The one-year-old Bei Bei stepped on his beloved skateboard and slid down steadily, even turning a circle in the middle.
The puppy Wang Zai followed her with a wagging tail, wearing a red vest, festive.
With one person and one dog, their images are well known across the country. At the opening ceremony of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, Bei Bei, who started skiing before learning to walk, appeared in the video "Future Champion".
When the opening ceremony was held, Beibei and her parents were already in Hainan for Chinese New Year. She was fluttering in the swimming pool of the community, swaying with a small water gun, looking for people to play everywhere.
In her parents' plan for the next two or three years, their family will "live in no fixed place". When Beibei is three years old, she will go to kindergarten wherever she goes.
They want to let their daughter grow up during the journey.
Ski baby at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics
In the "Future Champion" video of the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics, a skiing baby who just turned one year old appeared with his own puppy.
Behind countless screens, they exclaimed: "It's so cute!" In the video, only a 70-centimeter-tall little man was wrapped in a red ski suit into a bun, stepping on the smallest skis his parents bought, and he was just swaying around. After squatting, the puppy "Wangzai" dressed in red like her hurried to sniff and wagged his tail.
Her name is Wang Yuji, and her parents call her Beibei.
She is the youngest baby in this video, and the youngest skier on the Chongli Taiwu Ski Resort in Zhangjiakou this winter.
The first time she stepped on the veneer tremblingly and moved forward, Bei Bei was only 11 months old and had not yet formally learned to walk.
When the video of the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics was filmed, he had just turned one year old, a month of "skating age".
The first time Bei Bei was on the snow track, he was stepping on the smallest 80cm long yellow-green veneer.
Because there are no snow shoes that fit her feet, she will be wearing a pair of high-top snow boots.
The helmet is also the smallest size, and it is still too big on the head, so my parents put a safety cap on her inside the helmet.
"We didn't think that she would be able to skate this year, that is, take her to play on the snow," said Beibei's mother Fan Xueyin.
During the week of waiting for the snowboards to arrive, Fan Xueyin and her husband Wang Shu took Beibei to the ski resort for a walk every day.
She observed that the adults were stepping on one board, so when she received the skis a week later, she followed suit and tried to shove her little feet onto the skis.
"So anxious." Mom and Dad couldn't laugh, and took her to the ski resort the next day.
Considering safety, Beibei's parents chose a connecting channel.
Dad took her to a very gentle snowy slope, gave her a little force, and the little baby started to slide down slowly.
For the first time skiing, Beibei squatted.
She fell and lay on the spot without pain or crying.
Dad picked her up and saw that she was not afraid or resisted, and then carried her to the snow slope to play.
The smallest and most beautiful cub on the snow field
A week later, Beibei has gained a lot of confidence. She dances and dances while skiing, and even figured out laps and turns on her own.
After a silky ski run, Dad often stretches out his hand to give his daughter a high five.
But not every time she cooperates.
"When she was 9 months old, she went down the slide for the first time. I put her up, and then my mother and I picked her up below, saying that you can move your butt when you are ready, and she will rub herself. After she slides down smoothly, she will Celebrate for yourself, yeah. I gave her a high five. After doing the same thing more than 3 times, she won't celebrate again." Father and daughter have a ceremonial interaction. In fact, the younger daughter is the dominant party. This surprised Dad Wang Shu, "So high-fives are only available when she is very satisfied." In a video shot by her mother, after Beibei successfully completed a slide, her father happily greeted her and prepared to give high-fives, Beibei Glancing at him, he turned his head and ignored him.
Wang Shu felt embarrassed: "I think she means, what's there to celebrate, haha."
On November 14 last year, Fan Xueyin posted a video of Beibei skiing on the video platform for the first time.
In the video, Beibei squatted down slowly, leaned forward cautiously, and dropped her hands slightly on her knees. She quickly mastered the secret of balance.
When she slipped to the end, she was very proud of herself. She stuck out her tongue and bent her eyes to laugh. Dad stretched out his hand to give her a high five. She raised her little blue glove and touched it with a smile.
"I didn't expect it to become popular the next day." Fan Xueyin said that two days after the video was released, the staff of the director team of the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics contacted her online: "Said Director Zhang Yimou saw Beibei's video, I thought it was very cute, and it was very relevant to the theme of the short film, so I asked if I could take some shots for Bei Bei."
