On November 14, 2021, Babe, who was skiing, was followed by "brother" Wangzai. Courtesy of respondents
One-year-old Babe stepped on her beloved little skateboard and slid down steadily, even turning a circle halfway through. The little dog Wangzai followed her with a wagging tail and a red vest on his body, festive. One person and one dog, their image is widely known throughout the country - at the opening ceremony of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, Babe, who has not yet learned to walk, began to ski, appeared in the opening ceremony of the "Future Champions" video.
When the opening ceremony was held, Babe and her parents were already in Hainan for the New Year, and she was fluttering in the swimming pool of the community, holding a small water gun and swinging, looking for people to play everywhere. In her parents' plan for the next two or three years, the family will "have no place to live", and when Babe is three years old, she will let her attend kindergarten wherever she goes.
They want to make their daughters grow up on the road.
Ski babies at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics
In the video of the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics, "Future Champions", a ski baby who has just turned one year old appears with his puppy. Behind countless screens, they exclaimed, "How cute!" In the video, only 70 centimeters tall, the little person is wrapped in a red ski suit into a bun, stepping on the smallest snowboard bought by his parents, and the appearance is to swing and fall a butt squat, and the little dog "Wangzai", who is wearing red clothes like her, quickly follows up to sniff, and the tail shakes.
Her name is Wang Yujie, and her parents call her Babe. She is the youngest baby in this video and the youngest skier on the Chongli Taiwu Ski Resort in Zhangjiakou this winter. The first time she stepped on the veneer and trembled forward, Babe was only 11 months old and had not yet officially learned to walk. When the video of the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics was filmed, he had just turned one year old and was "skating age" for a month.
Babe who was skiing. Courtesy of respondents
The first time Babe went on the slopes, he stepped on the 80-centimeter-long yellow-green smallest veneer. Because she doesn't have snowshoes that fit her feet, she'll be pedaling a pair of high-top snow boots. The helmet is also the smallest size, and it is still too large to wear on the head, so her parents put a safety cap on the inside of the helmet.
"We didn't think at first that she would be able to skate this year, that is, to take her to play in the snow." Babe's mother Fan Xueyin said.
In the week of waiting for the arrival of skis, Fan Xueyin and her husband Wang Shu took Babe to the ski resort every day to walk around, and the little people saw the people coming and going, felt very excited, and their eyes were dripping. She observed that the adults were all stepping on a board, so when she received the skis a week later, she tried to stuff her little feet into the snowboard. "I'm in such a hurry." Mom and Dad couldn't laugh and took her to the ski slopes the next day.
For safety reasons, Babe's parents chose a connecting road. Dad carried her to a very gentle small snow slope, gently pushed forward, and the little doll that was a little larger began to slide slowly down. The first time she skied, Babe fell on an ass squat. She fell and lay in place, not feeling pain or crying. Dad picked her up, saw that she was not afraid and resisted, and carried her to the top of the snow slope to play.
The smallest and most beautiful cub on the snow field
After a week, Babe had a lot of confidence, dancing while skiing, and even groping for herself to circle and steer. After a silky ski, dads often habitually reach out and high-five their daughters.
But not every time she cooperated. "At 9 months old, she slid the slide for the first time. I put her up and picked her up below with my mom and said you're ready to move your ass yourself, and she rubbed it herself. After sliding down smoothly, she would celebrate herself, yay. I just gave her a high-five. Later doing the same thing, more than 3 times she will not celebrate again. The ritualistic interaction between the father and daughter, in fact, the younger daughter is the dominant party, which surprises The father Wang Shu is very surprised," so the high-fives are only available when she is satisfied with herself." In a video taken by her mother, after Babe successfully completed a slide, Her father happily greeted him and prepared to high-five, Babe looked at him, turned her head and ignored him. Wang Shu felt very faceless: "I think she means, there is something to celebrate, haha." ”
In November 2021, the Babe family was on the snow. Courtesy of respondents
On November 14 last year, Fan Xueyin sent a video of Babe skiing on a video platform for the first time. In the video, Babe slowly crouches down, leans forward carefully, hands slightly hanging on her knees, and quickly grasps the secret of balance. Sliding to the end, she was very proud of herself, sticking out her tongue and bending her eyes to smile, Dad reached out to high-five her, she raised her little blue gloves, smiled and touched.
