My hometown is thinking thousands of miles tonight, and it is another year of the Ming Dynasty.

Seeing the Spring Festival approaching, CCTV announced the list of the Spring Festival Gala with great fanfare, and started the rehearsal of the Spring Festival Gala in full swing.

The Spring Festival Evening, a program that has accompanied people for many years, lasted from 65438 to 0983, and became the cultural symbol of the New Year and the memory of a generation.

I still remember that in the first year, Liu Xiaoqing's beautiful figure came into the audience's mind, and Li Guyi's lingering "homesickness" touched countless people;

1984, Zhang Mingmin sang My China Heart with deep and strong patriotism. Li Guyi's "Unforgettable Tonight" has been sung for more than 30 years, and Peisi Chen and Zhu Shimao's sketch "Eating Noodles" made many people laugh.

1987, ChristianRandPhillips in a red suit looks like a jade crown. His song "A Fire in Winter" unconsciously warmed the hearts of thousands of girls, and he was still a generation of male gods.

1989, Song Dandan's sentence "My name is Wei Shufen" attracted the audience's attention to this future "evergreen tree of the Spring Festival Evening", and Yang li Ping, who was unmarried and infertile for the peacock, slowly appeared.

1990, Ni Ping's voice sounded in the spring breeze, and Zhao Benshan looked "stupid" at the Spring Festival Evening;

1992, Little Tiger's youthful vitality infected many audiences and they became "idols" at that time;

1995, the spice girl in Song Zu Ying, you at the same table as Lao Lang, and the water in Andy Lau, like Chun Xue, make people feel emotional.

1999, Cai Guoqing's "Go home often and have a look" spread all over the streets, and Richie Jen injected infinite tenderness into "The girl across the street looks over" and captured the hearts of the girls. ......

However, since 20 10, more and more traffic stars have stepped onto the stage, and sketches have become the vassals of stars. Although the ratings are record-breaking, more and more people feel that the Spring Festival Gala has lost its original heart and become more and more ugly.

Looking back on the Spring Festival Gala in 1938, the most classic and touching is the Thousand Hands Guanyin in 2005.

On the stage, 2 1 actors, dressed in gorgeous costumes, danced and swayed with the music of the world, and the ever-changing posture was like a peacock, showing the exquisite beauty of art.

Tai Lihua, who leads the dance, is dignified and compassionate, just like Guanyin Bodhisattva in this world, helping all beings.

This emotional and vulgar dance shocked the audience. It was a visual feast and spiritual baptism, which not only swept China, but also made Koreans full of praise for China culture.

It is worth mentioning that this dance is composed of 2 1 deaf people, who overcame many difficulties to get this classic and magnificent treasure.

1997, a dark-skinned young man took a camera and traveled around. He has been to the desert of vast expanse, crossed steep cliffs and never fell into a valley basin.

It seems that wherever it is desolate, he goes straight to it.

But there was nothing he could do. He likes to visit mountains and rivers and explore places of interest.

He visited Yungang Grottoes, Jinge Temple in Wutai Mountain, Chongshan Temple in Taiyuan and Huayan Temple in Xia and Shang Dynasties, and felt the exquisiteness of murals and the solemnity of temples.

During this journey, he can always see the statue of Guanyin with a thousand hands.

At that time, he would not have thought that two years later, with this statue, he had a whim to create a dance version of Guanyin, and then became famous, went abroad, became a first-class choreographer, and was hailed as a "dance wizard."

This young man is Zhang Jigang, head of the Song and Dance Troupe of the General Political Department of China People's Liberation Army.

1999, China Disabled Art Troupe invited him to create a dance. Taking this opportunity, he created Guanyin with a thousand hands.

Unexpectedly, there are three versions.

At first, the talented Zhang Jigang thought of this dance. The essence of this dance belongs to the hand. Flexible fingers silently tell its feelings, full of artistic beauty and appeal, and deaf people are the best choice.

They usually communicate through sign language, and their hands are their way of communicating with the world.

In view of this, we communicated and coordinated with the Disabled Art Troupe and produced the first edition: 12 female dancers, including Tai Lihua, He Jin, Lv Xiaoyan, Li,,, Hu Nan, Chang 'e, Lin Ling and Zhuang.

They were not born deaf. Most of them had a fever when they were young, because they were deaf due to antibiotics.

A high fever took away the beautiful voice of the world, how cruel, but helpless.

Perhaps fate tied them together, rehearsed together, communicated together and grew up together, among which Tai Lihua acted as the backbone. After 19 years of dancing experience and Yang li Ping's guidance, her talent and efforts are obvious.

