■Personal introduction (provided by Chen Tianjia’s father)

Name: Chen Tianjia

Nickname: Duoduo

Birthday: December 1998 17th

Catchphrase: "Listen to me first"

Best song: Jolin Tsai's "Thirty-Six Strategies for Love"

Favorite food: Dad Made noodles with soybean paste, yogurt

Favorite color: blue

Favorite clothes to wear: skirts

Favorite cartoons: There is nothing I don’t like

Favorite animal: tropical fish

Favorite toy: "Xiaobai" (a toy sheep that you can hug and sleep with)

September 1, 2004 07:18

Ma Jinyu and Zhao Kang

At the closing ceremony of the Athens Olympics, Chen Tianjia sang the song "Jasmine".

A 5-year-old Chinese girl, Chen Tianjia, brought a can of fried sauce and a pound of noodles to Athens to attend the closing ceremony of the 2004 Olympic Games. Under the attention of the world's audience, she sang with a clear childish voice. "Jasmine".

Teacher: The little girl is brave and can endure hardships

This is an ordinary little girl from Beijing Lantian Yufeng Kindergarten. As for why she was selected to perform at the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games, her teacher Liu Hongmei said , Chen Tianjia is a little girl with a lot of personality, "bold, able to endure hardships, and very sharp-tongued."

What makes Liu Hongmei interesting is that Chen Tianjia rarely cries. Sometimes rehearsals are very hard, and when other children are so tired that they cry, Chen Tianjia is still smiling. A little boy did not follow the nutritious diet prescribed by the teacher and ate three pieces of cake in a row for breakfast. Other children also saw it, but only Chen Tianjia said to him immediately: "You have eaten three pieces in a row!"

Father: Zhang Yimou personally interviewed Tianjia

Chen Weiguo said that one morning in June, Zhang Yimou, the director of the Olympic closing ceremony, was interviewing at the Qinglan Building. At that time, Chen Tianjia was still in class, and the kindergarten informed him that he had to sing during the interview. "Jasmine". Chen Weiguo said that Chen Tianjia could only sing one line at that time: "What a beautiful jasmine flower." So Chen Weiguo hurriedly taught Chen Tianjia to sing at noon. After teaching for a whole afternoon, when it came time for the interview, Chen Tianjia couldn’t sing anymore.

Chen Weiguo said that Chen Tianjia said to the interviewing teacher at that time: "I can't sing "Jasmine", let me dance for you!" So Chen Tianjia performed jumping and singing, which he learned in kindergarten. "Outing", because the dance was very short, she danced it three times in a row.

After coming out, Chen Tianjia told his father: "The big one (Beijing dialect, meaning uncle) said that I can dance very well." Dad asked which "big one", Chen Tianjia said the older one. You know, that "big guy" is Zhang Yimou. After all the children had left, a teacher stopped Chen Tianjia and said he wanted to take some photos. At that time, Chen Weiguo felt that his daughter would be selected.

A week later, an executive director informed Chen Weiguo: "Your daughter has been selected and is going to Athens to prepare for training." After that, Chen Tianjia followed the rehearsal team to Beijing Sports University and the Olympic Sports Center Rehearse in many places.

Father: My daughter did not sing well during rehearsal

Chen Weiguo said that her daughter was still too young after all, and she did not quite understand that going there was to bring honor to the country. The night before leaving for Athens, Chen Weiguo said to his daughter: "You have to sing well then. We are all waiting to see you." Chen Tianjia said: "I will work hard."

In the early morning of August 30, when the colorful bars at the closing ceremony suddenly rose into the sky, my daughter, who was holding a red lantern, was startled. "I was shocked at that time. We didn't have this during the rehearsal here." Chen Weiguo said, "My daughter was a little nervous. She sang well when there was no rehearsal, but she still sang correctly in tune."

Yesterday, Chen Weiguo said on the phone, "My daughter will be back tomorrow." As he said, his voice was a little choked, "My daughter said she only wanted to drink yogurt when she came back."

