At the Spring Festival Gala in 2005, " Thousand-hand Avalokitesvara " was unanimously regarded by the audience as the most successful classic of the party. In less than 6 minutes, the 21 deaf and dumb actors were almost perfect Many audiences watched the show in tears, and everyone remembered the lead dancer Tai Lihua .
"Avalokitesvara"
As a deaf actress, what is the story behind Tai Lihua? 17 years later, how is she doing now?
Tai Lihua was born in Yichang, Hubei in 1976. When she was 2 years old, a high fever caused her to lose her hearing. It didn't take long for her tender voice to leave her, and she fell into a silent world. But at that time, Tai Lihua had no memory. It was not until she was 5 years old that when she was playing hide-and-seek with her friends, she realized that she was different from others, and she cried sadly.
In order to cure Tai Lihua, her parents took her everywhere to seek medical advice, but she never got better. When Tai Lihua was 7 years old, her parents decided to send her to the city school for the deaf.
When she was a child, Tai Lihua liked watching TV even though she couldn't hear the sound. She especially liked watching dance programs and often imitated dancers' movements in front of the TV. The attentive father discovered her hobby. Although the conditions at home were not good at that time, his father still bought her a pair of dancing shoes on her birthday.
Tai Lihua when she was a child
Tai Lihua was very happy when she got dancing shoes. Since then, she has learned to dance more vigorously. Fortunately, Tai Lihua's talent and potential in art were recognized by a female teacher in the city's school for the deaf, so she started to train Tai Lihua in dance. Tai Lihua's level has also been greatly improved. The dance has won many awards in the city's children's competition.
In 1989, 13-year-old Tai Lihua came to Wuhan to attend middle school alone, and continued to make her mark on some stages. When Tai Lihua was 15 years old, several teachers from Hubei Disabled Persons Federation saw that she was indeed talented, so they sent her to Wuhan Song and Dance Troupe to study. From then on, she began to receive formal dance training.
Although Tai Lihua has nearly 10 years of amateur dance experience, her level in a professional song and dance troupe is still far from enough. When she first joined the group, the teacher asked her to dance a section of " " . Although Tai Lihua was very serious, the teachers picked out a lot of problems for her: not rubbing her legs properly, not lifting her legs properly. Accurate, the hand position is not coordinated... In the end, the teacher simply walked away and left her alone in the rehearsal room.
Tai Lihua did not give up because of this. During that time, she had been practicing hard. At the age of 15, her bones and ligaments had already been shaped, and many movements had to be done overcoming pain. Her body was often blue and purple. covered in wounds. Once, when her mother saw her hurt and cried, she told her: "I like dancing, so I don't feel pain at all."
For Tai Lihua, the most difficult It's just that she can't hear the music when dancing, so she can only decompose "Spirit of the Sparrow" into more than 700 beats, and then keep on memorizing, repeating, and re-remembering. In the end, she has been able to memorize such beats by feeling, and It was very accurate and was finally approved by the teachers.
"Spirit of the Sparrow" is a dance created by the famous dancer Yang Liping , Tai Lihua especially wanted to get her guidance, so the teacher in the group called Yang Liping specially. But Yang Liping doesn't like others to imitate her dance, because she thinks that imitators can only imitate her shape and can't express herself.So she told the teacher in the group that she would only come to see the girl who danced this dance, but she would never teach her.
But after Tai Lihua danced, her dance moves moved Yang Liping, Yang Liping said excitedly: "If I can't hear the music, I can't imagine how I can dance!"
Yang Liping
So Yang Liping took the initiative to take off her shoes, showed Tai Lihua barefooted, and corrected her movements by herself. After receiving Yang Liping's guidance, Tai Lihua's dance took a qualitative leap, which was recognized by more and more audiences. .
Since then, Tai Lihua has won many awards in domestic dance competitions, but when she was 17 years old, she set a new goal for herself: to go to university. So she put her stubbornness in dancing to learning culture classes. In 1994, she was admitted to the Department of Decoration Design of Hubei Academy of Fine Arts and became a college student.
