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■Biography (provided by Chen Tianjia's father)
Name: Chen Tianjia
Small Name: Duo Duo
Birthday: December 17, 1998
Mantra: "You listen to me first! Speak"
Best song: Jolin Tsai's "Thirty-six Stratagems of Love"
Favorite food: Dad's fried noodles, yogurt
Favorite color: blue
Favorite clothes: dresses
Favorite cartoon: nothing I don't like
Favorite animal: Tropical fish
Favorite animal: Tropical fish
Favorite animal: Tropical fish
Favorite animal: Tropical fish
Favorite animal: Tropical fish <
Favorite toy: "Little White" (a toy goat, cuddle and sleep)
September 01, 2004 07:18
Ma Jinyu Zhao Kang
At the closing ceremony of the Athens Olympics, Chen Tianjia sang the song "Jasmine Flower".
A 5-year-old Chinese girl, Chen Tianjia, who traveled to Athens for the closing ceremony of the 2004 Olympics with a jar of fried sauce and a kilogram of noodles, sang "Jasmine Flower" in a clear child's voice in front of a worldwide audience.
Teachers: the little girl is bold and can suffer
This is an ordinary little girl in Beijing Blue Sky Yufeng kindergarten, as to why she will be selected for the Olympic Games closing ceremony performances, her teacher Liu Hongmei said, Chen Tianjia is a very personalized little girl, "bold, can suffer, talking special punch."
What's interesting to Liu Hongmei is that Chen Tianjia rarely cries. Sometimes rehearsals are very hard, and when other children are tired and crying, Chen Tianjia is still smiling. A little boy did not eat according to the nutritional recipes set by the teacher, and ate three pieces of cake in a row for breakfast. Other children saw this, but only Chen Tianjia immediately said to him, "You've eaten three pieces in a row!"
Father: Zhang Yimou personally interview Tianjia
Chen Weiguo said that one morning in June, the Olympic closing ceremony director Zhang Yimou interviewed in the Green and Blue Building, when Chen Tianjia was still in class, the kindergarten notified of its interview to sing "Jasmine". Chen Weiguo said that Chen Tianjia would only sing one line: "What a beautiful jasmine flower." So Chen Weiguo quickly taught Chen Tianjia to sing at noon. After teaching for one day, Chen Tianjia couldn't sing again during the interview.
Chen Weiguo said that Chen Tianjia said to the interviewing teacher, "I can't sing 'Jasmine Flower', I'll give you a dance!" So Chen Tianjia jumped up and down and sang and performed "Suburbia," which she had only learned from kindergarten, and because the dance was short, she danced three times in a row.
After she came out, Chen Tianjia told her father, "Da Da (Beijing dialect, meaning "uncle") said I danced quite well." Dad asked which "Dada", Chen Tianjia said the older one, and later realized that the "Dada" is Zhang Yimou. When all the children had left, a teacher called Chen Tianjia and said she wanted to take some pictures. At that time, Chen Weiguo had a feeling that his daughter would be selected.
A week later, an executive director informed Chen Weiguo: "Your daughter has been selected to go to Athens, so prepare for the training." After that, Chen Tianjia followed the rehearsal team to Beijing Sports University, the Olympic Sports Center and other places to rehearse.
Father: daughter did not rehearsal sung well
Chen Weiguo said his daughter, after all, is still too young, she does not quite understand to go that is for the country to compete. Just the night before going to Athens, Chen Weiguo said to his daughter: "When you want to sing well, we are waiting to see you." Chen Tianjia said, "I will try my best."
During the early hours of Aug. 30, her daughter, carrying a red lantern, was startled when the colorful stripes at the closing ceremony suddenly rose into the air. "At that moment I was also shaking in my heart, there was no such thing as this during the rehearsal over here." Chen Weiguo said, "My daughter was a little nervous, not as good as the rehearsal, but the tune is still all right."
