On the stage, she is not tall, wearing a face mask, and with the Sichuan Opera face-changing music, she dances, kicks her legs, and changes her face to the rhythm...... When the last face was removed, the audience realized: Ah, there is something special about this face hidden under the face mask, with small cleft eyes and a low nose bridge - yes, this is the typical "Down Syndrome" (a child with Down syndrome) face. The girl hidden under the face is called Yin Qiuhua, a 19-year-old "Tang baby", and many netizens will be impressed by her skillful movements and precise rhythm control after watching the video of her performance of changing faces. On April 11, the reporter went to Peng'an County, Nanchong City, Sichuan, and learned about the touching story of "mother and daughter" and "master and apprentice" behind Qiuhua's performance of changing faces.
▲ "Master" Lin Chun (left), Qiuhua (middle) and Qiuhua's mother Zhao Haiying
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Don't mind the "Down Baby" label
Qiuhua enjoys the feeling of standing on the stage and likes to hear the applause of the audience, which is the proof that she "acted well".
The music played, and she controlled the rhythm precisely on the stage, walking, kicking her legs, and changing her face...... The whole Sichuan opera face-changing performance process takes five or six minutes. She moves skillfully, and when she takes off the last face, the audience will find that the face hidden under the face is a little special, with small cleft eyes and a low nose bridge......
When the music ended, Zhao Haiying, the mother standing in the audience, breathed a sigh of relief. Every time her daughter performs on stage, she is both looking forward to and worrying that there will be an accident in the performance. Soon, her daughter will come to her, and she will give her daughter a thumbs up without hesitation: "You are great." ”
▲Qiu Hua performed "Changing Face" on stage
There will inevitably be mistakes. Last year, when Qiuhua performed at a school in Nanchong City, the whole front performance was very smooth, and at the end of the strott shaking hands with the guests in the audience, Qiuhua almost fell to the ground due to the rain and slippery ground. This made her feel aggrieved, and when she stepped down and came to her mother, she was about to cry.
Zhao Haiying hurriedly comforted: "You performed very well, it's already great." A reporter who interviewed on the spot also stood up for the round: "I didn't fall, I saw it with my own eyes, it's good." Hearing everyone praise her, Qiuhua became happy again.
Zhao Haiying said that when her daughter stands on the stage, sometimes even she forgets the identity of "Tang Baby", and of course she doesn't mind the label of "Tang Baby".
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"You're not good enough, so your mouth should be sweeter"
Zhao Haiying and her husband are a combined family, both sides originally had a boy each, and she gave birth to her daughter Qiuhua at the age of 38, which is regarded as a pearl.
When Qiuhua was born, she weighed 8 pounds, but she was born with a cleft palate, and the milk powder fed into her mouth always flowed out, and she lost only more than 3 pounds when she was full moon. After a long time, Zhao Haiying found more and more "abnormal" places in her daughter: she couldn't laugh, she didn't cry when she was hungry. When she was 6 months old, Zhao Haiying and her husband first heard the term "Down baby" (a human chromosomal disease, also known as a congenital stupid baby) from a doctor.
She was reminded that her daughter would be a burden to the family in the future. Zhao Haiying's eyes were red: "Who would bear to lose their child?"
The "burden" comes first and foremost from the spiritual level. Qiuhua will only raise her head when she is about two years old, and she will call "Mom" when she is almost three years old, and she can stand up carefully by pulling the small wooden stick she handed out...... Playing outside with her daughter, Zhao Haiying can always feel "eyes like knives" from different directions.
▲ At the end of the performance, Qiuhua happily returned to her mother
When she was 7 years old, Qiu Hua's vocabulary was still limited to "father, mother", and "brother" was still difficult for her. Zhao Haiying hopes that her daughter can go to school like other children, but the school is embarrassed to accept a "special child" who cannot go to the toilet normally, and Zhao Haiying agrees to take care of her daughter in the classroom every day. She buys waste newspapers and goes home for her daughter to practice calligraphy, and she also buys a large bag of snacks to "please" children of the same age, hoping that they can take their daughter to play games together.