In 2000, the American government invited the Disabled Art Troupe to perform Guanyin with a Thousand Hands. They made their debut with simple modeling and unskilled skills.

After several years of tempering, they have reached a tacit understanding, and Shang Yan is mostly a piece of cake.

However, the art troupe received an invitation to the closing ceremony of the Athens International Paralympic Games. The 8-minute performance made Zhang Jigang ready. He smiled bitterly: "There are not enough people."

In a panic, he borrowed someone from the leader of the art troupe, who gave him nine dancers, but all of them were men.

Zhang Jigang treated the dead horse as a living horse doctor, and made them imitate the dance movements of women, striving for both rigidity and flexibility. The charm of 2 1 person is exactly the same.

Repeated practice day and night did not disappoint them. On the Athens stage in 2004, 2 1 of them danced gracefully, and the audience applauded endlessly.

Since then, this second version has become amazing.

CCTV Spring Festival Gala heard about it and invited Zhang Jigang, who agreed.

Dance phoenix bun is empty, waist temperature is softer.

Then this third edition was crowned with great influence overnight.

Popular stars Laure Shang, Dilraba and Jackson Yi called it the most amazing program of the Spring Festival Evening.

Many variety shows imitate it and reproduce it, such as "Ace to Ace" Guan Xiaotong version and preschool student version;

Appeared on "America's Got Talent" and Korean variety shows, making China's traditional culture shine in other countries.

As we all know, the Spring Festival Gala has strict censorship, long rehearsal time and great pressure. As soon as Zhang Jigang received the notice, he began the devil training for deaf-mute actors.

Because Guanyin with a Thousand Hands shows one person with a thousand eyes, only Tai Lihua appears in a column, and the other 20 people have to hide behind Tai Lihua and not stand out in the parade.

The first thing that bears the brunt of this song is body shape.

They often run in the cold wind of Beijing in the early morning against the frost and do various warm-up exercises, such as leapfrog and extreme jump, just to lose fat and keep a well-proportioned figure.

Avalokitesvara is now in front of people, mainly in the arms. If they want to dance neatly, their arms should be uniform in thickness, size and skin color.

In another month or two, it is undoubtedly a fantasy to lose weight.

But that's what they did

They wrapped their arms in plastic wrap, pressed them tightly, and pulled down a red mark during rehearsal. For them, these minor injuries and pains are nothing.

Over time, my arms sweated, and the plastic wrap was wet and sticky, which made it stick more tightly to the meat and naturally lost weight.

But they are more familiar with this way than anyone else.

At the beginning, the art troupe taught them to stand. In order to improve their balance, they took the fall as a risk, grabbed the bus seat with their left hand, and practiced standing with their right hand to make the car move.

Children enjoy watching the roadside scenery while practicing, but they don't know the consequences of not grasping it.

They see the eyes of secular sympathy, but they also want to clear their names for themselves and the disabled with an open attitude:

"Disability is not misfortune, just inconvenience. Disabled people also have the value of life. "

Because of this tone, they fought this dance to the end regardless of the cost and pain.

When avalokitesvara with thousands of hands is lined up, Zhang Jigang demands that 2 1 person closely depend on each other. The toe of the last actor is next to the heel of the previous actor, and the tip of the nose is against the back of the head of the previous actor. The position of each person's hand is measured with an accurate ruler.

In this way, the actors stood upright, and hands in the air persisted for several hours.

Sadly, the actor behind is the tallest, with the longest hands, and his movements are more difficult than others.

But he doesn't want to fall behind. In his spare time, he practices standing and crossing his hands. Zhang Jigang suddenly saw him and patted him to refuel, only to find that his shoulders and arms were stiff and numb after practicing for a long time.

Because of this, in the five-minute performance of the Spring Festival Evening, the actors stood as loose as pine and did not move, showing some solemn Guanyin methods.

This dance is extremely difficult to rehearse.

The biggest difficulty lies in the deaf-mutes, who can't hear music and master the dance rhythm.

On reflection, Zhang Jigang found the sign language teacher.

He wants the sign language teacher to slow down and teach the actors to dance.

After all, it is difficult for normal people to resonate with music, let alone people who can't hear.

But they have a pure heart and try their best to do well.

Several girls turn on the deafening music, lean their ears to the music room, and use their senses to understand the rhythm of music, so as to feel the rhythm of music.

They feel that although sign language, like a lost child, their puzzled and puzzled expressions also fall into Zhang Jigang's eyes.

When all goes without saying, Zhang Jigang looked at this scene, and his heart seemed to be firmly grasped, and he silently shed tears.

This also reminds Zhang Jigang of a new method: children can feel the drums and beats on the floor through sound vibration.

