Dai Ailian
Dai Ailian, the mother of Chinese dance, compared with the life of most women in the old era, Dai Ailian's life is no different in the eyes of others.
I fell in love with a man with a fiancée and regretted returning home. After ten years of marriage, he cheated on him, and after the divorce, he was cheated out of all his property by the cheating partner. In his later years, he accompanied his first love until his old age.
Dai Ailian, who was in that period, perhaps because she received a Western education from a young age, was very open-minded and her attitude towards feelings was warm and sincere.
Dai Ailian's youth
She was 23 years old and was studying dance in London.
In class, she proposed to combine ballet with Chinese folk dance, and as a result, this new concept was completely rejected by the teacher and even kicked out of the classroom.
However, she did not deny her own thoughts, but strengthened her heart.
She said: Ballet is my job, folk dance is my love.
It is precisely because of her own persistence that the follow-up has contributed to the production of well-known dance works such as "Homesick Song", "Selling" and "Gleaning Girl".
Dai's school life in London was part-time work, and it was at that time that she met Willie Sokopp, an English sculptor.
On the day she went out to look for a part-time job, she saw Willy Sokopp in the crowd, his thick eyebrows and big eyes, just standing there, it was attractive enough, quite gentlemanly.
Coincidentally, Willy Sukopp also saw Dai Ailian in the crowd.
Due to the perennial practice of dancing, Dai Ailian's body at that time was very slender, compared with the round and plump of foreign women, Dai Ailian's slender beauty was like a clear spring from the East, attracting him to come to her.
"Would you like to be my model?" He asked, in a tone even a little shy, "But the pay may not be that high." ”
"Is there a place to live?"
"Maybe I can make you a bunk in the studio." Willy's eyes lit up, and then his voice went quieter, "If you don't mind." ”
This man is really interesting, Dai Ailian thought to herself.
"That's fine." She said yes.
The two looked at each other and smiled, like the sun shining on an August afternoon in London.
In this way, Dai Ailian became a dedicated character model for Willy Sokopp. Dai Ailian's attitude towards love is like her dance, free and wanton, warm as fire.
Her ideas that were not recognized, ideas that were not supported, seemed to Wiley Sukopp to be a godsend, and he was often amazed by Ailing.
Their own voices are finally listened to, their thoughts are finally told, their emotions are finally someone can talk to, and the soul that has been drifting seems to have finally found a way home.
In the process of spending time with Willy Sokopo, Dai Ailian fell hopelessly in love with him, the first man she fell in love with, and the man who influenced her life.
She danced on stage, and he made sculptures for her offstage.
She not only inscribed her appearance in her heart, but also carved a statue of Dai Ailian, which is now displayed in the hall of the Royal Academy of Dance. Willy Sokopp was also deeply attracted to Ailian Dai.
They fell in love.
Statue of Eileen dei Suppo
Like many girls of the same age, Dai Ailian was addicted to the fantasy of love, into the eyes of Willy looking at her affectionately, into the stone road that the two had walked hand in hand, the places they had been, and the art exhibitions they had seen.
For her, every step the two of them walk hand in hand is a landscape. At that time, she stubbornly and simply enjoyed the beauty of love.
However, this romantic love only lasted for two weeks.
Simon appears, the daughter of a banker and willrie's fiancée.
When she heard the news, Dai Ailian seemed to have suffered a thunderbolt on a sunny day, but she did not cry or make trouble, nor did she ask for an explanation from Willy, and she never even regretted falling in love with Willy.
It was as if she was suddenly interrupted while dancing on stage, and someone told her: You danced wrong.
Although she loves Willy, Dai Ailian has her own principles, she can not care about the audience saying that she "jumped wrong", saying that she is in love with someone she should not love, but she can't help but not care about Simon's feelings.
Perhaps for her and Willy, Simon was the interloper in the relationship, and she could even ask Willy to cancel her engagement to Simon and be with herself.
But she couldn't, Simon hadn't done anything wrong, and from Simon's point of view, she was more like a participant in her relationship with Willy.
No one is wrong in this relationship, the fault is just time, she met the right him at the wrong time.
Her upbringing does not allow anyone to be hurt because of her, and her self-esteem is even more reluctant to allow herself to be a third party to sabotage other people's marriages.
So, after bidding farewell to Willy, she embarked on a journey back to China and ended this short love affair.
Love is righteous, walking in a dashing way, this is Dai Ailian. After returning to China, Dai Ailian focused on her career, which was in the midst of chaos, and the anti-war dance music such as "Guerrilla Story", "Awakening" and "Forward" choreographed by herself triggered a public upsurge.
