Video of 3-year-old daughter tearfully hugging dead dad statue has a tearjerker story behind it...

　　The 3.5-year-old girl jumped at the statue of her father as soon as she saw it. At first, she touched her father's facial features with novelty, and then kissed and hugged the statue. Gradually, the child's eyes became wet with sadness, as if she no longer wanted her father. Leaving... Recently, this video has been widely circulated on the Internet, making countless netizens moved to tears...

　　Chengdu Business Daily-Red Star News reporter learned that the little girl's father is named Zhang Xiaolin, and he has been doing charity work in Daliangshan, Sichuan since 2014.

At the beginning of 2020, Zhang Xiaolin passed away due to ineffective treatment of liver cancer. His life is always fixed at the age of 39, and the schools he participated in donated and built are also fixed at 39...

　　On the evening of July 15, Zhang Xiaolin's wife Wu Meili exclusively told the Red Star News reporter the story behind the video.

　　deeds

　　He participated in the construction of 39 Hope Schools

　　39-year-old died of liver cancer

　　In 2014, due to an accidental self-driving tour, Zhang Xiaolin, a native of Rugao, Jiangsu, embarked on the road of public welfare. At first, he only raised donations and distributed materials to children in Daliangshan.

He was deeply touched by the difficult learning environment of the children in the mountains. Zhang Xiaolin gradually realized that education is the foundation of helping children change their destiny.

After that, he began to raise funds for the construction of Hope Primary School in Daliangshan through his personal efforts.

　　Donating to build schools has become Zhang Xiaolin's "key task".

According to public media reports, with the help of caring people from all over the world and the support and cooperation of local education departments, as of 2020, Zhang Xiaolin has participated in the donation and construction of 39 Hope Schools and purchased hardware teaching facilities such as desks.

At the same time, volunteer teachers are also recruited to teach lessons for children in mountainous areas.

　　However, just when Zhang Xiaolin was smug about building the 39th school for Daliangshan, he fell ill with liver cancer.

Even if he couldn't walk on the hospital bed, Zhang Xiaolin never stopped doing charity work and still cared about the children in Daliangshan.

On December 18, 2019, while he was hospitalized in Shanghai, he signed the "Xiaolin Love Fund" donation agreement with Jiangsu Rugao Charity Foundation, and he invested 50,000 yuan at one time as the initiator.

　　On January 30, 2020, Zhang Xiaolin passed away due to ineffective treatment of advanced liver cancer.

Even in the last days of his life, he still had public welfare in mind.

Just a few days before his death, he also raised nearly 240,000 yuan for the construction of Hope Primary School.

When the epidemic broke out, he spent money to buy 10,000 masks for the folks in his hometown.

　　The reporter learned that many of the students helped by Zhang Xiaolin call him "Dad Zhang".

Under his encouragement, some children were admitted to the county key middle schools, and their grades were among the best.

　　wife

　　Every year, I take my daughter to Daliangshan. When the child sees the statue of his father, he jumps on it.

　　Wu Meili is Zhang Xiaolin's wife.

She is from Bazhong, Sichuan. She met Zhang Xiaolin in Daliangshan many years ago. Later, the two fell in love and married and had a daughter, Peipei.

Wu Meili told reporters, "Although Xiaolin is gone, the 39th school he always cared about during his lifetime, I promised him to help him fulfill his last wish." Since Zhang Xiaolin's death, Wu Meili took over his public welfare undertakings and completed the Donated the construction of the 39th school.

　　The reporter learned from an interview that the statue was donated by caring people during the inauguration ceremony of the 39th school.

At that time, a sculptor in Guangzhou was moved by Zhang Xiaolin's story, so he volunteered to make this statue. The statue was created by watching Zhang Xiaolin's videos and photos.

Since Zhang Xiaolin's death, Wu Meili took her daughter Peipei to Daliangshan many times, and came to the school he cared about during his lifetime to do charity work.

　　In an interview with reporters, Wu Meili said that the first video circulating on the Internet was taken in November last year. This is the first time for her daughter Peipei to go to Liangshan. "Baby can only see his father from photos and videos. When I saw the statue for the first time at school, I jumped up excitedly, touched my father's facial features very novelly, and said: 'nose, eyes, ears'..."

　　Wu Meili recalled that her daughter Peipei was only three and a half years old when she saw her father's statue for the first time. She hugged and kissed the statue, as if her father was finally standing in front of her.

Later, when Pei Pei saw her mother Wu Meili cry, she deliberately turned her head away.

"At that time, she didn't understand, and when she saw the statue of her father, she thought it was very novel. Later, when she saw that her father did not respond to her, she also said that she saw a 'fake father' when she returned home."

　　Wu Meili told reporters that the second video was filmed on the Dragon Boat Festival this year, and she brought four-year-old Peipei to Liangshan again, "After we went, Peipei looked for her father's statue next to the house. She should have Impression. The second time she saw the statue of her father, her expression was obviously different from the first time. The second time she knew it was a statue, but she still hugged and touched the statue of her father, and was reluctant to part for a long time."

　　"I always insist on taking my child to visit Daliangshan every year, hoping that the child will plant a seed of kindness since childhood, and I hope she will know some of her father's deeds." Wu Meili told reporters that she usually likes to shoot videos to record her life. I also posted these two videos to the online platform before, "Both these videos have been posted for a long time. I don't know why they suddenly became popular these two days."

　　Wu Meili said that the departure of her husband Zhang Xiaolin made her lose her "spiritual support" for a time, but she is slowly recovering.

She said that she will work and live hard, try her best to do public welfare, and continue her husband's public welfare undertakings before his death.

　　friend

　　Influenced by him, he set up a charity organization to help more children in the mountains

　　He Yuqing from Guangzhou and Zhang Xiaolin are good friends. It is under Zhang Xiaolin's encouragement that He Yuqing also came to Daliangshan to teach.

He Yuqing told reporters that in 2016, when she was a volunteer in Liangshan, Sichuan, she met Zhang Xiaolin, and the two became friends.

　　He Yuqing said that she went to Daliangshan, Sichuan to support teaching in order to fulfill the promise of her friend Zhang Xiaolin. "I feel full of guilt for him, and I have always promised him to be a teaching support teacher, but I have never been able to fulfill it."

At the end of October 2020, He Yuqing came to Zhejian Hope School in Tebuluo Township, Zhaojue County, which was built by Zhang Xiaolin during his lifetime.

At school, He Yuqing teaches fourth grade Chinese, as well as art, music and dance classes for the children.

　　In 2021 and 2022, He Yuqing will come to Liangshan every year to visit the children in the school that supports teaching.

In January this year, He Yuqing set up the public welfare platform of Guangzhou Weiguang Public Welfare Student Aid Service Center.

He Yuqing said that they plan to go to Daliangshan, Guizhou and Guangxi to send volunteer teachers of aesthetic education, moral education and physical education to some rural primary schools in need, and they will also help students from difficult families. Funded.

　　On July 15, He Yuqing said in an interview with reporters that the reason why he established a public welfare and charity organization was also influenced by Zhang Xiaolin, "He has made so much dedication in Daliangshan, and he also wanted to establish a teaching team before. He built the Hope Primary School to support teaching. After I became a support teacher myself, I can better understand the importance of support teachers in improving rural education.”

　　He Yuqing said that she had already made up her mind to continue Zhang Xiaolin's mountain journey.

"I myself am a girl from the countryside, and I have a deep affection for rural education. I hope that children can receive fresh blood from the outside world. Sometimes a volunteer teacher can affect a child's life."

　　Chengdu Business Daily-Red Star News reporter Jiang Long