Who's Xie Kunshan?

Xie Kunshan Xie Kunshan (1958-), a native of Taitung County, Taiwan, is a famous mouth and foot painter. I have published my autobiography "I am Xie Kunshan" and performed "The Story of Xie Kunshan" in the Aida Theater of Tzu Chi Aida TV Station. Although Xie Kunshan is disabled, he was not born without hands and feet. He was born in a poor family in Taitung. His mother is Zhang Guihua and his father is Xie Shu. Since I was a child, I often have to help my parents do business and work to supplement my family. Therefore, after graduating from primary school, Xie Kunshan did not continue his studies, but went to work in a factory. Later, my family moved to Taipei. 16 years old, had an accident while working in a factory, and her limbs were burned. After being rescued by the doctor, only one foot was saved. When the whole family was in despair, Xie Kunshan's mother bravely stood up and told the doctor that as long as Xie Kunshan was still alive, it was enough. Since then, Xie Kunshan decided not to give in to depression, but invented many ways to eat. Unfortunately, he accidentally lost an eye during his stumbling back to study and life. The world of art made Xie Kunshan forget his disability, which inspired him greatly. 1980 studied under Chen Huilan and painter Wu, and tried to awaken the thinking of painting and returned to school to complete junior high school and senior high school education. During this period, he really fell in love with his wife Lin, and finally got married, gave birth to two daughters, and became a famous professional painter in Taiwan Province Province. At present, Xie Kunshan is the Asian director of the International Mouth and Foot Painting Association. 1996 won the 34th National Top Ten Outstanding Youth. Xie Kunshan was born in Taitung City, Taiwan Province Province on 1958. 1974, Xie Kunshan is 16 years old. Because his family was poor, he dropped out of primary school to work. At this time, he has been working for 4 years. I have seen photos of him 16 years old. He is a handsome boy with a well-proportioned figure and a slightly shy expression. He told me that at that time he was most proud of his strong body and dared to compete with any workmate. 13 years old, he was able to carry 100 kg forage sack running all the way. Tragedy happened inadvertently. One day, he was working on the third floor of the factory, receiving steel pipes handed over by workers downstairs. Suddenly, the steel pipe ran into three high-voltage lines on the balcony. Suddenly, sparks flew and exploded, and Xie Kunshan was immediately electrified into a "carbon man". The doctor told the family members who arrived at the hospital that they must amputate immediately. Xie Kunshan has no money to buy any insurance or enjoy any social welfare. Expensive medical expenses are like a mountain on a family's mind. Relatives and friends advised Xie Kunshan's parents to give up, but her mother firmly said: "Save it anyway, save it, even if Kunshan calls me' Mom' again, it will be enough!" During the amputation, Xie Kunshan was very clear-headed. Under the action of anesthetic, he can't feel pain, but he can hear the sound of steel knife cutting bone, which is real and harsh. After the operation, he felt weak and speechless, just thirsty. When he saw a glass of water on the table beside the bed, he instinctively wanted to catch it. A hand stretched out, suddenly froze, no hand! At that moment, Xie Kunshan really realized that the powerful hands that followed him in 16 were dead. After leaving the hospital, go back to that shabby home. A mother is like taking care of a newborn baby. She eats three meals a day, first feeding him, and then eating some leftover rice and soup. In order to reduce her mother's worries and for her later life, Xie Kunshan thought hard and finally invented a set of utensils that can support herself. This is a spiral hollow iron ring. Wrap a movable sleeve around the end of the iron ring, and then weld and bend the end of the spoon into an L-shaped cone. When he wants to eat, he puts the spiral hoop on the short arm of his right hand and left hand, and then inserts a special spoon into the sleeve at the end of the hoop, which becomes his special tableware. Xie Kunshan wittily named it "Kunshan" brand buffet in his speech. Later, he invented many such devices to solve the problem of eating and drinking Lazarus. Xie Kunshan began to seriously think about his own path. It suddenly occurred to him that it was good to be a writer. He doesn't think he is far from a writer with only a primary school level cultural background. What he thinks is that at least you must learn to write before you can become a writer. One day, my little sister was doing her homework and looked at the pen in her hand. Xie Kunshan read it for a long time, and his thoughts fluctuated: Without her hands, can she really stop writing all her life? I have no hands, but I still have a mouth! So, Xie Kunshan struggled to write down his name with a pen, and the three words stuck together and staggered; The pen between the teeth and the tongue is like a vise with a loose screw. I can't hold my pen steadily, and my mouth is watering. Nevertheless, Xie Kunshan was glad that he had taken another step. In the days that followed, he kept practicing, and his mouth was poked by a pencil, but he never gave up. Finally, when the words became smaller and smaller, he said to himself loudly, "It turns out that the most difficult things in the world are not done by hand!" " "Cut your own way! In the first seven years after discharge, Xie Kunshan seldom went out. But more than 2500 days and nights, he didn't spend a day in loneliness, loneliness and boredom. Since childhood, Xie Kunshan has been interested in painting and often doodles. After the injury, although the disaster took away his intact limbs, it also left him complete time to do what he liked. A poor and ill family has already owed a lot of money, so it is impossible to support him to learn painting. It is impossible for illiterate parents to understand his hobby, which is too extravagant for the poor. Xie