Children in the mountains board the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics There is an old man with music education behind him

At the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics on February 4, 2022, 44 children from the depths of the Taihang Mountains sang the Greek Olympic song "Ode to the Olympics" with a natural sound. Zhang Yimou, the director of the opening ceremony, invited these children in the mountains to originate from "they really convey the new face of our new era today - the new face of the next generation of the people." China is now out of poverty, and China's children, the children in the mountains, are different from the past. ”

Behind this group of children who sang the world in the Bird's Nest Stadium is Deng Xiaolan, an old man who has been working silently for more than ten years and selflessly dedicated music education volunteers. For more than ten years, Deng Xiaolan has traveled back and forth between Beijing and Malan Village, which is located deep in the Taihang Mountains, dozens of times a year, to improve the reading environment of local children and let the children in the mountains feel the beauty of music.

Editor/Tan Weiping