At 20:00 on February 4, 2022, I watched the live broadcast of the opening ceremony of the Beijing 24th Winter Olympic Games in the duty room of Beixiaguan Street, and the countdown performance began in the time rotation of the traditional Chinese calendar, and the twenty-four solar terms flashed on the big screen in turn, and the audience shouted in unison with the digital transformation: 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1... In a cheer, only to see the central screen of the stadium, a round of bright moon rises, flying butterflies, dandelion seeds flying into the air, brilliant fireworks light up the bird's nest, blooming out of the "Li Chun" Chinese and English shapes, conveying the breath of spring in winter.
In the "Release of peace pigeons" and the singing of the theme song "Snowflakes", the children held cute little pigeons, and hundreds of children held models of peace pigeons, running freely and happily in the field, playing and interacting with the sparkling "stars and snowflakes" under their feet.
In the heavenly lead singer's voice, I heard a familiar voice, followed the sound, through the flashing lens on the big screen, and found a very familiar figure: Zhang Sun Youyou.
The reason why she is so familiar is because she lives not far from her home, and her parents are good friends, often see her after being picked up by her grandfather after school, call her mother for safety, and often see her mother's piano practice, WeChat for playing in the circle of friends, and learn from her mother's only words that You You participated in the rehearsal of the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics, and often had to go home at twelve o'clock in the evening. Not long ago, seeing Zhang Sun Youyou and his mother isolated together to participate in the last few days of rehearsals, out of the need for confidentiality, they did not disclose a little information about the child's participation in the performance, never expected that the cute and lively little Youyou would become the lead singer of the theme song of the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics "Snowflake".
I sent a WeChat confirmation to Ms. Sun, and after receiving a clear confirmation, I congratulated her and her family, and I was proud that a child who participated in the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics was present next to us.
Zhang Sun Youyou, a 9-year-old third-grade student at Jiaotong University in Haidian District, Beijing, usually likes piano and singing, and every time he sees her, he will see a smile on her face, call me generously: "Hello Uncle", jump and jump when walking, and from time to time will make all kinds of funny facial movements.
From an early childhood, Zhang Sun Youyou showed excellent musical talent, a special love for music and dance, and a strong cognitive desire for musical knowledge. She began to learn the piano at the age of five, insisting on practicing the piano for at least 2 hours a day, practicing in music sheet music that others thought was boring, but she was intoxicated, and never stopped to rest every time she practiced. After going to school, she has reached the level of obsession with learning all kinds of knowledge, and her academic performance has always been among the best, and she has created dozens of musical works herself, and she has a character of striving for the first and never giving up, as long as she looks for everything, she strives to be perfect.
Why is it that in the theme song of this opening ceremony, instead of celebrities and celebrities, use the clear singing voices of children? From CCTV's interview with director Zhang Yimou, we learned that the main creative team of the opening of the Winter Olympics repeatedly pondered the deep meaning of the theme slogan of the Winter Olympics and the Winter Paralympic Games, "Together to the Future", and the "future" is not pinned on the children? So Zhang Yimou boldly innovated and decided that the theme song of the opening ceremony would also be sung by the children.
In October last year, after several rounds of review and screening, "Snowflakes" composed by Professor Zhang Shuai of the Central Conservatory of Music was officially identified as the theme song, and as Zhang Shuai's youngest composer student, Zhang Sun Youyou's natural children's voice became the voice that Zhang Shuai most wanted to express. As a result, Zhang SunYou, who had not undergone professional vocal training, was recommended to participate in the preliminary selection of the opening ceremony performance. From about 40 people in the beginning, to 80 people later, to nearly 140 people, more and more children were selected, and the difficulty of rehearsals became higher and higher. The selected children ranged from 7 to 12 years old, and according to the choir's normal planning, they belonged to different stages and "grades". For confidentiality reasons, children can only get the score during rehearsals, and they must return it after class, which means that they must concentrate in a very short period of time, quickly run in, and form a harmonious and unified song. While practicing singing hard, children must also learn the dance movements in the performance.
Since then, "Snowflake" has still been improved many times, and the original form of girls' voices to lead to male and female duets has been changed to children's choruses, until the end of 2021, the details are still polished, at least a dozen drafts have been changed. In the process of repeated revision, Zhang Sun Youyou, Wu Jiali, Zhao Yue, Sun Bolun four singers have participated in the small sample recording and pre-creation of this work, but only Zhang Sun Youyou accompanied it to the end, in addition to her pure natural children's voice, each rehearsal is normal, the body is always full of the same age children's rare confidence, calm and calm, making her become the brightest of thousands of snowflakes.
In a high-intensity rehearsal that lasted for 109 days and more than 370 hours in actual time, Zhang Sun Youyou and his friends overcame the cold weather and countless monotonous repeated exercises and rehearsals, and finally stood on the stage of the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in the center of the Bird's Nest, passing their purest and most perfect voice to the ears of hundreds of millions of viewers.
After participating in the official performance at the opening ceremony, You You said: "Every time I rehearse at the Bird's Nest, I am very excited, I treat every rehearsal as a formal performance, I feel very excited, the mood is very happy, the feeling of standing in the center is really very good, the pressure is gone all at once." After the performance, the other children were so excited that they couldn't sleep all night, but she was still calm and calm, lying alone in the car that picked them up and falling asleep.
Zhang Sun Youyou once quietly told her mother that during the rehearsal break, someone once asked her about the origin of her name and asked her if she was related to Zhang Yimou and Zhang Shuai. The innocent and lively, funny and humorous You You told them seriously: "My father's surname is Zhang, it is Li Zhaozhang, not Bow Changzhang, my mother's surname is Sun, so I take the double surname Zhang Sun, You is a mother who dreamed of a small dragon swimming when she gave birth to me, You is hoping that there are many like-minded good friends, so I named Zhang Sun Youyou." ”
Wang Yongwu, pen name Wu Ding, a native of Xiajin, Dezhou, Shandong, is a member of the Chinese Prose Literature Society, a member of the Shandong Prose Literature Society, a member of the Hebei Literature and Art Research Society, and a director of the Beijing Haidian District Writers Association. In 1992, he enlisted in the Armed Police Force and published more than 3,000 works of various kinds in newspapers and periodicals such as People's Daily and People's Liberation Army Daily. In 2017, after transferring to Haidian District of Beijing, he resumed poetry and prose creation, and published influential works such as "Memories of the Yellow River Old Road", "Combing the Mother's Hair and Washing Feet", "Father is a Hungry Fish", and "Green Olives", "Grass-colored Moss Marks", "Jiaodong Prose Twelve Families • Wang Yongwu Scrolls" and other works.
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