The eagle lifts its wings and soars in the sky above, because it has been pushed off the cliff in order to learn to fly; the cicada chrysalis into a butterfly, dancing in the flowers, because it has been broken out of the cocoon and endured the pain of the heart and lungs; the bamboo stands proudly, because it "biting the green hills do not let go, the original roots in the broken rock" determination. The first is to be a good example of this.
All the beauty you see, behind the scenes have paid a great price. The reason why the phoenix is so honorable and mysterious is that even though it turns into ashes in the face of adversity, it can still be reborn in the burning flame of nirvana.
But not everyone can become a phoenix, only the heart and its tough people can withstand the fire of rebirth, to a more proud and confident posture to return.
And, probably is a nirvana phoenix, she is Zhang Yimou's life pain, in the 2008 Olympic Games rehearsal, she fell from a height leading to a lifelong disability, this should be complaining about the world, but she is exceptionally strong, the wheelchair can not lock her dream, reborn her life now how?
Being a pearl in the dance world
Liu Yan was born in 1982 in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia. Her father was a judge and her mother was a doctor. Liu Yan can be said to have been born into a family of high-class intellectuals, so her parents paid particular attention to cultivating Liu Yan, who began studying art at the age of three and later learned the violin.
By 1991, at the age of nine, Liu Yan was already studying dance with Ms. Bai Ying at the Inner Mongolia Song and Dance Troupe, and at the suggestion of her teacher, she was enrolled in the middle school attached to the Beijing Dance Academy.
During her six years in the middle school, Liu Yan demonstrated her strong dancing talent. She participated in the "Lotus Flower Cup" dance competition in 2002 and won the silver medal in the third national "Lotus Flower Cup" dance competition, with a piece of dance called "Rouge Button" adapted by Mr. Zhang Yunfeng from the novel by Li Bihua.
The award-winning Li Yan was sent directly to the Department of Classical Chinese Dance at the Beijing Dance Academy after graduation.
To the university, Li Yan's dance is more rapid progress, 04 years and then dance "rouge buckle" won the sixth National Dance Competition Gold Medal, 05 years, a section of the "orange red" to make it won the "Lotus Cup" Gold Medal, Liu Yan can be said to be the "Lotus Cup". "Hold a Grand Slam, in 2006 only 24-year-old Li Yan and Yang Liping, Tan Yuan Yuan on the same stage performance of the "Three Friends", 07 years, the main dance of the "City of Construction" "Red River Valley" in China "Wenhua Award" in the double award.
At this time, Liu Yan is like a rising pearl in the dance world, constantly blooming on the stage.
No preview of the accident came
Li Yan glowed on the stage, coincidentally met the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games recruitment, Liu Yan did not want to miss this opportunity, want to leave their own dance on the stage of the world's attention, so she took the initiative to sign up for the opening ceremony of the casting of Liu Yan's hard work and superb dance skills under the influence of Liu Yan got the director of the Zhang Yimou s recognition, and intends to let Liu Yan perform a solo dance "Silk Road" in the Bird's Nest.
But no one thought that this dance was the last dance that Liu Yan stood in her life, and it was also the dance that made her the pain of Zhang Yimou's life.
It is said that fate is unpredictable, but it has killed such a talented dancer. In the last rehearsal for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, Liu Yan accidentally fell from a height of three meters, in the fall back also hit the car track, the accident let Liu Yan back spinal fracture, fell a lifelong disability.
She not only lost the Olympic Games opening ceremony solo dance, which she had practiced for a long time, but also said goodbye to the stage, which she was proud of and had dreamed of all her life.
Because she can no longer stand up, Liu Yan's legs will be her wheelchair for the rest of her life. This accident came suddenly, anyone can not accept, not to mention Liu Yan himself, from childhood to dance, she can be said to grow up on the stage of the child, dance for Liu Yan, like the soul of human beings, there is no soul, there is only an empty body.
Transcend yourself, the mind determines the fate
We were told by Kazuo Inamori in "Living Method" that the meaning of life is to cultivate the soul. "The so-called labor and suffering is the perfect opportunity to exercise one's humanity. Those who are able to treat trials as opportunities are able to live their limited life truly as their own person."
