Despite his physical conditions, he’d worked hard, and overcome the trials in his own life, made a name for himself, from the Newspapers, translated…
The potter, Ching-Yi Chuang was diagnosed with polio when he was young, and because his father was abusive, he was taken to the orphanages to live as before his elementary school years, thankfully, as he’d gone to the Chiao-Jen Business High School (now the Nan-Jen Business High School”, Ren-Bo Chiao, and now, he’d followed the path of his school instructor, became a potter, he was not just grateful toward how much his school teacher cared for him, he’d now hoped, to help more people who are handicapped around him too.
Recalling his trials of his younger years, Ching-Yi Chuang said, life can be too smooth, you’d needed to learn how to face the trials of your lives, to find ways to get out, that is how you’ll be successful in life. In the orphanages, because of his handicap, he was picked on a lot, but he’d studied hard, and he was able to get accepted into the high school program sponsored by Taiwan University of Education, but for the sake of room and board, he’d chosen the Chiao-Jen Technical High School’s Arts Department.
the man, despite the deterioration of his physical strengths, still continued in making beautiful things…photo from online
From his high school years, he’d part-timed to make his own way, and, in order to save up the money for the materials he’d needed for class, he’d often only had instant noodles. Back then, his instructor, Chiao saw how hard he was having it, he’d asked Chuang to work in the dumpling factory of his work-study program. Chiao had told him, because he was immobilized, he’d hoped, that he can have an extra set of skills aside from making the industrial designs, and taught him how to make pottery free of charge.
As Ching-Yi Chuang entered the workforce, he’d worked in the industrial designs, and worked as the arts editor of a advertising firm and newspapers, as well as for magazines too, in the decade of work, he’d hated how he’d needed to socialize by going out for drinks with the clients, and missed his instructor, and started making the pottery.
And because Chiao was excellent in making potteries, he’d helped set Chuang’s career of “teapots by hand” along, and, Chuang had made the teapots by hand for thirty years on end, he’d even, taken up the pottery making lessons, in 1994, he’d invented the teapot that could separate the tea leaves with the liquid, and recently, he’d invented another teapot, with the lids attached that didn’t need to get a string tied between the lid and the teapot itself.
Ching-Yi Chuang said, that as the environment gave him a hard time, he’d found ways to overcome, currently, he works as an office manager of the Hsinbei Handicap Office for Life Education, hoped to use his own life, to help more like him.
So, all of his achievements, were due to the assistance of his school teacher, and sometimes, we’d needed, someone like this, to offer us hope, to lend us a helping hand, as the times get rough, and now, this man is successful in his own area of expertise, thanks to being inspired to work hard by his high school instructor.the man, despite the deteriorations in his hands, still worked hard, to continue on the path to making art, photo from online…
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