Once Venus jokingly asked Yang Liping: "I am curious, your nails are so long, what should you do when you go to the toilet?" Yang Liping said, What are you blindly? The nails are only 5cm, and it is not impossible to do anything! Besides, there are assistants. ”
A few words, people can't help but think of it.
In fact, it is no wonder that Venus is curious about Yang Liping's life, such a fairy full of spirituality, she always hides a lot of things that are difficult for ordinary people to understand.
For example, when she was 20 years old, she put a knife at the head of the bed, and whoever wanted to pursue her would fight with whom;
In order to maintain body shape, I have never eaten white rice for 30 years.
For 40 years, with nails up to 5cm long, it is difficult to take care of himself even in life;
For 60 years, there have been no children;
Such a Yang Liping, in the end, is she dedicated to art, or is there something difficult to hide?
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In 1958, in a small Bai village surrounded by flowers in Eryuan, Yunnan, a female doll accompanied by a dew-dripping elf was quietly born.
Like all Bai people, she loves to dance, often dancing in the fields and playing with herself without anyone around.
While other children were playing and playing, she was observing how the leaves swayed, how the flowers opened, and was often immersed in them, even her mother could not hear her.
This girl is Yang Liping.
There are 3 younger siblings in the family, and the father divorced his mother early. The lives of a few people in a family are all pressed on the mother.
At that time, the poor girls of the Bai ethnic group wanted to live, and when they were not yet young, they would marry into other people's homes as "child brides".
Yang Liping is the eldest sister, and naturally cannot escape the fate of being "sold", but she is exceptionally smart and lucky.
She was very good at making a living, and when she saw a pair of flower socks in the town that looked good, she went home to the mountains to pick mushrooms, and then skewered them with grass, which was both fresh and special, and took them to the market, where they were quickly robbed.
She is also the best dancer in the village, although she has not received professional training, but she has become a leader of recess exercises by self-study.
On that day, a dance troupe in Xishuangbanna came to pick someone, and at a glance, he took a fancy to this little girl with extraordinary temperament, wanted her to join the dance troupe, and could get a subsidy of 30 yuan per month.
Can dance and get a salary, Yang Liping is very happy.
The mother is mixed, happy that the daughter can earn money, life will not be so tight,
The worry is that a girl goes to a dance performance, and is so intimate with her male partner, the people in the village will chew the root of their tongues.
Under the trade-off, her mother still locked Yang Liping at home, but Yang Liping secretly escaped from the door behind her mother's back and became a member of the Xishuangbanna Song and Dance Troupe.
However, when she first arrived, everything was different from what she had imagined.
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Although she is talented, she has a weak foundation, neither splits nor follows the waist, often dragging the team's hind legs, and being isolated and complained by her peers.
More importantly, she was very disgusted by those uniform movements, thinking that those were like "recess exercises" and had no aesthetic sense to speak of.
Therefore, whenever others dance, she is immersed in the beauty of music, following the imagination, stretching and jumping.
Maverick, she quickly became an "outlier" in the team, often ostracized, and the opportunities to perform were few and far between.
But Yang Liping didn't care, she didn't have the opportunity to perform, she just had time to see the peacocks, see the flowers and plants, and look at them for half a day, as if the soul had drifted away to talk to them.
After returning in the evening, she carefully imitated the movements of the peacock, often practicing and practicing until late at night.
"As long as people have a momentum, they will not fall."
Heaven always favors those who really love, and Yang Liping has also won her own opportunities because of persistence.
In 1979, the troupe choreographed a new dance drama "Peacock Princess", the lead actor happened to be ill and could not go on stage, as a substitute Yang Liping had the opportunity to perform.
At the beginning, the leader was quite nervous about her going on stage, who knows, when Yang Liping's peacock gesture came out, the whole audience broke out into thunderous applause.
The soft figure and the spiritual dance posture are like the real peacock princess descending.
After the performance, the audience resounded with warm applause, and Yang Liping won the first prize of the Yunnan Provincial Dance Competition in one fell swoop, and was transferred to the Central National Song and Dance Troupe.
However, in the new environment, Yang Liping is still an out-of-place existence.
All the dances in the troupe have ballet components, but Yang Liping does not get down, does not spin and jump, and often becomes the laughing stock of her companions.
But she didn't care, she knew that the dance she liked was different from others.
Whoever wants her to mechanically imitate a dance, she has a hard time learning.
But if you tell her what this dance wants to express, Yang Liping will soon be able to improvise and choreograph a dance.
