Generally speaking, the daytime temperature in Mianzhu in winter is basically above zero, and the nighttime temperature reaches minus five or six degrees. Half a month ago, his relatives and friends in his hometown of Mianzhu sent the message that the lack of warm clothes has become the biggest problem for the local victims to get through the winter. So Liao Zhi did not hesitate to lend a helping hand.
When the Ya'an earthquake, she went to the front line of the rescue and relief efforts, Liao Zhi felt that in such a time of crisis, she had to stand with the people of her hometown and dedicate her own modest contribution. "I'm not the greatest strength, but I'm definitely more familiar with the situation of the survivors inside the ruins, and I know the essentials of simple rescue, I'm not very useful, but it will still be useful." Wearing prosthetic limbs to deliver food, clothing, generators and tents. Beautiful girl, let us learn what is strong!
The front of the stage
Dance to remove the prosthetic drums kneeling down to thank the benefactor The ninth program of the evening was Liao Zhi's duo dance "Towards Hope", Liao Zhi wore a red dance dress, the male dance partner wore a white dance suit. The two danced on the stage, and no one could tell that this beautiful girl had both legs amputated. Some of the audience were skeptical, Liao Zhi's legs are not good? At this time, the music into the climax, Liao Zhi was dancing partner violently lifted above the head, Liao Zhi hands grabbed the right foot, a moment, she took off a leg, thrown on the ground, the red skirt folds are like blood, vertical down ride. At that moment, the whole atmosphere of the audience was frozen and silent. For a moment, the shocking scene brought tears to the eyes of the entire audience. Double Dance "Toward Hope"
The last dance of the evening, "Inspiration," was staged. A red drum with a diameter of 2 meters and a height of 1 meter appeared in the center of the stage. Liao Zhi half-kneeled on the stage and beat the drum with both hands. The dance movements, which symbolize indomitable and fight against fate, caused a burst of applause on the stage. After the dance, Liao Zhi said while gasping for breath, our tears have dried up, we should meet the sun and move forward, live should live better.
Earthquake broken leg beauty charity performance "encouragement"
behind the scenes
1: the slender girl uninterrupted rehearsal dance
In order to perform this party, yesterday morning, Chengdu Xiongjiaban drum team will be two trucks of the size of the red drums without
reimbursement to arrive at the performance in Deyang. Morning rehearsals for more than four hours, lunch only ate a bowl of boxed lunch, Liao Zhi will go on stage, continue to rehearse drums. As the reporter arrived in Deyang in advance to interview Liao Zhi, she talked too much, her voice has become a little hoarse. But this slender, weak, pretty girl, drink a mouthful of water to moisturize the voice, and continue to communicate with reporters. Liao Zhi wore a black tight T-shirt, black pants, wearing a prosthetic leg, legs crossed sitting on a corner of the stage. It's hard to imagine that this is a girl who has had both legs amputated.
Seeing that Liao Zhi was too tired, the media reporter suspended the interview with Liao Zhi and also asked her to rest for a while. Liao Zhi's mother rushed to her daughter to pour a cup of water, before she had time to catch her breath, Liao Zhi stood up, because she sat too long to move her legs, but the whole leg was so numb that she could not listen to the call, and stood for more than a minute before she recovered.
2: A day of rehearsal nearly fell from the drum
After doing self-massage on the recently healed wounds after the amputation, she tied a red ribbon around her waist and came to the center of the stage to start stretching her waist, neck, and limb muscles, practicing the basic dance moves. Liao Zhi's mother said that in the past, a dance segment can be completed in one or two minutes, but after the amputation of the limb will take more than 10 minutes or even longer. Every time you practice, you'll have to spend a night with a sore back.
