是中华文化明的发源地。我们是黄种人，是炎黄子孙。这种颜色对中国人民来说有着特殊的根源和重要的意义。北京既是新中国的首都，也是中国历史上九朝之都。所以，黄色自然会为二零零八年的奥林匹克运动会增添光彩。 其次，二零零八年的奥林匹克运动会将是一次红色的盛会。 红色是中国人民珍爱的另一种传统颜色。我们喜欢红色，在重大节日里，我们喜爱用红色来装饰我们的家。红是双喜临门的颜色，象征着快乐的时刻、吉祥、热情和繁荣。红色是一种用来描述未来北京的最适合的颜色之一。北京和祖国一起在现代化的进程中正不断迈向繁荣富强。 最重要的是，二零零八年的奥林匹克运动会将会是一届绿色的奥运会。 要塑造一个吸引人的形象，加入绿色是十分必要的，因为我们不能否认北京目前并非一个让我们满意的绿色城市这一事实。努力成为一个环境喜人的城市已经成为北京市民的中心任务。这个城市在控制污染、植树种花和美化方面都作了相当大的努力。 当然，这可不是一个简单的任务。但我坚信我们有信心实现这些绿色目标，因为我们有具备环保意识的市民的全力支持和参与。每个市民都在热切关注市政府采取的每一个措施。俗话说得好，“团结力量大”，绿色的北京一定能成为现实。 当我们的期望变成现实，那将是一届独特的奥运会。“新北京，新奥运”将会由黄、红、绿这三种绚丽的颜色共同编织而成。 让我们期望并欢迎它的到来！谢谢！
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As in Egypt,Mesopotamia,and along the Indus River,Chinese civilization began within a major river valley.Modern China itself is a huge geographical expanse.Around 4000 BC,this huge area contained an almost infinite number of ethnic groups and languages.The course of Chinese history,however,is in part dominated by a single ethnic group and language.This history,in which a vast area populated by diverse ethnic groups became,over time,a more or less single culture,began in the Yellow River Valley. The Yellow River is the northernmost of the major Chinese rivers.Directly to the south is the Yangtze River; south of the Yangtze is the West River; south of the West River is the Red River,much of which passes through modern-day Vietnam.Sometime around 4000 BC,when the area was much more temperate and forested,populations around the southern bend of the Yellow River began to practice agriculture.They sowed millet,but some time later,the Chinese began cultivating rice to the south,near the Huai River.These were a Neolithic,tribal people who used stone tools.We know also that they domesticated animals very early on,but they still continued as a hunter society as well.Remains of game animals are almost as common as domestic animals in these villages.We know almost nothing about them,for they left no records,and the life-blood of a people does not flow in the archaeological refuse they leave behind.We believe that tribal warfare was common and that they may have had some form of ancestor worship,but these are mere guesses. The Three Cultural Heroes In the Chinese version of history,however,history begins with three semi-mystical and legendary individuals who taught the Chinese the arts of civilization around 2800-2600 BC:Fu Hsi,the inventor of writing,hunting,trapping,and fishing; Shen Nung,the inventor of agriculture and mercantilism,and the Yellow Emperor (around 2700 BC),who invented government and Taoist philosophy (compare this history with the Hebrew version of the founding of civilization and its arts in Genesis,Chapter 3).While Western historians dismiss these Three Cultural Heroes as legend,they were regarded as historical fact for most of Chinese history. The Sage Kings The Chinese believed that the Three Cultural Heroes were followed by the Three Sage Kings,Yao (around 2350 BC),Shun (around 2250 BC),and Yu (rule began in 2205 BC).These Sage Kings ruled with perfect wisdom,clarity,and virtue.In the Chinese model of history,human events follow discernible cycles in which times of great virtue and wisdom are followed by times of decadence and decline.Still,Chinese historians believed the Sage Kings' rule to be the most virtuous period in Chinese history. The Hsia Dynasty,2205-1766 BC According to the Chinese historians,the last of the sage kings,Yu,founded a dynasty of kings,the Hsia.The Hsia began with virtue and wisdom,and ended with the rule of Chieh,who was decadent and cruel.In 1766 BC,after four hundred years of rule,the Hsia dynasty was overthrown by T'ang,who began a new dynasty,the Shang. There is,however,absolutely no evidence,archaeological or otherwise,that supports this account of the early civilization in China; this lack of evidence has led historians to relegate the entire account,from the Cultural Heroes to the Hsia dynasty,to the realm of mythology.Two things,however,should be kept in mind.In the strictest sense,history is not about facts,it is about cultural memory ,which means that what a culture believes its history to be is as important,or even more important,than the "facts" in terms of the lived experience of that culture.Second,the Shang dynasty that the Chinese claimed followed the Hsia,was also believed to be mythological until archaeological evidence appeared in the 1920's.We may yet find a Chinese civilization equivalent to the Shang in even earlier strata of Chinese time.
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