Deaf-Mute Kids Brought 1024 Beijing Concert Hall to Tears

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1, 024 seats filled the Beijing concert hall on Chang 'an avenue in Beijing.

On this day, facing a group of children aged 9 to 16 on the stage, the audience's emotions ranged from calm to tears and from tears to excited applause in a 12-minute chorus.

Who made the audience cry?  

“Deaf and mute" children. 

This story goes back five years.

There were two men, one of whom was Li Bo, a Beijing artist who became famous as a young man. His paintings can sell for millions of yuan.

The second man is Xiamen musician Zhang Yong, good at rock music.

Once, they happened to hear a deaf-mute person singing in the streets of Beijing. The sound was so clean and pure that it seemed to have put his whole life in it.

This voice refreshed their mind, so they decided to go to a deaf school to find some students to establish a choir with.

They went to a special school in Lingyun county, Baise, in Guangxi province.

“Can you make "ah" sounds?” they asked every student they met.

The children who grow up here suffer from coldness and ridicule.

Kids were scared and pointing - I can't.

From class one to class four, every kid said no, which made them rather upset.

By using a sign language interpreter, Li Bo and Zhang Yong tried their best to say: "do you know how good your voice sounds? Do you want to make a sound?"

All the children shook their heads.

Frustrated, the two men went back to their rooms to pack and wanted to leave.

Just then, a four-year-old girl ran over and grabbed Li Bo. 

Her eyes were focused and she opened her mouth and said, "ah."

That confident and brave little girl is Yang Weiwei. 

So she became the smallest member of the Silence Choir.

Before long, the group gathered.

However, during the first training session, both men felt deeply powerless.

There was no precedent for training deaf people in a choir, anywhere in the world.

390 million people worldwide are identified as deaf.

That means there is no way to learn from it.

How do you feel the presence of sound? How do you make a sound? 

How do you make the right pitch? How do you sing?

A thousand problems lay before them, and in their own way, they broke the knots one by one.

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They put their faces on the board, tapped their fingers, and felt the board shake. 

They feel the vibrations in the abdomen when their partner makes a sound.

Wherever there is a tremor, there is a sound. 

And it's a unique way for them to feel the sound.

A child's ice-cream stick in his mouth inspired them.

Since then, Li Bo buys ice cream in the village every day and with the help of the ice cream stick, they use their tongue and know “ah, oh, ah…"

Zhang Yong and Li Bo then started telling the children who is a soprano, who is a bass...

For the first time, they used a professional tuner to produce a standard pitch.

Yang Weiwei, holding the tuner, opened his mouth and watched the pointer.

When the pointer points to a number, they know that the pitch belongs to them.

And from knowing with a tuner to remembering this pitch, you have to go through a lot of practice.

In order to make the sound more stable, every child leans their back against the wall and stand on their feet every day to feel.

They have been training like this for five years.

Li Bo and Zhang Yong go to the mountains of Guangxi every year for several months to train with children.

Li Bo's gallery closes and Zhang Yong's live performance is suspended. Two people were still holding out.

The performance is finally here.

Five years is a long time to condense out of the stage for a short 12 minutes.

In the beginning, Cai Yayi, the inheritor of nan-yin, blew out the first sound with dongxiao.

The children wore white t-shirts and looked a little nervous behind their hands.

Suddenly, Li Bo made a sign in sign language, then held the baton, his hands waving.

Children saw this signal out and began to say the first sound.

Then the top music people wriggled, and the most interesting part of the show came.

The boy, He Qingdong, stepped forward, gesturing and confidently singing rap.

Then another little boy joined in. 

The two children's rhythmic sounds brought the choir members up behind them.

The audience began to clap along... 

Enter the third chapter of the chorus - hope. 

Like a cheerful brook, it flows back and forth into the wide sea.

The children's voices, like a warm light, led the audience, moved and cried... 

At the end of the 12 minutes, all the audience saluted them with their thumbs.

Returning from Beijing, relatives and villagers were impressed by the performance given by the children who were once seen as "deficient".

They now live better lives and with more dignity.

They gradually became the most confident ones.

They train, laugh, and play together.

Many people think that this is the public benefit of Li Bo and Wang Yong to the children.

But they feel they have experienced beautiful changed thanks to the bravery of these children.

They rediscovered the purity of art and the joy of life.

When they were invited for a commercial performance, they all refused so it wouldn’t affect the children's studies.

The children themselves have become radiant now.

They no longer need the light from outside to shine on them.

Let goodwill generate more goodwill. 

Let warmth generate more warmth. 

Courage and happiness come in any shape, form, and sound. 

Source:  onelight01, 无声合唱团，VISTA看天，gqtzy2014

Editor: Crystal Huang 

Co-editor: Ed Bellin

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