Yesterday, "Our Genius Son" reported the real life of "genius" translator Jin Xiaoyu and his father Jin Shengyong, which aroused the attention of the whole network.
A group photo of Jin Xiaoyu with his father when he was a teenager
Jin Xiaoyu unfortunately had an eye disability at an early age, and was later diagnosed with bipolar disorder, and translation is his only weapon in the fight against fate. This cruel and gentle story, so that the entire network readers are unmoved, the phone instantly burst Jin Xiaoyu's home, more than two dozen domestic media called to contact the interview, at least seven film and television companies said they wanted to shoot this story called "Hangzhou version of "Beautiful Mind".
■ Latest news: Yesterday, Jin Xiaoyu's 85-year-old father, Jin Sexyong, told us that Xiaoyu has been discharged from the hospital and returned home, and the long-awaited sample book of "Benjamin's Letters" has also been received and is expected to be listed next month. He is currently working on the translation of his second benjamin book, The Arcade Project. The old man thanked everyone for their concern, but also refused all material help.
The Hangzhou version of "Beautiful Mind" has aroused the attention of the whole network
It is a true story of great suffering and miracles. It was the first phone call I received from a funeral home in more than 20 years for the "Listening" section: "Can you write my son's story?" My son is a genius, he's in a mental hospital now, and his mom just left today. ”
Yesterday, we published the article "Our Genius Son" in the "Listening to Life" column of Hangzhou Daily, the official WeChat headlines of this newspaper, Weibo, and the news client, and the whole network swept the screen!
Up to now, the official WeChat of Hangzhou Daily has been read by nearly 2 million, and the official Weibo has been read by nearly 5 million. We received nearly 5,000 netizen comments, each of them left the most sincere wishes for the family of the elderly Jin Sex Yong:
Beijing News, Beijing Youth Daily, Surging News, Tencent News... More than two dozen domestic media called and interviewed, and at least seven film and television companies said they wanted to shoot the story, which was called the "Hangzhou version of "Beautiful Mind".
Behind every news explosion is the reflection of the hearts of the world in the here and now. Ye Xinxin, the author of "Our Genius Son", is a senior author of the "Listening" column and has written many "Listening" stories. But this time, she said, she wrote not a story, but a life, "a life so weak and so powerful." ”
This cruel and gentle story can no longer be described as touching, and the reader says, "Please prepare a tissue before reading this story." Although they have never known each other, these human emotions are interconnected with each other about love, about misfortune, about salvation.
"We really don't need these (material) help right now"
To the life questions that many people are concerned about, Jin Laoyi replied one by one
Yesterday, the phone in the old man's home of Jin Sex Yong has been ringing. The reporter called several times during the day, all of which were busy tones.
After contacting, we told Jin Lao that there are many readers who have read their stories with tears in their eyes, and there are also many enthusiastic people who are willing to provide free help, some want to do the renovation of the old house for this family, "floor heating, anti-slip are arranged", there are those who want to send Xiaoyu a new computer, there are those who introduce psychiatric doctors, provide bipolar medical help, there are those who want to visit the door, send some New Year goods, and are willing to donate money for a long time.
The elderly Jin Zhiyong responded on the phone, "We really don't need these (material) help now, thank you for your concern!" ”
Xiaoyu's middle school classmates and class teacher also came to contact each other to see their long-lost old classmates. Elder Jin said, "Everyone is welcome to come to the house to sit and talk, but I hope it is after the Spring Festival, and the family is really a little busy before the festival." ”
The story of the newspaper is more like the completion of a long-standing wish for the old man. I said what I said in my heart, and Xiaoyu read the report and accepted it. Because there were some words in front of Xiao Yu's face, I didn't dare to say them before. ”
The father's suspenseful son's heart is let go, which is priceless than all the money and material rewards!
To the questions of life that many people are concerned about, Elder Jin replied one by one:
Xiaoyu's medical insurance and endowment insurance have been paid, and when they reach retirement age, they can get a pension;
The Disabled Persons' Federation also has a care center, which has already completed the formalities, but now I don't want to go.
"First, after Xiaoyu went, he was lonely, and I was lonely. He was at home, and the two of us could still live with each other. The second is that when I am old, I can't move, and when I go to the nursing home, he can go to the (care center). Now the two of us don't want to be separated. ”
An old-school intellectual, still maintaining elegant self-esteem.
