"Every time I cried, the skin of my kneeling legs broke and bleed, and my throat was hoarse and I could no longer speak. Every game is physically and mentally exhausted, too tired to move, but in order to make money, no matter how painful it is, you have to endure it." Whenever she mentioned it, she was always a little weak.
Life and death are the norm in life, and there are always people coming and some people going. When a loved one dies, the family is very sad, and the filial son and grandson will handle the aftermath for the departed relatives and make proper arrangements for them. But this person is different from the others, she is not a relative of the deceased, but a person who specializes in mourning.
People always see her at funerals, dressed in homemade clothing, with special makeup painted on her face, holding a microphone, crying and crying, as if she is the relatives of the deceased, and the people around her who hear her crying spirit are deeply affected by this atmosphere, and they wipe their tears, very sad, not knowing that she is only the person invited by the family of the deceased to cry.
Her name is Wu Huixia, perennial running in various funeral fields with family deaths, now in her fifties she has been professionally engaged in mourning work for seven or eight years, crying more than 70 times a year, prostrating ten thousand times, after a hard day can earn 700 yuan, it seems that the remuneration is quite rich, but this work is not willing to do many people.
So, what exactly is the reason for this middle-aged woman to do this profession? With such hard work, what kind of belief supports her to insist on doing this work?
Weeping and mourning is an ancient tradition in our country, people use this to pin their condolences on their loved ones, mainly to review the life deeds of their relatives, and play a role in guiding the atmosphere in the whole funeral.
And these professions of mourners, because of their unique skills are invited by the family of the deceased, the reasons are also diverse, some people are not filial piety, but they can not express their emotions so tearfully on such occasions, nor can they professionally tell the life of the deceased, so they are relatives.
But with the passage of time, there are many people who are not sincerely weeping for the elders, but just want to make the funeral beautiful and give their families face.
In any case, there is a market where there is demand, and it is precisely after understanding this demand market that Wu Huixia began her mourning career.
Wu Huixia's mother was not in good health and needed medicine all year round. One day, Wu Huixia went out to help her mother buy medicine, and on the way home, she saw a family holding a funeral, and several people inside looked very special, and they cried very hard, as if they were performing.
Attracted, Wu Huixia stopped and looked at the side for a long time, unconsciously more than two hours passed. Having never seen this battle, she asked the person next to her what was going on? Only then did I learn that this group of people was hired by the relatives of the deceased to pay for mourning, and the price was not low.
This accidental understanding seems to let Wu Huixia find a business opportunity, she is tired and tired for half a month can not earn the salary of these people crying, if you can become a member of them, then you can not make money.
Wu Huixia thought in her heart how to tell her family that she was going to engage in mourning work, after all, in people's traditional concepts, the elders in the family are still there, and such work is unacceptable under any circumstances. Even so, the reality has forced Wu Huixia to make such a choice, no matter what kind of work she does at the moment, it is imperative to make money for her family.
It turned out that the Wuhuixia family at that time was very poor, and the family of seven still lived in a thatched hut, and the furniture in the family was pitiful, and it could even be described as the four walls of the family. Not only that, Wu Huixia also has three children to raise, her mother is 95 years old, she needs to take medicine all year round, and her husband can't earn money and lives by farming.
Such life pressure is huge, if they do not find a new way out, they can not see hope, even a few children to go to school will become a problem, the future development of the family can also see the end at a glance.
For the sake of the children, for her own sake, Wu Huixia could not care about face, after returning home, Wu Huixia tried to discuss with her husband to do the work of weeping and mourning, but she was afraid of the opposition of her traditional husband, so she temporarily pressed the matter in her heart, but her worried look was still captured by her husband, and kept asking her what happened.
At night, Wu Huixia finally informed her husband of her thoughts, and as expected, he did not agree.
Her husband's concerns, Wu Huixia also understands, but the family needs to live, this is also to earn money by their own labor, they do not steal or rob, why not make money? So she firmed up her inner thoughts and chose to continue to persuade her husband.
Under the persuasion of Wu Huixia and seeing the actual situation at home, her husband finally agreed to let her cry.
Wu Huixia earned more than 700 yuan from the first time she started this work, not only that, because she performed very well, the host family also took the initiative to tip her.
Her voice was very good, and she could also sing, so the funeral director was very optimistic about her, and soon helped her receive the first order of her mourning career.
Before crying for the first time, Wu Huixia made sufficient preparations, not only firmly remembering the life of the deceased, but also designing and practicing the expressions needed at different times and the intensity of crying, looking like an actor.
At this funeral, Wu Huixia wore a special costume and painted "blood and tears" makeup, so that people could see her at a glance, and the visual effect was very sufficient. At the funeral, to the rhythm of the musicians, Wu Huixia began her first mourning work.
They surrounded the coffin, and as the scriptures began to be read, they began to circle around the coffin and bow down. After that, Wu Huixia took the microphone and told the life of the deceased in a crying voice.
