The title map is from the text for the text. This article is from WeChat public account:Real Story Plan (ID:zhenshigushi1) , author: Wei Ding
The 27-year-old girl raced her hand to the ear, making a “listening” gesture, and then using her forefinger to form a “human” shape.
Listen to people – This is the name of the hearing impaired to ordinary people.
For the 27.8 million hearing impaired people in China, the term often means a world that is not a singer but has nothing to do with itself.
The building where the race is located is dozens of meters away, that is, the Liushi Elevated Road passing through Hangzhou City, and the trucks flying high and low are making a thunderous sound. This is a live broadcast room hidden in the complex building. It is different from other places. There is no communication and lively preparation before the broadcast. The room is silent.
The warm white ring-shaped LED lights up, and the help of the game is slightly nodding, and the live broadcast begins.
A few minutes passed, there was still no sound in the live room. The race was sitting in front of the camera, the lips were always closed, the corners of the mouth raised slightly, keeping the face smiling.
Our energy is focused on her own hands, and two slender arms are constantly in front of her, full of rules and rhythm. She is a hearing impaired person and a Taobao anchor. Selling things in sign language on the live broadcast is the daily work of Sai Sai.
At the other end of the screen, the network cable is connected to the same silent and silent factory. Most of the hearing-impaired people with spending power gather here and do physical work day after day.
China has the world’s largest number of hearing impaired people. Most of them are engaged in repetitive and low-paying jobs. Men are mainly porters, fitters and welders. Women are mainly engaged in assembly line, sewing, flower arrangement, massage, and manual work. Weaving, etc.
Inconsistent with this huge group, there are very few “listening people” and sign language translations in sign language, which makes the hearing impairedLack of communication with the outside world, trapped in a silent island.
Figure: The sign language anchor Ziwei observes and studies outside the live broadcast of the “listen” anchor. Photography | Zheng Haipeng
The emergence of sign language live broadcast, let this silent group, can also watch the live broadcast buy and buy, like the “listen people” in their eyes, enjoy the latest lifestyle.
The match is broadcast live for five or six hours a day, and live broadcasts for more than 50 items. All the information must be expressed through continuous sign language. After a live broadcast, her hands are often sore.
She enjoys all this. She likes the feeling of being noticed and praised. This quiet world is getting bigger. She is no longer the little girl who once was transparent.
This new profession allowed her to get out of the factory and stand by the camera to support herself. In the hearing impaired who have a low overall employment rate, this is a mystery.
“I can’t hear you, but I know he is jealous of me”
The game is hot with a curly hair. When you see someone, you will smile politely. The speed of sign language is very fast. The face also shows a very rich expression. For the hearing impaired, the expression is equivalent to the language. Punctuation, auxiliary, and tone.
The race was born in a small town in northern Jiangsu. When she was born, she was still a member of this sound world. Less than one year old, she lost all her hearing because of an overdose of penicillin after a fever.
Before the age of Xiaoshi, she also had a short childhood of joy and worry. Parents are embarrassed, from a younger brother, Shen Zhike, all things to let the younger sister, Apple to give big, three cream chicken cake, sister to eat two.
Figure: Shen Zhike is watching the live broadcast of his sister. Photography | He Bin
One of the little things that happened at the age of thirteen was that the race began to break into the node that isolated the world.
A foggy winter morning, Shen Zhike took his sister to the breakfast shop in the town. It was also a small child who sold fried soybean milk. When ordering, after a few hard-working comparisons, the match only saw the child muttering in the mouth, then the brothers violently violently clashed, and the people were noisy, others were onlookers, some persuaded… The small breakfast shop was in turmoil.
The match was watching quietly, she knew that someone must be dumbing. But the world is still so quiet, it seems that even this quarrel caused by myself has nothing to do with her.
It’s like being locked in a completely soundproofed glass room.
In the “listening to people” world, the competitions that have been frustrated again and again, like many hearing-impaired people, have gradually produced the idea that “only talents are their own people.”
Figure: The sign language anchor Ziwei comes home from work and plays with her dog. Photography | He Bin
Only in the small world of the family, the game can be treated gently. Parents and brothers have not received professional sign language training, but the tacit understanding between the family and the love of the race, let them invent their own sign language.
This is a language that only this person knows: two thumbs are dadDad, two little thumbs are mothers, one thumb is a brother, and one little finger is herself.
At the age of school, the race went to a special school and went home once a month. In the age when there was no mobile phone, the phone hit the home and could only yell at the receiver alone.
Language connects the world to the soul. When language is limited, emotional expression is also limited. In order to facilitate the expression of the hearing impaired, the sign language pursues “simplification and conciseness”. At the same time of convenience, it also misses many beautiful words in the language, and the abstract vocabulary is especially scarce. The race can use the index finger to rotate in the temple, expressing the word “thinking”, but she can never say “thinking” because the word is not in the sign language.
When people use language, language also shapes the way users think. The way the hearing-impaired person is often more direct. Therefore, once the expression of the hearing impaired falls on the text, it often lacks euphemism. If you don’t understand the reason for listening to people, sometimes it will appear blunt.
There was a mobile phone in the game, and I was able to send text messages. Those dried Chinese characters became the closest connection between her and her mother.
Figure: The match and the “listen” broadcast are in conjunction with the live broadcast. Photography | Zheng Haipeng
“I want to go out”
As the age grows, the fragile connection between the game and the family faces a disintegration.