What is most needed now is a peaceful life
Care for a long stream of fine water
The good news is that Xiaoyu has been discharged home from the hospital, and the long-awaited sample book of Benjamin's Epistles has also been received and is expected to be available next month. He is currently working on the translation of his second benjamin book, The Arcade Project.
The son's translation career is undoubtedly the lifeblood of this two-person family. After reading our report, the translation and publishing circles were shocked.
Rui Yimin, the editor-in-charge of Xiaoyu's first translation of "Ship Fever", went abroad for many years and sent a text message after seeing the report, which made the father and son "very happy".
There are also publishing houses that extend an olive branch to Xiaoyu and express their willingness to cooperate. The Hangzhou Translation Association also invited Xiaoyu to join the association and was willing to hold an exhibition of translation works for him.
Many of my fellow translators and publishers who have read Jin Xiaoyu's translation have forwarded it and carefully expressed their inner shock and respect:
"Oh my God, when I read 'Diary of Walking with Language', I kept telling my friends that I admired it, and at least I had to master the three German,Japanese and Chinese languages to translate this book."
"I never thought that the translator of Wada's novel was such a story."
"It turned out to be all he turned over, praise! It's not easy. ”
He had read both "The Heat of the Ship" and "The Seducer" in his translations. Banville's text is beautiful and complex and difficult to translate. The translator is really good and what a pity! ”
More comments
It is a netizen after reading the report
Best wishes to Xiaoyu:
"Jin Xiaoyu, come on, I believe you will be able to see." Parents may be gone, and bitterness will go with the wind. But words will remember you, and there will always be your footnotes in books. Come on, this translator. ”
Since yesterday, Xiao Yu's translated works on Douban
The number of people marked "want to read" has increased significantly
In the bookstore, Xiaoyu's translation was re-turned out and set up
And his translation debut", "Ship Fever", went viral online
The hustle and bustle is also coming. Such a message is even more precious
"Under the great suffering, I also hope that this world can give Xiaoyu the gentleness of not disturbing."
Yes, what Elder Jin and Xiaoyu need most now is a peaceful life, a long stream of care. Considering Xiaoyu's physical condition, everyone tried not to disturb. Rushing up, and then scattering, all that is left is pain.
So, readers of Our Gifted Son, you might as well hide your love a little deeper, longer, and let this sad and lucky story have the best ending.
Family photo of Jin Xiaoyu when he was a teenager
Interview Notes
The article "Our Genius Son" has an indescribable temperament, a kind of tenacity and love that has been careful after suffering and reborn after disaster.
The old man Jin Sexyong told the story of his son Jin Xiaoyu in the hope that the large amount of translation work that his son did in the fight with the disease could get the attention of more friends who like to read, get the care of organizations and peers in the translation industry, and gain social recognition.
This is a father's only and last wish.
Thanks to the author Ye Xinxin, she used her keen words and deep feelings to record the interview experience that was extremely unforgettable and swept through, which was for the "listener's handwriting".
"When I was given this interview assignment, my first thought was that the "Listening Life" section had been published for more than twenty years, and it was probably the first phone call from the funeral home to the newspaper. ”
On a dark winter day in 2021, I found the home of the elderly Jin Zhiyong in Hangzhou, less than a week after the death of his wife.
On the morning of November 11, when the outside world was entering another crazy "Double 11" shopping festival, 85-year-old Jin Sexyong called the editorial office of the Hangzhou Daily supplement and asked to listen to his life story.
When I was given this interview assignment, my first thought was that the "Listening life" section had been published for more than twenty years, and it was probably the first phone call from the funeral home to the newspaper.
Who is he?
Then I walked into this "les Misérables." You may have seen some of the descriptions in Our Gifted Son, but the old, broken, and chaotic atmosphere of the home is far from what you can imagine. When I stood in a room where I couldn't find a table or chair to sit in, I realized that I was nowhere near the 21st century, not today, not at this moment.
Here is some portal into the past and the future, the sum of some despair and helplessness.
Everything is here, never left.
"In the interview, I understood where I was sitting, and I was sitting by the bedside of Jin's wife. She was lying here a few days ago. ”
"Do you see it here?" It is possible to write on this. The room is too dim, right? I connected the lamp, yes, yes, there was the lamp..."
Yes, you've read the article, but you haven't seen that the room with the back door has a makeshift "table" made of wooden planks, and behind the table is a square stool with four feet unstable. I came face to face with the old man Jin From morning to black (except for lunch out), and he sat on a sofa of unspeakable color against the wall opposite.
