Wenchuan, Beichuan, Mianzhu and Dujiangyan ......
These towns, which span 31north latitude, suffered the heaviest concern and sadness on May 12, 2008.
Ten years of life and death are two boundless. From the end of March, 20 18, I went along the 3 1 north latitude to look for family stories.
The dead are gone, and those who come can be chased. Looking back after the robbery, in order to live up to the dead, but also to live up to the living.
On the ruins of Maoba Campus, an old county town in Beichuan County, only a flagpole and a basketball stand are left. Cheng Xingfeng continuously updated the banner hanging for ten years in the place where his son was killed.
It's been ten years since He Chuan was killed, but his mother Cheng Xingfeng hasn't let go.
In the 5. 12 earthquake, Jingjiashan behind Beichuan County collapsed instantly, and the falling boulder swallowed up the Maoba campus of Beichuan Middle School at the foot of the mountain. He Chuan, a junior high school student who had just turned 16, was also buried among them, leaving only a flagpole and a basketball stand on the whole campus.
On July 13 (He Chuan's birthday), Cheng Xingfeng went to the construction site and hung a white banner to pray for his son's soul in heaven. "I can't say it, just like writing him a note in heaven."
In the next ten years, during the Spring Festival every year, 12 in May and 13 in July, Cheng Xingfeng hung banners on the ruins three times a year, and she persisted in 10.
"Looking back on this decade, I feel that the first seven or eight years were particularly long. Starting from 20 16, I feel that time has passed faster. " On April 2 1 day, in the store opened by Cheng Xingfeng in Zhulinshi Street, Anchang Town, Beichuan County, she said that banners would be hung on May 12 this year.
Ruins of the ancient city of Beichuan county.
Missing banner
Walking into the old county town of Beichuan, houses are strewn at random, and white chrysanthemums are hung on the ruins on both sides of the road.
In front of the cemetery in the core area, people lined up in Tomb-Sweeping Day to pay homage to Huang Juhua, and requiem accompanied the people who came to pay their respects into the solemn earthquake site.
On the back of the cemetery, a white banner has faded, which is particularly conspicuous. The banner is about 7 meters long and 1 meter wide. There is a portrait of a student on it, and the back is covered with words: "dear son, how are you?" Mom misses you so much! Another year has passed and time flies. In a twinkling, you have been away from home for ten years ... "
The banner hangs on a collapsed tower crane in the ruins, not far from a basketball stand and a flagpole flying a five-star red flag. Look carefully, the banners are layered like patches that are constantly updated. The bottom one is old and faded obviously. On a small table in front of the banner, there is a discolored car, an empty plate and bowl, a can of unopened milk and a bottle of walnut milk covered with mud.
This used to be the Maoba Campus of Beichuan Middle School. Behind Jingjiashan, the huge stones bared their teeth and seemed to roll down at any moment. In the May 12 earthquake, the collapsed mountain buried the school, and almost all thousands of teachers and students were buried.
The portrait of the student in the banner is He Chuan, 16 years old, in the third grade. On July 13, 2008, Hechuan's mother Cheng Xingfeng made a banner and hung it at the place where her son was killed. "When I got there, I couldn't say anything I wanted to say, just like writing him a note in heaven."
Cheng Xingfeng remembers that after hanging the banner for the first time, it didn't take long to disappear. To this end, she searched almost all the relevant functional departments in Beichuan County, and finally found the earthquake relief headquarters, and learned that it was taken away while cleaning up the ruins.
Jingjiashan site in the old county town of Beichuan County.
Worried that hanging banners was illegal, Cheng Xingfeng also consulted a lawyer. After getting a negative answer, she began to hang banners at the earthquake site. 20 12 may12, the fourth anniversary of the earthquake, some media photographed her hanging a "banner", which was known to the outside world from now on.
