Wen | tall baby
On the night of the 21st, just before going to bed, I saw a link sent to me by a friend with the headline "Pianist Li Yundi PC Detained." When these big words appeared in front of my eyes, my mind went blank.
After a moment's hesitation, I clicked on the link. I don't want to believe it's true, and I hope it's a rumor.
But it is not.
The first time I heard the name Li Yundi was in 2008. At that time, every week I had to take Lu Shan from Hong Kong to Shenzhen for a guzheng class. At that time, Lu Shan's guzheng teacher was a professional teacher at Shenzhen Art School, surnamed S.
Once, after class, Teacher S told me that there was an outstanding graduate who would return to his alma mater (Shenzhen Art School) to report on the performance next weekend, and she asked me if I wanted to take Lu Shan to listen to it.
This graduate is great, isn't he?
I asked.
"Yes, his name is Li Yundi, and he won the grand prize in the World Series. It's amazing, and the opportunity is rare! ”
I hastened to say:
Go, go!
That was the first time I heard the name "Li Yundi".
The following weekend, I took Lu Shan from Hong Kong to the Shenzhen Art School as scheduled to listen to a young pianist named "Li Yundi" playing.
Although I didn't know the piano, that night, the personable teenager on the stage of the Shenzhen Art School Concert Hall and the flowing notes of the clouds flowing between his fingers deeply touched me and were deeply engraved in my mind.
That night, from the end of the performance until I returned to my home in Hong Kong late at night, Along the way, Lu Shan and I chatted about the topic, and never left the three words "Li Yundi".
Before going to bed, I also lay on the bed with Lu Shan and carefully looked up Li Yundi's information.
We know that this is a child from an ordinary family, who began to learn the accordion at the age of 4 and piano at the age of 7, and has won many awards. At the age of 13, he followed his mentor Dan Zhaoyi from the Affiliated Middle School of Sichuan Conservatory of Music to the Shenzhen Art School and began to participate in international competitions.
In 2000, Li Yundi became famous in the world's top piano competition "The 14th Chopin International Piano Competition" and won the championship, shocking the world. That year, Li Yundi was only 18 years old.
It is no exaggeration to say that Li Yundi's victory "shocked the world": the Chopin International Piano Competition, established in 1927, has always been called the "Olympics of the music world". Held every 5 years, it is recognized by the authority of the international music industry as one of the highest standard and most difficult to play competitions in the world.
Moreover, before Li Yundi won the award, the first place had been vacant for two consecutive years, which showed the strict and picky requirements of the judges for the contestants. What is even more side-fetched is that Li Yundi is the youngest champion since the establishment of the award, and the first Chinese to receive this honor.
One of the Chinese who had previously won prizes at the Chopin International Piano Competition was pianist Fu Cong, who won the third place in 1955. The other was Li Mingqiang, who had served as vice president of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, who won fourth place in 1960.
For a few years, China has been missing out on the Chopin Piano Competition for 40 years.
Li Yundi's award has impressed the world with this personable and talented teenager. At the same time, it also makes the world look at China with astonishment.
After Li Yundi won the championship in one fell swoop, parents who asked to study at shenzhen art school almost burst the phone of the principal's office. Some parents even travel thousands of miles and miles to take their children directly to the school.
Li Yundi's success has stimulated their dreams and seems to have made them see a bright road to success.
However, in the past 20 years, Shenzhen Art School has only produced one Li Yundi.
The success of a child is of course inseparable from good resources and good teachers. However, the persistence of any child is actually the persistence of parents. The success of any child is inseparable from the efforts behind the parents.
Li Yundi's parents are ordinary workers, in order to provide better learning conditions for their son, when Li Yundi was 7 years old, Li Yundi's mother gritted her teeth, took out all the family's savings, and spent 4,000 yuan to buy a second-hand piano.
In the days after that, every night, when the opening music of the CCTV news network sounded, Li's mother would sit at the piano with Li Yundi on time, and the mother and son spent one boring and long dusk and night after another.
In order to better accompany her son to learn the piano and compete, Li's mother even quit her job, and the whole family only relied on his father's meager income to survive.
When I saw these materials on the Internet, in addition to being sincerely happy for the child named Li Yundi, I also admired the great mother behind him.
Since then, every time I see the three words "Li Yundi" in the media, my thoughts will return to the stage of the Shenzhen Art School Concert Hall more than a decade ago. That night, that dancing boy, those beautiful notes flowing from his fingers... Everything is so beautiful and hopeful.
