Author | Yan Wushuang
Genius boy, doctor in the United States, social elite......
I am afraid that these few terms are difficult to associate with the homeless people on the street. However, Sun Weidong, a native of Jiangyin, was stunned to combine these labels.
He was selected to enter the junior class of Fudan University at the age of 15, and he was selected by physicist Dr. Tsung-Dao Lee to go to the United States for further study......
However, since 2007, Sun Weidong has been living on the streets of New York, USA. 16 years later, his mysterious identity suddenly surfaced, causing a domestic sensation......
What has happened to a person who should have stood at the top of the pyramid over the years to fall to the bottom of his life? Recently, a Chinese blogger unveiled this mystery for us.
The first person to discover Sun Weidong was Mr. Zhu, a Chinese man who ran a small business in New York.
In the summer of 2023, Mr. Zhu happened to meet a homeless man with a Chinese face. His hair was unkempt and ragged, and his face was carved with the marks of time. Out of compassion, Mr. Zhu gave the homeless man a bag of food.
The homeless thanked him in fluent English, and the two did not talk much further.
I thought that I would forget about each other, but I didn't expect that on January 1, 2024, Mr. Zhu met this homeless man on the street again, so he came up to greet him and asked him where he was from.
Mr. Zhu's answer surprised Mr. Zhu, who turned out to be his fellow villager from Jiangsu! Meeting a native of his hometown on a foreign street instantly shortened the distance between the two of them a lot, and Mr. Zhu invited the homeless man to a meal.
In close proximity, Mr. Zhu found that although the homeless man was unkempt, his eyes were soft and sincere, and his language was orderly and clear.
Although he seemed to be very hungry, whenever Mr. Zhu asked questions, he would put down the food in his hand and answer, and his words and deeds revealed the politeness and cultivation in his bones.
This is not what an uneducated and unskilled homeless man should look like!
Although he had already thought that the homeless man was not an ordinary person, the next communication between the two still shocked Mr. Zhu.
It turned out that this ragged and down-and-out old man was actually a "legend" of Jiangyin Nanjing Middle School in the nineties!
In fact, Sun Weidong is not old, he was born in 1969 and is only 54 years old this year. He has had a superior IQ since he was a child, with a full score of 640 in the high school entrance examination, and he was admitted to Jiangyin Nanjing Middle School with a score of 628 points.
However, after only one year of high school in Nanjing Middle School, in 1985, Sun Weidong was selected to study physics in the junior class of Fudan University because of his exceptional excellence.
In 1989, Sun Weidong graduated with a bachelor's degree and was selected by the Chinese-American physicist Professor Tsung-Dao Lee to go to the United States for further study through the CUSPEA talent program with excellent physics grades.
Unfortunately, because of the so-called "Wen Ho Lee espionage incident" in 1988, the United States no longer allowed Chinese students to study Xi physics. After arriving in the United States, Sun Weidong was forced to choose a computer major and studied at the City University of New York at Brooklyn.
During his Xi studies, Sun Weidong led the way, published many papers, made remarkable achievements, and completed master's, doctoral and postdoctoral studies.
Both his family and professors are proud of him.
However, after completing his studies, Sun Weidong did not return to China, but engaged in programming work on Wall Street, earning an annual salary of more than 100,000 US dollars, and obtained a green card and became a US citizen.
Since then, both family and friends have speculated that Sun Weidong has started his brilliant life along the Cotai Strip.
It's just that no one expected that he experienced several setbacks in his life afterwards and completely rewrote his life......
The first minor setback occurred in 1993, when Sun Weidong brought $30,000 and was stolen on his way back to China. This incident left a huge shadow on him, and since then he has regarded returning to China as a daunting way, and even after his father died, he did not come back to see his father off.
After working for a few years, Sun Weidong married a divorced northeastern lady with a baby. He had high expectations for the marriage and put all his emotions into it.
It's just that what Sun Weidong didn't expect was that the woman married him just because she fell in love with his American identity, and after successfully getting a green card, she got out of this marriage.
The failure of this marriage hit him hard and made him depressed. At this time, Wall Street also ushered in a financial turmoil, and large-scale layoffs, and Sun Weidong, who was no longer high-spirited at the beginning, was of course the first to bear the brunt.
With the breakdown of his marriage and his career blocked, Sun Weidong suffered from mental problems and was unable to find a new job.
