From bird's nest to bird's nest The whole world is listening to the children of the mountain singing

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China Youth Daily and China Youth Network reporter Ma Yuping

As the audience fell silent, more than 50,000 people at the National Stadium awaited the moment: at the opening ceremony of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, the Greek "Olympic Ode" sounded. There was no accompaniment, and this time, it was 44 Chinese children who sang it.

By any measure, the world is not looking at a first-class choir: 4 months ago, most of them had just come to know the score.

The children come from Fuping County, Baoding City, Hebei Province, deep in the Taihang Mountains, which has long belonged to an underdeveloped part of China and which just two years ago eradicated absolute poverty. The music teacher picked out five rural elementary schools twice and barely managed to form a two-part choir.

When selecting these children, let the children sing a song that can be sung, the most sung are "School Song", "Selling Newspaper Song" and "Without the Communist Party, There Would Be No New China".

After months of rehearsal, the choir came on. Zhang Yimou, the general director of the opening ceremony, commented to reporters that he liked the performances of these children. "I think it's a natural sound, and it really conveys the new face of our new era today — the new face of the next generation of the people."

When preparing for the opening ceremony, Zhang Yimou had a sudden idea and invited the children in the mountains to stand on such a stage and sing in Greek. His idea was supported by the Beijing Winter Olympic Organizing Committee.

Zhang Yimou said that when he first heard the children's songs, including him, everyone was very touched, "the children are particularly sincere and simple." The staff decorated their chests with joyful tiger heads, reminding everyone through these tiger-headed children that this Winter Olympics coincided with the Year of the Tiger in the Chinese lunar calendar.

After two or three months of study, 12-year-old choir member Li Longen still can't Chinese the meaning of each lyric. She was one of the oldest children in the group, the youngest being only 5 years old. She heard her teacher say the song "celebrates a strong body and an immortal Olympic spirit." As for the "valleys and mountains" in the lyrics, she is very familiar with it, she grew up in that place, and she also started from that place.

Born in a place called Qiangou, Li Longen's fourth-grade Gu Zhanhao is familiar with the terrain and wildlife around "Gujiagou", and he used to go to school to cross a mountain along a dirt road. Before arriving in Beijing this time, Li Tianyu of "Songjiagou" went as far as Malan Village in the same township.

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Liang Youlin is one of the few children in the choir who has been to Beijing. He was attracted by the advertisement for the aquarium on TV, and his mother took him on a bus ride for 3 hours.

For the city, about 300 kilometers away and hosting two Olympic Games, his impression is that "there are no mountains, few trees, and traffic is very congested."

Liang Youlin attends Da'andi Primary School, which uses a huge baffle to isolate noise on national highway 207, which runs through the north and south of China. On the other side of the road is the mountain.

The day before the music teacher came to select people, Liang Youlin had just finished the National Day holiday - riding a bicycle to show off his skills on the village road, and the two dogs in the family followed behind to "guard". Liang Gang, the father, drives a bus in the county seat, and when he has time, he will take his son to the river with a homemade fishing rod to fish and catch Wang Ba, and go to the nearby Aviation Museum to see planes and cannons.

Liang Youlin likes the Japanese tv series "Ultraman", and when he grows up, he wants to become a soldier and "guard peace and justice".

Much of what he learned about the Olympics came from physical education classes. He was not yet born when Beijing hosted the Summer Olympics in 2008. He knew from the classroom that the medal at the Beijing Olympics was "gold inlaid with jade"; in Beijing, American swimmer Phelps won eight gold medals, the most gold medals in a single Olympic event so far, and the dark-skinned Jamaican Bolt set a new world record in the men's 100-meter race.

Another female classmate was impressed by the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, and her favorite shot put player Gong Lijiao. "She's from Hebei, and I think she's cute," said the fourth-grade girl, who is better looking than the "internet celebrities" on the short video platform.

These children get some direct insight into the outside world from all kinds of videos. The whole territory of Fuping County is covered with mountains, with schools and villages embedded in valleys. Liang Youlin's home is in the village of Eye Medicine, halfway up the mountainside, by the road, and there are three or four kilometers to the school.

