Update: The news on Peiyi Yang and Miaoke Lin are all removed. I just hope they are really protecting the children, not themselves. Though 80% I may be wrong.
(Picture via Baidu.com, Miaoke Lin and Peiyi Yang)
It's the best time, it's the worst time. When I was told that Miaoke Lin(aka 林妙可) did NOT really sing the song in the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, I was shocked. I was strongly shocked. It was sang by another 7 year old girl, Peiyi Yang(aka 杨沛宜) I want to say something. Though I really love Olympic Games and I am watching almost every match of China, I have to write this post.
The first time I heard about "hypocrisy" was in 2000, when I was a high school student. In that year, Lun came back to China and stayed in my place in Wuhan.
One day, we were talking in my room. He told me that many westerners thought quite a few Chinese are hypocrisy. Though growing up in Austraila, Lun really speaks good Mandarin and knows many Chinese phrases. However, that day he's just wondering what was "hypocrisy" in Chinese (language). So I looked it in my dictionary and found it. There is, of course, a word(伪善,Wei Shan) in Chinese for "hypocrisy".
I was not so sure about that, but as soon as I started my college life, I'm afraid "hypocrisy" could possibly be around me.
The situation in a university is totally different from that in high school. The people and relationships are like wheels within wheels. Some people don't like to tell the truth, especially about themselves.
Almost everyone was saying, he's poor, he's just earning his living. Or someone would tell you that it's too difficult for him to learn Calculus. Or even lots of people would pretend to be paying a lot of attention to someone needing help. But on the contrary, The guy who said he's poor was driving a car to the dorm. The guy who said he's doing bad in Calculus got great score in the final exams. Those who "paid" a lot of attention to someone just forgot what they were talking about in the next day.
I was really confused that why everyone's pretending to be so weak, so poor. Though I was not a rich guy, I never said I was poor. Though I just did normally in the exams, I never said it's that hard to learn something.
As for those talking in that way, I didn't think that's a lack of confidence.
Maybe the word "hypocrisy" can somehow explain it. Maybe that's just a formed culture around us, which makes everyone think it is not so hypocrisy. That's a little weird, but that's really the truth.
I hope we can be actually better inside, not just as being looked outside.
What a sad thing to hear of this news, at such a great success and knock-down enjoyment. I wish if the news could be a fake one. However, I myself even had a thought flitted at that moment when the nice little girl was singing: "Is she singing by her own right at the site?"
We should probably say “假唱(Jia Chang)" in Chinese for this case of singing. I know quite well on what Aw meant about the "hypocrisy". For I was told by a famous director that it was used very often in a big occasion since it would be much safer than real singing in case the singer has something wrong suddenly. I think It is reasonable and understandable if it is limited in some great occasion such as the Olympics Opening only and not to be popular usage!
Talking about what stories on "hypocrisy" Aw faced, I think it is another mind pollution in China and should be got rid of in the future, but it would take a long time.....
first of all Kudos to both two girls~~ Lin has adorable appearance and Yang has heavenly cute voice, its perfect match. I think it is no problem if the committee acknowledge and explain the lip-syncing beforehand to the nation and the world, however it seems not the cast. it is the media and blogsphere firstly disclosed the lip-syncing and committee was forced to clarify.
No force, no truth :)
I understand the disappointment most people felt, not just in China but around the world when it was realised that the sweet young girl who delivered the song in such a sweet voice was just mimicking and the actual singer was shut out of the limelight. Cosmopolitanvan is right to say credit should have been properly accredited officially by the organising committee.
The world understands the need to do such substitution in order to achieve the effect the directors were aiming for and audiences were held spellbound by this singular scene when it was presented. I know I was. They were just disappointed rightful credits were not extended to the real singer who probably deserves as much, if not more credit.
Yes. The people are just feeling unfair for Peiyi.
BTW, you're always leaving an unavailable URL (your website address) here, which is even not a website. Would u please take a check next time, thanks :)
(That's because the wrong URL may direct the readers to an unwanted location)
Hi Aw, sorry for my mistake. I actually meant to say under website box that I don't have one and wrote 'nil' there. I now understand I should not write anything if I don't have a website. I apologise if I caused some confusion. It won't happen again :)
Don't worry :)
If you don't have a website/blog, you may try to join us and start your blogging life here at ifgogo, hahah ^_^
I'm still trying to decide what I think about this. Here are some initial thoughts:
1. The director/organizers/supervising bureaucrats were focused on *results* only and not *principles*. In the absence of any external guiding principle and where moral authority rests with whatever government officials are overseeing this production, it may have made sense for the organizers to focus on results and not worry about this minor deception.
2. This was just another example of "special effects"...something that is more like a Hollywood production than an attempt to hide reality. Yang Peiyi did actually have her name in the program, right?
3. On the other hand, why couldn't they allow Lin Miaoke to lipsync to her own previously recorded singing? Or find 1 girl who was deemed acceptable for viewing and for hearing? Anyway, I think Peiyi is quite cute and who cares about the crooked teeth, she's a small child!
Still thinking about what this situation means and what has been the reaction.
if u cannot change it,adapt to it,even get assimilated to it.
I am sorry I have to modify this comment because it makes our blog being blocked for about 2 minutes.