Tai Lihua was very diligent during her college days. She always sat in the middle of the first row of the classroom and almost never had a break on Saturdays and Sundays. In that era before mobile phones were used, it was easy to find her, either in the classroom or in the studio, or in the studio or the bedroom.
During college, Tai Lihua had to undertake a lot of performance tasks in the troupe. She only spent half of her time in school, but she just relied on her own efforts and completed 4 years of undergraduate courses in 2 years of school time. , got a bachelor's degree certificate.
Tai Lihua
In 2000, Tai Lihua went to the United States with the China Disabled Art Troupe, the artistic director of the troupe Zhang Jigang Based on inspiration from the Yungang Grottoes , choreographed a dance for 12 actresses including Tai Lihua,This is the original version of "Avalokitesvara of Thousand Hands". Tai Lihua and others performed very well and caused a sensation in the United States.
In 2004, Zhang Jigang served as the chief director of the closing ceremony of the Athens Paralympic Games. He modified the dance choreographed for Tai Lihua and others, and increased the number of actors to 21. The changes in gestures were also enriched several times. In the closing ceremony "China 8 Minutes", the dance performed by Tai Lihua took up 6 minutes, which shows its weight.
At the end of this year, Zhang Jigang decided to present this dance on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala again. He made minor adjustments to the dance again, and finally the performance time of the dance was finalized at 5 minutes and 54 seconds, with Tai Lihua still leading the dance.
In order to present the most perfect performance to the audience all over the country, Tai Lihua and other actors began to practice hard. They could not hear the music, so they could only rely on the sign language teacher around the stage to direct their performances. A camera was placed in front of them, and every rehearsal was filmed. After the shooting, everyone watched the playback to find out the problem.
Tai Lihua and others practiced very hard. They started training at 6 in the morning. They had to train 20 times in the morning, 30 times in the morning, 30 times in the afternoon, and 20 times in the evening. They had to complete 100 times a day. With such a strong amount of training, the actors gradually found a tacit understanding with each other.
However, Zhang Jigang was always dissatisfied with Tai Lihua's expression. She thought that Guanyin's body should show great calmness and serenity, but Tai Lihua always used laughter to deal with it at first. His face was completely stretched again, so he looked too serious. He and Tai Lihua discussed it together for a long time, and finally found a suitable facial expression, that is, the eyes drooping three or four meters in front, and the whole face remained slack.
The final dance "Avalokitesvara of Thousand Hands" achieved great success on the Spring Festival Gala stage, and won the special award and the first prize in the singing and dancing category.
Tai Lihua's career success,Inseparable from the silent protection of her lover behind her, and her love with her lover Li Chun is equally touching.
As early as 1993, when Tai Lihua visited the performance of Malaysia , a very handsome rich Chinese boy fell deeply for her and began to actively pursue her. Tai Lihua told the other party that she was deaf, but the other party said: "It's okay, I like you, I don't care about your deafness."
But Tai Lihua still rejected the other party, she wrote on the note to the other party : "I love my hometown, I don't want to leave my parents who have sacrificed a lot for me, and I don't want to leave my friends who love me."
In 2001, Tai Lihua came to Malaysia to perform again, and the rich boy came over again , It turns out that he has been waiting for Tai Lihua silently for 8 years. He still hopes that Tai Lihua can marry him, but Tai Lihua told him frankly: "I already have a sweetheart and will get married soon."
Tai Lihua The "sweet man" mentioned is Li Chun. The acquaintance of the two was also very coincidental. It was one day at the end of 1995. Li Chunzheng was reading a book alone at home when he suddenly heard a few crisp knocks on the door. After he opened the door, he found Tai Lihua standing with a large suitcase. In the stairwell, he realized that Tai Lihua should be looking for the resident next door, so he asked her kindly: "Hello, are you looking for the aunt next door? She went out early in the morning."
Tai Lihua and Li Chun
Tai Lihua didn't say anything, so Li Chun repeated it again, but Tai Lihua only made a gesture, Li Chun realized that she might be deaf, so he wrote on the paper with a pen: "You The box is very heavy, if you want, you can come to my house and wait."
