What is it like to stick to your dream for 17 years?
Shangqiu post-90s girl Li Ruixue (Douyin username: big face sister face big) has a martial arts dream. Over the past 17 years, her dreams have been repeatedly frustrated: after dropping out of junior high school, she wanted to do martial arts, but was rejected due to height problems; joined a martial arts troupe to perform abroad, and after six months of training, she was unable to make the trip due to visa problems; and she also went to theater performances because she could not support herself. She felt that she was most sorry for her father who rode his bicycle to take her to a martial arts school in the winter.
On the afternoon of December 11, at the scene of "I want to be better - Douyin and ta's friends" to share the plan Henan Station, Li Ruixue cried three times when recalling the hardships on the road to chasing dreams and the unconditional support of her parents. Fortunately, it has now come to an end. She walked from Douyin to the CCTV stage and saw her dreams blossom.
The following is the full text of the speech of "Big Face Sister Big Face":
Hello everyone, my name is Li Ruixue. He is 28 years old and comes from Yangtang Village, Laowangji Township, Zhaocheng County, Shangqiu, Henan. On TikTok, I call Big Face Sister Big Face. The name is pronounced from left to right, from right to left, all the same, you can try.
First show you a video, guess what my serious profession is?
The head is big and the neck is thick, and it is either a godhead or a guy. In fact, I am an ordinary rural woman, when the farmer is busy, harvesting corn, planting peanuts, planting wheat, doing housework, and taking children; when the farmer is idle, I go to the martial arts school to teach students martial arts. If there is anything different about me from other rural women, it is probably that I can also do martial arts.
After becoming popular on Douyin, I gained a lot of nicknames: the woman who did not dare to provoke the whole village, the overlord flower at the head of the village, the female man in the crop field, the thirteenth sister of Garnet City, Li Hongjia... Among these nicknames, I like Li Hongjia the most, netizens say that I have Jet Li's skills, Hong Jinbao's figure, Jia Ling's hairstyle and optimism. I thought to myself, if netizens had given me this nickname earlier, I would not have called big face sister.
It's a great pleasure to stand here today and share my story with you.
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When I was very young, I had a dream. In the dream, I became a hero, just like Guo Jing in the legend of the eagle hero, who can fly when he stomps on a tree. When I woke up, I went to the yard to pedal the tree, and no matter how I pedaled, I couldn't fly, and I was so anxious that I was about to cry. At that time, the seed was planted in my heart - I was going to learn martial arts and grow up to be a martial arts hero.
You say coincidence? When I was 11 years old, a martial arts teacher was invited to the village and performed a performance for us on the spot, which was the first time I saw a real martial arts performance, which made me excited. When I got home, my parents clamored to sign up for study. At that time, my father asked me if I could eat that bitterness, and I nodded my head vigorously and said, yes, my family signed me up.
As we all know, practicing martial arts is very hard, and martial arts are not fast, it takes a long time to persist and hone, and the practice can not be stopped, which is that many people have martial arts dreams, but there are very few people who eventually stick to it. When the martial arts school in the village first enrolled students, there were quite a few students, but then they slowly disappeared, and finally only three or five students, including me, were left. This martial arts school lasted for a year and was not opened. Mom and Dad could only ask around where there was a place to practice martial arts. Later, when I found out about a martial arts school in the county, I was sent to the school, and a year later, this martial arts school also closed down. Then I went to the martial arts school, found it, and learned a period, because there were few students and went out of business. In those five years, I closed a total of five martial arts schools, which was really helpless and funny.
As we all know, practicing martial arts is very hard. Because at that time in the countryside, there was no training and protection equipment, basically practiced on the flat ground, bumps and bumps were common, and I was injured all over my body. Once, when I fell to my head, I was bruised inside my head, and most of my face was purple, and my mother looked distressed and said, "If the child or we don't want to learn." I said no, just take a few days off. Another time, I fell unconscious on the spot at the martial arts school, and I didn't dare to tell my parents, for fear that they would be distressed.
At that time, many people in the village did not understand why our family wanted a girl to learn martial arts. They often blamed my parents for the use of girls practicing martial arts and not being able to eat them as food. When my parents heard this, they could only remain silent, and I was thinking in my heart at that time, how can I not learn martial arts well as a girl, I must learn a look!
Speaking of which, I am very grateful to my parents. At that time, my family was poor and the conditions were not good, I still had a sister and two brothers above me, and I spent more money on martial arts school than my brothers and sisters. Mom and Dad were under a lot of pressure, but they were willing to support my ideas. I remember one winter, in order to save money for a four-dollar bus ticket, my father rode a bicycle to send me to a martial arts school in the county town more than 30 miles away. When I got off the bike, I looked up and saw my dad's face covered with frost, and that moment was truly unforgettable.
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In fact, the time I studied martial arts at the martial arts school was only five years. I actually want to go to a large, professional martial arts school to see and study, but the family conditions really don't allow it, I can only think for myself. After practicing in several schools for five years, I voluntarily dropped out of school, the family really could not afford it, I saw the difficulties of my parents, and I did not want to reach out to them for money anymore.
My level of education is not high, and the culture class will be in the first half of the second semester of junior high school. What can a 16-year-old girl do when she comes out of school? You can only do odd jobs near your home. When the festival came down, I would go to pick garlic, break peppers, pick tobacco leaves... Helping the main family to do farm work can earn 20 yuan a day, sometimes do some manual work, enter the factory, work as a porter, basically do everything. Although these jobs do not make much money, at least they do not ask their parents for money.
