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"When you enter my classroom, your person, your personality, and your self-esteem have all been erased by me, and they all belong to me."
If a parent hears this, who else dares to send their child to his classroom to learn?
But on the contrary, the threshold of coming to him to study is about to be broken, and many parents are rushing to send their children here to learn ballet.
Because this teacher is not only Yang Liping's closed disciple, but also has excellent ability.
He is Guo Leng, who is known as "Wuhan's No. 1 ballet teacher".
Although Guo Leng's strength is well known, at the same time, he is "bound" with the title of "giant baby".
At the age of 46, he is still celibate and has no ability to take care of himself, except for a dance studio, which is a hotel.
Why does a 46-year-old dance leader have such a title?
And why do you still live in a hotel when you earn millions a year?
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Guo Leng has wanted to make dance a lifelong career since he was a child, and signed up for the open enrollment of the Beijing Dance Academy at the age of nine, as the only boy to sign up for ballet, Guo Leng was "given special attention".
The applicant teacher and the surrounding candidates are very curious, what ballet does a boy sign up?
Some want to see what it is, and some want to see his jokes.
After taking the stage, Guo Leng conquered all the teachers and candidates present with his soft posture and smooth dance, stood out in the fierce competition, and entered the Beijing Dance Academy to study classical ballet as he wished.
One minute on stage, ten years of work off stage, Guo Leng's "appearance" this time is not so smooth sailing.
Guo Leng was born in Yinchuan, Ningxia, and has had a unique aesthetic for art since he was a child, and his parents also intend to cultivate Guo Leng's talent in a certain aspect.
But what Guo Leng's parents did not expect was that when Guo Leng saw a ballet performance, he "fell in love at first sight" with him.
In fact, at first, my parents did not agree, on the one hand, there were few boys who learned to dance in that era, and there were very few boys who learned ballet.
On the other hand, they are also afraid that a boy who learns to dance for a long time will become unmanly.
But at Guo Leng's insistence, he was sent to learn ballet, and among the girls, Guo Leng suffered most of the strange eyes.
In this environment, Guo Leng put in more effort than others, coupled with his own understanding of dance, he soon became the leader of the dance studio.
"This kid is quite talented." The dance teacher said this to Guo Leng's parents.
Guo Leng's obsession with dance was seen by his parents, coupled with the teacher's affirmation, they felt that Guo Leng might really be suitable for learning ballet, so they were relieved to let him continue learning.
After that, Guo Leng really lived up to expectations, he not only participated in the competition and won a lot of awards, but also was admitted to the Beijing Dance Academy.
But as he grew older, the boy's development gradually became unsuitable for continuing to practice ballet, and the hardened bones and no longer flexible flexibility made Guo Leng have some movements that could not be done to the extreme.
But this did not make him give up, Guo Leng spent a lot of time to strengthen the basic skills, and his body was often blue and purple.
Fortunately, the effort paid off, and under Guo Leng's perseverance day after day, he gradually overcame these physiological difficulties.
Soon, the school also noticed his efforts and decided to send him to represent the Beijing Dance Academy in the competition.
So at the age of 15, Guo Leng "became famous in the First World War". During the competition, he showed a high artistic attainment, won the first place, and severely shocked those who sneered at him along the way.
Since then, Guo Leng has become the "light of the Northern Dance" in everyone's eyes.
And the biggest "transformation" in his life is slowly coming to him...
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17-year-old Guo Leng stepped onto the international stage, his solid dance skills and beautiful and gorgeous dance posture shocked all the audience, and the applause could not be quelled for a long time.
He did not get up at the end of the curtain, and many years of hard work seemed to be duly rewarded at this moment.
But what he didn't expect was that in the audience sat a dancer he had admired all his life - Yang Liping.
After Yang Liping saw Guo Leng's stage, she noticed that he had an extraordinary dance talent, as well as the most sincere love for dance in his eyes.
Therefore, Guo Leng was admitted to the Oriental Dance Troupe as he wished, and also became Yang Liping's closed disciple.
Later, under the guidance of Yang Liping, Guo Leng's level once again made a qualitative leap and improved.
Yang Liping also taught him "Peacock Dance", and once performed, Guo Leng's name once again became internationally known, and he was also known as the "male version of Yang Liping".
The young Guo Leng was famous at this time, and invitations to major large-scale performances came one after another.
But just when Guo Leng's career was about to take a new level, God played a joke on him and instantly pushed him under the cliff.
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"Doctor, can I dance again?"
"Of course not, even if you recuperate, you can't do strenuous exercise."
When Yang Liping was about to take Guo Leng to participate in a large-scale performance, because she always felt that her movements were not in place, it would greatly reduce the effect of the show, and Guo Leng fell into obsessive training.
Even if he was physically and mentally exhausted, he had no intention of stopping, and at this moment, an accident happened.
