She is a fairy floating on the water, she is a spirit who has mistakenly entered the world, she takes the torch in the hands of her predecessors, lights up the light of inheritance for future generations, her heart is not dusted by the world, her firmness is not shaken by utilitarianism, she uses a bamboo pole, walks on the surface of the water, stands on the trickle of culture.
She is Yang Liu, a Yang Liu who is proficient in solo bamboo drifting, a Yang Liu who is a non-hereditary heir, and a Yang Liu who brings Chinese culture abroad. Telling the story of craftsmen, tasting the ingenuity of unique luck, and spreading Chinese civilization, this issue of Ziya Children's Fun Craftsmen Observation will introduce the extraordinary story of Yang Liu, the performer of "Water Ballet".
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="36" > solo bamboo drift</h1>
Yang Liu was born in Chishui City, Guizhou Province, which is a place of beautiful mountains and clear waters, the rolling peaks are like guardians of the pure land, the turquoise and clear rivers are like silk surrounding the mountains, in addition to the beautiful scenery, no one knows that it is a sport that has existed for several years - solo bamboo drifting, also known as solo bamboo boating or bamboo pole paddling.
As the name suggests, the so-called canoe drift, is by the person barefoot standing barefoot in a diameter of about fifteen centimeters, up to eight meters or more than eight meters of southern bamboo as a water carrier, holding a straight small bamboo pole as a paddling pulp, to achieve rowing on the water, and not only rowing, but also need to carry out corresponding performance, with posture action and then fill in the sense of beauty.
Sounds familiar, in the martial arts novel, there was a stunt, called light water floating, in fact, it comes from this sport, it sounds unbelievable, want to achieve it is more needed deep skill, people who have seen it are greatly shocked, the legendary "a reed crossing the river" actually exists, it exists in Chishui City.
People living here, living by the water, living by the water, so the water is excellent, whether men, women and children, are good at solo bamboo floating, and can achieve the real flat on the water, then, since everyone can play this sport, what is the outstanding special thing about willow?
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Yang Liu's grandmother is a member of the Zunyi Duzhu Drift Association, because she grew up around her grandmother, and under the influence of her ears, Yang Liu developed a strong interest in duzhu drifting, and when she was only seven years old, she proposed to her grandmother the idea of learning to practice solo bamboo drifting.
In Grandma's heart, in fact, she has always hoped that her granddaughter can inherit this skill that she has practiced for most of her life, but she is unwilling to take the initiative and is unwilling to restrict the child's freedom and interest, so when Yang Liu herself came to ask for learning, Grandma smiled and blossomed in her heart.
However, despite the great interest, it is difficult to actually achieve it. Willow began to learn from the most basic swimming, drank water countless times, choked to the nose countless times, just familiar with the water nature before it was time to recuperate, Grandma threw a long bamboo, let her start the practice of solo bamboo drifting.
At the beginning, because Willow's figure was too thin and small, coupled with the lack of balance, she could not hold the heavy bamboo pole in her hand, nor could she step on the thin bamboo pole under her feet, and the buoyancy of the water made her unable to stand, and she fell into the water again and again.
Just like a child learning to walk, falling and falling, you can go, and so can Willow, except that she fell on the water instead of the ground, under the guidance of Grandma's confidence, after falling down again and again, finally, Willow can barely stand on the pillar, but there is no way to move the bamboo pole, and there is no way to have an action other than standing.
While learning to drift alone, in order to cultivate Willow's talents, her mother took Willow to the classroom where she was learning to dance. Willow is short, and this "shortcoming" that is not a shortcoming has become the reason why she is teased by everyone, whether it is a teacher or a classmate, they all believe that she cannot dance a good dance, and it is impossible to become a good dancer.
Therefore, when everyone took the stage to perform, Yang Liu, who was denied to the point of losing self-confidence, could only sit alone in the corner of the stage, looking at the stage enviously, imagining the scene of the light typing on his body.
