69-year-old son hugs 96-year-old mother to watch a play
Recently, a short video recording a seriously ill 96-year-old mother watching Henan opera in the arms of her 69-year-old son moved many netizens.
Some netizens left a message: "The mother hugged her child like this when she was a child, and when the child grew up, she hugged the mother again. I wish the mother a healthy and long life!" On the evening of the 11th, a reporter from the Yangzi Evening News/Ziniu News contacted the son Ma Aimin in the video.
Ma Aimin told reporters that on the afternoon of the 9th, he returned to his hometown in Pei County, Xuzhou from Nanjing to visit his 96-year-old mother who was in bed with cancer.
Lying beside his mother, he held the phone in his left hand to play the Henan Opera that his mother liked to watch, and with his right hand he embraced his mother and clenched her right hand tightly.
His sister Ma Shuqin saw this warm scene after get off work, and immediately recorded it with her mobile phone and sent it to the short video platform.
Ma Shuqin said: "When I was a child, I used to watch the Henan Opera "Chaoyanggou" with my parents. Now that my mother is older, my brother and I downloaded many old movies and operas, and often watched with my mother."
Ziniu News trainee reporter Yan Chunxu
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Son holds 96-year-old mother in his arms
Mother and son clasped hands watching Henan Opera
On October 11, a video of a son holding his 96-year-old cancer-stricken mother watching the Henan drama "Chaoyanggou" touched millions of netizens.
In the video, the son is lying next to his mother, holding the phone in his left hand to play the Henan opera "Chaoyanggou", his right hand wraps his mother in his arms, and holds his mother's right hand tightly.
The mother was lying in her son's arms, holding her son's hand while looking at the screen on the phone, very warm.
On the evening of the 11th, reporters from the Yangtze Evening News/Ziniu News contacted the son Ma Aimin and his sister Ma Shuqin in the video, and listened to them sharing the heartwarming stories behind the video.
69-year-old Ma Aimin told Ziniu News that what happened in the video happened on the evening of the 9th. He had just returned from Nanjing to his hometown in Peixian County, Xuzhou, and his sister had not returned home from get off work. When he saw his mother lying on the bed, he accompanied him. My mother chatted, "The old man likes to watch Henan operas, so I showed her "Chaoyanggou" with my mobile phone. Later, I didn't notice that my sister was filming with a mobile phone after get off work."
Ma Aimin said that he had downloaded the Henan Opera Encyclopedia on his mobile phone and was playing them one by one to his mother, mainly some festive opera shows, "There are two pillows where my mother is lying, and I have no place to put my arms, so I put my mother in my arms. I showed her with my cell phone, amplified the sound a bit, and she could hear and read." Ma Aimin said that her mother was very happy when she watched "Chaoyanggou", "She was very happy when she saw me coming home, and she was very excited. Hold my hand tightly. I think this will ease her pain, and only by being with her like this will my heart feel better."
"When I was shooting the video, tears came out!" Ma Shuqin told the Ziniu News reporter that this was a scene she accidentally shot, "After get off work that day, I went into the house and saw that my brother was watching a play with his mother around him. The picture is very warm, I took it with my mobile phone and posted it on the Internet at night."
What Ma Shuqin didn't expect was that this casually shot video attracted tens of thousands of netizens' comments, more than 90,000 likes, more than 3 million views in just 3 days, and many media short video accounts reprinted.
This scene attracted a message from netizens: "I am moved, I want to cry!" "Mother and son are connected, I was lying in my mother's arms like this when I was a child! May my mother get well soon!"
1 The mother's condition relapsed, and the son often returned to his hometown to accompany him
Ma Shuqin told Ziniu News that her mother had been fond of Henan Opera for many years. "The cinema was in the west of my house. I was four or five years old at the time, and the ticket price for the cinema was only ten cents. My mother liked to watch all kinds of old movies, and my father would always carry me on his back and accompany me together. I went to the movies with my mother, and my family watched Chaoyanggou many times." In 1992, Ma Aimin came to Nanjing to settle down and work in the home furnishing industry.
Because of the busy work and the long journey, he was able to go home very rarely.
Ma Shuqin told Ziniu News that his father suffered from myocardial infarction and hemiplegia due to delayed rescue. He died three months after the onset.
She said: "When my father died, my brother was very sad. Now whenever he is free, he will go back to his hometown to take care of his mother."
According to Ma Shuqin, the mother was diagnosed with cervical cancer in September 2020 and received 29 radiotherapy in a hospital in Xuzhou before the situation improved.
In June of this year, my mother's condition deteriorated, the cancer cells spread all over the body, and various complications appeared. Not only did he urinate and urinate, he was in pain all over his body, and he often couldn't eat. "We all advised her to go to the hospital for treatment, but she was determined not to. Go, my mother thinks she has to go up and down the stairs to get an MRI or an EKG, and she can't stand the crime. We respect her wishes and recuperate at home."
"I'm a son, and I can't put all my mother's affairs on my sister, and I can't let go of my work in Nanjing, so I can only run back and forth." Ma Aimin told Ziniu News that every time he went home, his mother always He would say: "You are so busy, don't come here, why are you spending money indiscriminately." Ma Aimin knew in her heart that although her mother said this, she really wanted to see her son, "As long as I am not busy, I will come here for almost ten days. I will go home from time to time and stay at home for two or three days.”
Every time Ma Aimin came home, he would accompany his mother, sometimes pushing his wheelchair to accompany his mother for a walk in the square, "I slept next to my mother at night and dared not move. I am already so old, and she still treats me like a child. , wake up in the middle of the night and cover me with a quilt."
2 Daughter shoots video to record daily life: "Mother is here, home is here"
Ma Shuqin is a reporter at the Rong Media Center in Peixian County.
Since 2011, she and her husband have been living with her mother and taking care of her daily life.
"My mother not only likes listening to operas, but also likes growing vegetables, hoeing, watering, etc. My mother used to be in good health. She likes to do housework and handicrafts."
In the winter of 2018, Ma Shuqin accompanied her mother to exercise in the community. She shot a video and posted it on the short video platform. Unexpectedly, many people liked it, so she began to use her mobile phone to record her mother's daily life.
In the video shot by Ma Shuqin, the mother is like an "old urchin", she will use kitchen utensils as a musical instrument, playing and beating and dancing.
Ma Shuqin will also walk with her mother and mother-in-law on the modeling step.
Ma Shuqin said that her mother likes to make funny videos with her, especially the earring special effects on the short video platform. She is very happy after seeing it.
Every time a video is posted, my mother always asks, "I didn't wear earrings, how did you make it?" There are also some ancient costumes and special effects of props, which make the old man feel particularly amusing.
The Ziniu News reporter noticed that Ma Shuqin has shot more than 100 videos of his mother so far.
Ma Shuqin said that her mother did not understand new media and did not know that so many netizens were following her. She only knew that family members, relatives and friends could see these videos.
Every time she saw the video, she would laugh and say, "Okay, okay!"
"The purpose of making a video is to record the life of my mother and us." Ma Shuqin said that her mother was at home, which made her feel at ease. Every time she got off work, she knew that her mother was waiting for her at home and cared about her, which made her very happy.
If you come home late at night, the mother will be very anxious to ask: "Why don't you come home so late?"
Ma Shuqin's greatest wish is to continue to shoot videos of her mother's life, hoping to continue filming for a long time.
For the attention of netizens, she is very grateful: "Thanks to my relatives, friends and so many netizens for their blessings to my mother, and I wish all parents in the world good health and longevity."
Yangtze Evening News, October 13, 2022, page A03