Behind me was a 70s-style bookcase, stacked with torn boxes of clothes and miscellaneous items, and several dense and horizontal books. There's a long open space between my left-hand side and the back door.
During the interview, I understood where I was sitting at the bedside of Jin's wife. She was lying here a few days ago.
"There's no way." There was a bang in my head.
There was a white table lamp, and under the aperture was my notebook, a water pen, and a long wooden board of mineral water, and I didn't know what was under this "tabletop" in the morning. And that day, Jin Shengyong's wife, Jin Xiaoyu's mother, she must also be looking at why this wooden board is on her sewing machine...
In the afternoon, a slanting sun shone into the corner of the dark house. Jin Shengyong is saying: Xiaoyu never touches her mother's sewing machine, even if it is not used for many years. "Where is the sewing machine?" "It's right here, it's your table."
"There's no way." There was a bang in my head. I began to examine the rusty tripod under the wooden board, and I remembered helping Elder Jin out of the door at noon, and found that his footsteps were not walking, but moving, moving forward inch by inch, "Have your legs always been like this?" ”
"No, it was fine before." He said that before his wife left, he walked completely normally. I was silent, and suddenly I heard him whisper "there is nothing I can do," which I had heard him repeat several times that day.
"I was crying, I was crying when I bent over, I was crying when I got up and went to the bathroom, I was crying when I recorded, the pen was crying... ”
I bent down and stroked the cold rack with my hand, "There's nothing I can do." But it is still there, the mother stepped on this machine like a lullaby, the mother made clothes and hoped that her children would be warm, Xiaoyu liked her mother to make clothes, Xiaoyu did not smash it; his father bought him a computer, Xiaoyu liked, Xiaoyu did not smash it...
I was crying, I was crying when I bent down, I was crying when I got up to the bathroom, I was crying when I recorded, the pen was also crying...
At the beginning of the 20th century, the American female writer Frankly O'Connor said something like this: "It is a very good thing to get sick while alive, and I think that people who have not had this kind of experience miss a gift from God." ”
What kind of survival experience must be had to write such a text? Humanity has been coexisting with the "helpless" survival experience, the nearly 100-year-old Kim, a high-ranking intellectual in the 1960s, whose family suffered from "bipolar disorder" and "Alzheimer's disease", two mental diseases that still bind human beings. Such a survival experience forces them to struggle tenaciously and fight with a "helpless" life to save themselves.
All three of them did.
In the 11090 year of the movie "Dune" (perhaps I remember wrongly, it is the future), the Freyman people who lived under the alien desert said that the mystery of human life is not to solve the problem, but to face your experience.
That's like Jin Xiaoyu, bravely experience it.
He built a world of many people with seven million words, and he lived in every scene in it.
I hadn't seen Xiaoyu yet, and I wanted to hug him and say to him: Thank you, Happy New Year.
January 15, 2022 in Hangzhou
Excerpts from reader comments
XixiShanren: Mr. Jin Lao is a great father and husband. Thank you to the author for telling us an unforgettable "ordinary people's home".
Sea Blue: Mother will bless you, Xiaoyu will be fine, cheer up the heart-wrenching child, everything will be fine.
Yang Zao: Be sure to buy Xiaoyu's new work to see! Xiaoyu you are awesome! Your parents are great too!
Boring man: There is one more person in the world who knows and remembers Jin Xiaoyu, as well as his great father and mother. This year also became a father, really empathetic, not easy family, tribute!
Zhang Jianqing: Looking at that back shadow, exactly like Mr. Zhu Ziqing's back description, I can't help but cry like rain! For the child, for the father, for the mother.
GoldbreadLE LEE: It turned out to be him!! My favorites are "Andrey Tarkovsky: Elements of Cinema", "Andy Warhol's Diary", "A History of Rock and Roll in Ten Songs" by him! Thank you so much! I am also waiting for the arrival of the Benjamin Epistles, and I will give it to every friend around me who likes Benjamin.
Round Dog Head: Ah, it turned out to be the teacher who translated the Silk Road Chronicle. There are many words in this book, and at that time, it was lamented that the translator must have put a lot of effort into it.
Vanilla Flavored Piggy: Reading Andrei Tarkovsky: Elements of Cinema the other day, such a precise and emotionally appealing translation... I didn't expect that there was such a story behind the translator and his family.
Lu: After watching and crying several times, I understood what it means to be dependent on each other. Although Xiaoyu has some mental problems, he has received full love from his parents. I wish Xiaoyu a speedy recovery and getting better and better!
Source: Hangzhou Daily