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"Even if it's the end of the world, laugh like a fool!"
This sentence, which sounds a little too optimistic, is a sentiment written by Liao Zhi in her works, but no one knows that she has really experienced the "end of the world".
The Wenchuan earthquake in 2008 was a disaster that all Chinese will never forget, and tens of thousands of Chinese lives were lost in this natural disaster. Liao Zhi, who was 23 years old that year, became a survivor.
After 26 hours of being buried alive, she was dragged out of the buried rubble alive and finally saved her life at the cost of losing a pair of legs.
She was lucky, she survived, but she was also unlucky, her mother-in-law, young daughter were ruthlessly taken away by this disaster, and even her husband cruelly abandoned her after the disaster.
Compared with those collapsed high-rise buildings, it is the hearts of people that are more difficult to rebuild after the disaster. Liao Zhi, who has crippled his legs, rekindled hope for those Chinese people who suffered with a kneeling dance!
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It's "Inspiration", but it's "Inspiration"
Two months after the Wenchuan earthquake, reconstruction work is in full swing. This natural disaster not only destroyed countless high-rise buildings, but also brought a serious psychological shadow to those who experienced pain.
Reinforced concrete buildings are easy to build, and if people's hearts collapse, then everything is over. On the one hand, in order to raise funds for post-disaster reconstruction, and on the other hand, in order to reshape people's hearts, Liao Zhi took her work "Inspiration" to participate in a charity performance.
On a huge drum surface, dressed in red satin, she danced her stump as best she could. A crippled person puts his scars directly in front of everyone, and a dancer who has lost his legs is still dancing his dreams.
This dance is not only a broken body, but also a heart that does not give up in the face of suffering. And this dancer who struggled to dance had just experienced a heart-wrenching disaster.
Just two months ago, she was a dance teacher, and with her slender, slender legs, she could dance as she pleased, but the earthquake changed the course of her life.
When the earthquake came, she had just had lunch and was about to take her daughter to take a nap when the floor shook violently.
Almost instantly, the ceiling was overwhelmingly pressed, and after a period of darkness, Liao Zhicai barely opened her eyes, and before she could even bother to check herself, she called her daughter's name anxiously.
But the ruins are too thick, and her daughter is only 10 months old, so no matter how heartbroken she is, she will not receive a single response after all.
Liao Zhi, who was exhausted, stopped shouting and wanted to try to move his body, only to find that his legs had been completely pressed by the heavy floor, and it seemed that because he had just reacted, the severe pain began to attack her.
After 26 hours of burial, she was finally dragged out of a forcibly chiseled hole and rushed to the hospital.
It was in the hospital that she learned that her mother-in-law had also died in the rubble. Faced with the departure of two relatives, she didn't have time to be sad, and even greater challenges followed.
Due to the prolonged squeezing, her legs had become necrotic and had to be amputated if she wanted to survive. Her father's eyes darkened when he heard the news, and he almost fainted.
She said, "Since this disaster did not take my life, then I must live well for my dead family." ”
So she picked up the pen, signed the surgical consent form by herself, and calmly faced this uncertain operation.
Fortunately, after 8 hours of surgery, she managed to survive. But every day she recovers from the surgery, she suffers immensely. Every time I untied the thick gauze to change the dressing, it hurt as if I had died once.
During the days in the hospital, she couldn't move around at will, and the only way she could divert her attention was by watching TV.
On that day, the TV was reporting on the living conditions of the people in the aftermath of the disaster, and the refugees who had lost their relatives and friends to the disaster were in pain, and there was no light in their eyes.
As Liao Zhi, who has also experienced disasters, she empathizes with such pain, and she very much wants to find something to free herself from the pain of the moment, and also hopes to inspire these victims to regain hope.
She wants to pass on her strength to everyone through her best dance. But this is not easy for her who lost her legs.
However, Liao Zhi has been a girl who does not give up easily since she was a child, as long as she has an idea in her heart, she will do everything possible to do it.
Since she couldn't stand, she knelt, and for fear that kneeling too low would not be visible to everyone, she jumped on the drum. So, she started by kneeling and relearned to dance.
"As long as there is no curtain call, you must hold on!"
She understands that a thousand words of comfort are not as touching as the dance of her stump swinging, so she must finish this performance, and she must dance beautifully.
So after countless falls and countless times of being ground to blood, she finally stood on the stage in a red dress. After the dance, thousands of spectators were moved.
At this moment, she is a real dancer, a strong person who cannot be defeated by pain!
After this performance, she was also inspired by Liao Zhi herself, who watched herself overcome difficulties step by step and return to the stage, and also believed that she would be able to continue her dream of dancing.
In 2011, she participated in a dance variety show, and she danced "Inspiration" again on stage.
