If Liu Yan is not unexpected, it is possible to become an excellent dance artist like Yang Liping.
In 2008, Zhang Yimou was preparing for the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games and needed a good dancer.
Liu Yan participated in the selection with the mentality of trying it out, and among many excellent people, she once thought that she had no hope.
Zhang Yimou took a fancy to her and let Liu Yan act as a solo dancer.
Liu Yan was both happy and nervous, and for this opportunity, he practiced day and night.
However, 12 days before the opening ceremony, an accident changed Liu Yan's life and made Zhang Yimou feel guilty all his life.
Liu Yan, born in 1982, was born in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia. When he was born, his parents named Liu Nan.
When she was a child, she was often sick, and her grandfather planned to change her granddaughter's name and name her Liu Yan, hoping that she would stand like a high mountain stone.
In order to train their daughter, her parents sent her to study art, piano, violin and dance.
Liu Yan was interested in dance, and when he went to class, he was full of energy and did not forget to practice dance when he went home.
The parents saw that their daughter liked to dance, so they decided to train their daughter to dance.
Even if Liu Yan had to experience cruel leg pressing and shoulder opening, he also actively went to dance classes, painful and happy.
She was very talented in this area and soon stood out in the interest class and was praised by her teachers.
In 1991, 9-year-old Liu Yan was discovered by the Inner Mongolia Song and Dance Troupe and received more professional dance studies.
She began to follow Teacher Bai Ying's learning, and every day in addition to eating and sleeping, she only danced.
During that time, Liu Yan worked hard and his dance level went to a higher level.
She began to participate in the activities of the troupe, receiving applause from the audience and full of illusions about the future of the dance.
Liu Yan danced more actively and soon absorbed Bai Ying's dance knowledge.
A child who is not yet an adult is close to catching up with the teacher, Bai Ying feels that this little girl has a bright future and should accept more professional and authoritative dance learning.
Bai Ying suggested that Liu Yan go to Beijing and study at the Beijing Dance Academy, where she should stay.
Liu Yan went home full of hope to tell his parents, but was opposed by his parents.
Although the parents supported their daughters to learn dance, it was too far to go to Beijing to study.
Liu Yan is still an underage child, going to study so far away alone, his parents are not at ease at all.
Liu Yan told his parents: He likes dancing and dreams of becoming an excellent dancer.
Liu Yan's parents softened their hearts and agreed to let their daughter go to Beijing to study.
In 1993, at the age of 11, Liu Yan came to beijing dance academy to study and entered the affiliated middle school.
Here, Liu Yan accepts better learning, and his dancing level has also improved rapidly, and he is an excellent student in the class.
Parents look at their daughter's excellent results and feel proud.
After studying in middle school for 6 years, Liu Yan successfully entered the Beijing Dance Academy and studied classical dance.
She began to move on to a bigger stage, participating in dance competitions and getting excellent results.
However, every time, Liu Yan almost won the first place, which is a pity.
Classmates named her "Millennium Old Two", she was dissatisfied in her heart, and she must prove her strength to her classmates.
Whether it was day or night, Liu Yan only had to dance.
Finally approaching graduation, Liu Yan participated in the National Dance Competition and won the first gold medal with his original works, which was impressive.
After graduation, Liu Yan was invited by the school to serve as a professional dancer.
She began her career as a dance performer, standing on a larger stage.
And Liu Yan is not satisfied, she wants to become an excellent dance artist like Yang Liping, and improve her dance ability all the time.
She also participated in CCTV competitions and achieved good results, and was favored by CCTV and invited her to participate in the Spring Festival Gala in 2006.
Liu Yan, who received the news, was ecstatic, and he was satisfied to become a marginal figure on the stage, and he did not expect to dance with yang Liping and other outstanding dancers.
For this opportunity, Liu Yan did not dare to relax, practiced intensely every day, and finally presented a wonderful dance with Yang Liping.
She also made a name for herself in the dance circle and got better opportunities.
In 2008, Zhang Yimou was preparing for the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games and was preparing the dance "Silk Road" work, which required dancers.
Many outstanding dancers wanted to seize this opportunity to sign up, including Liu Yan.
As early as before, Zhang Yimou had heard of Liu Yan's ability in other people. I didn't expect to be shocked after watching it, and immediately decided to let her serve as the A-corner actor of "Silk Road".
Liu Yan, who received the news, was very excited and shared her joy with her parents for the first time, and her parents told her to perform well. She gave an affirmative answer.
