There is a village on the earth. This village is located in northern China. Its name is Sunjiazhai. Sunjiazhai also has a name, Xiaodao Village. Xiaodao Village is a small village on the North China Plain. This village has farmers who have lived here for generations and their houses. There are crops and trees around the houses. On the streets, there are cats and dogs dozing in the sun, as well as animals from the fields. wind. Just such an extremely ordinary small village has now become a unique magnetic field of love in the world. This magnetic field of love is a happy land full of magical power. Anyone who comes to this land will gain the password to happiness and become a happy person who lives in the secular world but is not fettered by the secular world.
The Beginning of Love: A Dutiful Son’s Journey Home
Fu Hongwei, who was born in Sunjiazhai, Xingtai, Hebei Province in 1980, is the son of an out-and-out farmer. He was smart, diligent and studious since he was a child. He was the monitor of his class. After graduating from high school, he was admitted to a medical university in Shijiazhuang. After graduating from college, Fu Hongwei worked in sales for a pharmaceutical company. He once served as the general agent of a certain drug in North China, with an annual salary of one million. Why did Fu Hongwei, who was at the pinnacle of his life with unlimited success, give up the privileged life of having a house and a car in the provincial capital and return to the countryside? It became a mystery locally. The most incredible thing is that Fu Hongwei not only lived in the village, but also used his own money to set up a big pot in the village, cooking and delivering meals to the lonely elderly people in the village. Three meals a day, regardless of wind or rain, never stop. Not only that, he also knelt down and washed the feet of the elderly in the village. What is he going to do? People are confused.
Some people laughed at Fu Hongwei as a fool, while others suspected that he had some ulterior motives. Even Fu Hongwei’s father and wife felt that there was something wrong with Fu Hongwei’s nerves. It’s a good life, but why are you going to serve the whole village’s elderly people?
In the first days after returning to Sunjiazhai, Fu Hongwei wanted to show love. The first problem he faced was to explain to people what his motivation was for showing love and to try to persuade people to accept his love. .
Fu Hongwei said that the origin of the matter came from a traditional culture forum. One day in 2009, Fu Hongwei participated in a Chinese traditional culture forum in Shijiazhuang. Fu Hongwei was deeply touched by this forum, and the seeds of love were sown in Fu Hongwei's heart. This budding seed of love gave Fu Hongwei the idea of ????devoting himself to the promotion and dissemination of traditional Chinese culture. After doing two periods of volunteer work to promote traditional culture in Shijiazhuang, Fu Hongwei began to think about the value and meaning of life for the first time.
On countless nights when night falls, Fu Hongwei stands in front of the floor-to-ceiling window of his living room, watching the colorful neon lights and the endless flow of people on the street, and gently asks himself: Why do people live? How can we get true happiness and happiness while living?
Having a car and a house, having children and having enough food and clothing, is this the so-called happiness? No! People cannot live for the sake of living, but should make life more dignified and meaningful. During his days as a volunteer, Fu Hongwei experienced happiness that he had never experienced before. He gradually discovered that living with dignity and meaning means doing what you like and making life happy! The amount of happiness does not depend on what a person gets, but on what he pays.
Being a traditional cultural volunteer allowed Fu Hongwei to truly understand the profound connotation of "helping others". Helping others makes you happy. If a person does not experience it personally, he will never understand the mystery of this sentence.
In the winter of 2010, Fu Hongwei, who was far away in Shijiazhuang, suddenly received the news that his father was ill. It was already late at night when he received the call. Fu Hongwei returned home the next day and rushed to the hospital anxiously, only to find out that I didn't see my father. My father suffered from insufficient blood supply to his heart muscle and was lying in the intensive care unit undergoing resuscitation. Fu Hongwei wanted to go in and have a look, but the doctor wouldn't let him in or see him. Sitting on the bench in the hospital corridor, Fu Hongwei felt as if the sky was falling.
Fu Hongwei prayed over and over in his heart, hoping that his father would wake up soon. In front of his father's hospital bed, Fu Hongwei secretly swore: "Dad, please come back to life! As long as you can come back to life, my son will never go anywhere. I will be at home with you every day."
< p> "My parents are here, so I won't travel far away."Fu Hongwei, who was deeply moved, actually spent a long time with the elderly in the village after his father turned the corner. While spending time with his father, he naturally paid attention to other elderly people in the village. Fu Hongwei discovered that there were many empty-nesters like his father who stayed at home in the village. They were all hungry and lived a lonely life. Fu Hongwei was deeply shocked by the living conditions of the empty-nest elderly in the village. Fu Hongwei thought, his parents are parents, and other people's parents are also parents. How wonderful it would be if parents in the whole village could live out their old age peacefully. thing.
At the age of 36, Fu Hongwei made a surprising decision: within a year or so, he would transfer or stop his business in Shijiazhuang and return to the village alone. , and became a dutiful son to the elderly in the village.
After making up his mind, Fu Hongwei bought a big pot and started cooking for the elderly in the village.
He first started by taking care of a lonely old man who lived alone in a yard. He would deliver meals to the old man three times a day.
Day after day, year after year. The people in the village were initially rejected, then accepted by a small number of people, and finally fully understood and supported. Fu Hongwei moved more than 100 elderly people in the village with his innocent heart, making his son, who was not his biological son, a The sons of many elderly people in the village are better than their biological sons.