At about 2:30 p.m., Liao Zhi was carried by her dance partner for the third time on the largest red drum. When she started to dance on the drums, she forgot that she was rehearsing, and when she dragged her two crippled legs and performed with her head held high, the impact of the drums bouncing up and down violently almost bounced the small and weak Liao Zhi to the drums and she almost fell to the ground. The two male dance partners rushed forward and held Liao Zhi in their arms, which saved her from the danger. Liao Zhi's mother has been standing on the side of the stage, see her daughter tired, give her a cup of water, rehearsal break, the daughter held down the stage. Liao Zhi said excitedly, the earthquake took my one-year-old daughter's life, no matter where I go, my mother will hold me to where, when my mother held me, is the warmest time.
3: all walks of life to support "China's best" on-site cheering
"I heard that Liao Zhi want to engage in charity performances, we decided to participate in the hospital, and out of the two best programs, large Sichuan opera musical "great patriotic soul" excerpts and opera singing. " Yesterday morning, the provincial Chuan Theater Vice President Liao Tianlin with outstanding actors such as Liu Shu, Zhong Wei rushed to Deyang rehearsals. Known as "Bashu a pen" known as the famous Chongqing calligrapher Xiao Fuxiong also carried a large pen, and Chongqing more than 40 volunteers came to Deyang, for Liao Zhi on the spot wrote "inspired" two cursive, won the applause.
"When Liao Zhi was still hospitalized in Chongqing, we got in touch with her." Liao Minglong, a senior member of the Bashu Liao clan association's preparatory group, brought more than 40 Liao clansmen from all over the world to Deyang yesterday and put up a banner to cheer for Liao Zhi. After learning of Liao Zhi's desire to perform in his hometown in thanksgiving, the Liao clan association contacted the Chengdu Disabled Persons' Federation, and when the president and director of the Chengdu Disabled Persons' Federation Welfare Foundation found out about it, he suggested that they contact the municipal government of Mianzhu and the municipal Disabled Persons' Federation. "Since Liao Zhi has mobility problems, the staff of the Liao Clan Office carried her on their backs from Chengdu to Deyang, from Deyang to Mianzhu, and from Mianzhu to Hanwang, which eventually led to the performance.
Seeing Liao Zhi's story on the West China Metropolis Daily, Chen Guangbiao, "China's best man," made a special trip to Deyang. Chen Guangbiao said, the affected people need to be inspired, I have been invited by CCTV to participate in the Spring Festival Gala for three consecutive years, the 2009 Spring Festival, I decided to contact some entrepreneurs and family members to the disaster area, and the townspeople in the disaster area to spend the Spring Festival together. I am also ready to help Liao Zhi by giving her a monthly salary according to the treatment of middle-level cadres in the company, and contacting some good dance schools in Beijing for her to further her studies.
Background
If there hadn't been a natural disaster, Liao Zhi would have had a perfect family, her daughter would have turned one, and she would still be teaching students at the Deyang City Daily Good Dance School. But the earthquake destroyed everything.After lunch on May 12, 2008, Liao Zhi and her mother-in-law were at home playing with their children, and suddenly the earthquake struck, and she watched as half of her home collapsed, and seconds later she, her mother-in-law and her daughter fell with the collapsed house....... In that disaster, she lost her beloved daughter and her mother-in-law. Liao Zhi said she was in the dark with all her might finally touched her daughter's cold, soft, small body, "I grabbed her as hard as I could, I wanted to say something to my daughter, but my mind was blank, I tried to open my mouth a few times, and finally sang a song "Jingle Bells", and sang several songs in succession after singing, all of them were songs my daughter had heard before! ......"
Liao Zhi was rescued after 26 hours in the rubble, but faced amputation. Liao Zhi did not hesitate, nor was she afraid, in the absence of a loved one to sign the surgery order, she calmly told the doctor, "I'll sign it myself." When the doctor asked her, "Do you know what amputation surgery means?" Liao Zhi said, "Yes, it means sawing off the leg." Liao Zhi said that after this life-and-death disaster, she began to understand one word - cherish.
Returning to the stage, the crippled legs kneeling out of the "encouragement"
While the loss of legs, but Liao Zhi did not give up the dream of dance, during the treatment in Chongqing, she always imagined in his mind to return to the stage. one day at the end of June, she suddenly wanted to choreograph a dance out of the want to go on the stage once again. So she and her former dancing sisters began to study dance moves in a wheelchair.
