80-year-old "left-behind" grandmother plays a short video telling her loneliness

  3-minute video without subtitles and no soundtrack makes millions of netizens feel distressed: We accompany you to chat

  "My daughter has gone to the United States, my son has gone to Guangzhou, and my eight grandchildren are not around..." Recently, a video of an 80-year-old man telling him about his loneliness caused thousands of netizens to feel distressed.

She said that she had been teaching for more than 50 years, and her whole life was lively and lively, and people became more and more lonely in old age.

But there is no complaint in her words, but her understanding and concern for her children, "They are running around for a living, I can think about it."

  Such a 3-minute confession video is so simple that it does not even have subtitles and background music. In less than a day, it has attracted the attention of tens of millions of netizens. A young man heartily left a message: "I hope my grandma can feel life through the cloud (online world). The excitement." On November 29, the Ziniu News reporter went to find the old man.

Her name is Xie Guiyuan, from a small village in Zhuzhou, Hunan. Grandma Xie told reporters the story behind this unexpectedly popular video.

  Sun Qingyun, trainee reporter of Ziniu News

  80-year-old grandma made a video telling her loneliness, "I want to make a living because they want to make a living."

  When Xie Guiyuan was contacted, she had just learned from the WeChat message sent by her grandson that the short video she had posted was "hot".

Speaking of the warm words of netizens, she smiled happily and said cheerfully to the reporter: "You must help me say'thank you' to everyone."

  Back to the morning four days ago, Grandma Xie picked up her phone and recorded a small video as usual, and posted it on the Internet.

When she first started contacting the smartphone, she seemed unskilled in the operation, but seeing the video mode turned on, she immediately lowered her head and approached the camera, smiling at the camera and said, "Hello, everyone."

  "I am so lonely, my children are not by my side. I want to learn to play short videos with young people while I am still talking, and pass the time." Grandma Xie confided her troubles to everyone. Trivial matters, as big as a busy life.

She said that she is 80 years old this year, her husband and children have passed away for 11 years. She has children and daughters. She has four generations under one roof, but her children work in other places, and people feel lonely more and more when they are old.

But even so, there is no complaint in her words, but full of understanding and concern for her children, "They are running around for a living, I can think about it."

  Some words touched the netizens. Within a day, the video received more than 400,000 likes from netizens, and once rushed to the top of the hot search rankings.

Someone left a message in the comment area: "Watching the entire video, I miss my grandma and grandma. They are also in their hometown alone. I don't know how they are living, do they feel lonely?"

  Missing her daughter far overseas, she started playing short videos

  Grandma Xie said that she was unwell that day, too lazy to cook, and didn't want to eat alone, that's why she had this video.

She told reporters, "I just want to express a feeling shared by the elderly. I don't know that it will arouse the attention of so many kind people."

  In October of this year, Grandma Xie began to record her personal life on a short video platform. The 18 "works" are all extremely simple pictures. Some are telling stories to the camera, and some are humming her favorite operas.

It can be seen from the first two videos that she hurriedly practiced switching between the front and rear cameras because she did not understand the shooting method.

On November 9th, because she was so sleepy that she was dozing off, she mistakenly posted a 3-second pitch-black video, with only the shallow breathing of her going to sleep. Netizens joked in the comment area: "The old man is dozing off with his mobile phone. What a lovely grandma, shhh, don't wake her up!"

  Grandma Xie told reporters that in fact, 9 months ago, she had been using an elderly phone. Later, when she really wanted to learn about the online world that young people were addicted to, she spent money on a smart phone.

After taking it home, her niece and daughter-in-law installed a short video software for her to relieve her worry and boredom when she was idle.

Because she missed her daughter who worked abroad, this software became a window for her to learn about her daughter's latest developments.

  "My daughter likes to post videos. I watch her every day, before going to bed, and after waking up. If she doesn't post new ones for two or three days, I will be worried." In the past six months, grandma Xie posted her daughter. After turning over the content, she will call her grandson in a hurry if it is not updated after a period of time, asking him to inquire about the situation, "Especially now that the epidemic situation abroad is so serious, I miss her all the time."

  The daughter at the other end of the phone cares about her hometown mother

  The daughter Li Hong (pseudonym) mentioned by Grandma Xie lives in the United States and works as a waiter in a Chinese Sichuan restaurant. She is 54 years old this year.

Before 2019, she lived with her mother and the two houses were next to each other, so she stayed with Grandma Xie most of the time.

On November 30, when the reporter contacted her, it was 11:30 p.m. in her city, and she had just returned home from a day's work.

  Speaking of the reasons for going abroad, Li Hong introduced that her husband has lived in the United States for a long time due to the company’s business needs. When I go home, I can only see him once a year. He had uncomfortable legs and feet two years ago, so I came here to accompany him."

  It is precisely because of this that she had to leave her mother and children in her hometown.

Li Hong told reporters that she cried and read the self-narration released by her mother.

Like Grandma Xie flipping through her videos, she watched the videos posted by her mother these days over and over again, "The most memorable thing is the phrase she said'for life'."

  In Li Hong's heart, since childhood, grandma thanked her as a "strict mother", and she rarely showed her inner softness. "I only remember that she shed tears twice, once when my father died, and once when I decided to make it. In the United States." The day before the departure, the two had an argument because of this parting, and they didn't speak all night.

But the next morning, Li Hong just opened the door and saw her mother who was getting up early, "She said sorry to me. After saying this, I held her and cried for a long time."

  Li Hong said that when she saw this video and listened to her mother telling her about her loneliness, she felt very distressed. "I watched this video she sent before going to bed last night, and watched it again before getting up early to go to work. Was it a mistake to think I went abroad to accompany my husband?"

  The grandson went home to visit his grandma and the netizen said: We will accompany you

  Grandma Xie’s family is in a small village in Chaling County, Zhuzhou, Hunan. She was a teacher before she retired. After leaving her teaching post, she still did not want to accept her old age. Zhang Luo founded a kindergarten to teach children in the village to learn to read. 2017 Niancai completely retired from work, "I missed the days when I was teaching, but at night I always dreamed of being with my children."

  Grandma Xie said that she lacks the company of her family, and she has no work to dispel loneliness. She tries to find many ways to relieve her inner feelings of loneliness. There are few entertainment activities in the country, so she just finds fun by herself, and when she is bored, she will go out of the house to find someone to play cards. , Dancing for the elderly, etc.

After teaching for more than 50 years, she loves writing. In the first two years, she also learned to write articles and submitted articles to a publishing house in Beijing. But I didn't go there. "I went to Beijing 6 times when I was young, and I was familiar with it. Now that I am old, I want my children to take it with me, so I am embarrassed to tell them that I am afraid of causing trouble to the children."

  In the video comment area, many netizens said that seeing Grandma Xie was like seeing the elderly in their own family. Some netizens said: "I hope Grandma will continue to post videos. We will accompany you to chat, listen to your stories, and coax you to sleep."

  Grandma Xie told reporters that her first video was sent out after studying for a month, and now she has just learned to read the comment section, "As long as I am in good health in the future, I will meet with you on a short video (platform)."

  She described herself as an optimist. She likes singing and dancing all her life. She lives upright and does things honestly. I am as happy as I am.” Finally, Grandma Xie told reporters that in the past few days, her children, grandchildren and many relatives and friends have called her, and a grandson rushed home from the field to accompany her after seeing this video. She was very happy. Happy.