Sanqin Metropolis Daily-Sanqin Net News (Reporter Ji Na)When Zhang Hongwei was 24 years old, he was blind due to an accident. Learning Braille helped him open the "door of light". He and his wife opened the massage shop abroad; As a child, Dou Ying was blind because of illness. She successfully completed her college studies by studying Braille, and now she is preparing for her social work certificate … January 4th is World Braille Day. Many blind people said that reading Braille opened a window in their lives, and the six points at the fingertips took them to appreciate the beauty in the distance.
He opened the massage parlor abroad.
On January 3rd, the reporter came to Shaanxi White Cane Service Center for the Visually Impaired. Zhang Hongwei and Dou Ying were teaching Braille to several blind people and volunteers.
The book "Live Beautiful" in Braille is much thicker than normal books. Everyone touches the bumps with their fingertips to "read".
Later, Zhang Hongwei seriously taught everyone to use Braille tablets and braille pens to write the words "more joy, longer peace". I saw that the tablet consists of an upper piece and a lower piece. The upper piece has a hole and the lower piece has a concave braille die for fixing braille paper. Everyone uses their wrists to control the tip of the braille pen to move up and down and write down a string of braille.
Zhang Hongwei, 57, is sometimes smiling and sometimes forceful. At the age of 24, he lost his sight because of an accident. "At that time, I couldn’t accept the life changes from seeing to seeing, and my mood was very poor." Zhang Hongwei recalled that a year later, with the support of his family, he began to learn Braille. Because the students in blind and dumb schools are generally younger than him, he had to choose to study Braille at home with the help of a teacher.
"At that time, there was a lack of special tools like this. The teacher wrote Braille on the cardboard case and put it on with a match stick. It was just six points. I practiced touching it with my hands and memorized the changes of the points." Zhang Hongwei still remembers the first blind book he read called "If Give Me Three Days of Light". He studied and read it, and it took him three months to finish reading the book. The story in the book tells him that no matter how difficult it is, as long as you face it bravely and work hard, you will be able to create your own miracle. Then, he went to the teacher’s house with the book in his arms, and the teacher randomly checked the contents of the book, and he could read it smoothly. At this point, he learned to use Braille.
In fact, the purpose of learning Braille at first was simple, just to remember the phone number in the address book. Unexpectedly, learning Braille opened a "bright door" for himself and let him see the wonderful world.
Later, Zhang Hongwei went to Beijing Union University to study acupuncture and massage for four years. Through six dots and more than 60 changes in Braille, he learned professional knowledge with his fingertips and read "Four Great Classical Novels". After graduation, he worked as a masseur in Shenzhen, Beijing and Shanghai.
In 2010, 42-year-old Zhang Hongwei went to the United States with his wife and children, started a massage shop, recruited 22 employees, and now it has developed into three chain stores. Later, he returned to China to accompany and take care of his old mother in Xi ‘an.
Now, in addition to Braille, he also uses e-books and translation software to communicate with foreign friends, and sometimes letters are written in English.
Braille opened a window for her.
"Post-80s" Dou Ying also realized her college dream by learning Braille.
Her hometown is in Gansu. When she was 4 years old, she was blind because of illness, so she had to rely on hearing and barely finished primary school in the local area. Later, my parents found out that there was a school for the blind and dumb in Xi ‘an, so they sent her to study in Xi ‘an.
Recalling the scene when she first learned Braille, Dou Ying remembers that she learned quickly at that time, and she could read and write in about two weeks, but the reading and writing speed was slow. Most people write with their right hand. Because her right limb is inconvenient to move, she can only write with her left hand. She began to practice with simple letters and numbers, gradually increasing the difficulty to words and sentences. It took her two months to completely learn to read and write Braille.
After that, she attended high school in Chongqing and university in Changchun for four years, majoring in vocal music. After graduation, she worked as a customer service and anchor, but these are not her favorite jobs. "I hope to be a social worker in the future to serve the visually impaired and let more blind people live a wonderful life." Dou Ying said that now, she is preparing for the social work certificate through Braille and e-books. Raised braille notes also recorded the process of her dream pursuit.
Visually impaired people feel the beauty in the distance with their fingertips
According to statistics, there are more than 17 million visually impaired people in China, of which the number of visually impaired people in Shaanxi is about 340 thousand. January 4th is World Braille Day, which aims to promote people’s awareness of the importance of Braille as a means of communication for the full realization of human rights of the blind and the visually impaired.
After listening to the story of Zhang Hongwei and Dou Ying, Mr. Ren, a blind man, felt deeply. "I haven’t studied Braille before. I saw two teachers show you how to read and write Braille today. I feel very good, as if I have entered a colorful’ convex and concave world’." Mr. Ren said that nowadays, more and more Braille appears in public places, such as elevator buttons, medicine boxes and signs, etc., and he should study Braille well in the future.
Jia Rui, a junior high school Chinese teacher in the visually impaired department of Xi ‘an School for the Blind and Dumb, said that Braille, also known as Braille, is a tactile symbol designed for the blind. At present, our country uses universal Braille, which consists of six points, and the pronunciation is expressed by the protrusion of the points. Braille can not only help visually impaired people improve their knowledge level, but also help them to participate in social life and feel the beauty in the distance with their fingertips …
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