text|Zhao Jiazhen
The Spring Festival Gala in 2005 was a year of fights between gods and gods, and there were so many good shows. It is also the dividing line where Mr. Benshan's sketches begin to go downhill. This year's " Kung Fu " is the end of the "Selling Abduction" series. It's a classic swan song.
And after so many years, when it comes to the Spring Festival Gala in 2005, what everyone remembers the most is not "Kung Fu", nor Feng Gong Zhu Jun's "Cheating Tears", nor Andy Lau "Gong Xi Fa Cai", but the dance "Thousands of Fortune". Hand Guanyin". The majestic and hearty scenes of
left a very shocking impression on the audience all over the country. The discussion became popular from the first day of the new year to the fifteenth day, and the lead dancer Tai Lihua also became popular overnight.
Because of this, many people became curious about this beautiful and slender girl, and more people were deeply moved by the story that happened to her.
She was deaf at the age of 2 and went through hardships to reach the pinnacle of her art. She rejected the fanatical pursuit of wealthy foreign businessmen twice, but settled for a lifetime with the "poor boy". Now, 17 years have passed, is she okay?
01 Highly praised by Yang Liping
As we all know, the dance " Sparrow Spirit " created and performed by Yang Liping, a famous dancer in my country, through her slender and flexible arms, as well as her flexible fingers, change the shape of the peacock, The free, leisurely and peaceful living conditions of jumping, searching, absorbing water, and spreading their wings and flying were vividly displayed, leaving a deep impression on the audience and winning the gold award for the classic Chinese national dance.
However, Yang Liping gave high praise to another performer of "Sparrow Spirit", this person is Tai Lihua , she is a disabled dancer with hearing loss in both ears.
Tai Lihua has been fond of dancing since childhood. The first time she saw Yang Liping performing "The Spirit of the Sparrow" was on TV. She was fascinated by Yang Liping's light and agile dancing posture. She seemed to feel that it was not a dancer, but a jungle The peacock in the middle sometimes stands with its head held high, then spreads its wings and swirls, sometimes walks along the stream, bows its head and drinks, sometimes lightly combs its wings and dances with the wind...
Tai Lihua couldn't help but jumped up, and then seemed to be enchanted. , as long as she has time, she will practice "Spirit of the Sparrow" in the rehearsal hall. Sometimes, for the charm of an action, she doesn't even bother to eat, and sometimes she even practiced late at night.
choreographer Zhang Jigang was moved by her obsession and called Yang Liping: "Come and help me guide my students!".
When Yang Liping watched Tai Lihua dance "Spirit of the Sparrow", she was very shocked. If she hadn't seen it with her own eyes, she couldn't believe that Tai Lihua could perform so well without hearing the rhythm of the music. Every movement of the game can be perfectly combined with the rhythm of "Spirit of the Sparrow". Yang Liping, the creator of
's "Sparrow Spirit", once said with emotion: "If can't hear the music, I can't dance the taste at all, but Tai Lihua can dance it so perfectly, I can't imagine it! " Yang Liping took Tai Lihua's hand and gave her a thumbs up.
Tai Lihua's performance of "Spirit of the Sparrow" was not only highly praised by Yang Liping, she accompanied the group to Poland in 2003 to visit, and also performed this dance, and the audience from other places in the audience saw a peacock striding on the stage from time to time. , sometimes turned sideways, she interprets the scene of the peacock spinning rapidly, walking lightly and jumping and galloping wonderfully. When she called the curtain, the audience stood up and applauded for a long time. After watching her performance, Polish leaders were also moved and praised.
, however, was the "Spirit of the Sparrow" that she danced, which was praised by tens of thousands of audiences, but was denied three times by a dance teacher.
02 Severely denied by dance teacher
When Tai Lihua was 15 years old, Disabled Persons' Federation recommended her to go to Wuhan Song and Dance Troupe for formal dance training. Before, she was only an amateur dancer and she needed more professional training.
