2021, Yu Xiuhua, Luo Fuxing ...... they chose to laugh at themselves

That year, she hit the hot seat several times. The most famous one was in August, Yu Xiu-hua posted a poem confessing to Li Jian: Oh, Li Jian! Grant me an afterlife that won't vanish the memories of this life, the first one I meet is you. Grant me beauty and health , grant me talent as in the beginning. I'm not going to be able to do that, but I'm going to be able to do that, and I'm going to be able to do that.

But this confession was considered by some netizens as disturbing to others. Yu Xiu Hua saw it and retorted back, "disturbing on disturbing, you are not his wife, self-interested", and has since ignited a fuse of scolding.

In addition to the scolding, 2020 she experienced insomnia, depression, drinking to kidney stones ...... time to read books and write poems was also playing the phone squeezed out, unable to concentrate on creation. Yu Xiuhua described the year as "a million arrows through the heart".

The times when you can laugh out loud are few and far between, and the few public laughs that do occur mostly appear on her first snapchat live broadcast. On that day, Yu Xiu-hua put on lipstick and wore a big red blouse. She interacted with viewers, asking if she was beautiful today. A viewer asked her what she had eaten in the evening, and she said that she and her father had put together a plate of fried cucumber and eggplant.

The talk was about trivia and life. From the end of the year to now, Yu Xiu-hua's expectations of life are put into 2021, she hopes that the new year, can compensate for the past, want to make life back to a simple rhythm, writing poetry, reading, drinking, raising flowers. She will publish a new book of poems and life will pick up from its rut.

In 2021, "Let's hope everyone lives a happy life," Yu said in that video on Racer.

It was a video about smiling. In Racer's view, in the past 2020, human society experienced a major catastrophe in recorded history, and helplessness and frustration were universal feelings of experience. So at the point of the new year, 21 users representing "hope" were invited to shoot a set of smile blockbusters in conjunction with the first-tier fashion magazine "Men's Wear", and through the action of shooting the documentary video and organizing an offline art exhibition, the video was made in a light-hearted way, without dwelling on the sufferings or rendering the past, and awakened the deepest heart of all people's beautiful desire for the future. The theme is "2021 Please". The theme is called "2021, please accept".

But it's not easy to laugh at yourself, and the first step is to get in touch with yourself.

Lang Jiazi Yu, a graduate student from Peking University, has been looking for ways to make himself comfortable. He is a 95-year-old non-genetic heir who has been trying to promote the art of kneading noodles for three generations.

Over the past year, he's been making videos about face-painting and attending events to learn more about it, and with a newly launched company, he's often been overwhelmed. Lang Jiazi Yu is like being trapped in multiple roles, and his limited time is split into several parts. Once after participating in an activity on the way to another activity, encountered traffic jams, an hour later than planned, he was in the car suddenly broke down and cried, life are squeezed out of the complexity of things.

He hadn't laughed about himself in a long time. Once he rode his bike past the east gate of Beijing Ditan, saw a little girl than scissors hands showed a very innocent photo-specific smile, very cute, "but immediately into the eyes of the parents holding up their cell phones, they unconsciously showed heartfelt smile, see me 'old tears'. " He said.

This smile inspired him that laughter is the simplest and most direct way for humans to express their emotions. He also learned to laugh at everything. Today, he has organized his studies and is waiting to graduate this year; he has also smoothed out the logic of the company, and his not-so-big studio is full of works that he has kneaded with his own hands. In the year 2021, which has just begun, he said in the video "Smile" that he hoped his efforts would be rewarded.

Also in that video, a 57-year-old grandfather wishes the same thing, that he could "rise higher and higher".

He is an old man without a wife and children, living alone, and wants to use his craft - making balloon art - to support himself and live a better life, and the balloon is like a metaphor, hoping to take him to "fly" higher.

His lonely life took a turn for the better when fans formed a fan club on the Internet, bought him a cell phone, taught him how to shoot videos, and sent him a variety of balloons, which filled the walls of his home with fancy balloons.

