A thrilling car accident caused 4-year-old Qian Hongyan to suffer from high paraplegia, and since then her life has become single and pale. People often say: If you don't die in a great disaster, you will have a blessing in the future.
Whenever they saw her injuries, everyone couldn't help but shake their heads and sigh, and even wondered if she could still have happiness in the future. However, everything changed the moment she encountered basketball.
The appearance of basketball brought light to her bleak life, and also made her a "basketball girl" who touched countless people. So, what kind of hope can basketball bring to this disabled girl?
Now that she's grown up, how is her life going?
Qian Hongyan, a once lively and cute little girl, her life was changed by a car accident. On October 14, 2000, an ordinary day became an eternal scar in her heart because of an accident.
That day, Qian Hongyan had a lot of fun with her friends in the village. After playing for a while, they agreed to go across the road to play. The children looked left and right, made sure there was no traffic coming, and rushed across the road together.
Maybe it was because she was running too fast, and one of Qian Hongyan's shoes accidentally fell on the road**. She hurriedly went back to pick it up, and at this time, a large truck came at a gallop, and the driver saw a child on the road, and although he had tried his best to brake, he still couldn't avoid the collision.
This accident caused Qian Hongyan to lose her legs, and since then, her life has undergone earth-shaking changes. Despite this, Qian Hongyan is still strong and optimistic, and she uses her story to inspire more people, hoping that they can cherish life and cherish life.
An accident turned Qian Hongyan's fate upside down. She was originally a healthy and cheerful little girl, but she lost her legs in a car accident and became a disabled person with high paraplegia.
In 1996, Qian Hongyan was born in Zhuangshang Village, Qujing City, Yunnan Province, and her parents lived with her grandparents since she was a child in order to make money to support her family, becoming a left-behind child.
However, life didn't open up to her just because of her young age. Although Qian Hongyan's family conditions are not wealthy, her grandparents have always tried their best to take care of her.
However, a sudden car accident turns her life upside down. Qian Hongyan's legs were swallowed up by the big truck, and her whole body was blurred with flesh and blood, and her family rushed to hear the news and cried.
Doctors told her that she would have to have her leg amputated to survive, and the news came as a bolt from the blue for her and her family. However, it's good to be alive. They accepted the doctor's advice, and Qian Hongyan went from a healthy person with sound limbs to a disabled person with high paraplegia in one day.
Although Qian Hongyan's life has changed dramatically, her grandparents still try their best to make her live a normal life. They took her around to seek medical treatment, hoping to find a way to be a high paraplegic.
Qian Hongyan's experience is heart-wrenching, but her strength and perseverance are also admirable. Despite losing her legs, she persevered in her life, constantly challenged herself, and showed incredible courage and tenacity.
Her story teaches us that difficulties and challenges in life are unavoidable, but we can overcome them and achieve self-worth through perseverance and hard work.
Qian Hongyan is a living example of this, and her story will always inspire us to move forward.
When the bad news came, my parents rushed home from Guizhou. When they saw their daughter who had lost her legs in bed, they were emotionally broken and in pain. For the sake of **, the Qian family has spent all their savings.
Soon after, the parents had no choice but to embark on the road of working again, and the burden of the child's life was once again on the shoulders of the elderly grandparents. After the car accident, Qian Hongyan grew up rapidly, she was no longer naughty and active, and her personality became introverted and inferior.
After returning home from the hospital, she was in bed all day long, and could only silently listen to the laughter of the children outside the window, full of envy. In fact, there is another possibility for amputees to get a new lease on life, and that is to have a prosthetic leg fitted.
Due to the poor family background of the granddaughter, fitting a prosthetic leg has become an unreachable dream. Seeing her alone and depressed, grandpa's heart ached. Although he learned only a little carpentry when he was younger, he decided to use his own hands to make a pair of "wooden legs" for his granddaughter to help her walk freely in the yard.
After careful consideration, Grandpa successfully made this pair of wooden handrails, and Qian Hongyan was ecstatic and couldn't wait to try it out. However, due to her young age and lack of strength, she was unable to fully support her body, and often rubbed the ground when she moved, leaving her body scarred.
Grandpa knew what the problem was and decided to continue improving his "wooden legs".
When the family saw Qian Hongyan's indomitable spirit, they were distressed and helpless. Although they tried to persuade her to give up trying to walk, she persevered, unwilling to give up on this goal.
To help her fulfill her wish, the family racked their brains to design a protective sleeve for her, wrapping her amputated part in old clothes to protect her from the friction of the ground.
However, this method only temporarily relieved the pain, but did not fundamentally solve the problem, and it was difficult to keep the clothes wrapped in good condition, and Qian Hongyan often fell because of the falling clothes.
This bothered Grandpa, who was always looking for a better solution.
When Grandpa found a discarded basketball on the side of the road, his face was no longer sad, but a happy smile. As soon as he got home, he excitedly called out to his granddaughter and proudly showed her the basketball.
Granddaughter Qian Hongyan was puzzled by this, and her grandfather explained that the basketball was a new "armor" given to her. Although Qian Hongyan didn't know her grandfather's true intentions, she still watched with great interest as her grandfather performed his "magic show".