So Tai Lihua went to Li Chun's house, and they chatted with paper and pen for an entire afternoon, and the chat was very pleasant. Li Chun had a heart-wrenching feeling for Tai Lihua, and he wrote a letter to Tai Lihua the next day and sent it to her.
Li Chun was a student at Huazhong University of Science and Technology ,He did not expect that a few days later, Tai Lihua actually came to the school to find him, which moved Li Chun very much, and the two officially confirmed their relationship.
The love between the two has gone through more than 2,000 days and nights, and they have encountered resistance from many factors such as family and society. First of all, Li Chun's parents disagreed. They were worried about the relationship between their son and Tai Lihua. There were obstacles in communication, and once persuaded his son: "You are still studying, and everything should focus on your studies, and love cannot be based on a whim."
But later, Tai Lihua still moved Li Chun's parents with her practical actions. They were very satisfied when they learned that their future daughter-in-law was talented and virtuous and beautiful.
After graduating from Tai Lihua University, he was assigned to Wuhan No. 1 School for the Deaf as a teacher. Li Chun also graduated at this time. In order to be with Tai Lihua, he gave up the opportunity to work in Shenzhen and chose stayed in Wuhan. In March 2003, they finally set foot on the red carpet of marriage.
Tai Lihua and Li Chun's wedding
At the beginning of the marriage, because Li Chun did not learn sign language seriously, he and Tai Lihua also had some misunderstandings when communicating. Once the two of them went to visit a friend, Li Chun couldn't find the way, so he had no choice but to tell Tai Lihua that he was lost, but Tai Lihua understood the word "lost" as "misery", so he thought of marrying A deaf-mute wife made Li Chun feel bad for her life, and she burst into tears at that time. Later, Li Chun actively learned sign language, and the communication between the two became smoother and smoother.
In October 2004, Tai Lihua officially received the invitation to the Spring Festival Gala. After that, she started intense rehearsal. Due to the overloaded training, every time she came home, she was so tired that she fell asleep next to the sofa. , Li Chun was very distressed. In order to make his wife sleep longer, he always gently covered Tai Lihua with a quilt, and then quietly waited by her side. The success of "Avalokitesvara of Thousand Hands" is attributed to Li Chun.
At the end of 2005, Tai Lihua was officially appointed as the head of the China Disabled People's Art Troupe .Transforming from a simple dancer to an administrator in charge of all the affairs of the group, Tai Lihua's pressure is increasing, but she also enjoys watching the young group members grow day by day.
Tai Lihua organized the actors to rehearse
With Tai Lihua's excavation and training, many good seedlings in the group gradually grew up. In 2008, the troupe sent 153 actors to perform at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Paralympic Games. Everyone expected to see Tai Lihua perform on stage, but she resolutely gave up the stage, leaving the opportunity to young actors, and she acted as the opening ceremony. A style art director who takes on more of the responsibilities behind the scenes.
After Tai Lihua became famous, many people came to invite her to participate in commercial performances. Although the income of the Disabled Art Troupe was not rich, Tai Lihua resolutely promised not to participate in any commercial performances. Here's what she said: "Dancers need a quiet space most in order to create a better program, and at the same time perform with a cleaner and healthier mind, and create more of this special art. role."
In 2008, Tai Lihua was elected as a member of the 11th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. She is also one of the three hearing-impaired members of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Over the years, she has put forward many proposals for the welfare of the disabled: the 2009 proposal focused on the issue of driving with disabilities, the 2010 proposal focused on the health of disabled children, and the 2011 proposal focused on the overall development of the cause of the disabled...
With the efforts of Tai Lihua and others, on April 1, 2010, relevant departments introduced relevant laws and policies on driving with disabilities, including all kinds of left lower limbs, right lower limbs, deaf and other disabled people. Can enjoy the right to drive, so that they can better integrate into the big family of society.
Tai Lihua, who is now 46 years old, is still active on the stage, and her married life with Li Chun is also very happy. The two have given birth to a lovely son. I believe that Tai Lihua will be able to contribute more wonderful works to us in the future!
Tai Lihua and children
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