Jiang: Thunder in silence.

Editor? | Dong Yuping

Silent flowers bloom and dreams return to Jiangnan.

At the age of half, she was deaf in both ears, but she learned to "listen" and "speak" by reading lips: with excellent academic performance, she became the only student in her hometown town who was admitted to a key university in recent years and eventually went to Tsinghua to study for a doctorate?

During her college years, she won the recognition and honor of self-reliant college students, Bethune Medical Scholarship, Dongrong Scholarship and so on. When he was a doctor, he was selected as a tribute figure in 202 1 Touching Hunan, a student figure in Tsinghua University, and a person who touched China in 202/KLOC-0?

She is the deaf-mute girl Xiang Jie and Dr. Jiang from Tsinghua.

Thunder in silence, smooth road in thorns. Every step of life, every step of growth and every step of learning is a "difficult mode", but Jiang said, "I have never regarded myself as a weak person because I can't hear. I believe that I will not be worse than others. "

"I don't complain, I don't feel inferior."

Put the hands of time back to 30 years ago.

1992, Jiang was born in a Yao family in Yizhang County, Chenzhou City, Hunan Province, and took her mother's surname Jiang, because her father wanted her to be as good as her mother when she grew up.

Her arrival added a lot of laughter to the whole family. As a teacher, her parents also gave her a poetic name "Dream South", which means "The years are quiet and the dreams are in the south of the Yangtze River".

However, all this beauty was shattered by the sudden "bad news".

One night when Jiang was half a year old, he had a high fever due to pneumonia. Meng Nan, who is lively and loves to laugh, was tortured by illness and cried. His parents, holding little Meng Nan, trotted to the local clinic. Because the medical facilities were not perfect at that time, they injected too much streptomycin to reduce the fever.

Although the fever has gone down, the hearing of the ear is seriously damaged-the hearing loss of the left ear exceeds 105 dB, while the hearing loss of the right ear is completely lost.

Since Jiang was deaf in both ears, her parents have never lived a peaceful day. Sometimes I wake up in my sleep in the middle of the night, but I still can't believe it and don't want to accept the reality that my daughter can't hear.

"As long as there is a glimmer of hope, we will not give up." In the cold and summer, Jiang's parents embarked on a long road of "seeking medical treatment".

There is really nothing we can do. The present medical technology can't reach the level of restoring hearing. Deafness has become an established fact. I hope you can understand?

For this result, the doctor can't do anything, which is equivalent to that at that time, Jiang couldn't hear any sound even with a hearing aid.

"Other children also started to go to school. What should we do in Meng Nan? " Parents began to worry about Meng Nan's future. Good-hearted people persuade: send it to a school for the deaf!

This means that Jiang will bid farewell to this "world with sound" completely.

"Even if the whole world abandons you, we will accompany you." Children are the pride and wealth of parents. Jiang's parents gritted their teeth and started a new journey again-growing up with you.

"This is something that can drive normal people crazy." Jiang's parents said that when they conducted language training for Jiang, the whole process was extremely difficult.

At first, Jiang's parents put her fleshy little hands on their throats and let her feel the vibration of their vocal cords over and over again. After a while, they put Meng Nan's hand to her mouth and let her feel the breath of different words when she spoke?

"A word may be read 10000 times or 100000 times." In this way, Meng Nan can pronounce slowly. Although it is not so clear, it is a great encouragement for parents.

Thousands of lights are on in the dead of night. Every night, Jiang's parents, like ordinary parents, tell stories to their daughters themselves. They were so immersed in such a moment that they even forgot that their daughter couldn't hear their voices at all.

"When I first heard my daughter call me dad, was I real?" When Jiang's father recalled this photo, he laughed and cried.

"There may be some sounds with very similar mouths. The melons should put my hand on their mouth to feel the airflow. Flowers, airflow; Melon,no. " Jiang said that it takes many feedbacks to develop such a "muscle memory" slowly.

God closed a door mercilessly, but Jiang tried to open a window for himself with the selfless help of his parents.

It is hard for ordinary people to imagine how Jiang learned to read lips through a lot of repetition and practice in a silent world.

Here comes the problem. Even if Jiang learned lip language, he still had "nothing to learn".

Thanks to the hard work of his parents, Jiang did not attend a special education school for a day, because his parents insisted that his daughter attend a public primary school. However, no formal primary school would accept her, so that she went to preschool for another year at school age.

