Yin Xin explains to tourists in front of the earthquake site of Xuankou Middle School.
On May 10, 2024, Yin Xin, a docent of the earthquake site of Xuankou Middle School in Yingxiu Town, gave six explanations to tourists.
She began to know Uzumaguchi Middle School at the end of 2007, when she was in her first year of junior high school. Yin Xin was in a math class when the Wenchuan earthquake struck on May 12, 2008, and luckily all the students in her class were survivors of the earthquake. The year after the earthquake, Yin Xin and her parents moved back to Yingxiu New Town, which was built with the help of Dongguan, Guangdong. Because it was rebuilt on the original site, Yingxiu Town has a new look, from ruins to new city. The only building in the town that has survived the devastation of the earthquake is the ruins of Uzumaguchi Middle School.
A group of students pose for a group photo in front of the earthquake site at Uzumakou Middle School.
On May 10, 2024, close to the anniversary of the "5.12" Wenchuan earthquake, a research team came to the site of Yingxiu Xuankou Middle School to mourn for the compatriots who died in the Wenchuan earthquake.
In 2015, after graduating from university, Yin Xin returned to Yingxiu and became a docent of the earthquake site. Although she briefly went to Malcom to work as a teacher for more than a year, she eventually chose to return to Yingxiu Town and continue to work as a docent. She said, "After the earthquake, I cherish the time I spend with my family" and "I really don't want to be separated from my parents." Yin Xin couldn't accept the pain of being separated from her loved ones.
A tourist photographs the site of the earthquake at Tsumaguchi Middle School.
Ma Guoying, a native of Yingxiu Town, is also a docent of the earthquake site of Xuankou Middle School. After the earthquake, Ma Guoying left Yingxiu and used to work in Xi'an and sell fruits as an e-commerce company in Wenchuan. For ten years, she never returned to the show. In 2018, the staff of Wenchuan from Guangdong Province returned to Yingxiu Town, and Ma Guoying has been a docent since then, telling the story of this place to the people who have paid attention, cared for and who have helped Wenchuan Yingxiu. It was also through the explanation that Ma Guoying slowly walked out of the shadow of her 5-year-old brother who was killed by the earthquake that year.
Ma Guoying explains to tourists in front of the earthquake site of Xuankou Middle School.
Sixteen years have passed since the Wenchuan earthquake, and houses have risen one after another in Yingxiu Town, and tourists from all over the country have been in an endless stream. Overlooking today's Yingxiu from the air, the streets are neat and the houses are lined up, the rushing Minjiang River flows through the town, and the wind and rain covered bridge with ribbons has become a good place for tourists to check in and take pictures. At the same time, it is also an important base for patriotic education, and people come to the ruins of Uzumakou Middle School to stop in silence and remember the deceased. In the "5.12" Wenchuan Earthquake Yingxiu Epicenter Memorial Hall on the mountain, bouquets of flowers convey people's sorrows.
Two children are riding and playing in front of the Oath Square of Family and Country Feelings, which is an important window for Yingxiu Patriotic Education Base to spread red culture.
During the May Day holiday in 2024, Yingxiu Town will receive more than 67,900 tourists, and the red tourist attractions of Yingxiu have become a popular check-in place for patriotic education tours and are sought after by young tourists. The students walked into the earthquake site of Xuankou Middle School, the oath square, the epicenter memorial hall, the Wenchuan Youth Activity Center and other places, and learned about the touching stories that occurred in the "5.12" Wenchuan earthquake, felt the great spirit of earthquake relief, and witnessed the process of Wenchuan from disaster to revitalization, from revitalization to beautiful nirvana.
In Yingxiu, more and more residents rely on restaurants, homestays, and specialty products to make a living.
In a teahouse in Yingxiu Town, local residents are playing mahjong.
On the afternoon of May 10, 2024, Yin Xin and her family prepared to make firewood turkeys to entertain nearby neighbors.
On the afternoon of May 10, Yin Xin's family prepared to make firewood turkeys for nearby neighbors, and her parents were busy from noon, burning the family's two firewood stoves to steam steamed buns and stir-fry chicken. Yin Xin went to the kindergarten on time at four o'clock to pick up her son. "Today's school earthquake drill." The 3-year-old son said to Yin Xin. "What are you going to do after the earthquake?" Yin Xin asked rhetorically. The son replied, "The teacher said to hide under the table and in the toilet." For Yin Xin, who explains the earthquake site every day, the history of the earthquake and earthquake prevention and mitigation have become part of her daily life.
Yin Xin took her son and walked through the streets of Yingxiu Town.
Southern Weekly reporter Weng Huan
Editor-in-charge: Feng Fei