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Post by china on Jun 27, 2011 6:36:39 GMT -5
WANG YAO
→Full Name:- Eastern Order: Wang Yao
- Western Order: Yao Wang
→Nicknames:- Sun Wei (past)
- Xu Wen (past)
- Mr. Wang (by his peers and customers)
- Big Brother/Uncle/Teacher (by some younger members of the local Chinese community)
→Nation: The People's Republic of China
→Gender: Male
→Age: Forty-five-years-old
→Applicable Age: Forty-years-old
→Physical Description: At least 100 words
→Distinguishing Features: Optional.
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→Personality: At least 200 words.
→Likes: At least five
→Dislikes: At least five
→Fears: At least two.
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→Current Family:- Wang Zheng (father, deceased)
- Wang Xuemei (mother)
- Wang Jianhua (wife)
- Wang Lianchi (son)
→Past Family: All Names and all Relations.
→Current History:
[★] Wang Yao was born to the rising sun on October 1, 1888 in the Tianjin prefecture.
[★] His father, Wang Zheng, was a doctor blessed with modest success. Zheng was a stern man, one not prone to many smiles, who saw his son as the successor to his medical practice.
[★] His mother, Wang Xuemei, was considered the ideal Chinese wife by her husband. Sweet-faced and even sweeter-tempered, she did her best to raise her son with love.
[★] For the both of them, Yao was their first son after several tries. They had suffered three miscarriages prior to his birth and would go on to suffer two more afterwards.
[★] Being an only child was difficult for Yao. It left him pressured to one day look after his family, to forever uphold the honor of their family name, and to always do well so as to not shame his father. It also left him feeling very lonely as a child because he had no siblings to play with or dote on.
[★] In 1894, when Yao was six, his father hired a few private tutors to come to his household rather than sending him off to school. These tutors educated Yao in mathematics, Confucian philosophies, politics, art, and similar subjects.
[★] When he wasn’t studying, Yao would either practice his art in his room or play with some of the neighborhood children. This helped ease his loneliness, especially when he began to take some of the other children under his wing. They became like his adopted family, his little brothers and little sisters, and he valued their companionship.
[★] Even though Yao was still young, Xuemei saw his budding friendships with some of the neighborhood children as an opportunity to arrange a marriage that would not only be advantageous to the family but also give him a girl he could have companionship with.
[★] After several months, Xuemei managed to secure an arrangement with a well-off family that lived nearby. The father was a respected government official, the mother had a history of bearing many sons—five, and she was already pregnant with what she boasted would be her sixth—and the girl in question was one whose company Yao seemed to enjoy.
[★] This girl’s name was Fei Jianhua. Though she was two years younger than Yao, she already showed signs of possessing a steady temperament and a good head on her shoulders. She also followed Yao’s example in looking after the other children in the neighborhood, playing the big sister to his big brother.
[★] In 1898, when Yao was ten, Zheng began to supplement his tutoring by bringing him along to meet patients. It was Zheng’s hopes that, by introducing concepts of medicine to his son at an early age, he would raise him to be a proficient doctor.
[★] On these trips to meet some of his father’s patients, Yao was never allowed to help with the treatment. His primary duty was simply to watch and listen as his father explained the symptoms of the ailment his patient had and the actions to take in order to treat that ailment.
[★] Upon returning home, Zheng would quiz his son on what they had studied that day. He made sure Yao could remember every symptom, every ailment, every treatment and alternative treatments. If he missed a question, Zheng would keep quizzing him until he got all the answers correct.
[★] Yao learned quickly to pay close attention to details because of this teaching method, and over the following years began to amass quite a bit of medical knowledge. This was aided by the fact that, when he was thirteen, Zheng hired a tutor to instruct him in medicine.
[★] By the age of fifteen, in 1903, Yao began an official apprenticeship underneath his father. Zheng began to allow him more responsibilities as time passed, soon giving Yao permission to treat some of the minor conditions his patients faced. These treatments served as a test by Zheng to gauge just how much Yao had learned over the years.
[★] In 1906, by the age of eighteen, Yao began to acquire his own set of clientele. He became not an apprentice but a partner of sorts to Zheng. If they received a call for a doctor that Zheng could not take, Yao was the one sent to handle the case.
[★] By the age of twenty, Yao became fairly established in the community as a trusted doctor. With an income to now contribute to a household, and considered able to look after a family, he married Jianhua later that year. After the marriage, she moved into the Wang household and began to help Xuemei with responsibilities there.
[★] Though they tried, Yao and Jianhua did not have their first child until 1910. Yao was twenty-two and Jianhua was twenty. They named the little boy Lianchi, and though they would continue to try for another son he would be the only child they had.
[★] During this time, Yao became more responsible for providing for the household. Though Zheng still worked, it was now Yao’s duty to look after his parents, as well as his wife and newborn son. This often meant he worked long hours and traveled to further parts of Tianjin prefecture than he once did.
[★] In 1912, when Yao was twenty-four, he sprained his knee on his way home from seeing a patient. Though he recovered from the injury in due time, he still suffered from lasting pain and discomfort. To help alleviate this pain, he began to take doses of opium.
[★] For a year, Yao managed to keep his use of opium under control. He took it only when he needed it, which was when the pain in his knee got too bad or his knee became too stiff to move with ease. However, when he was twenty-five he sprained his knee again. This time, he became addicted.