For this performance, Liu Yan pushed off all the work in half a year and concentrated on solo dancing, without distraction.
In the early stage of the work, Liu Yan and Zhang Yimou repeatedly studied, and the dance movements, details, etc., must be perfectly presented.
In the end, Liu Yan showed the Dunhuang dance, playing the "flying goddess", the immortal qi fluttering, dancing on the scroll.
Zhang Yimou is very satisfied with her, but he also picks bones inside the egg in order to present a more accurate and exquisite picture.
Liu Yan is not too bitter or tired, seriously specialize in dance, and even go to specialize, look at other works, understand Dunhuang dance, to express more accurate emotions.
Later, Liu Yan began to train in the Bird's Nest, matching the stage, and finishing work every morning and evening. Every time she trained, she was very excited, even if she was tired, she had energy when she trained.
Zhang Yimou was full of praise for her, let her perform well, and strive to surprise the audience that day.
There is still a month to go to the opening ceremony, and Liu Yan is very much looking forward to it.
However, the rehearsal accident caused Liu Yan to collapse and miss the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games.
On July 27, 2008, Liu Yan, as usual, came to the bird's nest early to prepare for rehearsals.
There are still 12 days to go before the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games, and the on-site staff and performers are very nervous and prepared.
During Liu Yan's rehearsal, there was an action that required Liu Yan to jump from a step to the float to perform.
Before the rehearsal, Liu Yan and the staff cooperated very smoothly, but this time they did not know what was going on, and the staff pushed the trolley 1 second faster.
Although it was only 1 second, it disrupted Liu Yan's rhythm, and he failed to jump to the float smoothly, leaning backwards and falling to the ground.
The float was 3 meters high from the ground, without any protection, and Liu Yan fell down.
The on-site staff and Zhang Yimou were confused and overwhelmed, and they all quickly stopped the work in their hands.
The staff next to her ran to Liu Yan's side for the first time and asked her if she could move? Does it hurt? What do you think?
Liu Yan was still sober at first, and he replied that I was fine. But she felt the burning sensation in her lower body.
She didn't take it seriously, but looked at the choreographer and asked: Come to the bird's nest at five o'clock the next morning. The choreographer did not speak.
Subsequently, Liu Yan, with the help of the staff, sent him to an ambulance.
The hospital was not far from the bird's nest, Liu Yan quickly came to the hospital, and the doctor quickly sent her to the operating room to begin treatment.
The staff also informed Liu Yan's parents that when they came to the hospital to see their daughter lying on the bed, the tears could not stop flowing.
Liu Yan's parents did not expect that their daughter would be injured, prayed for their daughter's safety and health, and heard good results.
However, it backfired.
Liu Yan was diagnosed with a severe misalignment of the twelfth thoracic vertebrae and paralysis at a high position.
Her parents collapsed when they heard the results, seeing their sleeping daughter not knowing how to speak.
Paralysis means that Liu Yan can no longer dance, she has not yet completed her dream, which is not a small blow to her.
Liu Yan woke up and asked her parents how her health was, and their parents looked at her and couldn't speak.
Then when the doctor came, she asked the doctor, and the doctor didn't know how to tell her, so she used technical terms.
Liu Yan was confused and let the doctor speak directly.
Eventually told her that she was paralyzed and would spend her life in a wheelchair and unable to dance.
Liu Yan was directly confused, completely unable to believe that this was true, and asked: How can I be paralyzed.
The word paralysis would not appear in her dictionary. Liu Yan collapsed directly and lived in the dark.
The parents accompanied their daughters, watching her feel decadent and unable to speak.
Friends and family rushed to the hospital to see Liu Yan, including director Zhang Yimou.
In the interview, Zhang Yimou also talked about this matter many times, feeling sorry for Liu Yan, if you can communicate with the staff more, there will be no accidents, which has become a lifetime of guilt.
She can only pretend to be strong, looking at the solo dancers of "Silk Road", which should belong to her, but she can only let the B corner be unwilling.
Now she couldn't do anything. A few days before the opening ceremony, the city of Beijing was very lively, but Liu Yan's hospital room was cold and cold, and the atmosphere was low.
In order not to listen to the news about the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games, she did not watch the news, the windows were all closed, and the curtains were closed.
Especially on the day of the opening ceremony, the hospital was very close to the bird's nest, and the sound was very clear.
She did not dare to face reality, and in order to avoid the sound of fireworks, she put on the loudest sound.
