What do you like in life?
Aegean, tea, travel, building blocks, games.
"By the way, there's also Douyin," Dou Shanping added with a smile.
He also said that life requires hard work to love.
The original heart of music
The 58-year-old Dou Shanping, with white hair, exquisite dress, and light in his eyes, seems to have an innate sense of fit with the violin.
Dou Shanping's musical enlightenment came from the family, his father would sing Shanxi Zizi, and his brother would pull a good erhu. He has loved music since he was a child.
Dou Shanping and violin were related when he was 8 years old, and he described it as "love at first sight". Until the age of 13, Dou Shan Pingyong had the first piano in his life, and he still remembers that the piano cost more than 90 yuan, the quality is average, but it carries his original musical intention, "very precious".
At that time, violins were relatively rare, and there were no good conditions for learning the violin, and Dou Shanping basically relied on self-study. With the love of "love at first sight", I insist on getting up early every day to practice.
In 1981, Dou Shanping was admitted to Nanjing Aeronautical Institute (now Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics), became the backbone of literature and art, and also formed a string quartet group, "The four of us, two violins, a viola, a cello, can get together is very rare." We have rehearsed many pieces such as Mozart's G major and string quartets, Haydn Serenade, Erquan Yingyue, etc., and have also received special guidance from teachers at Nanjing University of the Arts." Talking about the past of the university, Dou Shanping was particularly excited, probably because that time was full of youth and comfort.
Artistic life
After graduating from university, Dou Shanping came to Beijing, and decades passed. Work is changing, experience is changing, and the only thing that hasn't changed is practicing.
In Dou Shanping's view, he was busy with work and career before, and he could not give his beloved violin too much time, so he inevitably had some regrets, so he bought himself two good pianos and strengthened his practice.
Opportunities followed. In the Spring Festival of 2019, for the purpose of recording, Dou Shanping posted a video of himself playing the violin on Douyin, opening his network debut. "At the beginning, I could only send 15 seconds of video, I heard that I had to do a good job and have a certain accumulation to get a minute of permission, and I thought that it would not be a year and a half", but I did not think that the video was loved by netizens, and it was unlocked in a few days. The first popular work was "I Love You, China" filmed at Miaofeng Mountain, which received 70,000 or 80,000 likes.
When he met Douyin, Dou Shanping ignited his enthusiasm for acting and sharing, and further unlocked the live broadcast function with the help of his daughter, and he still clearly remembers that the first live broadcast was May 1, 2020. "I don't fix the live broadcast, but when I am there, the fans are there, which makes me very moved," Dou Shanping said.
Most of his fans are music lovers, especially those who like familiar works, but also simple listeners, and it has become a habit to listen to him play the piano every day. They affectionately called him "Teacher Dou", gave him praise and encouragement, reminisced about the red date trees in his hometown with him, and felt the cooking smoke of street vendors together.
The warm interaction with fans allowed Dou Shanping to find a new meaning for a new stage in life.
He was also very happy to find a stage for himself, which was big enough to "cross time and space, become friends with thousands of people, and communicate with thousands of people", Dou Shanping liked this atmosphere, seeing this as an opportunity to learn, "very lucky, also very happy".
"Despite my age, I met a lot of interesting souls on Douyin, and they gave me a lot of courage to keep me insisting", and some fans who like music playing, under the influence of Dou Shanping, also began to slowly try to post videos on Douyin.
Old age
Talking about the secret of staying young, Dou Shanping replied decisively: "It is music", music gives him the strength to insist on exploring the diversity of life.
Pay attention to Dou Shanping's Douyin account can be found that his life not only has a violin, but also the moments when he travels around, mountain wind, homestay, a dog, a pot of tea, happy life. Dou Shanping introduced that he often went on self-driving tours, which lasted for ten days and half a month each time, and the scenery along the road gave him a lot of inspiration to play. The dog that accompanied him on his travels, called Furball, was 19 years old.
Dou Shanping also has some "tide" hobbies, like building block bears, "the trend is never the privilege of young people"; like to play games, "the equipment is all played by myself, not krypton gold, not krypton gold", Dou Shan smiled plainly.
"With Douyin, the focus of my life has changed, and I often think about sharing something with my fans, which may be the modern meaning of 'old people have dependence, old age has fun'," Dou Shanping quipped.
In the future, he plans to take the piano and hairball to all parts of the country, even around the world, to learn while walking, and to share while playing the piano.
"Life needs to be loved, to learn to work hard to make life better."
Interesting life should not be limited by age, take the initiative to find fun, let life be enriched, this is the daily life in Dou Shanping's eyes.