If there had been no accident, Liu Yan would have danced on the stage instead of being bound by a wheelchair for the rest of his life.
The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games touched the hearts of hundreds of millions of Chinese.
With the opening ceremony still 12 days away, tens of thousands of people in the Bird's Nest Stadium are in an intensive rehearsal.
As an A-corner actor who danced "Silk Road" alone, Liu Yan came to the scene early to change his makeup and clothes.
On the huge oriental scroll, Liu Yan danced the dance that had been danced countless times, but an accident occurred when she moved the car platform.
The platform started a second earlier than expected, and Liu Yan did not stand still and fell straight down from the 3-meter-high picture scroll.
Tens of thousands of people in the live rehearsal stopped, and the director in the command room shouted out his throat: "Liu Yan! Liu Yan! Call an ambulance! ”
This accident completely changed Liu Yan's life, and also left the general director Zhang Yimou with a lifetime of regrets.
Before receiving the invitation to perform at the Olympics directed by Zhang Yimou, Liu Yan was already a well-known rising star in the dance world, and a classical beauty recognized in the circle as a talented woman with outstanding femininity.
Born in 1982 in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, Liu Yan has a great aura under the cultivation of the water and soil of "Qingcheng", and is not only good-looking but also first-class.
Liu Yan's father is a judge in Hohhot, and his mother is a doctor who saves lives and helps the injured.
Kochi family rarely had the idea of preferring sons to daughters, and when she was born, her grandparents personally named her "Liu Yan", hoping that she would grow up like a rock and be strong.
In order to cultivate their daughter's artistic specialties, the parents did not let Liu Yan learn talent.
Xiao Liu Yan began to learn to draw when he was 3 years old, but he sat at the table for a few minutes and put paint into toys and made it all over.
So her mother turned around and asked her to learn the violin, but Liu Yan's interest was average.
Until Liu Yan came into contact with dance, it seemed to find the love of his life.
At that time, Liu Yan was already 9 years old, dancing with bai Ying, a teacher of the Inner Mongolia Song and Dance Troupe, compared with the three- or four-year-old friends in the class who learned to dance, Liu Yan was a late entry.
Fortunately, Liu Yan is talented and willing to work hard, and when her companions play, she presses her legs and kicks in the practice room, catching up with everyone's progress little by little.
Teacher Bai Ying saw that she liked dancing so much, so she suggested that she go to the Beijing Dance Academy: "You go and try, the teacher believes in you!" ”
Who thought that Liu Yan really got admitted, so he didn't know how to embark on the road to study in the north.
At the North Dance Academy Attached High School, Liu Yan spent 6 years dancing time, and her path as a dancer also began here.
In the eyes of her classmates, Liu Yan is an outlier, she rarely participates in everyone's gatherings, and stays in the practice room all day to jump to sweat.
She can be seen in all the competitions in the school, but she has won the second prize every time she has worked so hard.
Liu Yan also did not understand where he was worse, in 2002, Liu Yan participated in the "Lotus Cup" dance competition and won the silver medal with the adapted dance "Rouge Buckle"!
"This time it's second place again!"
Some classmates joked that Liu Yan was the "second oldest of ten thousand years", which made her inner small universe completely ignited.
Unconvinced, Liu Yan began devil training, practicing day and night, and finally proved himself at the 2004 National Dance Competition.
Liu Yan stood on the stage with the original work "Rouge Buckle", an elegant red cheongsam with unique flavor.
On the stage, Liu Yan's straight legs slowly lifted up, drawing an elegant arc with his toes, such a strong leg control ability made people clap their hands.
Liu Yan won the reputation of "Liu One Leg" and also won the gold medal of the competition.
Ten years of grinding a sword, this honor is not easy to come by, but also made Liu Yan shine in the dancer, allowing her to appear on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala in 2006, and to perform on the same stage with Tan Yuanyuan and yang Liping, an idol of the same year.
Liu Yan, whose fame has soared, has attracted the attention of fans, and it is also at this time that there are rumors about her.
Some media filmed her holding hands with the director of the Spring Festival Gala, Lang Kun, shopping, which caused an uproar.
At that time, Lang Kun had a wife and a daughter, and his wife was a young and beautiful model Ma Yanli, who was on a business trip abroad at that time!
As soon as the news came out, Liu Yan and Lang Kun denied extramarital affairs, but coincidentally, it was not long before Lang Kun divorced Ma Yanli.
As an ex-wife Ma Yanli's post, it reveals the meaning of her marriage being destroyed everywhere.