Zhao Haiying wants her daughter to see more things, and will stop for a wildflower on the side of the road and tell her daughter the name and color of the flower. Every winter and summer vacation, she takes her daughter to "travel poorly" everywhere, Chengdu, Luding, Tianjin, Macao...... The mother and daughter walked farther and farther.
She said to her daughter: "Because you are not good enough, you have to be more warm, more polite, and sweeter to people, so that others will like you." But sometimes her daughter greets someone, and if the other party doesn't hear it, her daughter will run directly in front of others, which makes her feel embarrassed. She asked her daughter to call the young lady "Auntie", and her daughter immediately corrected her: "It should be called Pretty Sister." ”
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"The child can do what she likes, and I am willing to bear the infamy"
Zhao Haiying often comforts herself that she must be "owed to her daughter in her last life, and she will repay her debts in this life". She always wanted her daughter to learn a skill. For a while, Qiuhua liked the violin, but gave up before she could learn fingering, and it was difficult to find a dance partner to learn Latin dance......
"I'm not angry, we need to face reality. Zhao Haiying even thought about letting her daughter learn to cook, but she quickly dispelled this idea, "She is not intellectually good, and she doesn't like it."
▲ "Master" Lin Chun and Qiuhua on the stage
3 years ago, Qiuhua apprenticed to Lin Chun to learn Sichuan opera to change face. Lin Chun is an opera cadre at the Peng'an County Cultural Center, and Qiuhua has always called her "Master Mother". The first time Zhao Haiying found Lin Chun, she wanted her to teach Qiuhua dance, she didn't know that Lin Chun would also change his face in Sichuan opera. Lin Chun listened to it and felt a "sigh" in her heart, she did not refuse to be a master for a "Tang baby", but she was sad for the difficulty of this kind of child, a simple action requires more effort than a normal child.
A few days later, Lin Chun asked Zhao Haiying to take Qiuhua to see her, looking at the girl in front of him who came to apprentice, Lin Chun flashed a thought in his heart: this child can be "carved". Lin Chun wanted to use traditional culture to infect this special girl, and there are different characters in the traditional culture of opera, so she decided to teach Qiu Huachuan the unique skill of changing faces.
But the pair of masters and apprentices faced challenges from the beginning: "Baby Tang's" had a language communication barrier, and Sichuan Opera face changing was a very difficult performance stunt, and Lin Chun needed to pay more time and energy.
At first, Lin Chun taught Qiuhua movements, and Qiuhua may have remembered it for a while, but forgot it after sleeping. Lin Chun tried to get Qiuhua to practice with the recorded video, and later asked Zhao Haiying to practice with him. In this way, Zhao Haiying's aesthetics can be cultivated, and she can also be allowed to supervise Qiuhua's practice at home. The mother and daughter began to receive tasks from "Master" Lin Chun every day, shoot videos to "check in", and if "Master" felt that a certain action was unqualified, they would practice until they were qualified.
▲Lin Chun, Qiuhua and other actors took a group photo
Since then, every morning at 5 o'clock, the Peng'an Longjiao Mountain Scenic Area can always see the scene of Zhao Haiying practicing with Qiuhua: open shoulders, press legs, and walk on the stage...... Qiuhua is not a normal child after all, and some simple movements are often difficult to master. Zhao Haiying was worried that her daughter would lose her "master" if she didn't learn well, so she asked her daughter to practice ten or twenty times if she didn't practice well. Qiuhua sometimes makes a fuss, Zhao Haiying beats her, and she immediately hides behind the onlookers and uncles and aunts crying and shouting "help".
's daughter cried, Zhao Haiying also cried, and others persuaded her to forget it, but Zhao Haiying felt that it was man-made, so she cried and called her daughter over to continue practicing. Zhao Haiying also won the title of "crazy mother" because of this. Zhao Haiying said that she is so that her daughter can have a skill in the future and be able to do what she likes. "For this, I am willing to bear the infamy. Now, the story of Qiuhua learning to change her face has been spread farther and farther, and Zhao Haiying has also become the envy of many families with special children. She said that she hopes that every parent will not give up on their children easily, but to discover the strengths and shining points of their children.
