In the face of life's difficulties, only by facing them bravely can we change our fate. In 2005, a dark-skinned and thin young man came into the field of vision of the people of the whole country with his indomitable spirit and belief in brave struggle, and he was Hong Zhanhui.
With his story, Hong Zhanhui was selected as one of the "Top Ten People Who Moved China" that year, and his deeds have also touched countless Chinese.
In June 1982, Hong Zhanhui was born in an ordinary peasant family in Xihua County, Henan Province. In Hong Zhanhui's memory, his childhood was full of happiness. After school, he can run freely in the fields and come home with his family.
However, all this came to an abrupt end when Hong Zhanhui was 12 years old. One day in 1994, Hong Zhanhui's father suddenly went crazy, smashed things in the house, and injured his mother.
The mother hurried out to find someone to help, leaving her young sister at home. When everyone controlled their father, they found that their sister had unfortunately passed away. The sudden change in the family turned Hong Zhanhui's childhood and family life upside down.
The death of Hong Zhanhui's sister and the diagnosis of his father with intermittent psychosis cast a shadow over this originally warm family. For the sake of his father, Hong Zhanhui's mother exhausted all the family's savings and owed a lot of foreign debts.
However, my father's condition did not go into remission, but he would often have seizures and hit his mother. One day at the end of the year, my father found hope in an abandoned baby girl, and she was Hong Zhan.
Hong Zhanhui regards her as his own sister and takes care of her together. However, the long-term mental stress of her mother and the illness of her husband caused her to collapse. She left the house after making a lot of dry food, leaving only the cries of Hong Zhanhui and her younger brother: "Mother, are you going to **?" ”
Hong Zhanhui, a 13-year-old boy, started his own struggle because of his father's serious illness and young siblings. He gave up his childhood pleasures to shoulder the burden of the family, earn money to support the family, and take care of his father and younger siblings.
However, it wasn't all smooth sailing. He had to spend all his time trying to earn money, but his father's condition was unstable, and he couldn't feel comfortable leaving his young sister home alone.
Therefore, he entrusted his sister to the care of relatives during the day and took her home at night. My sister is still at the age of **, and there is no milk, so he can only hold his sister to borrow milk.
Although this is not a long-term solution, he still uses the money he earns to buy milk powder for his sister. Hong Zhanhui's strength and perseverance moved us and made us think deeply.
With perseverance and optimism, Hong Zhanhui faced the difficulties of life. He worked diligently, scavenged and farmed, and the burden of his family did not give him a knees, but became the norm in his life.
He firmly believes that knowledge changes destiny, and in order to support his family, he insists on studying and does not let his studies fall behind. In his home, there are nine big characters: "Always strive for the top", which is his motto and his spiritual pillar.
He bravely faced life and proved with his actions that "difficulties are like springs, if you are weak, it will be strong, and if you are strong, it will be weak".
In 1997, Hong Zhanhui was admitted to Xihua No. 1 High School, a key high school in Henan Province, with excellent results, and became one of the only three students in his junior high school who were admitted to this provincial key high school.
However, his joy was mixed with a hint of worry, because the high school was located in the county seat, and he needed to rent a house there to take care of his father and sister.
However, he needed money to rent a house and tuition fees to study, so he didn't have much time to plan, so he could only find a job as soon as possible to earn money. So, he traveled around, got a job on a construction site, and worked hard until he finally saved some money before school started.
In high school, he got his wish and rented a house near the school and took his father and sister with him. At lunch and dinner, he would prepare a meal and take it home to eat with his sister.
However, high school and junior high school are different, and county towns and rural areas are also different.
In order to alleviate the financial pressure on his family, Hong Zhanhui began to start some small businesses at school, although these actions caused disgust among teachers and classmates. Once, when he was selling pens to his classmates, he was bumped into by a teacher, who unceremoniously accused him of coming to school or business, and that his parents did the work of making money, and he didn't need to interfere, and his task was to study hard.
