The Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Dragon is about to begin, and Yi Qunlin, who is sweating like rain on the construction site, received a special gift - an invitation letter from the CCTV Spring Festival Gala.
Trembling his mud-stained hands, Yi Qunlin couldn't hide his excitement: "I, a migrant worker, have never dreamed of such a highlight moment!" ”
Perhaps, this may just be Yi Qunlin's self-humility.
Because as early as a few months ago, he had become popular all over the Internet and became a much-anticipated "piano migrant worker".
In the midsummer of 2023, 58-year-old Yi Qunlin and his son passed by the Huaqiangbei subway station in Shenzhen, and when they saw someone playing the piano at the subway entrance, he suddenly became stunned.
Yi Qunlin, from the countryside of Yueyang, Hunan, is a ** enthusiast. When he was a teenager, he studied piano for a period of time at a relative's house in the county seat, and he was very successful.
After having a family, Yi Qunlin, who was forced to make a living, went to Shenzhen to work. For more than 20 years, he has played the piano with both hands, assembled electronic toys, washed dishes in restaurants, mixed cement and moved bricks on construction sites.
The grinding of life and the carving of the years have left deep wrinkles on his face and the corners of his eyes, but they can't erase the love for ** in his bones.
For countless nights, Yi Qunlin used the harmonica and flute to vent the bitterness and loneliness of the workers, and let the melody flow in the long river of time.
Time flies, looking at the piano in front of him, Yi Qunlin's rough hands seem to be infused with a familiar force, guiding him towards the piano. But looking at the dusty overalls, he hesitated again.
Those who play the piano on TV wear suits and bow ties, and will they be laughed at when they go to play the piano as a migrant worker on a construction site? ”
At this time, the song ended, and the performer enthusiastically got up and gave up his position to Yi Qunlin. Coupled with his son's encouragement, Yi Qunlin turned his back and wiped his clothes a few times, and then tapped the keys with his gray-white fingers.
After the initial feeling of rustiness, Yi Qunlin quickly entered the state. The notes that he remembered as a teenager flooded him in and before he knew it, he had been playing a dozen tunes.
A migrant worker wearing a hard hat calmly played an elegant piano track, a very contrasting scene that soon attracted onlookers from passers-by. Many people couldn't help but applaud when they listened to it.
Looking at his confident and calm father in front of the piano, Yi Qunlin's son immediately filmed this wonderful scene with his mobile phone and posted it on the Internet.
In this way, Yi Qunlin became popular all over the Internet.
After Yi Qunlin's story was spread, his talent and persistence also infected more and more people. As netizens commented: "What steel carries is life, and what the piano plays is a dream." ”
Before that, Yi Qunlin's biggest dream was to be able to play on the same stage with Lang Lang. Now, this dream has been responded to by Lang Lang himself: "Looking forward to seeing each other!" ”
It is reported that at the upcoming Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Dragon, Yi Qunlin may play the piano live, bringing a unique feast to the audience.
Yesterday, I was still building walls and plastering at the construction site, and today I will perform on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala.
Yi Qunlin's piano sound is full of the brilliance of life; His experience has touched the hearts of countless people. Even if it is as ordinary as a wildflower, you must work hard for yourself to bloom. That's what dreams are, and so is life.
Do you still remember the Spring Festival Gala in 2023, the "Uncle Shoushan" who amazed the whole country with a broadcast tone?
Uncle Shoushan's real name is Yu Xinwei, born in 1975 in a small mountain village in Longhua County, Chengde, Hebei Province.
He has loved singing since he was a child, and he once had colorful and gorgeous dreams. But due to his poor family, he chose to join the army after graduating from junior high school.
Three years later, Yu Xinwei, who returned from the army, tried all kinds of jobs, selling snacks, pouring clothes, opening a hairdresser, doing small work on the construction site, planting trees, and raising cattle. For this reason, he had to work for a living.