"I didn't expect it to catch fire the next day." Fan Xueyin said that two days after the video was sent, the staff of the director team of the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics contacted her online: "Director Zhang Yimou saw Bei Bei's video and thought it was very cute, and the theme of the short film was very appropriate, and asked if I could come and shoot a few shots of Bei Bei." ”
In December 2021, a film crew came to take a video of a ski baby who had just turned one year old. At the end of the morning video, Babe felt a little tired and began to hum and grunt, muttering to find her mother: "Mom hug." "According to her schedule, she had to go back to sleep until 11:30, and then wait for lunch, and then she had the strength to continue playing in the afternoon." She was a little crying that day, but still reasonable. Fan Xueyin hugged her daughter for a while, took her back to sleep, and when she appeared again in the snow field in the afternoon, Babe was the most beautiful cub in the whole field.
"She's probably the youngest baby on the slopes." The other children on the scene basically walk. "Wang Shu said that including the little dog Wangzai, they only started to contact the sport of skiing during this snow season." After we started skiing this year, Babe's mother hired a coach to learn slowly, and I crawled on the slopes for two weeks to catch up with her for a week. ”
And Babe, she's still too young. Wang Shu felt that skiing was not so much a sport as a play for his daughter. "But isn't sports also playing with yourself?"
Now they want their daughter to be able to enjoy the "play" process as well. Babe is just one year old, just out of the first steps of life, she has not played much, but in the eyes of the couple, has laid a good foundation. "When I took her to the swimming pool to play, I found that she preferred to go to the 1.5-meter pool to watch her big brothers and sisters paddle in a regular swimming position than to toddler shallow pool."
A family with no place to live
Babe was born on December 1, 2020, her mother Fan Xueyin is a designer, and her father Wang Shu is engaged in Internet-related work. Both husband and wife are post-80s. In the preparation stage, the two began to set up the first "five-year plan" of the small family - two years to have a baby and three years to accompany. After Babe was born, according to the plan, when Babe was 1-3 years old, the focus of the whole family was to accompany the child to grow.
"At least stay with her until she's 3 years old, before kindergarten." The work is very low, and our work has made very large active adjustments, which cannot be cancelled remotely, or if the office hours are not free. Wang Shu said that after the birth of the child, the couple adjusted the direction and way of work so that they had more time to accompany the first three years of the child's life, "take her around, take a look, try more things." Missing out on these companionships is the biggest loss. ”
When Babe was more than three months old, she was taken out by her parents to play. The family drove from Tianjin to Moganshan, Zhejiang Province, and slept overnight in the Service Area of Jiangsu. Along the way, Babe was very calm, spending most of her time sleeping, stopping to drink milk and look out the window. When she hears dynamic music on the way, she will kick her legs to the rhythm, applaud and shout, or follow the music "babble" and hum. Because there are too many new things along the way, attracting more attention from the children, Fan Xueyin feels that it is easier to take her out than at home.
In the video Fan Xueyin made for her daughter, they called themselves "homeless". "We all worked in Beijing before we had children and rented a house all the time." Fan Xueyin said that before giving birth to a child, the two bought a caravan, and after giving birth to Babe, the family often drove out in a caravan, "When your external objects are more and more, more and more heavy, it will limit your steps." So we chose a lighter lifestyle. When we feel good about going to one place, we stay for a month or two, rent a house, and then go to the next place. Wait until we're older and consider a comfortable place to settle in. ”
In June 2021, the family drove a motorhome to Chongli to escape the summer, where they stayed for half a year, from summer to winter. During the Spring Festival, I originally planned to go back to the parents' homes of both parties, but due to the epidemic situation, I did not go to Hainan, and the family went to Hainan to rent a house to stay. Every morning after eating, Wang Shu took his daughter to the swimming pool downstairs to play with the water, played until noon home to sleep, and continued to exert physical strength in the afternoon. Because of the large amount of exercise, Babe has a good appetite and sleep, from birth to now, small illness has not been born once.
"I didn't intend to make Babe a professional skier"
After Bei Bei was on fire, some netizens asked Fan Xueyin if she had any plans to let Bei Bei be a professional skier, and she said that she did not.
"The child's future is full of countless possibilities, and we don't really want to plan what kind of path for her." All parents can do is give her a good character, a healthy physique, and a good mind. We're happy if she has grades, but I don't want to turn those into stress. Fan Xueyin said that in addition to greatly adjusting the pace of work, they also have further plans, and the couple reached a consensus that when the child is three years old, they will go to kindergarten wherever they go.
