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Yang Jia, a blind professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences: Blind at the age of 29, abandoned by her husband, she was admitted to Harvard after 8 years of self-study

"Away from the grass on the plains, one year old and one withered away." Wildfires burn endlessly, the spring wind blows and grows again" This is a poem written by Bai Juyi on the examination hall at the age of 16, showing the tenacity and tenacity of life with grass, which has become a classic that has been passed down for thousands of years, but only by really seeing wildfires burning all over the wilderness, seeing the spring breeze blowing across the earth, and seeing the dry grass turning green overnight, you can really know what is the tenacity of life, and this time take everyone to see the life of the great woman Yang Jia.

Yang Jia, a blind professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences: Blind at the age of 29, abandoned by her husband, she was admitted to Harvard after 8 years of self-study

First, away from the original grass

Yang Jia was born in 1963 in a period that was not stable, but the more people at that time, the more they could do learning with peace of mind, especially Yang Jia's parents were ok, so Yang Jia could also get a good education in Hunan Normal University, at that time Yang Jia had already shown a distinctive shining point, her excellent memory, her excellent comprehension ability, her understanding beyond ordinary people, making her 15 years old was admitted to Zhengzhou University.

During the university study, Yang Jia also adhered to the consistent excellence, at that time the students were really self-disciplined, because they felt the despair of not reading, so in the face of knowledge are self-driven, never emphasized what self-discipline and self-discipline problems, and Yang Jia is even more unnecessary, she is not like a small number of people, feel that going to college can relax, so she is still bored to engage in learning, when she graduated, she was left in school by the president, only 19 years old is a lecturer in the University English Department.

Yang Jia, a blind professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences: Blind at the age of 29, abandoned by her husband, she was admitted to Harvard after 8 years of self-study

When the teacher Yang Jia is also enriching herself, while selflessly dedicating her knowledge, in the face of such a young and beautiful female teacher, the students are also full of enthusiasm, her class is full of seats, in 1985 was admitted to the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, after graduation also became a lecturer here, to know that this is a graduate school, until 2014 did not begin to recruit undergraduates, is neither 985 nor 211 more awesome existence.

Two, one year old and one glory

Of course, she also has her own emotional life, when she was teaching, she met a very good man, the two have a good feeling for each other, belong to free love, and no matter in which aspect they match, basically there is no can be picky, how to see is the love of heaven's reward, so smoothly married, life after marriage is not dissatisfied, so the two soon began to prepare for pregnancy and childbirth.

Yang Jia, a blind professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences: Blind at the age of 29, abandoned by her husband, she was admitted to Harvard after 8 years of self-study

However, what can never be expected is that after giving birth, because of optic neuropathy, she gradually entered the situation of blindness, which makes a person who needs eyes very much, how to accept such a fact? Yang Jia and her husband began to see a doctor everywhere, even the newborn child was too late to take care of, for a while she was already anxious to have no other thoughts, but finally the doctor gave her an ultimatum: "It is not curable." ”

In an instant, Yang Jia felt that the whole world was turned upside down, and just when she was helpless and did not know how to carry out the next life, the 29-year-old she actually became a divorced woman - her husband was overwhelmed, took the child away from her, leaving Yang Jia alone to face everything after that, Yang Jia was uncomfortable at that time Needless to say, in short, she almost collapsed, but they all said that it was "almost a little", so Yang Jia quickly perked up.

Yang Jia, a blind professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences: Blind at the age of 29, abandoned by her husband, she was admitted to Harvard after 8 years of self-study

Third, wildfires burn endlessly

"It was the family that gave me courage at this time and gave me a second life", fortunately, Yang Jia's mother's family did not give up on her, her parents often encouraged her, treating her like a newborn, in an interview her father said: "I am her crutch", giving her sensitive and fragile soul a safe haven, the sister is even more tireless, over and over again to take her familiar with the road, Yang Jia herself also began to exercise from the smallest small things, let herself get used to this dark world.

Yang Jia is used to this period of darkness is very difficult, many people think that she is blind and wear a pair of glasses is superfluous, but do not know that she and the drink, the straw used on the hot day, the result of a low-head straw inserted into the eye, and if she has no one to support, she can only use the blind cane to explore the way, but China's barrier-free access road is basically occupied, and it is one second pass, the next second is occupied, so she often falls on the road, often a piece of purple on her body.

Yang Jia, a blind professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences: Blind at the age of 29, abandoned by her husband, she was admitted to Harvard after 8 years of self-study

When adapted to a certain extent, Yang Jia felt that she still had to teach, so she began to take classes again, for a class she often had to do a lot of preparation, every day at six or seven o'clock she took the bus to the teaching building with the help of her father, and always waited in the classroom before 8 o'clock, in order to make the blindness after the board book is also written as well, she always measured the size with her left hand, so that more than half a year has passed, no one knows that she is blind.

Fourth, the spring wind blows and grows again

In 2000, the 8th year of her blindness, she actually got an acceptance letter from Harvard University, when she attended the United Nations Millennium Forum, talked about globalization, and the graduate school planned to build itself into a second-class institute in Asia, and at the age of 37, she felt that she still wanted to continue her studies and wanted to challenge herself, so she applied for the Harvard World No. 1 Master of Public Administration.

Yang Jia, a blind professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences: Blind at the age of 29, abandoned by her husband, she was admitted to Harvard after 8 years of self-study

Of course, when she was in class here, she also had a lot of problems, life needless to say, there is a Harvard Professor lecture is arbitrary, never follow the script, and very flexible, what to say may be a picture, a few lines on it, and then it starts, other children with normal eyes can understand it at a glance, but Yang Jia can't see it, she can only say it while the teacher, just use the keyboard to write down his words, very difficult.

But Yang Jia still overcame all kinds of difficulties, successfully graduated from Harvard, as the first foreign blind person to get an MPA in 300 years, she won the honor of everyone standing up and cheering at that time, and now Yang Jia is already the vice chairman of the Disabled Persons' Federation, a role model in Beijing, is a top ten outstanding woman, she showed everyone a tenacious and tenacious life, a life that stood proudly from the mud, as a life of kapok instead of sushi, she deserves all the praise and flowers.

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