In Qingdao Jimo City, Longwan head of the village there is such a rural dance team, in order to participate in the township's rice-planting competition, under the leadership of the captain of the Qiao Xiang sweet, members of the rain and shine, after eight months of training to win the laurels. After the competition, they insisted on training, three years, the size of the dance team from six or seven people to more than 300 people, the dance to bring the villagers the simplest, most real happiness.
At 7:30 p.m., the hazy night shrouded by the Dagu River in the village of Longwantou, seven levels of community in Jimo City, 26-year-old Qiao Xiang sweet wearing a dance suit, dragging two speakers in his hands out of the village committee compound. As the captain of the dance team in Longwan Tou village, Qiao Xiang sweet has to deal with these two speakers every day.
Walking west along a potholed path is the village's only recreational plaza, a 2,000-square-meter square that is a good place for villagers to cool off on midsummer nights and a training ground for the dance team.
Music played, the square more than a hundred villagers quickly formed a neat square, do Jiamusi exercise. In the square, the youngest was five or six years old, and the oldest was a 78-year-old grandmother.
After the square dance, Qiao Xiangsheng and some of the key players began a more professional fan dance practice.
The dancers come from all walks of life, some working as farmers, some in shoe factories, and some in slaughterhouses, and many of them get up in the early hours of the morning and work more than 10 hours a day. To be able to insist on dancing every night, in addition to their own efforts, less family support. In the crowd of onlookers, a middle-aged man to see extraordinarily fascinated, it turned out that his wife is also in the dance team, because the family lives a few kilometers away from the blue village, Chen Daiguo took up the task of transporting his wife every day.
"It's very supportive, and now that people's mentality is changing and people's culture is improving, the spiritual life must keep up."
An even bigger crowd than the dance team are the villagers who are onlookers. Before the birth of the dance team, Longwantou village villagers' spiritual life is very scarce, the birth of the dance team completely changed the villagers' "night life".
"Every night, they come, they dance especially high."
Reporter: "What was your main form of entertainment before there was a dance team? "
"That's not really, like playing cards, playing poker, now it all feels boring, there's no one to play with."
Qiao Xiangxiang said her story of growing up is no more than normal. 1988, Qiao Xiangxiang was born in Longwantou village on the banks of the Dagu River. Dance was still a novelty for most of the villagers in the then slightly isolated village. But Qiao's mother said that when she was still in her infancy, she would twist and turn to the rhythm whenever she heard music playing.
"Hear the music as if you can not sit still, since childhood, June 1 Children's Day on the stage dancing, purely as a hobby, there are a number of cultural and artistic activities around, are not to give up, every time to fight to participate."
Despite not receiving formal and professional training, but with their own talent and hard work, Qiao Xiang sweet quickly grew into a school dance star. After graduating from junior high school, because of her love of dance and small children, Qiao Xiangxiang sweet enrolled in the first vocational senior high school in Jimo City, majoring in kindergarten teachers.
"Inside the school as a dance class representative, leading the class to organize some cultural activities, to arrange some programs, sometimes in the dormitory to listen to music, the brain inside the picture of a group of action."
After graduating in 2006, Qiao Xiang sweet came to Qingdao to work as a dance teacher in a kindergarten in the city's northern district. In addition to the kindergarten, Qiao also opened a dance class around the school, specializing in recruiting children interested in dance.