The opportunity is rare, and Tai Lihua is also very excited, but when she came to the song and dance troupe like a happy deer, she was "drenched with cold water" by a teacher Zhao in the troupe.
alsoNo wonder Teacher Zhao doesn't want her, because her deafness leads to poor communication, the time cost of cultivating her is too high, and the expected results are too low, so Teacher Zhao took her handwriting and wrote: "You are very good, but not suitable for us, I I'm sorry."
Tai Lihua's hands trembled instantly, the gap from joy to sadness was unbearable for her, and her dull eyes filled with tears. Teacher Zhao's heart was also stinged instantly. This opportunity may only be a choice for other children, but it is all for Tai Lihua!
At this time, the comrades of the Disabled Persons' Federation helped to pack a ticket and strongly recommended it. Teacher Zhao agreed to Tai Lihua to stay first, but made a request: if the probation period is over, he will leave immediately.
Teacher Zhao's first dance to test Tai Lihua was "Spirit of the Sparrow", but after she finished dancing, Teacher Zhao gave her three negatives in succession: the hand position was not coordinated, the legs were not crossed properly, and the leg raising was not accurate. then threw Tai Lihua in the rehearsal hall with a stern look on her face and walked away alone.
thought that the teacher might not want her because she couldn't dance this dance well, Tai Lihua burst into tears with sadness.
03 She has trained a band that will play for her anytime
Tai Lihua is eager to stay in Wuhan Song and Dance Troupe to receive formal dance training. However, Teacher Zhao did not see her satisfactory performance. Go back wherever you can come from.
She wiped away her sad tears and continued to ponder and practice "Spirit of the Sparrow". From then on, she was like a spinning top that didn't know how to get tired. Except for eating and sleeping, she kept jumping all day.
A movement, sometimes she has to practice repeatedly for hours, she ponders, practises, ponders, practises, and every movement needs to be polished repeatedly, and then it can change from quantity to quality. She brings several pieces of clothing to the training room every day, gets wet with sweat and changes them before practicing again. There are more than 700 beats in
"Spirit of the Sparrow", but Tai Lihua's practice is inaudible to music. If she wants to make every movement of her own completely match these more than 700 beats, she relies entirely on memory. , and then repeat, by repeating and re-memorizing, and repeating over and over is the only way for her to solve the inaudible sound.
repeats to the end, she has a band in her heart that will always play for her at any time.
Later, she not only stayed in the Wuhan Song and Dance Troupe with the performance of "Spirit of the Sparrow", but also her wonderful performance was highly praised by Yang Liping and others, conquering audiences one after another.
04 Finally reached the pinnacle of art
Tai Lihua created art in a unique way in her silent world, and honors followed:
She was selected as the lead dancer of China Disabled Art Troupe . That year, she was only 15 age.
After 21 years of exploration, she created a special art classic "My Dream", which has performed in more than 60 countries and amazed tens of millions of audiences.
She led the dance of "Avalokitesvara of Thousand Hands" at 2004 Athens Paralympic Games , with its endless and ever-changing gestures, gorgeous atmosphere and brilliant visual impact shocked the world.
is the dance that moved the audience all over the country in the 2005 CCTV Spring Festival Gala, and Tai Lihua was also named the 2005 Person of the Year in "Moving China".
The dance drama "Butterfly", which she created and starred in, showed the persistence and pursuit of life, as well as the desire and pursuit of dreams. There were no empty seats, and the organizers had to add more venues for the spectators who could not get in.
She was invited to perform the dance "Dunhuang Painted Sculptures" at the "Festival of Civilizations Without Borders" held in Italy.
At the World Congress of Disabled Persons held in Japan in 2002, she was called "the image ambassador of the 600 million disabled persons in the world".
In June 2007, at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France, Tai Lihua led a troupe to perform impressively, and was designated as "UNESCO Peace Artist" by United Nations agency .
French writer Mauriac said: "Effort is proportional to value". Everyone's success is hard-won, and Tai Lihua's success is even more difficult to achieve. Since her unfortunate childhood, she has experienced hardships that no one can imagine.
