Name: Chen Tianjia
Small Name: DuoDuo
Birthday: December 17, 1998
Mantra: "Listen to me first"
Favorite Songs: Jolin Tsai's "Thirty-six Stratagems of Love"
Love of food: "The Thirty-six Stratagems of Love"
Love of food: "The Thirty-six Stratagems of Love" by Jolin Tsai "
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 toys: "little white "(a toy sheep, cuddle to sleep)
September 01, 2004 07:18
Ma Jinyu Zhao Kang
At the closing ceremony of the Athens Olympics, Chen Tianjia sang a song called "Jasmine Flower".
A 5-year-old Chinese girl, Chen Tianjia, went to Athens for the closing ceremony of the 2004 Olympic Games with a jar of fried sauce and a kilogram of noodles and 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, able to suffer, talking special punch."
What's interesting to Liu Hongmei is that Chen Tianjia rarely cries. Sometimes the rehearsal is very hard, other children tired of 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 interviewed 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, after all, his daughter 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: "By then you have 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, "The daughter is a little nervous, not rehearsal time to sing well, 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.
Chen Tianjia and Jackie Chan, Liu Huan, Zhou Huajian, Wang Leehom, Wu Kequn and several others participated in the song "Beijing Welcomes You" and recorded the music video during the 100-day countdown to the 2008 Beijing Olympics
Age: 9 1/2
Ethnicity: Han Chinese
Origin: Beijing
School: Beijing Elementary School
Position: Squadron Committee
Specialty: Dance
Favorite Star: 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, Tianjia began her residential life, boarding at the Blue Sky Yufeng Kindergarten. She began to learn dance.
2004 Chosen by Zhang Yimou to stand at the closing ceremony of the Athens Olympic Games, she used her pure voice to make the Chinese folk song "Jasmine Flower" float over the birthplace of the Olympics, and hundreds of millions of people got to know this little girl, who was startled by the sound of fireworks that suddenly went off.
2006 Enrolled in Beijing elementary school.
When Chen Tianjia walked quietly in a white down jacket, holding her mother's hand, I instantly recognized the little girl who had stood on a large lantern at the closing ceremony of the Athens Olympics and sang "Jasmine," even though nearly three years had passed since then.
Small Tianjia has grown up
Compared with the five-year-old girl in a pink dress with two pigtails on her head and a red lantern standing on another large lantern, the girl in front of me was wearing a pair of jeans embroidered with cute beads, a pair of black sneakers and a white down jacket. 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 in the back of 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 to prevent them from flying into the mouth or eyes. Her mother said, "This is her own hair."
Although she is just in second grade and not yet nine years old, living in a school is not something new to Tianjia, whose mother said, "Duo Duo has been living in a boarding house since she was two and a half years old."
DuoDuo is Chen Tianjia's nickname, and that's what her family calls her.
"Her father and I are both busy, and we don't want grandpa, grandma, grandma, grandpa and grandpa, who are from different 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 very correct, this child's self-care ability is really better than other children. She has long been able to comb her own hair, and she washes her own socks and underwear."
Hearing her mother praise her like this, little Tianjia just "hehehe" giggled, and after a short time together, "hehehe" giggling proved to be 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 be able to wake up the sleeping wall.
If at first Tianjia was a little nervous about how she would pose for the camera, she slowly relaxed after a short dance. She counted the beats in her mouth and danced freely for the camera, accompanied only by the "clicking" of the shutter as the camera kept flashing.
We chose three spots at the base of the wall to take pictures of her, which took nearly an hour. Almost all of the action is Chen Tianjia's own ideas, or 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 give her any instructions on the movement, all depending on her personal play. "How did she figure out these moves?" Mom chuckled in the face of her daughter's endless poses.
She kept jumping around in front of the camera without shouting or getting impatient, and even in between shots she had to flip a heel on the grass. Even her mother said helplessly, "DuoDuo's homeroom teacher even commented in her comments that she was quiet, and look where she is now."
Chen Tianjia really isn't quiet enough, but she told me secretly that it's because she likes to take pictures, and she's not afraid to face the camera, not to mention the video camera.
Chen Tianjia has been learning to dance, and now she goes to the Beijing Dance Academy every weekend to study ballet, and now she's almost ready 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 "Little Jasmine". But now the color "Jasmine" is slowly fading 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 taking composition classes. Tianjia's mom says she's 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.
Finally, 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 very cute, I even touched them they didn't 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 wonder if the same could be said of the other performers who took part in the closing ceremony of the Athens Olympics: "It's history, 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 clearly 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, if she 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 "Jasmine", and let her mother surprised, until last semester, Chen Tianjia's class teacher in Tianjia out dancing not in the classroom 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 is obsessed with the fact that she just didn't get into the school's thinking class and will have to take it again next semester, "because I like to think and I like math."
Chen Tianjia knows that the Beijing Olympics will be held next year, and she hopes that she will be able to perform a dance at the Beijing Olympics as well. Chen Tianjia's mother said, "We also hope that our children can go to the Olympics again, and our children are preparing for it, but we won't force it, and we will listen to all the arrangements."
The little girl who sang in Athens wants to dance at the Beijing Olympics
I'm not scared
New Beijing News: are you scared on stage?
Chen Tianjia: No fear. Scared of what?
New Beijing News: When the confetti was sprayed out, I saw you seem to shake a little.
Chen Tianjia: I'm not afraid, those confetti out of the original sound (in Beijing rehearsals), I really sing when the confetti sprayed out loud, I do not know well.
New Beijing News: nervous before the show?
Chen Tianjia: Not nervous. I saw a brother who sang Peking Opera throw up before he went on stage.
In the music video for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Chen Tianjia sang the first line of the song "Welcome to Beijing": "Welcome to another morning, bring a new air."