Text: History of Youth Discussion
Edited by the History of the Youth Council
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During the Spring Festival in 2010, Zhou Ke was holding a camera around the train station to watch people coming and going home for the Chinese New Year, he was a reporter for Xinhua News Agency, ready to take some photos to accompany the report of the Spring Festival, and he soon found a special mother in the crowd.
This mother is also in charge of the Spring Festival, she is holding her child in one hand, carrying a full backpack in the other hand, and a tall sack on her back, which is all she has, and Zhou Ke captured this photo.
Because of the hurry, Zhou Ke did not contact the mother, and after the photo was sent, it aroused widespread attention from people across the country, but no one knew who these mothers were, Zhou Ke searched for more than ten years to find her, who is she and what kind of life is she living?
After years of searching, I finally found it
In 2021, Zhou Ke came to Sichuan, and he was going to a village in Daliangshan, because after decades of searching, he finally got the news that the mother he photographed back then might live here.
Zhou Ke came to a family with excitement, and when he arrived, the hostess of the house walked out embarrassedly under the laughter of several children, and there was still a shy smile on her face.
Zhou Ke and Bamu Yubumu
Although eleven years have passed, Zhou Ke can see at a glance that this woman is the mother he saw at the train station in 2010.
Under Zhou Ke's confirmation, the woman also confirmed her identity, and it was indeed the same person as the one ten years ago, but she didn't know that she was "on fire", and she didn't know that her photos had touched many people.
Eleven years passed, Zhou Ke knew the woman's name, her name was Bamu Yubumu, two people who should have had nothing to do with each other, because of a photo.
Bamu Yubumu with her husband
After talking, Zhou Ke learned that Bamu Yubumu was younger than he imagined, and Bamu Yubumu, as the tail of the post-80s, was only in his early thirties when he met Zhou Ke again.
Then Zhou Ke asked where the child in Bamu Yubumu's arms was, according to the time, the child should be more than ten years old, but he learned an unexpected news, the child had died young, what had happened to Bamu Yubumu?
Children of Daliang Mountain
Bamu Yubumu was born in 1989, and her home is located in Daliang Mountain, where people were generally poor at that time, and Bamu Yubumu's family was the same.
There is more than one child in the family, and Bamu Yubumu is the eldest child, coupled with the poverty of the family, she has no opportunity to go to school, and she began to help the family reduce the burden when she was young.
When Bamu Yubumu was still a child, she had a wish, that is, to live in a big house that could shelter from both the wind and the rain, because her family's adobe house was in disrepair, and every time it was windy and rainy, the rain and wind poured into this adobe house.
In their place, children who do not go to school will start a family early, and Bamu Yubumu is no exception, she has never been in love, and at the age of 17, she married a peer in the same village under the arrangement of the family.
Bamu Yubumu family
There is nothing strange in Bamu Yubumu's eyes, but after getting married, he still lives a hard life, the difference is that she knows how to write her name, because her husband has read some books and taught her these words.
In the second year after marriage, Bamu Yubumu became a mother, she gave birth to a lovely daughter, in order to let her daughter grow up healthily, Bamu Yubumu will use fresh rice every day to beat into a paste and feed her daughter.
Two years later, Bamu Yubumu gave birth to another daughter, and after the birth of the second daughter, Bamu Yubumu made a decision, that is, to go out to work.
The two children in the family, the main problem is that the food has become tight, although the husband has been working hard, but it is still not enough for the family, plus the living conditions of their family are too poor, she is worried that her daughter will be sick, so Bamu Yubumu took the second daughter to Nanchang.
After Bamu Yubumu came out, she encountered a lot of difficulties, she couldn't even speak Mandarin, which was a big obstacle for her to find a job, and finally learned to talk to people in Mandarin, and Bamu Yubumu finally found a job - moving bricks at the construction site.
Every day, Bamu Yubumu's figure will appear on the construction site, and her little daughter is on her back, in order to earn money, she is reluctant to rest, every time she pays her salary, looking at her more rewards than others, she feels that no matter how hard it is, it is worth it.
After suffering comes hope
The second daughter follows Bamu Yubu every day to blow the sun and sun, she is just a baby, and she naturally can't stand it for a long time, and soon contracted a high fever.
On January 30, 2010, Bamu Yubumu packed all her luggage and prepared to take her second daughter home, and then asked her husband to take the child to a big hospital for medical treatment.
And the second daughter, because she was young and frail, and because of the delay on the road, she finally left her, which made Bamu Yubumu become depressed for a long time until the third daughter was born.
The third child, whose physique is even weaker, died less than a month after birth, Bamu Yubumu was heartbroken, but she could only cheer up, she still had a family, and she couldn't give up because of this.
Zhou Ke was very touched after knowing the story of Bamu Yubumu, he didn't expect that a photo taken by chance back then would hide so many stories behind it, he was glad that he had never given up looking for Bamu Yubumu, and he could let more people know this story.
Zhou Ke and Bamu Yubumu
And when Zhou Ke saw her, Bamu Yubumu had already lived in the big house she had been thinking about when she was a child, and she smiled and said that her life has changed for the better now.
Because of the state's poverty alleviation plan, the village is not as poor as before, and now not only have roads been built, but schools have also been built in the village so that children can go to school.
The state taught them to grow tobacco, and every year planting tobacco is even more than the money earned by part-time work, and the villagers who work outside are willing to return to their hometowns to start planting tobacco leaves, after all, they are not forced by life, who wants to leave their hometowns.
With the support of the state, Bamu Yubumu's family has successfully shaken off the shackles of poverty in the past, and she can maintain the family's expenses every year just by growing tobacco leaves, and she can also go out to work to bring extra income to the family during the off-season.
Although Bamu Yubumu's two daughters died, after that, she had other children, all of whom grew up healthy and did not have to live in the wind and rain.
What happened to Bamu Yubumu is not an exception, many people were like her before, but with the help of poverty alleviation policies, they have lived a better life, and their lives will definitely get better and better.
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Resources:
"13 Years Ago, Her Photos Moved the Whole Network ......", Guangming.com, 2023-01-21
"13 years ago, moved you and me "Spring Festival Mother", do you remember?", Global Network, 2023-01-30
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