The name of the boy who blew the horn at the opening ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics is Zhu De'en, who is 9 years old.
The 9-year-old Zhu De'en is a fourth-grade student at Beijing Normal University's Experimental Primary School in the Future Science and Technology City School, but now he has a more widely known identity: the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics, "blowing the trumpet boy".
On the night of February 4, wearing a white dress, holding a trumpet, standing in the Bird's Nest, where all the attention and all the music is silent, Zhu De'en puffed up his cheeks and held back his red face, and played a song called "My Motherland and I". The bright and ethereal sound of the trumpet spread throughout the Bird's Nest and was relayed to all of China and the world on the big screen.
The director of the dance department at Beijing Normal University, who was involved in the selection process, revealed that Zhang Yimou, the director of the show, wanted to find a professional trumpet player, and that the younger the trumpet player, the better, because the child's naiveté and innocence cannot be imitated by an adult.
Juden's professionalism is excellent, and his performances are full of emotion, so in this national audition, he was able to get a ticket to the Winter Olympics. What followed was a routine of training. This was nothing new for Judeen, who from June 2021 practiced his trumpet for half an hour a day. But being involved in the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics clearly meant something different, and it meant training was different.
For nine-year-old Chu, practicing is still a "slightly boring" process, even though he loves the trumpet. "The longest I remember practicing was four hours." Zhu Deen told reporters that every time you practice the trumpet to stand, legs are very tired, blowing so long, mouth is also tired, "when you're tired, you poof poof mouth." Zhu Deen put two small hands into a trumpet shape on the mouth demonstration to the reporter to see, issued a burst of lovely laughter.
Juden proved to live up to the hype, playing a piece that was not too difficult but needed to be emotionally appropriate to the meaning of the song, which he played steadily, touching people's hearts with his music.
Winter Olympics opening ceremony "trumpet boy" red, behind the glory, the other two children are equally good?
In addition to the final stage Zhu De'en, there are two candidates stand out. These two children, one named Liu Haoran and the other Liang Tong. 9-year-old Liu Haoran, who has one year of trumpet learning experience, excelled. The other is 13-year-old Liang Tong, a student of the famous trumpet player Prof. Zhu Guang, who has been studying trumpet since the third grade of elementary school and has won many awards in competitions, and was admitted to the Central Conservatory of Music in 2021 with excellent grades.
While not on stage, the two children still got up early and came to the Bird's Nest on Feb. 4 to make sure the opening ceremony was foolproof. "There are a lot of factors to consider for large-scale events, and not being selected doesn't mean the kids aren't good. I believe that they can all become marvelous performers in the future." The opening ceremony a responsible person expects that more people will give these two little heroes behind the scenes encouragement.