[★] Though Yao could not stop taking opium his life seemed fairly in control, at least at first. He still maintained a successful career as a doctor, he took care of his family, and he had a son who was in good health and already showed promising signs of intelligence.
[★] However, the small things began to add up. In 1914, Yao began to accumulate debt. He had been feeding his addiction using the stock of opium he kept for his patient’s medicinal purposes. Eventually, the stock ran out and he had to buy more. When that ran out, he had to buy even more.
[★] Of course, Yao wasn’t made of an infinite amount of money. He had home expenses that needed to be taken care of, especially since his son was soon approaching the age to begin his tutoring. So he began to borrow money from people in order to pay for both his addiction and his family’s caretaking.
[★] The affects of the drug on Yao also began to take their toll. He became paranoid and mistrustful of his family members. His addiction was a secret he kept carefully hidden, always maintaining the image of a man in control for his family, but he feared his father, mother, or wife finding out about just how out of control he had gotten. Not only that, but he feared the judgment of his peers and the dishonor his addiction would bring his family if anyone found out.
[★] Under the influences of opium, Yao suffered from periodic bouts of intense nausea. Though he tried to hide it, it became hard for him to eat and he began to lose weight as a result. His wife suspected he was becoming sick and worried after his health. She insisted that he have Zheng look him over and give him something to help what she suspected was simply an illness. Yao refused.
[★] There were many days where it felt as though he was on a constant high. Sometimes, Yao would forgo sleep to get tasks done. He couldn’t stop moving, couldn’t stop doing things, and felt as though his supply of energy would never go away. Yet when it did leave him, he would break down and scramble for another dosage of opium just to stave off the feelings not being high brought him. His carefully held control slipped away in those moments, leaving behind a man beaten down by his addiction.
[★] Though he tried to maintain a semblance of normalcy, Yao’s need for and use of opium began to affect his work life as well. He went to his patients high, made wrong diagnoses that, while not deadly, still resulted in the prolonged discomfort of the patients in question, and began to struggle with keeping his business afloat. Some say he lost his touch, and those who once ran to him began to go elsewhere.
[★] In 1917, at the age of twenty-nine, Yao made a grave mistake with a patient. He gave a pregnant woman a medication that ended up causing her to miscarry her child. Oh, sure, they could never prove anything, but when Yao heard the news he realized what happened and so did his patient.
[★] That woman was the last patient Yao saw. The others, those few that had remained under his care, abandoned him once word of mouth spread about what had happened.
[★] For a year, Yao struggled to gain some kind of work. Yet his reputation preceded him and few people would entrust their health to his care. As a result, he broke down and tried to find other work, any kind of work, that he could. Few would hire a man in his condition.
[★] It was an argument with Zheng that made Yao realize something had to be done. He had known, of course, that things had spiraled out of control. However, knowing and admitting out loud that he needed to change, he needed to stop this addiction, were two different things. Hearing his father accuse him of bringing shame and dishonor upon the family was the kick in the ass he needed to seize back his life.
[★] Yao’s solution was to quit opium completely. Not gradually come off it, not find a weaker drug to replace it. No, he went cold turkey. The withdrawal symptoms were horrible. Within hours, his body seemed to ache. He needed opium and he needed it now, he needed the pain to stop. However, even as the nausea started up and several other symptoms continued to ravage his body, a part of him remained strong.
He was Wang Yao. He would beat this.
[★] Part of Yao’s attempt to quit involved keeping himself contained in one room of the house and not coming out until he knew he was clean. Jianhua would bring him food, but otherwise he had no contact with his family. This proved to be in his favor, because Yao knew if he could have kept his wife around long enough he would have bullied her into getting him what he needed.
[★] Today, Yao could not tell anyone just what his withdrawal was like. It was a horrible time, blocked out of his memory for the most part due to the sheer unpleasantness of it. He doesn’t remember how long he spent in that room, kept away from his family and eating the meals his wife brought him. What he does know is that when he finally left, finally felt strong enough to leave that room, it felt as though months had passed.
[★] Thirty-years-old Yao still suffered from the ramifications of his drug use even if he was clean. He had lost the trust and respect of his family members. In many ways, he felt estranged from Lianchi, and suspected that the boy blamed him for the problems their family now faced.
[★] As a result of all the debt Yao had accumulated over the years, he and the family were forced to give up just about everything valuable they owned—including, of course, the house that had been in his family for generations.
[★] Zheng refused to speak to him after that point. Xuemei tried to keep peace between her husband and son, tried to mend the relationship between them, but Yao could feel her disappointment. As for Jianhua, though she continued her duties as his wife, the friendship between them had been broken. Even his own son tried to have as little to do with him as possible.
[★] Left poor, shamed, and without honor or job, Yao saw little hope for his future. He needed to provide for his family, needed to find some way to atone for his wrongdoing, and yet he couldn’t even find work.
[★] Good fortune came to him by word of mouth. Yao learned of young men going overseas to a place called Canada where they were paid good money for their hard work. It seemed too good to be true, but even an impossibility was better than nothing.
[★] Yao packed his meager belongings and told his wife he was leaving for this land of opportunity. Jianhua accused him of being a coward. She told him he was running away from his problems, abandoning his family. Yao tried to explain to her that he wasn’t running, simply seizing a chance to raise them back to their former status. Jianhua didn’t believe him, and they parted on poor terms.
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