Tao Jin, the eternal angel
Curly hair, leather outfit, slightly raspy voice, very "cool" expression, and very "handsome" dance - this is what impressed me 11 years ago when I first appeared on the "Spring Festival Gala". At that time, my family just bought a color TV and VCR - perhaps because of this reason, I have a particularly deep memory of the 1989 "Tao Jin".
As we all know, in the late 80s and early 90s, there were few idol stars in the mainland. It was the era of Taiwan's "Little Tigers" and "Hong Kong's Four Heavenly Kings", and Tao Jin was an exception at that time. At least, in my childhood, he was a vibrant "angel of joy", and he was the first to bring the form of singing and dancing into my memory.
Now, I have long said goodbye to my childhood, and the "generation of dance king" Tao Jin has been dead for three years. I thought that all the memories of him would be over. However, not long ago, when I passed through a bookstore in the capital, I inadvertently saw the book "Tao Jin, my favorite", or could not help but be moved. I hungrily held it and read it for an afternoon, it was a sunny afternoon, but I cried, for the early death of excellence, for the undying love, and even more for the beauty of my memory.
Perhaps what passes away is most beautiful in memory. It suddenly seemed to me that I had never really forgotten Tao Jin, and as an audience, we have no reason at all to forget him! In this book, I learned a lot of little-known stories: from amateur dancer to rock star; from giving up his iron rice bowl as a dance teacher to winning the filming success of the movie "Rock 'n' Roll Youth"; from insisting on performing during his serious illness to taking the lead in collecting donations for impoverished cancer patients-- Tao Jin was always so tough, persistent, and sincere, no matter in front of the stage or behind the scenes. Tao Jin has always been so tough, persistent and sincere, no matter in front of or behind the stage, no matter in life, no matter in death, he sang and danced for us with all his heart! That is a life worth honoring, a beauty worth being proud of!
"Angel" - he will always be an angel! This is me, a Tao Jin forever "little" audience of his eternal memory! Magpie
Counting to this year, Tao Jin should be 43.
Tao Jin, formerly known as Tao Jing three, originating from Xinle City, Hebei Province, was born on March 8, 1961 in Nanjing,
In 1980, the Beijing Dance Academy recruited the first undergraduate, Tao Jin with outstanding results were
enrolled in the school's only non-professional school graduated from the Classical Dance of China education
students. After graduation, she was assigned as a teacher in the Dance Department of the People's Liberation Army Academy of Arts with excellent grades.
In the first Beijing "Disco" Dance Competition, she won the "Gold Cup Award".
In the Royal
International Standard Dance Examination, together with his wife Zhao Liping, they won the International Standard Dance and Latin Dance Silver Medal
and the Teacher's Certificate of Honor.
Tao Jin has been involved in film and television since 1988, and has played the leading role in five films
which he choreographed and played the leading role in the movie "Rock 'n' Roll Youth", which had a great response in the whole country, especially among the young people.
On August 25, 1997, Tao Jin died at the age of 36 of cancer.
- Life, memory and time are very unforgiving things. Time is too long for memories to be obliterated. Who remembers the "delinquent" students, who in the 1980s and 1990s led a whirlwind of rock and roll and pioneered the art of modern dance in China; who knew that the cowboys of their generation would cut people's hair and return home every night to be with their beloved wives? The gesture of dance, the spirit of rock and roll, shouldn't we trace the cause and source of shirts from him?
Last night I saw Zhang Ping on TV, already a middle-aged man. The first time I saw him on TV last night, he was already a middle-aged man. If he were still around, would he be the same as Zhang Ping, the cowboy youth of the year is now in a suit, and the vitality has been replaced by the calmness of a teacher; or he is still shining on the stage, and continues to lead the dance, and explores the innovative art of dance. 7 years' distance is enough to forget a person. And rock and roll, there are no memories, only today.
The Prince of Thunderbolt--Tao Jin
People who experienced the 1980s may still remember the movie "Rock 'n' Roll Youth," starring Tao Jin, a professional dancer. In the movie, his passionate, wild and exuberant dance left a deep impression on the audience....... Overnight, Tao Jin became an idol in the hearts of young people in that era, and the media at the time called him "the Prince of Thunderbolt".