How far is a flight of steps? Some people say it's just a few steps. But for Jiang at that time, it was length that prevented her from reaching poetry and the distance.

Jiang said that one scene left a very deep impression on her. At that time, her preschool class and her primary school had a step. The primary school is above the steps, and her preschool class is below them. Standing on the steps, she saw other peers climb the steps to go to primary school, and she walked down the steps herself. "I cried on the steps."

"Meng Nan can go to normal school!" After learning that a school "made an exception" to recruit ginger, her parents hugged each other and cried. They were busy buying new clothes and schoolbags for Meng Nan, and even tied a beautiful ponytail for her on the day of school.

The school also told Jiang, the class teacher at that time. The only "special" thing is that she must sit in the first row of the class and listen to the class by looking at the teacher's lips.

No one can believe that sitting in the front row of the classroom, reading the teacher's mouth, relying on amazing efforts and memory, Jiang has always been among the best.

Even, in order to make up for the extra year in preschool, she taught herself all the courses in grade five in the summer vacation of grade four.

"In elementary school, I skipped class twice. Because I often skip classes, my classmates think I am in the wrong classroom. " Jiang said with a smile.

"I don't complain, I don't feel inferior." With the growth of age, Jiang learned more about deafness and felt the strange eyes of others, but she never felt that she was a weak person. She also believes that she can do better. After setting a certain goal, she went all out to fight. "I will try to be the pride of my parents!"

Jiang's road to study seems to be "open"-singing all the way.

Since junior high school, she has been admitted to Chenzhou No.6 Middle School with the second place in the city. 20 10, she took the college entrance examination. Although the total score exceeded one line, she felt that she didn't play well, so she repeated for another year and was admitted to Jilin University with a score of 6 15.

In this way, the competitive Jiang was admitted to the undergraduate and master's degree of Jilin University with excellent results. And on 20 18, he was admitted to the Department of Tumor Immunity and Machine Learning in the School of Life Sciences of Tsinghua University.

Jiang said that she often tells others not to lower their requirements and standards just because they can't hear. "I hope they ask me to be a healthy person."

"There are so many beautiful voices in the world."

There is a lot of noise, cicadas and frogs? These sounds have long been commonplace for ordinary people.

But for Jiang Lai, all sounds are strange, even terrible. Because before the cochlear implant was installed, her world was still "quiet".

20 10, Jiang got the real hearing for the first time. At that time, the society organized a public welfare project to implant cochlear implants for her free of charge.

"This is a big event at home!" Jiang introduced his parents briefly and put on reading glasses. Like children who did something wrong, they crept under the desk lamp and read word by word for fear of missing something and affecting their daughter's hearing.

Analyze, discuss and demonstrate? Unconsciously, a fish-belly grey has appeared on the horizon. After a night of fruitless research, Jiang's parents went to Changsha, the provincial capital, to consult a professional doctor without telling her.

"Although we know the result, we still want to have a try." The reply is still: the risk is too great, and surgery is not recommended.

Time flies. Jiang will graduate from Jilin University on 20 18. This also ushered in her second opportunity to "get the right to speak."

Virtue is not alone, there must be neighbors. A doctor in Changchun, where Jiang's school is located, was very moved and moved after seeing her story many times.

After mature thinking, the doctor contacted Jiang's parents and took her to the clinic to persuade her to implant a cochlear implant.

Facing everything that broke in, Jiang's family felt both happy and nervous. "I am not afraid of the pain caused by surgery, and I am afraid that there is no hope."

"You have come so far, why don't you give it a try?" Dr. Jiang's words touched me very much.

As the doctor said, after 26 years of wind and rain, it has broken through in the silent world. She is used to the silence and traceless years of flowers. "But I always believe that the flowers are blooming, and the years leave marks!"

The heat wave is rolling, and the willows are still spitting hot air under the scorching sun. This is a normal summer. For Jiang, this is memorable because she successfully implanted a cochlear implant in her right ear.

Here comes the problem again. Because Jiang has been silent for a long time, he is not used to the outside voice. Ordinary ambient sounds are beyond her body's tolerance, which makes her feel "dizzy and her eyes are shaking".

