In China, there is a group of people known as left-behind children, whose life plight has always been the focus of social attention. In the winter of 2018, a young boy named Wang Fuman in the mountains of Yunnan became popular because of an accident, which once again attracted the attention of the Chinese people.
Only eight years old, he walked alone in the bitterly cold weather, 45 kilometers of mountain road just to catch the final exams of school. His cheeks were red from the cold, and his head was covered in ice flowers, but he persevered through the difficult journey.
The popularity of the Ice Flower Boy has not subsided, and four years have passed, how has his life improved? Located in the depths of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, Ludian County is surrounded by mountains, gurgling rivers, the highest peak is 3,356 meters above sea level, and the lowest point is only 568 meters, the terrain is complex and the climate is changeable.
In the early morning of January 8, 2018, the temperature in Ludian County plummeted below freezing, with a biting cold, raging winds, covered with ice and snow, and rugged mountain roads.
The sky was slightly white, and the lights of the Wang family had been lit. Soon after, Wang Fuman's short figure walked out of the house and rushed towards the entrance of the village. The winding mountain road, with towering cliffs on one side and unfathomable canyons on the other, is covered in snow and has a strange and elegant view.
However, Wang Fuman didn't have the heart to appreciate this beautiful scenery, he just lowered his head and hurriedly walked forward. If you look closely, you will find that Wang Fuman's coat is very thin, but his head is constantly steaming.
These gases carrying body temperature collided with the cold air at minus nine degrees, forming wisps of white frost that condensed on his head.
Wang Fuman was anxious in his heart, today is the final exam of the school he attends, Zhuanshanbao Primary School in Xinjie Town, starting from home, he needs to walk 35 kilometers of undulating mountain roads and 1 kilometer of flat roads to reach the school.
In order to arrive on time, he trotted all the way, but the mountain road was slippery and slowed down. When he arrived at school, he was already late, and his teachers and classmates were anxiously waiting for him.
As soon as Wang Fuman walked into the classroom, he suddenly heard a burst of laughter, and all the students looked at him together, and the teacher sitting on the podium saw Wang Fuman's appearance with a complicated expression, and picked up his mobile phone and took a picture of him.
It turned out that Wang Fuman's hair was all standing hard and covered with thick white frost. His eyebrows were dyed white, and even his thin coat was covered with a thin layer of frost.
On the contrary, his purple cheeks and ears have been baptized by the wind and snow, becoming more vivid, like ripe peaches, as if they would crack at the touch. Xiao Wang Fuman was not sad when he saw the ** in the teacher's mobile phone, but felt that his appearance was very funny, he laughed and made a grimace to his classmates, and then returned to his seat and waited for the teacher to distribute the test papers and prepare for the exam.
This touching scene made the young teacher unable to help herself, and she did not hesitate to upload this ** to the Internet afterwards. Soon, Binghua Boy's ** swiped the screen on major platforms, which aroused widespread attention and heated discussions on the Internet, and the mainstream ** also reported on it.
Although Xiao Wang Fuman has never experienced the sweetness of life, he does not know how difficult his life is. However, this ** has brought tears to the eyes of countless adults on the Internet.
Normally, 8-year-old children are picked up and dropped off now, and they never know the difficulties of life. But the left-behind children in the mountains have to carry the weight alone on the rugged and dangerous mountain road, and the appearance of the Ice Flower Boy allows us to see another side of life.
With the enthusiastic attention of netizens, the experience of the eight-year-old boy has attracted widespread attention. His name is Wang Fuman, a left-behind child born in 2010 and living in Zhuanshanbao Village, Ludian County, Zhaotong City, Yunnan Province.
This small village is nestled deep in the mountains of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau.
Despite China's strong infrastructure infrastructure, in areas like the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, where the terrain is complex, transportation in the mountains is still extremely inconvenient, and it takes long hours to travel in the mountains to get anywhere.
Hundreds of kilometers around Ludian County are dense mountains and forests, the terrain is steep, the cultivated land area is small and scattered, and the agricultural production environment is relatively backward. Although the area is rich in mineral and tourism resources, due to unstable geological conditions and remote geographical location, resource development efforts are insufficient.
When Wang Fuman was born, the GDP of Ludian County was only 2.5 billion yuan, and the per capita net income of the peasant group was only 2,572 yuan, making it a well-known poverty-stricken county in the country. The living conditions of the local people are very difficult and in an extremely backward state.
It can be seen from the ** report that the Wang family's house still retains the mud and brick mixed structure of the countryside forty or fifty years ago, the roof is simple thatch, a dilapidated electric box is hung on the wall, and the house is dimly lit, which undoubtedly reflects the hardships of the Wang family's life.
For the Binghua boy, although the word "Fuman" pinned on the family's expectations for a better life, his arrival increased the family's financial pressure. In order to support his two children, Wang's father had to leave his hometown and go to Kunming, hundreds of miles away, to work and earn a living.
Wang Fuman's mother, looking at the dilapidated houses and the children waiting to be fed, finally could not bear the torture of poverty, left her own flesh and blood, left silently, and went to the mountains to find a way out of life.
Xiao Wang Fuman, a child living in the mountains, although he is young, he has already become the pillar of the family. He stayed in the mountains with his sister, living with his elderly grandmother.
Despite the difficult living conditions, he never complained, but faced the difficulties of life with a positive and optimistic attitude. He studied diligently at school, helped his grandmother with household chores at home, and kept everything in order.
