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16 photos take you deep into the unknown old photos of Peacock Queen Yang Liping

author:Walking Zizhi Tongjian
16 photos take you deep into the unknown old photos of Peacock Queen Yang Liping

1. In 1987, in China, the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949 to the reform and opening up in the 1980s. Decades of exemplary education in the revolutionary line of dance. Yang Liping single-handedly broke the single situation, starting with "The Spirit of the Bird", she created a new history of Chinese dance.

16 photos take you deep into the unknown old photos of Peacock Queen Yang Liping

2. In the 80s, Yang Liping's strong personal style of dance swept the country, and when the first-line stars at that time were hundreds of yuan in sky-high hole appearance fees, she created a history of 10,000 yuan. She is the earliest "10,000 yuan household" in China

16 photos take you deep into the unknown old photos of Peacock Queen Yang Liping

3. This photo was taken in Shigatse, Tibet in July 1988, Yang Liping always accumulated national essence and inspiration elements in her life, so she later created "Impressions of Yunnan" (aka: Shangri-La) caused a sensation in the world, and was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by UNESCO and the World Center for Art in the United States.

16 photos take you deep into the unknown old photos of Peacock Queen Yang Liping

4. Yang Liping bought 8 acres of land in the southern suburbs of Beijing in 1991 and resettled a new home, where she built a dance hall for herself. Plant your favorite Yunnan flowers and plants. But when she later faced difficulties in creating artistic dances, she did not hesitate to sell the 8 acres of land. Since then she has no home in Beijing.

16 photos take you deep into the unknown old photos of Peacock Queen Yang Liping

5. Yang Liping is looking for her own love, because of her huge fame, the people who pursue it cannot be counted. There were 70,000 letters in just one week. Whether it is a high-ranking official or a friend of the workers. Yang Liping was friendly. But she still found her first love, and later, inspired by inspiration, she created "Two Trees", which caused a sensation when it premiered in Taiwan. She was the first mainland artist to go to Taiwan to perform, and in the same year she was called the Chinese dance god by the Taiwanese media. It was 1994.

16 photos take you deep into the unknown old photos of Peacock Queen Yang Liping

6. When her reputation reached its extreme, there was no trace of other dancers in China at that time, and it seemed that only Yang Liping was mentioned in dance. The only men are young soybeans. This confused Yang Liping, who cherished dance like life. She began to give up the performance, refused all advertising and commercial performances and began to run to the ethnic minority villages on the frontier. Look for the art and talent of dance that is about to die. This is a photo of her when she was collecting wind in Qinghai.

16 photos take you deep into the unknown old photos of Peacock Queen Yang Liping

7. She is actually the richest among Chinese dancers, but she is very careful about herself. Whenever she needed money to hang up with the dance, she always gave everything. When the ordinary employee earned 500 yuan a month, in order to form a dance troupe, she could take out hundreds of thousands of dollars at a time to start a fund. Privately, I sewed my worn-out dance costumes by myself.

16 photos take you deep into the unknown old photos of Peacock Queen Yang Liping

8. In those years, the planned economy was transferred to a market economy, and many times, money dominated many things. She was sad and had very little contact with people. Stars who are considered "cold and arrogant". In fact, no, in life, perhaps only dance can have a heartfelt dialogue with her.

16 photos take you deep into the unknown old photos of Peacock Queen Yang Liping

9. In 1996, she danced "Spirit of the Sparrow" in Morocco, and Michael Jackson was dancing space dance. Her dancing style was something people had never seen before, the wind blowing from the East. They have since become friends.

16 photos take you deep into the unknown old photos of Peacock Queen Yang Liping

10. Her "Fire" is still one of the most memorable oriental dances in the hearts of British audiences. The exquisite bionic movement seemed to be really a cluster of burning flames moving.

16 photos take you deep into the unknown old photos of Peacock Queen Yang Liping

11. Her choreographed dance "Daughter Country" tells the bitterness of ethnic minority women for thousands of years, and when the premiere was performed, UN Secretary-General Annan was moved to tears. Although the language is different, the culture is different. But the power of the dance that reached straight to the heart touched the heart of this Western man.

16 photos take you deep into the unknown old photos of Peacock Queen Yang Liping

12. In 2001, Yang Liping's own large-scale song and dance drama "Impression of Yunnan" (also known as: Shangri-La) created after 10 years of accumulation came out, and it has toured the whole united country and Europe, causing a sensation in the world. This oriental woman, who melted her love for ethnic minorities and the land of Yunnan into her soul, performed in New York for a long time when the audience did not want to leave. This photograph of the moonlight silhouette still hangs at the National Center for the Arts in New York.

16 photos take you deep into the unknown old photos of Peacock Queen Yang Liping

13. For the first time, she brought the enjoyment of beauty to the Western people in the form of dance, and interpreted the charm of art with her own Oriental beauty. President Bush called her "the bellwether of the East — find her and you'll find China!" In the same year, UNESCO and the National Center for the Arts awarded her the Lifetime Achievement In Art Award.

16 photos take you deep into the unknown old photos of Peacock Queen Yang Liping

14. As one of the five Chinese beauties of China's "China National Propaganda Film" broadcast on Fifth Avenue in the United States, Yang Liping took her personal standard photo.

16 photos take you deep into the unknown old photos of Peacock Queen Yang Liping

15. 12 years have passed from 2001 to the present, and "Impressions of Yunnan" is still staged every night at the Kunming People's Grand Theater in Yunnan without a single day's interruption, because it is a cultural business card submitted by Yunnan to the world.

16 photos take you deep into the unknown old photos of Peacock Queen Yang Liping

16. In 2003, the large-scale original ecological song and dance "Tibetan Fans" starring her was praised by France as an oriental classic. That mysterious atmosphere, dreamy traces, people suffocate. Yang Liping's "Lotus Tara" was compiled into dance teaching materials by the Nepalese government because of the kind of fairyland-like detachment from the world.

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