Recently, a hot search has been shocking.
Halfway through this year, 15 academicians have already left us.
Each one is the pillar of the country that everyone admires.
Their deaths, naturally, have caused many people to spontaneously mourn and pay tribute online.
A few days ago, there was also an ordinary person like us who passed away, which also attracted the attention of the whole network.
He was not an academician, not a scientist, just an ordinary postman.
His name is Wang Shunyou.
On May 30, he died of illness in his hometown at the age of 56.
Since 1985, Wang Shunyou has been responsible for postal work in Muli County, Sichuan.
Muli County is surrounded by mountains and sparsely populated.
In the early years, there were no roads, no telephones, and only horses carrying mail to the communes in shifts.
This ancient way of mailing is called "Maban Mail Route".
One man, one horse, one road.
As soon as Wang Shunyou left, he walked for 32 years.
In 2005, Wang Shunyou was named one of the top ten characters in Moving China.
The award speech reads:
"He is as simple as a stone, a man and a horse, a legend in the history of the world's postal service..."
Today, Uncle Fish wants to introduce you to the life of this postman through a movie.
In this era when everything is fast, I hope that everyone can remember this "slow car" messenger.
The Messenger of Shambhala
This movie is based on the true deeds of Wang Shunyou.
Many of the characters in the film are played by Wang Shunyou's colleagues or relatives and friends, maintaining a very sincere texture.
The film has also won a good reputation as a result, and has maintained a good score of 8.5 on Douban so far.
But unfortunately, such a good film is not watched.
I clicked on the "Latest" comment and there wasn't a single one.
Must come to Amway today.
In Tibetan, "Shambhala" means paradise, wonderland on earth.
In the film, it refers to this beautiful snowy plateau and praises this mountain messenger with a pure heart.
The actor who played the messenger was named Qiu Lin.
He was not from a science class, but was originally a tour guide.
In the photo of Zhang Yimou, he starred in the male number two of "A Thousand Miles to Ride Alone", and played a rival role with Ken Takakura.
This time, he was directly promoted to male number one.
Through his role in the film, Lao Wang, we also have the privilege of seeing Wang Shunyou's simple and great life.
Long country post road
At the age of 19, Wang Shunyou took the pouch from his father.
Embarked on a long journey on the Mapan Post Road.
He travels by mail twice a month.
A round trip of 584 kilometers, the hike takes 14 to 15 days.
At least 28 days a month, walk on this mail road.
Both to climb over snow-covered mountains;
It's time to cross the unbearable heat of the river valley.
Elevations fluctuate from 1,000 meters to 5,000 meters.
The temperature went up and down, from minus ten degrees to more than forty degrees.
Among them, there is a "ninety-nine turns" that even the local people talk about.
There are many turns, and the road is narrow and difficult to walk.
At your feet are cliffs, and if you are not careful, you will lose your life.
Change others, not to mention walking back and forth, walking a short distance may be enough.
Wang Shunyou once described his life like this:
Snow in the winter and mud in the summer.
Hungry to swallow a few mouthfuls of rice noodles, thirsty to drink mountain spring water.
Curl up in a cave, under a tree or sleep with a horse at night.
If it rains, lie in the rain in a raincoat for the night.
The scene of Wang Shunyou taking the postal route is shown in great detail in this "Shambhala Messenger".
Even once he almost lost his life, it was also dramatically placed in the plot of the movie.
On the way, he was accidentally kicked in the stomach by a frightened horse.
Endured the severe pain, stopped and walked to finish the mail.
When I arrived at the hospital, I found that my intestines had been broken and I was infected.
Come a little later and your life will be gone.
Since then, Lao Wang's intestines have been shortened, and he has also fallen behind the sequelae of often painful stomach.
However, whether it is the long distance of the road or the difficulties and obstacles on the way, Lao Wang is not afraid.
All he feared most was loneliness.
Over the years, he has walked this postal route in Daliang Mountain countless times.
A long winding road, often two or three days without seeing a person, accompanied by only a horse.
When he is lonely, he will drink wine to strengthen his courage and drive away the cold.
At night, he would light a campfire and blow the flute he had brought with him.
As the old king of the Miao people, he liked to sing mountain songs when he was young.
When I walk in the mountains and feel lonely, I will sing two voices.
Towering mountains and horses were his only listeners.
He enjoyed himself in his misery and endured loneliness and hardships unimaginable to ordinary people.
More than 8,400 newspapers, more than 330 magazines, more than 840 letters, and more than 600 parcels are delivered every year.
It is deeply loved by villagers everywhere.
As he put it:
To send a letter is to do things for the people, I do not come to send, which one to send.
Distant mountains
Due to the inconvenience of transportation in the mountains, the information is blocked.
Between comings and goings, Lao Wang became the only way for the villagers in the mountains to communicate with the outside world.
In addition to sending letters, letters, sending packages, etc., they often bring them outside news.
Like how much vegetables are spent, what vegetables are grown to earn more, where is the big water outside...
In everyone's eyes, he was not just an ordinary postman, like a relative, like an old friend.
You may not imagine.
Such a small postman even has an important impact on the development and change of the village.
Lao Wang saw that the people in the village were living in poverty, and his heart was always not a taste.
Every time I run the post road, I will pick up some seeds from the county.
What sells well outside, he brings.
Sometimes it also brings high-quality seeds, which greatly improves the villagers' harvests.
Directly from the mu yield of 200 catties, increase the yield to 800 to 1000 catties.
He was also often "nosy" with enthusiasm.
For example, once, the county sent a letter informing the village to organize the elderly to do cataract surgery.
Lao Wang did not understand, and asked in passing:
"What is a cataract?"
