The flight of a Chinese cabbage

She is a beautiful and talented girl. She went to college at 15; She became a university teacher at the age of 19. 24 years old teaching graduate students at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Then she fell in love, got married, and had children. Everything went smoothly, and there were flowers and applause everywhere. But when she was twenty-nine, God suddenly closed the door to happiness and plunged her into a dark abyss. She developed a lesion of the optic nerve and became blind. Along with the light, she lost her husband and children.

She is like a martial arts master suddenly abolished, all her ability in an instant disappeared without a trace. With the help of her parents, she began to learn how to dress, how to eat, and how walk. These seemingly ordinary things, now for her, are more difficult than the sky. What stifles her most is that she cannot read, write, or acquire knowledge and information. How cruel and terrible it was for a university professor!

She was going to learn Braille, she was going to go back to her area of knowledge. However, this year, she has been 30 years old. Of course, a 30-year-old woman can't go to a blind school anymore. So she had to teach herself. She began to "read" Braille. Of course, she "sees" with her fingers. She can only see with her fingers instead of her eyes. The first English word she touched was Chinese cabbage. The letters were C-A-B-B-A-G-E. She touched the seven letters for an hour, but she still did not understand that the word was "Chinese cabbage". She cried when her father told her the answer. She wept at her clumsiness. She is an English professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and does not know the English word "Chinese cabbage". But before that, she was a quick read!

She could not believe she had tripped over a "cabbage". She wants to live, she wants to stand up, she wants to be a Chinese cabbage that can fly and soar again in the sky of knowledge. She began her struggle. She locked herself in her room and practiced, again and again, felt the words, again and again, memorized them again and again. Then she recited what she had learned to her father. Once, while listening to her recitation, my father noticed that the Braille block was covered with red blood. When she finished, her father took her hand and found that all her fingers were worn out. Her father took her hands in his and burst into tears. The father said, "Daughter, I don't want to learn. Dad gets paid. Dad can support you for life." She did not cry. Instead, she comforted her father with a smile and said, "Dad, you must believe your daughter, I can do it!"

One night, she sneaked out of the house alone. The father was worried and looked around. Finally, my father found her in the classroom where she had worked. The students have been dismissed. The lights in the classroom have gone out. She stood alone on the platform, repeatedly measuring the blackboard with her hand. The father stood in the classroom, silently looking at his daughter in the dark, in his heart a burst of pain. The father knew that his daughter was preparing to return to the podium. It was only when she was ready to leave that her father came up to her and took her hand. She was so happy, she said, "Dad, I've made it, I've found the way to write on the board!" Father said: "You are a flying cabbage, you will be able to succeed!"

She finally returned to the podium. Her blackboard writing is still so standard, and elegant; Her pronunciation is still accurate and clear; her multimedia use is still rich and colorful; Her image was still as graceful and smiling as ever. Everything was as it had been before the illness so that after two weeks of class, the students did not know that their teacher had lost his sight. Finally, some students found her walking on the campus with a blind cane, the students know her misfortune, this just knows her to make every class pay hard and hard work. Her classmates were moved to tears, but she laughed. With a smile, she told the story of a Chinese cabbage's struggle and encouraged her classmates to cherish their time.

Her name is Yang Jia. Yang Jia learned Braille, using computer braille software, and set foot on the fast track of their career. She studied public administration at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government as a blind woman and received an MPA degree from Harvard. Currently, Yang Jia is the Vice Chairman of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, a member of the 11th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), and Vice Chairman of the China Association of Blind Persons.

This is Yang Jia, a successful blind man, a flying cabbage! Her success is as she said in her speech: one can be blind, but not without insight; Can have no vision, but not without vision; Can not see the road, but can not stop the pace of progress!