Hearing these words, Hong Zhanhui did not defend himself, but silently endured all the grievances, tears flowed, but it could only make him stronger. This experience made Hong Zhanhui more clear about his goals, he wanted to study, support his family, and change his fate.
As soon as Hong Zhanhui gained a firm foothold in the high school life in the county seat, fate played a joke on him. In his sophomore year of high school, his father's illness relapsed. In order to treat the disease, Hong Zhanhui asked for leave to take his father to see a doctor, but the medical expenses made him worried.
He returned to his hometown to borrow money from door to door, and finally raised enough money for his father's medical expenses. However, without the economy, the life of the whole family became a problem. Looking at his father and young sister in his hospital bed, Hong Zhanhui made the difficult decision to drop out of school temporarily and return home to take care of them.
After returning home, he continued to do odd jobs, taking care of 8 acres of land, and doing his best to take care of his family and maintain the family life. The pressure of life made his figure more busy, and overwork made him faint many times, but this only made him more determined to believe in life.
Hong Zhanhui's careful care finally brought his father's condition under control, and he also received good news.
Hong Zhanhui's two former teachers in Xihua No. 1 High School were transferred to Xihua No. 2 High School, and they have been paying attention to Hong Zhanhui, hoping that he can change his fate through reading. They found Hong Zhanhui through someone and conveyed to him their wish that he would return to high school.
Hong Zhanhui also realized that if he didn't study, there would be no way out, and his sister had reached the age of going to elementary school, so he asked the teacher to find a primary school for his sister and send her to study. After thorough preparations, Hong Zhanhui returned to the familiar campus.
Although he now starts his life as a freshman in Xihua No. 2 High School, the burden on his shoulders is heavier than before, because he still needs to tutor his sister in her homework.
In his opinion, reading is the only way to change one's fate, and it is necessary not only to read books, but also to read them well. Under Hong Zhanhui's education and guidance, his sister studied hard, which made Hong Zhanhui feel very gratified.
Hong Zhanhui's life is full of plans and efforts. He hopes to earn money by studying and take care of his family. However, life is always full of surprises. His father's condition was irregular, which left him anxious and helpless.
When he found out that his father was ill again, he immediately took him to the hospital. However, the hospital refused to pay for his father** because he was unable to pay the full amount.
Hong Zhanhui felt desperate, and he knelt helplessly at the door of the hospital. Fortunately, a township psychiatric hospital in Fugou County saw his filial piety, and they promised to waive his father's hospitalization fees and only charge ** fees.
When Hong Zhanhui heard the good news, he immediately rode home to prepare hospital supplies for his father. Although the journey from the hospital to his home was nearly 50 kilometers, he did not stop.
Even though he was exhausted, he decided to set off again. However, the darkness of the night road and his physical weakness caused him to fall while riding, and he fell into a ditch on the side of the road.
When he woke up, he saw broken pieces of water bottles and bikes pressed against him. His tears flowed uncontrollably, and he looked at the sky, his heart full of pain and helplessness.
However, he knew he couldn't give up and he had to move on and fight for his family and his own life.
He stood up, picked up his bike, wiped away his tears, and said firmly: "I can't fall, I must not fall." Then he got on the bike again and moved on. His father's condition gradually stabilized, his sister became more sensible, and Hong Zhanhui began to run a small business on campus.
He noticed that the college entrance examination was approaching, and many students needed to review materials, so he took the weekend to the library in Zhengzhou to wholesale materials and sell them. He said the experience was "a lot of bleeding from the grinding of my feet."
Hong Zhanhui's deeds spread on campus, and his business became better and better. His classmates found him not only to be tenacious and self-reliant, but also to operate with integrity. During this time, he made many friends, and even many classmates were willing to lend him money as capital, which made Hong Zhanhui feel very warm, and he could often show a heartfelt smile on his face.
The gears of time left deep traces on Hong Zhanhui, and after five years of perseverance and hard work, his high school career finally came to an end. He was admitted to Hunan Huaihua University with a score of 490 in the college entrance examination, although this is a junior college, but his choice is due to the consideration of tuition fees.