After attending the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics, Babe has a high reputation. Every video about Babe that Fan Xueyin sent out had many comments. Many people envy this "free-range" method, but some people feel that the couple has a "big heart". In the view of Fan Xueyin's father, Lao Fan, the education method of Babe's parents is also quite debatable: "Skiing at the age of 11 months, we don't know, after watching their circle of friends, we know that we took the children to ski." ”
In the winter of 2021, Dad carried Bei Bei on his back to play in the snow in Chongli, Zhangjiakou. Courtesy of respondents
Old Fan was thinking at that time not to throw the child down, and quickly called his daughter and son-in-law, "We think it's a joke, make a fuss for a while, hurry back, why do you do this so little." For Lao Fan, the parenting style he is familiar with is to grow up safely, go to school, and work, "just this series." He is a bit opposed to the children's "home from all over the world", feeling that according to tradition, children should do what they should do at what stage, "but now children are different from us before, and it is not easy to say anything." ”
What if this road doesn't work? The couple is not without consideration. "Let's live like this, even if the road doesn't work, we can go back and find a job in the city to continue living." If it works, it's a rare experience. Fan Xueyin said.
Give the mountains and the sea to the children
Because there were too many interviews, these days, Fan Xueyin's voice was a little hoarse, and Wang Shu felt very distressed. "Some people say that we are an Internet celebrity, and we ourselves do not want to be defined in this way, because we really do not have the intention of active marketing, but after the fire, we will feel as if we have more responsibility and pressure."
One immediate pressure is less time with the child. This incident began to touch on the issue of family principles, which made the couple a little alarmed. "I hope and believe that this state of affairs will not last long, and now mom has begun to refuse some interviews." Wang Shu said that they want to make the heat relatively low, "We are willing to maintain a state of sharing and active interaction online, but the time for mothers to spend with their children must also be guaranteed." ”
"We really didn't think our lives would touch a lot of people." Wang Shu remembered the first time he took his child and a dog to pick mushrooms in the woods of Chongli, and met other guests, who said, Oh, your family is so happy, the same way of life as the foreigners I met. "We are not returnees, we are Chinese families in the new era. We keep meeting other people we don't know, and we're very emotional, it's good that you guys are like this. We didn't quite understand what it meant. Until BeiBei's video was seen by more people, in the long messages of netizens, Wang Shu and Fan Xueyin began to realize what this "good" was, "Under the pressure of life and work now, our life like this may make everyone feel a little warm." ”
In the summer of 2021, the Babe family hiked in the Chongli Mountains. Courtesy of respondents
The 680-hectare Olympic Forest Park on Lincui Road, North Fifth Ring Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, was born as a result of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, and the Beibei family's residence in Beijing is nearby. "At that time, the choice there was a very convenient way to go into the park to run and play ball." Fan Xueyin also took Bei Bei to Orsen, usually, she and her husband would run in the nearby park, or lead Wangzai out for a walk, "Wangzai is also the Chinese pastoral dog we picked up near Orsen, we all say that it is Babe's brother." ”
In recent years, she has clearly felt the change in the way people around her exercise, and people have begun to be willing to try sports that have not been tried before. "Climbing, camping, skiing... Many people began to want to do some 'different sports', and these projects and physical fitness, economic income and cognitive level have a certain relationship, such as skiing, not as easy to achieve as basketball, football, but because of the Winter Olympics, now more and more people ski, the country is willing to invest in sports projects, this is the meaning of 'enjoy the Olympic legacy'. ”
Wang Shu is a mountaineering enthusiast who has climbed several mountains above 6,000 meters, and his favorite sport is diving. "Babe's mom used to be a little more homely, but then I took her to climb the mountain and dive with me, and soon I liked these sports."
He felt that these movements ultimately brought not "reaching the unknown", but a kind of spiritual touch. The smell of the wind blowing, the smell of the earth, the paper or the video can not be conveyed - Wang Shu firmly believes this, so he takes his wife to experience everything he has ever felt, and then wants to pack the mountains and the sea and give it to his little Babe. They took Babe to climb the mountain, to ski, to swim, "I want to make her feel the scenery in my eyes, the wind that blows, the beauty of this world." 」 There is no way to do this kind of transmission in other ways. I think that one day in the future, when she can express it, she will be able to express her memory. ”
Beijing News reporter Yang Xue Editor Hu Jie Proofreader Liu Jun