Original title: "Beijing Model" brings mountain children to the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics
"Chinese children and children in mountainous areas are different from the past. The children of the mountains sang "Ode to the Olympics" in Greek, which said it all. Such a way is very unique. This is the interpretation of the choir team by Zhang Yimou, the general director of the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, and the main creative team.
On the evening of February 4, when the Olympic flag was raised, the pure and ethereal "Olympic Anthem" echoed throughout the Bird's Nest, and also sang into the hearts of everyone who paid attention to the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. 44 cute and childish smiling faces dressed in tiger head suits, pedaling tiger head shoes, gently swaying with the music, this young choir that sings in Greek for the world is called "Ma Lanhua Choir", they all come from five rural primary schools in Chengnanzhuang, Fuping County, Baoding, Hebei Province, and are real "children in the mountains." ”
The distance between Chengnanzhuang and downtown Beijing is 300 kilometers, and most of their children are coming to Beijing for the first time and are on the official performance stage for the first time. The reason why it can be discovered and selected by the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee, in addition to the children's efforts, is inseparable from the dedication and silent dedication of the 2022 Beijing role model Fu Baohuan and the 2011 Beijing role model Deng Xiaolan.
Form a choir and pay tribute to your dreams with your songs
2021 is the fifth year of the 2020 Beijing Role Model "Beijing Old Principal" Xiaxiang Volunteer Teaching Group and retired music special teacher of Beijing Chongwen Primary School in Fuping County. One day in September 2021, Fu Baohuan received a call from the staff of the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee. The other party proposed that he hoped to go to Fuping to see if the children there could undertake the task of singing the Olympic games at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics more than four months later. "At that time, my first feeling was that I was happy for the children of Fuping, who had the opportunity to be examined if they could participate in such a major event. But I was also worried, I knew how far away Fuping's children were from the concert songs at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics, and I really had a bit of a drum in my heart. Fu Baohuan said.
Agreed with the Winter Olympic Organizing Committee, Fu Baohuan arrived in Chengnanzhuang a day in advance. That night, she hardly slept all night, thinking about how to make the children of Chengnanzhuang show their best in front of the representatives of the Beijing Winter Olympic Organizing Committee tomorrow. The next day, the venue for the meeting was selected at The Malan Primary School in Malan Village, Seongnamzhuang, where 100 children sang "School Song" and Fu Baohuan's Czech folk song "White Dove", and children from different schools sang the school songs of their respective schools. Whenever he recalled this experience, Fu Baohuan was excited and excitedly sighed, "After singing, I was very surprised. The Organizing Committee of the Winter Olympics immediately made a decision and decided that the children of Nanzhuang in Fuping City would undertake the task of singing the Olympic games at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games. I felt that the preparation for the day was not in vain, and the representatives of Fuping County and Baoding City who were present were particularly excited. ”
With the expectation of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and the dream of stepping onto the big stage, the children practiced diligently under the leadership of Fu Baohuan. At a video briefing at the end of December 2021, their wonderful performance won a round of applause. Zhang Yimou, the general director of the opening ceremony, took the lead in applauding and said: "Great! I was such a red-faced child! The kids sang so well, it was so good. ”
Spring wind and rain, with the original heart to forge hope
Deng Xiaolan, a 2011 beijing role model, is now 78 years old. In the summer of 2004, after retiring, she came from Beijing to Malan Village, Nanzhuang Town, Chengnanzhuang Town, Fuping County, Hebei Province, and began to teach music lessons to children in the mountains, where she spent half of her year, for 18 years, and still sticks to her post.
Deng Xiaolan came to Malan Village once every six months to teach the children to sing the national anthem, the Young Pioneers song, and songs such as "Singing and Smiling". In October 2006, she brought several guitars, accordions and violins from her home in Beijing to form the Malan band of six children. In the summer of 2013, Deng Xiaolan held a forest concert in the valley of Malan Village, and 20 mountain dolls played the violin, and the melodious sound of the piano flew through the woods and flew out of the mountain. "I like to teach children to sing, and music opens a window for children", she believes that a generation has a generational mission to do something meaningful. In recent years, the small band has trained nearly 100 people, and Beijing, Shanghai and other places have left their footprints and songs. The story of her volunteer teaching in Malan Village also deeply touched the Beijing Winter Olympic Organizing Committee.
Children are not only a microcosm of the "Winter Olympics for all", but also let the world see the true face of contemporary China. Beijing's role models carry the original intention and perseverance, and use practical actions to exert enthusiasm and protect dreams. They are amiable, respectable and learnable, and they are the promoters of the Chinese spirit in the new era, the practitioners of Chinese values, and the contributors of China's strength, condensing a strong positive energy for the whole society to be good. Pay tribute to every Beijing role model, and all the heroes behind the scenes who work silently, jointly help the Winter Olympics, pass on Chinese culture, tell Chinese stories well, and practice the beautiful agreement to the future together.
Source: Qianlong Network