On the other hand, Liu Yan did not explain, but put all the focus on the dance career.
In November 2007, Liu Yan was performing in a foreign country when he suddenly received a call from director Zhang Yimou: "Are you interested in a solo dance at the Olympic Games?" ”
What an honor it is for a dancer to be able to perform in audiences across the country and around the world!
Liu Yan was busy agreeing to come down, and then found this only solo dance program, so he cherished this opportunity even more!
Liu Yan participated in the program called "Silk Road", as an A-corner dancer, Liu Yan performed the "flying goddess" in Dunhuang dance, clad in green silk, dancing on the gorgeous picture scroll.
During the rehearsal, Liu Yan was the most diligent one, coming to the Bird's Nest Gymnasium early to practice waiting.
On July 27, 2008, there were 12 days left before the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games.
This night's bird's nest was brightly lit, everyone was preparing for rehearsals, Liu Yan rushed over early in the past, changed his clothes, and put on long silk, like a fairy.
According to the previous rehearsal requirements, Liu Yan danced on the picture scroll and stepped onto the car platform with the picture scroll.
However, just as everything was proceeding step by step, the running platform started up a second earlier than the previous rehearsal.
Liu Yan just stepped on his left foot, and before he could step up, he was overturned by the forward force of the trolley, and the whole person fell from the gap between the three-meter-high scroll and the trolley.
With a muffled sound, the actors in the front row exclaimed, and the scene became chaotic.
The actors in the back row didn't know what was going on, and the director in the command room saw the scene through the camera.
"Tens of thousands of people stopped, only to see Liu Yan lying quietly on the ground."
Then someone reacted and rushed over and asked, "Liu Yan, how are you?" Liu Yan, do you hurt? ”
The director shouted urgently: "Doctor! Call the doctor! ”
Liu Yan was blinded by the fall and was very unconscious, and slowly opened her eyes to see the red bird's nest, the pain on her body made her brow wrinkle, and her internal organs seemed to be broken.
Seeing that Liu Yan could not move, the staff did not dare to move her at will and shouted for the ambulance to come in, so the ambulance drove directly to the field of the bird's nest.
The staff at the scene cooperated with the medical staff to carry Liu Yan to the ambulance, and she asked in a trance: "Tomorrow or 5 o'clock to rehearse?" ”
However, before anyone could respond, she fainted and the ambulance went straight to the olympic organizing committee designated hospital near the bird's nest.
Liu Yan was sent to the rescue room, and the doctor rescued her for 12 hours overnight.
The red light in front of the operating room door stung everyone's heart, and everyone's hearts were tugged together, although the green light was lit and Liu Yan was pushed out.
"Liu Yan's life was saved!" She was then transferred to the intensive care unit.
The doctor diagnosed: "Liu Yan is the twelfth thoracic vertebra with serious misalignment, which compresses a large number of nerves in the body, resulting in high paralysis!" ”
The director team fell into a death-like silence after learning about it, and some people said: "Seeing her fall there, I never thought it would be so serious!" ”
The people at the hospital were also in grief, and no one knew how to tell her the news.
After Liu Yan fell, the staff informed her parents as soon as possible.
When the two elderly people arrived, they only saw their daughter lying weakly on the hospital bed, tears of pain swirling in her eyes.
Liu Yan lay in the intensive care unit for a week, and when she woke up, she found that her legs could not move, and looked at her parents with a suspicious face: "What is wrong with me?" ”
The mother touched her daughter's head with red eyes, but finally couldn't bear to tell her.
The attending physician spoke a lot of professional terms to her, but Liu Yan couldn't understand them: "You just say it, what's wrong with me?" ”
The doctor paused and said, "Your spine has hurt, causing paralysis."
At that moment, Liu Yan's world suddenly darkened, and she was stunned to control her legs, but no matter what instructions her brain issued, they did not respond.
She looked at her sobbing mother and suddenly realized, "I can't dance for the rest of my life?" ”
Liu Yan wanted to cry but her voice was hoarse and she couldn't make a sound, and there were hundreds of text messages of concern and encouragement on her phone, but she was lifeless like losing her soul.
The actor was injured, but the show was still going on, and seeing that the opening ceremony was about to come, the original B-corner actor Yin Shuo was promoted as the "new flying goddess" and began a tense rehearsal.
Liu Yan did not cry after learning the news, the hospital where she lived was very close to the bird's nest, most of the time she would look at the direction of the bird's nest through the window, just looking at the tears unconsciously smashed down.