In 2017, when Yu Xinwei, who was doing construction on the construction site, accidentally found that he could earn more money than a part-time job by showing his talents.
So, he began to silently practice singing in front of the camera, hoping that he could also live a good life through short **.
A year later, Yu Xinwei returned to his hometown to register an account, purchased a sound card, and began a short creative career.
For a long time, he wanted to guard his home and the mountain in his hometown, so he named his ** account "Uncle Shoushan".
There is no script, no editing, facing a mobile phone propped up by a tripod, Yu Xinwei habitually touches the iconic "Mediterranean" hairstyle, shows two tiger teeth and laughs a few times, and then starts singing or reciting.
The strong contrast between the magnetic voice and the scribbled outfit made him gain tens of thousands of fans in a short period of time.
Because of his lack of experience, when he first started recording, he sang the one-minute "One Cut Plum" dozens of times before he was satisfied.
He stood in the snow for 50 minutes, his teeth chattering. In the end, relying on this perseverance, he sang more than ten songs live and received a reward of thousands of yuan.
What really made Yu Xinwei popular was his recitation of "Farewell Kangqiao".
That time, he was still struggling with what song to sing, but suddenly had a flash of inspiration and decided to recite "Farewell Kangqiao".
Yu Xinwei is a person who is good at imitation, and he usually likes to imitate the dubbing in "National Treasure Archive", "Animal World" and "A Bite of China". Over time, he developed a pure broadcasting voice.
On the day of the release, the volume was bleak, and who expected that four or five days later, tens of thousands of people suddenly poured into his live broadcast room. Only then did he know that his recitation of "Farewell Kangqiao" was on the hot search.
After becoming popular, Yu Xinwei was successively reported by CCTV News, participated in the "Poetry Conference", recorded "**100 Seconds", dubbed film and television dramas, and was invited to participate in "Avenue of Stars" and CCTV Spring Festival Gala.
In just two years, Yu Xinwei earned more than 600,000 yuan through short ** and live broadcasts, not only paid off his debts, but also contracted more than 300 acres of land, planted pine trees, and raised hundreds of chickens and more than 20 cattle.
Today's Yu Xinwei, in addition to singing live broadcasts, also has another identity - the spokesperson of the "Chengde Shanshui" brand.
However, compared with the noisy online world, he prefers to guard the mountains, plant trees, and herd cattle, and often roar a few times, even if he just looks up at the blue sky and white clouds, he is just as relaxed.
Persistence in dreams, regardless of age.
In 2021, Wu Gangyun, a 9-year-old "butcher shop ballet girl" in Yunnan, swept up the hot search.
Wu Gangyun's hometown is in Naduo Village, Yanshan County, Wenshan Prefecture, Yunnan Province, her father is a long-distance truck driver who runs cars in other places all year round, and her mother has to take care of her three young children while running the family's meat stall.
Children who grow up in this kind of family are not destined to be too comfortable.
Every morning before five o'clock, as long as he doesn't go to school, Wu Gangyun takes his young sister to help in the butcher's shop. At the age of seven or eight, she showed a capability far beyond her years.
For Wu Gangyun, the biggest joy of her day is that during the time from getting up to dawn, her mother can help her count the beats, press her legs, and stretch her muscles while there are few guests, and she can dance ballet without distraction.
The reason why I learned ballet originated from a ** that Wu Gangyun accidentally saw in his mobile phone. From the first time she saw this graceful dance, she was deeply fascinated.
In the days that followed, she involuntarily followed the ** imitation, and then she learned it without a teacher.
The open space in front of the butcher shop and the board in the yard have all become her practice room. As a result, there was such an extremely fragmented scene: outside the courtyard was a meat stall sharpening knives and full of people, and inside the courtyard was a little girl with a soft waist and dancing alone.
Vulgarity and elegance, like life and dreams, converge here.
For this reason, there are often onlookers in front of her family's butcher shop, which has attracted a lot of discussions. Luckily, Mom and Dad were very supportive of their daughter's talent.
