He gave most of his life's time and money to out-of-school children in need, donating more than 3 million yuan in his lifetime and funding 183 poor students.
Such a kind man, fate did not care for him, 37 years old died of cancer, there is no more time to spend with his daughter, his wife understands him very well, but also died unexpectedly five years later. Their children became orphans in an instant, and the story of the couple is lamentable.
They are Cong Fei and Xing Dan.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" dropped out of junior high school > to become a singer</h1>
Before becoming a singer, his name was Zhang Chong, and he was born in 1969 in Panjin, Liaoning Province, to a poor peasant family.
To say that the biggest influence of the family on him, I am afraid that he has a father who loves to sing two people, under the influence of his father, he also likes to sing very much since he was a child, but he does not like the two people to turn, he prefers to learn to sing the theme song in the TV series, and is very talented, and he can sing very well once or twice.
But even so, he did not have a good musical education in his early years. The poverty of his family made him even punished by the teacher for not being able to pay the 2.5 yuan tuition fee, and he had to drop out of school after only the second year of junior high school.
It was easier to work in a bank then than it is now, and after dropping out of school, he joined a local bank as a cashier. Don't look at the low education, but he is a diligent and studious person, and he has never given up the dream of reading.
During his work in the bank, he studied hard in his spare time, and after accumulating a certain amount of savings, he finally realized his college dream and music dream and successfully entered the Shenyang Conservatory of Music, when Cong Fei faced a dilemma: work or study.
It was the end of the 1980s, the banking job was an iron rice bowl in the eyes of many people, and when Cong Fei proposed that he should give up his job to go to college, his family was very incomprehensible, but he still insisted on his dream.
In the four years of college, he has always been in a state of studying while working, he does not care how much suffering he has suffered, and being able to study professionally is the greatest comfort.
In 1992, he graduated from the Shenyang Conservatory of Music and followed the wave of southward migrant workers to Guangzhou, when everyone had a dream of getting rich, but few people really made money.
Cong Fei is no exception, when he first arrived in Guangzhou, he was not familiar with life, because the work did not fall, he slept in the bridge hole, picked up garbage, also went to the restaurant waiter, sold songs on the side of the road, how many times he had given up the idea of wandering back to his hometown in the south, but he thought about gritting his teeth and insisting, he also went to dance halls and bars to sing.
In 1994, Cong Fei came to Shenzhen from Guangzhou to work hard, and when he first arrived in Shenzhen, he did a lot of dirty work, worked as a porter, worked as a dishwasher, the harsh working environment and quarterly fatigue, he often trembled with exhaustion.
Once he fainted on the grass, and when he woke up from the grass, he had a thought flashing in his mind, and at that time he renamed himself "Cong Fei", which means to get up from wherever he falls, and he believes that he will take off from the grass.
Good people also have good luck, when working as a singer in a bar, Cong Fei met a "nobleman" - a girl was impressed after listening to his "Ussuri Boat Song" and funded him 600 yuan to participate in the singer competition, which was a huge amount of money for Cong Fei at that time, and since then he has officially entered the stage.
This stage made Cong Fei officially become a singer, he worshiped The Tenor Singer Guo Song as his master and became Mr. Guo Song's closed disciple. He studied sketches, mimes, ventriloquism, magic, Rubik's cubes and other techniques with Mr. Guo Song.
Diligence and talent have made Cong Fei gradually become a well-known singer in the local area, and the appearance fee has ranged from the initial 50 yuan to hundreds of yuan and thousands of yuan.
Earn more money, live better, and improve your situation. But he often sympathized with the weak, and always helped those who suffered misfortune, because from them, he reminded him of his former self.
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Cong Fei officially began to do charity because of a charity performance.
In August 1994, he went to Chongqing to participate in a charity performance for out-of-school children returning to school.
During the performance, Cong Fei looked at the pure eyes of the dropout children on the stage, thinking of his childhood, he was once forced to drop out of school because of his poor family, he could not bear to see these children like him, so after the performance, outside the plan, he generously left all the 2400 yuan on his body to the children.
That was the beginning of his philanthropy, and after that, he was determined to start helping more out-of-school children and people with disabilities. After returning to Shenzhen, he joined the Shenzhen Volunteer Federation from the informal and became a volunteer. Not only does he often participate in public welfare performances, but every time he goes to a place, he will leave a few local poor students to fund them.
In the ten years from 1995 to the time he suffered from cancer, he went to Shandong, Hunan, Guizhou, Sichuan and other poor mountainous areas many times to raise tuition fees for poor children in the form of performances. He supported 183 children one-on-one in ten years.
Unlike some celebrities who do charity and make shows, Cong Fei's support for children in mountain areas is in-depth funding, and he chooses to personally go into the mountains and hand over the funds directly to the children, rather than through intermediaries.
He subsidizes 200-300 yuan per semester for primary school students, 300-500 yuan per semester for junior high school students, and 600-800 yuan per semester for high school students. As long as the children can keep studying, he promises to keep them going until they graduate from college.
He has funded poor children to a point where friends and family around him cannot understand. In particular, his wife, Cong Fei's first wife, is said to have divorced Cong Fei in 2002 because she could not understand Cong Fei's "selfless" behavior.
Coincidentally, his "selflessness" was also the opportunity for him to meet his second wife.
