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She is China's version of "Helen · Keller", the first blind person to receive an MPA degree in Harvard's 300 years of existence, and she may share Helen · Keller's desire for three days of light, but she is unlucky.
Her name is Yang Jia, before the age of 29, her life can be described as smooth, her career took off and her family was successful, and everyone was envious of her, but in this year, an accident took away all her hope.
In 1978, when others were still in junior high school, Yang Jia was admitted to Zhengzhou University ahead of schedule, and after graduation, she became the youngest English teacher at Zhengzhou University, and at the age of 22, she was admitted to the graduate school of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Originally, Yang Jia's future would be a smooth road, but God is jealous of talent, and the 29-year-old Yang Jia is blind and has no possibility of cure.
Yang Jia fell from the bright world into boundless darkness, and just when everyone thought that she would collapse from now on, Yang Jia, who reappeared 8 years later, surprised everyone.
The source of this article comes from the authoritative report [Yang Jia Baidu Encyclopedia] [Guangming Net] (the detailed source is attached at the end of the article). In order to improve the readability of the article, there may be polishing of the details, please read sensibly, for reference only!
The good life was shattered by bad news
In 1985, Yang Jia has been working as an English teacher at Zhengda for more than 2 years, she is the youngest teacher in the school, she is young and promising, she is very optimistic about many old professors in the school, and she is really terrifying.
In the eyes of many people, a university teacher is an iron rice bowl, and getting this job represents the stability of life, and many friends around her envy Yang Jia for living a stable life at a young age, and ridiculed her for "lying flat".
But how could Yang Jia be willing to "lie flat", her ideal is far from so, she continued to study on the road of knowledge, and finally was admitted to the graduate school of the Chinese Academy of Sciences at the age of 22.
In this way, Yang Jia stepped into the door of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and started her graduate journey. Her graduate supervisor is Li Pei, and you must know that Professor Li Pei's status is very high, and he is the first person in applied linguistics in China.
Being able to learn from this old professor and absorbing knowledge from her is not something that ordinary people can do, but it just so happens that Yang Jia is not an ordinary person, and her admission to the graduate school of the Chinese Academy of Sciences at the age of 22 is enough to prove that she is a piece of gold.
It is said that the genius of hard work is terrible, Yang Jia is such a person, she followed Professor Li Pei to study all aspects of applied linguistics thoroughly, from phonetics to vocabulary, from syntax to grammar, and refused to let go of anything.
But Yang Jia is not proud, she is humble and studious, during her graduate school, she not only studied hard academically, but also actively participated in academic exchange meetings to ask others questions, even in the face of classmates who are not as good as her, she will not despise others.
She has also published a lot of papers because of this, which has gradually been recognized by the academic community, and she has not yet graduated to help her tutor substitute teaching, which shows how good Yang Jia is.
However, Yang Jia, who made a breakthrough in her studies, also ushered in her love, and at an exchange meeting, she met a boy named Zhang Wei, who was her lover.
The two have similar interests and have a lot of common topics, and they both feel that they are very suitable for each other, and they soon decide to live together, and they gave birth to a daughter not long after they got married.
However, Yang Jia did not lose her career, she stayed in school again after graduating from graduate school to teach, although she was very busy, but her happy family gave her a lot of comfort.
However, the good times did not last long, and 29-year-old Yang Jia had eye problems. In 1992, she went to class as usual, but found that her vision was blurry and she couldn't even read the words on the blackboard.
At first, she only thought it was eye fatigue caused by work fatigue, and she didn't take it too seriously, but soon she couldn't see anything, and the results of the hospital's examination can be said to make Yang Jia's sky fall.
The doctor told her that she was suffering from retinitis pigmentosa, a very rare eye disease with no cure, and that there was only one outcome, only blindness.
Yang Jia, who lost her light, felt that her life was completely messed up, and all the beauty gradually disappeared from Yang Jia's world, which undoubtedly gave her a painful blow.
After losing her sight, her parents became her only support, and they helped her dress like she did when she was a child, and this warmth couldn't help but make her miss the good things she used to be.
A genius boy, Yang Jia's road to success
Yang Jia was born in a Kochi family, and her parents were both university teachers, so they paid great attention to her education, and such a family undoubtedly laid a good foundation for Yang Jia.