If Liu Yan does not have an accident, then it is she who performs, which can make her dance career reach a higher level.
Unfortunately, Liu Yan missed it, and he could not dance on the stage in the future.
Later, Liu Yan did not believe that she would have to spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair, and she decided to undergo rehabilitation training and active treatment, believing that she would one day return to the stage to dance.
She began to undergo rehabilitation training, for people who cannot move the lower body and do not have any consciousness, to receive rehabilitation training, they need to bear energy and physical strength, double pressure.
Liu Yan's rehabilitation training is much more difficult than others, and she has to work harder than others.
As long as the doctor is in the hospital, she will definitely pull the doctor to do rehabilitation training and go with her parents after work.
It was like when she first learned to dance, bitter and tired.
But she had a belief that one day she would be able to get out of the hospital instead of in a wheelchair.
However, the rehabilitation training was not what she imagined, and after a period of training, Liu Yan's body did not improve at all.
She was going to collapse, hating herself for being incompetent and not even being able to go down a step. Hovering between giving up and continuing to receive treatment.
And she always believed she could stand up.
Half a year later, Liu Yan came into contact with the attending doctor who treated Sunland's paralysis that year.
She held out hope that the authoritative doctor could cure her.
However, Liu Yan got the result that he was paralyzed for life and the rehabilitation training was useless, and directly told her to stop receiving treatment.
Liu Yan's last small flame was also poured with a basin of cold water, and he returned to the ward to lock the door and secretly weep inside.
She began to slowly accept the fact that she was paralyzed.
After crying, she called her parents to her side and told them: I am going to be discharged from the hospital.
The parents were a little surprised and did not want their daughter to be discharged from the hospital so early, so there was an argument.
Her mother asked her: What can you do when you are discharged from the hospital? Liu Yan did not answer, at that time his head was blank, and he did not know what to do when he was discharged from the hospital.
At Liu Yan's strong request, her parents still allowed her to be discharged from the hospital.
In 2009, Liu Yan was discharged from the hospital.
Before there was an accident, Liu Yan discussed with her boyfriend and planned to get married after the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games.
However, he did not expect to be betrayed by his boyfriend, not only did not marry her, but also broke up with her.
Liu Yan's life fell to the bottom, he did not know what to do in his future, he could only sit in a wheelchair and live without purpose.
She herself did not want to spend the rest of her life decadent, so she asked herself: Liu Yan, do you like dance or not?
The answer is yes, do it if you like it.
Although Liu Yan can't stand up and dance, there are many ways to dance, and his legs can't, and he can express his emotions with his hands.
She even went to school as a teacher to pass on her experience to students, so that more dance scholars who love dance can dance beautifully.
Liu Yan is very serious, where students do not do right or are not satisfied, she will use precise language to express it, so that students know their shortcomings to make up.
At the same time, she also applied for the Doctoral Program in Dance studies at the China Academy of Arts.
Liu Yan gradually came out of the paralyzed mood and spent 3 years to completely accept the fact of paralysis.
Not only that, Liu Yan also began to pay attention to public welfare.
Those poor children who like to dance, Liu Yan personally went to teach them to dance.
In 2012, in the process, Liu Yan met an 11-year-old boy, Fan Jie.
He was deaf and mute, but he loved dancing. Although I can't hear it, I have a sense of movement and talent through learning.
Liu Yan was amazed at the first sight of him, and his heart was complicated, and he decided to teach the little boy to dance.
But when she communicated with Fan Jie, Fan Jie could not hear often frowning.
In order to be able to communicate accurately with Fan Jie, she specially went to learn sign language so that the communication between the two could be smooth.
In the process of teaching, Liu Yan was inspired, as if he saw himself and stimulated his desire to create.
She wanted to tell Fan Jie through her works, and also to other similar friends. If we can't communicate in words, let's dance.
Liu Yan took this little boy as the protagonist and created a "26 decibels".
Later, Liu Yan also specialized in hand dance, created many wonderful works, and became an excellent dance artist.
She was getting closer and closer to her dream.
Although Liu Yan could not stand up, he never gave up his dream, still persistent and loving, and continued to use another way to complete his dream.
Liu Yan's life is lucky and unfortunate.
Luckily her dancing abilities were recognized, unfortunately paralyzed.
However, this did not stop Liu Yan from continuing to pursue his dreams, love dance, and pursue them no matter what way.
Since you are still alive, you must go all out to live and pursue your dreams.