Chao News Client Special Commentator Hu Xinhong
Source: People’s Daily official account
The 2024 Year of the Dragon CCTV Spring Festival Gala has entered the rehearsal stage. A few days ago, a group of extraordinary ordinary people received invitations to watch the CCTV Spring Festival Gala live: they include "Grandpa Tan" Tan Jintao, a breeder at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding. Netizens jokingly called him "a crosstalk actor who was delayed by a train attendant" or a "railroad worker" "Shadow Boss" Liu Ying... Lao Yi, a construction worker who became popular playing piano on the streets of Shenzhen, is also one of them.
The Spring Festival Gala is a "New Year's Eve dinner" presented by CCTV to the Chinese people. Being able to experience the festive atmosphere of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala up close is what many people dream of. Seeing Lao Yi, who was overjoyed and so excited that his hands were shaking, envious netizens sent out heartfelt congratulations.
Lao Yi is from Yueyang, Hunan. He came to Shenzhen more than 20 years ago and worked as a construction worker in Shenzhen with his son. Last year, he became famous for impromptu piano playing on the streets of Shenzhen. Lao Yi, wearing work clothes, played the piano, forming a great "contrast" with the public's image of a performer in the past.
wears "life" and plays dreams. Lao Yi 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 mixed cement. The palms of their hands have worn out a lot of calluses, but this has not annihilated his love for music. love. He likes to play musical instruments very much, and can play several pieces of harmonica, erhu, and electronic keyboard. He learned to play the piano at a relative's home in the county town when he was young. Although decades have passed, he still remembers the music scores.
The greatest happiness in life is to live in your own love. In reality, there are many ordinary people like Lao Yi who shine whenever they have an "opportunity" because they stick to their passions: the delivery boy who likes to write poetry, the rural lady who paints on the wall with a fire stick as a pen. , migrant workers who love calligraphy... The hardship of life forces them to work hard for their livelihood, but it does not force them to give up their dreams.
Use useless things to make great use. Writing poetry, painting and playing the piano are hobbies that do not seem to bring them any real benefits, but they allow them to live their own brilliance in the ordinary life. This kind of pure love is not only a way to relieve one's emotions, it can help one overcome various difficulties, have a rich spiritual world, and can also demonstrate human dignity and structure. There are differences in occupations and incomes, but all love and dedication should be treated equally.
Lao Yi's repeated popularity is not only due to his personal persistence in his love, but also inseparable from the development and progress of the times. Lao Yi, who has not touched a piano for more than 30 years, never thought that one day he would be able to play the piano again on the streets of Shenzhen. It was indeed unimaginable before that a "delicate" object like a piano could be placed on the street for anyone to play, but now it has become a basic equipment in many public places. The charity piano on the streets of Shenzhen is intended to use black and white keys to connect people who have never met each other in the city, striving to let everyone enjoy the fruits of cultural construction. "Street music" may seem like a small detail in a corner of the city, but it reveals Shenzhen's humanistic care. The urban warmth it conveys is deeply moving.
Love lasts forever. A construction worker who became famous for playing the piano on the street received an invitation to the Spring Festival Gala, once again reminding the world that ordinary life can also be filled with love and have "poetry and distance."
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