At the closing ceremony of the Paralympic Games in Athens in September 2004, the dance "Thousand Hands Kannon" made its first stunning debut.
The thousand hands of the Thousand Hands Kannon are arranged in a fan-like manner, like a peacock opening the screen, and there are 21 performers, whose hearts and hands are connected, telling their inner world.
And the girl who served as the lead dancer, Tai Lihua, said frankly:
"Disability is not a defect, but a characteristic of human diversity, and disabled people also have the value of life!"
Tai Lihua lost her hearing at the age of two, began to learn dance in the first grade, and has spent nearly thirty years on the stage.
Without music or beats, she relied on her own perception to follow the rhythm and dance.
After the Spring Festival Gala fire, she turned down all commercial performances and endorsement opportunities, saying that this was not the goal she pursued.
And in the face of love, dare to love and dare to hate, reject malaysia's obsessive rich, and choose huazhong talent.
Although she could not hear, her heart was like a mirror, always firm in her direction.
After many years, Tai Lihua, who rarely appears, what is going on now? And what stories have she experienced in her life?
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Tai Lihua, born in 1976 in Yichang, Hubei Province, is the only daughter of the family.
When she was born, Tai Lihua's voice was loud, and her cries cried through the entire floor, and people around her praised the little girl's health.
Tai Lihua spoke much earlier than her peers, and soon after she learned to speak, she could clearly call out her parents.
Her parents were very excited about her growth, thinking that the child was gifted, but did not want this to be a "return to the light" when the disaster came.
Tai Lihua's world of sound stopped forever at the age of two.
At the age of two, Tai Lihua suffered from measles, a persistent high fever, and has not improved after treatment.
After being injected with streptomycin, the condition was relieved, but organic lesions developed, and her hearing and speaking ability gradually disappeared.
At first, Tai Lihua would only occasionally shout that her ears hurt, but her parents checked with a flashlight that there was no bleeding and no trauma on the surface, so they did not care.
It wasn't until once, when the nursery teacher was taking the children to play games, called Tai Lihua, that she found out that her hearing was wrong.
The teacher was anxious to find Tai Lihua's parents and told them that Tai Lihua's hearing problems might be.
It is said that the first reaction of parents is disbelief, after all, there is no problem in communicating before.
So when she took Tai Lihua home at night, her parents called her name behind Tai Lihua, but she did not respond.
The parents looked at each other, shock, pain, and doubt in their eyes.
Remembering the ear pain that their daughter said some time ago, they regretted it a lot, and in order to cure their daughter, the two took Tai Lihua around to seek medical treatment.
I almost went to the top medical cities in the country, spent all my savings, but got a unified answer:
"The likelihood of a cure is extremely small."
The tearful-eyed duo looked at Tai Lihua, who was less careless, and did not tell her the truth, so that she could live happily.
Even if the parents tried their best to restrain their emotions, when Tai Lihua appeared in front of them, they would still feel that their eyes were sour and the tears could not stop flowing down.
As Tai Lihua grew up, the parents were even more worried, but in the end, the paper wrapper could not hold the fire.
Tai Lihua realized that unlike others, she used a cloth strip to cover her eyes and then look for someone based on the sound.
When Tai Lihua fell into darkness in front of her eyes, her world completely fell into a silent place where five fingers could not be seen.
Her stupidity made a group of friends realize that something was wrong, and after the cloth strip was torn off, Tai Lihua still did not return to her senses.
She stayed in that silent world, her vision was blocked, all her senses were magnified, and the silent world seemed even more silent.
Looking back, she clearly knew that she was different, and rushed home in a hurry to seek answers from her parents.
Seeing her expression, the parents immediately guessed what Tai Lihua was thinking and held her in their arms to comfort her.
For the sake of the child's self-esteem, the parents continued to put Tai Lihua in school for a normal education, but her situation became more and more serious.
In that era of advocating knowledge to change destiny, Tai Lihua, who did not learn, changed where to go, which became a heart disease of her parents.
Only when her own daughter grows up with knowledge can she ensure that she will not be bullied later in life.
In desperation, her parents sent Tai Lihua to Yichang School for the Deaf and Dumb.
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Here Tai Lihua was exposed to music and dance, and it was the first time she could ever feel the sound and rhythm.
