On the stage of the 2005 Spring Festival Gala, a dance called "Guanyin with a Thousand Hands" moved the whole country.
On stage, the grace and coordination of more than 20 dancers are incredible.
They were all deaf and mute, and relied entirely on sign language instructions to complete this memorable performance.
They brought the thousand-armed Guanyin in the murals and painted sculptures to the stage, which was breathtakingly beautiful.
Tai Lihua, who led the dance, shocked everyone with her dance, and for a while, the applause was thunderous.
She used her dance to tell the world: even in the dark of night, we can find light.
"One minute on stage, ten years off the stage", those dream-chasing artists gave us the best performance on stage, but behind the glamour, they paid a lot of sweat and effort, every dreamer is worthy of our respect, so do you remember the "Thousand Hands Guanyin" that amazed people across the country in the Spring Festival Gala?
The lead dancer Tai Lihua has been chased by the rich for eight years, how is it now?
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In 1977, Tai Lihua was born in Yichang City, Hubei Province, in an ordinary and warm family. However, her fate was tragically changed at the age of two, when a high fever permanently robbed her of her hearing.
Tai Lihua's parents felt deep self-blame for what happened to their daughter, and if they had found out about their daughter's illness earlier, they might have been able to prevent her from losing her hearing, but everything happened too quickly, and Tai Lihua could no longer listen to the voice of the world.
As the saying goes, "ten deaf and nine dumb", Tai Lihua was in the stage of babbling, and her sudden deafness also made her unable to hear any sound, so she also lost her ability to speak. Although her favorite daughter suffered a sudden accident, Tai Lihua's parents did not lose confidence. So her parents decided to send her to a school for the deaf and dumb.
In a special school, Tai Lihua not only learned sign language, but also came into contact with music and dance for the first time.
At the age of 15, Tai Lihua was selected to join the China Disabled Persons Art Troupe and began her professional dance career.
Tai Lihua really received formal dance training at the age of fifteen, although before that, she practiced silently for seven or eight years.
For the first time performing abroad, Tai Lihua presented her famous work "Spirit of the Sparrow" to exotic audiences as the lead dancer of the dance troupe.
She perfectly performed "Spirit of the Sparrow" with her solid basic skills, conquered all the audience, and won the first prize. Then on the provincial stage, Tai Lihua won the championship with amazing talent.
In 2000, Tai Lihua was fortunate to become one of the members of the dance "Guanyin with a Thousand Hands" choreographed by Yang Jigang. The dance consists of 21 deaf and dumb actors, each of whom has to memorize more than 700 beats, and each movement is perfectly synchronized with the music. This is a great challenge for normal people, let alone deaf and mute. Tai Lihua, as the lead dancer, has to lead the other 20 actors to complete this difficult task.
After countless exercises and revisions, Tai Lihua and her team finally completed the dance "Guanyin with a Thousand Hands".
Finally in 2005, at the age of 29, she successfully broke into the CCTV Spring Festival Gala and brought the dance drama "Guanyin with a Thousand Hands".
Later, she performed the national anthem in sign language at the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in 2018 and 2021, touching countless people.
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Since Tai Lihua appeared in the Spring Festival Gala, she has attracted more and more people's attention. Suddenly, she went from being immersed in dancing and no one cared about to becoming a star. She is surrounded not only by fans who appreciate her dances, but also by people who want to pursue her because of her looks and charm.
The wealthy businessman from Malaysia was attracted to her. This wealthy businessman didn't mind Tai Lihua's deafness at all, and was impressed by her dancing on stage.
It is said that a wealthy man has been in love with her for many years, but Tai Lihua has always kept her distance. This rich man even pursued her for eight years! But Tai Lihua's heart already belonged.
Instead of being seduced by money and material things, she chose to spend the rest of her life with someone who understood her and supported her. Someone else, that is Li Chun, a top student of Huazhong University of Science and Technology.
In 1995, she and Li Chun met in China. When they met for the first time, they confided in words for an afternoon, and then began the road of sweet love. Deeply attracted by each other's souls, they naturally came together.
Although it took 8 years of long-distance love to enter the palace of marriage, they received warm blessings from relatives, friends and netizens when they got married. Soon after marriage, Tai Lihua gave birth to a big fat boy to Li Chun, as Li Chun said, a healthy baby.
It is said that marriage is the grave of love, but for Tai Lihua, marriage has given her home-like warmth, and she is not a caged bird.
Her husband Li Chun has never restrained her, and after marriage, he still supports Tai Lihua's dance career as always, helping her reach the peak of her life.
Since then, Tai Lihua has gradually retreated into the background, as a teacher, constantly discovering more excellent seedlings, so that more and more people know that there are more than 60 million disabled people in China, and they have never given up on life.
Epilogue:
Tai Lihua is not only the image ambassador of China's 600 million disabled people, but also a role model for every ordinary person to learn.
Tai Lihua's dancing will make people forget her beautiful appearance, Tai Lihua's elegant temperament will make people forget that she is a disabled person, and she illuminates more disabled collectives with the highlight that hits herself.
Now Tai Lihua is already the vice chairman of the China Special Art Association, the vice chairman of the All-China Youth Federation, career and love double harvest, in addition to Tai Lihua is also a person who is keen on public welfare, she often takes the team to participate in charity performances, and all the money raised from the event is donated to the poor people in the mountainous areas, which is respectable!