And Liu Yan, it is in this life to cultivate his soul. But anyone who encounters a personal injury is bound to reject it, want to hide from it, and give up on himself, all of which are normal reactions when a person faces a setback, not to mention Liu Yan, who has lost the sensation of his legs and will have to live the rest of his life in a wheelchair.
This is undoubtedly a tragedy for a dancer who used to dance on the stage with her toes, telling her how to say goodbye to the stage
But we say that life is created by ourselves, and the only thing that can change our destiny is our heart. The heart is where the dream is,
The so-called fate is not a destiny that we can not resist.
Just like Liu Yan, she suffered a setback in 2008, just one year, she adjusted her mindset comeback. And in March 2009, won the "China Dance of the Year Best Performance Actress Award", Zhang Yimou personally for her award, I think the big director is also a sincere admiration for the perseverance of the dancer.
In June of the same year, Liu Yan also participated in the launching ceremony of the 2009 "Dance Dreams for Children" Chinese Dance Love Action, and was honored by the Chinese Dancers' Association as the "Love Ambassador".
Liu Yan, in the face of a life-changing accident, did not conform to the will of God, did not stumble in the face of adversity, but to face the setbacks with her own positive mindset, and continue to transcend herself, so as to make herself stronger and more resilient.
Stage can still shine
Bidding farewell to the stage, Liu Yan changed the direction of her life, she enrolled in the China Academy of Art in 2010, doctoral degree program in choreography, but also in the later hit "Dance Forest Competition" finals as a judge, although she can not continue to stay on the stage, but she hoped that more excellent dancers can be on the stage. to fulfill their dreams on the stage.
Liu Yan also has a higher pursuit, in 2014, Liu Yan returned to her alma mater, became a teacher at the Beijing Dance Academy, for the classical dance and choreography students, the content of the lecture is precisely her doctoral period in the main research of the "study of the Chinese classical dance hand dance," this is the first time that someone with the body micro-language to dance, Liu Yan, the body's micro-language to dance. This is the first time that someone uses the body to dance in micro-language, and Liu Yan's research has great significance for the development of dance academics.
After her accident in 2008, Liu Yan changed her identity from interpreter to instructor, and her stage from on-stage to off-stage, and from in front of the stage to behind the scenes.
But it is Liu Yan's optimistic mentality and give-and-take attitude towards life that allows Liu Yan to still shine and shine in her life under the stage. Maybe the objective conditions blocked the stage dream, but her inner dream never wither.
It is precisely because of this that Liu Yan's eyes saw more children who wanted to dance but were chained by the reality of the legs, so in 2010, Liu Yan set up the "Liu Yan Literature and Art Special Fund", which is used to support and subsidize the basic art education of those elementary school in poverty-stricken areas, so that more children will have the opportunity to come into contact with the dance! The first is the "Liu Yan Literature and Art Special Fund".
In 2011, Liu Yan gave his first professional dance lesson to children in orphanages and welfare centers as a representative, and the "2011 Good Dance Walk" initiated by Liu Yan was launched in this lesson. 2016, the wheelchair-bound Chinese dancer Liu Yan was awarded the "Tara Award". Tara Award."
Summary:
Liu Yan's story tells us that at any time in our lives, any misfortune we encounter can never become the "throat of our destiny" and can never be strangled.
Bing Xin said: "Successful flower, people only admire it now bright color! However, at first its buds, soaked with the tears of struggle, sprinkled with the blood and tears of sacrifice."
To be reborn like Liu Yan, and still live a wonderful life after encountering life's misfortunes, you must have a tough heart, and never give up the hope of life.
The so-called meaning of life, the value of life, as long as you dare to discover, will never be only one way to the black of desperation, when faced with misfortune, change their mindset, we will find that the dominant power of our destiny in fact never transferred to the hands of other people, any disaster can not be taken away from it, we still have the power to live a wonderful life.
Even if you walk into the despair, grass can be in the stone cracks in the desperate, to see the warm sun again, we must be able to, you must be able to.