Zhang Haidi’s recent photo
In the 1980s, Zhang Haidi was famous all over China and was known as the “new Lei Feng of the 1980s” and “contemporary Paul”. He became a moral force for the whole nation. His deeds were selected into the Chinese textbooks of middle schools.
"Question of Life", "Hot Dreams in a Wheelchair ", "The Supreme", "The Window Open to the Sky" and other works created by Zhang Haidi, who is disabled and strong, have become best-sellers. She also obtained a Master of Philosophy from Jilin University and was awarded her an honorary doctorate from the University of York, UK.
Zhang Haidi's husband Wang Zuoliang was a professor at the Foreign Language Training Center of Shandong Normal University before retiring. The two got married in 1982. Zhang Haidi was paraplegic at a high position, and the couple did not give birth to their own baby after marriage.
In an interview with the media, Zhang Haidi said emotionally: My marriage is a flower blooming in pain...
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Early years Zhang Haidi
On September 16, 1955, Zhang Haidi was born in Wendeng County, Shandong Province. His father Zhang Tanfu served as a leader in the Jinan Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and his mother Bi Jiangjiao was engaged in education.
html Before the age of 05, Zhang Haidi was a lively and dance-loving girl. But on an ordinary morning in 1960, her happiness came to an abrupt end.That morning, she played games with the children in kindergarten as usual. While running and chasing, Zhang Haidi fell to the ground and his legs lost consciousness.
Her parents took her to the hospital, and Zhang Haidi was diagnosed with spinal cord hemangioma, and she was only 5 years old at that time. In the next few years, Zhang Haidi underwent three major surgeries in the hospital. Six pieces of her spinal lamina were removed, causing her to lose consciousness below the waist and become a high-level paraplegia. That year, Zhang Haidi was just 10 years old.
In the early years, Zhang Haidi
Because she was in a wheelchair, she could not take care of herself, and all schools were unwilling to accept her. Zhang Haidi dropped out of school and stayed at home at a young age.
Zhang Haidi, who has beautiful longings in his heart, cannot accept the cruelty of fate, and his belief in life collapses little by little.
When interviewed by Yang Lan , Zhang Haidi said: At that time, I couldn’t see the way out and sunshine of life. While my parents were not at home, I took more than 30 tablets of hibernation spirit and got 6 more hibernation spirit injections. I was eager to die.
The parents sent Zhang Haidi to the hospital for emergency treatment, and the doctor pulled her back from the brink of death. If you want to die, Zhang Haidi becomes calm and strong.
Zhang Haidi
She said to her parents: I want to study, I want to draw oil paintings, I want to eat the milk candy you bought for me. The parents hugged Zhang Haidi tightly in their arms. This time, their tears were not only bitter, but also gratitude and hope.
Since then, Zhang Haidi has begun to teach himself at home. She lay on the bed to study primary and middle school courses, writing at home, and felt that life was as bright as the sunshine outside the window.
In April 1970, Zhang Haidi's parents led the educated youth to the rural areas of Shen County, Shandong Province to join the lineup. Zhang Haidi followed everyone on the truck to Shibalipu Shanglou Village.
There is no tap water here, and there is no electricity. It is illuminated by kerosene lamps at night, and the living conditions are quite difficult.
Zhang Haidi found that there was no music teacher in the village primary school, so she came to the school in a wheelchair to teach music classes to the children.
Zhang Haidi takes the pulse for the patient
Zhang Haidi studies medicine
spare time, Zhang Haidi also cuts hair, repairs clothes, and nails buttons for the children. The children all like the young ladies from this city.
At that time, there was a shortage of medical treatment and medicine in rural areas, so Zhang Haidi bought books such as "Acupuncture and Moxibustion" and "Human Structure" to study at home. She also asked her parents to buy thermometer , stethoscope, and various conventional drugs.
In order to practice injection, Zhang Haidi gave dozens of injections on his arm. From then on, this beautiful little girl in a wheelchair not only taught music classes to her children at school, but also rocked her wheelchair to treat her fellow villagers.
Zhang Haidi is working at work
18 years old, Zhang Haidi joined the Xin County Radio Bureau and worked as a radio repairman. While working, she taught herself college English, Japanese, German and Esperanto .
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1979, Zhang Haidi was 24 years old. Due to physical reasons, her marriage and love became a problem.At that time, Zhang Haidi never dared to hope that he could enjoy a normal love and marriage, and even had the idea of being single until he was old.