Influenced by the family cultural atmosphere, Yang Jia has been knowledgeable since she was a child, has a calm personality, and her grades do not have to worry about her parents, she is always among the best, she doesn't know what it is like to fail.
After the resumption of the college entrance examination, 15-year-old Yang Jia took the college entrance examination with the encouragement of her family.
At the age when her peers were still in junior high school, Yang Jia took the lead in stepping into college life, and it can be said that Yang Jia won at the starting line from the beginning.
During college, Yang Jia continued to show her talent for learning, although she was the youngest in the class, she was the best student in the class, and even the teachers praised her.
Because of her excellent grades and down-to-earth personality, Yang Jia was left in school as a teacher after graduation, when she was only 19 years old, and even many students were older than her.
Because of this job, Yang Jia fell in love with being a teacher, and she also changed the way of lecturing only through "teacher teaching" in the past, so that more students could participate in the class, and many students liked her lively and interesting class, and she was also rated as an excellent teacher many times.
It stands to reason that Yang Jia's life has been almost perfect, but she is still not satisfied, as she grows older, Yang Jia, who has been teaching at Zheng University for 2 years, has a higher pursuit, and she decides to continue to enrich herself.
In 1985, Yang Jia successfully became a graduate student of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and because she already had a wealth of professional knowledge at that time, she received an olive branch from the school again after graduation.
At that time, 24-year-old Yang Jia became the youngest professor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and it was during this period that she met her lover and gave birth to a lovely daughter with him, and the family was full of joy and hope.
At this time, Yang Jia's career and family were both bumper, and everything was moving towards a better future, but she didn't expect to lose her sight once, breaking her bright life.
Nirvana is reborn and the light of hope is restored
1992 can be said to be a watershed in Yang Jia's life, this year not only cut off her past, but also ushered in a new life. As she herself said, "Before the age of 29, I was surpassing others, and after the age of 29, I was surpassing myself".
After losing her sight, it is very difficult to live like a normal person, not to mention that Yang Jia is determined to return to the podium, which must take ten times more effort than ordinary people.
At first, she learned Braille with the help of her parents, and she repeatedly touched the small bumps, trying to memorize these special symbols, and gradually she was able to read books for the blind.
She then began to make blind cards to help her read, just to keep the error-prone letters and sentences in her mind, repeating them day after day until she had mastered the knowledge of blind people.
Finally, the hard work paid off, and at Yang Jia's insistence, she returned to the podium she loved. In order to write clearly, her left hand followed her right hand to measure the spacing of each word.
Don't look at her so skillful, in order to teach a good lesson, the words on the board have been rehearsed in advance I don't know how many times, with such perseverance, how could Yang Jia not succeed.
After losing her sight, Yang Jia is still elegant and dignified in class, and it can even be said that she is at ease, if she is not familiar with her, she will not notice her out-of-focus pupils at all, and she will not think that she is blind.
However, she still refused to stop, and at the age of 37 she decided to study at Harvard University, where she also taught herself to master a braille monitor and voice reading software to facilitate her study abroad life.
She then embarked on a new journey, where she could dictate 400 words per minute while studying at Harvard, and became the first blind person at Harvard to receive an MPA degree in her own right.
After returning from studying abroad, she devoted herself to the study of people with disabilities, and used her strength to bring warmth and help to more disabled people in the world, and in 2008, she was also selected as an expert of the United Nations Committee on Persons with Disabilities.
The story of Yang Jia's teacher Li Pei was also created as a Kunqu opera, which also includes the past between her and Yang Jia. On October 13, the Kunqu opera "Mr. Li Pei" premiered in the auditorium of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
As the only surviving character prototype in the play, Yang Jia also watched the performance at the scene, and she also expressed her viewing feelings, which made her feel that Teacher Li Pei had returned to her side, which made her feel very cordial.
Write at the end
I am afraid that no one in this world can be like Yang Jia, who can be reborn after going through many twists and turns, she relies on her tenacity to step through the hardships step by step, and finds her own light in the darkness.
And Yang Jia's spirit of not being defeated by difficulties and always moving forward firmly has to be admired, and I hope that Yang Jia's story can encourage everyone to pursue their dreams bravely.
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The information in this article comes from: [Yang Jia Baidu Encyclopedia] [Guangming Network]