Ordering food in Jiangcheng sign language for the first time in a deaf cafe is no longer a dream.

At 10:00 yesterday, Deaf House Cafe (Home for the Deaf) opened on Jiqing Street, Wuhan, which is the first deaf-themed cafe in our province.

Cui Jing, a hearing-impaired girl who relies on hearing aids, Wen Feng, a handsome post-90s man who can't speak, and Chen Jiuzhen, a Taiwanese girl who studies sign language, are the three partners who started the cafe.

They come together because of their dreams, and sign language is a common language. And this cafe is permeated with not only the strong aroma of coffee, but also a strong deaf culture.

On the first day of the opening, the silent world was full of laughter.

There are not many pedestrians on Jiqing Street at ten o'clock in the morning. The deaf-themed cafe opened on its first day, and the door was filled with large baskets of flowers from relatives and friends. The first customer to push the door was a young couple who went to the opposite city to repair their mobile phones and stopped by to have a cup of coffee.

In less than half an hour, guests, mostly deaf friends from the Internet, filled the two-story shop with a total of about 70 square meters. They communicate freely in sign language in the silent world, and there are joyous laughter from time to time. With flying fingers and raised corners of mouth, customers are as excited and happy as the boss.

Brewing coffee, milking fresh milk and dripping chocolate sauce, 23-year-old barista Wen Feng made a cup of carefully concocted coffee. Cui Jing, the 24-year-old curator, brought it to customers and brought back new orders. Playing Zhen, 27, runs around the audience. She is both a sign language interpreter and a cultural interpreter for the deaf.

There are more and more guests. Peng Qing, a deaf friend of Wen Feng, put on an apron and became a cafe waiter. Peng Qing, who is engaged in dance performance, told reporters: "their adherence to their dreams has also infected us and inspired us to work hard for our dreams." "at first, I was very opposed to him opening a shop. It is not easy for a normal person to start a business, let alone him. " Wen Feng's mother, Zhang Cuihua, said that she wiped away the tears that overflowed her eyes. Wen Feng patted his mother on the shoulder and said in sign language, "Today, I thank my parents who have always supported me and accompanied me." As soon as the gesture fell, the boy looked at his mother opposite and suddenly began to sob. "I understand that you have always been a very obedient and sensible child." Zhang Cuihua immediately burst into tears. Mother and son hugged each other.

The deaf-mute boy silently and weakly listened to the teacher's resignation for the dream.

In 2010, the dream of opening a deaf-themed cafe has sprouted in Cui Jing's heart. She and her deaf friends like to go to cafes, but it is difficult for them to simply order and pay the bill.

Cui Jing's parents are both deaf. And she was once a normal girl, until the day when she was three years old, without any warning, she suddenly fell into the silent world. But she did not give up, in repeated practice, rely on hearing aids and lip reading, basic listening and speaking communication has no obstacles. She was also admitted to Chongqing normal University, where she majored in special education and then stayed in school to become a counselor.

For her dream of opening a coffee shop, she quit her job and returned to Wuhan, looking for start-up funds with her dream project book. After being repeatedly rejected, she finally received financial support from a deaf friend.

Compared with Cui Jing, Wen Feng's fate is even more difficult: only a few months after his birth, he completely lost his ability to listen and listen because of a medical accident, and now he can only rely on sign language and writing to communicate with others. But he is obsessed with his dreams. During the two months of preparing the cafe, he either traveled to buy equipment in the three towns of Wuhan, or stayed in the cafe to decorate and clean up, often so tired that he didn't even have time to go home. Two days before the coffee shop opened, the table and sofa were delivered to the shop. Wen Feng assembled the furniture until two o'clock in the morning and finally fell asleep on the floor of the store.

Within two months, the two-story shop has been transformed into a cafe dreamed of by Cui Jinghe and Wen Feng. They smiled brightly like children: "We are very happy." Regardless of other people's doubts, I will try my best to do things well. " Sign language shows a firmness between its ups and downs.

Taiwanese girls volunteered to join only to convey the culture of the deaf

If Cui Jing and Wen Feng's dream grow wings and are flying high all the way, then play Zhen is their most powerful escort.

Yu Zhen, a graduate student in anthropology at Tsinghua University in Taiwan, met Cui Jing while doing sign language research at Chongqing University last year. "I want to record the development of deaf themed cafes." Playing Zhen said that in the process of doing research, he was moved by Cui Jing's persistence in pursuing their dreams, and could not help but join in. In August, Youzhen came to Wuhan and brought many books related to deaf culture for customers to read for free. In the cafe, sign language and information about the lives of the deaf can be seen everywhere.

On the blog of the cafe, Youzhen wrote this passage-- what we need to do is to tell everyone: "those of us who have different hearing from most people attach great importance to vision in life, especially when communicating with others." the most direct and fastest way is to use sign language! " "the main purpose of the deaf-themed cafe is not to make money, but to promote the culture of the deaf." Cui Jing said that deaf people just use different languages, and friends who want to learn sign language can also come to them for free.

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