In 1981, Zhang Haidi met Wang Zuoliao under the introduction of a friend. Wang Zuoliang is from Shanghai. After graduating from high school, he went to the rural area of Anhui and then went to to teach at of Shandong Normal University.
He is humble and gentle, and hopes that his partner is a strong and connotative sunny girl.
Zhang Haidi and Wang Zuoliao
When her friend helped Zhang Haidi, she was worried that Wang Zuoliao would not accept her and did not have any hope for love. Unexpectedly, after Wang Zuoliao met Zhang Haidi, she was moved by her beauty, strength, optimism and talent.
He said to Zhang Haidi: Your smile is brighter and more charming than the sun. Despite this, Zhang Haidi still dared not expect Wang Zuoliang's love and was willing to treat him as an ordinary friend.
Wang Zuoliao works in Jinan, and Zhang Haidi works in Shen County. The two places are more than 160 kilometers apart. Because it was inconvenient to meet, Wang Zuoliao wrote a letter to Zhang Haidi, expressing his love in the letter.
Zhang Haidi was worried that Wang Zuoliang was impulsive and dared not accept his love. So Wang Zuoliao came to Shen County and lived in Zhang Haidi's home.
He helped Zhang Haidi learn English and German and take care of her daily life. Wang Zuoliao also found wood and iron rods to help Zhang Haidi build a wheelchair.
Zhang Haidi comic cover
After supper, he often pushed Zhang Haidi downstairs in a wheelchair for a walk. The parents said to Zhang Haidi: It seems that Xiao Wang is sincere to you.
After correspondence and observations during this period, Zhang Haidi felt that Wang Zuoliang was a kind-hearted and responsible boy, so he bravely fell in love with him.
Wang Zuolliang's parents had some concerns after learning about Zhang Haidi's situation. Wang Zuoliao does work for his parents: I really love Haidi , and we will be a happy soul mate in the future. The parents understood their son and did not stop him.
In December 1981, " People's Daily " reported Zhang Haidi's deeds, and many people learned about the legendary story of this inspirational girl.
Zhang Haidi and Communist Youth League cadres
On July 23, 1982, Zhang Haidi and Wang Zuoliao got married. In the same year, Zhang Haidi was elected as a "model Communist Youth League member" and "March 8th Red Flag Bearer" in Liaocheng District, Shandong Province.
In March 1983, during the National Courtesy Month event, relevant departments should choose a young model as a good example to see and learn. Wei Jiuming, the then propaganda cadre of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, accidentally heard about Zhang Haidi's deeds, and sent reporters from " China Youth Daily " and "China Youth" magazine to Shandong to interview Zhang Haidi.
Soon China Youth Daily published Zhang Haidi's photo on the front page and her long narrative "It's a meteor, and you must leave the light to the world." The newspaper also published an editorial "Let the Light of Ideal Light Light the Road to Life."
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Soon after, the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League held a "Report on the Capital News to Listen to Zhang Haidi's Deeds" in Beijing. Originally, the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League only invited more than 20 news units from the central and Beijing, but news units from Shanghai, Tianjin, Guangzhou and other places stationed in Beijing also arrived.
The next day, China Youth Daily published "The Pillar of Life - Song of Zhang Haidi" on the front page headline. This long newsletter immediately caused a strong response among readers, and the newspaper has received more than 80,000 letters from readers.
Immediately afterwards, major media in the capital promoted Zhang Haidi in succession. Wei Jiuming said in an interview: The rapid and extensive development of publicity far exceeds the original plan and idea.
On March 5, 1983, the leaders of the Party and the state met with Zhang Haidi. On March 11, a report meeting on Zhang Haidi's deeds was held in the Great Hall of the People.
Zhang Haidi visits disabled friends
In late April, eight central leaders including Deng Xiaoping, Ye Jianying, Deng Yingchao wrote inscriptions for studying Zhang Haidi. The whole country has carried out a vigorous learning activity for Zhang Haidi, who is known as the "new Lei Feng in the 1980s" and "contemporary Paul".
Faced with the flood of honors, Zhang Haidi was not arrogant.In an interview with the media, Zhang Haidi said: Some people say I am famous, but I am still an ordinary person. I maintain my true nature in life and will not seek personal gain by the honor given by the motherland.
Because Zhang Haidi is in a wheelchair all year round, rarely basks in the sun, has a bad face, and looks a bit sick. This is the real Zhang Haidi, not the "superman" that people imagine.