Since 2007, Sun Weidong has been living on the streets, from Chinatown to Brooklyn, New York. In mild weather, they sleep on the streets, and when the cold is unbearable, they have to squeeze in the station for a few hours to sleep. Rely on the help of well-wishers for three meals a day, or pick up other people's discarded food.
He has lived like a hungry and well-fed street beggar for sixteen years.
Mr. Zhu was embarrassed by Sun Weidong's experience, so he made a video of his current situation and posted it on domestic social platforms, hoping to help him find relatives and friends in China.
As soon as the video was uploaded, it caused an uproar.
In the past few days, Sun Weidong's former middle school classmates, college classmates, and Fudan Alumni Association have all come forward to confirm Sun Weidong's identity.
Fudan alumni in China also took immediate action to visit his family. At the same time, the Fudan Alumni Association in the United States has also begun to help, and now Sun Weidong's basic living needs have been guaranteed, but he still needs to work his way back to China because he is undocumented.
After the alumni association of Jiangyin Nanjing Middle School learned about Sun Weidong's situation, they also began to help Sun Weidong.
Judging from the old photos posted by Sun Weidong's middle school classmates, Sun Weidong when he was a teenager, the jade tree was in the wind, warm and moist like jade, which formed a strong contrast with today's unkempt, sloppy and aging.
After Sun Weidong attracted the attention of the whole people, many people questioned that he had been wandering for 16 years, and his family did not know about it?
In fact, for so many years, Sun Weidong never returned to China, and claimed that he was engaged in a certain confidential work, and his family could not contact him at all.
It wasn't until Sun Weidong's video was discovered by fellow villagers that the family knew the truth and almost collapsed. His younger brother responded: he thought that his brother was living a privileged life in a foreign country, but unexpectedly he was reduced to homelessness on the streets, and he was very sad.
Considering his mother's advanced age, the younger brother couldn't bear to let the old man know the bad news, and only hoped to help the elder brother get out of the predicament and get back on track.
It is embarrassing that a talented and talented young man has fallen into such a situation. Correspondingly, there are various controversies on the Internet:
Some netizens said that people who don't love the motherland are not worthy of pity; some netizens said that the two blows he suffered were related to the Chinese people, which is really embarrassing.
Some netizens said that they hope to take him back to China as soon as possible and spend their old age in peace; some netizens said that he is already an American, so why should our people worry about him?
Some netizens said that although he has learned a lot of knowledge, his mind is still a child, and psychological problems have not attracted enough attention, which will lead to today's ending.
Some people even attributed Sun Weidong's experience to the young genius class, and it was the seedlings that helped him.
There is no simple answer to a series of questions, so I can only talk about a few of my own opinions on this matter:
First of all, many parents with excellent family conditions send their children to study abroad. But he ignores that children who have just arrived in a foreign country will be very lonely.
They have no friends, no relatives, no one to confide in. In such a depressive environment, children with poor psychological tolerance will have many problems. Some people resent their parents, some people changed their temperament drastically, and eventually many tragedies occurred, making their parents regret their mistakes.
While parents are proud of their children, they should also pay more attention to their children's mental health.
Secondly, neither the genius youth class nor the elite education is the driving force behind Sun Weidong's fate today.
Every parent hopes that their children can become excellent, but many excellent children have relatively low psychological tolerance, precisely because the child's adverse quotient is too low.
Sun Weidong is undoubtedly a genius in Xi and has an excellent IQ, however, his psychological tolerance is not high. In fact, the setbacks he encountered were not shattered for our generation, and many of them have experienced them. However, he was knocked out.
It is the imperfection of emotional intelligence and adverse quotient that is the focus of the tragic fate.
Therefore, parents should not focus on their children's academic Xi performance every day, but should cultivate their children's emotional intelligence and adversity quotient.
After all, emotional intelligence can make a child happy, but reverse intelligence may save a child's life!
Again, I would like to say that children who do not do well in Xi are here to repay the favor.
In the eyes of many parents, children should study hard Xi, make progress every day, grow up and have a good face, and give themselves a long face.
However, excellent children often choose to go to other places or foreign countries in order to pursue better development, so it is very likely that they will not be able to accompany their parents, making them "empty nesters".
On the contrary, those children with poor grades often choose to work nearby, and there is plenty of time to be filial to their parents, although they may not have much money, but they can make their parents emotionally satisfied.
So, don't be upset when your child learns to write with mediocre grades. You may not realize it, but he's here to repay the favor!
Finally, I wish Sun Weidong can return to China as soon as possible and return to the arms of his motherland.