Lee Long-eun's house was deeper in another mountain. The road is not easy to walk, and people follow the bottom of the river valley and step on the stones in the river to get out of the mountain. Before the summer rainstorm comes, the family should reserve food, medicine and water in advance, and once the rain falls, the water at the bottom of the valley will flood the thighs, and people will be trapped at home for a few days.

Small patches of farmland planted with corn are scattered around the mountain, and people draw water from puddles on the mountain to water the land. Most of the cash crops are red dates, and the jujube trees are drought-resistant and usually only need to be killed regularly. But one year, even the jujube trees died of drought.

There is a ditch in this part of Qiangou Village, but there is no "money". In 2012, the per capita disposable income of Qiangou Village was 900 yuan, less than 1/8 of the national rural average.

Parents are trying their best to send their children out of the mountains. Before Li Longen entered the first grade, her mother Zhang Hongxia took her two children to rent two private houses in the town, renting 2,000 yuan per year. She and her sister can attend the town's primary school nearby without having to walk up the mountain for 1 hour.

Over the past few years, China has implemented a "relocation" initiative to reduce poverty, moving out these residents living in the mountains. A five-year plan to this end completes the migration of more than 9.6 million people. Lee Long-eun is among them. She moved to town and didn't need to rent a house.

For the beijing Winter Olympics performance, parents only knew for months that "there are teachers who want to come to school, and then choose one and let the children sing."

When the teacher selected people, Liang Youlin was excited and nervous, he first did not know what songs to prepare, and he was afraid of singing badly. He loves to participate in this kind of activity. He was one of the very few children in the choir who had been exposed to musical instruments.

"If you can choose better, if you can't choose, let's exercise, next time there will be a chance." His mother, Zhao Xing, comforted him. Zhao Xing works as an informant in the next village, earning about 1500 yuan a month. She once dragged her son to the county town 40 miles away from home to sign up for a painting interest class, hoping to calm him down.

But Liang Youlin was eventually attracted to a set of drum kits. Zhao Xing respected his son's opinion. The price of the drum was 3,000 yuan, which cost her two months' salary. Every Saturday, she takes her son to class, and the tuition fee is 800 yuan per semester.

Grandpa "sponsored" a handheld stereo, which was originally placed on a farm tricycle to listen to songs, and later placed next to a drum kit for Liang Youlin to accompany when practicing. Once, when the school held a Children's Day performance, Liang Youlin went to knock on the door of the principal's office to win the opportunity to perform, and the drum kit went to the school in a farm tricycle.

This time, Liang Youlin and more than 70 students from Stone Monkey Primary School, Jinggou Primary School, Malan Primary School and Bayi School in Nanzhuang Town, Chengnanzhuang Town, Fuping County, entered the preliminary selection list of the choir. Seven students from his Great Shore Bottom Elementary School were selected, accounting for nearly one-tenth of the school's students.

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Olympiad is derived from an ancient Greek piece of music composed by the poet Samaras. In 1896, the first modern Olympic Games in Athens, this piece was used for the first time. Later, according to the decision of the International Olympic Committee, the solemn Olympic anthem was sung at the opening ceremony of every Olympic Games since 1960.

At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang and the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, the performers of this song are all famous singers. Beijing's intention to raise the Olympic flag amid the songs of these wild children is a challenge.

"Fuping wants to raise the strength of the whole county, the first thing is to send teachers over." Su Zhiyan, a music teacher at Fuping Middle School, the "highest school" in the county, and another colleague were the first "foreign aid" to arrive in town.

Gao Yue, a music teacher at Bayi School, found the stave of the song on the Internet and "translated" it into the first edition of the score. Subsequently, Fu Baohuan, a former special music teacher at Beijing Chongwen Primary School, who taught locally, made the simplified score "difficulty coefficient adjustment", changing from four voice parts to two voice parts, and at the end to three voice parts.

When he got the score, Su Zhiyan felt that it was too difficult. The song has three chapters, longer than the children usually contact, the most difficult thing is that the whole song often rises by half a key and then drops by half a key, "the song is bent".

"Even if someone who has undergone many years of professional training in music forms a relatively formed choir, it takes a while to run in and rehearse." Su Zhiyan said.

But local music education is not complete. In 2016, retired teacher Fu Baohuan traveled from Beijing to Fuping to teach. She thought she was in charge of training music teachers, but when she arrived, she found out that she was the only music teacher.