Someone was talking at that time, saying that Wang Zuoliao had taken a fancy to the halo above Zhang Haidi's head and was worried about Zhang Haidi's future.
Zhang Haidi took a photo with her family
Wang Zuoliao did not argue because when he fell in love with Zhang Haidi, Zhang Haidi was still an ordinary disabled girl.
After marriage, Zhang Haidi and her husband separated. Later, in order to solve their practical difficulties, Zhang Haidi was transferred to the creative studio of Jinan Federation of Literary and Art Circles in Shandong as a creator.
In order to take care of her daughter, Zhang Haidi's parents also moved to Jinan to live, and she lives with her husband and parents.
Wang Zuoliao is washing and cooking at home, and does all kinds of work. When he went to work during the day, his parents took care of Zhang Haidi's daily life at home.
With the encouragement and support of her husband, Zhang Haidi began literary creation in 1983. Every day after dinner, his parents watched TV in the living room and turned on the volume to the lowest level, so Zhang Haidi went to the study to read and write. Wang Zuoliao has been by his wife, searching for information for her, replenishing water into the teacup, or bringing some snacks for Zhang Haidi.
Zhang Haidi translated it as
In the past few years, Zhang Haidi has translated English novels with hundreds of thousands of words, including "The Seaside Clinic", "The Travels of Little Miller", "Murdoch - The True Story of an Elephant".
Her works such as "Ask of Life", "Dream in a Wheelchair", and "The Best" have become best-selling books. Among them, "Dream in a Wheelchair" was also very popular after it was published in Japan and South Korea.
"Question of Life" has been reprinted four times less than half a year after its publication, and won the National Five One Project Book Award.
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Zhang Haidi became a famous writer and joined Shandong Writers Association . Due to long-term writing at desks, Zhang Haidi's nose bridge was crushed by glasses, and later she became ulcerated and bleeding.
Zhang Haidi and Yang Lan
Wang Zuoliang wants to accompany his wife to hospital for treatment. Zhang Haidi thought it was time to waste treatment, so he covered the wound with a handkerchief while continuing to create.
In 1990, Zhang Haidi was diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma of the nose bridge, and Wang Zuoliao accompanied his wife to Shanghai for surgery.
Before entering the operating room, Zhang Haidi said to her husband: If I leave, you can find a normal woman to get married and have children. Tears filled Wang Zuoliang's eyes.
Because of high-level paraplegia, Zhang Haidi could not take anesthetics. When the doctor performed nasal surgery on her, Zhang Haidi did not shout. Even the doctor was moved to tears by her strength.
Zhang Haidi was hospitalized in Shanghai, and her parents-in-law often cooked food and sent it to the hospital. Zhang Haidi said to her mother-in-law apologetically: Mom, because of my physical reasons, I have never been able to give birth to a baby for Sara. I'm sorry.
Zhang Haidi
Mother-in-law said: Seeing that Sara lives so happily with you, my mother is happy from the bottom of her heart. After
, Zhang Haidi recovered well and his condition did not recur. She sat at home for more than 10 hours every day, and suffered from large areas of bedsores and her bones were exposed.
In the past few years, Zhang Haidi underwent two more surgeries, and Wang Zuoliao protected Zhang Haidi in the hospital. Zhang Haidi has a cheerful personality. Every day when her husband comes back from get off work, she greets him with a bright smile.
She buys books every week, so Wang Zuoliao asked his wife to make a list of books, and he rode his bike to the bookstore to buy the books back.
Zhang Haidi's oil paintings
Zhang Haidi also likes to draw oil paintings, so her husband bought her brushes and paints for her to go home. After she created the oil painting, Wang Zuoliang would also frame the works with wooden frames.
Zhang Haidi loves beauty, and Wang Zuoliang often brings clothes to her when he is on a business trip.
Since Zhang Haidi has no baby and is paraplegic at a high position, domestic newspapers have initiated a discussion: Should Zhang Haidi get married? There are all those who support and oppose, but these have not affected Zhang Haidi's relationship with her husband at all.
In addition to writing, Zhang Haidi did housework and learned cooking at home. She shook the wheelchair and swept the floor and wiped the table.She wanted to go to the kitchen to cook, but she couldn't get in with the wheelchair. So Zhang Haidi wrote the recipe on paper and sat at the kitchen door to direct her husband to make it.
She named some ordinary dishes as "The Harvest is in Hope" and "The Golden Valley is Full of Cang", and directed her husband to cook the food step by step.