Therefore, she never goes with the flow, always adheres to the most beautiful melody in her heart, thinks for herself, and practices diligently.
In 1988, Yang Liping surprised most of China with her self-created dance "Spirit of the Sparrow".
She stood on the stage, pure and ethereal, her arms could be rotated behind her back, imitating the bird's crown with her long hands,
These non-standard techniques are all imitated and created by herself through nature, and the peacock's appearance is vividly displayed.
Yang Liping was on fire, various performance invitations came pouring in, and her peacock dance went out of the country and into the world. Received a lot of praise.
This dance is a compulsory course for almost every dance student, and it has never been imitated to this day and has never been surpassed.
It is said that a successful person must also be a lonely person, and this sentence is most appropriate for Yang Liping.
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Over the years, people have often mentioned her, often with mixed reputations.
Some people say that she lived too pretentiously and lived herself as Lafayette, and some people said that she was crazy.
Can you imagine that this is the back of a 60-year-old?
To stay in shape, she never ate rice, and lunch was a small slice of beef, half an apple and an egg.
At the dinner party, everyone else was feasting, but she was chewing roses alone.
Even Feng Xiaogang said that she was not a human, but a jing, a fairy.
Since the 1980s, Yang Liping has kept 5 centimeters of native nails and spent 180,000 yuan per year on maintenance.
If you can't hold the chopsticks, you will have the assistant put the dish on the plate. She washed her hands and grabbed them to eat.
She couldn't do it alone except holding chopsticks, simply dressing, taking a bath, and going to the toilet.
Once on the show, Venus asked curiously: What should I do if I go to the toilet and wipe pp?
She said: There is nothing inconvenient, looking at the mobile phone to take the elevator is the joint of the hand, and the toilet is used to use the smart toilet.
She said that the clouds are light and the wind is light, but after decades of persistence, the inconvenience can be imagined.
She does everything in order to be able to maintain the most beautiful posture and dance well.
In order to dance the shape of the peacock's pointed beak, she grew long fingernails.
In order to maintain a good posture on the stage, she resisted the temptation of food and insisted on it for decades.
She once said: The stage is too small, and the bigger stage is my heart, my own soul.
For the sake of dancing, she even gave up the opportunity to give birth.
She had been married twice, the first of whom was a dancer in a cabaret troupe, and the two ended their marriage because they were not suitable for each other.
In her second paragraph, she is with Liu Chunqing, a 10 billion businessman in Taiwan.
At the age of 32, Yang Liping, who had long been famous at home and abroad with "The Spirit of the Sparrow", was invited by her friends to a birthday party.
Yang Liping, who was above Xingtou, improvised a dance, which also attracted the attention of Liu Chunqing, a wealthy Taiwanese businessman in the crowd.
The so-called love at first sight, goodbye to the heart, soon, Liu Chunqing launched a bold and enthusiastic pursuit of Yang Liping.
Yang Liping was touched by Liu Chunqing's persistence and true feelings, and finally chose to associate with him.
After 5 years of love, the two fell in love and married.
In 2002, Yang Liping married liu chunqing, a billionaire, for seven years.
Liu Chunqing suddenly said to Yang Liping: "We want a child, I am willing to give him all my property!" ”
But doctors say that if you want to get pregnant, you need to reach 20% body fat, which means you have to gain weight.
Yang Liping thought twice, or chose to leave, if she had to choose between children and dance, she would rather choose the latter.
There is no woman who does not long for a beautiful love, and Yang Liping is no exception, otherwise she would not have choreographed such a lingering dance "Two Trees".
However, rather than dance, she would rather bury her love in her heart.
Once, there was such a post on the Internet, satirizing Yang Liping for not wanting children, and it was not perfect to enjoy the joy of heaven no matter how successful her career was.
The number of likes below the comments is as high as tens of thousands, and the popularity of the post forces Yang Liping to rarely speak for herself, she said:
"Some life is for the sake of passing on from generation to generation, some are enjoyment, some are experiences, some are spectators, and I am a bystander of life, and I came to this world to see how a tree grows, how the river flows, how the white clouds float and how the nectar condenses." 」
For her, she is like an elf born for dance, and her mission is to use body language to feel all the quietness and beauty of life.
For so many years, she never gave up on her original intention.
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See a lot of folk dances dying out. Yang Liping, who was becoming popular, resolutely moved her hukou back to Yunnan and spent a huge amount of money to shoot the dance "Yunnan Image".
