"I am old, and people are old." Nowadays, filial piety has various forms, but its essence remains unchanged. What parents value most is their children's true feelings when they treat their old selves. Through "Touching China" and other programs, we can see that even in the family, the inheritance of filial piety continues. She is the spokesperson of today's theme, Tan Zhiping.
Poor family, self-improvement
1In September 1999, Tan Zhiping, who was only 16 years old in Xiakou Village, Qiu Zi Town, Changyang County, Hubei Province, quietly hid the high school admission notice from his parents. She decided to drop out of school and go to agriculture because she had to face the difficult and helpless reality that she had to face at home. Her mother suffers from intermittent mental illness. She talks nonsense or acts strangely from time to time. When she is sick, she often smashes things at home, needing special care and spending a lot of money on medicine. My father worked as a miner in a coal mine all the year round, and he fell ill and suffered from severe rheumatism.
In addition to the patient's parents, Tan Zhiping's younger sister, who is only 1 1, is in primary school. Worst of all, her house has collapsed and needs to be rebuilt urgently. When his family was poor and his parents were ill, Tan Zhiping decided to become the pillar of the family. So he ignored his father's opposition and insisted on dropping out of school to farm, taking care of his sick mother at home and earning some money to subsidize his family.
With the efforts of my father and Tan Zhiping, I made money to repair the damaged house and buy medicine for my mother to curb her illness. My mother's condition eased after taking medicine, and everything at home developed in a good direction. However, just when this beautiful future is coming, Tan Zhiping is teased by fate.
After Tan Zhiping's mother recovered from her illness, she felt guilty when she saw everything at home and saw that her children were living a hard life that did not belong to their age. She thought that her illness had brought trouble to the whole family, so one day when Tan Zhiping was not at home doing farm work, she ran away from home and committed suicide by jumping into the lake. The pain of losing her mother hit Tan Zhiping hard and almost destroyed her. But she knew that she still had her father and sister, so she gritted her teeth and persisted.
In order to make the fruits and vegetables in the field taste better and sell more money in the city, she has to carry water, fertilize and kill insects every day; Get up early every day and go to the mountains to cut about 50 kilograms of pig grass, just to fatten up the four pigs at home and sell them at a good price in the future. Later, she insisted on going out to work and subsidizing her family. At this time, this girl, who should have experienced high school life at school, entered the society early and experienced life.
After three years of social hardships and hard work, Tan Zhiping made a suggestion to his father, hoping that he could support himself to open a supermarket in the provincial capital to obtain a relatively stable income. My father also saw Tan Zhiping's determination and thought that her daughter had learned a lot by working hard outside for three years. So in 2002, the father and the daughter opened a small supermarket near Wuhan Hankou Railway Station with the help of their friends.
Shop around and be honest when selling goods. If you don't have the money to hire employees, you have to wear several hats, both as a waiter and as a porter. Tan Zhiping took advantage of the hard-working spirit developed at home and abroad to open a small shop, which opened early and closed late, in order to earn more money to subsidize the family. Later, in order to take care of the fields at home and my sister at school, my father also went back to his hometown. In a strange city, only this self-reliant girl is left.
Be cautious and sweet, treat people sincerely, with high quality and low price. Tan Zhiping's small supermarket has won the favor of surrounding customers under her management. With the money she earned, she expanded the store to two floors in just 1 year. When she was forcibly removed in 2004, her assets had reached several hundred thousand. With the help of this money, two floors were built at home, and my sister learned a craft after successfully reading the book.
Stick to your dream of reading.
In 2005, 22-year-old Tan Zhiping faced another life choice after returning to China. The economic situation at home has improved, and I don't have to work so hard anymore. My sister also found a job through her own skills. Will she continue to work hard, or will she complete her regrets and pursuits? Before leaving, her mother told her that she wanted to succeed, study and study medicine.
And after living in a big city for several years, she saw tall buildings and asked for a resume. If she still has that junior high school diploma, I'm afraid she can't compete in the future. Also, maybe she is really unwilling and has a dream. She took time out of the busyness of opening a small shop in Wuhan to teach herself English and enrich her knowledge. So she decided to face up to her dream, and with the help of her friends, she entered Hubei Institute of Technology in 2005 and became a student in the medical branch.
Back at school, Tan Zhiping has no time to enjoy his leisure time. At the age of 22, she took the time to study professional knowledge. She comes first in the morning and leaves the classroom at the latest in the evening, so she doesn't take a lunch break to learn knowledge. Tan Zhiping has been among the best for two consecutive semesters.
Later, when my father saw that his daughter was so disappointing, he told her that he hoped to find a new object. Tan Zhiping also realized his father's bitterness and deliberately took time off for his stepmother and father to go home. Tan Zhiping has never abandoned her stepmother with hyperplasia of mammary glands and her father with rheumatism. In addition to studying, he also works part-time to earn money and buy medicine and nutrition for his sick parents. In addition to these material performances, Tan Zhiping often chats with his parents on the phone to relieve their loneliness.
In 2006, Tan Zhiping took her stepmother and father, who were seriously ill at school and grew up day by day, to take care of them personally. With the help of classmates and teachers, she opened a student canteen to make up for more and more medical expenses. Unfortunately, he has a heavy academic workload and needs to take care of others. Even if Tan Zhiping gets up at 3 am every day to decorate the restaurant, everything is still not satisfactory. Finally, Tan Zhiping can only give up the restaurant and concentrate on studying and taking care of his parents.
She never gave up when her stepmother was seriously ill. After so many hardships in life, the girl learned to be strong and face setbacks. While seeking medical treatment everywhere, she did not forget her "3+2" important exam. Tan Zhiping can be said to have achieved self-improvement very well. Later, after treatment and nursing, the stepmother's condition improved, and her father's rheumatism was not so serious. In order to give her parents a good rest environment, she specially asked for leave to send them back to their hometown to recuperate, and then went back to school to continue their studies.
National moral model
In addition to honoring his parents, Tan Zhiping is also grateful to repay the society. In her opinion, she can survive a hard life without the help and support of friends, teachers, classmates and society. Every holiday and weekend, she will go to welfare homes, hospitals and other places to take care of lonely old people and patients, help them clean up and deal with all kinds of troubles for them.
Later, Tan Zhiping organized students to set up a volunteer association and launched a "Thanksgiving Culture Fund" to help poor families and poor students through difficult times with the help of the team and let them feel the warmth of society. Today, the registered number of this society has reached more than 5,000, involving community pension, legal rights protection and helping families in need. Tan Zhiping was rated as a "national moral model" because of his filial piety to his parents and his return to society.