Wu Gangyun wanted to have a dancing room, so his father used wood to build a simple practice room for her; In order to send her daughter to a more professional place for training, her mother also helped her sign up for the dance class in the county.
But after seeing Wu Gangyun's coordination and flexibility far beyond his peers, the teachers of the dance class were also shocked, they had never seen such a gifted child. Therefore, the teacher suggested that her mother send her to big cities like Kunming and Beijing to receive more professional training.
However, such a suggestion is tantamount to fantasy for this family.
So, Wu Gangyun had to return to the butcher shop with his mother. As before, the mother shouted the beat while chopping the meat, and Xiao Gangyun was immersed in the dance, forgetting the outside world.
Later, someone filmed Wu Gangyun's story and posted it on the Internet. By chance, a driving school instructor in Beijing saw this ** and recommended Xiao Gangyun to a teacher couple at the Beijing Dance Academy.
The couple has been dedicated to educating children in impoverished rural areas for many years, and after witnessing Xiao Gangyun's talent, they immediately decided to bring her to Beijing and let her shine on the stage.
Not long ago, the news that "Butcher Ballet Girl" was admitted to the middle school attached to an art college in Sichuan became popular all over the Internet again.
Because of persistence, all the efforts have meaning.
When dreams come true, they can still shine even in the mire.
Wu Lidi, the dormitory manager aunt of Nanjing University's Xianlin Campus, also serves as a cleaner. Every morning, she gets up at 5:30 a.m., goes to the dormitory building at 7 a.m., changes into work clothes, and starts cleaning a six-story dormitory building.
One year, at the beginning of the school season, the students who were responsible for publishing the blackboard newspaper could not return to school in time. In order to welcome the new students, Wu Lidi picked up chalk and drew a peony.
Everyone gave a good review after seeing it, and since then, the blackboard on the campus has become Wu Lidi's exclusive world, and one painting is five years. Every day from 12 noon to 3 p.m., taking advantage of the rest, Wu Lidi swayed her inspiration on the blackboard to the fullest.
Starry sky, Great Wall, weeds, flowers, ......She had it at her fingertips.
A picture of the Great Wall that she painted for seven days was kept by the school for three years because of its magnificence.
The Great Wall painted by Wu Lidi.
Wu Lidi, who is becoming famous, ushered in her own spring.
When ** TV interviewed her, she responded: "When I was a child, because my family was poor, I didn't learn professional painting, so I could only bow my head in order to live. Now work is for a living, and painting is for a living. ”
People who stick to their dreams have always cherished a kind of rustic tenacity. Even if you are at the bottom, you must do your best to live bravely as a beam of light.
The news that the takeaway poet Wang Jibing became a member of the Chinese Writers Association swiped the Internet;
Because of the "treasures" of the Summer Palace, Zhang Xu, the cleaner of the Summer Palace, was called a "sweeping monk" by netizens;
Tan Jintao, a keeper at the Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Research Base, became popular on the Internet for taking care of giant pandas, and was affectionately called "Grandpa Tan" ......by netizens
*: Visual China.
Whether it is Yi Qunlin, Uncle Shoushan, the butcher girl, or those ordinary people who have made a name for themselves in ordinary positions, although their experiences are very different, there are traces to follow the path to the highlights.
Be a person with a rich heart, always stick to your dreams, and everyone can usher in the bloom of life in the wind and rain.
Share. References:
1] Communist Youth League** "I was still working on the construction site yesterday, and I came to the stage of the Spring Festival Gala today!" ”》
2] Qianjiang Evening News ""Uncle Shoushan" live broadcast to repay 300,000 debts in two years! As soon as he opened his mouth, netizens exclaimed: The throat kissed by an angel.
3] Upstream News "The "Pork Stold Ballet Girl" Who Moved the Internet That Year Was Admitted to the High School Attached to an Art Academy in Sichuan
Author: Canghai Mingyuesheng.