The two primary schools share an electronic keyboard, and Fu Baohuan usually has to take a car to another school after class at one school. She is guaranteed a 40-minute music lesson per grade every month. Time is limited, and it is impossible to start from the most basic knowledge of music theory. You can only quickly complete the teaching of a song, so that students "feel the joy in it".

The first thing Su Zhiyan has to do is to choose people, and choose more suitable for chorus among the students who are selected in the primary. She worked as a music teacher in elementary, middle and high schools, and "the child knows as soon as he gets on the scene that he [sings] or not."

She remembered that the first child who walked up to the front saw the teacher start to be frightened and did not make a sound. The second one is also true.

Su Zhiyan decided to go a different way, singing their familiar songs in groups of 5 children in groups.

"Okay, the sound is there, but I can't find a home." Su Zhiyan stopped the interview after listening to the two groups and suggested that the class be held first. Which is better for chorus, which has more potential, she will know after a week of class.

The following week, the children do exhalation breathing exercises, learn to speak, and start by singing "do re mi fa".

"They're hungry for music, and that's the most important thing. He will try very hard to follow you and try over and over again. Su Zhiyan said.

Music teachers were later surprised to find that the children made few mistakes in the tonalities that "scared the music majors." By ear and memory, they wrote down the correct tune of the whole song.

The choir members are concentrated in the Bayi School, arranged individually, and in addition to the 5 hours of vocal practice every day, their cultural classes have not been left behind. There are only 4 second-year students in the group, but this does not prevent them from having separate small classrooms and curriculums.

Gao Yue is a music teacher and a life teacher, and she lives with her children in a dormitory converted from an electric classroom and a computer room. In the beginning, just after dark, there were children who would cry and miss home. Emotions can be contagious, and other children begin to cry along with them. A second-grader began to cry and said, "I want to be a Chinese teacher," but she can't remember what the chinese teacher's last name was. Her parents divorced, and she and her mother didn't stay long.

One of the children, singing until halfway through, ran out of the classroom and said "itchy head" to the teacher. She had head lice on her head. She told the teacher that her father worked in Beijing and that her mother had already given herself lice medicine. The teacher carefully helped her clean it up with grates over and over again to prevent the head lice from causing more trouble.

After joining the group, Liang Youlin behaved relatively calmly, but as soon as he arrived on Thursday, he said that he had a headache and needed his parents to take him home. Later, his mother found out that it was a trick he used because he was homesick.

"If you really want to sing, insist," his mother told him, "and you can't eat this pain, so don't go." After that, Liang Youlin never missed six days of training every week.

He wanted to go to Beijing, and his brother Liang Youqi, who was in high school, repeatedly told him that the opportunity was good, that he should train well, and that he should not be brushed off. Liang Youqi also hopes that his younger brother will "realize the importance of learning English" through this performance.

"'Qilin' is the mood of hoping for Jackie Chan." Liang Youlin's father explained the meaning of the names of the two sons.

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By mid-October 2021, the township elementary school was in real Greek. Qin Yezhen, a teacher at the School of European Languages and Cultures at Beijing Chinese University, and Lin Jiahao, an assistant teacher, arrived in Fuping to teach the children Greek.

Zhang Hongyu, dean of the School of Music and Dance of Baoding University, also brought the teaching team to the school, and the team was divided into two groups, responsible for the training of the first and second half of the week.

Too late to start teaching the 24 Greek letters, Qin Yezhen and the teaching assistant decided to use the most acceptable method for children to use the Latin alphabet to reverse the Greek alphabet, which looked like a deformation of Hanyu Pinyin.

In order to make the children interested in learning the language, and more accustomed to the greek tongue biting and lip biting sounds, the mobile blackboard in the teaching building has some commonly used Greek greetings, such as "good morning", "thank you" and "good night".

Wang Jinyang, a 5th grader, remembers that the song released by the school had a simplified score and spelling greek pronunciation, which he had turned over. Before he went to bed, he memorized the whole song in Greek. When he first learned to sing, he didn't sing well, and when he came home from vacation, he searched the Internet with the keywords "Ode to the Olympics" or "Olympic Anthem" and found videos from the Olympic Games in Athens, Beijing and Tokyo. The rest of the team did the same.

Since then, they have speculated that the choir's rehearsals may have something to do with the Olympics.