The junior high school was finished, but the recent special high school was in Nanjing. The race wanted to continue school, but the father did not worry about letting her go. In the heart of the father, going to the outside world is tantamount to an adventure for the hearing-impaired daughter.
The race is stubborn and must go. After a fierce dispute with her father, she sneaked out from home. Unexpectedly, they were tricked into a group of MLM organizations for the hearing impaired. She fled with the hearing-impaired classmates who went with her. She succeeded, but her classmates wereGrabbed it back, and there was no news after that.
This failed adventure did not make the game go back. Shen Zhike recalled that the sister at that time said to him in the text message: “Only the talents will be good for the deaf.”
In the next few years, Sai Sai went to Nanjing, Yueqing, Ningbo and other places to work, and together with other hearing impaired people to make plates in the factory, smelling pungent glue all day, working more than ten hours a day. She has less contact with her family and has completely escaped into the small world of the hearing impaired.
The Ziwei, who became the sign language anchor together with Sai Sai, has a different life experience. She was brought up by her adoptive parents from an early age and went to an ordinary school with “listening people”, but this did not allow her to go closer to the world. When a teenager who is not sensible meets her “dumb”, she can only stand in silence.
Figure: The day of the sign language anchor Ziwei begins with makeup. Photography | He Bin
After coming out of school, she first worked as a waitress in the coffee shop and then went to the bar to dance. Even the most noisy and colorful bar is just a quiet space in her eyes.
She can’t hear the rhythm, she can only remember her movements. When she dances, she keeps her eyes on her companions. She tries to keep the movements coordinated. When she dances, others sweat, and her eyes are sour.
Ziwei looks pretty, and often there are boys to talk to, even if there is a good feeling, she can only politely smile, a word can not tell, make others boring, leaving his mouth stunned. Although she is in the crowd, she feels like a transparent soul.
The race at this time was also struggling in loneliness. She fell ill at the factory when she worked day and night. My brother came from Hangzhou and took her to the hospital for examination. The result was respiratory and intestinal damage, which was caused by long-term inhalation of toxic gases.
Shen Zhike stood in the hospital corridor and remained silent for a long time. After he was admitted to college, he left his hometown and moved to Shanghai and Hangzhou. He wanted to do his own business. When I first started my business, I was struggling with life. He tried to speak with his sister.Not much to say, I sent him 10,000.
He didn’t expect that his sister’s money was earned like this.
“Standing to earn money”
After leaving the hospital, Sai Sai was received by his brother in Hangzhou. After a few months of illness, he tried to find a job again and found many factories. There was no one who was willing to accept the hearing impaired.
When there is no way to go, Shen Zhike advises his sister, you can try live broadcast. He opened Taobao, showed some live broadcasts of the big anchor to the game, and told her that some legendary anchors could sell one billion a day.
The match has also been opened in the live broadcast room, but every word that the “listen” anchor said is meaningless to the inaudible. She never dared to think that one day she actually made a live broadcast in sign language.
Shen Zhike once operated a live entertainment company and was well versed in it. He does not want his sister to seek to reward the “local tyrants”. Instead, he chooses to take the e-commerce route and sell things through professional merchandise. “Standing to earn money!”
Ziwei was also joined at this time, and a live broadcast team of hearing impaired people was born.
Figure: The sign language anchor Ziwei greets the fans in front of the camera. Photography | Zheng Haipeng
The live broadcast is a brand new field. In the past, she didn’t even dare to talk to strangers. For the first time, even if there isn’t even a fan, she is still nervous before the camera.
“The sign language has forgotten how to fight.” Saidai said.
The crape myrtle is not so good. She always trembles unconsciously in front of the camera.
It’s harder to get your sister out of that isolated world than Sun Zhike expected.
Unlike the general entertainment live broadcast, the seller must first practiceBasic skills, understanding sales, the entire training process is extremely long. The game needs to introduce a product in sign language within five minutes. She must first write a copy, then convert the copy into a sign language, take each sentence apart to make a plan, practice again and again, all the processes go down, mastered in the race, it took a month and a half.
A bigger problem appears on the face. In the daily communication of the hearing impaired, because the sign language conveys limited information, it is necessary to express expression on the face.
But for the “listening people” who don’t understand sign language, such expressions are “too rich.”
“It seems even embarrassing.” Shen Zhike said with a bitter smile, and even the scent of Ziwei can not be avoided.
In the live broadcast room, some fans said that they “have their own expression packs”, and even more unkind people will bluntly “distort”.
Shen Zhike realized that the sign language live should cross this professional hurdle, and the expression problem must be solved.
In that time, he personally stood in the live broadcast to supervise the war. Once the sister’s expression had a problem, he immediately stopped and even posted A4 paper on the light, which read four big words: keep smiling.
This repeated grinding for several months, the race and the Ziwei finally practiced the current professional level: a correct sitting posture, followed by a natural smile revealed by the sign language movement.
Figure: Another member of the sign language live team, Peas. Photography | Zheng Haipeng
There is also a special rule in the live broadcast room. Every recruited “listener” assistant must learn sign language and set a three-day “experience period”. The final stay is decided by the anchors.
The live broadcast is for the public after all. Even with the comprehensive protection of his brother, you can’t completely avoid the bad comments. The match and the crape are hurt. The gentle audience will say “can’t understand”. The uncomfortable comment is: “A group of dumbs do live broadcast here!”