Whenever that happens, I feel the relief of his mother: her child has grown into what every mom dreams of.
However, the link on the night of the 21st shattered it all. When I finished reading the link, the first thought in my mind was: how sad his mother must be at this moment!
In fact, some time ago, when I came across an entertainment news and learned that Li Yundi has frequently appeared in entertainment programs in recent years and mingled with some traffic stars, I actually had a faint uneasiness in my heart.
But I quickly convinced myself: a child who has not known what "entertainment" is since childhood, and who is now famous, what is the fuss about entertainment? An artist cannot stay in a high hall forever. The times have progressed, and your concept cannot always stay in the past, but keep pace with the times.
Unexpectedly, something really went wrong. Now that I think about it, it shouldn't come as a surprise.
After the Li Yundi incident occurred, various relevant departments successively adopted measures:
In a variety show, Li Yundi participated, or removed from the shelves, or deleted or coded.
The Chinese Musicians Association issued a statement: Cancel Li Yundi's membership in the Chinese Musicians Association.
The Sichuan Conservatory of Music removed the "Li Yundi Piano Studio" brand, and the official website and official Weibo of Sichuan Music have deleted the relevant information about Li Yundi.
The China Performance Industry Association issued an announcement of a boycott of Li Yundi.
Guangzhou Terminated Li Yundi's qualification as a spokesperson for the city image of Guangzhou.
Members of the Chongqing CppcC National Committee were disqualified.
Weibo administrator's official Weibo announcement: Li Yundi's account was banned for 15 days, and the Weibo certification title was only "International Pianist".
Multiple business endorsements were terminated and faced huge compensation.
After the Li Yundi incident was exposed, there were roughly 5 different voices in the public:
The first is to dare to challenge merit and the law, to commit one's own sins, and to deserve it.
Second, parents only attach importance to his professional training, but ignore moral education and fail.
The third, a pianist so good, but in this way self-destructive, unfortunately.
The fourth kind should be calculated by the villain, unlucky.
Fifth, an unmarried man, did not steal or rob, what is the big deal? excessively.
Some people scolded, some people despised, some people regretted, some people disagreed.
In the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, the 15-year-old lei Chunian who saved 7 people in a row, do you remember?
At the moment of the earthquake, Lei Chunian was in the classroom with his classmates. With his quick reflexes and quick hands, he became one of the first to run.
But when he saw the class teacher who had already run out rush back to the teaching building to save the students trapped inside, he did not hesitate to rush upstairs. In this way, 7 classmates survived because of his rescue.
Afterwards, this young hero was named the "moving Chinese" of the year. In an instant, various lenses, spotlights and microphones surrounded him. CCTV also made a 14-minute interview for him - teenager Lei Chunian.
In June, when other students wanted to take the middle school entrance examination, he was selected into the National Heroic Model Report Group. In August, when other students were preparing to enter the high school campus, he became the Olympic torchbearer of 2008.
Because of his reputation, someone always takes the initiative to play with him, and someone will give him money. Smoking, skipping class, clubbing, falling in love, gambling, he hangs out with some undesirable social youth all day long. Seeing the world, Lei Chu Nian no longer had the heart to study.
In the year after the end of the college entrance examination, Lei Chunian threw a banquet, invited relatives and friends to the hotel, and claimed that he was admitted to a famous university. But in fact, he did not get admitted to anything.
Lei Chunian's parents were working class workers in the mines, and gradually, the family's wealth that was not rich could no longer support his expenses.
In 2013, his girlfriend wanted to test for a flight attendant, and Lei Chunian lied that he knew the son of an airline boss, and only needed 100,000 yuan to make a relationship. In this way, he cheated the first money.
A friend said that a relative wanted to enter the key junior high school in Chengdu. Lei Chunian then told his friend that he had a way. Then he forged the official seal of the Chengdu Municipal Education Bureau, made a false notice, and defrauded another 50,000 yuan.
Later, he used the same method to deceive another person by 70,000.
Next, this former hero, not to waste his strength, but also to help a friend contract a project, help a friend's son enter Sichuan University, buy a driver's license for a friend, and so on, and successively defrauded 740,000 yuan from 21 people.
On November 3, 2014, six years later, Lei Chunian once again became the focus of the spotlight. Only this time, he went from hero to prisoner who was about to serve 12 years in prison.
Looking back to explore Lei Chu Nian's path, it is not difficult to find that he has many excellent qualities: courage to be fearless in the face of danger, wisdom at key moments, and the ability to express himself when communicating with people...