During an ascent exercise, one of the careless falls was to land on his knees, and Guo Leng felt the seriousness of the situation at that time and was quickly sent to the hospital.
After a series of examinations and treatments, a torn knee ligament strain made Guo Leng unable to dance on stage again. The news was like a thunderbolt for him.
After that, Guo Leng became depressed, had no spirit, and was not ready to cooperate with treatment, lying numb on the hospital bed all day.
When he was about to reach the peak of ballet, he fell fiercely from the altar. This kind of ending must be unacceptable to anyone.
Could it be that Guo Leng really said goodbye to his dreams in the second half of his life?
Guo Leng's family is by his side every day, and Yang Liping always finds an opportunity to comfort Guo Leng.
Seeing that the relatives and teachers around him were so attentive to him, Guo Leng felt that he was sorry for anyone and for his efforts over the years.
Since you can't shine on the stage, why not pass on the "heat" of dance?
So Guo Leng finally chose to open a dance studio and become a dance teacher, passing on his love for dreams to every child with the same dream.
He drove his studio to Yujiahu Road in Wuhan, Hubei Province, inconspicuous, with no signboard and no one posting advertisements.
Soon the first batch of students heard about it, because he was a closed disciple of Yang Liping, because he had starred in "Peacock Dance", because he had also been admitted to the Beijing Dance Academy.
But no one had an in-depth understanding of Guo Leng himself in the first moment.
We all know that for education, parents value the reputation of the teacher, and it is no wonder that everyone comes to his name.
But soon after, what really impressed everyone was Guo Leng's strict teaching style and attitude.
"I've never seen a teacher like this," is what many parents say about him.
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"All those who have a fun attitude, it's best not to come."
Generally, in one or two classes, Guo Leng feels that the child has no talent, or does not have a good learning attitude, so he will contact the parents to persuade him to quit.
He feels that talent determines whether you can become a dancer or not, but only with a good attitude of learning and persistent practice will you become a good dancer.
In this regard, Guo Leng controls it very strictly.
In addition, he insists on teaching lessons with French beats to give children the purest ballet atmosphere.
As long as you are willing to work hard, he is willing to accompany him until eleven or twelve o'clock in the evening for the two-hour class, and often falls asleep while the parents are waiting next to him.
Under his guidance, the children's progress has been rapid, and the parents are also very touched by Mr. Guo Leng's dedication.
Soon, Mr. Guo Leng's special teaching method attracted many parents from all over the country, even if they rented houses in the surrounding areas, they had to learn to dance with Guo Leng.
Guo Leng never refused to be sincere to dancing children, looking at them as if he saw himself when he was young, he treated every child with dedication and passed on what he learned without reservation.
Most of the children who go out of his dance studio can be admitted to national professional dance schools to continue their studies, and they have transmitted batch after batch of talents for the Chinese dance team.
It's just that Guo Leng has not only experienced winds and waves, but is also a leader in the professional field, how can he be called a "giant baby"?
"I don't do anything but ballet." Guo Leng also commented on himself.
He devoted himself to dance since he was a child, and later after being admitted to a professional college, he also had a teacher to take care of the diet and living, he only needed to focus on the dance career all the time, so that until he left the dance company due to illness, Guo Leng was already in his thirties.
After that, Guo Leng, who focused on teaching, didn't care about these things.
For all these years of teaching, he has been living in the surrounding hotels, and it is enough for him to have a place to rest, and the problem of eating has been solved in a Taiwanese owner's shop.
So things like changing light bulbs, washing clothes, cooking and so on Guo Leng still don't know at all.
Parents who know his situation will also help him spontaneously, bringing some for him when cooking, and washing heavy clothes.
At this time, someone wanted to ask, why didn't Guo Leng find a partner to live with?
It's not that no one has introduced him, Guo Leng also made a lot of money because of his teaching, but the girls he came into contact with would leave, either unable to stand only dancing in his world, or unable to accept that he did not have the ability to take care of himself.
Guo Leng himself does not care much about finding a partner, for him, as long as there is still dancing, and he can continue to teach, everything outside his body is not a necessity for him.
"Wish I could dance ballet until I'm 80."
Such a man who is more than half a hundred years old will still maintain his body shape for dance, and he is in a state of 177cm and 120 pounds all year round, insisting on his career as a dance teacher.
The fire in his heart never seemed to be extinguished, and as long as he danced, he would never know that he was tired.
Looking back on Guo Leng's experience, he became famous at a young age, reached the peak, and realized his life ideal at a young age.
He has also fallen to the bottom, experienced the dark period of his life, and entangled himself for a long time, but never wavered in his goal.
Many people have their own dreams when they are young, and everyone is greedy and wants to be ideal and want to balance real life.
But often either because of the pressure of reality can not complete the dream, or, like Guo Leng, put all his heart into the ideal, real life completely left behind.
There are pros and cons to any choice, but what everyone is chasing is also different.
I don't know what you think of Guo Leng's choice?