The joy and power of the story of the "Genius Son"

Zhang Guifeng

Recently, an article published by Hangzhou Daily entitled "Our Genius Son" was screened across the internet. In this article, an 84-year-old man named Jin Zhiyong in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, tells the story of his family and son Jin Xiaoyu - Jin Xiaoyu was blinded in one eye due to an accidental injury when he was 6 years old, and unfortunately suffered from manic depression in his youth, "every year he had to go to a mental hospital." Despite this, Jin Xiaoyu miraculously taught himself English, Japanese, and German, and in 10 years, translated a total of 22 books at the rate of two books per year, and "there were no typos, sentences, or mistranslations", "every book sold well, and the readers responded well"...

This article is easily reminiscent of some famous inspirational literary works, such as "Rain Man", "Forrest Gump", etc., but the story of "Genius Son" is not just an inspirational story.

The article brushed the screen, perhaps because of keywords such as "funeral home" and "genius", or perhaps because of the huge contrast between Jin Xiaoyu's unfortunate life experience and his amazing achievements. But what makes people move and cry is actually the tenacity and persistence of Jin Xiaoyu and his family in the face of life difficulties and still watching out for each other, "Life kisses me with pain, but I repay it with a song."

"There are infinite Danqing hands in the world, and a sad painting cannot be completed." In the double pain of experiencing blindness in one eye at an early age, followed by manic depression, the pain and suffering and helplessness experienced by Jin Xiaoyu and his parents can be imagined. However, in the face of life pain and physical and mental devastation, people can see and feel that it is a warm family scene, a deep parental love for the licking, and a filial piety that does not forget to feed the kneeling breast - "The mother has been demented for several years, he has never lost his temper with his mother" "Every time the publisher sends a sample book to Xiaoyu, he rushes to the bedside for the first time to tell his mother"...

In addition to the parents' love for their son, the deep affection of this old couple is also touching. On the night of his wife's departure, "holding her head in your arms... Face to face, but still getting colder" "She's gone, my son has no mother"... Husband and wife, parent-child affection, nothing more than this.

This kind of story full of strong human feelings and can highlight stubborn persistence is not only more infectious, but also more penetrating. The stories of ordinary people are inevitably trivial and humble, but what we can really rely on, credentials, or really help us walk through all kinds of life difficulties and get out of all kinds of life haze, perhaps it is this trivial and humble that does not abandon and foam with each other, and it is the tenacity, persistence and stubbornness that are constantly refined and forged in hardships and hardships.