05 Silent childhood
On November 9, 1976, Tai Lihua was born in an ordinary family in Yichang City, Hubei Province. Her arrival brought infinite happiness to her parents. Before she was one year old, she would be milky and milky. Calling "Dad" and "Mom", listening to this soft and tender voice, the parents were overjoyed.
Tai Lihua had a lively personality when she was a child, chatting non-stop all day long. When she was in kindergarten, her teacher chose her as an announcer.
However, one day the teacher found out that Tai Lihua, who loves to talk, talk and laugh, stayed quietly by the side and did not play with the children.
The teacher took them to play the game of "guess who he is" that day. The teacher blindfolded a child and asked him to identify the voice and guess who the friend who made the sound was. Everyone had a great time, and Tai Lihua had a lot of fun. He just stared at them silently.
The year was 1981, Tai Lihua was 5 years old, and the teacher found that she could not hear any sound.
Mom and Dad took her to the hospital in a hurry. Doctor said it was caused by the side effects of streptomycin . Mom and Dad beg the doctor: No matter how much it costs, get her ear cured.
However, the doctor gave the most ruthless answer: "There is currently no cure for hearing problems caused by the side effects of streptomycin." The answer is the same, no matter how much the parents expect, even if it is a glimmer of hope, they will insist on treatment, but the doctor can't do anything to shake his head.
It turned out that when Tai Lihua was 2 years old, she got measles and was injected with a dose of streptomycin. The measles was cured, but Tai Lihua occasionally felt ear pain.
No one thought that the side effects of streptomycin would slowly cause her to be unable to hear for the rest of her life. She no longer listened to her friends calling her to play. In this silent world, she felt very lonely.
06 The mysterious rhythm
's helpless parents had to send her to a special school, hoping that she could learn a few more words here, and be able to do addition and subtraction, so as to make her life as less hindered as possible.
However, a rhythm class in a special school opened her up to a different life.
The day her parents sent her to a special school, she stood on the playground at a loss, and a teacher came over and took her by the hand into a classroom.
This is a rhythm class. In the classroom, the teacher plays the piano and drums. The thumping vibrations are transmitted to her feet through the wooden floor. At this moment, she seems to "hear" the sound.
"A weird rhythmic vibration that went through my whole body in an instant, and I couldn't help but get down on the floor and feel the sound with my whole body," she said.
The sound she "heared" was so beautiful that she couldn't help but dance to the rhythm of the "voice", and the dance never stopped.
Tai Lihua quickly stood out in the local dance industry and became a brilliant dance star with a kind of persistence and talent. She has won dance awards several times in Yichang , but almost all the judges did not find this The little girl who danced wonderfully, she turned out to be a disabled person who was deaf.
Later, at the recommendation of the Disabled Persons' Federation, she entered the Wuhan Song and Dance Troupe and started formal dance training. During dance training,
sometimes gets bruised on her body. In order not to make her parents feel distressed, she often wears long pants on hot days.
However, parents deeply know that as a disabled child, they will need a skill that is close to themselves in the future. They know better that their inherently disadvantaged daughter needs to put in thousands of times more effort than ordinary people to live. ordinary people's lives.
's parents quietly wiped away their distressed tears and silently accompanied Tai Lihua in training.
In order to learn dance without affecting her learning, Tai Lihua's high school is a special high school in Wuhan.During her studies, she insisted on taking a long-distance bus to study in Wuhan, which is more than 300 kilometers away, every time she traveled alone for 12 hours.
When she was in the college entrance examination, she wanted to take the college entrance examination like everyone else, but she refused the recommendation of from the Special Education College of Changchun University, and chewed on review materials higher than two fists every day. I felt that it was not enough for studying, and I was really tired, so I just lay down on the table for a while.
When she took the college entrance examination, she returned to Wuhan from the Beijing China Disabled Art Troupe to take the test. On the bus, she was so dizzy and almost fainted that she had to buy an ice cream at the stop to cool down.
