Humans of China│人在中國

最新 05-05

Humans of China

人在中國

Exploring China one person at a time

一次探索一個中國人

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I was born in 1963 and life was hard.

For the first few years of my life I had never eaten meat and I didn"t know what an egg was. We had no money for food my diet consisted mostly of weeds.

At a very young age I started a very simple but very important job as a wood collector to build fires during the winter as it was bitterly cold and at 7 years old I started working in the fields using a hoe to move the soil to help grow rice.

Back then everyone was the same we all had very hard lives and although we were all so poor everyone loved to help each other. No one was selfish unlike in today"s sociality, there are too many selfish people.

Growing up I had no shoes and my clothes were full of holes during the long cold winters we"d stuff cotton in the holes in our trousers to try keep our legs warm. We just didn"t have the money to buy shoes let alone new clothes. These days having clothes full of holes is fashion.

We lived in a mud house and we made beds with branches from trees covered in dead grass. If it was raining outside then it was raining inside.

I started school at the age of 7 but then my mum gave birth to my little bother and then to my little sister so I stopped school to help take care of them whilst my parents would work. At 10 years old I started school again.

At the age of 17 my mother died so from then on I acted as a mother figure for my siblings. If we had money my mother could have seen a doctor or bought some medicine but we had no money. Maybe she would have survived.

In them days if you were sick there were two choices; survive or die. No one cared if we were sick. No one cared if we couldn"t see a doctor. No one cared if we died.

1988 was the hardest year for us we had nothing and at this point I had two children. We had nothing to eat nothing to drink and nothing to wear but after that year things gradually got better.

My life today is the best it"s been I still have two children along with grandchildren. My children are quite successful and we have managed to buy a house in Beijing. I love my job as a cleaner and general helper at a school which I started 3 year. I love children and my colleagues.

Once piece of advice I"d like to give to the next generation is to appreciate the freedom you had and take care of yourself your family and friends.

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我出生於 1963年,那時候生活很艱難。

我剛出生的那幾年, 從來沒吃過肉, 也不知道雞蛋是什麼。我們沒錢買吃的, 主要的糧食就是小麥。

在很小的時候, 我就開始幹活了，活兒很簡單，卻相當重要，就是在冬天的時候撿木頭生火，因為冬天特別的冷。7歲時，我開始下地幹活，用鋤頭翻地，翻完種水稻。

那時候每個人都一樣，日子很貧苦，儘管我們都很窮，但每個人都互幫互助，人都很無私，不像現在這個社會，人都比較自私。

長大後，我沒鞋穿，衣服都是破洞。漫長的冬天，我們把棉花塞到褲子破洞的地方來保暖。我們沒錢買鞋，更別說衣服。但是現在，衣服上滿是破洞變成了一種時尚。

那時候我們住在泥巴房子里，我們的床是用樹枝做的，上面再鋪些枯草。如果下雨，屋外在下，屋裡也在下。

我7歲開始上學，但後來我媽媽生了我弟弟，接著又生了我妹妹。所以我輟學了，在家幫忙照顧他們，這樣我父母可以出去工作。10歲的時候，我才又去上了學。

17歲的時候，我母親去世了。從那時起，為了我的兄弟姐妹，我便扮演起了母親的角色。如果當時我們有錢，我媽就可以去看醫生，或者買點葯吃，那樣或許她還能多活兩天，但是我們沒錢。

那時候，如果你病了，就兩個結果，要麼活，要麼死。沒人管你是不是病了，沒人管你能不能去看醫生，沒人管你的死活。

1988年，對我們來說是最艱難的一年，我們什麼也沒有。就在那個時候我有了兩個孩子，我們沒吃沒喝沒穿。但那之後生活還是慢慢好了起來。現在是我一生中最好的日子，我的兩個孩子都有了自己的孩子，我的孩子們很成功，我們還在北京買了房。三年前，我開始在學校里做保潔，我很熱愛我的工作，我喜歡孩子們和我的同事。