Deaf and mute people have always been a group of great concern in China, in their world, there is no music, can only feel with the heart.
When it comes to the "Thousand Hands Guanyin", many people may remember the Thousand Hands Guanyin from the 2005 Spring Festival Gala.
The program was a great surprise to the audience, and not only was it visually stunning, but it was also very memorable in its elegance and splendor.
The Spring Festival Gala has always been a program of sketches to occupy the top of the watch list, but this year is different, the thousand hands of the Goddess of Mercy became the top of the watch list, and to the audience have left a very deep impression.
The team was made up of 21 deaf and mute dancers with an average age of 21 years old, and the one leading the dance at the front was our protagonist today, Tai Lihua.
Born in 1976 in Yichang, Hubei province, Tai Lihua was not born deaf, but in an accident when she was 2 years old.
That year, Tai Lihua had a high fever, an injection of streptomycin an overdose, Tai Lihua lost her hearing.
At that time, Tai Lihua did not understand anything, just two years of experiencing the audible world, has not yet had the time to listen to the sounds of the world.
By the time Tai Lihua was 5 years old, everyone else inside the kindergarten could play the game of listening to sounds blindfolded.
But Tai Lihua couldn't hear anything, which made her feel a little sad.
One of her families was not very well off, so her mother quit her job and took Tai Lihua around the country in order to help her get better.
But in the end, Tai Lihua was not cured, and she was destined to stay in that silent world.
But Tai Lihua was actually a happy-go-lucky person who never showed her unhappiness in front of her parents.
Every day after Tai Lihua finished her homework, she would play with her parents and make them happy so that they wouldn't worry about her.
At school, Tai Lihua also worked harder than others, and she entered a school for the deaf.
Though the school was far from her home, she left home alone to go to the school every time, and she knew that she understood the hardships.
After entering the school for the deaf, Tai Lihua maintained her love of learning.
But in her new school, Tai Lihua also found a "new continent": rhythm class.
In rhythm class, the teacher sends out vibrations by stepping on wooden boards, and Tai Lihua learned what rhythm is through this class.
After learning about rhythm, Tai Lihua began to put her face on the speaker, or on the stereo, or on the floor to feel the vibration of the sound.
After understanding the rhythm, Tai Lihua began to dance with the rhythm, so Tai Lihua relied on the vibration, although she couldn't hear the music, but with the rhythm, she could dance.
At the age of 15, Tai Lihua entered the China Disabled People's Art Troupe and began to learn to dance on the right track.
Tai Lihua was full of passion and trained very hard.
The first dance she performed was a solo choreographed by Yang Liping called "The Spirit of the Bird".
This dance nonsense hides that of the need for dancers arm strength to create a feeling of spirit.
But in the beginning, Tai Lihua not only couldn't press her legs down, but her arms and legs were also uncoordinated.
But Tai Lihua wasn't one to give up so easily, so she started practicing in the studio for long periods of time, and it was not uncommon for her to get bruises on her body.
After practicing for a long time, Tai Lihua's progress was rapid, and all of a sudden her teachers were impressed.
After learning the dance, Tai Lihua was given the opportunity to visit abroad with an art troupe.
After performing many times abroad without anyone knowing that she was actually a disabled person, Tai Lihua was finally able to dance like a normal person with her day and night practice.
Yang Liping once commented on Tai Lihua, saying:
"I have created 'The Spirit of the Sparrow' for so many years, and if I couldn't hear the music, I don't even know if I could dance with that feeling."
It wasn't until 2005 that Tai Lihua made it to the Spring Festival Gala and performed "Thousand Hands of Goddess of Mercy" as recently as the closing ceremony of the 2004 Paralympics in Athens.
And most people are still more familiar with the '05 Spring Festival Gala.
The choreographer of "Thousand Hands of Goddess of Mercy" is the famous dance choreographer Zhang Jigang, and Thousand Hands of Goddess of Mercy is also his seven-year effort!
But at the time, Thousand Handed Goddess of Mercy also had some copyright issues.
Because after Thousand Hands Guanyin became famous, Zhang Jigang took the work to register the copyright.
But Gao Jinrong, a professor at the dance school of Gansu's Northwest University for Nationalities, was dissatisfied and took Zhang Jigang directly to court.
Because he believed that Thousand Hands Guanyin plagiarized the '91 Dunhuang Hand Posture, which in '98 was also titled Thousand Hands Guanyin.
But the court later ruled that the two versions of the Thousand Handed Goddess of Mercy could ***exist*** without plagiarism.
But it didn't end there, as Liu Lu, the instructor of "Thousand Hands of Goddess of Mercy," sued Zhang Jigang twice more, demanding that he sign her name to the dance.
Afterward, Mao Difang, a renowned Chinese choreographer who worked on "Journey to the West," felt that "Thousand-Handed Guanyin" was more of the same as her work "Auspicious Heavenly Maiden" than anything else.
And coincidentally, Liu Lu, the instructor of "Thousand-Handed Guanyin," was a performer in "Auspicious Heavenly Maiden".
But in the end, none of these infringement arguments held water, and it was only after these disputes that it became clear that Tai Lihua seemed to be an outsider.
But she was the biggest beneficiary of "Thousand Hands of Goddess of Mercy," and Tai Lihua not only became famous, but also became a 2005 Moving China figure.
Afterward, she also became the vice-chairman of the 12th National Youth Federation.
After all this time, Tai Lihua had more titles, not only the head of the China Disabled People's Art Troupe, but also a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).
And not only was Tai Lihua able to do what she loved, she also met her love.
Tai Lihua can be said to be a beautiful woman, very sweet-looking, of course, there is no lack of suitors around her,
and after the Spring Festival Gala burst into the limelight, Tai Lihua has a group of suitors, and one of them is a tycoon level characters.
And the tycoon was so infatuated with Tai Lihua that he not only didn't mind Tai Lihua's disability, but even pursued her for eight years.
Being pursued by a tycoon for eight years, Tai Lihua actually didn't move, which many people also found very strange.
But in fact, Tai Lihua had her heart set on something as early as when she was in school.
Tai Lihua married a polytechnic bully, and the two gave birth to a cute son after marriage, and their married life is also very sweet.
Tai Lihua is a very inspirational person who created art in her own unique way and went from being a deaf mute to a dancer.
It is also hoped that Tai Lihua will continue this spirit and will grow old with her husband!