His second wife, Xing Dan, understood him very well. The two met on a plane, xing dan was a flight attendant at the time, and after the two began to communicate, she resigned from the airline in order to support Cong Fei's work.
Originally, with the ability of Cong Fei alone, the family could also live a rich life, but it was lamentable that Cong Fei and his wife lived in an old house of only 58 square meters, living and living, very frugal, and the only valuable thing in the house was a second-hand piano, which made people dare not believe that this was the daily life of a singer.
Even to fund children in the mountains. In order to pay them tuition fees in time, Cong Fei will also borrow money from friends, accumulating a debt of 170,000 yuan. The need to borrow money to support an out-of-school child shows that this act of kindness is beyond his personal ability.
In order to help out-of-school children, they never hesitate to borrow money from life.
One day in May 2005, Cong Fei hunched over into the hospital and was subsequently diagnosed with advanced stomach cancer, where he often couldn't swallow food and vomited, but still refused to give up the show. During his illness, he still insisted on participating in 65 charity performances of various kinds and donated tens of thousands of yuan.
He said he couldn't stop performing, that without performances there would be no income, and that there would be no way to help poor children.
Wang Weishan, a middle school student in Zhijin County, Guizhou Province, who was sponsored by Cong Fei, said in a letter to Cong Fei: "I never knew that greatness can be so concrete, that emotion can be so thorough, and that life can be so broad and selfless. ”
When Cong Fei was diagnosed with cancer, his wife Xing Dan was more than five months pregnant, but he still guarded her husband's side day and night, comforting him, rubbing his back, encouraging him to be strong, no matter how difficult she always hung a smile. Cong Fei looked in his eyes, he had never wept for his illness, but he was moved by his wife and could not be suppressed.
God has eyes, before Cong Fei died, he finally saw his daughter's cute little face.
However, what makes non-work sad is after digital chemotherapy and surgery. He lost his singing voice and could no longer earn money by singing. In 2005 he was elected Chinese moving. CCTV's explanation to him was:
From the first sight of an out-of-school child to the time he was cared for by death, he gave all his time to those children in need of help, without the slightest reservation, even at the expense of borrowing money from life. He used to use the stage to build the classroom and use his singing voice to light up hope, and today, his singing voice may not be as loud as in the past, but it has won the most respectful applause. ”
After that, many citizens, students, leaders, and reporters came to visit him in the ward, but at that time, he could not eat, or even drink water, and could only rely on infusions to maintain his life every day.
Yet even when doctors don't let him speak, the family worries his body can't bear it. He always showed great enthusiasm for every visitor, not only hugging each other, but also saying "I!" to the visitor with all his strength. love! you! He wanted everyone to remember how sunny he looked.
However, the disease eventually took him away, and on April 20, 2006, due to the advanced stage of stomach cancer leading to multi-organ failure, the 37-year-old Cong Fei died suddenly, and ten days before his death, he made a will to carry out his last act of love - donating corneas, donating his useful organs to help people in need, and it turned out that a person can be selfless enough to forget himself.
The father signed the organ donation letter for his son, and the mother tearfully said that she was willing to help her son fulfill his last wish even if he was in psychological pain.
It is understood that the cornea donated by Cong Fei benefited 5 patients with eye diseases.
He left, and there were no regrets before leaving: the Shenzhen Youth Foundation set up the "Cong Fei Special Fund for Education Assistance" last year: he saw the birth of his daughter and heard the voice of her daughter calling "Daddy".
According to his explanation to his wife Xing Dan, he put on his favorite white costume when he left.
What is chilling is that when Cong Fei was seriously ill, some students and parents who had been sponsored by him not only did not care about his condition at all, but also coldly refused to visit him.
A girl who completed her university studies with the support of Cong Fei was contacted by a media reporter telling him that Cong Fei was seriously ill and hoped that he would come to visit. The girl said: "From the help of the time, out of a kind of voluntariness, it is not who forced him." He also said that he was too busy to see Cong Fei.
Another parent of a student sponsored by Cong Fei did not receive his remittance after Cong Fei was hospitalized, and even called and asked, "Didn't you say that you would offer my child to college?" He's in junior high school now, and you won't pay for it, isn't that a pit bull? ”
When he learned about Cong Fei's condition, the other party even said: "You ask him when he will be cured and come out to earn money?" ”
During that time, Cong Fei's heart felt unprecedentedly lonely.
< h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > Xing Dan died unexpectedly</h1>
When Cong Fei was ill, he once advised his wife that the child should be killed. Worried that after his death soon, his wife will bear a great burden of taking care of the children alone. However, Xing Dan disagreed, and the young life was the concern that Cong Fei left her in this world.
After Cong Fei's death, his wife took care of her young daughter alone, and as a result, Cong Fei's volunteer number continued to do public welfare for him.
Who ever thought of such a kind couple, but one misfortune after another.
On the evening of April 13, 2011, Xing Dan was on his way back from eating seafood in Huizhou with friends when he was attacked by three teenagers from a village in Huidong who threw stones, resulting in a broken car window, stones or glass shards hitting Xing Dan's artery in the corner of his left eye, and he died in the hospital in the early morning of the next day.
Five years after Cong Fei's death, his 5-year-old daughter lost her mother.
In accordance with their last wishes, the family buried the ashes of the two together, wishing that they would not be separated from life and death. Their youngest daughter is also continued to be raised by grandparents.