Xie Shuhua's 600-word essay on "Piety to the World"

Xie Shuhua, female, born in January 1951, college education, member of the Communist Party of China, retired cadre. Living in Jinxiu Shui'an Community in Feng County, Xie Shuhua's family has four generations living under one roof, enjoying themselves harmoniously. The couple respects and loves each other, respects the elderly and loves the young, and has a harmonious family. Their two sons start their own businesses, operate with integrity, and the family is happy. On April 24, 2013, the 63-year-old and her 90-year-old mother Xu Meirong participated in the "Take Mom to Beijing" event sponsored by the Chinese Filial Piety Promotion Association, walking more than 20,000 miles to and from more than 20 provinces. Three municipalities directly under the Central Government were invited to give more than 100 reports along the way, and more than 240 media including Xinhuanet and People's Daily conducted interviews and reports. Zhao Zhongxiang conducted a special interview with them in the "Moving China" column of Henan Satellite TV. On March 4, 2013, she and her old mother walked into the "Starting for Happiness" column of CCTV. Her deeds of filial piety to the world moved countless viewers across the country. , has also become the pride of women in Fengxian County. Under her influence, the Fengxian Women's Federation has established a team of volunteers who are grateful and filial to the elderly. Currently, there are more than 60 members. They are mainly committed to caring for, helping, and honoring the elderly, and using their own We should take action to promote the good custom of respecting the elderly and loving the elderly to the society.

Filial piety cannot wait

She is a retired cadre of Feng County Commercial Workers School. My mother, Xu Meirong, is now in her nineties. She worked hard to raise six children when she was young. My mother once lamented: Life is getting better, but she is getting old. She has been around the pot all her life and has never traveled far. Her mother's idea of ??going out to see the scenery was always in her mind. Her family had a car, but her mother got car sick and couldn't sit in it. "She felt uncomfortable as soon as she got in the car. She was so dizzy when she got out that she couldn't raise her head. When she got home, she lay in bed for two or three days and couldn't get up." The mother did not expect that her daughter's decision last spring would finally make her wish come true.

During the Qingming Festival in 2013, she went to Xuzhou to attend a traditional culture forum and met brothers Wang Kai and Wang Rui who were traveling around the country with their 80-year-old mother. She was deeply touched by the deeds of the two filial sons, and her sense of urgency that "the son wanted to be raised but could not be cared for" made her immediately decide to join the "Thanksgiving" convoy launched by the Wang Kai brothers and "drag her mother to Beijing." Wang Rui, the organizer of the event, said doubtfully: "Sister, you are 63 years old, can you walk?" She said: "She has this filial piety, so she can definitely walk; not only can she walk, but she will not hold us back. Legs." Later, she fulfilled her promise and became the vanguard of the "Thanksgiving" convoy.

On the afternoon of April 19, 2013, before leaving, the youngest daughter-in-law hugged her and cried: "No matter how much money you give grandma, they will support it; but you pull a cart to take grandma so far." They are worried about the door." But she was determined to go. In her eyes, filial piety cannot wait any longer, nor can it wait any longer. “It is better to give your mother a backer than to give her gold and silver, and it is better to give her a smiling face than to give her more money.

2014 was an unforgettable year. During the Spring Festival of the Year of the Horse, they spent time on Hainan Island. The dinner table still had the dumplings that my mother loved to eat from home, as well as seafood and fruits that my mother had never seen before. From the window, you can see swaths of coconut trees, longan trees and the endless sea. "This is a scene that my mother has only dreamed of but could never imagine." This place is more than 4,400 miles away from their hometown, Feng County.

Filial piety touches the world

For her, this is a long march with the theme of filial piety, and she has gradually transformed from a practitioner to a preacher of filial piety.

2013. On April 24, 2014, he set off from Shanghai with the "Thanksgiving" convoy, pulling the car all the way north, and arrived in Beijing on June 3 after 43 days; on September 17 of the same year, he turned south from Beijing, and in January 2014 On the 11th, she successfully arrived at Hainan Island, the southernmost tip of the motherland.

On the way, whether going north or south, she raised her head to pull the car, and her old mother often got up at 5 o'clock in the morning and walked on average every day. After traveling nearly a hundred miles and not being able to reach a restaurant, I would light a pot and cook for myself, sometimes eating instant noodles. “Of course it’s hard, but seeing my mother so happy doesn’t make me feel bad anymore. " "The happiest thing is traveling. "My mother's words were short, straightforward, and full of joy. When I went to Zhengzhou, I recited Buddhist scriptures in the Shaolin Temple; when I went to Wuhan, I ate hot dry noodles in Hubu Alley; in Changsha, I saw the statue of Chairman Mao at the Orange Island... Every time I visited a scenic spot, The old man was as excited as a child, his eyes full of curiosity, for fear of missing something.

Practicing filial piety is not lonely. There are two lines of words printed on the cart she pulls: "Follow the disciples' rules." Be a good Chinese person.”

Many drivers passing by and pedestrians they met raised their thumbs when they saw the slogan. She clearly remembered that when they were walking north from Shanghai to Nanjing, a restaurant owner served them a table of food and refused to charge them after finishing the meal. He said that their old man was not around and he wanted to take this opportunity to express his sincerity to this happy old man. , and also set an example for her daughter; when she walked south from Beijing to Shijiazhuang, a teacher Fan greeted her dozens of miles away, and saw her off for nearly a hundred miles before leaving, holding on to the cart without letting go. Even though I had blood blisters on my body, I didn’t want to go back.

She was invited to spread the culture of filial piety in agencies, enterprises, communities, schools, rural areas, and prisons across the country, and held more than 500 moral lectures, influencing hundreds of thousands of people from all walks of life across the country. On September 30, she took her mother to the CCTV Variety Channel and recorded the "Nine-Nine Sunny Days" special program on filial piety and love for relatives with the famous actress Kelly, which was broadcast on the CCTV Variety Channel on October 2.

In 2014, she was named "A Loving and Righteous Feng County Person - Star of Filial Piety and Love for Relatives", and her family was rated as the most beautiful family in the city and county.

Filial Piety Knows No Borders

From September 24th to 26th last year, the People's Daily Korea Company and the Korean "Goodwill Reply Movement" Headquarters *** held at the RAUM Art Center in Seoul "The mother and daughter of Xie Shuhua, the filial daughter of the rickshaw who moved China, gave a special speech in South Korea." More than 100 people from China and South Korea's political, economic and media circles attended the event, including Dong Minjie, Consul General of the Chinese Embassy in South Korea, and Choi Sung-jun, Chairman of the Korea Broadcasting and Communications Commission. In her speech, she introduced her story of taking her ninety-year-old mother on a rickshaw to repay her mother's kindness, which deeply moved everyone present. During the three-day trip, South Korea's national broadcaster KBS will send reporters to follow up and report on the important activities of her mother and daughter in South Korea. Many mainstream media such as Chosun Ilbo and YTN TV will report in detail on this event. . On the evening of September 29, four Chinese news programs on CCTV reported on the incident. On October 18, influenced by the spread of filial piety during Xie Shuhua's trip to South Korea, South Korea's Changshou Stone Bed Co., Ltd. sent technical experts to travel thousands of miles to Feng County, Jiangsu Province to present a longevity insulation bed to his mother, which strengthened people-to-people exchanges between China and South Korea.