But the teachers never mentioned the Olympics. They explained to reporters that one was afraid of putting pressure on the children, and the other was out of the need for confidentiality.

A child who did not keep up with the pace of training was worried about being brushed off, and she cried and told her father, "Isn't it just going to Zhangjiakou, when the time comes, you take me, they sing on stage, I sing offstage." ”

When praised by his teacher, Wang Jinyang would imagine himself singing on the olympic stage. "I'm definitely going to Beijing," he thought.

However, similar to athletes competing to qualify for the Olympics, choir children will go through a process of elimination in the next few months, and some of them will not be able to play. Half a month later, the number of personnel was reduced to 50.

Children have asked this question: Why is there elimination?

A staff member of the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee tried to explain it this way: "You know the Olympic Games, do you know that many athletes are used as substitutes?" ”

Gu Zhanhao, 11, raised his hand to answer the question: "I know, I think we are substitutes." He also explained that at one of the group events, 11 children in front of him fell ill, so he and others made up for it.

Gu Zhanhao's idol is short track speed skater Wu Dajing. He had seen the video of Wu Dajing's competition many times, and the commentary was almost memorized. When the sprint lap was played, he stood by the couch at home, watching and imitating.

Regarding the Olympic Games, Li Nan, a physical education teacher at Bayi School, said in class, "Not every athlete will become an Olympic champion, but everyone who works hard for the goal deserves respect." She hopes that students will experience the Olympic spirit proposed by Coubertin, the father of the modern Olympic Games, in the Olympic Charter – the "spirit of mutual understanding, friendship, solidarity and fair competition".

In the choir, Su Zhiyan told the children: "There is only us in the chorus, not me." ”

One morning, xu Hongtao, a fifth-grader, had to return to his original class— he was eliminated by the choir. He caught a glimpse of the girl who had returned with him with tears on her face. Still, he stressed that he was "a little sad, but not crying."

That day began, for him, a choral "Olympic" was over, but another "Olympic" was about to begin: that afternoon, he participated in the activities of the land curling club, which was related to the selection of an intercollegiate competition.

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From sports like curling on land, these kids have seen the power of the Olympics. In 2015, Beijing and Zhangjiakou City won the right to host the 2022 Winter Olympics. Since then, these Hebei children have been exposed to more ice and snow sports. Rural primary schools are not in a position to build an ice rink, but roller skating classes and land curling classes have been held, and "ice and snow games" have been held.

Li Nan specially made courseware to tell the students about the Olympic Games. She noticed that when it was time to play the game video, the class immediately became quiet.

Regarding the content of the Winter Olympics, Li Longen wrote down the title page of his notebook, such as China's Wang Meng broke the world record 10 times, Yang Yang had 59 world championship titles, and Wu Dajing was the Pyeongchang Winter Olympic champion.

In the past, of course, children like Li Longen also skated on the ice. In winter, the snow is thick, melted, and frozen again, forming an ice waterfall, and the children slip off the ice in fat cotton pants. That's their snow sports.

In 2020, at Bayi School in Fuping County, Hebei Province announced the distribution of 100,000 pairs of roller skates to rural primary schools, each school rationing according to the maximum class capacity.

Wearing this pair of "combat boots", Gu Zhanhao participated in the 2021 Fuping County Youth Roller Skating Competition. The playing field was a plastic track, and he felt that "it was better to slide fast on the cement floor, and the shoes were stuck.".

That time, Li Nan took 13 children to the competition, and only two or three people got the ranking. The students lost the game and hid behind her to shed tears. She told the story of Olympic champions Zhang Jike, Liu Xiang and Lin Dan, hoping that these people's "attitude to injuries, games, and the Olympic spirit they showed" would have an effect.

Land curling is a popular version of the Olympic curling program. In 2019, Li Nan took students who "had not touched land curling before entering the field" to participate in the first land curling competition in the county and won the first place. The students only "tried two pots per person" when they warmed up before the game, and Li Nan found some game videos on the Internet according to the information brought back from the physical education teacher training meeting to tell the students about the rules and actions of the game.

The following year, the school purchased a set of land curling equipment, and the training ground was set up in the school canteen. When it's cold enough, schools also use earthwork to build "snow tracks" – teachers and parents collect the snow and pull it to the school playground by car. Rent a snow machine to ensure the thickness of the slopes. Students can wear roller skates to exercise on it.