This feeling fascinated her, and in the sound rhythm class, the teacher would let the students feel the power of sound by playing the piano and beating the drums to convey the vibration.
"Although the rhythm is simple, I seem to hear the most beautiful sound in the world, and the cells of my whole body become active."
Whenever she feels the rhythm of the music, Tai Lihua will unconsciously blend with it, swing her posture and dance to the rhythm.
Her dance initiation teacher is Yang Liping, who said that the enlightenment was because of a chance that tai lihua saw Yang Liping's peacock dance.
The vivid performance on the stage made her eyes light up, and it turned out that there was such a wonderful and dreamy performance form in the world.
So Tai Lihua took this as an example, secretly practiced, and copied all the movements she saw.
She knew very well that her family was not wealthy, and that the family depended only on her father's meager income to support herself, so she did not say a word about her love of dance.
But her love could not be hidden, and when she was 7 years old, her father came home from a business trip and brought back a package.
He handed the package to Tai Lihua and opened it to see a pair of white dancing shoes.
Tai Lihua couldn't wait to put on her dance shoes, and in order not to stain her shoes, she wore shoes to bed and posed in various dance poses on the bed.
She imagined herself on the big stage, dancing to the music, and at this time the seeds of dance had sprouted and grown in her heart.
In order not to live up to the support of her parents and her own love, Tai Lihua devoted her energy to dance training.
It is not easy to learn dance, not to mention Tai Lihua, who is deaf and mute, without the support of music, she practices the basic skills over and over again in boredom.
Pulling legs and collapsing, in one training after another, Tai Lihua's body also left traces of her struggle, and the blue and purple pieces of skin were shocking.
When her mother saw this, she wiped her tears in pain and supported her dream.
In 1991, after graduating from junior high school, 15-year-old Tai Lihua decided to go alone to Wuhan, where the education system was more perfect.
Alone, not familiar with the world, uprooted from home, Tai Lihua is unwilling to accept her parents' arrangement to let her learn a skill,
Instead, he insisted on embarking on the road to Wuhan and continued to study in Wuhan.
Because of her amateur dance experience, Tai Lihua performed on stage many times during her school days, and even came out on top in a dance competition.
It was also this competition that made Tai Lihua looked up to by the leaders of the China Disabled People's Art Troupe, but she was worried that there would be communication barriers.
He planned to observe for a period of time to decide the question of Tai Lihua's whereabouts, and for Tai Lihua, this was undoubtedly a good opportunity.
Once you grasp success, you can realize your dreams, but this opportunity is demanding.
When she was examined by the leaders of the art troupe, Tai Lihua's debut was a big disappointment:
Uncoordinated hand positions, inadequate movements, inaccurate card points.
Watching the leaders leave one by one with a solemn face, Tai Lihua's mood dropped to the extreme, but she was naturally stubborn and did not give up.
In the time that followed, in addition to sleeping and eating, she almost soaked in the training hall, and repeatedly buckled her movements in front of the mirror.
In her training of her own demons, the dance moves became muscular memories, and the vibrations of the music turned into notes and beats.
With this persistence, Tai Lihua integrated herself into the dance and truly danced the soul of the peacock dance.
In August 1992, at the Teatro alla Scala in Italy, he won the applause of the whole hall with a dance "Guo Huang Painted Sculpture".
In this grand event, Tai Lihua was the only disabled dancer, and this performance surprised her with four seats.
After the blockbuster, on the evening of September 18, 2000, at Carnegie Hall in New York, Tai Lihua's "Spirit of the Sparrow" conquered all the audience present.
In the face of her successful performance, Yang Liping was full of praise:
"If I can't hear the music, I don't know if I can dance so well."
Her excellence was seen by everyone, and with her absolute strength, her dance poster was posted in the corridor of Carnegie Hall, becoming the only Chinese still in the corridor.
And what really makes her known to the people of the whole country is the "Thousand Hands Guanyin" of the Spring Festival Gala in 2005.
The short 5 minutes and 55 seconds of the dance, which they took 500 hours to complete, included 21 dancers, including 9 men.
Their stunning appearance on stage brought a visual feast to all the audience.