Coincidentally, when the Miss World organizing committee visited her in the hospital, they also mentioned the dance. The two sides coincided. After an afternoon of discussion, it was decided to use a drum as a prop, and she danced directly on it on her knees.
But to complete "Inspiration," for Liao Zhi she had to start her training by kneeling, a simple move for regular people. "I grabbed the handrail of the bed and knelt up slowly, just kneeling for less than a minute my legs began to tremble, then my whole body trembled and I hurriedly sat down again. When I kneel up again, the teacher let me let go of the handrail, without hand support kneeling to them, but I tried a few times are just let go of the hand can not keep the balance almost to fall down ......"
Mother Bai Jarong see her daughter training is so hard, many times to persuade her to give up, Liao Zhi also wanted to give up! Later, she began to train in the training arena, when she knelt on the floor, the pain made her sweat, accompanied by her mother always hide in a secret tear. In order to complete the "Inspiration", her second surgery was put off again and again, July 14, when both legs crippled, a red dress Liao Zhi dancing on the drum, shocked everyone at the scene. At the end of the performance, when her teachers, family and friends gave her a thumbs up and said, "Baby! You're great", Liao Zhi's eyes were moist.
Hometown charity show 100,000 netizens to help her fulfill her wish
"Inspiration" of the success of the performance of the Liao Zhi is very happy, but also very inspired, she believes that the "Inspiration" has a two-tier significance: one is the dance on the drums, and the second is to inspire the people in the disaster area with the same misfortune as her. She wanted more people in the disaster areas to see Inspiration. After much deliberation, she decided to hold a benefit performance in her hometown of Deyang, and began to busy herself with it. Liao Zhi's wish to perform in her hometown has not yet been realized. Yesterday, Liao Zhi told reporters, she has not given up this wish, still trying to fight, "I will not give up, just like when I did not give up the dream of dancing." Liao Zhi's deeds were video broadcast, immediately caused a strong reaction on the network, just a few days, this video called "23-year-old earthquake broken leg beauty for the hometown of the charity show" video again and again touched every click on the netizens, the number of clicks quickly more than 100,000 people, and is still rising. Netizens from all over the world have followed the message, cheering for Liao Zhi, expressing their own views, and at the same time for Liao Zhi to send good wishes. A Beijing netizen message: "beautiful sister, you're great, for your strength and touched, go!" A netizen named "leaves in the wind" said: "I will always support you, and I sincerely wish you success!"
We are so thankful to God for making me such a me, who can always insist on being kind no matter what the happiness and tribulations are ......
We are so thankful to God for always bestowing the best on me, and compensating me with as much love as possible, even when misfortune befalls me... ...
Well thank God for giving me so much love when I feel the coldest, those familiar or unfamiliar people, those in the side or far away from the love, which all all the love full cover the cold in life, so that my world can not find resentment ......
Mianzhu Liao Zhi, a beautiful dance teacher in Hanwang Township who lost both legs in the 5.12 earthquake, raised money for her hometown through a charity performance to raise funds and donate clothes for the victims. The first 20,000 yuan was donated to her by Chongqing entrepreneur Sun Huaiqing, who has been doing business in Guangdong for many years, and after the April 2013 earthquake in Ya'an, she went to the front line of rescue and relief work, wearing a prosthetic limb to send food, clothes, generators and tents.
Liao Zhi starred in the microfilm "Inspiration". This microfilm is one of the original series of microfilms of China Network Television CNTV, directed by Zhang Heng. Written and acted by Liao Zhi, the movie draws on the treatment of the American movie "Buried Alive", using 3D animation effects to show the prosperous scene after the reconstruction of the city, and 2D animation effects to show the beautiful scene when Liao Zhi dreamed of her daughter, using the most realistic images to render the atmosphere and express the sincere feelings.
