1958, Yang li Ping, an "alien" girl who practiced dancing in the mountains in Eryuan County, Dali, Yunnan. Her hometown is particularly remote and is a famous "poverty-stricken county". When I was very young, my father was taken away for some reasons, so my parents divorced separately. My mother, Yang li Ping and three younger brothers and sisters had a very hard life, and then they suffered natural disasters. Therefore, Yang li Ping's childhood memory is hunger, and the whole family is all skin and bones.
At that time, in order to find something to fill his stomach, Yang li Ping went up the mountain to pick wild flowers and wild fruits every day when he was young. Later, she mentioned that the smell of white azaleas will never be forgotten. She has also become a "wild girl" running all over the mountains and plains, and it is this time climbing the mountain to find fruit that makes her have a close relationship with nature that is different from ordinary people. Bai people are good at singing and dancing, but they have been exposed to her since childhood. Her grandmother dances very well and tells her that "dancing is a dialogue with God", and she loves dancing in her heart, and she will learn from adults to revel in some festivals.
Although Yang li Ping crawls around Shan Ye looking for fruit every day, the family can't escape the fate of starvation. At that time, their village was close to Myanmar, and many poor families would let their daughters be child brides, so that they could have a sum of money to make a living. Yang li Ping's mother saw that all the children were thin and hungry, and she also had the idea of making Yang li Ping a child bride. It happened that Yang li Ping, who was 1 1 years old at that time, was teaching gymnastics at school one day, and an accidental opportunity was taken by the representative of Xishuangbanna Song and Dance Troupe. He thought the child was a good prospect for learning dance, so he invited Deng Liping to join the dance company. Yang li Ping danced with excitement when he heard the news.
However, Yang li Ping's mother doesn't agree with her daughter's joining, because she thinks that dancing has no future, and if Yang li Ping goes to learn dancing and there is no one to take care of her brothers and sisters at home, she still plans that Yang li Ping may marry a good family to improve the environment at home in the future, and maybe she can be a child bride. But Yang li Ping insisted on going, and her mother locked her at home, but Yang li Ping refused to give in. She sneaked out while her mother was away and joined the song and dance troupe.
Yang li Ping's sneaking out changed her life. Many years later, she also felt: "If she hadn't joined the song and dance troupe, she might have been a child bride." If it weren't for her insistence in the song and dance troupe, maybe her life would be in trouble and she would be someone else's daughter-in-law honestly. She would not be the "fairy" dancer we know now, and she would not be as successful as she is now. But after Yang li Ping entered the chorus, life was not so good.
Yang li Ping, who is excluded from the choir, is not a professional dancer, so she is out of place with the professional dancers in the choir. Accustomed to dancing alone on the mountain, she also likes to create her own dance. Such "aliens" are bound to be "squeezed out" by the girls in the chorus. But Yang li Ping never cared. She will go to the grove next to the song and dance troupe to dance with nature, grow vegetables in it and take them back to improve the lives of her brothers and sisters. In this way, she spent ten years in the Xishuangbanna Song and Dance Troupe, because she didn't compete like others at all, so she didn't have a chance to go out to perform for a long time.
There happened to be a dance in the group telling the story of Princess Peacock, which was performed abroad, which was in line with Yang li Ping's dance style of being close to nature. At that time, Yang li Ping was a substitute, maybe God gave her a chance. On that day, the protagonist happened to be ill, and Yang li Ping was temporarily called to play. This is the opportunity that Yang li Ping has been waiting for 65,438+00 years, so she decided to shine on the stage. Everyone was shocked by this jump, and foreign media reported on her one after another, becoming famous in one fell swoop. The victorious Yang li Ping quickly became popular in her hometown.
At that time, Yang li Ping had long black hair, the smart beauty of oriental women and some mysterious temperament, so Yang li Ping, who came back, became the object of many boys' pursuit. Even fighting for this beautiful woman seriously disturbed Yang li Ping's private life. 198 1 year, 23-year-old Yang li Ping was chosen by Beijing Song and Dance Troupe and hoped that she would be transferred to Beijing. However, Xishuangbanna Dance Troupe refused to let people go, and even some young children said: If you want to let people go, you will make trouble!
At that time, Yang li Ping, who was in his early twenties, was particularly afraid. She is afraid that if she stays in Xishuangbanna, she will be forced to get married and have children like other women. She is also afraid that impulsive young people will do bad things to her. She also wanted to go out for a walk, so she pleaded with the leader many times before she was able to go to Beijing. However, Yang li Ping, who went to Beijing, was frustrated again. Although it is famous in Yunnan, there are too many talents in Beijing, and they come from small places. She was not taken seriously at all, and was called "wild girl" by others because of her maverick personality and unique dance style.
However, she was not convinced. She practices secretly every night and choreographs for herself. No one wants to live with her, so she lives alone in a leaky warehouse. The group even cut off her training clothes and 7.5 subsidies. She still hasn't given up dancing, but Yang li Ping's original "Wild Road" dance is not liked by the group leader at all. She went to a dance competition, and the leaders also said to him, "I won't put your" Wild Girl "dance in it." Every word stung Yang li Ping's heart.
But Yang li Ping didn't lose heart. She pawned all her property and let others videotape her. She rode her bike and sent the video to the competition organizing committee. But it was too late, the registration time had passed, but she didn't want to cry. The organizing committee sympathized with her and asked her to play a video for everyone during the break. Her "Sparrow Spirit" was applauded by everyone, and from then on she won the first prize in the dance competition, which made her famous. After so many years of grievances, it finally paid off, and these hardships were worth it. However, after becoming famous, Yang li Ping also received a lot of controversy.
Persistence after becoming famous After many people watched Yang li Ping's dance, many TV stations still refused to let her perform because this unusual choreography was called "different" by many people. Fortunately, she didn't give up her dance production and still created her own dance. Finally, she was recognized by many people. At the closing ceremony of 1990 Beijing Asian Games, she performed her masterpiece "Sparrow Spirit" in front of people all over the world, and performed "Two Trees" in the Spring Festival Evening, which was even more amazing. Since then, she has been called "the second peacock king of China" and has performed in many countries, becoming a veritable dancer.
After becoming famous, Yang li Ping did not "swell". She still paid a lot for the dance career. Because she has been exercising for 20 years, she doesn't eat rice, takes care of her long nails every day, and still insists on dancing to do basic work every day, even if she has a fracture. At 6 1 year-old, her back is still as delicate and smooth as a girl, and she has become a "fairy". She is not impetuous. In 2000, she left Beijing and returned to her hometown to create her own dance team and style. She has been dancing for half a century. Why can't she be called a dancing fairy?
It can be seen from the conclusion that Yang li Ping's achievements along the way are not just "disjointed" without food for 20 years. If it weren't for her persistence when she was a child, maybe her present life would be doomed to be painful. The crowding out, loneliness and sweat she experienced after entering the song and dance troupe, her unknown efforts, her arrogance and recklessness doomed her to become a legend in the dance world. Now she has not given up her dance career, and she is an admirable artist.
But a woman who is judged as a failure just because she has no children is too one-sided and narrow-minded. What kind of life she likes depends on herself rather than others. Dance is the soul for her, and her life is doomed to be extraordinary. Then how can others criticize her life? As she said, "As long as you feel that you have a good life and don't hurt others, you can." Can such a life also be called a "failed" life?