When he arrived in the village, Lao Wang sent the notice to him, but he did not expect the person in charge to ask him:
"What is a cataract?"
At this moment, lao wang began to hiss:
"You don't know about cataracts?"
So he explained it.
The people in the village were not highly educated, and Lao Wang asked a question before leaving, which helped a lot.
There are many more inadvertent acts like this.
In the film, it focuses on an important email delivered by Lao Wang, which is important enough to change a person's fate.
A letter of acceptance to a university.
The recipient's name is Wang Yusheng, and he is the first college student in the township.
The county attaches great importance to this matter.
To let Lao Wang have to deliver within 10 days, but also to bring students to the county town to participate in the farewell party.
When he arrived at the village, Lao Wang first looked at the name and thought it was a male doll.
As a result, I looked around and finally found out that it was a female doll.
After several tosses, she finally found someone, but it happened to coincide with her wedding.
There was a rule in those days:
If you get married, you can't go to college.
Therefore, the news brought by Lao Wang interrupted the wedding and also caused displeasure to the man's family.
Just bombed him out.
Yusheng herself wanted to go to college, but she couldn't resist the family's arrangement.
Therefore, Lao Wang rushed to the township chief's house overnight and asked the township chief to personally settle the matter.
Relying on Lao Wang's enthusiasm, this young baby girl finally went to college as she wished, changing her fate.
Surprisingly, Yusheng's dream of going to college still came from Lao Wang.
It turned out that Lao Wang had a habit of taking the postal route for many years.
When passing by the school, stamps are given to children.
The questions asked are always the same:
"Where is our capital?"
Everyone will answer, so everyone has a stamp to take.
Many years ago, Yusheng got a stamp from Lao Wang.
On the small stamp, a rocket is drawn.
She looked at this beautiful stamp and thought to herself:
If you go to college, you can go outside to see rockets.
It is a township postman like Lao Wang.
It has brought many children in the mountains a desire for the outside world.
It also brought hope to them to finally come out of the mountains.
Don't forget the people in the road
Someone once asked Wang Shunyou why he had been able to keep delivering letters for so many years.
He just said lightly:
Seeing the happy smiling faces of the villagers when they received the mail was the reason for his persistence.
Hill after slope, road after bump.
"Serving the people is not hard work, no matter how tired you are, you will be happy."
From the time he took the reins from his father's hand, Wang Shunyou regarded mail as more important than life.
Once, while climbing over a mountain, he encountered two robbers.
The robbers told him to leave all his money, his things, and his horses behind.
Wang Shunyou did not do anything, took a step forward to protect the parcel on horseback, and shouted:
"I'm a township postman, I don't want money, I want one."
Taking advantage of the gap when the robber was out of his mind, Lao Wang drew out the chai knife on his body and rushed over.
When asked afterwards, he said that he was actually very scared in his heart.
But he had to send all the mails, and that was the courage.
"Shining Name" scene interpretation
However, township postmen like Wang Shunyou have sacrificed too much for this job.
What he regrets most is that he spends too little time with his wife and children.
Running around for many years, the communication between Wang Shunyou and his son is very poor.
He dedicated his life to countless villagers, delivering letters and sending affection.
However, it is difficult to express thoughts and care for their families.
Except for emotional regrets.
This job is also a great drain on the body of every township postman.
Wang Shunyou's body had already suffered from a bunch of problems.
Rheumatism, epilepsy, abdominal pain ...
Worst of all, there was no time for treatment.
Fortunately, in 2014, with the pulling of the county-wide highway in Muli County, the original Maban Post Road was completely dissolved.
Wang Shunyou no longer had to wade through mountains and rivers, and delivered letters one by one.
By 2017, he officially retired.
In the early years, Wang Shunyou once said his dream:
"I hope that the road in Muli can be built well, and our courier can deliver mail in a car, hoping to be the last Maban postman."
More than a decade later, his dream has long been realized.
Maban Post Road became history, and Wang Shunyou became one of the last witnesses of that period of history.
The current postman no longer has to work as hard as he did back then.
Unfortunately, after retirement, Wang Shunyou did not enjoy the blessings of Qingfu for a few years, and he was taken away by the disease.
He died of illness on May 30, 2021.
During his 32 years as a township postman.
He trekked 260,000 kilometers on a snowy plateau with an average altitude of 3,000 meters.
Never delayed a shift, never lost a single email, delivery accuracy of 100%.
Wang Shunyou's deeds are touching.
But don't forget that like him, there are more than one or two people who have worked hard all year round on the Maban Mail Road.
In the subtitle at the end of the film, we see:
Until the year the film was filmed (2007), liangshan prefecture still had 25 Maban Post Road township postmen like Wang Shunyou.
Each of them deserves respect.
As early as 1999, there was also a movie about the township postman that attracted everyone's attention.
It's "That Mountain, That Man, That Dog."
The story in the film takes place in the western mountains of Hunan Province.
Although it is not as good as the snowy plateau of Liangshan, the postal route here is not easy.
The seemingly ordinary township postman has become an emotional bond between the villagers in the mountains and their relatives in other places.
Villagers can not see the village cadres for a few days.
But it is never possible not to see the township postman for a few days.
Time flies, and Maban Mail Road has now become the "masterpiece" of history.
But we still can't forget.
The heroes who were born for this "song".
They have spent their whole lives walking one long, arduous postal road after another.
Although this postal route is inconspicuous, it can be gathered into a huge force.
Tie the folks in the mountains with the outside world.
The worries between relatives and friends are firmly tied together.
They kept the bitterness to themselves and the tenderness to the mountains.
What a warm and romantic life, what an admirable life it was.
Let us thank them and thank Wang Shunyou!
May you rest in peace in heaven.