Kunshan can only try to reduce his living needs, save half a dollar and ask his brother who works outside occasionally to buy him a bottle of soda, a pencil and a few sheets of white paper, and draw carefully. The pen in his mouth became his closest confidant. He just paddled one by one with his head buried and walked step by step. In the next 20 years, he turned his mouth into his most effective "hand"; And the price he has to pay is that his mouth has festered since then, and no day is intact-the only difference is that there are more than a dozen blood bubbles or five or six. What if the pencil is broken? Xie Kunshan thought of another way: he found a small steel knife, put the handle on the molar and took a hard bite. He bit the handle out of shape in order to hold it steady. Then, he pushed the pencil to the table, pressed it with the short arm left by his right hand, and sharpened the nib with a knife in his mouth. After sweating like a pig, looking at his "success", he got excited again and shouted in his heart: "This scrap of paper is confidence. Xie Kunshan, today you not only cut off the pencil, but also cut off your future path! "Later, he heard that Mr. Wu, a famous painter in Taiwan Province, was giving a class at the Academy of Fine Arts, so he tried his best to find him and asked to learn painting from his teacher. Teacher Wu was moved by his sincerity and agreed to let him go to class. Xie Kunshan was ecstatic. Since then, he has spent more than two hours to school every day, dragging a few kilograms of prosthetic limbs, rain or shine. This is not difficult. The most difficult thing is that the problem of difficult urine can't be solved. At that time, he had not invented the "diaper assistant" that he uses every day, so it is always bad to ask teachers and classmates for help, right? He didn't drink water from morning till night, and endured urinating at school for 8 hours until he choked to pee! In order to make up for the weak cultural foundation, Xie Kunshan chose "junior high school" at the age of 24 (equivalent to junior high school in Chinese mainland). On the day of registration, Xie Kunshan stood in the registration team whose age and height were far from him, with mixed feelings in his heart. At this moment, a teacher came over and looked at his empty sleeves. He said meaningfully: "We are going to' write' our homework here!" Xie Kunshan a listen to, but relaxed in my heart. He said loudly: "report teacher, I wrote this registration form!" " "Xie Kunshan cherishes the opportunity to return to class again and encourages himself to bury himself in front of his desk and easel all day. Due to physical inconvenience, he spends much more time than others. To this end, he asked himself to sleep for four or five hours at most every day, and gave birth to a set of philosophy that "less sleep is more work". Three years passed quickly. In the year of graduation, Xie Kunshan, like all the rising candidates, entered the examination room of the senior high school entrance examination and was admitted to Jianzhong, the best middle school in North China with excellent results. In the first exam after entering school, Xie Kunshan's score was the third from the bottom. He struggled to catch up, and as a result, his score was still third in the monthly exam the next month, but this time it was positive. Looking at the report card, Xie Kunshan smiled happily. "We always have more than we lose!" I have interviewed Xie Kunshan many times. In the face of disabled people, ordinary people are usually a little uncomfortable, afraid of touching the hidden pain of others, so there is always some embarrassment. But for Xie Kunshan, these are worries. He suddenly makes you feel that he can take care of himself completely. He is no different from you. Indeed, his hearty laughter and humorous talk completely made me forget that he was a disabled person with only one limb left! I asked Xie Kunshan, "I mean, at the beginning, did you ever think about suicide?" His answer is simple: "no, there is no such idea at all." I was thinking, if you want to go with your luggage, you can go without it, so why not put it down and walk easily? So I don't care about my body, I don't hide, and I never hide in my room. " "But such misfortune, the average person is unbearable. That is very desperate. " "I never think about what I have lost, I think about what I still have!" It is with such an attitude towards life that no matter how difficult it is, he walks all the way with a grateful heart; We can not only find our own happiness, but also help others and give back to the society as much as possible. In the interview, the word I heard most from Xie Kunshan was "gratitude". He thanked his parents, teachers, wives, friends and many people who helped, supported and encouraged him. Out of gratitude, he tried his best to help society and others. No matter how busy he is, he has to spare at least one day a month to volunteer at Tzu Chi Hospital to help the most desperate people. A woman lost her husband in a sudden gas explosion, and she was badly burned. Her beautiful face twisted and became ferocious and terrible. This is not the most painful. The most painful thing is that her 8-year-old baby daughter is scared to cry when she sees her, and she never dares to go near her again. Xie Kunshan listened to her intermittent story and said, "You don't love yourself." Looking at the woman's puzzled eyes, Xie Kunshan said, "If this happened to your daughter instead of you, would you like to bear the injury, pain and torture instead of her?" The woman nodded vigorously: "I do! I do. I am absolutely willing! " Xie Kunshan said, "I believe you are willing, and I absolutely believe you are willing. Please look back at your mother standing behind you at this moment. " Behind her, the mother who was combing her hair was in tears. "Your mother is not willing to give you injury, pain, bitterness? But can she? " The mother and daughter couldn't help it any longer, and tears poured out like a burst of banks and cried into a ball. When Xie Kunshan saw her for the second time, she was like a