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10 Beichuan children bid farewell to "mother" Gao Jinsumei: Thank you for your selfless love "Chuan" across the strait

author:Kawagoe Strait

In 2008, Taiwanese celebrity Gao Jinsumei participated in the warm-up performance at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games, and after the performance, she flew to the Wenchuan earthquake-stricken area to offer condolences and adopted 20 Beichuan children. 13 years have passed, except for the two years affected by the epidemic, Gao Jinsumei will go to Sichuan every year to meet them, she said, "I have never forgotten my Qiang children in Beichuan!" Now I'm full of children and grandchildren'"! And this group of children at that time has also been reading their "high mother". The Spring Festival is approaching, 10 of the 20 sponsored children sent video blessings to the "high mother", and Gao Jinsumei also responded warmly, looking forward to the improvement of the epidemic situation in the Year of the Tiger and being able to reunite with the children again.

Among these young people, some are preparing to go to graduate school for medical practice, and they are excitedly telling their plans, hoping that "high mothers" will cheer them up; some people are already working in Chengdu, even if they are working night shifts in the work area, they are not tired; and some people have long been determined to join the army, although they are still children, and they already have the firmness of a soldier in their eyes.

● "Looking forward to an early end to the epidemic, so that we can see each other often",

● "'High mother' should remember to vaccinate in time and pay attention to protection",

● "In the new year, don't worry too much about work",

● "This year is the Year of the Tiger, we must improve morale..."

10 Beichuan children bid farewell to "mother" Gao Jinsumei: Thank you for your selfless love "Chuan" across the strait
10 Beichuan children bid farewell to "mother" Gao Jinsumei: Thank you for your selfless love "Chuan" across the strait

Gao Jinsumei, female, born in 1965. His real name was Jin Sumei, and he later changed his name to Gao Jin Sumei after following his mother's surname. She was once a radiant film queen and a "goddess of war" who dared to break into Japan's Yasukuni Shrine to protest, and she still dominates Taiwan's political arena and speaks out for the island's ethnic minorities. But as soon as she "returned" to Sichuan, she had only one title: "Mother.".

"We are all family", this is the WeChat group name of Gao Jinsumei and the 20 children.

10 Beichuan children bid farewell to "mother" Gao Jinsumei: Thank you for your selfless love "Chuan" across the strait
10 Beichuan children bid farewell to "mother" Gao Jinsumei: Thank you for your selfless love "Chuan" across the strait

Gao Jin Sumei and Yu Chaoyang

It all started 13 years ago.

At 14:28:04 on May 12, 2008, the sudden Wenchuan earthquake changed the color of the mountains and rivers, and separated countless families. This disaster also touches the hearts of Taiwan compatriots. On August 8 of that year, after participating in the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games, Gao Jinsumei rushed to the Earthquake-stricken Area of Sichuan to volunteer. Seeing the devastated earth and seeing the compatriots who had lost their loved ones, she burst into tears and pain in her heart, and decided to do something for her local compatriots.

Gao Jinsumei said: After the 9.21 earthquake occurred in Taiwan, it received selfless assistance from all walks of life, and it was incumbent upon the mainland to encounter such a great disaster. Because she was also an ethnic minority, she chose 20 Beichuan Qiang children who lost their loved ones or were disabled in the earthquake as sponsors. "At that moment, no matter what her condition is", she just gritted her teeth and used her not too broad shoulders to hold up a piece of the sky for the children.

10 Beichuan children bid farewell to "mother" Gao Jinsumei: Thank you for your selfless love "Chuan" across the strait

In 2008, Gao Jinsumei met with children for the first time

"I still deeply remember the situation when I first visited the Beichuan earthquake site in 2008, that kind of injury, that kind of pain, people who have not experienced that earthquake will not understand and understand." We are all family on both sides of the strait, and it is both my wish and my responsibility to make a little contribution to the children in the disaster area. Gao Jinsumei said.

Gao Jin Sumei has already thought about it, and the sponsorship in her mind cannot be just simple material help, granting bursaries, etc., "real companionship is what children need most." Gao Jinsumei promised to the local Friends of the Taiwan Affairs Office that in addition to distributing a certain amount of financial aid to these 20 children every year until they leave school, she will also come to meet the children every year and accompany everyone to grow up with every minute and second.

The seeds of love are planted, quietly accumulating strength. Then wait for the flowers to bloom.

For more than ten years, Gao Jinsumei has never missed the appointment. According to the agreement, either she flew to Beichuan to reunite with the children, or she led the children to Shanghai, Chengdu and her hometown of Taiwan for study. According to her words, at first the children were still strange and had a sense of distance, and in the second year, their eyes were no longer afraid, and in the fifth year, the children accepted her psychologically and took the initiative to hug her and call her mother. At that moment, she truly became the "high mother" of these 20 Beichuan Qiang children.

The quiet AliShan, the Long Anchang River. Every reunion across the strait is full of ritual. Gao Jinsumei brushed the WeChat group, "Waiting for you", which is the annual call of boys and girls.

In order to express their longing for "Mother Gao", every year when they meet, the children rush to give Gifts such as Qiang embroidery, bacon, home-brewed honey and handmade necklaces that they have selected and prepared to Gao Jinsumei. Although Gao Jin Sumei does not want children to break the bank, who can refuse such a precious Mother's Day gift?

10 Beichuan children bid farewell to "mother" Gao Jinsumei: Thank you for your selfless love "Chuan" across the strait
10 Beichuan children bid farewell to "mother" Gao Jinsumei: Thank you for your selfless love "Chuan" across the strait

In 2018, Gao Jinsumei received Mother's Day gifts from children

Gao Jinsumei has become a "grandmother"? It turned out that the oldest child she sponsored, Zhang Senyan, was promoted to a mother in 2017. Zhang Senyan came to visit Gao's mother with her newborn child in her arms and sent a surprise to Gao Jinsumei. Looking at this little new life, Gao Jin Sumei happily put on a gold bracelet for the "little grandson" and also sent a big red envelope.

10 Beichuan children bid farewell to "mother" Gao Jinsumei: Thank you for your selfless love "Chuan" across the strait

In 2017, Gao Jinsumei, who was promoted to "grandmother", could not hide her joy

If you ask these 20 children, what they are most grateful for in more than a decade, they all have one common answer: the company of the high mother. "Not only for ten years, we will always be a family..." When the child said this, Gao Jinsumei covered her chest with her hands and nodded vigorously.

Gradually, the children grew up.

Many of them went to college, and some enlisted as soldiers. After leaving the school, several children decided to volunteer to teach, and some decided to engage in the preschool education industry. In the darkness, let people hear the echo of love.

Then, get married and have children, and have ordinary happiness.

They use a simple life to repay this benefactor and nobleman who is thousands of miles away, their "high mother".

Because, that's the answer she most wants to see.

10 Beichuan children bid farewell to "mother" Gao Jinsumei: Thank you for your selfless love "Chuan" across the strait

In 2021, Gao Jinsumei took a group photo with children across the screen

If companionship is the longest confession of affection, then this confession across the strait is enough to resonate with you and me.

10 Beichuan children bid farewell to "mother" Gao Jinsumei: Thank you for your selfless love "Chuan" across the strait

Source: Straits Today

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