Did everyone watch the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics?
After reading it, I just want to say: Zhang Yimou is too good at it! So know Chinese!
There are not too many Chinese elements piled up in the eyes of foreigners, no domestic and foreign celebrity performances, and no sea of people tactics.
There are only cute children and the high-tech of the road to jane, but everywhere to show the world the power of China.
At the 2008 Olympics, we were anxious to show ourselves: come and get to know us.
At the 2022 Olympics, we're already pretty good: there's no need to show yourself.
From "Beijing welcomes you" to "together to the future", it is the broad mind of the people who live in the height of the temple.
Behind this cultural self-confidence, we don't care that we have to be perfect, so there is "My Motherland and Me" blown by the trumpeter.
There is no skill, only sincere emotion.
Of course, among the many programs,
What moved me the most was the "Ode to the Olympics" sung by the children of the Maranhua Choir.
44 cute children, standing in the center of the stage, wearing cute tiger head clothes and tiger head shoes, have made countless people cute.
When sung in a childlike voice, even those who do not know Greek will be deeply moved by the clarity, purity, innocence and ethereality of the song.
At the beginning, like many netizens, I thought that this group of little cuties came from a key primary school in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, or a well-known professional children's orchestra.
Later, I learned
This group of children came from a small mountain village deep in the Taihang Mountains.
They are not the children of the rich families of the big cities we imagine them to be in the big city.
They are the "Ma LanHua Children's Voice Choir" of several mountain village primary schools in Fuping County, Baoding City, Hebei Province.
The eldest of them, Li Zhengze, is 11 years old, and the youngest Han Shuxin is only 5 years old, and these 44 little cute people come from Bayi School, Stone Monkey Primary School, Jinggou Primary School, Da'andi Primary School, and Malan Primary School in Nanzhuang Town, Fuping County.
This group of children in the depths of the mountains can go out of the mountains and stand on the stage of the Olympic Games.
It is inseparable from the efforts of a 79-year-old man for more than ten years.
It was her daily volunteer teaching for more than ten years that planted a seed of music in this impoverished mountain village.
01, raised by her fellow countrymen, she is grateful
In 2004, Deng Xiaolan, a retired man, came from Beijing to a small mountain village in Hebei province and decided to teach music at a primary school there.
For 18 years, she spent half of her year in this small enclosed mountain village, living with her children in the company of music.
This decision stemmed from Deng Xiaolan's childhood experience.
In 1943, Deng Xiaolan was born in Yijiazhuang Village, Fuping County, Hebei Province.
Her father was Deng Tuo, the director of the Jin-Cha-Ji Daily, in the village of Malan. His mother, Ding Yilan, was also working for the Jin-Cha-Ji Daily at the time, working as an announcer at the founding ceremony of the People's Republic of China in 1949.
Her parents, on the one hand, are busy with work, and on the other hand, for the safety of their daughter, they put her in a local hometown home.
This was a very common phenomenon in that era, and during the years of artillery fire, Deng Xiaolan was well taken care of by his fellow villagers.
Deng Xiaolan grew up between Yijiazhuang Village, Mapeng Village and Malan Village, and she said she was
"Grew up eating the milk of his fellow villagers in Fuping."
Later, Deng Xiaolan grew up with her parents in many places, but Malan Village in Fuping County is still the deepest concern in her heart.
On the Qingming Festival in 2003, Deng Xiaolan returned to Malan Village to visit the graves of the martyrs who died in the Jin-Cha-Ji Daily.
After the event, Deng Xiaolan was arranged to sing a song with the children, but many of the children were confused.
"They can't sing anything."
Seeing this scene, Deng Xiaolan felt very uncomfortable. She secretly made up her mind:
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I want the children in the old district to have music to accompany them in their childhoods.
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02, back in the Taihang Mountains, she used music to enlighten the hearts of children
In 2004, Deng Xiaolan came to Malan Village again and decided to teach music, hoping that their barren childhood would be warmed by music.
At that time, Fuping County was still a typical poor mountainous area, not only did it not have a highway, but the general road conditions were not good.
Every time Deng Xiaolan came to Malan Village from home, he had to go around for seven or eight hours, catch the bus, squeeze the subway, take the train, and then take the long-distance bus and bus...
More than 400 kilometers of road, departing from Beijing in the morning, to Malan Village is already more than 6 o'clock in the evening.
The mountain road is winding and potholed, but Deng Xiaolan never complains and has always insisted on it.