different person, with a smile and expression on her face. She was willing to care for and inspire other patients with Xie Kunshan's still sweet singing. Xie Kunshan knows that she has put down the burden and understands that no matter what happens, in fact, we always have more than we lose! "Happiness is like the sea!" I first met Xie Kunshan last summer. To be honest, when I heard the story of Xie Kunshan in an email from a foreign friend, I thought it was just another example of self-study through hard work. There are many such people or things in Chinese mainland, so why write about a person from Taiwan Province? So, when I went from Guangzhou to Zhuhai to meet Xie Kunshan, I didn't have any interview plans, just went to meet a friend of a friend. In a hotel in Zhuhai, more than five hours passed quickly. When I saw him off at Gongbei Customs, I had completely changed my original idea: he was so special and worth writing about! I really have never seen a person who has lost so much who is so successful, so confident, so happy and so happy! Anyone who has seen Xie Kunshan will be deeply impressed by his infectious laughter. When we met for the second time, he told me an episode in the journey. He boarded the plane to check the ticket and found that it was still in his backpack. He could have taken it out by himself, but he had a brainwave and said to the ticket inspector, "Miss, can you help me take the ticket out of my backpack?" The girl looked at the strange man in surprise, but soon calmed down and cooperated with him to collect tickets. After that, the young lady will take the initiative to help him put the ticket back. Xie Kunshan said, "Put it in your coat pocket!" The young lady did the same. Before leaving, Xie Kunshan pointed to his pocket with his chin and asked, "Do you know why you put it here?" The young lady has a blank face. He smiled and whispered, "This looks more handsome!" The mysterious appearance amused the rather nervous girl. Xie Kunshan walked far away and saw the ticket inspector waving goodbye to him. Xie Kunshan also encountered such a thing. One day, he and his sister were walking in the street, talking and laughing, and relaxed. Suddenly, a young lady came up from behind, took out an envelope and handed it to him, saying, "This is yours, sir. Please accept it. " Faced with this sudden opportunity, Xie Kunshan couldn't think of it at the moment. Sister helped him open the envelope, and it turned out to be 1500 Taiwan dollars! It turns out that she is the producer of a well-known column of a TV station in Taiwan Province Province. The money in the envelope is the production reward she just received. She happened to walk behind the brother and sister after work that day. Along the way, she discovered Xie Kunshan's shocking disability, and at the same time found that the disability did not leave a shadow on his life. She was deeply moved by the scene of two brothers and sisters talking and laughing. Why is a person who has the most reason to be miserable and desperate so relaxed and happy? And those who are healthy, well-fed, well-educated and well-paid, why are they still asking for trouble? She thanked Xie Kunshan for letting her experience ordinary happiness. "It turns out that happiness can be easily owned!" Xie Kunshan's wife is really a beautiful and intelligent woman. It was not a whim that she chose Xie Kunshan. Before they got married, they had known and loved each other for eight years. This well-to-do, well-loved only daughter completely fell out with her parents in order to be with her beloved. When they got married, there was no wedding reception, no ostentation and extravagance, only a borrowed dress and a ring less than 1000 yuan. I really asked, "Maybe many difficulties and problems were unexpected before marriage. After being married for more than ten years, have you ever regretted your original choice? " She replied: "In fact, the pressure was too great at first. I must consider all the difficulties, otherwise I can't make up my mind. It's easier to get married. We're better off than we thought. Xie Kunshan is a person who can give people happiness. He brought me happiness like the sea, and I still can't see the margin. " Last year, The Most Respectable Man, I am Xie Kunshan was published in Taiwan Province, which immediately caused a sensation and became a bestseller. This year, Oriental Publishing Center published a simplified Chinese version of the mainland, which was recommended by famous writers and artists Yu, Shi Tiesheng, Chen Cun, Ye, etc. Celebrities who are usually cautious give Xie Kunshan high praise. These praises are not so much for Xie Kunshan personally, but rather for a spirit represented by Xie Kunshan. His fighting spirit of not giving in to fate, his optimistic, positive and healthy attitude towards life, his rich, pure and lively inner world, his cheerful humor, and the bright smile on his face are all rare and worth cherishing today. Last autumn, the Asian edition of American Reader's Digest interviewed Xie Kunshan, but when the manuscript was sent to the headquarters for review, the magazine with the largest circulation in the world immediately stopped, reassigned troops, and verified the interviews of dozens of people mentioned in the book one by one, working for two or three months. Recently, Mr. and Mrs. Xie Kunshan learned that the interview and editing work have been completed, and Reader's Digest will introduce his story of challenging the limit of life to the whole world in 19 languages in the near future. Xie Kunshan belongs not only to Taiwan Province province, but also to China, the world and mankind. As the conclusion of this article, Mr. Dai, the chairman of the Asian Witness Center of Guinness World Records, said: "As the head of the Asian Witness Center of Guinness World Records, I have seen countless anecdotes, but I have never seen anyone who is" shocked and moved "like this. If the Guinness Book of World Records has the project of' the most respectable person in the world', I will respectfully award this medal to him-Xie Kunshan, who created the limit of mankind. "