Zhang Haidi
Zhang Haidi's passion and vitality in life make Wang Zuoliao feel good every day.
In 2015, Zhang Haidi is 60 years old and her parents are old. Wang Zuoliao has to take care of both his wife and his parents-in-law, and the physical burden is very heavy. Zhang Haidi said to her husband several times: We don’t have children, I’m sorry for you.
Wang Zuoliao said: Without children, we have lived a happy life over the years. With you, I feel that life is new every day.
A few years later, Zhang Haidi's parents were gone, and her husband became her closest person. Zhang Haidi and her husband have a dog. The elf has been with them for 14 years and later died of old age.
Zhang Haidi visits disabled children
Zhang Haidi and her husband have no children, so she spreads maternal love to other children. She donated the remuneration and built a Hope Primary School. When the children wrote to her, Zhang Haidi replied one by one, and then Wang Zuoliang rode his bicycle to the post office to send letters to his wife.
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In 2016, Wang Zuoliao bought a laptop for Zhang Haidi, and Zhang Haidi began to write on a computer. Sometimes she slept until the early morning and suddenly woke her husband: I was worried that the computer would fail and the article would be lost. Go and take a look.
Wang Zuoliao quickly got up, turned on the computer, and checked the articles created by his wife. Only when Zhang Haidi saw a word was missing can he sleep with confidence.
In order to give back to her husband, Zhang Haidi has always insisted on cutting her husband's hair at home. Wang Zuoliao revolves around her in his spare time, and Zhang Haidi sometimes urges her husband to go back to his hometown to visit relatives. At this time, she asked her sister to come and take care of herself for a few days.
Zhang Haidi
Zhang Haidi and her husband can also repair computers. If the computer at home fails, they will repair them themselves.
A few years ago, a post suddenly appeared on the Internet saying that Zhang Haidi could drive a car and that her disability was pretending, and everyone was deceived for decades. As soon as the post was released, it caused an uproar in public opinion.
What's going on? It turns out that Zhang Haidi had a dream of driving when he was a child. In 2005, she went to Heilongjiang to attend a live meeting for disabled people driving cars and learned to drive modified manual cars.
Zhang Haidi learns driving technology
In order to enable more disabled brothers and sisters to realize their dream of driving, Zhang Haidi participated in the "Driving Tour with Disabilities in China" activity organized by the China Disabled Persons' Federation.
She drove the car in front, driving from the Emperor's Mausoleum to the foot of the Great Wall.
Obviously, this netizen posted this post hastily without understanding the real situation. Can you pretend to be paraplegic at a high position?
Zhang Haidi did not respond in the face of the hype. Later, a media reporter posted the incident online, and some netizens' misunderstandings about Zhang Haidi were eliminated.
Zhang Haidi has been popular since the early 1980s to the present, but she has never regarded herself as a celebrity.
Zhang Haidi and her husband
Because of her husband's love, she has psychologically regarded herself as a normal person.
Zhang Haidi is very simple in life. She went to Xiushui Street to buy clothes during a meeting in Beijing and fell in love with a scarf. The little girl quoted 185 yuan, and Zhang Haidi finally cut 40 yuan. She bought more than 10 pieces in a row and went to give them to her friends.
In fact, the little girl who sold the goods recognized her as Zhang Haidi, but she didn't mind at all.
Zhang Haidi has never quarreled after getting married with her husband. After many female friends quarreled with her husband, they called her to complain, saying that they envy Zhang Haidi's happiness. Zhang Haidi often comforts them: You envy me, I envy you even more.
In November 2022, Zhang Haidi and Wang Zuoliao have been married for 40 years, and the couple still wrote love letters to each other. Some people find it ridiculous, but Zhang Haidi and her husband enjoy it.
Zhang Haidi’s recent photo
For decades of marriage, her husband has never talked about giving birth in front of Zhang Haidi to avoid being sad. She and Wang Zuoliao are both husband and wife, and they are relatives and friends, and that kind of relationship is deeper than that of ordinary couples.
Now Zhang Haidi and her husband are in their sixties. Now the couple are in good health and take care of each other at home.
Zhang Haidi discussed with her husband that when she is old in the future and can’t walk, she will go to the nursing home to take care of her.
Zhang Haidi is paraplegic at a high position and has no children, but her career and marriage are envious of many people! Zhang Haidi feels that marrying Wang Zuoliang in this life is his greatest luck. Their marriage is a flower blooming in pain, beautiful and gorgeous, happy and stable, and a bit tragic!
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