Yesterday, Chen Weiguo said on the phone, "Daughter will be back tomorrow." Said, his voice a little choked, "Daughter said, she came back just want to drink yogurt."
Chen Tianjia sang a song called "Jasmine Flower" at the closing ceremony of the Athens Olympics.
During the 100-day countdown to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Chen Tianjia joined Jackie Chan, Liu Huan, Zhou Huajian, Wang Leehom, Wu Kequn and several others in the song "Beijing Welcomes You" and recorded the music video
Age: 10 and a half years old
Ethnicity: Han Chinese
Nationality: Beijing
School: Beijing Primary School
Position: Squadron Committee
Specialty: Dance
Favorite Stars: Angela Chang, Pan Wei Bai, Jay Chou
Favorite Songs: "A Thousand Miles Away", "Invisible Wings"
1998 Chen Tianjia was born in the winter of this year, and her coming to the family brought more joy.
2000 At the age of two and a half, Chen Tianjia began her residential life, boarding at the Blue Sky Yufeng Kindergarten. She began to learn dance.
In 2004, she was chosen by Zhang Yimou to stand at the closing ceremony of the Athens Olympic Games, and used her pure voice to make the Chinese folk song "Jasmine Flower" float in the sky above the birthplace of the Olympics, and on that night, hundreds of millions of people got to know this little girl, who was startled by the sound of the fireworks that suddenly went off.
In 2006, she was enrolled in a Beijing elementary school.
When Chen Tianjia walked quietly in a white down jacket, holding her mother's hand, I immediately recognized the little girl who sang "Jasmine Flower" at the closing ceremony of the Athens Olympics, though nearly three years later.
Little Tianjia has grown up
Compared with the memory of the five-year-old girl wearing a pink dress, head tied with two pigtails, hand picking a red lantern stood on another big lantern and sang, the girl in front of me was wearing a pair of jeans embroidered with cute beads, feet on a pair of black sneakers, a white down jacket dry clean. The original cute "little jasmine" is now just like a "big" student.
Tianjia a head of black hair shiny and enviable hair with a pink bunny hair band tied into a ponytail hanging behind the head, walking a shake, some not tied into the "big team" of broken hair in the wind at will fluttering, Tianjia from time to time to use their hands to gather hair, in case they fly into the mouth or eyes. Her mom said, "This is her own hair."
Although she is in the second grade and not yet nine years old, living in a school is not a strange thing for Tianjia, whose mother said, "Duo Duo has been living in a boarding house since she was two and a half years old."
Duo Duo is Chen Tianjia's nickname, and that's what everyone in her family calls her.
"Her father and I are both busy, and we don't want grandpa, grandma, grandma, grandpa, and the other generations to spoil her, so we chose to have her stay in school." Chen Tianjia's mother said, "Now it seems that our decision is still correct, this child's self-care ability is really better than other children. Hair she has long been able to comb by herself, socks and underwear are also washed by themselves."
Listening to her mother praise her like this, little Tianjia just "hehehe" giggle, after a short time together proved that "hehehe" giggle is her magic weapon.
I just love taking pictures
We chose to take a picture of Little Jasmine under the crumbling wall at Dongbianmen in the hope that the elfin child would wake up the sleeping wall.
If at first Tianjia was a little nervous about how she was going to pose for the camera, after a little dance she slowly relaxed. Mouth whispered counting the beat, facing the camera Chen Tianjia self-concerned dance, to her accompaniment only the camera kept flashing issued by the "click" of the shutter sound.
At the root of the wall, we chose three positions to take pictures of her, which took nearly an hour. Almost all of the action is Chen Tianjia come up with their own, or a dance, or pose, a move, a style, a fuss. Tianjia's mother, in addition to the side to remind the pants and stuffed into the shoes, clothes fell out of the outside, did not have any action on her instructions, all depending on her personal play. "How did she figure out these moves?" Mom laughed in the face of her daughter's endless poses.
