"Moving China" award speech
You feel that you are just like us,
We feel,
Yes, but you're so unusual.
Break through from the silence,
You have a loud horn in your heart.
In the new era, you have a firmer direction.
The bird that flies first must want to fly farther.
You, who are late blooming, are also blooming like flowers.
——"Moving China" 2021 Person of the Year Jiang Mengnan
On the evening of March 3, the "Moving China 2021 Annual Person Awards Ceremony" was broadcast, and Jiang Mengnan won the honor of "2021 Moving China Annual Person".
At the age of half a year, she was deaf due to drugs, and with the help of her parents, she learned to "listen" and "speak" by reading lip language, and with unremitting efforts, eventually became a doctor at Tsinghua University.
Life, growth, schooling, every step is a "hard mode", she said: "I never saw myself as a weak person because I couldn't hear." I believe I can't be worse than others. ”
Deaf at half a year, she was admitted to Tsinghua University with "lip reading"
She was born in 1992 to a Yao family in Yizhang County, Chenzhou City, Hunan Province. Her parents, who were full of poetry books, named her Mengnan, which means that jiangnan in the dream is that the years are quiet.
Jiang Mengnan, who is still swaddled, has severe neurogenic deafness caused by ototoxic drugs, and his peaceful and beautiful life has been broken. At that time, Jiang Mengnan's left ear loss was greater than 105 decibels, and the hearing loss in the right ear was complete. Half a year old, she couldn't even feel the pain, and fell into a long, silent world. Not only can you not hear the outside world, but also your own pronunciation, which means that you will lose the ability to speak.
(Jiang Mengnan.) Correspondent Photo)
In order to make her daughter better integrate into society, Jiang Mengnan's parents resolutely gave up teaching their daughter to learn sign language, but let their daughter learn pronunciation and lip language.
At the beginning, Xiao Mengnan repeatedly touched the throat of his parents to feel the vibration of the vocal cords and practice vocalization, and each syllable parent had to repeat it non-stop, "If there is a syllable that I can learn as long as it is repeated 1,000 times, it is already a very fast speed." ”
Jiang Mengnan said bluntly that she occasionally feels depressed because of hearing impairment, but she always has a way to enlighten herself: "I envy that others can easily chat with friends, can call and listen to songs." Whenever this happens, I tell myself that there is also the benefit of not being able to hear, at least not being woken up easily when I sleep. ”
In the insistence of not bowing to fate, Jiang Mengnan learned to pronounce pronunciation by looking in the mirror and touching his parents' throats from words and words to everyday language, and finally learned to "listen" and "speak" by reading lips. My parents will never forget that the first time they heard Jiang Mengnan's voice was when they were in Beijing when they saw a doctor and cleaned up the east and prepared to go home.
Relying on the efforts of several times that of his peers, in 2011, Jiang Mengnan was admitted to the Department of Pharmacy of Jilin University from the Chenzhou Star School, where he completed a master's degree in computer-aided drug design. In May 2018, she was admitted to the School of Life Sciences of Tsinghua University with excellent results, and the ugly duckling of that year finally turned into a white swan.
The first time I heard birds chirping " feel happy "
When Jiang Mengnan was admitted to Tsinghua University, the cochlear implant technology had been perfected, and she and her parents struggled with whether to use this technology to regain her voice. Three years ago, after a local doctor in Changchun saw Jiang Mengnan's story, he took her to the consultation room and tried to convince her to dispel her doubts.
When the two sides were deadlocked, the doctor's words shook Jiang Mengnan's existing cognition. The doctor said to Mengnan, "Don't you want to see how many possibilities you have in your future life, how much potential you can tap?" Hearing these words, Jiang Mengnan moved inwardly. Before, without hearing, she walked step by step to the present. She also wanted to see how her studies and career would change if she could hear her voice after cochlear surgery and reduce some of the impairments that her hearing brought to her.
In mid-July 2018, after careful consideration by the whole family, Jiang Mengnan underwent surgery for a cochlear implant in his right ear.
Jiang Mengnan's world has since had a voice. After regaining her hearing, in order to match the sounds and meanings she heard, Jiang Mengnan needed to undergo new speech rehabilitation training. From words, words, and everyday language, everything seems to be back to the days when I learned to speak in the mirror and touch the throat of my parents to learn pronunciation when I was a child.
At the same time as speech rehabilitation training, on August 28, 2018, Jiang Mengnan walked into Tsinghua University and started a new and sound life. At the age of 26, Jiang Mengnan heard the cuckoo call for the first time.
Jiang Mengnan said that if she compares sound to color, her previous world was foggy, and after having sound, the world became colorful.
It is expected that this year's doctoral graduation will be determined to solve the problem of life and health
"My goal since I was a child is to be a life-saving doctor, hoping to get rid of the pain of other people." At the award ceremony broadcast on the evening of March 3, Jiang Mengnan talked about his wish: "There are tens of millions of disabled people in the mainland, if the barrier-free is very complete, the disabled people can also live like able-bodied people, I think this is a better world." ”
Jiang Mengnan once thought that it was cool to overcome the difficulties brought by physical disabilities through personal efforts and to stand on the same track as able-bodied people. Later, she realized that it was even cooler to create an equal, inclusive, and unhindered environment for all, where everyone could live and work fairly.
Jiang Mengnan said that if it goes well, it is expected that she will graduate with a doctorate at the end of this year, and she wants to continue to solve the problem of life and health in the future. "If I can do something to make others less hard and so difficult, it's a very meaningful thing."
After nirvana, Jiang Mengnan, like a phoenix with great love, sows the seeds of love.
Source: Comprehensive CCTV News, Hunan Daily, Yizhangrong Media Center, etc