One of his happiest moments of the year is still related to balloons. While making balloons on the side of the road in Guangzhou, people passed by and looked at him. "There are two people walking face to face, and collided, two people collided after the big guys are happy, I also feel very happy, all look at me to do a good job of making balloons, do not look at the road." Grandpa said.

Offline passers-by later became online fans, fans gave him new company. When he participated in a smile-themed event shoot, fans taught him how to fly by hand, helped him connect with staff, and cared about every little thing in his daily life.

Grandpa's life has come full circle from loneliness, and in 2021, he wants to make more balloon shapes. Through his fans on the snapchat, he has more hope.

No one knows the answer to how many laughs there are in life, maybe it's a big laugh, or a bitter laugh, but the important thing is to keep your own laugh.

Laugh, for understanding

Luo Fuxing, the once-famous first-generation netizen, also appeared in a blockbuster of smiles on the fast track.

In 2020, when the documentary Killmart I Love You was released, his life was changed forever as an assistant director and one of the main characters. He went to various screenings with director Yifan Li and met with all kinds of people.

He will always remember the injury he received. The second time he wore an exploded head, he was working in a hairdresser's store, and he was dismayed when a customer refused his service because he looked "unimpressive". In his opinion, subculture is just an expression of self-image and does not cause social harm, so why would it attract so much ridicule and criticism?

The documentary was like a sudden surprise, pulling him out of his muddled life. He realized that the most important thing is that everyone should have the right to free expression. Now, he broadcasts live on snapchat and makes videos of some subcultures, telling everyone that aesthetic freedom is the foundation of all freedom. Now, the group belonging to him is re-examined and understood, Luo Fuxing, as the most important part of it, y felt that the misunderstanding and accusation finally turned into mutual understanding and **** love between people.

The first days were laughed away by him. What's more, he found that he didn't have to be always cool and put on serious gestures in the live broadcast as before, and that a smile can make people realize that the distance between each individual is actually very close, "My smile doesn't create a sense of distance between people, and of course it comes with healing properties."

In the "Smile" video, the young man's expectation for 2021 is that people will be more tolerant of each other.

Chen Libao, a suona enthusiast on the snapchat, also hopes for more understanding.

He is a player and a teacher. Now, he teaches some distant people to play suona through the fast hands, hoping that this instrument is accepted by more and more people, rather than every time it is mentioned, it is flirted with, "The music in the Chinese funeral culture can not be separated from the suona, a lot of people may (think of suona) think of the dead. But to bring out the suona culture, we need to change people's perception, and this is the most important thing. Especially the perception of young people."

In 2020, he worked with Thirteen Moon Records to produce a suona album with eight songs in eight different styles, and he looks forward to more people hearing the music and understanding the culture this year.

In life, Chen Libao has also re-learned how to express love. In an unprecedented move, he took his son to the playground seven times, seven days a week. Except for a few performances, he was basically with his child every day, and he felt the warmth of a father-son bond that he had never felt before. "When I'm troubled, I'm often healed by my child's smile. Basically, I forget my worries, especially when I see my child's smile."

And as for 2021, he said in the "Smile" video that he hopes things can get back to normal.

Looking back over the past year, everyone's life and trajectory has been altered to a greater or lesser extent. But these days of brokenness and loss are behind us, and as we move into 2021, everything can start again.

After being trapped by the epidemic for the better part of a year, Li Xinyong, who has been sharing his world travels on snapchat, finally took the journey.

In the past, one of the most widely recognized labels for Li Xinyong was the boy who traveled to 70 countries, and in early 2020, Li Xinyong bought a new car, modified it, and made a complete plan to travel to Africa, but then the epidemic hit, and he was stuck at home. During this period, those early years of travel video re turned out by the fast-food netizens, received more than the previous number of views and comments, many people like him feel suffocated, can only be in the video nostalgia for the freedom that once was.

