Jimu News Commentator Xu Hanxiong
Yi Qunlin, a construction worker in Shenzhen, once became popular on the Internet for his video of playing piano on the street. Recently, he received an invitation from CCTV's "Spring Festival Gala Waiting for You", and he will have the opportunity to watch it live. Spring Festival Gala, feel the festive atmosphere of CCTV Spring Festival Gala up close. (According to the Shenzhen Special Zone News on January 21)
Construction workers received invitations to the Spring Festival Gala (Source: CCTV News)
58-year-old Yi Qunlin is from Yueyang, Hunan. On the morning of April 16, 2023, Yi Qunlin and The workers went to work together at a construction site near Huaqiangbei. On the way back after finishing work in the afternoon, I found a charity piano on the side of the road where everyone could play. Yi Linqun expressed his desire to give it a try. After playing the song "Butterfly Lovers", workers and citizens alike exclaimed, "Old Yi still has this ability!" He also became famous online because of his "instant success" in playing the piano.
According to Yi Qunlin, he has been sensitive to sounds since he was a child and loves music. Although his singing voice is not loud enough, he likes to play musical instruments. He can play a few songs on the saxophone, erhu, and electronic keyboard. He said that when he was a child, after he found a piano at his friend's house in the village, he often ran to play and learn it, and he learned it within a few days.
He usually plays the harmonica (Source: Shenzhen Special Zone Daily)
Yi Qunlin has been in Shenzhen for 20 years, and only occasionally plays the harmonica and flute after get off work. He said that in the nearly 30 years after leaving Yueyang, he had almost never touched the piano. The dream of music that he planted when he was a child has never left him. When he saw a charity piano on the roadside, he couldn't help but step forward and show his hand. This is also a dream that is becoming a reality.
There are many examples like Yi Qunlin, such as a cleaning lady from Tsinghua University who played the piano in an evening dress and became popular, a delivery boy in Suzhou who amazed everyone with his impromptu piano playing in a shopping mall, and the dormitory manager and security guard who insisted on writing Poems, the cleaning staff used leaves to pile up paintings in their hearts. For them, they all had literary and artistic dreams when they were young, but because they chose other ways to make a living, their work and dreams failed to "connect", but it did not affect their persistence in their dreams. "Life is on their shoulders, and they are on their hands." It’s a hobby.” As long as you persevere and have dreams, you can make people great and play the wonderful notes of life.
Yi Qunlin has a pair of hands that can play the piano (Source: Shenzhen Special Zone News)
Yi Qunlin has a pair of hands that have experienced many vicissitudes. In the past few decades, these hands have washed dishes, assembled toys, held shovels, and held shovels. There were a lot of calluses. But this is a pair of hands that can play the piano. "These hands can play romance and carry life." That day, with the encouragement of people around him, he played more than ten pieces of music in a row. He said: "After playing, I felt very comfortable, a very pleasant feeling." When
got the invitation, his hands were shaking with excitement, "It was like a dream, I can't imagine that such a thing can happen in my life." Highlight moment." He said, I am a construction worker who likes to play the piano. I hope everyone can stick to their dreams!
Yi Qunlin’s hands can create life and happiness. He was invited to be a live audience of the Spring Festival Gala. This is an affirmation of his persistence in his dream and an affirmation of his creation of life with his hands. Before being invited to the Spring Festival Gala, Yi Qunlin was invited by Guangming District, Shenzhen City to visit and experience the Guangming Culture and Art Center in May 2023. He was also reported by CCTV News in June of that year. This is an affirmation of ordinary workers.
According to media disclosures, in addition to Yi Qunlin, there are also "Grandpa Tan" Tan Jintao, a breeder at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, and "Shadow Boss" Liu Ying, a railway worker who is nicknamed by netizens as "a crosstalk actor who was delayed by the crew". The first batch of guests were invited to watch the Spring Festival Gala rehearsal, and subsequent rehearsals will continue to invite mass representatives who are shining in different industries.
Ordinary people continue to be the protagonists of the Spring Festival Gala. This is a tribute to the hard work of ordinary people, because ordinary people are originally the protagonists of life and struggle. It is ordinary people who create the beauty of life, and it is ordinary people who let their dreams shine through. In reality, they deserve to be the protagonists of the Spring Festival Gala. The hands of ordinary people can "build buildings and compose music." We pay tribute to all ordinary people who work hard for a better life!
(Source: Jimu News)
