Hebei News Network, February 4 (Hebei Daily reporter Baiyun) "Here it is, it is coming. At about 22:00, in Malan New Village, Chengnanzhuang Town, Fuping County, Baoding City, Xi Jinhai approached the TV to look for his daughter's face. At the same time, at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics, his 11-year-old daughter Xi Qingru participated in the performance of the Olympic song "Ode to the Olympics" at the Bird's Nest.
The children sang in Greek, with clear, childlike voices, strength and yearning. Xi Jinhai, a mountain man, couldn't understand it, and his dark face was full of smiles.
Children perform on the Moon Stage.
The choir that sings for the whole world is called The Ma Lan Hua Choir, with a total of 44 children from five mountain primary schools in Fuping, namely Bayi School, Stone Monkey Primary School, Jinggou Primary School, Da'andi Primary School and Ma Lan Primary School in Nanzhuang Town, Fuping County. Among them, 5-year-old Han Shuxin, 11-year-old Li Zhengze ...
Looking at the whole country, high-level primary school choirs abound, why did the opening ceremony director group choose this group of children in the mountains?
Fuping County, located in the eastern foothills of the northern Taihang Mountains, was once known as the "three districts in one" of the old area, the mountainous area and the poor area. On December 29, 2012, It was from here that China's march against poverty was issued.
In 2019, Xi Jinhai moved from the old mansion in Teagou Village, where he lived for nearly 40 years, to a spacious new building provided by the government, and he became a local fire ranger, with an annual income of more than 10,000 yuan.
On February 29, 2020, Fuping County was lifted out of poverty.
This year, the national battle against poverty has won a comprehensive victory.
A moon stage built in the Music Valley of Malan Village.
"The first thing the director group paid attention to was stone monkey primary school." Liu Kai, principal of the xiazhuang school district in Chengnanzhuang Town, Fuping County, said that in October 2016, the primary school welcomed the first batch of old principals in the "old principal going to the countryside" activity, including Fu Baohuan, a special music teacher at Beijing Chongwen Primary School. Fu Baohuan brought music to the children.
Liu Kai also recommended several other primary schools to the director group, "Our Malan Primary School has held four Malan Children's Music Festivals. ”
In 2004, Deng Xiaolan, a retired police officer in Beijing, began teaching music at Malan Elementary School. 80 years ago, her father, Deng Tuo, was in Malan Village, where she founded the Jin-Cha-Ji Daily.
Xi Qingru learned a lot of songs with Deng Xiaolan, and would also use harmonica and violin to play "Ode to Joy" and "On the Top of Nadong Mountain", and when Xi Jinhai was doing farm work, Xi Qingru would squat on a low tree branch and sing to him.
"The Olympics sing about the Olympic spirit." Xi Qingru said that in the choir, she also felt friendship and hard work.
"It's amazing that a bunch of mountain kids sang olympic picks to such a level." Similar comments almost swept the screen after the opening ceremony.
In more than three months, learning a foreign language song and reaching the level of performance, how do the children do it?
After the establishment of the choir, there were many teachers majoring in culture, music and foreign languages in Xiazhuang School District, Chengnanzhuang Town, Fuping Middle School, Baoding College Of Music and Dance, Beijing Foreign Chinese University, and provided guidance and training for children from the aspects of pitch, language, and meaning of lyrics.
The theme of this Beijing Winter Olympics is "Together to the Future". After the opening ceremony performance, the children of Fuping talked about their dreams - "The lights of the Bird's Nest are beautiful, and the outside world is so big." In the future, I want to be like Teacher Deng and become a music teacher. Xi Qingru said.
(Video and picture from the Propaganda Department of Baoding Municipal Party Committee)