More and more people learned about the history of the arduous struggle of the War of Resistance from Dai Ailian's dance, which condensed the hearts of the people and made great contributions to the propaganda and promotion of the War of Resistance.
Dai Ailian also unleashes herself in the dance, and her dance is like her person, unbridled and flexible, enthusiastic and bold.
Dai Ailian's "Old Back And Young" stills
The year after leaving Willy, in Hong Kong, in the choreography of a performance, she met another man who occupied her life, Ye Qianyu, a young and excellent painter.
At that time, she had just returned to China, Chinese speak awkwardly, while Ye Qianyu only had the level of junior high school English, and in order to work, the two had to mix Chinese and English and then cooperate with body language to communicate.
When Dai Ailian was dancing on stage, when she looked back by chance, she would often find that the young painter who spoke English was not very good often sat on the side and wrote and drew on the paper.
He cocked a handful of goatee, like a jazz with a straight waist in a concert hall.
Leaf Shallow
What exactly is he painting?
Dai Ailian stopped dancing and quietly walked to Ye Qianyeyu's side, she watched Ye Qianyu's dexterous hands waving up and down, but with just a few strokes, she painted her dancing in the wind.
"You, painting, real, good." Dai Ailian gave a thumbs up with her hand while speaking a Chinese that was not very familiar. Ye Qianyu also tried to respond to Dai Ailian in his lame English.
"You're also dancing well." He said.
Perhaps there are countless commonalities between artists themselves that attract each other.
Although Dai Ailian's Chinese is not very good, and Ye Qianyu's English is not very good, their tacit understanding is growing day by day.
Sometimes, even if Dai Ailian didn't say a word and made a move, Ye Qianyu could understand what she was saying.
When Ye Qianyu recalled his encounter with Dai Ailian, he used a classic quote from Jia Baoyu in "Dream of the Red Chamber": A Lin sister fell from the sky, like a light cloud just emerging.
For Dai Ailian, Ye Qianyu is talented and very funny and humorous, and she seems to find no reason not to be with him.
So, a week later, they fell in love.
At the end of a fundraising charity performance, Dai Ailian and Ye Qianyu held a simple and grand wedding in the office.
Two young hearts were united by the impact of artistic passion and were blessed by everyone.
That year, Dai Ailian was 24, still full of infinite yearning for love, and Ye Qianyu's married life was ordinary and warm.
As fellow art creators, most of their time travels around together, stop-and-go, and travel all over the world.
Dai Ailian has always believed that to love the country, you must love China's national culture, so she often wears different national costumes to dance, and Ye Qianyu is next to him to play drums for him, and then uses a paintbrush to record the scenes of the two getting along.
Ye Qian gave Dai Ailian a work created for the dance image
Ye Qianyu embraced everything about Dai Ailian, acting as an interpreter for her when she needed to travel, sitting offstage to watch her performance, while Dai Ailian dutifully did her duty as Mrs. Ye.
Time is like water, the years are fleeting, unconsciously, ten years have passed. The two have also become a model couple in the eyes of everyone.
The marriage with Ye Qianyu was plain and happy, it seemed like a lake that could no longer stir up the waves, and just when Dai Ailian thought that Ye Qianyu was the final destination of her life, Ding Ning appeared.
A dance troupe colleague who was 20 years younger than her, he was young, energetic, and often said something funny to make Ailian laugh.
The time with Ding Ning, she seems to have returned to the days when she studied in London, and she was brazen.
At that time, she was 34 years old, and Gujing Wubo's heart rippled again when she met Ding Ning.
They line up together, practice dance together, communicate together. In dance, they are very tacit.
So, on the night Ye Qianyu returned from Xinjiang, she told him directly: "I am in love with someone else, let's divorce."
There is no tact, not even to give the other party a trace of room for retention, it is so direct.
Portrait of Ai Lian by Ye Qianyu
She admired Ye Qianyu's talent and was grateful for his ten years of companionship and care.
But for Dai Ailian, whose feelings have always been as warm as fire, Ye Qianyu is like water, embracing him and taking care of her, but he has never rushed into the fire to entangle with her and cannot give her what she wants.
Some people say that Dai Ailian is too thin, in fact, this is already the best way she chose to end with Ye Qianyu, rather than cheating, it is better to be frank.
If you fall in love, you fall in love, if you don't love, you don't love, if you don't make it so resolute and Make it clear to Ye Qianyu, the hurt to the other party will only be deeper, which Is what Dai Ailian doesn't want to see.
When the break is continuous, it is chaotic, this is Dai Ailian, who never drags mud and water, just like her dance, crisp and clean.
Ye signed a painting of Dai Ailian's dance image
At that time, although Ye Qianyu was stunned, he knew Dai Ailian, even more than she knew herself, and he did not blame her, but blessed her.