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The first red envelope "honors" the master
Now, Qiuhua can change 9 faces, including 1 back face.
"She's a miracle in my heart. Lin Chun said that he has always been confident in teaching Qiuhua well, and from the beginning he taught Qiuhua as a normal child, and every action must be standard. "If you look at her as if she is disabled, she will take it for granted that she can't do it well. Sometimes, to encourage Qiuhua to practice, Lin Chun would promise her that as long as she learned a certain movement, she would invite her to eat rice noodles. Qiuhua will be very happy when she hears it, because her mother is reluctant to take her to spend money on rice noodles.
The transformation occurred a year and a half later, when Qiu Hua performed for the first time at the "Disability Assistance Activity" held by the Jialing River in Nanchong City. At the end of the performance, someone handed her a red envelope, and she took the red envelope and gave it to "Master and Mother". This made Lin Chun very moved, she didn't expect that the first reaction of a Tang baby after getting the red envelope was to "honor" the master.
▲Lin Chun said that Qiuhua is a "miracle" in her heart
For children like Qiuhua, they need a stage to show themselves. Lin Chun said that she usually brings Qiuhua to performances and events, and the commercial performances she receives recommend Qiuhua to go, but she will not say Qiuhua's identity in advance, worrying that the business will have concerns.
Lin Chun has hardly missed Qiuhua's performances, and she will help Qiuhua put on her performance costume and check the preparations before going on stage. In fact, she was more nervous standing offstage than she was on stage. "If a disciple makes a mistake in his performance, others will say which master taught me? I can't afford to hurt it. ”
Recently, Qiuhua participated in the "Opera on Campus" cultural event held by the Peng'an County Cultural Center with "Master and Mother". On the afternoon of April 11, in a classroom similar to the second elementary school, Qiuhua stood in front of a group of children, following the "master and mother" to learn the movements and singing of opera performances. Lin Chun hopes that this will help Qiuhua better integrate into the circle of normal children.
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"She's from an alien planet"
Zhao Haiying feels that her daughter is lucky to be born in a loving family, and everyone loves her.
Qiuhua has been going to school in Peng'an, and before going to Nanchong Special School to learn housekeeping services, her father went to Nanchong in advance to take out a loan to buy a second-hand house, so that her mother could accompany her to school in Nanchong. Zhao Haiying told her grandson and granddaughter: "Your young man (Qiuhua) is from an alien planet and does not understand our language, so we have to take care of her." ”
"I never treated her as a disabled child, I had to raise her with my heart. Zhao Haiying has taught her daughter to do laundry, cooking, and stir-frying. She told her daughters to learn to be grateful, because they had been helped by too many people. Sometimes, when Qiuhua meets a beggar on the street, he will not hesitate to take out all his pocket money......
Zhao Haiying feels that the "change of face" has changed her daughter's originally foreseeable life trajectory, allowing her daughter to be reborn, her daughter's spirit has changed, she is more sunny, and she knows that she loves beauty, which sometimes gives people the "illusion" that "she seems to be no different from a normal child".
▲Zhao Haiying supervises her daughter Qiuhua to practice "spitting fire"
This semester, Zhao Haiying applied for a leave of absence for her daughter, and Qiuhua practiced "spitting fire" every day according to the tasks assigned by "Master's mother". Lin Chun said that "spitting fire" is a very dangerous performance, but Qiuhua can keep up with her own rhythm, and she hopes that "spitting fire" can also "light up" miracles on Qiuhua in the future.
Qiuhua's dream is to stand on the stage in Beijing one day, and Zhao Haiying feels that "this is a big dream". She almost forgot that many years ago, it was her "big dream" for her daughter to stand on stage and change her face.
Source: Red Star News