"That kind of feeling is really uncomfortable, like heatstroke and carsickness." Jiang said that even if there are more discomforts, she can overcome them. "I want to feel the voice of this world with my heart!"

At first, she shut herself in a closed room and felt her body's ability to touch sound by adjusting the volume of her cochlea. Then, slowly try to go out and listen to the voices outside. After a period of adaptive training, she understood one thing: "There are so many beautiful voices in the world!" "

For ginger who has regained a new "sound", all the sounds are fresh. Sometimes, when she hears the chirping of birds, she will laugh happily; Sometimes, she feels inexplicably sad when she hears the sound of the wind blowing the leaves.

"Challenging myself is part of my life." When she heard the world again, she had to learn pronunciation, Chinese and English again and correct it word for word. After a short period of trouble, she began to get used to this slightly noisy world.

"My parents are my pride!" Jiang doesn't remember how her parents taught her to speak when she was a child. At some moments now, she said that she seemed to see the scene of sitting in her parents' arms and practicing her mouth in front of the mirror.

"She successfully challenged herself and created a medical miracle." The doctor was ecstatic when he learned that Jiang had successfully adapted to the sound: "I like Meng Nan! It is precisely because Meng Nan has effectively trained the pronunciation organs by learning simulated pronunciation that it is possible to install cochlear implants today to learn normal pronunciation again. "

Jiang has a beautiful name. Her life, with her own efforts, wrote a quiet life. When she dreams of returning to Jiangnan, she will be sure to thank herself for not being timid.

After hearing recovered, Jiang still kept the habit of writing letters and communicating with his parents. She sends text messages and WeChat to her parents almost every day to share her daily gains.

Once, busy with housework, I didn't notice the short messages from my daughter Jiang.

"Bell-"cell phone rang, and you see, it turned out to be a phone call from Jiang. In a hurry, my mobile phone almost fell to the ground. "Dad, did you see the message I sent you?" "I was washing dishes just now, depending on the situation."

Have a rest at home, and then hang up.

"The child's mother, the child's mother, amazing, amazing?" When Jiang heard the news, he repeatedly asked, and when he saw squatting on the ground and crying, he stamped his feet.

"For 26 years, my daughter called me for the first time!" When' tis once spoken, the old couple embraced and wept.

20 18 was admitted as a doctoral student by the School of Life Sciences of Tsinghua University. The news shocked her alma mater and hometown.

Jiang's parents are filled with emotion. Along the way, they used the unimaginable persistence and love of ordinary people to pry open the frozen soil of their daughter's fate bit by bit. Xiao Xinwei finally bloomed impressive flowers, shining with her own beauty.

Now, on the campus of Tsinghua University, I insist on running in the morning every day. Sometimes when walking through the Woods, a strange voice came into her ear, and she stopped to hear more clearly. "I won't miss any beautiful voice!"

In China, there are many deaf people with dreams like Jiang. They all have the desire to integrate into society and enjoy a better life, and they all have life plans to achieve their goals and pursue their dreams. In order to realize these needs and dreams, we need more attention and help from society.

In recent years, on the International Day of the Deaf, activities such as Teana Audio AI technology, charity foundation and Teana Lab have been carried out free of charge in the field of social responsibility for hearing-impaired people, helping more "Jiang" to break the hearing barrier and realize their dreams.

"Xiangmeizi Jiang Mengnan moved China!"

"know life is not afraid, and it will be rehabilitated every day."

On March 4th, Sister Jiang, who just won 202 1 "Touching China Person of the Year", wrote this sentence in a circle of friends.

The silent world gave Jiang not the disillusionment of hope, but a brave heart to overcome difficulties.

"The honor I won cannot be separated from the encouragement and support of my parents." Jiang said that she was lucky to get help from many people. She will stick to her original heart, be neither arrogant nor impetuous, and will not disappoint those who care about and help her.

At the beginning of this year, the selection activity officially launched online voting. Sanxiang Metropolis Daily and New Hunan Metropolitan Channel opened the column of "Exhibition of Candidates' Deeds", and published Jiang's deeds with the title of "Deaf-mute girl, attacking Tsinghua to study for a PhD", which touched the hearts of countless netizens. In the end, Jiang won the first place in online voting with 2 12325 votes.

From silent world to inspirational learning; From Yizhang Yaoxiang to Dr. Tsinghua. Jiang's life counterattack story has injected youthful strength into China in the new era. Jiang was elected as 202 1 "Touching China Person of the Year".

