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Chapter 320 319. "The Water Ode to the Goddess of Luo River" breaks the circle, which is not only inheritance but also confidence
“The underwater reproduction of the Goddess of Luo River astonishes the world, and the ultimate aesthetics brings the ultimate enjoyment!”

"The Goddess of Luo River breaks through the circle, which is not only a heritage but also a confidence!"

"Every frame of Luoshen Shuifu is as beautiful as a painting! Netizens are full of praise: cultural confidence is so beautiful."

"Tencent News front page - Underwater Dunhuang flying dance, colorful Luoshen praying for a good harvest!"

"Special commentary by China Youth Daily: On February 2, at the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, young actress Liu Yifei amazed the national audience with a two-minute underwater traditional Chinese dance "Water Ode to the Goddess of Luo River". The whole dance was based on the concept of 'underwater Luo River Goddess'. The girl in colorful clothes danced in the water with her sleeves fluttering. Facts have proved that traditional culture is not boring and obscure, but perhaps it just lacks a vibrant reconstruction!"

"Sina.com reporters noticed that the official account of my country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs liked and retweeted "The Goddess of Luo River" on Twitter on the evening of February 2: Unbelievably beautiful! Dancing gracefully like a swan and agilely like a #Chinese dragon."

……

Just as Wei Wu expected, Liu Tianxian and her underwater dance "Water Ode to the Goddess of Luo River" became extremely popular.

By the way, "The Water Ode to the Goddess of Luo River" is the new name given to "Qi" by the Spring Festival Gala director team. Of course, Wei Wu's opinion was sought in advance, and Wei Wu agreed without any concern.

In the past, the most watched and most discussed programs during the Spring Festival Gala were generally Zhao Benshan’s skits.

But this year, Uncle Benshan’s popularity was completely overshadowed by Liu Tianxian. Liu Tianxian’s show not only reached the peak ratings that night, but the subsequent popularity of her underwater dance was many times higher than that of "Torchbearer"!
However, this is also related to the fact that "Torchbearer" itself is relatively weak and not very good at fighting.

This work is the one with the lowest reputation among Zhao Benshan in recent years. Some even say it is his worst Spring Festival Gala sketch.

Even Zhao Benshan himself admitted in an interview:

"This show isn't just slightly weak, it's super weak! If it weren't for Song Dandan and I performing, it would have basically been a failure!"

After all, the theme of the Olympics was not chosen by him, but was temporarily assigned by the Spring Festival Gala director team.

Because none of the programs reported at that time were related to the Olympics. The directors thought, how can this work?

So the director team forced Zhao Benshan to take on the task. So this year Liu Tianxian's victory was unfair.

Of course, even if we replace it with Zhao Benshan’s more powerful works, we can only sigh helplessly when faced with a dimensionality-reducing work like Underwater Luoshen Dance!
What’s different from the past is that this time many high-level official media reported on Liu Tianxian, which greatly increased her reputation among the people.

But this is not surprising. After all, Liu Tianxian in this life is a "patriotic model" in the entertainment industry, and there has been no negative news since her debut, and her image is particularly good.

Liu Tianxian's reputation is at an unprecedented high, so naturally some people are starting to get anxious, like Fan Bingbing who came to pay New Year's greetings to Wei Wu today.

"Yifei is not here today?"

Wei Wu handed over the tea and replied, "Well, the China Youth Daily is going to interview her today."

Fan Bingbing was so jealous that his teeth were gnashing. The China Youth Daily is one of the nine official media outlets. Let alone doing an exclusive interview, it is difficult for him to even get published in the newspaper.

Moreover, this is not the first official media outlet that has made headlines for Liu Tianxian. In the past two days, at least half of the nine major official media outlets have published photos of her dancing underwater.

Moreover, not only domestic official media reported on her, but even many media in Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and the United Kingdom reprinted videos or photos of her underwater dance, and praised Liu Tianxian's beauty, calling it "a face kissed by the goddess of beauty."

"Yifei is really popular now! Thanks to the program you designed for her, she has skyrocketed to fame and is now well-known overseas!"

Wei Wu shook his head modestly and said, "It's all luck. The Olympic year happened to coincide with the country's promotion of Chinese culture. She arrived at the right time!"

Wei Wu certainly knew that the beauty in front of him was resentful. After all, she had finally squeezed out Zhang Ziyi and secured her position as the top sister.