Yang Liu was detected by her grandmother because of her inferiority in dance, and her grandmother told her that she did not have to pay attention to other people's opinions, and if she felt unhappy in the dance class, she would dance on a bamboo pole, use the water surface as a stage, use the sun as a light, and dance out of a graceful dance.
Grandma's encouragement made Willow more confident, she wanted to surprise those who looked down on her, she wanted to prove that she really could, so Willow regained her strength and began to seriously and single-mindedly learn to drift alone.
Day after day, year after year, from practicing standing, to trying to move, to controlling speed, and finally into dance, each step needs to experience countless failures, but no matter how many times she falls, no matter how long she practices, Willow has never germinated the idea of giving up, no matter how difficult it is and how tired and painful, she gritted her teeth and insisted, this persistence, is a full seventeen years.
For seventeen years, the elderly grandmother has always been with Yang Liu, using her own experience to give Yang Liu advice, but Grandma is old after all, soaking in water for too many years, suffering from severe rheumatoid arthritis, and finally the pain is unbearable, and went to surgery for treatment.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="35" > inheritance carries forward the unique bamboo drift</h1>
After the operation, Grandma walking is not very convenient, Willow looks at the walking stumbling, like a child's grandmother, recalling the light in Grandma's eyes when she mentioned the solo bamboo drift, the words that Grandma once told her sounded in her ears, Yang Liu suddenly felt that practicing Solo Bamboo Drift by herself was not just to impress others.
She not only wants to learn, but also to practice well and finely, to take this skill as her mission, to carry forward and pass on this culture, so that people outside the mountains can see this magical skill.
Mission leaning over, Willow's solo bamboo drift level is getting higher and higher, the performance is more and more amazing, in order to enrich the visual beauty, she also specially learned a variety of dances, and then integrate what she learned into the solo bamboo drift, showing almost impossible movements on the water, every time when dancing on the water, let the viewers clap their hands.
However, at this time, there was a bottleneck, that is, no matter how amazing she danced, only the locals could be seen, and there were many people across the country and the world who did not know about this thousand-year-old skill. Just when I was helpless, the good news came, and in 1999, at the National People's Games, Duzhu Drift won the gold medal with its unique local characteristics.
Subsequently, the solo bamboo drift is no longer a characteristic sport of Bijie City, but extended to Guizhou Province, and then to the national scope, more and more people know the solo bamboo drift, more and more young people learn the solo bamboo drift, the question of where to go from the bamboo drift, finally has a bright road.
Later, the rapid development of the Internet, emerging media mushroomed, Yang Liu used the lens to record the picture of the solo bamboo drift, the video to the network, on the screen, she, wearing traditional Chinese costumes, dancing gracefully, let the audience in front of the screen marvel.
More and more people pay attention to the willows day by day, and people who see the willows are deeply impressed by the charm of the single bamboo drift and the willows. She was invited to the stage of CCTV, she was specially reported by foreign media, and she jumped lightly on the surface of the water, as if surrounded by fairy qi.
Willow, who has already achieved success, is not satisfied with this, she believes that the promotion of traditional Chinese culture is never-ending, the summer heat, her clothes are soaked with water vapor, the winter is cold, her hands are covered with scary frostbite, she is like her grandmother, all changed to rheumatism, but the difference is that she is only twenty-five years old.
The vows she made at the beginning are slowly being fulfilled, and she has fulfilled her grandmother's expectations as she wished, so that the people who underestimated her at that time were surprised, and the road of inheriting culture has no end, she has always been on the road.
In today's rapid development of the Internet, "fast food" has become the main theme of people's lives, everyone pursues high efficiency, likes fast pace, coupled with the impact of foreign cultural trends, the status of traditional Chinese culture is in jeopardy, the blood of the younger generation has been a lot of ignorance, and even some traditional culture that has been passed down for thousands of years has disappeared.
Yang Liu is a member of the young brigade, does not disregard culture, cares about the direction of culture, and uses his own efforts to be the successor of cultural inheritance.
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