Li Ruixue helped her parents with farm work
But I don't think that's okay, I still have to work in the martial arts industry that I like. At that time, I heard that the martial arts stand-in was particularly highly paid, and there was still a chance to make movies and go on TV, so I asked my friend to introduce me to it, and the kung fu family was in the middle, that is, this head was not good, and I was short. The average actress is more than one meter six, and I only have one meter and five points. Both times I was rejected because I wasn't tall enough, and I didn't have any hope for Wu Ti.
Later, there was another opportunity, a classmate of the martial arts school told me that a martial arts troupe in Heze, Shandong Province, had a chance to perform abroad and needed a girl. Oh my God, this is such a great opportunity. My father, who had never been far away, took me on a special trip to Heze, and I was successfully selected. But after rehearsing for more than half a year, the collective visa of the martial arts troupe was not passed, and I did not go abroad to perform, and I slipped back in ashes.
In 2008, a friend of the martial arts troupe introduced me to a job as a theater performer. It's the kind of guy who sings in the front and I flip through a few heels in the back. I don't think it's a pure martial arts show, and it's only 800 yuan a month, which is really too little money. I didn't go back.
It wasn't until 2016, when the village set up a martial arts gym, that I became a coach and taught kung fu to children who loved martial arts as much as I did. I stumbled like this for many years, because of my love for martial arts, I have been insisting on exercising on my own for so many years, and many of my classmates who studied martial arts together have given up, and I always believe that persistence will definitely be rewarding.
Li Ruixue practiced martial arts in his own yard
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > "Li Hongjia" on Douyin
When I first started playing TikTok, I just looked at it. Other people's photos are quite funny, I thought, or should I try it too? When I first started shooting, I made a brick, made a stool, and started shooting as soon as the phone was put there. Later, I found that this was not OK, and bought a mobile phone stand, but the selfie play space is still very limited. I look for my sister, my brother, my husband, who is idle and nothing to help me shoot one, but they don't know martial arts, shooting videos can't find the angle, I have to tell them over and over again, back and forth, they shoot again and again I practice, sometimes shoot the wrestling method, shoot badly I have to fall over and over again, fall tired and directly lie on the ground to rest, sometimes they don't let me shoot painfully.
At that time, taking a video was really more tiring than practicing martial arts. But the more you shoot, the more you have experience.
Most of what I post on Douyin is my martial arts practice routine, such as this:
I remember a time when many of my friends around me told me that you were on fire. At first I didn't care too much, I thought I just took a video, I didn't have a child for a long time, I was so fat, my kung fu didn't return to the past, I didn't go to a professional school, others don't laugh at me. But what I didn't expect was that the more people who followed me, the more comments and likes, and the number of views of one video was more than 60 million.
After that video, I realized that TikTok was really too powerful. Now I have more than two million fans on Douyin, and many netizens say that I am a flexible fat man. One of the most impressive comments said that it gave me a nickname "Li Hongjia". At that time, I felt that this nickname really spoke to my heart. Ha ha. Of course, the more fans, the greater the pressure on me to shoot videos, so many fans pay attention to me, support me, I want to continue to practice martial arts, shoot better works, in order to be worthy of everyone.
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In August this year, a director of CCTV contacted me and said that I was particularly simple and the martial arts were very powerful when I saw douyin, and invited me to Beijing to participate in the recording of the "Golden 100 Seconds" program. I really couldn't believe it at the time. I am just an ordinary rural person, there is no insight, so many years of practicing martial arts are also in the field practice, have not been to many places, know not many people, has always wanted to go out more walks, long insight, the most want to go to the city is Beijing, want to see Tiananmen. I used to see other people performing on TV, and I wondered when I would be able to go on TV, but I didn't expect my wish to come true.
Li Ruixue stepped onto the CCTV stage
It was the first time in my life that I went to Beijing, the first time I appeared on such a big stage as CCTV, and I was extremely excited. The host jokingly asked me on stage, what kind of sect are you? Everyone else was from this faction, and I directly said the two words "peasant pie" at that time, and I exercised in the field when there was nothing to do. After speaking, the host and the audience laughed. Later, some fans who watched the show called me a big face sister of the peasant pie, and I thought it was really in line with my temperament.
Now, TikTok is not only my interest, but also a part of my life. Through Douyin, more people know me, sometimes people recognize me when I go to the town to catch a set, nearby villagers come to my house to meet me, and people from all over the country contact me to be a martial arts instructor... I, a girl who practiced martial arts in the rural fields, connected with the outside world through the window of vibrato, and was fortunate to be on the stage of CCTV.
Douyin let more people see my life, know my story, let me have more opportunities to change my life, but also let me know: these ten years of suffering has not been eaten in vain, more than ten years of persistence is not wrong. In the past, the people in the village who didn't understand why i, a girl, practiced martial arts, also began to support me, and they thought of letting their children learn from me. I use my story to tell you that girls can really eat martial arts as a meal, and this meal is becoming more and more abundant. The life of rural girls is not only the two choices of going out to work and taking children at home, but also their lives should have more possibilities.
On December 11, Li Ruixue shared her story with Douyin
In the future, I will continue to engage in the martial arts industry I love, after all, martial arts is our traditional Chinese culture, which needs to be inherited and carried forward, and I have this responsibility to influence some people. I want to open a martial arts gym of my own, so that more children can inherit and exercise, and I hope that more people will understand martial arts and love martial arts. This has always been my dream and I hope it will come true in the future.
Thank you.