's hard work will produce beautiful flowers sooner or later. Tai Lihua's perseverance and hard work finally brought her good luck, she was admitted to Hubei Academy of Fine Arts .
just dancing is enough for her to be exhausted every day. However, her studies in college were not affected at all, and she also obtained a double bachelor's degree, one in decoration design and one in literature.
Those who sow with tears will also reap with smiles. If it weren't for the proof of these facts, who would believe that this deaf girl can achieve such amazing results?
07 Twice rejected the rich man's courtship, and lived an ordinary life with a man from science and engineering
Tai Lihua is now not only a dancer and artistic director, but also the head of the China Disabled People's Art Troupe, The All-China Youth Federation and the leader of the China Special Arts Association. Since 2002, she has led the China Disabled Persons' Art Troupe to explore the way of combining commercial performances and charity performances in the cultural market.
She devotes all her energy to the art troupe, regulates the management of actors, and guides them to rehearse with excellence. In two and a half years, she toured 22 provinces in my country, visited 16 countries, and performed 275 performances.
She has twice led the team to perform at Malaysia and . The first time I went there, a rich man in Malaysia was fascinated by her charisma and graceful dancing. Her soft waist, light feet, and flexible fingers made feel that she was unparalleled in beauty. And, so he threw an olive branch to her, as long as he was willing to marry him, the gift was 100 million!
Ke Tai Lihua said, "I love my motherland, and I want to go back to China." It means to refuse.
After 8 years, she led the group to perform in Malaysia again. The rich man was still waiting for her. However, she left as soon as the performance was over, rejecting the rich man's show of love again.
At this time, Tai Lihua is married, and her husband's name is Li Chun, a steady and down-to-earth science man. Although the rich boy was heartbroken, he could only give his blessings silently.
Tai Lihua and her husband met on November 11, 1995. This was the most unforgettable day in Tai Lihua's life. On this day, she met her lover by chance.
Li Chun graduated from Huazhong University of Science and Technology , and is a top student in the Department of Civil Engineering. That day, he chatted with her tirelessly with a pen and paper for the whole afternoon, and gave her a lot of useful advice in life. They collided with paper and pen. The spark of love.
In March 2003, this happy couple held a wedding in Wuhan, and now their children have grown up, but the two of them are still glued together. In Tai Lihua's view, being with the person she likes is a happy life, even if her life is ordinary.
08 Your life itself is a beautiful dance
Growing up is a process of accepting one's imperfections and living with a smile.
Tai Lihua silently danced the miracle of life in the silent world. Facing the tidal wave of applause, she was modest and calm: "I'm just a dancer, I use dance to show myself, but also bring happiness and success to others. It's just a gift."
Tai Lihua, who is now in her prime, lives a happy and ordinary life while polishing her students. She said, "My dream now is to use all my body, mind, emotion and strength. Take them well, so that every child can stand in the center of the stage and realize their dreams."
She treats every student as her own child,He poured all his love into them, and often brought art troupes into schools, mountain villages, and performances and condolences in communities and welfare institutions.
She led the art troupe to carry out a large number of charity activities and charity performances. She saved the performance income and invested in the "My Dream" Harmony Fund. She donated 400,000 US dollars to international charitable projects and donated 1 million yuan to the Wenchuan earthquake. She led a delegation to 7 cities in the UK for a 21-day commercial tour, donating all the income of 1.6 million yuan to the disaster area again; successively donated 2.96 million yuan to the Sichuan earthquake and the people of the old area.
Tai Lihua's love is silent. A healthy person may not be able to do it well, but she perfectly interprets what it means: tenacity, tenacity, kindness, and return. In 2005, she also ranked among the top ten most moving Chinese characters, showing the vitality of life in a silent place. Tai Lihua is undoubtedly the most beautiful! She is like a beacon, illuminating the future of everyone like her!
This article is an original hand-written article by Zhao Jiazhen, welcome to pay attention, and wish you three consecutive links.