Zhang Ping is Tao Jin's good friend, in 1984, Tao Jin and Zhang Ping are Beijing Dance Academy third-year folk dance professional students, by the school and the Ministry of Culture of the commission, they together on behalf of China to Hong Kong to participate in the International Dance Academy Dance Festival to participate in the competition. At that time, they danced folk dance.
However, neither Tao Jin nor Zhang Ping expected that this trip to Hong Kong would completely change the trajectory of their lives.
Today, Zhang Ping, who is now a middle-aged man, still remembers the situation back then: "I remember that there were a few of us at that time, including Height, Tao Jin, Shen Jinmin and me. The four of us at that time was very accidental, walking on the street, see the street full of "breakdancing" movie ads, at that time do not know what is called breakdancing, we are after all a dance major college students, but do not know what is called breakdancing. A kind of curiosity, so we said let's go see it."
That year was an American movie against traditional dance, the film for the first time in the United States popular in the streets of breakdancing (Break Dance) on the screen, the film that free-spirited, full of passion and vitality of the dance y shocked the dance professional college students Tao Jin and Zhang Ping.
From then on, Tao Jin, Zhang Ping and a few good friends were y infatuated with Break Dance, and after returning to Beijing, in order to learn this brand new dance, they racked their brains and thought of many ways.
Zhang Ping recalled: "At that time from Hong Kong secretly brought back the video tape, we will use good words to beg the school data room in charge of the boy. Please ask him to open the computer room for us, we take clothes to the windows are covered up, repeatedly watching, repeatedly pondering. People think you're practicing some kind of stunt, as if you're going to hit the ground running, but actually we were figuring these things out."
In the 1980s, when the country was just opening up, most people still found it hard to accept this kind of foreign dance, which was very different from traditional dance and looked a bit strange and twisted. Zhang Ping remembers, "At that time, we had a very strict provost in our school, and everyone was very afraid of him, and then he said, why don't you guys do the right thing, and dance these fluffy things every day."
But soon, with the release of the American movie "Breakdancing" in China. The "space step" began to sweep the mainland, was the coolest dance at the time, young people have been in the streets and alleys to learn to breakdance. All of this inspired Tao Jin's enthusiasm, and their jumping figure extended from the campus to the nearby park, and more young people were attracted to join them in their enthusiastic and unrestrained dance.
In 1985, the young writer Liu Yiran created the novel Rock Youth based on Tao Jin's personal experience. In order to realize his dream of dancing, Tao Jin was determined to make a Chinese "breakdance" based on this novel, and Liu Yiran immediately expressed his support.
After Tao Jin's hard work, the crew was soon established with the addition of director Tian Zhuangzhuang. But before the shooting started, they encountered a new problem, that is, they could not find a suitable leading lady, because the actress who matched with Tao Jin had to be able to act as well as dance. In the end, Tao Jin chose his sister Ma Antelope from the Beijing Dance Academy, but his hand-picked partner, who was considered to be "dirty", did not accept the so-called breakdancing.
At Tao Jin's insistence, in 1988, the 600,000 dollar film "Rock 'n' Roll Youth" was released in theaters across the country and grossed 3 million dollars at the box office.
The movie was a huge success, which Tao Jin had not expected at all; and to the surprise of Ma Antelope, who was barely able to make it in the first place, she was nominated for the Best Actress award at the Hundred Flowers Awards of Chinese Cinema that year.
Tao Jin became the protagonist of TV parties all over the country overnight, and was called "China's Mike Jackson".
In 1989, Tao Jin made his debut at CCTV's Spring Festival Gala, and his name came to millions of households with his own dance "Jump Up," since then Tao Jin has been active on the Chinese stage as a red-hot dance star.
In December 1996, Tao Jin was preparing for his second year of performances in France and the United States, planning to record his three MTV and song albums. In the midst of his busy schedule, Tao Jin went to the hospital for a full medical checkup, because since July of that year, he had felt particularly uncomfortable in his liver area, with particularly severe vomiting and diarrhea, one at a time. A few days later the hospital told him that his disease was intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma.
August 25, 1997, at the age of 36, Tao Jin died young.
Leaving us with his unforgettable dance and the footprints of a generation of young people pursuing their youthful dreams ......
(Edit: Muduo Jin sound Source: CCTV.com)