The "ice track" of curling is relatively easy, and the experience of the principals is to lay a plastic film on the land curling track, set up baffles around the track, and then sprinkle water on the middle. After the water freezes to ice, continue to water... Until the track is able to hold curling competitions.

Because of the chorus, Gu Zhanhao and 4 team members missed the roller skating competition in the winter of 2021. Li Nan comforted them, "Roller skating competitions are often there, and going to sing may not be once in decades. ”

What Li Nan did not tell the students was that she and her friends had also applied to volunteer for the Winter Olympics, but failed. She "would love to have something to do with the Winter Olympics" and envied her students. "If you have the opportunity to participate, even if you go to be a small volunteer, to be a service person, you will feel very proud."

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In fact, Liu Kai, the first to receive a call from the "Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee", the principal of The Xia School District in Fuping County, first knew that the performance venue was in the "Bird's Nest". But he didn't tell the students.

The Bird's Nest was the main venue for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and the choir's children had only seen it online.

Liu Kai remembers that in mid-September 2021, he received a strange call from a person who called himself the "Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee" and wanted to go to school to watch the "Malan Little Band" performance. He was afraid of being a liar, did not agree, and told the other party, "Please send a letter to contact the Education Bureau."

The Malan Band is famous in Fuping and has members from Malan Elementary School next to Tieguan Mountain. The elementary school has just over 90 students and only had a full music teacher 4 years ago.

The little band has been in existence for almost 16 years. Deng Xiaolan, 78, the founder and sole instructor, came to teach children in Malan Village to sing after retiring from Beijing. This is where her writer father, Deng Tuo, worked. The pen name "Manang Estate" used by Deng Tuo is the harmonic sound of "Ma Lan Village".

When Deng Xiaolan returned to the village, he found that "the children here can't sing any songs", and his heart was very unhappy, and he decided to teach them.

She "scavenged" idle musical instruments from relatives and friends, violins, accordions, flutes, trumpets, and when she collected one, she carried one to the village of Maran. In the first few years, the village was still a dirt road, the railway was not developed, and she left her home in Beijing at 7 o'clock in the morning and could not arrive until the evening.

Sun Zhixue, 22, was once a piper in a small band. She remembers the first time she pressed the keys of the piano in a classroom that would leak rain on that rainy day and there were firewood piled up behind her desk. Today, she graduated from the Northern University for Nationalities with a degree in musicology, where she studied the playing techniques of Mozart's Flute Concerto No. 1 in G major.

The small band practiced Chinese and foreign folk songs such as "Edelweiss", "Hawthorn Tree", "Farewell", etc., and also Pocelini's "Little Step Dance". Deng Xiaolan filled in a Malan village version of "Homecoming" according to the song of the American folk song "Country Road Take Me Home", and she hoped that after the children grew up and left their hometown, they might be able to remember this song and have less of a sense of wandering.

There is no threshold for bands to recruit members. As long as you want to learn music, you can come. But the size of the band is always so "small": the old members go to school and leave, and the new members make up for it. In the early years, children practiced violin standing by their pigsty and held music festivals in the reed-lush river valley.

Deng Xiaolan found a way to create opportunities for children to take them out to perform. After the 2008 Beijing Olympics, she took the members of Malan's small band to visit the Bird's Nest.

Liu Ailing, 24, was one of the children who visited the Bird's Nest that year and is now in college. She recalled to reporters that it was the first time she took the train and the first time she knew that "the subway is going underground." When she saw the bird's nest, her impression was "really similar to the bird's nest in the trees in our village."

Now, another group of children is going to the nest, this time on stage.

As the rehearsal progressed, the inductees gradually guessed the secret performance occasion: the Olympic Games.

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A lot of details tell these kids that their performances are important. As the Winter Olympics approached, the teachers of the Central Conservatory of Music came, as did the accordionists who had been performing at the National Centre for the Performing Arts for many years.