At this time, it has been three years since the disaster, and she has danced this dance again, dancing more skillfully and confidently, and it is also telling everyone that the suffering will eventually pass, and those who insist on dreaming of a good life will get better and better.
Because I have suffered disasters, I understand the preciousness of life even more. After the earthquake, she cherishes her current life more and more, and she wants to help more people get out of the haze in her heart.
She began to devote herself to passing on her positive energy to more people affected by the disaster, helping them and making her life more meaningful.
Be grateful for the beauty in life and pass on the love
"God deliver me, and I will repay my second rebirth with all my life."
This is a sentence that Liao Zhi often puts on her lips, she said so and did so.
When an earthquake struck Ya'an, Sichuan Province in 2013, she immediately stood up. Wearing a prosthetic leg weighing 20 pounds, she shuttled between the ruins, looking at the devastation in front of her, she seemed to return to the day she had experienced.
If it weren't for the firefighters who never gave up any possibility of life and raced against time to dig her out of the rubble, there would be no second life for her.
She also wanted to bring such hope to the people here, so she joined the search and rescue team, insisted on rescuing in the aftershocks, and her staggering back was also called "the most beautiful volunteer".
She recorded all these experiences and published them into a book - "Liao Zhi: Thanking for the Beauty of Life". Many readers who have read her work have been moved by her words.
The strength of struggling out of suffering and the courage to break out of the cocoon and be reborn that she wants to convey are very inspiring to readers.
In addition, she is also committed to exploring how to help people with disabilities break through psychological barriers and integrate into normal society.
When she amputated her leg at that time, she was already an adult, and she had a certain psychological capacity. But there are many children who have also lost parts of their bodies in this disaster.
Disasters have brought great fear to their young minds, and physical disabilities will follow them from an early age, and they may encounter discrimination from others, making it difficult for them to integrate into society.
In order to help such a special group, she has been trying to do self-media to convey a positive energy.
Facing the camera, she generously shows off her prosthetic leg, she can walk, run, and dance like a normal person, and she wants to tell everyone that the mutilation of the body does not stop the love of life, and the disaster is not terrible.
She later set up a studio to provide professional services to those with disabilities.
They tailor the right prosthesis for their patients, which can be very light or beautifully decorated, so that they can face up to their scars and get rid of the shadows in their hearts.
And the reason why she can carry out these undertakings without distraction is also inseparable from a man behind her.
Maybe you can break the cocoon and be reborn to meet the right person
In 2009, Liao Zhi ended his first unhappy marriage. But this did not make her feel regretful, but it was the ruthless face of filing for divorce just after the earthquake that made her see the true face of this man.
When she first got married, she was only 21 years old, maybe she was young and vigorous and didn't know people's hearts, so she married someone in a daze. After getting married, I found out that the three views of the two were not suitable, and they didn't have much in common.
In fact, the two of them used to get together less and leave more, and they were okay when they were separated.
In addition, because she is physically disabled, although she does not feel inferior, she does not want to drag others down, and she has never developed any new relationships.
But Cupid's arrow shot so unjustifiably that in 2013, a young Chinese man broke into her life, and the two men first crossed paths because of a pair of prosthetic limbs.
At that time, Liao Zhi's prosthetic leg wore out very quickly because he often danced, and his stump was often injured because it could not fit well.
At that time, she heard that there was a company in Shanghai that produced prosthetics that fit the human body very well, so she went to visit. It was in this company that she met her future husband, Charles.
"I have a lover who can't stop talking, and I am also a comrade-in-arms who fights side by side with me."
Charles immigrated to the United States with his parents when he was a child, and when he first came to Shanghai to work, he hosted Liao Zhi.
During the conversation between the two, he was quickly attracted to this optimistic and strong girl, and after further conversation, he found that the two of them had the same idea of providing more suitable prosthetics for people with disabilities.
As a member of the disabled community, Liao Zhi has the most real feelings about the use of prosthetics, and she has provided a lot of help to Charles's work.
With Charles' help, she also learned more about physical rehabilitation, which provided a lot of technical support for her to set up a professional studio.
came and went, and there were different feelings between them. After a year of getting along, the two finally entered the palace of marriage, and the two were very affectionate after marriage, and they also had a son and a daughter.
She also often shares her work and life on social platforms. On May 10, she posted a video of herself dancing on the short video platform.
In the video, she dances with prosthetic limbs, dancing movingly, confidently and generously, and her movements are so flexible that she is no different from a normal person.
epilogue
On May 12, it was the anniversary of the Wenchuan earthquake.
We will always remember those compatriots who unfortunately passed away in the disaster, and we hope that those survivors can live an optimistic life like Liao Zhi.
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