However, overnight fame made him think he had everything, the aura of honor made him lose his way, and the endless desire made him lose his mind.
The terrible earthquake in 2008 rewrote the fate of Lei Chu Nian. But after that terrible "aftershock" completely subverted his life.
Writing this, I remember that when Lu Shan was in college, so many people suggested that she run for "Miss Hong Kong", but she was never moved.
"Mom, there are too many temptations in the entertainment industry, it's easy to lose yourself. Besides, I think there's no way to choose Miss Hong Kong. I can read, I prefer to read. ”
As a mother, although I felt sorry at that time, I was also pleased with Lu Shan's ambition. Today, while I am relieved, I have more admiration for her - a sober little girl.
On January 13, 2007, Li Yundi helped Shenzhen bid for the World University Games in Turin, Italy.
In February 2008, Li Yundi held a special concert of the Shenzhen Youth Disaster Relief Charity Performance "Youth Surge, RebuildIng Home" in Shenzhen. In May, a gratitude concert was held with other Sichuan musicians, and the funds raised were donated to the China Education Development Foundation for the reconstruction of the campus in the earthquake-stricken areas. In November, he participated in the public welfare performance of "Commemorating the International Day of Persons with Disabilities , Jishan Carnival Beijing 2008".
In June 2010, Li Yundi participated in the "For Our Children" charity activity. In December, he held a public welfare fundraising concert in Changsha, and the box office proceeds were used to build music classrooms in poor schools in western Hunan Province.
In January 2011, Li Yundi held the "Red Cross Night Li Yundi Piano Recital Concert".
In October 2012, as the image ambassador of Shenzhen Volunteers, Li Yundi walked into Aiyou Hekang Children's Rehabilitation Center and Shenzhen Children's Hospital.
In June 2013, Li Yundi held a charity concert at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre, and all the box office and sponsorship donations were donated to the Chinese YMCA of Hong Kong to support the association's earthquake relief work in Sichuan.
On December 9, 2015, he teamed up with Prince William to raise money for charity.
On September 1, 2016, Li Yundi went to Puma Jiangtang Primary School, the highest primary school in Tibet, and established the first "Yundi Music Love Classroom".
In April 2017, as the ambassador of the "Good Deeds" Chengdu Station, he played the theme music of "Good Deeds" at a live event.
On January 9, 2018, Li Yundi raised funds for the project at Ant Financial's "Great New Year's Wishes" event. On April 13, he participated in the "Star River Wenchuan Dream GuardianShip Program" at Wenchuan First Primary School and donated pianos to the children. On September 25, a concert held in Qingdao used 100,000 yuan of ticket revenue to rescue students in Shouguang flood disaster.
On November 13, Li Yundi visited Yunnan Rural Primary School and joined hands with China Merchants Bank to unveil the donated "Golden Sunflower Music Classroom" to help rural education.
In July 2021, due to the flood relief in Henan, Li Yundi donated 1 million yuan to the Zhengzhou Red Cross Society.
All of the above is only part of the charity activities that Li Yundi has participated in over the years. However, how much water a barrel can hold depends not on the longest plank, but on the shortest plank.
If a person violates morality and violates the law, even if he is talented, even if he has made more contributions to society, his stain cannot be written off, and he must pay for his actions.
A well-respected and beloved pianist who was reduced to a "street rat" overnight. A good hand of cards, played by him is really sad.
Li Yundi faced not only the punishment of laws and regulations, but also the accusations of society and the bombardment of the Internet. While regrettable, it is also self-inflicted and must pay a heavy price for one's actions.
At the same time, Li Yundi's incident has also sounded an alarm bell for all of us: first be a person, then do things.
As Li Yundi, there is no doubt that he has "died socially". But as a pianist, I sincerely hope that in the face of bloody lessons, he can still have the strength and courage to stand up again.
In the Book of Rites, It is said that shame is almost courageous. Finally, I would like to conclude this article with the words of Li Yundi's mentor Dan Zhaoyi:
I was very sad that Li Yundi had made a big mistake. He should pay legal responsibility and learn the lessons of life. But he is still young, and I hope he has the opportunity to correct his mistakes and follow the right path.
About the Author:
At the age of 15, he wrote novels,
At the age of 38, he was admitted to the Graduate School of the University of Chinese in Hong Kong and has 20 years of experience in Chinese education.
She single-handedly trained her daughter to become a Bachelor of Honors from the University of Hong Kong.
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Only one year after graduation, the little girl's annual salary has reached 500,000.
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