In 2006, Yang li Ping discovered a magical drum, a giant hand-made musical instrument, while collecting wind from primitive tribes on the Yunnan-Myanmar border. The biggest drum is three or four meters high, and more than a dozen people can't lift it. This kind of drum can make a sound that shocks the soul, and the process of making this kind of drum is incredible.
In order to find a tree that can make this drum, they asked the whole village to go out and throw eggs at the tree. Only by throwing eggs into trees can trees be used as musical instruments, that is, drums.
Because only if there is a spirit in the tree, the egg will not break. The whole village cut down the tree together, dragged it back together, hollowed it out together, and then soaked it in the mire for a year or two, and it never cracked again.
When Yang li Ping saw the drum with his own eyes and heard the music it played, he was shocked to tears, as if he felt the call of God.
So she spent nearly a year collecting these drums and other musical instruments everywhere and created a large-scale percussion dance "Voice of Yunnan".
Ironically, in Voice of Yunnan, Yang li Ping also played a woman in labor for the first time and performed a dance of "having a baby".
However, in reality, she has experienced two marriages, both of which ended in divorce. Now she is 63 years old and has no children. Is it dedicated to art, or is there something hidden? Let's walk into the world of "Peacock Fairy".
0 1
1958, Yang li Ping was born in Dayanli, Yunnan, a place called Eryuan, a Bai nationality. Shortly after her birth, her parents divorced, and Yang li Ping and three younger brothers and sisters lived with her mother. In that remote mountain village, a girl from a poor family married early in order to have a meal.
But Yang li Ping never worried about her life. She has been particularly good at creating wealth and growing vegetables since she was a child. She took a fancy to a pair of flower socks in town, so she went home to pick mushrooms on the mountain, strung them with grass and sold them in the market with a basket on her arm. A pile of seven cents. People saw that the mushrooms were so fresh and the strings were beautiful, so they quickly bought them all.
Bai people like singing and dancing. Singing and dancing, even singing in court, are necessary for birth, illness and death. The plaintiff, the defendant and the judge sit together and sing sentence by sentence, and the lawsuit is over.
At that time, Yang li Ping Jr. was already the best dancer in the village.
She has shown extraordinary talent for dancing since she was a child. She can dance well without a professional dance teacher. When she was in Xishuangbanna Agricultural School, she became the group leader of class practice.
197 1, a dance company in Xishuangbanna took a fancy to this girl with extraordinary temperament at a glance, and wanted her to join the dance company, and she could get a monthly subsidy from 30 yuan. Yang li Ping was moved.
She thought that her mother would be very happy because life at home would be better, so she went home happily and told her about it. Unexpectedly, her mother's face suddenly cooled down and she was determined not to let her go.
It turns out that in that remote mountainous area, people are backward in thinking. Many people think that it is immoral for girls to go out to dance and perform, wear revealing clothes and be so close to their boyfriends.
However, Yang li Ping, a "wild girl", seems to have a root in her heart and is bent on dancing. She wants to express what she can't say by dancing. When her mother takes her back, she will run out again.
Mother had to look at the sky beyond the mountain and sighed, "Let this wild girl's life depend on her!" " "
02
Two years later, 13-year-old Yang li Ping was graceful, and with good physical condition and dancing talent, she jumped into Xishuangbanna Song and Dance Troupe.
However, she suffered a heavy blow here. She hasn't danced the main dance for seven years. This is the first time she realized the concepts of "society" and "group", and she realized how out of place she was.
Although she has a good talent for dancing, the song and dance troupe is a group dance, and everyone has to be in a rhythm to look good. However, due to poor foundation, Yang li Ping often can't keep up with the rhythm and doesn't like to dance the same steps with others. She thinks it's just "recess exercise" and there is no beauty at all.
She always likes to play freely, follow her feelings and often slow down. The whole team has to stop and adjust her. Moreover, Yang li Ping, who came out from the depths of the mountains, was not good at talking and socializing, and was out of place with everyone. In the long run, she is excluded from the group and can't get a good performance opportunity.
But on the contrary, Yang li Ping felt relaxed. She doesn't care about illusory fame and fortune. On the contrary, she is happy and quiet. She found a deserted place and jumped. Sometimes she will go to see peacocks and flowers alone, sometimes for a long time, as if her soul had drifted away and talked with them.
Gold always shines. 1979 The troupe newly arranged the dance drama Princess Peacock. Yang li Ping is the leading role of body double, but on the day of the official performance, the leading role was ill, so Yang li Ping, as body double, jumped up on the stage under the director's worried eyes.
Unexpectedly, when Yang li Ping Peacock's gesture came out, the audience fell silent, as if the real Peacock Princess appeared. The audience followed her unique figure and smart dance, and walked into the story of the sacred Peacock Princess.
After the performance, the audience applauded warmly, and Yang li Ping won the first prize of Yunnan Dance Competition in one fell swoop, so he was transferred to the Central National Song and Dance Troupe.
03
But this promotion didn't make her very happy, because when she arrived in Beijing, she was even more "acclimatized". The troupe asked her to train according to the standards of ballet and classical dance. All the dances and ballet in the troupe are very heavy.
On the other hand, Yang li Ping is a person who doesn't even have the basic skills of chopping and bending, so he is laughed at by the whole group. How can such a person who can't dance well? Tell jokes?
Yang li Ping doesn't mind, but after others get off work, she will secretly go to the rehearsal room to practice her favorite peacock dance. That's when she performed Peacock in the Spring Festival Evening.
A proud peacock, independent of the common customs, is only beautiful for herself. This kind of dance has no difficult splits, only a few simple hand movements and arm twists, but it shows the peacock's demeanor vividly, just like a real peacock standing in front of you.