She kept jumping in front of the camera, not shouting that she was tired, not impatient, and even in between shots, she had to flip a heel on the grass. Even her mother said helplessly, "DuoDuo's class teacher in the comment also evaluated her quiet, look at her now where there is quiet strength it."
It's true that Chen Tianjia is not quiet enough, but she secretly told me that it's because she likes to take pictures, not to mention facing the camera, even facing the camera, she is not afraid.
Chen Tianjia has been learning to dance, and now she goes to the Beijing Dance Academy every weekend to study ballet, and now she has almost learned to "stand on her toes". Chen Tianjia's mother said: "We let her learn dance is to let her exercise, did not deliberately to train her what, we do not have a person in the family engaged in the literary and artistic aspects of the profession, how the future can only look at her own."
The "Jasmine"
Tianjia, who is now in the second grade of Beijing's elementary school, had her name replaced by the words "Little Jasmine". But now she's slowly losing her "Jasmine" coloring at school. In school she is a squadron committee, with a lot of competition, the election of eight squadron committee, she in 35 students with 27 votes to win; she is the class of the Arts Committee, a small age has begun to be the class gala "director"; she is also a representative of the math class, the most favorite math class, followed by English class, the least favorite is the language class, although her composition level is very high, she is a good teacher. Language class, although her composition level is very good, insisting on composition classes. Tianjia's mom says she is well liked.
Influenced by her big brothers, Chen Tianjia likes Zhang Shaohan, Jay Chou and Pan Wei Bai. "Do you like Invisible Wings?" I asked her, "How do you know that? Hey, I also like 'A Thousand Miles Away'." Chen Tianjia said.
Lastly, when it comes to the closing ceremony of the Athens Olympics, what impressed "Little Jasmine" most about Athens were the pigeons in the square who were not afraid of people. "The pigeons were so cute, I touched them and they didn't even fly." I tried to get her to remember something else, but got the response, "Gee, the past is history for a second."
Instantly, frozen.
I don't know if it's the same for any of the other performers in the closing ceremony of the Athens Olympics, but it's history, and it's not about me anymore. The words came out of the mouth of such a small child, and in such a dismissive tone that we adults didn't seem to see it as well as the crystal-clear little girl in front of us.
Yes, it may have been said to her by her teachers, her parents, and her mother back in Athens, but only if the child recognizes it, and doesn't cling to being "famous".
Tianjia's mother said, they live in the neighborhood, some people do not know that small Tianjia is the year of the "Jasmine", and let the mother surprised, until last semester, Chen Tianjia's homeroom teacher Tianjia went out to dance in the classroom before the opportunity to announce this matter with the students. "The teacher told the class, why didn't you tell your mom?" Tianjia's mom asked her, and the answer she got was, "What's there to tell." Now, Chen Tianjia obsessed just did not get into the school thinking class, and will have to take the test again next semester, "because I like to think, like math."
Chen Tianjia knows that the Beijing Olympics will be held next year, and she hopes that she will also be able to perform dance at the Beijing Olympics. Chen Tianjia's mom said, "We also hope that our children will be able to go to the Olympics again, and our children are preparing for it, but we won't force it, and we'll listen to all the arrangements."
The little girl who sang in Athens wants to dance at the Beijing Olympics
I'm not afraid
XBJ: Are you afraid on stage?
Chen Tianjia: not afraid. Scared of what?
The new Beijing News: in the confetti sprayed out, I saw you seem to shake a little.
Chen Tianjia: I'm not afraid, those colorful strips out of the original sound (in Beijing rehearsals), I really sing when the colorful strips sprayed out of the sound is very big, I do not know well.
New Beijing News: nervous before the show?
Chen Tianjia: not nervous. I saw a brother who sang Peking Opera vomited before the show.
In the music video for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Chen Tianjia sang the first line of the song, "Welcome to another morning, bring a new air."