The position of the video playback can be found by clicking on the link here. To install the flash player, click on the link here. The closing ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Paralympic Winter Games drew near as the flame gradually extinguished. For Ma Yifei, a 16-year-old visually impaired girl, the visual performance of the Beijing Theme Song 2022's snowflake played on the violin was the best gift she received for the Paralympics worldwide. Athletes with disabilities, like her mother, who had worked tirelessly to perfect their skills at the highest level, were playing the piece.
"I felt very empowered, I'm also a person with a disability and I want to do something for them with my music," she said.
Four days before the closing ceremony, MA received a call and she knew that she would be acting in Beijing. While she only had a few days to rehearse, behind her performance was her dreams of her dreams of her for more than a decade.
MA is a second year in Special Education of Ningxia High School in the Autonomous Region of Ningxia Hui from China, who lost sight at the age of two through the disease.
MA became interested in music when she was young. She began to learn to play piano at five and violin at nine o'clock, experiencing "colorful" music through sound, temperature, atmosphere and emotion.
"sadness or joy, each piece is different," she said, and added that, although the snowflake is related to winter, she can feel "warmth , Hope and Light ".
Mad Made Ha Chunyan, a former music teacher at elementary school, helped her memorize the music score before playing.
"She could not see the keys and always played the wrong notes.
That took a few thousand times for her to play a piece correctly," said Ha, adding that His daughter was persistent in persisting her dreams. "Despite being a small child, she sat there for three or four hours when practicing the piano."
Learning the violin was more difficult for the girl with visual disabilities. Ma had trouble attracting a direct arc, so she needed to feel the hands, arms and back of the Master to learn the movements, and listen to the ropes over and over again to feel the muscles herself.
"After three years of learning, I still could not make any sound, except for screeching noises," Ha, who advised her daughter to surrender, But Ma said: "As I have been practicing so much time, it is difficult to surrender. I think it will improve if it persisted."
In 2018, she had the opportunity to follow Sheng Yuan and Cao Yuhan, famous musicians. From the Central Conservatory of Music of China, she to study music and start her long Yinchuan school trip to Beijing.
Her parents took turns, accompanying Beijing every week. Despite the financial burden of this family, it feels that everything is worth it for the good of the dream of her daughter.
"We would go on Friday night and we would get Beijing the next morning and then returned on Sunday night after two days of lessons.
She would go to the School on Monday morning, and we would go to work, "Ha said.
They always hurried to catch the train and often had bread and instant noodles for dinner, "but my daughter did not seem tired, smiling all the way ".
Gasid all the education of it at Special Education School of Ningxia, MA received a lot of love and care from the community.
"We receive many donations. There were also volunteers who describe movies for us."
Ma expressed the emotion of it about participating in the closing ceremony of Beijing Winter Paralympics. "Without my pre.
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