On August 8, 2008, the Bird's Nest was filled with joy and excitement, and the eyes of the people of the world were focused on the Bird's Nest, where a world-renowned opening ceremony of the Olympic Games was being staged.
Dancer Yin Shuo is wearing a flying costume and wearing a flying ribbon, and people all over the world are falling for Yin Shuo's dance, and the cheers in the bird's nest are endless.
At this time, in the 305 hospital near the Bird's Nest, a girl was lying on a hospital bed, tears welling up, because Yin Shuo's dance should have been performed by her.
She is Liu Yan, the A-corner of the opening ceremony solo dance "Silk Road".
Only because of the accident during rehearsals, Liu Yan's lower body now lost consciousness and could only lie in the hospital, and since then he can no longer perform on stage, and he can only be accompanied by a wheelchair for the rest of his life.
A dancer who loses his legs is equivalent to a bird breaking its wings, and the pain in Liu Yan's heart can no one really understand.
One
Liu Yan was born in 1982 in a family of high-ranking intellectuals in Huhhot, Inner Mongolia, his father was a judge and his mother was a doctor, and his grandfather named this granddaughter Liu Yan.
Perhaps from that moment on, fate had arranged that she would surely experience the severe pain of the wind and rain so as not to live up to this name as strong as a rock.
As the pearl in the palm of his parents, his parents hope that Liu Yan will get the best education, and they have arranged painting classes and violin lessons for Liu Yan, hoping that Liu Yan can have some artistic temperament.
However, Liu Yan was not interested in these things, until he encountered dance when he was 9 years old, and he has been addicted to it ever since.
Liu Yan only began to contact dance at the age of nine, and she was in the fourth grade at the time, and under the guidance of the enlightenment teacher Bai Ying, she made rapid progress, on the one hand, Liu Yan's love, on the other hand, her own talent.
Teacher Bai Ying suggested that Liu Yan apply for the Beijing Dance Academy, and Liu Yan passed the exam and began to have an indissoluble relationship with dance.
In order to let Liu Yan go further on the road of dance, his parents always took Liu Yan to Beijing every weekend to learn dance, and in those years, Hohhot to Beijing saved a drawer.
From 1993 to 1999, Liu Yan studied at the Beijing Dance Academy Affiliated High School, and since then she has never returned home, her parents would come to Beijing every weekend to see her, and the ticket of a school bag recorded their parents' painstaking efforts.
In 1999, Liu Yan was sent to the Classical Dance Department of Beijing Dance Academy because of his excellent results.
At this point, Liu Ying spilled countless sweat on the road of dance, and finally could look at the autumn scenery from afar.
In those years of North Dance, Liu Ying was a strange person in the eyes of her classmates, she never participated in any party, her only hobby was dancing in the practice room, tireless, cold and hot, not bitter, dancing shoes wore a big basket, and finally ushered in a gratifying harvest.
In 2002, Liu Yan won the silver medal in the Lotus Cup Dance Competition.
In 2004, he won the gold medal of the National Dance Competition.
In 2005, he won the Gold Medal of the Lotus Cup.
In 2005, he won the silver medal of CCTV TV Dance Competition.
In 2006, he appeared on CCTV Spring Festival Gala and performed the dance "Three Friends of the Cold Years" with Yang Liping, Tan Yuanyuan and other predecessors, which became famous and stunned the whole world.
With the blessing of countless awards, Liu Yan has gone farther and farther on the road of dance and has become a rising star in the dance industry.
It is also Liu Yan's excellence, so the solo dance "Silk Road" in the Olympic Games will determine her as a corner, behind her is the BCD corner, if not accidentally, the high-profile moment of the Olympic Games should belong to her.
But the accident happened in a second's error.
On July 27, 2008, the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games with makeup rehearsals was taking place at the Bird's Nest, and Liu Yan finished dancing and stepped onto the exit platform according to the procedure.
However, due to the mistake of the staff, the platform started a second early, and it was this second difference that made Liu Yan fall from the gap between the three-meter-high stage and the platform.
At that time, the pause button was pressed in the nest, and for a moment the music stopped, the actors' movements stopped, and the director shouted in the command room: "Hurry up and call an ambulance, hurry up and call an ambulance." ”
When the ambulance arrived, Liu Yan asked uncomfortably before being carried away: "Are we at the bird's nest at five o'clock the next day?" ”
Two
Liu Yan was sent to the exclusive hospital of the Olympic Games, underwent 12 hours of surgery, when Liu Yan woke up, found that his parents were around, Liu Yan looked at his parents with tears on his face, and asked in a confused way: "What is wrong with me?" ”
When the doctor said a long list of professional terms, Liu Yan asked anxiously: "You just say, what is wrong with me?" ”
The doctor said softly, "You are paralyzed." These four words were like nuclear bombs, exploding above Liu Yan's head.
At that time, she didn't seem to understand what the word "paralysis" meant to her, and she didn't react for a while, didn't cry or make trouble, and comforted her parents around her.