"Xiangmeizi Jiang Mengnan moved China!" The news is like wings, and overnight, our deeds resounded through the whole network and became a household name.

I didn't give up because I was deaf in my early years, and I didn't give up because of the talent of others. Jiang always believes that the world is fair. As long as you keep doing it, stupid birds fly first, and persevere, you will succeed.

At the award ceremony, the host Jing Yidan said to Jiang in lip language: I admire your parents very much.

At that moment, Jiang wanted to thank his parents most.

"What do you think, you are like us, we think, yes, but you are so unusual. Break the silence, there is a loud horn in your heart. In the new era, you have a firmer direction. The bird that flies first must want to fly further. You are late, and you are blooming like a flower. " ?

This is the acceptance speech written for Jiang by Touching China.

"I especially want to know what kind of people your parents are and how strong their learning ability is, so I can teach you." Looking at the youthful ginger, the host Jing Yidan asked softly.

"When my parents were teaching me, the difficulties in my heart were unimaginable to ordinary people? I am very grateful to my parents. " Jiang replied.

When asked about Jiang's major, he said, "My major has been making some efforts for human life and health. When I was a child, my dream was to become a doctor and save lives. Everyone can live equally, whether healthy or disabled. "

As Jiang said, she was determined to be a doctor to heal the wounded and rescue the dying from childhood, to treat people in the same predicament as herself, and "riveted her strength" to be a principal.

"The world kissed me with pain, and I will repay it with a song." In college, she wanted to choose clinical medicine, but because of her hearing, she chose pharmacy. Now, she is studying for a doctorate in bioinformatics in Tsinghua University, with the goal of solving the problem of life and health, which still conforms to her childhood dream.

At the same time, Jiang is a barrier-free "detail control". After touching the "AI" subtitle function of the mobile phone, she felt that it was very convenient for the hearing-impaired people, but it was in urgent need of improvement.

"Many domestic mobile phones have realized this function, but some privacy rights and information rights are involved. I hope the state can introduce relevant laws and regulations to ensure the promotion of this function." Jiang said he hoped the public would pay more attention to the construction of barrier-free facilities.

When talking about the message to hearing-impaired children, he said, "I want to tell them not to give up, but to persist." No matter in your study or life, you may have encountered some big or small problems. I have encountered these problems. I feel the same way. I can get to this point because I am insisting and I see the dawn of life. "

During his three years in Tsinghua, Jiang insisted on working with teachers and classmates to popularize the barrier-free concept to the public, teachers and students inside and outside the school and promote the construction of barrier-free environment on campus.

On 20 18, Jiang, as a student representative of Tsinghua University, attended the international academic conference on barrier-free development and made a speech. 20 19 she went to remote areas to take part in educational public welfare projects to answer questions and help local students.

In 2020, she was elected as the president of Tsinghua University Student Barrier-free Development Research Association, and as one of the core members, she drafted and published the Initiative of Being a Messenger of a Barrier-free World.

During her tenure as president, she never stopped organizing and participating in barrier-free forums, holding barrier-free concept experience activities, and popularizing barrier-free concepts to the public?

"To solve the problem of life and health, if there is a problem in the field of life science that can be solved and overcome, it will definitely benefit not just one person, but everyone." Jiang said that if she can do something to make others less hard and difficult, she thinks it is a very meaningful thing. If everyone can make a little effort, the world will be beautiful.

It is not difficult to see from Jiang that the road to success is not crowded, because there are too few people who can self-discipline, and this is a road that few people take. Just like the marathon track, there are many people at the start, but few people actually reach the finish line. Those who can persist to the end are strong people who dare to challenge themselves and have a high degree of self-discipline.

"I finally see that all the dreams are blooming, and how loud the young songs are chasing?" This song "Invisible Wings" is a song that Jiang likes very much. Sometimes, when she is thinking on a bench in the Woods, she will hum gently.

At the end of this year, Jiang, who is about to graduate with a doctorate, outlined two future directions for himself, whether to continue the road of scientific research or engage in public affairs. "My ideal is to make the society better and realize my personal value. No matter which way I choose, it is actually the same goal. "

I believe that Jiang, who breaks through the silent world and carries dreams, will fly higher and farther!