Because of congenital spina bifida, Shang Chujiu has been on crutches since he can remember, and "standing up" has always been the dream of Shang Chujiu and the whole family.
A "Gen Z" born in 1995, he never went to school, and taught himself to speak, use computers, and learn about the world. In order to make a living, he opened Internet cafes and online stores, all of which ended in failure.
In 2018, he came into contact with the Himalayas, broke into the world of sound, and became the anchor of the audiobook "ShangChuJiu".
"In the world of sound, I stood up." He said.
Heima anchor | Shang Chujiu
Representative album | "Urban Super Soldier King" life city| Baoding sound characteristics | clean and clear
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A lonely child who can't walk
Shang Chujiu is a post-95, born in Rongcheng, Baoding, Hebei Province, before the age of eight or nine, he only remembers two things.
One was to run on his own, and the other was in the adobe house, and the TV set was playing a martial arts film of Shi Xiaolong, and his mother said, "Don't be afraid, stand up and try." The first thing seemed to be true, Shang Chujiu still remembered running to find his uncle who opened a commissary to eat instant noodles, but he couldn't believe it was true, because he suffered from congenital spina bifida, and he had been on crutches since he could remember.
At that time, he did not feel that he was a "strange person", the village was not big, his mother rode a small tricycle to take him out for a walk, and when he saw the people walking, he felt very strange: "Including my family, why do I walk on two legs, and I still have to take two sticks?" "People look at him the same way, even children run to the door after school and whisper. A little older, Shang Chujiu found that the strange thing was actually himself, and from that time on, he stopped going out.
My sister dropped out of school in junior high school to save money to treat Shang Chujiu. He didn't ask his sister what he thought, but he always thought: my sister with good grades loves to draw, and without him, maybe there would be a different life.
His peers went to school, and because of his health, he had to teach himself at home, and his sister acted as a temporary teacher, and the family pooled money to buy a computer. Mom told him to type a text on the computer every day and memorize it again. Shang Chujiu's self-learning ability is not bad, in addition to literacy, he also learned to use computers and understand the outside world.
Shang Chujiu often sat on a stone pier in the alley in front of his house, and since the neighbor's children moved away, he had no friends, and his parents opened an Internet café in order to let him contact more people. After the winter and summer vacations, the number of people who came to the Internet suddenly decreased, and loneliness struck again.
Let him "stand up" is a common dream of the family.
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Opening an online store has fallen to the bottom
When he was twelve, the family paid off the cost of his five-year-old surgery, his mother sewed clothes for others, his father did odd jobs, and his sister, who loved to draw, also went to the garment factory to do small work.
Shang Chujiu wanted to make money.
In 2009, after being introduced by a friend, he opened his first online store, recharged his phone bill and sold game coins, because of his lack of experience and poor management. In 2012, Shangchujiu opened a second online store, selling bags through a consignment, and later selling plush toys and throw pillows. Plush toys and throw pillows have all been explosive, "when it is good, there are hundreds of orders a day, then I thought I could make money to support my family by my own ability," Shang Chujiu said.
However, with the imitation and vicious competition of peer stores, Shangchujiu, who adheres to the quality bottom line, was finally crushed by peers, and Shangchujiu's online store operation road fell into a three-year trough.
Shang Chujiu did not have the heart to open a store, played games all day, and every time his father came to discuss with him how to save the store, he ended the topic with a quarrel, and the father and son gradually lost their words.
But Shang Chujiu had a belief from his heart: "I just have bad legs, but I'm not a fool, and one day I will prove it." ”
03
"In the world of sound, I stood up"
The day finally arrived in 2018.
By chance, Shang Chujiu discovered the Himalayas when he was looking for a book review for his mother, "That feeling was like Columbus found a new continent, and I really understood that the novel I had heard before was called audiobook." "In the lonely memory of growing up, he didn't have any friends, and he spent a lot of time listening to books.
Shang Chujiu's heart once again lit a flame of hope: "I feel that I am born for audiobooks, and I want to broadcast audiobooks." ”
He started from the course of the Himalayan audio studio training camp, from a person who spoke with a Hebei accent, did not know how to suppress ups and downs, and even rarely spoke, to reading and recording every day, substituting the language of the characters in the movies and novels he watched into the characters, and pondering the characters little by little.
In the process of learning to act, he was also persuaded to quit, he thought of the strange eyes of others when he was a child and his mother said that he dreamed of seeing him stand up, he secretly resolved that he must fight for breath to "stand up".
In June 2019, after a period of trial and error, he received his first book, the name of "Shang Chu Jiu" appearing on the Himalayas for the first time as an actor. In 2020, he became a contracted anchor for Himalaya.
Becoming a contracted anchor, Shang Chujiu has a sense of solidity in finding the organization in his heart.
Shang Chujiu spends dozens of hours a day on the recording of audiobooks, and after several years of wandering in the audio world, he can currently obtain a stable income by broadcasting audiobooks, "much stronger than opening an online store", compared to the premise of operating an online store, the heart is more down-to-earth.
"I felt myself standing up in the world of sound." He said.
Now, Shang Chujiu spends dozens of hours a day on audiobooks, but he has also gained a long-lost stretch. He changed the big TV to his family, and gradually became the breadwinner of the family, and more importantly, he found his way.
His family, who didn't support him at first, gave up the online store now understands him, and his sister has started working with him on sound work and learning to do post-editing.
Shang Chujiu has more than 75,000 fans in the Himalayas, and his high-quality audio drama "Urban Super Soldier King" has been played more than 32 million times. Seeing that some fans left messages under the show saying "the anchor is great", "thank you for the voice accompanying me", "this role was played by you", he felt extremely satisfied and proud.
Urban Super Soldier King
"I didn't expect that A person who had not been to school could do literature-related work and influence other people." Shang Chujiu said.
Now, every day of Shang Chujiu is full and running, his "spirit" has stood up in the himalayan sound world, and he hopes to save enough money one day for surgery so that his body can stand up.
"When I wanted to go to the Himalayas, she made me find the meaning of getting up every day."
Host Q&A
Q: Do you remember how you felt when you received your first book?
Shang Chujiu: In June 2019, I won the first book of my life, happy like a husky, excited, the first recording fee I received bought my dad his favorite dishes, I proved to him and my family that I could do it, I succeeded. Secretly said that after crying that night, the pressure of the long time was suddenly released.
Q: When you enter the audiobook industry, do you have any special feelings?
Shang Chujiu: I am very lucky to be able to enter this industry by coincidence, and at the same time, I am very lucky to meet a lot of big brothers and sisters who have helped me all the way, they have taken me to understand this industry, taken me to learn, let me see the future of this industry, they are all my nobles.