After signing the divorce agreement, Dai Ailian was free, there was no marriage bondage, and in the sixth year after the divorce, she and Ding Ning married.
However, things were not as rosy as she had thought. She was so determined that she abandoned her original happy life in exchange for Ding Ning's ruthlessness and coldness.
Ding Ning only loved her money, fame, and status. Soon after getting married, he not only swept away all her possessions, but also threw Dai Ailian down and ran to other places to live happily.
After suffering this blow, Dai Ailian suddenly woke up, at that time, Ye Qianyu and his ex-wife had a daughter named Ye Mingming.
Although Dai Ailian and Ye Qianyu divorced, Ye Mingming has always taken care of Dai Ailian, and when Dai Ailian suffered an emotional blow, Ye Mingming intended to match her and Ye Qianyu to reconcile the old friendship.
In her later years, she once told reporters that divorcing Ye Qianyu was the most regrettable thing she had ever done.
Dai Ailian in her later years
At that time, Dai Ailian did regret this matter very much, so when Ye Mingming proposed to Dai Ailian to remarry in the name of Ye Qianyu, Dai Ailian woke up not without feelings, but in the end, she refused.
Perhaps he felt guilty about Ye Qianyu and did not dare to face him again, or because of this blow, he no longer believed in feelings.
But what ultimately prompted Dai Ailian to make this decision was her own transparent heart.
She knew that feelings could not be forced. Ye Qianyu was fine, but she couldn't love him anymore, there was the first Ding Ning, there would be a second Ding Ning, a third Ding Ning...
She couldn't control her heart, and the next time she knew it was a moth to the fire, she would still do whatever it took. Because of this, she couldn't hurt Ye Qianyu again.
Such a good person should deserve better, so whenever Ye Mingming mentioned the compound, she laughed and said nothing.
Not unwillingly, but unable to.
In 1979, Ailian Dai went to the United States to participate in the centenary of the birth of world dance master Rudolf Laban, and at the event site, she met the Willy couple who had been separated for 40 years.
At that time, she was in her 60s, and Wiley was white-haired.
However, he was still the same as when she first met her, shyly smiling at her, Dai Ailian's heart instantly calmed down, looking at each other, as if he could see the youth of the two of them at a glance.
Perhaps, just watch him happy, see Willy again, Dai Ailian is very satisfied, so she and the Willy family have become good friends.
She never hides the fact that Willy is her first love, she believes that the love of youth should be beautiful, hidden, hidden everywhere will make this pure feeling gray.
Coupled with the fact that she and Willy have always been calm and measured, in the end, her frankness and sincerity gradually made Willy's family accept her, the family's elderly father's young confidant.
Willy Sokopo and Ailian Dai
Later, Willy's wife died, Willy suffered a stroke and was paralyzed in bed, and the 78-year-old Dai Ailian resolutely took on the burden of taking care of Willy after obtaining the consent of Willy's family.
Although they are no longer young, their souls are still fit. She would sit at his bedside and read a book, read a newspaper, and share her life. On a whim, he would push Willy out to watch the sunrise and sunset.
Fortunately, her legs and feet are flexible enough to dance in front of him.
In the past, it was she who stood still and did his sculptural model, and now it was he who stood still and was her audience. The regrets of her youth were compensated in her later years, and Dai Ailian was satisfied with it.
Willy died in 1995 accompanied by Eileen, and since then, his photographs have been hanging on the dresser in Eileen's home, and a replica of the statue has been in her home.
The following year, Dai Ailian died in Beijing, and according to her request, there was no mourning at her funeral.
In the farewell room, 20 veteran artists of the National Song and Dance Troupe danced a dance created by Dai Ailian and bid farewell to this legendary dancer in this special way...
In his later years, he wore Ailing
Some people feel sorry for Dai Ailian's love life, if only they had met Willy earlier.
Some people accused her of not cheating on Ye Qianyu's marriage, and some people pitied her for being cheated out of her property by Ding Ning after her divorce, but Dai Ailian never had a trace of regret about her feelings.
Every relationship is a gift from heaven, because of Willy, she understands love, because of Ye Qianyu, she has gained love, because of Ding Ning, she understands what is wrong love.
She gave The best feelings of her youth to Willy, and falling in love with him couldn't help but be.
She gave the most beautiful youth to Ye Qianyu, and Ye Qian returned it with affection, but she could only repay him with guilt for a lifetime.
She left her last heartbeat to Ding Ning, did not think about it, but in the end she was hurt all over the body.
Although the emotional road is constantly twisting and turning, in the old age, it is not a blessing to accompany his first love to grow old.
After all, as people drink water, cold and warm self-knowledge.