He decided to go to Hunan first, leave his sister in the care of relatives, and then devote himself to campus life, continue to do his campus business, and work hard to make money. After that, Hong Zhanhui brought his sister to Hunan, and with the help of the school, he successfully completed the interpolation procedures for her and enrolled her in a nearby primary school.
He knew that his sister was in the stage of growing her body, so he would make sure that she could drink a bag of milk and eat an egg every day. And he himself can only live by munching on instant noodles sometimes.
Hong Zhanhui's story tells us that as long as we have determination and perseverance, we will definitely achieve our goals. Even in the face of difficulties and challenges, we cannot give up easily, because "hard work pays off".
The children of the poor are in charge of the house, and the younger sister is already able to cook independently, often preparing meals and waiting for the elder brother to come home for dinner. In her spare time, my sister also picks up bottles outside.
When the school teachers and classmates learned of Hong Zhanhui's situation, they spontaneously organized donations, but he politely declined, saying: "There are many people in need of help, and I have to rely on my own efforts." ”
In 2005, Hong Zhanhui was invited to give a report at the University of International Economics, his speech was deeply moving, his deeds quickly spread throughout the country, and he also became a public figure.
In an interview with reporters, Hong Zhanhui said: "Difficult experience is not our capital to win sympathy, struggle is the most important thing." ”
Hong Zhanhui was named one of the "Top Ten People Who Moved China" in 2005 and was awarded the Top Ten Outstanding Young Persons in China in 2006 for his courage to face difficulties and tenacious fighting spirit.
His story has inspired countless people and made people see the spirit of perseverance and courage in the face of difficulties. He fainted 16 times in 5 years of high school, but he never fell, and this spirit sustained him to rise to the occasion.
After receiving help from all walks of life, he said that he was very grateful, but he no longer needed any financial help, because his father found a way to **, and he and his sister had the opportunity to study.
Hong Zhanhui's life gradually returned to normal, his father's condition was stable, and his mother and younger brother, who had run away from work, also returned home one after another, and he once again felt the warmth of his family.
In 2006, he was admitted to the prestigious Central South University, and finally obtained a master's degree in business administration from Central South University in 2011.
After completing his studies, Hong Zhanhui rejected offers from many large companies and chose to return to Huaihua University in Hunan Province as a way for him to return to his alma mater. He worked here as a teacher, and then successively as deputy secretary of the Youth League Committee, assistant to the principal and secretary of the Youth League Committee.
A few years later, he founded a secondary vocational school to help students with disadvantaged conditions to receive education. As an educator, he is passionate about the cause of student assistance and is determined to help students who are facing difficulties on their way to education.
He married high school alumnus Song Najie, started a new family, and became an Olympic torchbearer in the same year, taking part in the Changsha torch relay.
In October 2021, Hunan Satellite TV launched a cross-era return visit to the warm variety "See You Again", and Hong Zhanhui participated in the show as a guest. In this special program, his younger sister Hong took advantage of the fact that she gave her brother a suit carefully selected by herself through the program team and invited him to attend her wedding.
When Hong Zhanhui read the thank you letter that his sister wrote to him, he was moved to tears. Although Hong Zhanhui and Hong Zhanhui are not brothers and sisters, the relationship between them is deeper than that of brothers and sisters.
Hong Zhanhui's perseverance and spirit of fighting against fate are worth learning from each of us, just like the words he wrote on the wall of his home, we must always strive for progress and strive for the top.
In the face of the injustice of fate and the hardships of life, Hong Zhanhui has always maintained simplicity and has not complained. Even after becoming a public figure, he is still active in the education industry and contributes to society, and his deeds are touching and full of exemplary power.
Today, Hong Zhanhui is an educator and philanthropist, and his story will continue to inspire generations to come. His story teaches us that life's sufferings are not terrible, the key is how we face and transcend them.