On January 18, Xinhua News Agency reporters walked into Jin Xiaoyu's home to visit his father and son, thus pushing Jin Xiaoyu, an "nameless translator" over 50 years old, to the public, revealing his unknown life and the ulterior motives behind his father. It is the love of his parents that makes him move forward, and he interprets with his actions that living is a lamp.
First, into Jin Xiaoyu's life
Jin Xiaoyu was born in Hangzhou to an intellectual family in 1972. However, unfortunately, from the age of six, when Xiaoyu was playing with a neighbor's child, he was shot in the left eye by a needle from the toy gun in the child's hand, and he became blind in his left eye and became a disabled child. Later, he gradually became reluctant to read, and he did not even finish high school. He worked in an exhaust fan factory, worked as a salesman in a bookstore, but he could only work for a few days, and was eventually diagnosed with manic depression "two-way emotional disorder", he was angry and angry for no reason, and he even wanted to end his life by suicide.
However, "God closes a door for you and also opens a window for you"
Although Jin Xiaoyu is ill at home, he likes to buy books and read books - English, Japanese, ancient Chinese, Go... His father also bought him a Lenovo computer, and since then he has entered another world, where he taught himself foreign languages and watched original movies. He spent six years teaching himself German, Japanese, and consolidating his English. He watched a movie repeatedly, he was oblivious in learning various languages, which brought him great pleasure, and his ingenuity and creativity were also evident. For years, he went to the Zhejiang Library to borrow books, and he said he had read all the foreign novels in the library.
Perhaps heaven loved him and gave him a chance to change his destiny, just one day in 2010, his mother went to Nanjing University to open the 50th anniversary of the alumni association, she told The situation of Xiaoyu to the teachers and students, the mother's sincerity, finally for him to find a chance to do translation at home.
Soon, Nanda Publishing House sent the American female writer Andrea. Barrett's eight short stories, one of which he quickly translated, "The Heat of the Ship," has translated a total of 22 books and nearly 7 million words at the rate of two books a year. Among them in 2013, he translated and published the Irish writer John Lennon. Banville's English novel "The Seducer", formerly known as "mefisto", once became a good book; he translated five novels such as "The Dog Son-in-law" by The Japanese female writer Tawada, and the response was very good; in order to translate "Andrei. Tarkovsky: Elements of Cinema", he specifically watched all the films directed by Tarkovsky, the book was published in 2018 and had a great response.
Even his mother's NTU classmates praised him as a genius, and the articles he translated were highly accurate and delicate...
Second, why did his father let him become famous overnight
On the morning of November 11, 2021, after his father Jin Zhiyong put away his wife's urn at the Hangzhou funeral home, he did not tell his two sons the news, but made a major decision - to announce the matter of his son Xiaoyu, so he opened the "Listen. He wanted the reporter to write a story about his son, who said his son was a genius and is still in a psychiatric hospital.
For the father, he just felt that his son's years of translating at home should let more people know, and wanted everyone to know how difficult it was for a manic-depressed person. In addition to Xiao Yu's achievements in the translation career to make him proud, he also praised his son's filial piety, although Xiaoyu himself was mentally disturbed and often sick, but since his mother had Alzheimer's disease, he had never lost his temper with his mother, he took care of his mother during the day, went to the street to buy vegetables, washed dishes after meals, and insisted on washing his mother's face every day; at night, he had to give his mother regular defecation and urination, and he couldn't sleep all night. He always remembers his mother in his heart, he always remembers when he was six years old and he was blind in the eyes, and his mother did not know how many tears he shed for him...
The father said that he just wanted his son to get more attention and recognition from the world through the media, so as to strengthen his determination to overcome difficulties, which was like a "shot in the arm" injected into the child's body!
Today, Xiaoyu's illness has miraculously improved, and in November last year he received his 22nd book for translation, the German thinker Benjamin's Arch Bridge Project, and his previous translation of Benjamin's 530,000-word Collection of Letters will be available next month.
His life continues, and for the rest of the years he will live with his father and go through a difficult and extraordinary life.
Third, suffering gives meaning to life
Life is an adventurous journey, and along the way, some people have a smooth wind, and some people are bumpy.
Xiaoyu's life is commendable, he overcame the unimaginable hardships, sufferings and destruction of ordinary people, he told us what the meaning of life is, as Frankl said: "Suffering itself is meaningless, but we can give it meaning through our own reactions to suffering." In the midst of suffering, one can still remain brave, self-respecting and selfless." Although he suffers from a variety of stubborn diseases, he always loves to read and pursue self-improvement, and he fights against fate in the repeated pains of illness, which is what pain and struggle it should be for a mentally disturbed person, however, he finally grasps his own life, which shows how brave and strong he is!
He suffers from manic-depressive "two-way emotional disorder", and one can imagine what kind of person it should be — unkempt and sleeping on the street. But he lived out his self-esteem and gained the respect of the people. He overcame all odds and dedicated himself, and he cast a bright lamp with wisdom and perseverance, which lit up his life and illuminated the world forward. Every word he writes is engraved with the temperature of self-improvement, and every book he translates conveys the spiritual civilization of the world.
This can't help but remind me of Zhang Haidi in the eighties of the last century, she suddenly fell one day at the age of five, thus paraplegic, for this reason, she completely lost the opportunity to read, she watched other children by the window countless times happy to read, happy to play, helpless, she could only lie on the bed. But she did not bow to fate, she overcame various difficulties, with tenacious will and strong perseverance to teach herself, with a love of literature, she has published more than 200,000 words of works - the novel "Dream in a Wheelchair", "The Top", the essay collection "The Pursuit of Life" and so on. Now that she is the president of the China Disabled Persons' Federation, she shines in the cause of the disabled, and she says that she wants to be a torch to illuminate the way of life for the disabled.
I also think of the famous American female writer Helen. Keller, who was less than two years old, suddenly fell ill with a serious illness and has since become blind in the eyes and deaf in the ears, but she is diligent and studious, practicing hard, under her teacher Anne. With the help of Sullivan, eager to absorb knowledge and culture, she overcame all difficulties with perseverance and self-improvement spirit, learned to "read" and "speak", and mastered five Chinese words such as English, French and German, and was rated by Time Magazine as one of the "Top Ten Heroes of the United States" in the twentieth century.
Jin Xiaoyu, he is another contemporary "Zhang Haidi", he is China's "Helen. Keller", he is a great hero with a disability. He is always worthy of people's learning, and his touching deeds will inspire hundreds of millions of people - not to live up to Shaohua, not to live up to this life!