In December 2021, the film crew came to shoot a video for the one-year-old skiing baby.
At the end of the morning's video, Beibei felt a little tired and started humming and muttering to her mother: "Mom hugs." According to her schedule, she had to go back to sleep after 11:30, and then wait. After lunch, I will have the strength to continue playing in the afternoon when I am full.
"She was crying a little that day, but she was reasonable." Fan Xueyin hugged her daughter and coaxed her for a while, then took her back to sleep. When she reappeared in the snow field in the afternoon, Bei Bei was the prettiest cub in the audience.
"She may be the youngest child in the ski resort. The other children on the scene can basically walk." Wang Shu said, including the puppy Wangzai, they all started skiing in this snow season.
"After we started skiing this year, Bebe's mother invited a coach to learn slowly. It took me two weeks to keep up with her progress on the snow track."
And Beibei, she's still too young.
Wang Shu felt that for her daughter, skiing was not so much a sport as a play.
"But isn't sports also about playing with yourself?"
Now they want their daughter to enjoy the "play" process too.
Bei Bei is only one year old and has just stepped out of her first steps in life. She has not played much, but in the eyes of the couple, she has laid a good foundation.
"When I took her to the swimming pool, I found that she prefers to go to a 1.5-meter pool to watch her big brother and sister paddling in a regular swimming style rather than a toddler's wading pool."
"Nowhere to be found" family
Bei Bei was born on December 1, 2020. His mother, Fan Xueyin, is a designer, and his father, Wang Shu, is engaged in Internet-related work.
The couple are both born in the 80s.
During the pregnancy preparation stage, the two began to set up the first "five-year plan" for the small family - two years to have a baby and three years to accompany them.
After Bei Bei was born, according to the plan, when Bei Bei was 1-3 years old, the focus of the whole family was to accompany the children to grow up.
"At least accompany her until she is 3 years old, before she goes to kindergarten. The work is very late in the queue, and our work has been adjusted actively. Those who cannot be remote or have unfree office hours will be cancelled." Wang Shu said, After the child was born, the couple adjusted their work direction and methods so as to have more time to accompany the child in the first three years of life. Missing out is the biggest loss.”
When Beibei was more than three months old, her parents took her away to play.
The family drove the RV from Tianjin to Moganshan, Zhejiang, and slept overnight in the Jiangsu service area.
Along the way, Beibei was very calm, sleeping most of the time, stopping to drink milk and look out the window.
When she heard dynamic music on the road, she would kick her legs to the rhythm, applaud and shout, or hum along with the music.
Because there are too many new things along the way, which attracts more attention of the children, Fan Xueyin feels that it is easier to take her out than at home.
In the video that Fan Xueyin made for his daughter, they claimed to be "no permanent residence".
"Before giving birth, we all worked in Beijing, and we rented houses all the time." Fan Xueyin said that before giving birth to the child, the two bought a RV. The more and more foreign objects are getting heavier and heavier, they will restrict your footsteps. So we choose a lighter way of life. When we feel good about a place, we will stay for a month or two, rent a house, and then go down. A place. When we're older, think about comfortable places to settle down."
In June 2021, the family drove an RV to Chongli to escape the summer, and lived here for half a year, from summer to winter.
During the Spring Festival, I planned to go back to my parents' house, but due to the epidemic, the family went to Hainan and rented a house to stay.
After dinner every morning, Wang Shu took his daughter to the swimming pool downstairs to play in the water, and went home to sleep until noon, and continued to work hard in the afternoon.
Because of the large amount of exercise, Beibei has a good appetite and sleep, and has never had a minor illness since birth.
"I didn't plan to make Bei Bei a professional skier"
After Beibei became popular, some netizens asked Fan Xueyin if she had plans to make Beibei a professional skier, and she said no.
"The future of a child is full of countless possibilities, and we don't really want to plan a path for her. What parents can do is to give her a good character, a healthy physique, and a good mind. If she has grades, We are also very happy, but I don't want to turn these into pressure." Fan Xueyin said that in addition to greatly adjusting the work rhythm, they have further plans. Where to go to kindergarten.