After the Spring Festival Gala fire, Tai Lihua refused all commercial invitations, she only hoped to dance well, and did not want art to be contaminated with interests.
Later, Tai Lihua lived in seclusion behind the scenes, and in 2004, she became the head of the art troupe, when she was only 28 years old.
Tai Lihua, who was originally achieved by dance, transformed into an extradited person and began to achieve the dance dreams of others.
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After the career fire, Tai Lihua's love also quietly arrived, and the shining points on her body attracted the attention and pursuit of many people of the opposite sex.
In early 2000, Tai Lihua, who went to Malaysia to perform, was appreciated by the local fuerdai.
During the performance, Brother Gongzi fell in love with Tai Lihua's dancing style and quickly fell in love.
After waiting for the performance to end, Brother Gongzi heard the news of Tai Lihua and walked up to her to ask for a group photo.
And after the group photo boldly expressed love, Tai Lihua heard that she directly refused:
"I love my motherland, I want to live in my homeland, and I will not leave my hometown."
Although Tai Lihua was still young at that time, her plan for the future was very clear, and instead of indulging in the wealth at her fingertips, she firmly rejected everything she did not like.
But I didn't want her refusal to strengthen the determination of Brother Gongzi, who waited for 8 years, during which he also came to see her performance.
Eight years later, Tai Lihua, who once again appeared on the Malaysian stage, also received a confession from Brother Gongzi again.
However, this time the situation was different from the last time, Tai Lihua said directly to him: "I am married." ”
Tai Lihua's husband, Li Chun, is a student in the Department of Civil Engineering of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and the two fell in love at first sight.
It was a day near the first day of Double Eleven in 1995, Tai Lihua was walking on the road of the community carrying a trolley box.
Due to the fluttering temperament of the immortal qi formed by the long-term dance, Li Chun stopped to watch and was thrilled.
Seeing Tai Lihua enter his building, he hurried out the door and enthusiastically walked over to Tai Lihua and asked her if she needed help.
Tai Lihua pointed to his ear, indicating that he could not hear, and looked at the boy seriously, only to see the boy stunned for a moment and slow down his speech.
It was also this move that won tai lihua's favor, the friend was not at home, she followed the boy back home, during which the two wrote and communicated, the exchange was very pleasant, and left each other contact information and address.
Within a few days, Tai Lihua received a letter from Li Chun, and the two became very good friends.
Someone once asked Tai Lihua why she would go home with strangers with confidence, only to see Tai Lihua smile and say:
"What comes out of his eyes is a kind look."
The love affair between the two has also been opposed by Li Chun's parents, who hope that their son can find a sound person to spend his life together.
But feelings can not be forced, in 2002, the two ended a 7-year love run and walked into the palace of the wedding.
And after giving birth to a healthy son, Tai Lihua after marriage is very low-key, almost never take the initiative to talk about their family situation.
Only when the two divorced on the Internet, she took the initiative to mention that she and her husband had a good relationship, the divorce was purely rumor-mongering, she was not a star, and she did not need the outside world to spread gossip to her.
Today, Tai Lihua is still on the road of teaching dance.
In the face of her emotional choices, she can only say that Zi Fei yu, An Zhi Yu Is Happy, Tai Lihua wants only the best one in her eyes.
What many people don't know is that
When a Chinese disabled art troupe went to Australia for cultural exchange performances, when the Australian Chinese Wei Jicheng and his wife shook hands with the actors on stage to thank them,
Finding that the actors on the stage were very cold and did not react to their questions, which made them feel very rude, and Tai Lihua immediately came forward to explain that these children were deaf and mute, and had not yet learned to look at lips.
Wei Jicheng and his wife understood the origin of the matter, apologized and said, "Can I donate 10,000 yuan to each of them?" ”
Sister Tai Lihua said: "In fact, what we need most is not money, what we need most is to hear the voice." ”
Since then, there have been more donation activities in the world for the electronic hearing aid of the Wei Ji Chengtianlai train.
It is precisely because of Tai Lihua's words that many deaf and mute people in China have the possibility of being able to hear voices.
Tai Lihua uses time and experience to convey the beauty and emotion of life to the public, and proves the infinite possibilities of people with dance and spirit, and her achievements make the world moved.