"He Chuan, my mother's pain for more than ten years can't be expressed in words. Today, she came to see her son again. Every time she comes here, she must get up the courage and have a lot of heartfelt words to say to her son ... "This is her latest banner content. During the Spring Festival of 20 18, Cheng Xingfeng hung a banner on the ruins, entitled "Deeply mourn the teachers and students of the whole school". Banners with similar words will appear on the ruins of the Maoba Campus of Beichuan Middle School every year during the Spring Festival, May 12 and July 13 (He Chuan's birthday), which lasts for 10 years.
Cheng Xingfeng said that every time she goes, she will write what she wants to say on paper, and then take it to the advertising store to print it out and hang it. "Sometimes I hang up alone, sometimes my husband and sister (daughter) also go, and I hung up in May this year 12."
Suicidal thoughts
On May 12, 2008, Cheng Xingfeng and other seven brothers and sisters returned to their hometown Ma 'an Village, Chenjiaba Township to celebrate their mother's birthday.
After the earthquake, she and her family rushed to Beichuan County. "I started to leave at two o'clock in the afternoon, and it hasn't arrived at 12 in the evening. The road is broken and I can't walk, "Cheng Xingfeng remembers very clearly. From the intermittent information on the road, I learned that "Old Beichuan is finished".
This banner was hung during the Spring Festival this year.
16-year-old son He Chuan and1/kloc-0-year-old daughter He Dongmei are studying in the county. Although the road was blocked and impassable, Cheng Xingfeng still dared not delay walking. She said that they detoured over the mountains to Jiangyou, from Jiangyou to Mianyang, and then rushed back to Beichuan from Mianyang. On the way, they learned from relatives, "I said that I saw my daughter on TV, and I felt that my daughter was fine at that time, just worried about my son."
Cheng Xingfeng remembers that when he arrived in Beichuan, the traffic had been controlled and the hardest hit areas could only go out. "I knelt in front of an ambulance and the ambulance pulled me in."
Cheng Xingfeng and his family, who managed to get to the county seat, were dumbfounded: there was a ruin in front of them. It is a little gratifying that He Dongmei, the daughter of the fifth grade primary school next to the Maoba campus, is on the third floor, and the teaching building collapsed two floors. Her daughter is fine.
Where's the son? "I cried sadly. I didn't get rice for seven days in a row. /kloc-On the night of May, 0/9, I passed out with a headache and woke up in the hospital. Cheng Xingfeng recalled that after being rescued by a doctor, she was desperate and had suicidal thoughts, but later she thought that her daughter was still there. "I just went away and felt sorry for my daughter. This is too selfish. "
Cheng Xingfeng, who persisted, often thought that it was she who led her son to leave and made her family lose everything.
1997, the couple were still farming at home, and their daughter was just born. There are two old people living in a family of four in Chenjiaba Township. "At that time, the conditions were poor, and it took 1 many hours to walk from home to the township government. I thought my son was too far away from school. " In order to let their son receive a good education and be admitted to a good university, the couple moved into the county town and began to do odd jobs to raise money for their children to go to school. "At that time, I earned 12 yuan a day at the construction site, and my husband earned 28 yuan. Later, my husband dug coal in Shanxi, and we pooled 80,000 yuan to buy a small property right house in the county. "
But an earthquake, not only the small property houses became ruins, but also the son left forever. "I often think that if I hadn't decided to come to the county, I would have studied in the village."
Thinking of these, Cheng Xingfeng suffered in every way.
"I want to thank a person, surnamed Chen, whom I met and haven't found for ten years." Cheng Xingfeng said that after the earthquake, the enthusiastic person took special care of her on the verge of collapse in Kyushu Gymnasium.
Photos and banners of Cheng Xingfeng's son.
Hotel storm
"In less than two or three months, I didn't expect to get into such a big trouble."
At the end of June, 2008, Cheng Xingfeng and his wife went to Beijing to open a restaurant called "Beichuan Chengfeng Hotel". She said that this is because she wants to satisfy her son's wish before his death-to be admitted to a university in Beijing and visit Beijing.
But unexpectedly, this caused an uproar. Less than a week after the opening of the small restaurant, a post entitled "Beichuan Fengcheng Hotel appeared in Beijing, and the boss pretended to be a Beichuan victim" attracted the attention of netizens. "Because I didn't want others to sympathize at that time, when others asked, I said we were from Chongqing." Cheng Xingfeng recalled that a casual lie led to an "accident".