He grew up very fast, and even when other children were still spoiled in their parents' arms, he had learned to herd sheep and feed pigs. He had a very tight schedule, trekking two or three hours to go to school every day and rushing home after school to do household chores.
Despite the hardships of life, he never gave up and always faced life with optimism and positivity. The story of Xiao Wang Fuman tells us that no matter how difficult life is, as long as we have determination and courage, we will definitely be able to overcome difficulties and realize our dreams.
Despite his busy daily life, Wang Fuman never relaxed his studies. Even when my grandmother didn't need to be pushed, he would stick to his homework, so he was always at the top of his class.
But doesn't this young child crave affection? The answer is no. The Ice Flower Boy's ** aroused the attention of **, and the reporters crossed thousands of mountains and rivers to find hot spots in the mountains of Ludian County.
When they asked Wang Fuman about his greatest wish, the little guy showed a shy smile and replied seriously: "I hope Dad doesn't work so hard, and I hope Mom can come home more often to see me and my sister." ”
His simple words were filled with the greatest expectations for his parents. So, will he be able to make his wish come true in the end?
Although the cold winter of 2018 was biting, there was a warm current on the Internet, and the news of the Ice Flower Boy was like a pebble thrown into the lake, causing ripples and making people across the country pay unprecedented attention to Wang Fuman's family and left-behind children in various places.
When the address of Wang Fuman's home was made public, the network spontaneously organized a donation action, and many caring people and enterprises sent him cotton clothes and shoes, school bags, nutritional products and other items for the winter, and also donated more than 500,000 yuan to left-behind children in Yunnan.
Organizations dedicated to public welfare education sent volunteers to the mountainous areas, where they not only donated more than 100,000 yuan to the left-behind children, but also held a series of local activities, so that the children there have the opportunity to learn about the outside world and feel the care of the whole society.
After learning the news, the relevant departments of Yunnan Province took swift action and participated in the ranks of loving rescue. The Governor of Yunnan Province personally arranged for staff to go to the mountainous areas of Ludian County to visit the families of left-behind children and provide them with material assistance according to their actual living conditions.
At the same time, it has also increased its support for local education, and through in-depth investigation to understand the educational problems of students in the mountainous areas of Ludian County. In order to make it more convenient for children in mountainous areas to receive education, the education department actively integrates school resources and merges the third grade and above grades of Zhuanshanbao Primary School with Xinjie Town Central Primary School to adopt a boarding system to reduce the pressure on children to go to school.
In the face of the deep longing of left-behind children for their families, the country has been actively seeking solutions in recent years. After Wang Fuman became popular, the ** department of Ludian County took the initiative to contact his parents and arranged a job for his father in the county, with a monthly salary of nearly 200 yuan, which was enough to maintain the life of the whole family.
Although Wang Fuman's mother works outside the home, she has always been concerned about the children at home, and when she saw her son's little face eroded by the wind and snow on the Internet, she felt deeply ashamed and blamed herself.
After a period of thinking and struggling, she finally decided to go home to take care of her children. With the joint efforts of the whole society, Wang Fuman's wish finally came true, and his parents returned to their hometown to live with him and his sister.
The moment he saw his parents, tears flowed from his face, which had been smiling.
While trying his best to help Wang Fuman find his lost parents, there are also good people who care about what he wants. Wang Fuman shyly told ** that his dream was to go to Beijing ** for a flag-raising ceremony.
He said that when he watched the flag-raising ceremony on television, he always felt an indescribable shock in his heart. Upon hearing the news, a number of enthusiastic non-profit organizations reached out to raise funds to send Wang Fuman on a trip to Beijing so that he could experience this spectacular ceremony firsthand.
On the day the flag-raising ceremony began, Wang Fuman got up early in the morning and ran to Tiananmen Square. Under the dim flag, Wang Fuman's short figure stared intently at the slowly rising five-star red flag, and solemnly stretched out his right hand to salute.
Seeing this scene, everyone was moved by the child's innocence and was all moved.
Wang Fuman knows that the realization of his wish is due to the help of ** and society. Therefore, his heart was filled with gratitude. When asked about his future dreams, he replied without hesitation: "I want to go to the police academy and serve the people when I grow up!" ”
For him, the police may be the most rewarding profession in society. He hopes to use his power to help more people in the future, just as they have helped him.
In fact, Wang Fuman is unlucky, but he is also extremely lucky, because he caught up with the country's major reforms - since 2015, China's first under the leadership of the party officially launched the battle against poverty, which is related to the lives of hundreds of millions of poor people.
We are committed to achieving this goal in order to allow more parents to support their families while accompanying their children's growth. Until May 17, 2020, more than 40 impoverished villages in Ludian County, Zhaotong, finally took off the hat of poverty, including Zhuanshanbao Village, so that more left-behind children like Wang Fuman can grow up in healthy families and contribute to the people's happiness.
With the support of national policies, villagers in poor mountain villages have been relocated en masse to safe and vast rural communities. This includes the Binghua boy Wang Fuman's family. Their new home has been greatly improved by the windows and the living environment.
Now, 12-year-old Wang Fuman has successfully entered the local middle school with excellent grades, and lives at the school from Monday to Friday, no longer having to walk to school.
What's more, he is accompanied by his parents every time he comes home. These changes allowed the little boy to finally unload the burden of precocious puberty and live the life of an ordinary teenager wholeheartedly.
Wang Fuman has experienced the bitterness of life, but these trials will become his inner strength and help him cope with the challenges ahead. As Mencius said: "The heavens will descend on the people, and they must first work their minds and muscles."
Let us believe that Wang Fuman will meet the future with a stronger attitude.