In the second half of 2020, he resumed his journey and, unable to go abroad, planned to travel around China in 300 days, seeing the cities and the people, as well as a different way of life.

The first thing he learned was to paraglide. On the day he was ready to take off on the paraglider, he saw the cliffs under his feet, the fog in the distance, and a gust of wind that made him shiver a little. He had only been learning for three days, and his instructor complimented him on his good parachute control and talent. He gritted his teeth and rushed out. The moment he flew, he felt a complete freedom. He flew left, he flew right, he was jacked up by the airflow and flew to a higher place, it was a rare freedom.

It's been a long time since he's felt this kind of joy, and even though he smiles in every video, it's a smile that was "a substitute for words" when he was living abroad, and now it's a smile that signals that things are warming up. But what's **** the same is that "the joy is prolonged after you share this joyful energy on the snapchat. You'll see the audience being happy with you, and you'll feel happier too."

Smiling is the most common expression people make, and it also holds the warmest power. There are so many people who, through smiling, trust and understand each other.

Smiling is the embrace of optimism

In the "Smile" video, Nanyu, who has just graduated from university, is one of the people who smiles the most. She was born in Bijie, Guiyang, and majored in dance in college. But this year after graduation, she found it hard to find a favorite job. She is one meter tall, like to stand on the stage, even if you can not dance, do a model is also possible, but in Guiyang to find a job, she found that she can only shoot some of the "mother dress".

So, she found a sister who can take pictures, and she used all kinds of materials to cut out all kinds of dresses, painted on the stage makeup, and shot a set of videos and photos. The mountains and the woods became a catwalk, and she walked in the middle of it with a catwalk.

Handset is like that stage, and when she uploaded the video, some people said in the comments that she looked like Lu Yan.

But in 2020, things took a turn for the worse. She got sick and had to have surgery, so she had to call her dream off. But in the meantime, she saw the smile that made the year the most memorable for her. She was in the hospital that day getting ready for surgery when the attending doctor smiled at her and said, "Little friend, you didn't eat today, did you?" She felt then that that smile was like a ray of light in her life.

Laughter can transmit strength between people. In the new year, Zhinan Language wants to pass this power to more people, she smiled in the video and said, "I hope all the girls with low self-esteem can be as confident as me. Another dancer, Fade, also wants to pass on the power through her efforts and her smile.

Once in "This is Street Dance 1", Fade was the only female contestant in the top 12, the domestic jazz queen. 2021, she hopes that her dance will no longer be just a choreographed clip, but to melt the attitude of life into it, to convey self-confidence, and to record the truest state of mind in every moment.

As a dancer, she used to feel the harshness of the world towards women because she was not thin enough and received a lot of cold stares. 2000 when she first had a blog, Temperance posted the video of her dancing on the Internet, and some people said she had to dance even though she was so fat. When she went to dance for an artist's music video, she found that her clip was directly deleted because she was not thin enough. In a CCTV dance program, she danced on the stage, just to start the director shouted the card, in front of the face of the whole audience, said, this girl is so fat, how not to wear pants, and she was wearing shorts ......

But she insisted, and finally bloomed the brilliant that should be. Once went to Liu Yifei to accompany the dance, the faint shot was cut out of the whole, and last year, she and Liu Yifei attended the same event, just standing together. She smiled and felt that life is getting better and better. 2021, she wants to publish a book, to share her own experience, and see the story, to encourage more women to persevere in the road of dance.

She said in the video. She feels that in 2021, she can continue to use the power of dance to influence more women to fall in love with themselves through dance.

In 2020, all the reluctance has passed, and in the new year, quite ceremoniously, everyone made a wish, related to themselves, related to happiness, related to warmth.

They melted the new year's wishes into their own lives, recorded every moment of the moment's feelings with their snapshots, and passed this warmth and happiness to another group of people outside the screen. The time will be integrated into the long river of life, and I hope we can all cherish every minute of our lives.

2021 Please Smile_Tencent Video

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