Yan Fang is a native of Yitang Village, Hejin City. Born in 1965, although she grew up poor, but got a good education from her parents, she cared about helping poor families in her work, donated money and materials many times, and warmed the people around her with her own modest efforts.
Filial piety and respect for relatives to set an example The style of filial piety and filial piety has been passed down from generation to generation
Every time Yan Fang returned to her in-laws' house, she was obliged to take care of the housework for her mother-in-law. In order to bring more joy to her mother-in-law, she accompanied the elderly to walk, visit the market, discuss the way of health with the elderly, and cook delicious meals for the elderly. "My mother-in-law's generation suffered a lot, my father-in-law died early, there was no time to fulfill filial piety, my mother-in-law served as a rural maternal and child health worker for more than forty years, and devoted most of her life to the maternal and child health care work in the village, in order to make my mother-in-law happy in her old age, we paid more attention to her food, clothing, shelter and transportation, and took her to health examinations from time to time." Yan Fang said with a smile.
Speaking of Yan Fang, her mother-in-law couldn't help but praise: "Having such a good daughter-in-law is the fate we cultivated in our previous lives, who said that the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is difficult, and the benefits are very mile." The mother-in-law's pride was overflowing. In fact, many times, filial piety to the in-laws do not need to do those earth-shattering events, and the bits and pieces of life can bear the fruits of warmth and happiness.
While caring about her mother-in-law's daily life, Yan Fang also attaches great importance to her spiritual life. When Yan Fang chatted with relatives and friends, she often said: "What the old people are most afraid of is loneliness, and we should give them more spiritual comfort as children." "Yan Fang said so, and even more so." My mother-in-law has never taken a plane in her life, has not seen the outside world, we will save money and use many times with her mother-in-law to travel at home and abroad, and my mother-in-law's legs and feet are inconvenient to book a wheelchair in advance to facilitate her entire journey. Yan Fang interpreted the profound connotation of the Chinese nation's culture of filial piety with her own practical actions.
Trickle down the heart field to help people to enjoy the new wind of the tree
In the depths of Yan Fang's and his wife's hearts, there is a trickle of boundless love. "Doing public welfare is a lifelong undertaking, and helping others is to be happy with yourself." Over the years, the two have actively advocated and held paper-cutting lectures into bookstores, de filial piety culture into campus public welfare activities, actively participated in the "Love Ya'an" disaster relief charity performance, and repeatedly performed charity performances for officers and men of the fire and armed police forces and the elderly in the nursing home.
Yan Fang's lover Gao Xiaodong worked in the fire brigade after retiring from the army, and once found an old man with a bleeding face lying in the trench of the highway on the way to work, he hurried down to pick up the old man and send him to a nearby health center.
In March 2017, the couple heard that a patient was in urgent need of platelet B and immediately drove 80 kilometers to the Yuncheng Blood Station to donate 200 ml platelets. The couple's behavior affected their children, the son had bravely assisted the police to catch thieves, and the daughter-in-law worked every day in the front line of 120 rescue to save lives and help the injured, paying for the people with difficult conditions and helping them buy medicine. Sons and daughters are more concerned about the elders in the family, and "the fine tradition of being enthusiastic about public welfare and being willing to contribute has become the family style we inherit." Yan Fang's son said.
Traditional Culture Spreads Shenzhou Chinese Civilization Will Live Forever
Paper-cutting is a handmade work of art in the folk tradition of the mainland, with a long history of development and cultural precipitation. Gao Xiaodong has been very enlightened since he was a child, and has received good enlightenment from his father and grandmother, and has also received the full support of his lover Yan Fang, and after decades of unremitting efforts, he has turned his hobby into a career. The paper-cut "Chinese Double Sacred Map" created by Gao Xiaodong and his wife over a period of five years won the double world record of "the world's largest traditional Chinese paper-cutting", and Gao Xiaodong also became the representative inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage of "Longmen Paper-cutting".
In recent years, Mr. and Mrs. Gao Xiaodong have been invited to conduct special paper-cutting exhibitions and cultural exchanges in Southeast Asian countries for many times, showing the charm of traditional paper-cutting art to the world. In January 2019, Yan Fang and his wife were specially hired by Phetchabun Province in Thailand as "Thai people's international cultural exchange image ambassadors", building a cultural exchange platform for China and Thailand, China and Malaysia, China and Vietnam and Singapore, and making their efforts to inherit and promote the excellent culture of the Chinese nation.
Family style is the value belief, moral code and code of conduct passed down from generation to generation by a family (clan), reflecting the spiritual belief, moral outlook and overall temperament of a family. The story of Yan Fang's family has touched thousands of "we", who have practiced the inheritance of good family style, interpreted one touching story after another, and sang a song of Dragon Gate.