In order to express the beauty of the original ecology of the land in which they are rooted, all the dancers in it are native farmers.
For example, when she found Shrimp Ga, he was herding cattle, the cow ran, and Shrimp Ga shouted loudly toward the mountain: "Help me catch the cow!" Like singing, his transparent voice shocked Yang Liping at once.
He and the people in the village danced on the edge of the cliff, played the "blind drum", and their hands were bleeding, and Yang Liping felt that this was the person who really loved dancing, so she took him out.
After the release of "Yunnan Yingxiang", it was widely acclaimed, and the world was amazed by such a pristine song and dance work, which looked earthy and beautiful.
In 2006, when Yang Liping was collecting wind from the primitive tribes on the border between Yunnan and Myanmar, she found a magical drum, the largest of which was three or four meters high, and more than a dozen people could not lift it.
When she heard the sound of the drums, the shock made Yang Liping burst into tears in an instant, as if she felt the call of the gods.
And the process of making this kind of drum is even more incredible.
In order to find a tree that could make such a drum, they asked the whole village to go out and throw eggs into the tree, and in their belief, only if there were gods on the tree, the eggs would not break.
Therefore, when the egg is thrown up, it will not be broken, and the whole village will cut down the tree together, drag it back, soak it, polish it, and it will take shape after two years.
This drum sound, full of mystery and beautiful sustenance, greatly touched Yang Liping's heart.
So she spent nearly a year collecting these drums and other instruments everywhere, and created the large-scale percussion dance "The Sound of Yunnan".
She is always feeling the wonders of nature with all her heart, sparing no effort to discover and spread.
She said: "There is always an end to the performance, but the dance in my life never ends."
Born for dance, obsessed with dance, from nature to the stage, and from the stage back to nature, she is a miracle, with a lifetime to do only one thing well.
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Off the stage, she lived detachedly and indifferently.
In 2002, when Zhang Jizhong filmed "The Legend of the Eagle Shooter", he invited Yang Liping to play Mei Chaofeng.
The cold temperament, the long nails up to 5 centimeters long, only she performed the fierceness and femininity of the nine yin white bone claws.
Zhang Jizhong once said in "Venus Show" that Yang Liping entered the group to shoot at that time, never brought an assistant, and other stars who were less famous than her were all hugging before and after, only she, such a big actor, went alone.
When filming, he is never pretentious and is more willing to work harder than anyone.
Zhang Jizhong exclaimed, "This is an artist who really deserves respect!" ”
Yang Liping rarely participates in variety shows, but everyone who participates is because of the development of new dance projects and lack of money.
Once, she went to a dance variety show as a judge and met the enemy Venus.
Because of different judging standards, the two people have different opinions, and they are blushing and thick in neck when arguing on the show, and neither of them obeys the other.
But privately, Venus still has a lot of respect for her, and she once said on Ma Dong's show:
"I admire her and her dance very much, she grinds a thing thoroughly, grinds it to the extreme, to an unsurpassable height, it's too difficult, she's my predecessor."
The only peer who can make Venus so praised by the outspoken heart is Yang Liping.
Her love for the peacock dance and dedication to the spread of national culture cannot be replaced by a second person in the world.
For the sake of dancing, she can accept any "torment" that seems unbearable to outsiders, just to do one thing to the extreme.
Any evaluation from the outside world, as far as she was concerned, like a breeze passing in her ears, soon disappeared.
In 2021, the dance works created by her and ethnic minority dancers for the theme of the Year of the Ox were not eligible for the CCTV Spring Festival Gala.
Everyone regretted her, but she was wearing her own "beggar clothes" and walking comfortably on the stone road in dali, her hometown.
In her heart, except for dance, everything is a small thing.
postscript:
The so-called "no crazy devil can not live", only to achieve the realm of obsession, in order to achieve a thing to the extreme,
She used her "crazy devil" for dance to compose a brilliant and wonderful life and became a real "peacock princess".
Her whole life has become one with the spirit of the peacock and her homeland,
Just like the photographer's evaluation of her: Yang Liping is the closest person to nature and God.
Today, she has retired, living in the Moon Palace, north of the Cangshan Mountains, facing the Erhai Sea, absorbing the essence of heaven and earth,
In the middle of the mountains and the chaotic clouds, leisurely.
She has lived for herself all her life, never cared about the eyes of others, and her understanding of art has truly achieved unprecedented results.
What if you can't have children and don't have your own children? She is the peacock fairy who is never alone.