Soon on the day of the opening ceremony, gongs and drums resounded throughout the city of Beijing, and brilliant fireworks bloomed in the sky.
Liu Yan asked the nurse to tighten the curtains, she did not dare to look at everything outside the window, even more did not dare to watch TV, hid herself in the quilt, but her ears were blocked and she could still hear the sound.
So she took out a small speaker and put on her favorite song, and she didn't know when she was already in tears, and finally she couldn't help but watch the Olympic live broadcast.
On that gorgeous picture scroll, the "Flying Goddess" Yin Shuo was dancing, and Liu Yan was in tears, and he couldn't help but cry again, all of which originally belonged to him.
On the fourth day after the opening ceremony, Zhang Yimou led the entire director team to visit her in the hospital, and Liu Yan freshened up early and told himself over and over again: "Control your emotions, you have to be strong, nothing."
However, the moment I saw them, the tears were uncontrollable.
Zhang Yimou looked at Liu Yan with guilt and said, "You are the deepest pain in my heart, Liu Yan, you are the real hero!" ”
He brought Liu Yan a card, thanking her for all she had done for the Olympics and calling her a hero.
Liu Yan wept again, remembering the encouragement and support of his partners, determined to inspire himself to work hard to recover with one in ten thousand hopes.
So under the guidance of the doctor, the day-to-day rehabilitation training began.
As a doctor, the mother looked at her daughter like this, heartache and could not breathe, as a medical worker she knew: "Unless a miracle comes, she can't stand up."
Then when Liu Yan was sweating profusely after training and raised her face to ask her: "Mom, you said I will not be good", she would still smile and tell her with tears: "It will be good!" ”
However, this white lie only supported Liu Yan for more than half a year, and she gradually found that no matter how she gritted her teeth and exercised her legs, she did not get any better.
Liu Yan's confidence was greatly hit, and he didn't know how to vent his depression.
On this day, Liu Yan took the medicine and looked at the glass medicine bottle for a long time, and then asked the aunt who took care of him: "Will you clean up this afternoon?" ”
Auntie nodded inexplicably, and then Liu Yan: "Can I throw it to the ground?" ”
Seeing that her aunt was confused, she dragged herself and cried and said again: "I want to throw it on the ground."
At that moment, she just wanted to drop the bottle, and even the venting was restrained.
The aunt who understood it hugged Liu Yan and cried.
That day, Liu Yan seemed to want to open a lot of things, and when she watched her mother busy in front of the hospital bed, she suddenly felt that she was much older.
Liu Yan knew that he couldn't go on in such decadence, and it was useless to complain about the world.
"I can't stand and dance, just sit and dance, my legs are ruined and I still have my hands!"
So on January 20, 2009, Liu Yan applied for discharge with the permission of the doctor.
She went to a ballet in a wheelchair, and looked at the actors on the stage who tiptoed and danced, and she had a complete emotional breakdown, and once upon a time, she stood on the stage in such a glamorous way.
The official comeback of the mood was in March 2009, when Liu Yan participated in an award ceremony.
She was voted the most popular dancer, and Zhang Yimou and Song Zuying personally presented her with awards.
It was also from this year that Liu Yan and his team started a public welfare project to fund children who did not have financial conditions to dance.
In 2010, Liu Yan decided to return to school for further study: "Dance will always be my dream, although I can't dance, but the knowledge is also infinite!" ”
So with the support of her parents Liu Yan, she applied for a doctoral degree at the China Academy of Arts, and during her studies, she took a wheelchair to the library to watch performances and discuss details with her classmates.
As good as her, as soon as she graduated in 2013, she received an olive branch from her alma mater and hired her to return to school as a teacher.
Liu Yan stepped into his alma mater again, recalling the bits and pieces of his learning to dance here, and his heart was full of mixed feelings.
Liu Yan said: "Today, I am not a dancer, but a scholar, and I hope to help my students!" ”
While instructing the students to dance, she worked hard to study hand dance, and during the epidemic, Liu Yan choreographed the gesture dance "Hand Protection" to send to the volunteers fighting the epidemic.
In September 2021, under Liu Yan's tireless research, the book "Impressions of Hands, Handprints and the Relationship between Handprints and Classical Chinese Hand Dance" was released for sale.
As the first researcher in the field, Liu Yan filled the gap in this regard.
And such achievements also filled the gap in Liu Yan's life that could not dance, and she finally bloomed the flower of her life in another way