As the saying goes, God closed a door for them and opened a window for them. Their keen senses make them born to be excellent dancers with high understanding.

They keep these beats in mind and get familiar with music over and over again.

Over time, the body's habitual memory of rhythm drives them to dance.

"Music has been integrated into our bodies and blood."

With the introduction of rhythm, the rehearsal is still not satisfactory.

I don't know my mistakes, dancing irregularly, and I have no Guanyin bearing at all. ...

Take the charity modeling of Guanyin, the most difficult action, as an example. Everyone's arm needs to be stretched in a fixed position, and it can't deviate by one point or slow down by one point, which makes many people flinch.

Later, Zhang Jigang thought of a way to measure the position of everyone's arm with a ruler and draw it on the wall. He keeps his arm on the scale and often practices.

The camera recorded them sweating profusely. After the training, everyone got together to watch DV and reflect on their own shortcomings. If there are, they will be encouraged to change them.

As for neatness, the actors invented a trick of their own: breathing into a person's back neck to signal that she can start to do actions, so that one after another, the actions are orderly and unified.

Guanyin is similar in shape, but has no charm.

Zhang Jigang is obsessed with every gesture, and her beauty and charm are indispensable.

Nine actors in 2 1 people obviously know nothing about this.

Zhang Jigang asked them to practice from the orchid finger, and the instruction that "they must be exactly like girls" puzzled them.

So they took a stupid approach: observing the girl's expression and posture day and night.

They laugh like girls.

Although they hardly show their faces, they are strict with themselves, and they will make it perfect, never relax or be lazy.

Slowly, imitation has also achieved some results. Their light steps inadvertently reveal the elegance of their little daughter's home.

Then the orchid finger, slender and soft, has the compassion and beauty of Guanyin in every move.

After thousands of rehearsals, they can complete the movements within 1 second with the music, showing the charm of Guanyin, and keeping pace with each other, which is unimaginable.

When Zhang Jigang saw the neat and charming dance in front of him, he did not forget the principle of his choreography: "Expect perfection"-to make the imperfect works to the extreme.

He changed China's yellow dress into bright yellow, the sequins at the hem of his skirt into bright bronze, and silver sequins were added to his nails, which added a luminous function to the actor's eyes.

All this is like the Buddha's light shining, and the beautiful brilliance of human nature shines between heaven and earth, symbolizing Guanyin's compassion and helping the world.

He also carefully studied every movement before the opening ceremony. He carefully designed a round and compassionate shape with his hands up frame by frame, and painted a triumphant picture, which was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Because of the special significance of the Spring Festival Gala, he specially joined the New Year's greeting action, which made everyone's "prosperous opening" amazing.

The music matched with the dance is also wonderful, deep and elegant, all-encompassing, and sings an ode to love; Touching and sad, it tells all the love-hate entanglements in this world and conveys the brilliance of China traditional culture.

However, when the team made all the preparations, it was as white as ashes when it received the notice:

The director group of the Spring Festival Gala decided to cut the program (without big names) from 6 minutes to 4 minutes.

Zhang Jigang didn't say a word, but said softly, "Please read it completely."

The whole dance was dancing, sometimes solemn, sometimes solemn, sometimes high, sometimes excited, and the director group was so excited that it denied the previous ideas.

In the end, this dance was successfully presented to the world and aroused enthusiastic response from the audience.

Deaf people were once pushed to the forefront of public opinion. Tai Lihua, who was called "Sister Guanyin" by the audience, was elected as one of the moving figures in China in 2005, wholeheartedly speaking for the disabled and defending their rights and interests to the death.

Today, Tai Lihua has slowly gone through half a year's life, retired behind the scenes, raised disabled children, and then got married and gave birth to a daughter. Life is dull and full of fireworks.

In those days, most of those people, like Tai Lihua, were engaged in administrative work and stopped dancing on the stage.

Avalokitesvara is also passed down from generation to generation. 16 years ago, its retrospect in the depths of the years penetrated the wind and smoke, becoming a contemporary classic and epic masterpiece.

Some people say that a "Thousand Hands Guanyin" is gorgeous on earth, and it is difficult to see such a masterpiece in the future.

But in fact, what impressed me most about this dance is not its wonderful dance, but the unpretentious but unswerving spirit of the deaf and dumb.

Watching the children fall down countless times and then get up for training, Zhang Jigang sighed with emotion:

"These deaf-mute actors are not easy. Their desire for life is to make the impossible possible. They are special artists, with special perseverance, special personality and special realm, so they can create special art that shines brightly. "

Ordinary people, like them, crossed the abyss of destruction and wrote war songs for themselves, thus creating extraordinary classics.

I think they deserve this sentence: "The world kisses me and I sing back."