In 2008, the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games directed by Zhang Yimou was held at the Bird's Nest, and the entire opening ceremony was beautiful, stunning the world, and making the world marvel at the legend of the East and the vastness of Chinese culture.
However, for the 26-year-old dancer Liu Yan, it is the darkest moment when her life fell from the peak to the abyss.
12 days before the start of the Olympic Games, rehearsals were underway, and Liu Yan waved a three-meter ribbon like a flying fairy, leaping from the tissue paper to another platform for the event.
The accident happened, and Liu Yan suddenly fell from the gap between the electronic tissue paper and the platform.
Suddenly, all the staff were dumbfounded, staying there one by one, not knowing what to do.
Or Zhang Yimou was the first to react, immediately galloped to Liu Yan, and then sent her to the hospital for rescue, after surgery, Although Liu Yan saved his life, his lower limbs were paralyzed forever.
For this matter, Zhang Yimou has always been extremely guilty, he once said: "Liu Yan is the person I feel most guilty of, but he is also the real hero in my heart." ”
After many years, what is the current situation of Liu Yan, the dancer who was permanently disabled due to the Olympics?
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In 1982, Liu Yan was born in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, she came from a good family, she is the treasure of the family, she studied art from an early age, at the age of 9, she was admitted to the Beijing Dance Academy Affiliated High School with her beautiful body shape and soft dance posture.
During his studies, Liu Yan participated in many competitions and won awards.
At the age of 15, she was sent to the Chinese Classical Dance Department of the Beijing Dance Academy to continue her studies, and when she graduated, she was given the only place to stay in school and became a professional dancer.
At the age of 24, she and dancer Yang Liping and others performed "Three Friends of the Cold Year" on the Spring Festival Gala stage, which made the audience clap their hands and become famous ever since.
It was also her dance that attracted zhang Yimou's attention.
Because of his outstanding leg skills and superb dance skills, Liu Yan was praised by the dance community as "Liu Yi Leg" and "Classical Dance Queen".
She began to dream that she could go all over the world.
At the end of 2007, Zhang Yimou began to prepare for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, there was a Classical Chinese solo dance "Silk Road", he first thought of Liu Yan, and invited her to participate, Liu Yan was also very excited to get the news, his dream was finally coming true.
In order to perform the 1 minute and 37 seconds of dance exquisitely, Liu Yan has never been absent in the rehearsal of several months, she practiced hard for 10 hours a day, repeated dance practice thousands of times, and the performance effect made Zhang Yimou very satisfied.
But fate is like this, turning hands into clouds, overturning hands as rain.
What Liu Yan didn't know was that 12 days before the Olympic Games officially began, it was the last time she used her legs to perceive the world.
On that day, Liu Yan went to rehearsal as usual, and as a result, the staff mistakenly started the car platform a second earlier, and Liu Yan suddenly stepped on the air and fell from the three-meter-high stage.
This accident broke all of Liu Yan's life plans, where should she go?
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After Being taken to the hospital, Liu Yan woke up after more than six hours of surgery, when she didn't know what she was facing.
The doctor told Liu Yan's parents: "Liu Yan's 12th thoracic vertebrae were seriously misaligned, and the nerves were seriously damaged. ”
That is, her lower body was facing paralysis.
Although Liu Yan on the hospital bed did not know this result, she could no longer feel the perception of her legs, and she had a bad premonition in her heart.
She was also bitter, tearful, anxious, unwilling to accept such a situation, and once thought of giving up her life.
But when she saw that her parents were worried all day, she couldn't bear it, and thought to herself, "I haven't repaid my parenting grace, I can't let them worry about me like this, I want to cheer up." ”
After slowly being able to sit up, Liu Yan listened to the doctor's advice and did three to four hours of boring rehabilitation exercises every day with the help of others, and at that moment, she was extremely eager to get back on her feet and walk out of the hospital by herself through her own strength.
She often asked her mother, "Mom, do you think I can stand up?"
Her mother always encouraged her, "You can."
As a professional doctor, Liu Mu understands that it is impossible for her daughter to recover from this level of spinal cord injury.
She couldn't bear to tell her the cruel results, always hiding in a place where her daughter couldn't see and silently weeping, then wiping away her tears and accompanying her daughter to continue her rehabilitation training.
In this way, he insisted on doing rehabilitation training for half a year, and Liu Yan's legs still did not change at all.
She gradually understood that she could no longer stand up.
But she is a dignified and backbone person who does not want to be a burden to others.
She took the wheelchair as her own leg, learned to operate the wheelchair skillfully, never bothered others with what she could take, fought for a person where she could go, and read many books, she understood the truth that life grew up in the turn.
So she tried to adjust her state and constantly accumulate energy for herself.
During Liu Yan's hospitalization, Zhang Yimou visited her many times and encouraged her to actively cooperate with treatment and rehabilitation training.
Zhang Yimou said to Liu Yan, "I am sorry for you."
Misfortune is not alone, but blessing is incomparable.
At this time, Liu Yan, in addition to facing the physical pain of lifelong paralysis, also experienced the shattering of love.
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In 2006, the media photographed Liu Yan holding hands with a demure man and shopping together, and the two were very close.
