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"Winter melon woman" with mother love released her daughter's music dream

Her name is Hu Chunxiang, a woman who was born without hands and feet.

By graig asaphPublished 3 years ago 7 min read

Hu Chunxiang has two children, a 12-year-old son and an 8-year-old daughter. She supports her children's happy childhood with her disabled body without hands and feet, and performs a gripping song of maternal love.

Unfortunate woman encounters beautiful love

Hu Chunxiang's home is Zhenxi Village, Shawan District, Leshan City, Sichuan Province. In 1966, when Hu Chunxiang was born, the midwife was scared to death -- Hu Chunxiang's hands were only half the length of a normal baby, no palms and fingers, only two round meat balls, legs and hands are similar, there are legs, but no calves and soles, thin baby like a round winter melon!

At the age of five or six, Hu Chunxiang could only lie in bed every day. One day, my father and mother went up to the mountain to do farm work. When it was dark and they had not come back, Hu Chunxiang's stomach was already hungry and beat the drums. She rolled over in bed and tried to get up, but fell to the ground. Hu Chunxiang did not cry. She used two baldness without palms to stand on the ground and tried to support her body. Then she used two thighs without soles to step on the ground.

Now that she can walk, Hu has learned to eat, wash her face and dress herself. At the age of seven, Hu Chunxiang noisy to go to school, but the teacher said: "You have no hands, even can't write, how can you go to school?" Hu Chunxiang thought: "Can I be an auditor?" The leaders and teachers of the school were finally moved and officially accepted Hu Chunxiang into the school! But junior high school graduation, the head teacher said: "You like the body, even if the college entrance examination out of the good results, and which university will admit you?"

Hu Chunxiang didn't go to high school, and she spent the rest of her life asking herself, "What should I do?" In 1987, Hu Chunxiang conceived the idea of selling fruit on a train. But how could she carry the fruit on the train without hands or feet? Hu Chunxiang soon found an idea. She hung the basket on her chest that others carried on their backs, and then went to the fruit wholesale store to buy 5 jin of apples, 5 jin of Sydney pears and 5 jin of bananas, and began her career as a fruit seller on the train. Many passengers on the train sympathized with Hu Chunxiang because of her short stature and disabled limbs. Her fruit sold out quickly and earned more than 10 yuan. But to Xinjin station, Hu Chunxiang just got off, she was pushed into the grass by two strangers, told her to put the money out. Hu Chunxiang cried on the ground, did not expect the first business will be like this. But a few days later, she borrowed money to buy fruit and boarded the train.

One day in March 1994, something suddenly happened that changed Hu Chunxiang's fate. One day, Hu Chunxiang was selling fruit on the train when her pager suddenly rang and her sister sent a message saying that there was something urgent at home and she had to go back to Shawan as soon as possible. She then got off the train in Pengshan, ready to take the next train back, but the ticket hall is a sea of people, saw a crowd of honest young man, Hu Chunxiang came forward and said: "Brother, can you help me buy a ticket?" The young man looked back at Hu Chunxiang, agreed.

From Pengshan to Shawan, the ticket price is 4 yuan. Hu Chunxiang touch money from the body, the young man firmly do not: "even if I help you." Later on the train, the young man took the initiative to help Hu Chunxiang, Hu Chunxiang's heart has a strange feeling. Hu Chunxiang is 28 years old. She also longs for love, but dares not ask for it -- what man in the world would like a woman with white gourd? This young man is called Xu Changlong, is also a poor man, was given to others by his parents, for many years in the outside of the experience, more make him realize the hardships of life.

A week later, Hu Chunxiang was on the train again. As soon as her cries rang out, Xu Changlong's voice was heard: "Chunxiang, we meet again!" Then, Xu Changlong will hang on Hu Chunxiang's chest back basket down, to help her sell. To Pengshan, Hu Chunxiang said to buy corn seeds, Xu Changlong accompanied her to the grain station, and then called a tricycle to send Hu Chunxiang to the railway station......

After experiencing too many human feelings, Hu Chunxiang was moved by Xu Changlong's thoughtfulness and concern. A few days later, when they met again, Hu Chunxiang offered to partner with Xu Changlong in the fruit business, and Xu agreed without thinking.

Xu was initially sympathetic to Hu Chunxiang. But the more contact with Hu Chunxiang, he found that Hu Chunxiang had more places to make him move - this self-strengthening woman, not only in business never lose weight, someone out of sympathy to buy fruit to pay more money to her, Hu Chunxiang will also refuse. She can cook, cook, clean and wash... A year later, Xu finally accepted the fact that he was in love with Hu Chunxiang!

Risking death to give birth to a pair of healthy children

Xu Changlong wanted to marry a woman with incomplete limbs as his wife, which was opposed by all the people around him. Some people even asked him: "Why do you want to marry Hu Chunxiang with good arms and good legs? Is there any handle on this woman?" Xu Changlong still insisted on marrying Hu Chunxiang. But when Xu Changlong proposed to Hu Chunxiang, Hu Chunxiang refused: "I can't let you from now on can't lift the head life......" Xu Changlong knelt down in front of Hu Chunxiang: "I don't care what others say or think. I just know that you are a woman worth loving all my life."

Wedding day, Xu Changlong with no hands and feet of the bride returned to his hometown - Pengshan Gongyi town Gujing village, the village of men and women, young and old like watching a monkey show flocked to the village: "Quick look ah, this fool actually married a monster as a wife"; "Such a woman certainly can't give birth to a baby. The Xu family will have no children in the future..." The villagers' unbridled comments made Xu Changlong feel as if he had a knife cut into his heart. However, Hu Chunxiang's face is very calm, just let her husband hug her tightly, she felt that with her husband has the most solid rely on.

After marriage, the young couple could not live in Gujing village at all, so they had to go to the county to rent a house. Xu Changlong bought a used rickshaw and began to solicit customers in the county seat. Xu Changlong's idea is simple. Although he can't earn much money pulling a tricycle, as long as he can maintain his living, Hu Chunxiang can cook meals at home every day and wait for himself, he feels that such a small life is very happy. But Hu Chunxiang had a different idea. She was determined to be a wife who would make her husband proud! Therefore, shortly after her marriage, one day, Hu Chunxiang hung a basket on her chest and bought more than 10 jin of fruits in the wholesale market. She went from street to street and sold them. Her cries touched many residents of Pengshan.

One day, Xu Changlong was pedaling his tricycle to get customers when he suddenly heard a woman on the street Shouting fruit like Hu Chunxiang, so he stopped the tricycle. The passenger said, "I'm in a hurry..." Xu Changlong hurried to explain, the street peddling fruit of the woman very much like his wife, the guest after listen to unexpectedly surprised of stare big eyes: "Can't, this woman but connect hands and feet all have no ah...... It's not easy. Without a strong will, no one could have done what she did." Xu Changlong's heart suddenly has a bit of pride - yes, no hands and feet and what? A wife can do what other people can do! Xu Changlong does not know, Hu Chunxiang once sold fruit in the street, several young men came forward around her, a person grabbed a banana peel to eat. Hu Chunxiang just opened his mouth and said, "You haven't paid me yet." One of the young men hit Hu Chunxiang in the face with a banana peel in his hand and pulled out a 5 yuan note and threw it on the ground: "How much are a few broken bananas worth? Take it to buy medicine." Hu Chunxiang very wronged, she angrily looked at several young men, finally did not say a word, bent down to pick up the money on the ground. Seeing several young men laughing away, Hu Chunxiang cried...... Hu Chunxiang encountered these incidents more than once or twice, but she never told her husband, afraid that if he knew, he would stop her from selling fruit on the street.

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