I saw my grandfather use sharp scissors to reduce the basketball in half, and wipe the dirty basketball with a towel. After that, Grandpa also filled the basketball with cotton. After some hard work, after the completion of the work, the grandfather hugged Qian Hongyan into the basketball.
It's not big, it's not too small, the basketball is on her body, just right. Grandpa's "armor" made Qian Hongyan feel both novel and surprised.
Qian Hongyan had an epiphany of her grandfather's hard work. Compared with ordinary clothing, cotton-filled basketballs are lighter and more comfortable, and can effectively avoid friction between the body and the ground.
She was very happy with her new gear. Since then, Qian Hongyan will wear a basketball every day and happily play with her friends without restraint. However, as time went on, children her age went to school.
She also longed to carry her schoolbag to school like her friends, so she begged her grandparents to send her to school. Of course, her grandparents also very much wanted her to go to school, but they had asked the teacher before, and the teacher said that Qian Hongyan's situation was special and did not meet the standards for going to school, so they could not accept her into school.
After listening to her grandfather's words, Qian Hongyan felt very sad, crying all day long, and insisted on going to school. After learning of the incident, her parents rushed back to their hometown from Guizhou to the county to consult about the schooling of children with disabilities.
The County Disabled Persons' Federation was deeply concerned about Qian Hongyan's plight, and immediately assigned staff to come to her door to understand the situation and actively apply for a disability subsidy for her. With the overall arrangement of the County Disabled Persons' Federation and the joint efforts of many parties, Qian Hongyan entered the campus she longed for and began her student career as she wished.
Qian Hongyan's family was moved by the news, but they were a little worried. Their concern stems mainly from the fear that Qian Hongyan, who is different, will be discriminated against and ridiculed on campus.
However, their fears turned out to be unfounded. Qian Hongyan was loved and friendly by her teachers and classmates on campus, and they always did their best to help her.
This allows Qian Hongyan to fully enjoy campus life and makes her full of love for learning. For her, learning not only helps her really stand up, but also helps her get out of her own world.
Her steadfast pursuit of knowledge and diligent study made her come out on top in every exam and earn her the reputation of "a top student". In addition, her positive optimism and self-confidence are also contagious to those around her, and she is always on her face and loved for her smile.
In 2005, a reporter who was out for an interview stumbled upon this disabled girl and was shocked to see her sitting on a basketball and walking easily.
He has interviewed many people, including many people with disabilities, but he has never met someone as severely disabled as Qian Hongyan who is still as bright as the sun. With the consent of Qian Hongyan and her family, the reporter reported the story of the "basketball girl" Qian Hongyan, and this touching story was widely disseminated, making Qian Hongyan touch countless Chinese and become a well-known "basketball girl".
Caring people from all over the country have reached out to donate living and school supplies to Qian Hongyan, and local charities have also contacted the Beijing ** Center to help her get her prosthetic limbs fitted.
Under the careful care of the doctor, Qian Hongyan finally stood up again. It's been 5 years, and she seems to have forgotten what it's like to stand and seems a little overwhelmed.
But with everyone's encouragement, she began to try to move forward slowly. Seeing this scene, her family was moved to tears. As the old saying goes: if you don't die in a great disaster, you will have a blessing.
She can have today's changes, inseparable from everyone's selfless help, and more fortunately, she met Zhang Honghu, the Bole of life. In 2007, with the help of caring people and the Disabled Persons' Federation, Qian Hongyan successfully won the precious opportunity to go to the Kunming ** Paralympic Games.
An unintentional move made the national paralympic swimming team discerning and discovered Qian Hongyan, a swimming wizard. She has a well-proportioned build, an extraordinarily long arm span, and an unrivaled talent for swimming.
Zhang Honghu, the coach of the national paralympic swimming team at that time, was known for his prestige and right in the paralympic swimming circle"Winged Angel"He is known as the coach who can repair his wings the most.
In order to tap more potential swimmers, in November 2016, Zhang Honghu established China's first special facility for people with disabilities in Kunming"South of the clouds"Junior Swim Club.
After discovering Qian Hongyan, a rare swimming seedling, Zhang Honghu was overjoyed, immediately stepped forward to introduce herself, and warmly invited Qian Hongyan to join the club and start her swimming journey.
When Qian Hongyan was a child, she showed a talent for swimming, and when she was more than three years old, she was able to imitate the appearance of adults and swim in the river for a short time. Now, she sees that people with disabilities can swim flexibly, and her heart is full of longing.
When Coach Zhang Honghu invited her to join, she agreed without hesitation. She knows that it is always good to have a skill, and sports can strengthen the body, so her family is very supportive of her learning to swim.
At the same time, Qian Hongyan also has three partners with a similar fate to her, namely Han Dan, who lost both arms due to electrocution, Weimei Nu, who lost her legs in a car accident and was abandoned by her parents, and Feng Jianfeng, who lost her left hand and left leg due to a train crush.
The plight of these children has attracted great attention from caring people, and they have donated money to help the club introduce advanced equipment and buy professional swimsuits for the children.
