Lighting
- Date: August 28, 2008
- Place: Tiantan, Beijing, China
- Host and hostess in post-ceremony and pre-ceremony: Pu Cunxin, Yang Lan
- Host of the ceremony: Guo Jinlong, Mayor of Beijing, Executive President of BOCOG
- Speeches:
- Deng Pufang, President of the Chinese Disabled Person's Association, Executive President of the BOCOG
- Philip Craven, President of the International Paralympic Committee
- Liu Qi, President of the BOCOG
- Gather Flame: Jiang Xintian
- Urn Holder: Jin Jing, a famous Paralympic athlete
- Lighting the Flame: Liu Qi
- Cauldron Lighter and Begin Announcer: Wen Jiabao, Premier of People's Republic of China
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“There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation.”
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“Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time; then it loses favor with its original audience as a new generation grows up; then it begins to merge into the softer lighting of “quaint,” and cultivated people become interested in it, and finally it begins to take on the archaic dignity of the primitive.”
—Northrop Frye (b. 1912)