This persistence was 18 years, and at the beginning she took advantage of it
She gave lessons to the children on weekends and holidays, and then she lived directly in the school and spent most of the year in the mountains.
The living environment of the mountain village is not good, especially in the environment of minus ten degrees celsius in winter, there is no heating and no air conditioning, which is very difficult. Sleeping at night with a hat on, you can feel the biting cold wind drilling through the crack in the door into the house.
Many friends do not understand that Deng Xiaolan does not enjoy a leisurely and comfortable retirement life, and he has to toss himself:
Why did you go to the mountains to teach your children to sing?
Whenever this happened, Deng Xiaolan responded with a smile:
"I love teaching children to sing and I love listening to them sing."
"I believe that good music always reminds people of the good side of life. Children who grow up with music will be able to treat life optimistically and positively. ”
Majestic Taihang Mountain, Qingqing Rouge River, Deng Xiaolan used music to open a window for children,
Let them recognize the outside world.
Here, Deng Xiaolan found that although these children were not as good as the city children who had been exposed to musical instruments and music education since childhood, they were very talented.
She simply repeats it a few times, and the children can sing a song in its entirety.
It can be seen that the children are not only talented, but also have perseverance and patience, and they always insist on learning and training.
Deng Xiaolan taught the children
Playing instruments, forming bands, she
Find a way to bring trumpets, flutes, electronic keyboards, violins, accordions and other instruments to schools from Beijing.
In 2008, she also took her children to Beijing, many of whom took the subway and the train for the first time.
Deng Xiaolan also took them to visit the Bird's Nest and go to Tiananmen Square to see the flag-raising ceremony... Also take them to the performance, so that the children in the mountains can really see the world outside the mountains.
The children graduated from school one by one, and the first students she taught had already graduated from college, and many of them were infected by Deng Xiaolan:
"Sun Zhixue studied flute at the Music College of the Northern University for Nationalities; Bai Baopeng studied at a normal college and became a teacher after graduation."
Because of the arrival of Deng Xiaolan, these children in the mountains were inspired by music and changed their destiny.
This is probably the power of music, the power of gentleness and kindness.
Watching the children's more and more wonderful performances in music, Deng Xiaolan decided to hold a special concert for everyone.
In preparation for this concert,
Deng Xiaolan rides an electric car back and forth every day. Once, she was in a hurry to keep an eye on the progress, and accidentally planted a large pit on the side of the road, and her left leg fell into a bone.
On August 24, 2013, in the secluded valley of the village of Malan,
20 team members stood on the stage of a bird that resembled a bird with wings spread, and brought a simple and innocent concert to everyone.
Deng Xiaolan was very pleased:
"I hope the children let go of hope and hold up tomorrow's dreams."
She let the children in the mountains really feel the charm of music, making them more confident and open-
The Maran Children's Music Festival has also been able to continue to be held, and it has also infected many primary schools around the area to cultivate children's musical literacy.
All the efforts paid off, and the children of Fuping County were selected to participate in the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics, and they followed the music out of the mountains.
03, the baby in the mountains stepped onto the Olympic stage, she is indispensable
In the more than three months of training at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games, Deng Xiaolan has also been accompanying the children to study and train.
On February 4, 2022, the opening ceremony of the 24th Winter Olympic Games in Beijing was held at the National Stadium.
Wearing a tiger's head coat and stepping on tiger head shoes, he sang the Olympic anthem in front of audiences all over the world.
These children in the mountains stood on the Olympic stage and sang for the Olympics, so that the world could hear their voices.
The children's simple and sincere singing touched countless netizens, and everyone felt that "a group of children in the mountains sang the Olympic Picke club to such a level, which is amazing." ”
At that moment, Deng Xiaolan, who was sitting in the audience, wanted to share this joy with his father: Ma Lan's children have gone to the world.
Deng Xiaolan was born here, and she not only walked out of the mountain village herself, but also accompanied the children of this mountain village to the world.
Today, Deng Xiaolan, who is 79 years old, is still engaged in her country music career.
Xi Qingru, a little girl who participated in the singing of the Winter Olympics, said:
"The lights at the 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. ”
Perhaps, this is exactly the sentiment of the older generation, the inheritance of a revolutionary spirit.
Hats off to Ms. Deng Xiaolan! Bless Deng Xiaolan and her students, and hope that they will continue to sing the symphony of fate and times.