On February 20, a thin layer of rain fell in the sky, and a few plum blossoms bloomed quietly, and Huaguang Village, Lianghu Street, Shangyu District, Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, looked a little deserted. When I came to the entrance of the village and mentioned Zhang Jie, almost everyone knew that his home was around that corner.
Zhang Jie's former residence is located in Huaguang Village, Shangyu. On February 18, Zhang Jie, a 95-year-old national moral model, a model of loving his hometown in Zhejiang Province, and a famous Hong Kong businessman, passed away in Hong Kong. What does a person's departure leave behind? These days, many people are missing him and thinking about it. Although he was born in poverty, Zhang Jie was hardworking and simple, thrifty and housekeeping; In the rapid development of the country, he relied on his own hands to donate a lot of funds and materials to his hometown Shangyu by selling tea eggs, hairy crabs and other items, and has donated a total of 15 million yuan so far.
From February 19th to 20th, the reporter came to Shangyu to explore Zhang Jie's footprints. In people's memories, we have heard many stories about the "spirit of Zhang Jie". How do people understand this spirit? How did Zhang Jie touch the whole city?
The exterior wall of Zhang Jie's former residence. The old house is still the same, and his story has accompanied the growth of generations after generations.
Zhang Jie's old house is a renovated four-story building, and although some of the colors are a little old, it has always been clean and tidy. On the outer wall are written "Zhang Jie Memorial Hall". The vermilion gate was closed, and only the dense trees reached out to the outer wall. The house meanders across a small river, and the walls are covered with stories about "Zhang Jie, a model of love for his hometown". In the portrait, Zhang Jie wears glasses, plain and neat clothes, and his eyes are blazing.
Near Zhang Jie's former residence in Huaguang Village. "It's like it, that's what he looks like. "One villager told us that Zhang Jie's name is almost a household name in Shangyu. In recent years, he has rarely returned, but earlier he would come back almost every year to "give red envelopes to the elderly in nursing homes". Willing to give, the happiest is to do good, the fathers here pass on the story of Zhang Jie from mouth to mouth, teaching the next generation the simple virtues. In 1928, Zhang Jiejie was born in this small village. When I was a child, my family was poor, I did not complete my primary education, and I was forced to go out to earn a living, and I experienced years of displacement. After years of struggle, he came to Hong Kong in 1959 and became an employee of a food store, living a precarious life. In 1978, 50-year-old Zhang Jie rented a shop in Tsim Sha Tsui and began selling hairy crabs, tea eggs and other goods. Although the business was not large, he did his best to set up a school in his hometown and sponsor students.
Zhang Jie is in **zongzi"I often pass by the door of Grandpa Zhang's house, and there are a lot of content on the wall that introduces his deeds. Every time I pass by, I stop and take a look, and since I was a child, I know that he has donated a lot of money and has little to no money for himself. Wu Ziyu, a junior high school student at Zhang Jie Middle School, and Mr. Lao are from the same village, and they have won Zhang Jie's scholarship for two consecutive years, 800 yuan each time. This scholarship has always accompanied him in his learning and growth, and like Zhang Jie's spirit, it has continuously inspired his understanding of love. This slightly young child told us: "Helping others is not about having money or not having money, as long as you have a heart and action, you are helping others." ”
In a small shop in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong, Zhang Jie has become a celebrity, and many people have seen him in this small shop in Hong Kong. In 1998, a reporter from Zhejiang Province went to interview, sat on a low stool in the aisle, and sometimes had to get up to give way to others.
Zhang Jie's canteen on Ka Lin Wei Old Road in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong, is a small shop of only five or six square meters, selling river crabs in autumn and winter, and usually selling "special goods" such as rice dumplings and tea eggs