Do you still remember the "smiling girl" Tie Jiaxin who became popular all over the Internet because of an innocent smiling face two years ago?
The last time Tie Jiaxin appeared in the public eye was at the opening ceremony of the "Village BA" Village Super last year. She wore stage makeup, grew a lot taller, held the entrance sign with a serious expression, and led the audience to sing "My Motherland and Me".
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Looking back at her overnight popularity, she quickly rushed to the hot search because of her 6-second short video, and received more than 100 million views in just a few days, and received more than 40 million likes from netizens across the country, and the place where Tie Jiaxin lives and her school have also gained a lot of attention.
In the months that followed, various MCN companies heard the news and expressed their willingness to spend 1 million yuan to sign a contract to make her an Internet celebrity.
Becoming popular overnight may mean "getting out of the circle and changing your life". When the sugar-coated shells of money and fame strike, many people are difficult to resist.
But Tie Jiaxin's parents finally chose to refuse one by one in the face of olive branches thrown by many companies, in order to let their daughter study with peace of mind.
Under the guidance of her parents, Tie Jiaxin continued to study in a rural primary school step by step along her original track, living an ordinary life as an ordinary child.
This calmness is rare in the era of traffic economy.
And when we sort out the growth story of "Smiling Girl" again, her growth is also a spur and inspiration for us.
"Overnight popularity"
Fame and traffic followed
Guyuan is located in the southernmost part of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. This is the filming location of the TV series "Mountains and Seas", with barren land and backward economy, and it is also the birthplace of Tie Jiaxin, the protagonist of this article, "Smiling Girl".
Her parents and grandparents were farmers and lived in difficult conditions.
Because of the backward local educational resources, a large number of college students come to Daping Primary School in Majian Township, Guyuan City every year to teach, and Ma Rui is one of them.
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In addition to teaching, Ma Rui, like ordinary college students, is also accustomed to using his mobile phone to record beautiful moments of life. Thanks to these short videos, the lively scenes of rural children skipping rope and frolicking and chasing between classes have caught the eyes of netizens.
Ma Rui's original intention in shooting the video was to record the growth of the children, and the label "Since the mountain has chosen me, I will take root here" has witnessed her wish to "grow up with the children in the mountains".
One afternoon, students lined up to get out of school as usual. It was a cold day, and the children were wearing thick clothes, anxiously and excitedly waiting.
At this time, the camera focused on Tie Jiaxin. She has just turned seven years old, and she is a first-grade student at Daping Primary School and a student of Teacher Ma Rui. She stood in the front row of the line in a red cotton suit, her hair neatly combed back into a single ponytail, looking around and chatting with her classmates, while clenching her fists as usual, stretching her legs casually to keep warm.
Sensing the teacher's camera, Tie Jiaxin smiled shyly, her eyebrows and eyes were crooked, innocent and natural.
may have caused aesthetic fatigue from the overly packaged online videos, and countless netizens were moved by Tie Jiaxin's "shy smile".
In just a few days, the video has received nearly 100 million views and hundreds of thousands of retweets, and "Smiling Girl" has become completely popular. In addition to the tide of praise from netizens, there is also a staggering amount of traffic.
Return to ordinary life
Cherish your childhood
In the era of traffic, behind the attention is full of potential business opportunities.
During that time, people from all walks of life who rushed to Tie Jiaxin's house for interviews broke through the threshold. Some brokerage companies claim to make her the "second Ding Zhen"; Some offered a high endorsement fee with an annual salary of one million, hoping to build her into a child star, endorse children's products, and study in big cities.
For people who have lived here for generations, from Daping Village with difficult conditions to become a high-profile "Internet celebrity", this wave of money and fame falling from the sky is undoubtedly a "gift" of getting rich overnight.
However, in the face of this opportunity to become famous that countless people dream of, Tie Jiaxin's family was not carried away by temporary interests. After much thought, they decided to turn down these opportunities.
Iron father said: "My daughter is not for you to use, her future is up to her to fight and break through." I can afford to feed her before she enters society, so don't disturb her life! ”
"I don't need to rely on your use to make her popular."
He knows that for a seven-year-old child, it may not be a good thing for a seven-year-old child to be exposed to society too early and face all kinds of financial temptations alone.
Tie Jiaxin's sister Tie Guoqin said in an interview that both grandfather and father attach great importance to their children's education. My sister is young, but she studies hard, never pampered, and is a sensible child.