After attending the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics, Bei Bei has already gained a high reputation.
Every video about Beibei sent by Fan Xueyin has many comments.
Many people envy such a "stocking" method, but some people think that the couple has a "big heart".
In the eyes of Fan Xueyin's father, Lao Fan, Beibei's parents' educational methods are also quite debatable: "We started skiing at the age of 11 months, and we don't even know it, we only knew we took our children skiing after seeing their circle of friends. already."
At that time, Lao Fan was talking about not to drop the child, so he quickly called his daughter and son-in-law, "We thought we were playing around with it. We'll be making trouble for a while. Come back quickly. Why are you doing this so little?" To Lao Fan , the parenting method he is familiar with is to safely grow up, go to school, and work, "just this series."
He is a little opposed to the children's practice of "home from all over the world", and feels that according to tradition, children should do what they are at any stage. "But today's children are different from us before, and they don't have much to say."
What if this road doesn't work?
It is not that the couple did not consider this issue.
"Let's just walk and see. Even if this road doesn't work, we can still go back and find a job in the city to continue living. If it works, it will be a rare experience." Fan Xueyin said.
Give the mountains and the sea to the children
Because of so many interviews, Fan Xueyin's voice was a little hoarse these days, and Wang Shu felt very distressed.
"Some people say that we are a family of Internet celebrities. We don't want to be defined in this way, because we really have no intention of actively marketing, but after the fire, we will feel as if we have more responsibility and pressure."
An immediate pressure is less time with children.
This incident began to touch on the issue of family principles, which made the couple feel a little bit more alert.
"I hope and believe that the current state will not last too long, and now my mother has begun to refuse some interviews." Wang Shu said that they want to keep the popularity relatively low, "We are willing to maintain a sharing and active online. Interactive state, but the time for mothers to accompany their children must also be guaranteed."
"We really didn't expect our life to touch many people before." Wang Shu remembered the first time he took his children and dogs to pick mushrooms in the woods in Chongli, and met other guests. The other party said, "Oh, your family is really So happy, the same way of life as the foreigners I met.
"We are not returnees, we are a Chinese family in the new era. We kept meeting other people we didn't know, and we were very emotional. You are so nice. We didn't quite understand what it meant at the time." Until Beibei's video was updated After many people saw it, in the long messages of netizens, Wang Shu and Fan Xueyin began to realize what this "good" was, "Under the pressure of life and work now, our life may make everyone feel A touch of warmth."
On Lincui Road, North Fifth Ring Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, the 680-hectare Olympic Forest Park was born for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The Beibei family's residence in Beijing is nearby.
"I chose there to be able to easily walk into the park to run, play and play." Fan Xueyin also took Bei Bei to Orson. Usually, she and her husband would run in the nearby park, or take Wang Zai out. Walking Wan'er, "Wangzai is also a Chinese pastoral dog we picked up near Orson. We all say that it is Beibei's brother."
In recent years, she has clearly felt the changes in the way people exercise around, and everyone is willing to try sports that they haven't tried before.
"Climbing, camping, skiing... Many people want to do some 'different sports', and these sports have a certain relationship with physical fitness, economic income and cognitive level, such as skiing, not like basketball, Football is so easy to achieve, but because of the Winter Olympics, more and more people are skiing now, and the country is also willing to invest in sports. This is what 'enjoying the Olympic heritage' means."
Wang Shu is a mountaineering enthusiast. He has climbed several mountains above 6,000 meters. His favorite sport is diving.
"Beibei's mother used to be a little more housebound. Later, I took me to climb mountains and dive together, and I soon fell in love with these sports."
He feels that what these movements ultimately bring is not "reaching the unknown", but a kind of spiritual touch.
The smell of the wind, the smell of soil, paper or video can't be conveyed - Wang Shu firmly believed in this, so he took his wife to experience everything he once felt, and then wanted to pack the mountains and the sea and give them to Your own little babe.
They took Beibei to go climbing, skiing, and swimming. "I hope to make her feel the scenery in my eyes, the wind that blows, and the beauty of the world. There is no other way to convey this kind of transmission. Do it. I think one day in the future, when she can express it, she will be able to express her memory."
Beijing News reporter Yang Xue