I was thinking that even if Liu Tianxian wanted to seize power and usurp the throne, it would take at least another two years, so he could win a few awards first, right?
Unexpectedly, Wei Wu suddenly made such a move, which rapidly increased Liu Tianxian's national popularity and reputation, making Fan Bingbing feel very uneasy and sweating profusely.

Therefore, Wei Wu's move not only raised suspicion of favoritism, but also suspicion of cheating. It would be strange if Fan Bingbing had no resentment in his heart.

However, now that things have come to this, Wei Wu can only do his best to appease them:

"You know, the popularity of the Spring Festival Gala is like this, it comes quickly and goes quickly. Don't think she is very popular now, in two months, basically no one will mention her..." "Really?" Fan Bingbing expressed doubt:
"If nothing unexpected happens, she will most likely be invited to perform at the opening ceremony of the upcoming Olympics, and she will become even more popular then.

"And since she's listed this time, she won't be absent from the Spring Festival Gala in the next few years..."

Wei Wu was speechless for a moment, and could only bite the bullet and pick up the teacup and say:
"Come, have some tea."

Fan Bingbing naturally wouldn't continue to be aggressive, but obediently picked up the teacup and drank it in small sips...

There was a hint of awkwardness in the air, and at this moment, a talk show between CCTV host Dong Qing and Liu Tianxian was being broadcast on TV. Liu Tianxian was talking about the difficulties of practicing underwater dance:

“Well, I started practicing before the summer vacation, and I’ve been practicing for half a year in total. On average, I spend at least seven or eight hours in the water every day.

"If the movements are not smooth enough, or the expression management is not in place, we have to start over.

"In addition to being familiar with the dance moves, you also have to practice your stability underwater, the smoothness of the movements, the adaptability of keeping your eyes open in the water, and the length of time you can hold your breath...

"In order to maintain the continuity of the dance, I try to breathe every 50 seconds and keep the dance graceful and smooth in the water.

“Well, actually the most difficult thing in the water is not a specific movement, but that you need to maintain a beautiful state for a long time.

"When your nose is choked with water and your eyes are red and swollen, it's easy to lose control of your face. So in order to control my facial expressions in the water, my eyes turned red, and I even had a nosebleed many times due to the cold.

"If you soak underwater for a long time, your skin will become wrinkled and your whole body will be in a state of extreme dehydration.

"Even in the hottest days of summer, if you stay in the water for a long time, you will gradually lose temperature, feel colder and colder, and shiver uncontrollably."

Dong Qing asked distressedly: "It is indeed not easy. It sounds like an impossible task. What made you persist?"

Liu Tianxian smiled and said calmly:
"There are no shortcuts to anything, it's just practice makes perfect. I spit out all the water I drank, I think I could fill a swimming pool with it, my lung capacity is also the result of holding my breath.

"But no matter how hard it is, I think it's worth it. After all, I have always loved our traditional culture, and it is my honor to be able to use my skills to restore the essence of China thousands of years ago.

“Everyone is paying so much attention to this dance now, but in fact, apart from my contribution as a dancer, this is a very insignificant contribution.

"What really endorses this program is the profound and long-standing Chinese culture behind it.

“When Wei Wu created this dance, he once said to me: Chinese people have always been passionate about caring for the Chinese culture that is deeply rooted in their bones.

“If there is something missing, it might be packaging and presentation that keeps up with the times.

"Taking traditional Chinese culture as an inexhaustible source and deep soil, we should persist in making use of the past for the present, bringing forth the new through the old, and empowering traditional culture with innovative forms and ingenuity on the basis of respecting history and culture.

"We will definitely make China's 5,000-year-old civilization even more brilliant, and make cultural confidence the most basic and lasting force in the hearts of every Chinese."

Fan Bingbing put down his teacup, raised his eyebrows and said jokingly:
"Did you really say that to her?"

Wei Wu understood what she meant. She said that this passage was too great and glorious, a bit like a word that was forced onto one's mind. Who would speak like that in private?
Wei Wu smiled and said, "Have some tea."

In fact, Wei Wu did say something similar at the beginning, but it was definitely not so high-sounding.

And he clearly had another paragraph after that, but it was cut out by Liu Tianxian. He remembered that he said:

“The United States has only a few hundred years of history, but it has been able to spread American-style “human rights” and “freedom and democracy” around the world through the stimulating and inspiring way of movies.

“Why not use various art forms to pass on the rich Chinese civilization from generation to generation?”

Of course, this part is gone, which doesn’t necessarily mean Liu Tianxian didn’t say it. It may have been cut out by the program production team. Maybe it was because it was a bit too offensive!
(End of this chapter)