After the child was noticed by the outside world, Grandpa Tie Baoan did not breed the psychology of getting rich overnight, and did not make any plans to transfer the child to a big city school.
The family lives peacefully the same life as before the child became popular, staying in their hometown and going with the flow.
"If you send your children to study in the city, the adults have to accompany them, and no one will take care of the affairs in the village. It's hard to think about it. In the past, poverty had a lot to do with the inability to keep up with education, and it was still necessary to vigorously develop rural education. ”
Lu Yao wrote in the book "Life":
"Although the road of life is long, there are often only a few steps at the critical point, especially when you are young, you take a wrong step, which can affect a period of life and can also affect a lifetime. ”
Momentary choices of interests may affect a child's life. Tie Jiaxin's family is soberly aware that the road to Internet celebrity has earned a momentary glory, but it may also make children miss the golden stage of learning and character building in their lives.
When a reporter proposed that he hoped to have a face-to-face dialogue with Tie Jiaxin, he was also politely declined. The family members thought that the child was still young and still in the critical period of growth and development, and could not effectively screen the network information, so they held up a protective umbrella for Tie Jiaxin in time.
When Tie Jiaxin appeared again, it was the opening ceremony of Guizhou Village Super, and she led 10,000 audiences to sing "My Motherland and Me". We found that her face was less youthful than it was at the beginning, and more confident and "bookish". After taking off her makeup, Tie Jiaxin returned to her former peaceful life, and the topics surrounding her no longer made waves on the Internet.
Perhaps, the greatest value brought by Tie Jiaxin's "a smile" has never been traffic, but to make everyone pay attention to children in remote areas and the current situation of local underdeveloped education.
Daping Village has received funding from the China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation, as well as the generosity of many enthusiastic people in the society. Daping Primary School has changed a lot compared to the previous two years, and children can receive a better education here and prepare for a better future.
Parental vision
Affect a child's life
Tie Jiaxin's smooth return to a peaceful life benefited from the vision and pattern of the family behind her. Their firmness in the face of the temptation of money will be a source of strength for Tie Jiaxin to embark on the future journey calmly.
Her life experience also reminds me of the once smash hit child star - Yang Peiyi.
At the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Yang Peiyi became Lin Miaoke's "voice replacement", as a behind-the-scenes hero, a beautiful song resounded at the opening ceremony. At that time, many people complained about her, hoping that Yang Peiyi's parents would stand in front of the media and "seek justice" for their children.
Yang Peiyi
However, Yang Peiyi's family has always treated the performance with a normal heart:
"The world that children see should be within the scope of children, not the world of adults, which will have an impact on the soul."
The Yang family rejected the business logic behind the fame, refused to shoot advertisements, did not engage in star effects, and protected Yang Peiyi in the most stupid way.
After graduating from the Primary School Affiliated to Peking University, she was admitted to the High School Affiliated to the National People's University and then to Beijing No. 8 Middle School. Later, with excellent grades, she won the admission ticket to the University of North Carolina and became a prestigious college student, shining on the stage of her own life.
Because of her parents' vision and pattern, she now has a bigger stage.
Looking at one small Internet celebrity after another that has been "concocted" by the invisible network of the Internet, there are "Xiao Ma Yun" Fan Xiaoqin's "traffic value" and was fired after being squeezed dry by the institution; Later, there was a young food blogger Peggy, who became a big stomach Internet celebrity under the leadership of his parents, and his knee joint was damaged and his legs were deformed due to excessive obesity.
When parents with ulterior motives use the fame and fortune brought by their children as a tool to get rich, the children have to become marionettes, saying things that are not suitable for their age, and doing things that are not suitable for their age.
Becoming famous prematurely and consuming innocence is undoubtedly an excessive overdraft of one's own growth.
Hayao Miyazaki once said:
"Childhood does not exist for the sake of adulthood, it exists for the sake of childhood itself, for the sake of experiencing things that can only be experienced when you are a child. A five-minute experience in childhood is better than an entire year in adulthood. ”
A child's childhood is so precious, and doing what should be done on the right track requires parents to participate, guide and accompany them.
I believe that more and more parents will choose to make rational choices like Tie Jiaxin's family, and use vision and pattern to build an independent kingdom for their children, so that they can grow up quietly, continue to climb on the stage of their own lives, and realize their self-worth.
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