Liu Yan was disabled, and on the fourth day after the opening ceremony, the director team visited Liu Yan in the hospital, and Zhang Yimou was full of guilt in the face of Liu Yan on the hospital bed, he said: "Liu Yan is the deepest pain in my heart. ”
Liu Yan smiled at the director group and burst into tears.
As a doctor, the mother knows her daughter's situation very well, and she knows that her daughter will never stand up again.
But Liu Yan refused to bow to fate, she would do the maximum amount of rehabilitation training every day, others did two hours, she did it for seven or eight hours, because she believed that things are man-made, miracles will always favor those who are willing to work hard.
Whenever she watched her daughter do rehabilitation training tired to the point of collapse, the mother's tears would pour out uncontrollably, and as a professional doctor, she really knew how many chances of recovery her daughter's situation had.
After a lot of rehabilitation, Liu Yan had to bow to fate, but she did not realize what she would face in the future.
Until Liu Yan left the hospital on January 20, 2009, Liu Yan never cried loudly in front of his parents, and more often, in the face of his own situation, Liu Yan just silently wept.
When Liu Yan left the hospital, her parents took her to see a ballet, hoping to make her understand her situation as soon as possible and stand up psychologically as soon as possible.
When Liu Yan watched the ballerina dance with his toes, Liu Yan could no longer control himself and cried. Not long ago, she was also a dancer on the stage, and the best of the protagonists, but now...
The blow that Liu Yan needs to face is not just paralysis.
In the summer of 2006, a reporter once photographed the chief director of the Spring Festival Gala, Lang Kun and Liu Yan, walking hand in hand on the streets of Beijing during the Qixi Festival, and the two people looked very close.
At that time, Lang Kun's wife, Ma Yanli, happened to be not in China. Soon after, Lang Kun divorced Ma Yanli. Ma Yanli later told the media that Lang Kun had new feelings.
For a time, the news of Lang Kun's cheating in marriage was very loud, and the rumors of Liu Yan intervening in other people's families as a junior did not go away.
At that time, Liu Yan did not say a word in the face of the accusations of others, and he still practiced his beloved dance every day and did everything within his ability.
During Liu Yan's fall and hospitalization, Lang Kun frequently visited the hospital and did his best to accompany Liu Yan, when the media asked about the feelings of the two people, Lang Kun said that the two people were just ordinary friends.
In a later interview, Liu Yan said that if it were not for an accident, he would have ushered in a grand wedding after the opening ceremony.
But Liu Yan is paralyzed, the A corner is gone, the wedding is gone, the double blow of career and feelings is nothing, Liu Yan needs to face in the future and cannot take care of himself in life, which is the most fatal blow.
So, what happened to Liu Yan later?
Three
On January 20, 2009, Liu Yan left the hospital and officially returned in May, where she won the China Best Performance Actress of the Year Award, and Zhang Yimou and Song Zuying presented her with medals and certificates.
After being discharged from the hospital, Liu Yan began to pay attention to those vulnerable groups, to those children who love dance but because they did not have the conditions to learn dance, she participated in the launching ceremony of the "Dance Dream Children's Circle" love action, and became the image ambassador of this activity.
In 2010, through his own efforts, Liu Yan was admitted to the Chinese Academy of Art for a doctorate. After that, Liu Yan also served as a judge for many dance competitions.
After graduating with a doctorate, Liu Yan received an invitation from the Beijing Dance Academy and continued to dedicate his strength to the dance cause in North Dance.
With the advent of the epidemic in 2020, Liu Yan relied on his understanding of hand dance to choreograph a hand dance "Hand Protection" dedicated to those doctors and nurses who are fighting in the front line of the epidemic.
In 2021, Liu Yan published a new book, "Impressions of the Hand", and Liu Yan became the first researcher in the field of hand dance, filling the gap in this field of the mainland.
Not long ago, Liu Yan participated in the All-China Culture and Art Congress, and posted on the Internet a group photo of himself with well-known cultural and artistic creators at the Cultural Congress, and the photo of Liu Yan fell generously, smiled, and looked dignified and beautiful.
Now Liu Yan is 40 years old, which is already an age that is no longer young, but so far Liu Yan is still single, perhaps once shipwrecked.
In this world, from the most beautiful dancer on the stage to a disabled person who cannot leave a wheelchair for the rest of his life.
Such a blow is not something that anyone can bear, so we tolerate every tear of Liu Yan. Every despair, every choice.
Fortunately, after a short period of adjustment, Liu Yan returned to people's sight, no matter how many times he cried and wet his pillow in the middle of the night, at least when he appeared in public.
Liu Yan is smiling strongly, which is a strong thing that people who have not experienced it will not understand.
We say that Liu Yan is strong, but a strongest person is actually the most unfortunate person in the world, because being strong is often accompanied by suffering, and being strong is the medal of suffering.
Only those who have not been defeated by suffering are worthy of such a medal, but every human being would rather never be awarded such a medal in his life.
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