Zhang Yiyi: From desperate teenager to the blockbuster "Wanjiang"

Once, there was a teenager who froze his hands and feet in class in winter, but his family could not afford gloves and thick cotton socks, so he could only endure in silence, surviving the cold winter of minus tens of degrees in the northeast one after another, and how many times his hands and feet were frozen.

Once, there was a teenager who was admitted to college but could not raise tuition and living expenses, and his efforts to "change from farming to non-agriculture" to change his fate and family dilemma were suddenly disillusioned, and he was almost desperate for the future, the future, and his life.

Later, this teenager, he left his hometown to find a livelihood, in order to eat enough, he worked four jobs at the same time, exhausted, exhausted, no stars and the sea, no day and night.

Later, this teenager, he traveled everywhere, hit walls everywhere, repeatedly defeated, repeatedly defeated, again and again from hope to disappointment, to despair, his thin shoulders can no longer bear the dream of weakness, helpless to jump into the river. Fortunately, he was rescued by a group of beggars and begged for food for two months, dirty and black bowls, full of fear and confusion.

Later, this teenager, he became a national first-class actor in the China Opera and Dance Theater, his appearance and singing voice of the "noble concubines" and "Chang'e" on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala stage stunned the world, he brought Chinese traditional culture and art to dozens of countries and regions in the West, so that the always picky foreigners were amazed and applauded without stinginess.

Later, this teenager, his "New Noble Concubine Drunk" and "Li" influenced countless Chinese and overseas Chinese, his "Just Met You" was sung among young people, he presented the centenary of the founding of the Party", "Wanjiang" had more than 10 billion plays on the whole network, and there were no less than a million versions of various Internet celebrities on the head short video platforms such as Douyin and Kuaishou, and the new media officials of authoritative media such as People's Daily, CCTV News, xinhua News Agency, etc. Set it up to include the opening and closing ceremonies of the Tokyo Olympic Games. The official background music of major social concerns and current political hotspots in 2021, such as the return of Shenzhou 12 astronauts, Meng Wanzhou's return to China, Shenzhou 13 launch, and National Day, has both bottom-up market recognition and top-down mainstream affirmation, becoming a phenomenon-level blockbuster main theme new national style song for the centenary of the founding of the party this year, and there is no one. In this year, when China's poverty alleviation battle has achieved a comprehensive victory, he was also hired as a cultural tourism publicity ambassador of the "precision poverty alleviation" initiative, volunteering to help farmers and bring goods out of the countryside.

Decades of non-giving up, perseverance and unremitting efforts, continuous practice, summary and thinking, he bathed in the sunshine of the beautiful new era, and finally "many years of daughter-in-law to become a wife", became the pride of the family, became the hope of the village, became the messenger of Chinese and Western cultural exchanges, and became an inspirational example for grassroots to realize the counterattack of life. This former teenager is now familiar to many people, and his name is Li Yugang.

"Red Sun Rises / In the East / Its Avenue / Full of Light / How Fortunate I Am / Born in Your Arms / Inherit a Pulse of Blood Flowing...", the streets and alleys, supermarkets, shopping malls, primary and secondary school students express brothers and people of all different colors are singing in their ears. If foreigners ask me what the "Chinese Dream" is and what is "Wanjiang", I think it will never be very abstract and difficult to tell, I will tell them the story of this teenager, as well as the tragedies and joys of the Chinese nation for many generations, and the unquenchable faith.