This information is all prepared in advance by herself after she learned from her family in advance and firmly remembered it in her mind. So to outsiders, she knows the deceased so well, as if she were their children.
The people at the scene heard Wu Huixia's crying and were moved, and the relatives were also recalled, remembering their mother's difficulties, and crying.
At this time, Wu Huixia began to cry bitterly in the coffin, and then knelt on the ground and prostrated more than six hundred heads, so that the strength seemed to be more like relatives than the relatives of the deceased. And such a performance will also have some impact on her, when she is completely integrated into the situation of losing a loved one, until the end of the work can not get rid of the sad emotions.
However, Wu Huixia's first crying work was completed very smoothly, not only earning more than 700 yuan of money, but also being encouraged. This also made Wu Huixia firm in his heart to be a professional weeping spirit.
Slowly, Wu Huixia's fame grew, and all the villages in ten miles knew that there was a person who specialized in crying spirits called Wu Huixia, and whoever needed to cry would always call her. In the work repeated over and over again, Wu Huixia has become skilled, and her control of the atmosphere and the degree of performance are more comfortable.
And her seemingly professional crying spirit performance has also won the recognition of many people, further promoting her word of mouth. During the year, Wu Huixia spent almost half of her time busy with the work of crying spirits. Over time, Wu Huixia has been in this industry for six years, and during this time, she has also overcome many challenges.
Because of the particularity of the weeping spirit, in addition to singing the life of the deceased loudly and loudly, she also had to kowtow, and she had to kowtow at least 500 times in each crying work, crying more than 70 times a year, calculating that she needed to repeat the action of kneeling and prostrating tens of thousands of times.
Such repetitive kneeling prostrations will not only cause damage to her knees, etc., but also undergo severe tests, and sometimes uneven venues may also hurt the skin, and it is common for calves to be injured.
In addition to physical and physical tests, what tormented Wu Huixia the most was the psychological test.
Because her work is in the eyes of outsiders, it is a "dead man's wealth", which is an unauthentic practice. And for a long time in and out of the funeral, people around her think that she is contaminated with obscurity, not only do not want to deal with her anymore, but also point at her behind her back.
Some relatives would also come to their homes to scold Wu Huixia, believing that she was an unfilial person and that the work she did was a shameful thing.
From the beginning, her husband and she had foreseen these consequences and did not tell their relatives and friends that they were going to do this business. It's just that as more and more people look for Wuhui Xia's crying spirit, her work can't be hidden, and the incomprehension shown by her neighbors and relatives and friends, although she is mentally prepared, still makes her feel pressured.
Fortunately, Wu Huixia has made a lot of money through crying ling, and her husband has firmly stood behind her to support her for the development of the family, which makes Wu Huixia persist.
After earning money, Wu Huixia first went to school to pay for the tuition fees of her three children, and when she returned home, she bought better medicine for her mother, and the family also ate meat.
The actual visible changes have made the parents at home have a little more understanding of their daughter's choice, if they really do not make money for the so-called filial piety, then they can't do anything when they need to use money, how can they do filial piety?
With the improvement of living conditions, Wu Huixia no longer talks in the accident world, and concentrates on working to make money and improve the quality of life at home.
Because of the good reputation, Wu Huixia slowly gained a place in this line, and her crying spirit was also appreciated by many customers. As Wu Huixia became more and more famous, her husband also began to help her, going out with her to mourn, and they also organized a team called "Voice of hearts" and made innovations in the field of mourning.
Their team will not only tell the life of the deceased, but also perform in the form of singing, etc., the team will also sing songs such as "Twenty-Four Prayers", and at the funeral, they will also choose suitable modern music. It can be said that Wu Huixia has played a new trick in this line.
Watching Wu Huixia make money, people in the village have also joined her team, as the number of personnel increases, their team is getting bigger and bigger, the work place radiates farther and farther, every time they are a group of people with speakers and other props, driving a car out to work.
It can be said that with this work, Wu Huixia achieved a fortune, in addition to the car, she also bought a house, supported all three children as adults, and her eldest son also went to college. The life of Wu Huixia's family was changed by her real efforts.
As Wu Huixia herself said: "I think there is nothing disgraceful about making money by relying on one's own labor to meet the needs of the public, from the perspective of folklore, we can still be regarded as a kind of culture." ”
No matter what kind of work you do, as long as you eat with your own hands in a serious way, you are not afraid of how the outside world will judge. When life has fallen to the bottom and you have a positive path to follow, why give up opportunities because of the shackles of thought.
Every industry has its necessity to exist, the existence is extremely reasonable, if you can exchange your own labor for remuneration, why care what outsiders say. Life is your own, and only you understand whether you live well or badly.
Just like the relatives who did not look favorably on Wu Huixia at the beginning, they looked down on her crying work, but they did not give her any help in such a difficult situation, and some were just sneering. If she is born with a decent profession, no one wants to suffer and suffer, and she will not choose this job until she is forced to do so, since she eats with her own hands, it is worthy of respect.