1988, she boarded CCTV Spring Festival Evening and became an instant hit. She has been to many countries for artistic exchange, and her peacock dance has also gone to the world. In addition to dancing, many film and television dramas are also competing to invite her to perform.
In 2002, Zhang Jizhong invited Yang li Ping to play Mei Chaofeng when filming The Legend of the Condor Heroes. Yang li Ping's cold and peerless temperament is almost true, even his long nails are added a lot.
When talking about this passage on the Golden Star Show, Director Zhang Jizhong said that Yang li Ping was filming in a group at that time and never brought an assistant. Other stars who are less famous than her are crowding round, and only an actress as big as her went.
But magically, the whole crew automatically assigned her an assistant, "Teacher Yang sat down and put on your coat", and also brought water for "Teacher Yang to drink". Even Zhang Jizhong had never seen such a scene and exclaimed, "This is a truly respectable artist!"
Zhang Jizhong kept admiring, and Miss Yang's Mei Chaofeng was really "unprecedented"! Just after praising Teacher Yang, Venus's assistant Xiao Nan said, "You should go back to Sister Jin to play the extinct teacher, which will definitely be unprecedented!"
04
Why do people always compare Yang li Ping with Venus? We need to talk about their quarrel when they were judges together.
After retiring in 2003, Yang li Ping returned to live in Yunnan 10. She feels that the land where she is rooted has too many beautiful things to show to the world.
So she searched for the most original music, found local farmers, and rehearsed and performed a large-scale original song and dance "Yunnan Image" together.
For example, when she found Xia Ga, he was herding cattle and the cattle ran away. Xia Ga shouted, "Help me catch cows!" To the people on another mountain. Just like singing, his harsh voice once shocked, and she followed him and Niu Niu back to the village.
He and the people in the village are dancing on the edge of the cliff, playing "blind drums" and their hands are bleeding. Yang li Ping thinks that this is the person who really loves dancing, so he takes him out.
After the release of Yunnan Image, it was widely praised, and the world was amazed at such original song and dance works, which looked earthy and beautiful.
But at that time, the income of a performance was only a few hundred thousand, which was not enough for the dance company. Yang li Ping tried to make money again. Her goal was clear, so she chose variety, became a judge and met her nemesis Venus.
05
In 20 13, "So you thought you could dance" was launched, and the first ratings in China achieved a good result of 1.07, which had to be attributed to four star tutors, the most interesting of which was the argument between Venus and Yang li Ping.
These two fearless old artists often quarrel over a trivial matter. Venus talks about rules and Yang li Ping talks about feelings.
After a group of dancers finished dancing, the outspoken Venus didn't want to come up, saying that all the dancers in front were cross-dance groups, but she still danced with two national dances. She danced well, but she didn't pay the bill and asked for a rematch.
The atmosphere was already tense, and the host went to provoke and said, "It depends on what Teacher Yang thinks." ?
Sure enough, Teacher Yang, a gifted scholar, said innocently that I thought they danced very well. There is no cross-dance group, but they used to dance folk dances. Today they dance modern dance, no problem.
Give Venus a punch and say it's not Miss Yang. This is a question of cross-dance cooperation.
But Yang li Ping is still in a state of confusion. Venus' lungs are about to explode. He just shook Yang li Ping's shoulder and said, Teacher Yang, do you know the rules? Even the contestants on the stage couldn't help laughing.
Later, when Yang li Ping struck the table, her personality and pursuit were vividly reflected. The theme of the competition is jazz dance, but the contestants only add a little jazz. Venus came to talk about the rules again and said no, it was not jazz at all, and dancing was not good at all.
It is Venus that can turn Miss Yang, who usually can't say a few words, into a "machine gun". She said angrily, "why should they be denied as excellent dancers just because they only danced a little jazz?" He danced very well just now, which shows his uniqueness as a dancer. Why does it have to be jazz? Where did he go? I object to this kind of bringing one person, one is Spanish and the other is jazz. It's like I was brushed off before I could jazz on this stage. So I'm not a good dancer? "
At this moment, she may think of the years when she was denied. Venus almost cried when she heard this, and said, "But he signed up for jazz dance."
06
Although she blushed and her neck was thick on the show, both of them were disobedient, but Venus still respected her in private. She once said on Ma Dong's program, "I appreciate her and her dancing. It is too difficult for her to polish a thing to the extreme and reach an insurmountable height. She is my predecessor. "
Yang li Ping is the only colleague who can make outspoken Venus full of praise. Her love for peacock dance and her persistence in spreading national culture are irreplaceable by another person in this world.
In order to dance, she gave up her marriage twice, just because she didn't want to delay her dancing life in order to have children. In order to keep fit, she didn't eat rice for more than 30 years. A few pieces of beef and apples are her food.
Many people questioned whether she didn't have children because she couldn't, and she admitted that "having children doesn't actually affect dancing." Many dancers have given birth to children. "
This is just a choice for her to forget love. When the other half needs a woman with children, she will break up with them frankly and let them find their own happiness. She will never be lonely. All living things are her children, a flower is her daughter and a tree is her son.
Some people have read her later works Two Trees and Yunnan Image, as well as her behavior of eating roses and growing nails. And think she is crazy. She was a fairy in the first half and a madman in the second.
But as we all know, "you can't live without being crazy." Only by reaching the state of obsession can we make a thing to the extreme and call it a real work of art. She wrote a beautiful and wonderful life with her "crazy" dance and became a real "Peacock Princess".
Her life has been integrated with the peacock spirit and her native land. She is not on earth, but an artist living in the secular world. The words of the world passed in her ear like a breeze and soon disappeared.