This man is Lang Kun, who has been the director of the Spring Festival Gala for many times, he is 20 years older than Liu Yan, and the two met on the Spring Festival Gala stage, but lang Kun at this time has a wife, that is, Ma Yanli, the "first model in the mainland", and they also have a lovely daughter.
Suddenly, public opinion boiled over, and Liu Yan was pushed to the cusp of the storm.
Ma Yanli, who was working abroad at the time, learned the news and quickly returned to China with her daughter, and it was rumored that Ma Yanli had reflected To CCTV senior management that Lang Kun had an extramarital affair, but Lang Kun was not moved, and finally Ma Yanli divorced Lang Kun.
After Liu Yan's accident, the media photographed Lang Kun visiting Liu Yan in the hospital and taking a photo with her, but when asked about the relationship between the two, he repeatedly denied the rumors of the two getting married, and only declared to the outside world: "I and Liu Yan are ordinary friends." “
After that, Lang Kun never went to see Liu Yan again.
Sure enough, the great calamity was about to fly separately.
However, for Liu Yan, it was too cruel, his body and mind were suffering, and he was also criticized by the outside world.
Fortunately, Liu Yan, who has experienced hellish suffering, can soberly recognize reality and bravely face the blow of fate, and she chooses to reinvigorate herself and start a new life.
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Heaven took away Liu Yan's legs, and she was going to try to grow a pair of wings to fly.
After a long period of thinking, Liu Yan decided to show a beautiful dance posture with her hands, she painstakingly studied hand dance, with a solid dance foundation and hard practice in a wheelchair, a year later, she returned to the stage of her heart.
In November 2009, Liu Yan sat in a wheelchair and performed her first exquisite hand dance "The Deepest Night, the Brightest Light" to the audience.
Dressed in a red dress, she uses her slender hands to interpret the inner turbulence.
Physically disabled, she experienced countless deepest nights, but she has been looking for the brightest light in her heart, and she completed the shocking performance with all her enthusiasm, which won long applause from the audience.
Liu Yan "stood" again with extraordinary perseverance.
She has created and served as the lead actor and choreographer of several dance dramas, and served as the general director and chief planner of China's first public welfare dance drama "26 dB".
She continued to improve her studies, obtained a doctorate in dance studies from the China Academy of Arts, and became a teacher at the Beijing Dance Academy after graduation.
She was the first person in The Country to offer a hand dance research course, and she extended her dance career from the stage to the podium.
Phoenix Nirvana, reborn from the fire, Liu Yan's understanding of life has been raised to a new dimension.
She said: "I am not alone in the fight, I have relatives and friends around me, and they are desperate to help me. As for those who have been lost, let nature take its course. I have received love and want to dedicate love to those who need help. ”
She set up the Liu Yan Cultural Special Fund to support children from orphans, disabled and poor families.
Liu Yan's public welfare behavior has been supported by many caring people, she held the first charity auction in Beijing, and put the torch she participated in the Vancouver Winter Olympics to auction, but she did not expect that the torch was bought by the well-known TV host Yang Lan for 350,000 yuan and sent back to her hands.
Yang Lan said, "Liu Yan, this torch is of great significance to you, and you must collect it well." ”
In this way, Liu Yan transformed from a dancer into a down-to-earth philanthropist.
She uses her breaks to give lessons to the children and let them feel the charm of dance. She encourages children to bravely face setbacks in life and strive to pursue their dreams.
She said: "I want to grow up with the children in distress, we are like camel grass in the desert, tenacious life." ”
At the Beijing Dance Academy, Liu Yan opened an art public welfare course, and she told college students with her personal experience: art is powerful, and using art and physical practice to do some good things is public welfare.
In December 2020, Liu Yan Special Fund launched the second "Love Action" to protect children's growth plan, creating dance courses for autistic children and exploring ways to treat autism through dance.
Liu Yan said: "I will adhere to the public welfare cause like I insist on the dance cause, and I will always pay attention to the growth of autistic children." ”
In order to further explore the art of dance, Liu Yan set up a research and development room to choreograph various dances.
This year, the dance drama "Beijing Banquet", directed by her, was performed at the Century Theatre, which refreshed the audience. She creatively interprets Beijing's food and fireworks with dance, once again expanding the way dance spreads Chinese culture.
In this world, there are few people like Liu Yan who can survive strongly after suffering huge blows and pains, and persistently pursue their initial dreams.
Thirteen years have passed since the Beijing Olympics, and today Liu Yan is not only a dancer, but also a scholar, director, and public welfare ambassador.
Liu Yan said: "Life is not easy, everyone should live their own wonderful. I want to be able to help others, that's what it means to be alive. ”
Liu Yan lit up the deepest night with dance and public welfare, touched everyone with strength and optimism, and danced his wonderful life with life.
Falling from the peak of glory into the bottomless abyss, but with bravery and tenacity to cultivate a pair of powerful wings to fly.
Bless Liu Yan, who flew out of the trough of life, soared freely in the sky of dreams, and brought the light of hope to more dancers.
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【Text: Sea Breeze】
【Editor: Modification】
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