At the closing ceremony of the Athens Olympics , Chen Tianjia sang a song "Jasmine".

With the 100-day countdown to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Chen Tianjia, Jackie Chan, Liu Huan, Zhou Huajian, Wang Leehom, Wu Kequn and several others participated in the song "Beijing Welcomes You" and recorded the MV

Age: 9 and a half years old

Nationality: Han

Birthplace: Beijing

School: Beijing Primary School

Position: Squadron Committee

Speciality: Dance

Favorite star: Angela Chang, Wilber Pan and Jay Chou

Favorite song: "Thousands of Miles Away" "Invisible Wings"

1998 Nian Chen Tianjia was born in the winter of this year, and her arrival brought more joy to the family.

In 2000, two-and-a-half-year-old Xiao Tianjia began living in a boarding school at Lantian Yufeng Kindergarten. Then he started learning dance.

In 2004, he was selected by Zhang Yimou to stand at the closing ceremony of the Athens Olympics and let the Chinese folk song "Jasmine" float over the birthplace of the Olympics with a pure child's voice. That night, hundreds of millions of people got to know this person who was suddenly The little girl was startled by the sound of fireworks.

Student at Beijing Primary School in 2006.

When Chen Tianjia came quietly and held her mother’s hand in a white down jacket, I recognized this person at a glance when she sang “Jasmine” acapella on the big lantern at the closing ceremony of the Athens Olympics. The little girl, although it was nearly three years ago.

Little Tianjia has grown up

It is the same as the one in my memory who was wearing a pink skirt, with two pigtails on her head, holding a red lantern and standing on another big lantern Compared to the five-year-old girl who was motionless and singing, the girl in front of her was wearing a pair of jeans embroidered with cute sequins, a pair of black sneakers, and a clean white down jacket. The originally well-behaved and cute "little Jasmine" has now become a "big" student.

Tianjia's enviable black and shiny hair is tied into a ponytail with a pink bunny hairband and hung on the back of her head. It sways when she walks, and some of her hair is not tied into the "big team" "The broken hair is flying freely in the wind. Tianjia has to gather her hair with her hands from time to time to prevent them from flying into her mouth or eyes. Her mother said: "This is the hair she combed herself."

Although she has just entered the second grade and is not yet 9 years old, living in school is not an unfamiliar thing for Tianjia. Jia's mother said: "Duoduo has been living in the hotel since she was two and a half years old."

Duoduo is Chen Tianjia's nickname, and everyone in her family calls her that.

“Her father and I are both busy, and we don’t want her grandparents to spoil her, so we chose to let her live on campus.” Chen Tianjia’s mother said: “ It seems now that our decision was correct. This child’s ability to take care of herself is indeed better than other children. She can already comb her hair and wash her socks and underwear by herself.”

Hearing her mother praise her like this, Xiao Tianjia just giggled "hehe". After a short time together, it proved that "hehe" giggle is her magic weapon.

I just like taking pictures

We chose to take pictures of "Little Jasmine" under the incomplete city wall of Dongbianmen, hoping that this elf-like child can awaken the sleeping city wall.

If Tianjia was a little reserved at first and didn't know what posture to take to face the camera, she slowly relaxed after a short dance. Counting the beat in a low voice, Chen Tianjia danced by herself while facing the camera. The only accompaniment for her was the "click" sound of the camera's flashing shutter.

At the base of the city wall, we selected three locations to take photos of her, which lasted nearly an hour. Almost all the movements were thought up by Chen Tianjia himself, whether it was a dance or a pose, every move was very serious. Tianjia's mother didn't give her any instructions on her movements except to remind her that her pants were tucked into her shoes and her clothes fell out. It was all up to her personal performance. "How did she figure out these moves?" The mother said with a smile in front of her daughter's endless postures.

