She is a shadow puppet actress and a highly popular "pocket star".
Director Wang Zhenhong tailored the TV series "Pocket Mother" for her.
The 23-year-old participated in the "China's Got Talent" program, which surprised the judges and the audience.
She told her story and the troubles in her growth, hoping that everyone could treat the "pocket people" group with a normal heart.
Tell the story of the people, taste the taste of life, this issue of the childlike fun of our people, just tell the story of Zhu Jie, the "pocket man" who inherits the art of shadow puppetry.
Born in 1987 in China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Zhu Jie was as lively, beautiful and likable as her friends of the same age around her.
In order to raise her, her parents sent her to learn dance and music.
Little Zhu Jie sings very well, and she is also loved by the elders.
Zhu Jie's father is 1.8 meters tall, and her mother is 1.68 meters tall.
No one could have imagined that their children would not grow tall.
When she was in junior high school, Zhu Jie's height seemed to have been pressed the pause button, and zhu Jie was a little frustrated to watch the children of the same grade swoop up one by one.
After her parents discovered Zhu Jie's height problems, they initially thought she was malnourished, so they bought a lot of nutritional products for her.
Box after box of nutritional products, Zhu Jie's height still did not change in the slightest.
Parents, who found that things might not be so simple, took Zhu Jie to the hospital for examination.
The test results were very hurtful - due to congenital lack of growth hormone, Zhu Jie suffered from pocket disease, and her height stopped at 1 meter 28, never longer.
Slowly, people around them know about Zhu Jie's illness, they will look at Zhu Jie with strange eyes, and they will also discuss behind their backs: Why are parents normal, but the children born are so strange? What's more, they will "judge" their family with ugly language, saying that it must be Zhu Jie's parents who have not done a good deed, and the retribution is all on the child.
Zhu Jie changed, she became less likely to talk, and the girl who used to laugh seemed to be silent at once. When going to and from school, Zhu Jie did not dare to go with her classmates, she was always the first to go to the classroom and the last to leave.
Even though she avoided the crowd as much as possible, the buzz about her in the crowd did not diminish.
In fact, the "pocket crowd" will also cause some strange eyes in society.
Because of the particularity of her height, when she goes out to take a taxi, she is often considered a child by the driver and has no ability to pay, so she refuses to board.
In high school, Zhu Jie was very eager to go to the local art school, but the principal only looked at Zhu Jie and did not let her perform any talent, so he told her that the school would not admit her.
The sad and helpless Zhu Jie collapsed and cried, and finally under the bitter pleading of her parents, the leaders of the art school were willing to include her.
Although she went to the school of her dreams, on campus, she would still be ridiculed and hit by strange eyes and words.
Some students will joke about her height, and when Zhu Jie shows unhappiness and anger, the classmates will ask in an unbelievable tone: "You won't be so stingy, can't you make a joke?" ”
In addition to the students, some of the decisions of the school teachers to "be good for you" actually hurt Zhu Jie's heart invisibly.
Physical fitness classes, sports meetings... Teachers will say, you are not suitable, for your own good, you should not learn these courses.
All kinds of tangible and intangible discrimination gradually aroused the temper of this inferior girl.
She was not convinced, why in the eyes of others, she must be a "poor person", it must be better than not winning other children? Zhu Jie gradually learned to ignore the eyes and inappropriate words of others, she told her mother: "I must stick to my own path and not let others look down on me!" ”
In 2009, 22-year-old Zhu Jie came to Beijing Dragon in the Sky Shadow Art Troupe for an interview, and then officially signed a contract to learn shadow puppet art with 45 pocket friends.
In 2010, on the stage of the program "China's Got Talent" broadcast by Oriental Satellite TV, Zhu Jie received unprecedented attention.
She sang Yi Nengjing's "Fireflies" with her trademark sweet "adult children's voice", which made the judges and the audience listen to it fascinatingly.
Although she tries her best to show that she does not care about the eyes of others in her daily life, every night when she is quiet, the "discrimination" of others against her will make Zhu Jie feel sad.
She wants to use this show to make people pay attention to the "pocket group" and make herself truly confident.
She successfully advanced to the top 40 in the show and won the title of "Happiness Talent".
Because of a program, Zhu Jie "caught fire".
At the age of 23, she only has the figure and voice of a teenage girl, and her "particularity" makes people see the daily life of "pocket people".
Zhu Jie is trying to prove herself, to prove that she is a self-aware adult woman, to prove that she can take good care of herself, and hopes that people in society will not define her by her voice, appearance, and height, or even discriminate against her.
To a certain extent, Zhu Jie can be said to represent the "pocket people" to come out and speak.
The desire of the "pocket group" to live a normal life is very strong, and perhaps this type of person has been subjected to a variety of eyes from an early age, from behind the colored glasses, and they are very sensitive.
If you just look at it curiously, the "pocket people" will not be angry, but if it is a gaze full of deep meaning, even if there is a trace of disgust in the eyes, they can receive it sensitively.
Because I see too much, I can easily distinguish it.
There are many "special groups" in society, they have their own way of life, no matter how strange they are in your eyes, but in the outdoors, if you meet them head-on, you still hope that everyone can not be surprised to stare at them "all the way", a little control of their eyes, even if you turn a blind eye, for them, it may be a kind of love.
From childhood to adulthood, Zhu Jie has been questioned and discussed too much, but she has always tried to move forward.
In the Dragon in the Sky Shadow Art Troupe, there are a total of 72 "special" actors, all of whom are "pocket people", with an average age of only 22 years old and an average height of only 1.26 meters.
Zhu Jie is in this art troupe, realizing her own value.
In 2013, she starred in the light comedy film "Little People Are Hard to Mess With".
This film, which mainly tells the story of "pocket people" challenging themselves through tenacity and wisdom, and never accepting defeat in life, can be said to be the public confession of the "pocket group".
And in 2014, "Pocket Mother", starring Zhu Jie, also showed that it is not easy for "pocket people" in life.
"Pocket people" are working hard to integrate into society with their own strength, and this group of ordinary people, united, is doing a great cause - inheriting China's shadow puppet art.
In 2011, Zhu Jie married Qin Xueshi, who is also a "pocket man".
In a theme park in Dalian, their romantic and warm wedding scene makes Zhu Jie feel as if she is transformed into a princess in a fairy tale world.
I believe that in the future, she will also smile wildly and brightly like on the wedding day.
Do you know the group of "Pocket People"? If you saw this "group" on the street, would you smile at them?
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