Yang Zixuan, the sister of choir member Yang Zirui, is a high school student, and she is very envious of her sister's opportunities, and has asked several times in a row, "Is it really the Winter Olympics?" ”

Yang Zixuan learned vocal music and drum kits when he was a child, and performed in towns, counties, cities and provincial capitals. Her solo repertoire is the Taiwanese inspirational song "If the Wine Sells Nothing". Sometimes she would follow her teacher to the scene of the business celebration, and the stage was the back of the pickup truck. The car drove to a place, laid out a red carpet, and set up the steps.

She instructed her sister to paint her lips a little red when she took the stage so that she could recognize her in front of the TV. She also rushed to introduce her sister to the Chinese athletes of the Winter Olympics, in case she could see them on the spot.

"Because I want to keep it secret", Yang Zixuan did not tell his classmates that his sister was going to the Winter Olympics. She thought that when the Winter Olympics opened, she would tell everyone.

Yang Zirui, 11, has studied dance in the county, has passed the 8th grade, and insists on taking speech and elocution courses. In a recent midterm exam, she took the second place in her grade, "chorus did not affect learning".

Her mother, who studied in college, now runs a small supermarket opposite Jinggou Elementary School. The mother said that she hopes that the children will study hard, see the world more, and be like their uncles in the future, they will be admitted to prestigious universities and graduate school.

Before going to Beijing, Li Longen followed his mother Zhao Hongxia back to his "hometown" in the ravine for a day of relaxation. She mashed a bag of biscuits to make fish food, climbing trees, catching fish, and herding sheep were all things she was good at.

The original site of the "home" has been reclaimed as arable land. In 2019, they divided a four-bedroom and one-living house in the town, with 125 square meters. The farm tools were not willing to be thrown away, and they were stored in an undemolished house on the top of the hill.

Zhao Hongxia spent several years in Beijing. In 1999, she was not married, and went to Beijing to work, earning three or four hundred yuan a month. She used the money she earned to enroll in a Western-style pastry course. According to the plan, after completing her studies, she will stay in Beijing and become a pastry chef in a high-end hotel or bakery.

But within a few days of school, she was called home by her relatives, married into the mountains, and became a mother of 3 children.

Her pasta skills are not lost. After the child went to school, she got her driver's license and ran after the market in a pickup truck. From the Internet to find the source of goods, wholesale bags, sell "the whole town of Chengnanzhuang can not find the second" style. Next to the bag stall, the supply of baked cakes she makes is in short supply, and she can sell up to 200 baked cakes a day, use up to 20 pounds of flour, and make 2 dimes per baked cake. When the market was temporarily closed during the COVID-19 pandemic, she went to the mountains to do odd jobs and whitewash the saplings to help them survive the winter.

Moving out of the mountains, she and her husband have new things to worry about, and the water they drink, the dishes they eat, and the gas they use for cooking cost money. They are like parents of other children in jobs that they can do. Fathers drive excavators or do odd jobs at construction sites, mothers do cleaning jobs in government-provided poverty alleviation jobs, or do simple manual work in the "poverty alleviation workshop" in front of their homes. The mother of a choir member, whose job is sewing apron pockets, earns 5 cents for each piece.

Zhao Hongxia felt that she had been living for others all her life. Her daughter was going to Beijing to sing, and she was happy, more than that, she felt relaxed. The child is given full authority to the school, and the suitcase, clothes, shoes, and even the cup of water for drinking water are provided by the school, and the family does not pay a penny. She can also make time for more work. She didn't want to limit her daughter to "how much power she has, as much support as she can."

Before taking the children to Beijing to perform, Gao Yue asked the teachers from Beijing one by one what items to prepare for the children. She was 26 years old and had been to Beijing when she was in college and had never been to the Bird's Nest.

For this performance, her expectations are not too high: "First of all, I hope they can sing accurately." And then after coming to the stage, be a little braver. ”

One Sunday before entering Beijing, Li Tianyu returned to Songjiagou and finished his homework at the home of his good friend Zhu Zixuan. They later climbed up the hill and from there they looked down on the village. "It feels like the world is so small." Li Tianyu sighed.

Zhu Zixuan squeezed the stone on the ground and said to him, "You have never seen the world, it is not that this world is small, it is that this village is so small." ”

In the Olympic selection of these mountain children, Zhu Zixuan was defeated. He wrote a letter to Li Tianyu in his writings. "When the time comes, will you tell me the story of going to the performance, there are not many people, and the stage is not big?" (End)

Source: China Youth Daily client