She kept dancing in front of the camera without complaining about being tired or impatient. Even during the break between shooting, she would do somersaults on the grass. Even her mother said helplessly: "Duoduo's class teachers also commented on her quietness in their comments. Look how quiet she is now."

Chen Tianjia is indeed not quiet enough, but she secretly follows I said, that's because she likes taking pictures, let alone facing the camera, she is not afraid even when facing the camera.

Chen Tianjia has been studying dance and now goes to Beijing Dance Academy every weekend to learn ballet. Now she has almost learned to "stand on tiptoes". Chen Tianjia's mother said: "We let her learn dance just to exercise her body. We didn't deliberately train her. No one in our family is engaged in a career in literature and art. What she will do in the future can only be determined by herself."

The "Jasmine" who left far away

Tianjia is now in the second grade of Beijing Primary School. Her name was once replaced by the four words "Little Jasmine". But now the color of "jasmine" is slowly fading away in school. In school, she was a squadron committee member. She competed with many people to be elected as a squadron committee committee member out of 8. She won with 27 votes out of 35 classmates. She was the art committee member of the class, and she had already started to be a member of the class party committee at a young age. She is also the representative of the mathematics class. She likes mathematics class the most, followed by English class, and Chinese class the least. Although her composition level is very good, she insists on taking composition class. Tianjia’s mother said that she was very popular.

Influenced by his older brothers, Chen Tianjia likes Angela Chang, Jay Chou and Wilber Pan. "Do you like "Invisible Wings"?" I asked her, "How do you know? Hey, I also like "Thousands of Miles Away"." Chen Tianjia said.

Finally, when it comes to the closing ceremony of the Athens Olympics, what impressed "Little Jasmine" the most about Athens was the pigeons in the square who were not afraid of people. "Pigeons are very cute. I even touched them and they didn't fly." I also tried to get her to recall something, but I got this answer: "Oh, the past second is history."

In an instant, I was stunned.

I don’t know if other actors who participated in the closing ceremony of the Athens Olympics think so. That is history and has nothing to do with me. This sentence came out of the mouth of such a child, and in such a disapproving tone, we adults seemed not to understand it as well as the crystal clear little girl in front of us.

Yes, this sentence may have been said to her by teachers and parents. Her mother also said this to her as early as when she was in Athens, but she has to let the child recognize it. I am no longer obsessed with being "famous" in the past.

Tianjia’s mother said that there were people in the community where they lived who didn’t know that little Tianjia was the “Jasmine” back then. What surprised her mother was that until last semester, Chen Tianjia’s class teacher went out to Tianjia I announced this matter to my classmates when I was not in the dance class. "The teacher told the classmates, why didn't you tell your mother?" Tianjia's mother asked her, and the answer she received was, "What's there to say?" Now, Chen Tianjia is only obsessed with not being admitted to the school's thinking class. She has to take the exam again this semester, "because I like thinking and mathematics."

Chen Tianjia knows that the Beijing Olympics will be held next year, and she hopes that she can also perform dance at the Beijing Olympics. Chen Tianjia's mother said: "We also hope that our children can go to the Olympics again. Our children are also preparing, but we will not force it. Everything will be arranged."

The little girl who sang in Athens wanted to Dancing at the Beijing Olympics

I'm not scared

Beijing News: Are you scared on stage?

Chen Tianjia: Not afraid. What are you afraid of? !

Beijing News: When the colored paper was sprayed out, I saw you seemed to be shaking.

Chen Tianjia: I’m not afraid. Those colorful strips turned out to be silent (during the rehearsal in Beijing). When I actually sang, the sound of the colorful strips spraying out was so loud, I don’t know.

Beijing News: Are you nervous before the performance?

Chen Tianjia: Not nervous.

I saw a brother who was singing Peking Opera vomiting before going on stage.

In the MV "Beijing Welcomes You" produced for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Chen Tianjia sang the first line: "Welcome another morning and bring new air."