With the strong support of all walks of life, the "Yunzhinan" Swimming Club is gradually moving towards excellence. In this motivating training environment, the children work harder to improve themselves and hope to give back to those who have helped them with outstanding results.
But for children with disabilities, the learning path to swimming is fraught with difficulties. First of all, wearing a swimsuit is a big challenge for them. At first, Qian Hongyan felt very reluctant to wear a swimsuit.
She felt that wearing a swimsuit would expose her body to the public, and it would be stressful. Zhang Honghu, as a coach with rich experience, did not force Qian Hongyan to wear a swimsuit for training, but took her to the training ground and let her ** other people's training.
In the face of everyone's swimsuit training, Qian Hongyan gradually adapted to this environment. She boldly donned her swimsuit for training, which was just the first hurdle on her way to swimming.
The daily basic training includes sit-ups, dumbbell presses, arm stretches and 2,000-meter swimming, and these high-intensity trainings make Qian Hongyan's body ache and pain, and she often falls asleep after training.
However, no matter how much pain she suffered, she never complained and never took a day off. She adheres to her coach's training plan, and most of the time, she even pushes herself up to increase the difficulty and intensity of her training to improve her swimming skills.
Eventually, her hard work paid off and she became the best in the club, always at the top of her training sessions, which impressed everyone.
Qian Hongyan was selected to participate in the 2009 National Para Swimming Championships because of her outstanding achievements, and at the age of 13, she emerged with one gold and two silver medals. However, she is not satisfied with her high self-demandingness, and she is aiming for three gold medals.
After the match, she did not choose to rest, but immediately returned to the club for devil training. However, in the 2010 National Championships for the Disabled, Qian Hongyan failed to perform at a normal level due to excessive pressure and only won three silver medals.
But she didn't let this discourage her, and instead she went from strength to strength, vowing to make a big splash in 2011.
The 2011 National Paralympic Federation Championships is not only a competition, but also a key to the London 2012 Paralympic Games. Qian Hongyan poured all her heart and time into it, and she longed to win the Olympic championship one day.
However, at the critical moment when she was preparing for the competition, her grandfather, who loved her, passed away due to a serious illness, which cut her heart. She immediately rushed home non-stop, tears raining down along the way, and her heart ached unbearably.
The loss of her grandfather left her in great grief, and her training status plummeted, and her performance fell seriously. In the end, she only won a bronze medal at the 2011 National Para Championships, meaning she missed out on the London Olympics.
Facing the trough of her life, Qian Hongyan is in a deep predicament. Her teammate Zhang Honghu noticed her declining form and planned a heart-to-heart meeting, hoping to cheer her on.
In fact, for athletes, peaks and troughs are the stages they have to face. Zhang Honghu used Li Xiaoxia's example to inspire her, telling her that as long as she has courage, she can get out of the predicament.
In 2008, Li Xiaoxia won the women's singles championship at the Table Tennis World Cup, which was an important milestone in her career. However, unexpectedly, in 2009 she made consecutive mistakes in many important competitions and fell into a slump of more than a year.
However, Li Xiaoxia was not discouraged, she adjusted her form in time, and won the women's singles championship at the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games with superb ball skills, and successfully returned to the stage of the king.
Zhang Honghu pointed out that the trough period of life is unavoidable, and the key lies in how to face and live. He encouraged Qian Hongyan to have the courage to get out of the predicament, hoping that she could be like Li Xiaoxia, not afraid of difficulties and move forward bravely.
The coach's words made Qian Hongyan realize her problems and gain the motivation to move forward. Since then, she has been recovering and devoting herself to training, looking forward to achieving her dream at Rio 2016.
With her own excellent strength, Qian Hongyan was successfully selected for the Rio Paralympic swimming team and became a member of the national swimming team. At the Paralympic Games, elite athletes from all over the world come together.
Although Qian Hongyan failed to beat her opponent and missed out on a medal, she still finished ninth in the women's 100m breaststroke. After the Rio Olympics, Qian Hongyan was awarded the title of "Outstanding Disabled Athlete" for her outstanding performance, and was arranged to work in the Luliang County Disabled Persons' Federation.
Qian Hongyan is a worker who is dedicated to the cause of the disabled, she wholeheartedly applies for disability certificates for the disabled, and always considers the problem from the perspective of others. This work attitude has won high praise from leaders and colleagues.
At the same time, Qian Hongyan did not give up her love for swimming, she actively participated in the Paralympic Games, and won medals for her outstanding breaststroke and freestyle performances. Her excellent performance made her the 2022 Yunnan Province 38 Banner Bearer and won the title of 2022 Upward and Good Youth.
Now, even though she is 26 years old, Qian Hongyan still insists on being in the pool, and her spirit is worth learning from.
No matter how bumpy the road is, as long as we persevere, we will always reap the joy of success. Qian Hongyan, who was once known as the "basketball girl", has now become a flying fish in the water, and her hard work and persistence have deeply moved us.
In her **, we can always see her sunny smile and positive and optimistic attitude, which makes us feel endless motivation and warmth. Let's learn from her together and move forward bravely, no matter how many difficulties lie ahead, we can't give up, because only by persevering can we achieve our dreams.