With 300 million likes and an overnight hit, "Only Green", what is the background of the lead dancer?

"No name, no title, just this one roll, green for thousands of years, endless mountains and rivers." This is the comment on the promotional video of the dance program "Only Green" for the Year of the Tiger Spring Festival Gala.

The tinkling strings sound, and the graceful figure of the girl dances leisurely, but there is also the flying clouds coming and going from the Lingyan Mountain Spring.

The lead dancer moves forward slowly in the painting, opening the title page of each scene, just like the boat sailing freely in "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains". A day in the painting means a thousand years have passed in the world.

Among them, the classic move "green waist" became popular on the Internet, setting off a wave of imitation on multiple platforms. The lead dancer Meng Qingyang was also popularly searched by many netizens with the entry "Cute and charming Meng Qingyang".

With 300 million likes, what is the magic of this dance that can stand out on the much-anticipated Spring Festival Gala? What is the background of the lead dancer that makes passers-by become fans?

Meng Qingyang is from Zhoukou City, Henan Province. She was born in the spring of 1992. She has been very talented in dancing since she was a child. Her father also supported her dream of loving dance and spent a lot of money to sign up for the best local dance institution so that she could receive the best education.

When she was 9 years old, she was not satisfied with the status quo and actively proposed to her parents that she wanted to go to Beijing to attend a more professional dance school. This would require her to live alone in a foreign land. Her mother was very reluctant to give up, but Seeing her firm determination, her parents finally supported her idea.

Perhaps the road to pursuing art is lonely and long, but little Meng Qingyang has always been surrounded by warm family affection.

In 2006, when Meng Qingyang was 14 years old, she won the Outstanding Performance Award in the 8th "Taoli Cup" Dance Competition with her dance piece "Dunhuang Drums". Two years later, she lived up to expectations and was successfully admitted to the Beijing Dance Academy.

But this road is not smooth sailing. Beijing Dance Academy is the number one dance academy in China. There are crouching tigers and hidden dragons everywhere. Everyone is carefully selected from thousands of dancers. of. She was so inconspicuous in the eyes of the teacher that she was originally the pride of heaven. She was squeezed into the last row of the classroom by her classmates.

Unwilling to be outdone, she kept practicing the key points explained by the teacher, even after dark. Once, the security guard patrolled the building in the middle of the night and thought the classroom was empty, so he almost locked her in the classroom. .

In 2012, she graduated from Beijing Dance Academy and was chosen by China Oriental Performing Arts Group to become a professional dancer.

Her efforts were not in vain, gold will always shine, and she quickly secured her position as the leading actor in Oriental Entertainment.

Participated in the 29th "April Spring" Friendship Art Festival in North Korea, performed the solo dance "Spring River Flower Moonlight Night", and won the individual silver medal, proving himself to everyone.

She has always regarded dance as her only choice and wants to go further and further on this road.

When "Only Green" became a hit on the Internet, 30-year-old Meng Qingyang had actually appeared on the Spring Festival Gala for the third time. As a lead dancer, she has never forgotten her original intention, strengthened her love for the stage, and put herself Show your best side to the audience.

In 2015, Meng Qingyang was very excited when she received the first notice to appear on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala. However, she was unfortunately injured during the rehearsal of the show. God played a small joke on her.

Ligament strain is actually nothing. Athletes and dancers often encounter it. They need to rest and rest, but the doctor specifically advises them not to engage in strenuous activities, otherwise it will cause irreversible damage to the ligaments.

You know, how many dancers have been forced to step off the stage forever due to ligament problems. People around them advised her to give up, and even her parents did not agree with her to continue on stage.

However, in order to participate in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, she resolutely made the decision to leave the hospital to participate in the rehearsal of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala. Enduring the pain, she secretly gave herself closed treatment, hoping that she could hold on until the stage. Finish.

She lived up to expectations and performed her dance moves excellently during many rehearsals and strict reviews of the Spring Festival Gala, without letting anyone see that she was sick.

She participated in the 2015 CCTV Spring Festival Gala as she wished, performing two dance programs "Silk Road Colorful Clothes" and "Spring Light of the Earth", and served as the lead dancer in both programs at the same time, completing the task brilliantly.

But after the stage, she lay in bed for two months, and the closed treatment caused a lot of damage to her body.

When she mentioned this matter later, she said calmly: "For dancers, the stage is life, and it is impossible to give up the stage."

2021 Spring Festival Gala, This is the second time Meng Qingyang has appeared on the Spring Festival Gala stage and performed the dance program "Jasmine" as the lead dancer. This dance won the highest ratings in the Year of the Ox Spring Festival Gala. At this time, she was already attracting much attention, and many people also offered her an olive branch. However, she did not pursue worldliness and favors, but instead focused more on pursuing the stage.

During the performance of "Only Green" in Beijing, Meng Qingyang posted this on Weibo: "I am so happy to be able to dance. The moment I stood on the stage, I couldn't help but think hahaha Laugh.”

Meng Qingyang’s overnight fame may seem like luck, but it is actually the result of countless hard work over the years.

Even the People's Daily Weibo posted a post praising the fact that every frame of "Only Green" is an ink painting, calling on everyone to collect the wallpaper.

The idea of ??this dance comes from the silk painting "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" handed down from the Northern Song Dynasty. The author was Wang Ximeng, who was 18 years old at the time. Legend has it that he was appreciated by Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty and proposed that he wanted to travel to the motherland to visit the famous mountains and rivers.

It took him half a year to paint this painting after his return. He used the extremely precious mineral pigments azurite and stone green to color it. The colors are bright and will last for thousands of years. The image of overlapping mountains shows the mountains and rivers of the south of the Yangtze River.

Meng Qingyang was famous for his ancient paintings. When he first came into contact with them, he felt that he was under a lot of pressure. After many years of working in the industry, he had never been exposed to such an ethereal feeling. He felt that his level was still far from the results he should have achieved. .

Meng Qingyang said: "This is the first time I have encountered such a purely intentional character in my many years of stage career."

If you want to perform this type of dance well, You must understand and shape the freehand characters well, start to feel the rhythm, feel the weight of thousands of years of history, and develop your own limbs to coordinate.

This is a completely new challenge for Meng Qingyang, who is strict with herself, so she said it is difficult.

As the important lead dancer of "Green", Meng Qingyang has a greater responsibility, and the focus of the stage design is also more focused on her. When the spotlight shines on her face, what kind of emotional processing is required? , the movements of hands and feet need to be considered one by one.

And that scene of "Green Waist" that broke the Internet has greater requirements on the core. Different from the soft and symmetrical classical Chinese dance, this movement is very sharp and proud, and it also tests the control.

For the best program effect and for the expectations of so many viewers. Meng Qingyang spared no effort to complete this action again and again, never making a mistake.

In 2022, "Only Green" has become this year's hit dance poetry drama. This drama has been sold out since the first performance. In half a year, their dance company* **More than 50 shows on the same tour were all sold out.

What kind of person is he who is as gold as jade, with such scrolls drawn in his hands? What kind of person is he as tough as water, with such a dance rising from his body.

Meng Qingyang thought of her experiences in the first half of her life, of the girl who practiced boy kung fu so hard when she was a child, and of the genius Wang Ximeng, with his flowing and proud ink, and his elegant and graceful dancing postures. Isn't this not the case? A kind of ancient cries.

The wind is gentle, the white clouds are rolling, the mountains are vast and the jade trees are there, leaving only the green color falling on the world.