For a time, the word "Beichuan", which bears the pain of China people, became the slogan of their couple's hype. Then, the topic attracted the attention of Beijing media, and after Cheng Xingfeng explained it, the misunderstanding was eliminated.
In addition to these bad things, there are still some things that Cheng Xingfeng has never forgotten. On July 25th, 2008, an old man with white hair and a young man came to their hotel. They asked if they were from Beichuan, the disaster situation, and checked their ID cards. After walking for about 10 minutes, when the young man turned to leave, he handed a plastic bag to Cheng Xingfeng's husband He Dezhi. The couple opened it and found a shoe box with a stack of money and a letter signed "One China". The content of the letter is to hope that the couple will use this 65,438+million yuan as the start-up capital and operate with heart. At the end of the letter, there is also a couplet, the first part: He Beichuan reborn, Xiuzhi Bashu rose, the second part: Phoenix nirvana, Longteng Fengfei, horizontal comment: how difficult it is to make the country and the people safe.
"I don't want the money either. We returned it under the witness of the media. " Cheng Xingfeng said that according to her understanding, the old man is over 60 years old and is a northeast person living in Beijing.
The old man is still the pride of Cheng Xingfeng. She has been hoping to find the old man, but she hasn't heard from him for ten years.
On April 22, a tourist bowed in front of the site.
"Pain becomes a phoenix"
Opening a hotel in Beijing is not going well. At the end of July of that year, Cheng Xingfeng and his wife returned to Mianyang.
From the second half of 2008 to 20 10, they opened a snack bar in Mianyang. "Later, the restaurant business was not good, so we didn't continue to open it."
In 20 14, Cheng Xingfeng prepared to start his own business. She plans to go back to her hometown of Ma 'an Village, Chenjiaba Township, Beichuan County with her husband He Dezhi to raise chickens. After investigating the market, they returned to Chenjiaba. "There are projects in the county, and women entrepreneurs can get policy support and loans."
But soon, this idea was blocked by the narrow path in my hometown. "The road is hard to walk. The villagers used their own horses and motorcycles to transport things in and out, which broke our original plan. "
Since then, the couple have been doing odd jobs and running around construction sites in Mianyang and Xinjiang. "When I think that I have no house or son, I cry while working."
Cheng Xingfeng opened this store in Zhu Lin Poetry Street, Anchang Town, Beichuan County.
After three years of dance graduation, my daughter became a dancer in Leshan Art Troupe. "I often go abroad to perform. Once I came back on an international flight, I said that the plane was bumpy and the road was shaking. They all cried. I'm not at ease when I hear it. I asked her to come back. After she came back, she worked in Beichuan County Cultural and Art Troupe. Although Leshan Cultural and Art Troupe can get more than 3,000 a month, Beichuan can only get more than 2,000, but my heart is practical. " Cheng Xingfeng said that she never dared to take it lightly again.
Cheng Xingfeng didn't give up his career. She opened a "plaster shop" in Zhulinshi Street, Anchang Town, Beichuan County, which specializes in treating cervical vertebra, low back pain and rheumatism.
"I also went to Xi 'an for nearly 1 year," Cheng Xingfeng said. This is the only thing she has been satisfied with for ten years since her store opened on the National Day of 20 16. "Those who walk on crutches, or are carried by their families, are all affixed with my plaster. They are getting better day by day, and I have a great sense of accomplishment. Although I couldn't help them completely, I gave it to them.
Cheng Xingfeng said that since 20 16 opened the store, life has finally improved.
Today, they have borrowed money to buy a house and a car in Anzhou District, Mianyang City. Because my husband can't drive, my 2/kloc-0-year-old daughter drives to pick her up after work every day. "My husband is learning a driver's license these two days, and my daughter sometimes performs at night, and no one comes to pick me up. He must learn to drive by himself. Now we also have cars and houses, and I believe the future will get better and better. "
Source: Netease News