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Yang Liping has kept long nails for many years for her dance career. How does she usually eat?

Director Feng Xiaogang once said sharply, "She is not a human being." Of course, this is not a curse word, but then he added that "(she) is a fairy". Some people say that she is a "dancing madman", and some people say that she just does her favorite career to the extreme, and she is the second best. Yang Liping, the "Queen of Peacock Dance"!

Dancer Yang Liping

Everyone is certainly familiar with Yang Liping. As a generation of dance artist, she has devoted her whole life to the cause of dance. Yang Liping's most famous dance is the "Peacock Dance", and Yang Liping also won the Chinese National 20th Century Dance Classic Gold Award for her dance "Sparrow Spirit". Yang Liping is also the first dancer in China to hold a personal dance party.

Yang Liping is from Dali. Her parents divorced when she was very young. Since she is the eldest in the family and has younger brothers and sisters to support, Yang Liping’s living conditions were not good when she was a child. Although she She has loved dancing since she was a child, but she has never entered any dance school. However, she entered the Xishuangbanna Song and Dance Troupe with her talent.

Later, the dance drama "Peacock Princess" in which she starred won the first prize in Yunnan Province. Yang Liping later relied on her own ability to enter the Central Ethnic Song and Dance Ensemble, and became famous overnight with her dance "Sparrow Spirit". We all know that no one can succeed casually, and the same is true for Yang Liping. Although she looks beautiful on the surface, only she knows the hardships behind it.

For the sake of her dance career, she has kept long nails for many years

Yang Liping is a dance master of a generation who has devoted her life to art. Now that she is nearly 60 years old, she has aged. Although her temperament remains the same, she still cannot withstand the ravages of time, and her skin is indeed much looser than before.

Not only that, Yang Liping gave up the opportunity to become a mother for the sake of her career. The price was quite high. It is worth mentioning that Yang Liping, who is now in her sixties, has maintained a slender figure for decades for her beloved dance career.

When dancing the peacock dance, nails are the key. In order to better imitate the peacock, Yang Liping left about 5 centimeters of her nails and dyed them all bright white. Looking at such long nails, it feels like they will break if you don't pay attention. However, it is reported that Yang Liping spends hundreds of thousands on maintaining her nails every year. But long nails will inevitably cause inconvenience in daily life. For example, how to hold chopsticks when eating is a big deal.

How does Yang Liping eat and go to the toilet

With such long nails, it is very difficult for Yang Liping to hold chopsticks and spoons. Even if she can hold them, it is very awkward, which affects the efficiency of eating. Moreover, sliding and collision will also cause certain damage to the nails. Therefore, when Yang Liping eats, usually the staff will pick up the dishes for her, and Yang Liping will eat them with her hands. This is the real "hand-picked meal". When drinking porridge or soup, the movements are not very difficult. If it is not very hot, Yang Liping can take care of herself.

Yang Liping’s nails are so long that it is naturally very inconvenient to use toilet paper in the toilet, and it is difficult to ensure cleanliness. This is easy to think of and affirm, but just saying it will inevitably make people feel that it is blasphemy against the artist. In fact, as one netizen said, there must be automatic flushing and drying toilets like Yang Liping's.

This kind of toilet has indeed existed for a long time. In South Asia and Southeast Asia, people in many countries or regions do not use toilet paper, but use clean pipes for flushing and drying. This is especially true in India. Places with flooding and poor conditions also need to be equipped with a stick. Places with good conditions have high-end equipment and automatic flushing and drying equipment. This kind of cleaning pipe may seem dirty, but in fact it is much cleaner than toilet paper.