A girl with one leg appears in a wheelchair . She wears one red shoe having lost her leg in the Sichuan earthquake . She is circled by a group of ballet performers dancing with arm aerobics wearing shoes in their hands . The girl in the center is then carried around . Blind pianist Jin Yuanhui ( 金元辉 ) plays the piano to accompany the four seasons theme . The plate panels are rotated in different colors to represent different sceneries . Then 2,000 space robots appear in a circle . They change into the four forms of frog , seagull , cow and duck with a popular cartoon dance . The audience imitate the sounds of these animals : " Croak ! Croak ! Croak ! " " Moo ! Moo ! Moo ! " and " Quack ! Quack ! Quack ! " Fireworks are displayed . The Paralympics mascot Fu Niu Lele ( 福牛乐乐 ) is represented . A female singer pushing a baby carriage and a male singer walk and sing on the White Jade Plate . 100 female dancers slowly flow to the White Jade Plate like a galaxy . Thousands of luminous silver threads pull the whole Earth , as if he is carrying a traveling bag full of mountains , rivers and lands of the whole world . A display of 750 performers form birds and swans with their hands . On the blue backdrop it appears as birds or animals in the sky
Sichuan earthquake
2008 Sichuan earthquake
2008 Summer Paralympics opening ceremony