Once the sea was shipwrecked as water, except for the Wushan Mountain is not a cloud. When love has gone to the sea, how much love can be repeated, and how many people are worth waiting for? Dai Ailian, the mother of Chinese ballet who has been crazy about dancing all her life, flashes love and flashes marriage and divorce, and then holds the hand of first love after 40 years...
Obsessed with ballet
The mother of Chinese ballet, Dai Ailian, is a native of Xinhui, Guangdong, but she will not say Chinese, because she was born on an island called Trinidad in the West Indies.
Where is Trinidad? This small island nation is located in the far south of the Caribbean Sea in Central America.
Her ancestors came to Trinidad many years ago to do business, and Dai Ailian grew up happy and happy, with no worries about food and clothing.
She likes to sing and dance, and when she hears music, she dances, and because she loves to dance, she was admitted to the local dance school and specialized in ballet.
"When I was about 11 years old, my mother had the idea of finding a job. Because his father gambled money and lost money, the family life situation deteriorated day by day", due to his father's gambling addiction, the life of the Dai family has a crisis.
Ailian Dai's mother went to England to learn tailoring, and after returning to the island, she brought Dai Ailian a magazine called "Dance Times".
After reading the magazine, Dai Ailian was full of enthusiasm and wrote a letter to the ballet artist Anton Dowling introduced in the magazine, asking him how to go to London to study ballet.
Luckily, Anton Dowling wrote her back and told her that if she wanted to learn ballet, she could go to London to find him.
In this way, 14-year-old Dai Ailian went to London with her mother and sister.
Regrets in the heart
In England at that time, ballet dancers were all white. The little Dai Ailian went to the dance school in London and looked particularly different.
Many people talked about her looks and height, thinking that she was not worthy to study ballet. At this time, her father went bankrupt due to gambling, and she and her mother had difficulties in making a living in London.
In the face of adversity, the stubborn Dai Ailian did not look back, and continued to learn dance while working.
Ballet is a cruel art, there are not many people who can persevere to the end, Dai Ailian with superhuman perseverance, harvested superb dance skills, won the applause of teachers and peers.
It was during this difficult day of learning to dance that Dai Ailian met the unforgettable first love of her life.
His name was Willie Sokopo and he was a young sculptor.
Willie is attracted by Ailian Dai's dancing skills and oriental temperament, and Dai Ailian also admires the talented Willie, but the relationship cannot move forward because Willie already has a fiancée.
After a painful struggle, Dalen opts out because she cannot allow herself to break willie's promise to her fiancée.
Flash love flash marriage
Love is frustrated, the oriental identity is not recognized, all this makes Dai Ailian miss her motherland more and more. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, she resolutely returned to the motherland.
She doesn't speak Chinese, often makes a lot of jokes, goes to the vegetable market to buy chickens, she says to the vendor, "Give me that chicken mother", she is bitten by mosquitoes, she says "mosquitoes eat on my legs".
But the language barrier didn't affect her from falling in love with a man who said Chinese. In a performance to raise funds for the War of Resistance, she married the famous painter Ye Qianyu.
Ye Qianyu made a propaganda album for Dai Ailian's charity performance, and in just a few strokes, he jumped on the paper with Dai Ailian's graceful and colorful image.
He not only drew well, but also worked as Dai Ailian's assistant, helping her solve many trivial things such as clothing and food, and also acting as a translator for her.
Dai Ailian's broken heart was deeply warmed by Ye Qianyu, and it only took them 14 days from acquaintance, love to marriage.
Renew the old relationship
Because of years of dancing, Dai Ailian did not have children, she regarded the child born to Ye Qianyu's ex-wife as an outdated child, and the relationship with her stepdaughter was very good.
But between her and Ye Qianyu, a rift gradually appeared.
Because of her Westernized education, she feels that since two people love each other, they must understand each other's past, so that such love is complete.
Ye Qianyu was very indifferent to her life and past, and did not have much interest in entering the depths of her heart, and as time went on, the gap between the two became deeper and deeper.
At this time, a dance partner named Ding Ning entered Dai Ailian's life. Wang Ning let her experience the feeling of high mountain flowing water meeting Zhiyin, she proposed a divorce to Ye Qianyu, and walked with Ding Ning.
But the marriage soon ended in tragedy, and during the Cultural Revolution, Ding Ning drew a line with her and disappeared with all her money.
Dai Ailian, who was lonely in her heart, put all her energy into dance.
She has served as the head of the National Dance Troupe, the president of the National Dance Association, the principal of the Beijing Dance School, the director of the National Ballet of China, etc., and has worked hard for the dance cause of New China, and is known as China's "Duncan".
In 1979, with the opening of the door of reform and opening up, Dai Ailian came to London because of her work encounter and met willie, who was already white-haired.
40 years is like a dream, but everything seems to be just yesterday, she found that although she has experienced marriage changes twice, deep inside, she has always been deeply in love with Willie.
In his later years, Willie suffered a stroke after his wife died, and after Dai Ailian heard about it, he came to Willie's side and accompanied Willie to complete the end of his life.
"I just love to dance!" Looking back on her life, Dai Ailian said that she had never been self-pitying and self-harming because of her children's love, nor had she ever wasted her talents and art because of any setbacks.
She has contributed her life to the art of Chinese dance, and the most she says to her students is:
"As long as you like to jump, this is enough, no matter what difficulties you encounter, as long as you like to do something from the bottom of your heart, no difficulty will overwhelm you, this is the power of the spirit." 」