The story of "Inspiration" is based on the story of Liao Zhi, who lost both legs and his daughter in the 5.12 earthquake, and then overcame the difficulties and participated in the performance of "Inspiration", which had a significant social impact. Afterwards, he prepared a charity performance in his hometown, and used the proceeds to make donations for his hometown's victims to pay back to the society and pass on his love.
The film is in the form of a diary, based on first-hand information provided by Liao Zhi herself, and adapted from the most important examples that best reflect her psychological journey.
On August 15-16, 2013, Liao Zhi, a Christian "legless dancer", held a book signing and launching ceremony for her new book "Liao Zhi: Thanks for the Beauty of Life" in Shanghai.
August 15, 2013, 14:00, Fuzhou Road, Shanghai Book City.
August 16, 2013, 14:45, at Shanghai Exhibition Center Conference Center book launch ceremony.
Guest on "Woman in the World" Talking about her ex-husband
At the age of 21, Liao Zhi met the other half of her life at the most wonderful age of her life. At that time, she was at a very confused stage in her life, and her ignorance made her long for a place where she could bring her heart to life. Despite her family's strong opposition, Liao Zhi threw herself into this relationship like a moth to a flame. But almost simultaneously with the arrival of her daughter, Liao Zhi's marriage is also in crisis.
Earthquake because of her ex-husband derailed the two marriage crisis, the first time she found the problem, the idea is not how to separate, but "choose to do better", "I want to say that he can feel that I'm doing a good job, it's perfect, he will not do something to hurt me again! ."
Talking about the earthquake, her ex-husband left her alone under the rubble, bystanders always sound angry, Liao Zhi is very calm, she said she did not even hate him, because "all these things we **** with the experience, the child is our **** with the child, so when people outside can not understand, I know how much pain he has.
In the Spring of 2008, Liao Zhi and her husband officially divorced. Emotional and physical double blow, so that Liao Zhi in the post-earthquake bearing the common people can not imagine to the pain. But she didn't lose her head, on the contrary, the disaster became her best teacher. Liao Zhi once said that life's problems sometimes force people to grow. The emotional trauma made her realize more clearly what is most important to her and what people are more suitable for her.
When it comes to relationships and the future, Liao Zhi doesn't shy away from her expectations. Many people on the network to her message to her confession, Liao Zhi this quite chagrined, "for me are too far away, why is there is not a brave run to my home under the building shouting, Liao Zhi I love you!" Liao Zhi said that although the future of the other half is now unknown, but Liao Zhi said she has been waiting, and is completely ready.
Life is not meaningful only because of sadness
On the 21st, Liao Zhi, an "inspirational girl" who was reborn after the Wenchuan earthquake and the "most beautiful volunteer" in the Lushan earthquake, came to the Fudan campus to give a guest lecture at the "LIBERATION The magazine "Speak Out" Humanities Lecture Hall, to "life is not meaningful only because of sadness" as the theme of the keynote speech, and Fudan students to share her post-earthquake rebirth of life experience, the meaning of life, triggered the scene of Fudan students a warm response.
After recounting the life-and-death experience of being buried in the rubble for more than 30 hours, losing her infant daughter, and enduring the pain of physical amputation, Liao Zhi said, "There is nothing left in my life that can be squandered by me, so I have to cherish every day, and I have to grasp every day."
When it comes to confidence, Liao Zhi said that at first she would walk with her prosthetic limbs so painfully that her clothes would be drenched in sweat, and she couldn't wait for a fire to burn them off. However, when she realized one day that she couldn't rely on her parents and had to face life on her own, she realized that she had to endure pain in order to pursue dignity. So, every morning when she woke up, Liao Zhi turned on the computer, playing intense music, holding on to the door knob of the house, holding on to the dressing mirror, practicing over and over again kicking, spinning, and doing a lot of movement, and eventually one day could run out and turn on the water by herself. After such an ordeal, Liao Zhi realized that the dream can be realized, lies in the ability to suppress the fear in the heart, the dream is to need confidence.