The Taste of Love Qiansou Dumpling Banquet is spread everywhere
Now that national policies have improved, people’s living standards have improved. There are almost no people who can't afford to eat, but there are very few smiles on the faces of the elderly. Why is this?
Fu Hongwei gradually learned that the children went out to work, and many elderly people could only see their children once a year and a half, and they felt extremely lonely and lonely. In order to stay with the elderly for a while, Fu Hongwei would sit down and chat with the elderly every time he delivered meals, or wash their feet and tidy up the room. Fu Hongwei was about to leave, but the old people held Fu Hongwei's hand and refused to let go. It took them more than half an hour to walk from the door of the north house to the main door, a distance of more than ten meters.
In this world, if people come and leave alone, it will be such a tragic ethics. If we come with hope and leave with disappointment, then why should we have children? When we give birth to children, don’t we just want our relatives to be warm to each other?
While Fu Hongwei comforted the old man, he secretly made up his mind to find ways to enrich the old man's life and make him happy from the bottom of his heart.
After taking care of the elderly for a long time, Fu Hongwei felt a little powerless. Even if they work from morning to night every day, they can only deliver meals to a few elderly people. How can we ensure that all the elderly in the village can have hot meals? Fu Hongwei discussed with several volunteers who actively supported him to arrange a dumpling feast for the elderly. But where is the place for the dumpling banquet? Fu Hongwei thought of asking for help from the village committee, and the village committee gave strong support and provided several houses and courtyards in the village committee to Fu Hongwei. Fu Hongwei went ahead and used his savings to buy a bigger pot, thousands of sets of bowls and chopsticks, as well as tables and benches. On the first and fifteenth day of every month, Fu Hongwei invites the elderly people over 65 years old in the village to the village committee to make dumplings for them. At first, people from the same village ate it, and then old people from other villages heard about it and came to eat it too. The story of Sunjiazhai giving free dumplings to the elderly on the first and fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year spread like a spring breeze across the land of the motherland. Elderly people living dozens or even hundreds of miles away regard the first and fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year as their own festivals. On this day, they put on new clothes, rode bicycles, tricycles, or were supported by their wives or children to Sunjiazhai to participate in the dumpling feast of Sunjiazhai. Among them, there are white-haired octogenarians, and there are also kind-faced people who are over a hundred years old. At the most, more than 2,000 elderly people came to participate in the dumpling banquet. This dumpling banquet for more than 2,000 people used 550 kilograms of white flour alone and more than 1,200 kilograms of fennel seedlings. Looking forward to the first day of the Lunar New Year and the fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year, Sunjiazhai’s dumpling feast gave the old man life a sense of vitality and hope.
Once, an old man got up and ran to Sunjiazhai without looking at his watch. When he arrived, he saw that there was no movement in the yard. He knocked on the door of the volunteer and found that it was only three or four in the morning. I slept in the volunteer's house.
As time goes by, the number of gatherings increases, and the old people have more and more friends. Every time we eat, the old people sit together, you hold my hand, I hold your back, talking and chatting, it's so lively.
On every first and fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year, the strong aroma of dumplings fills the entire Sunjiazhai. The dumplings are eaten in the mouth, and the sweetness is in the hearts of the elderly. They talk about the past like smoke, and then talk about the new things about their children and grandchildren. They can also receive a gift after the meal. Rice, millet, white flour, peanut oil, mosquito nets, electric fans, electric heaters, milk powder, towels, washing powder. Over the past few years, most of the daily necessities for the elderly have been given by Fu Hongwei. In addition, on the fifteenth day of every month, Fu Hongwei and the volunteers celebrate the birthdays of the elderly collectively.
Free lunch, free haircut, free physical examination, free bathing, free handouts. During the busy farming season, Fu Hongwei also organized volunteers to cook for the whole village. In order to allow the elderly to eat safe organic agricultural products, he contracted the land in the village and organized volunteers to develop an organic agricultural ecological garden to plant wheat, cotton, millet and vegetables; he dug ponds and planted lotus roots, which added a new dimension to Sunjiazhai. A different kind of scenery.
The Sunjiazhai Filial Piety Center founded by Fu Hongwei has fundamentally changed the living conditions of the elderly and given them a new concept and understanding of life. Every time they get together, they encourage each other to live well, work hard, and enjoy the filial piety feast of Sunjiazhai for a few more years.
In order to support more elderly people and allow them to live a more comfortable life, Fu Hongwei used his savings over the years, donations from volunteers and money from selling lotus roots to build a three-story building. .
Who doesn’t have old people and who doesn’t have old age? Fu Hongwei’s special filial piety touched the people of Sunjiazhai and also moved the nearby villagers hundreds of miles away. The elderly came to eat, and the children rushed to volunteer. After several rounds of warmth and touching, some of them began to be unwilling to be the beneficiaries of the traditional filial piety culture, but wanted to become practitioners of the traditional filial piety culture. They joined forces and went back to the village to hold their own dumpling feast.
Fu Hongwei was very supportive of the volunteers' idea of ??hosting a dumpling feast in his village. He not only provided them with experience, but also provided them with pots and pans, tables and chairs, and even early start-up capital. Over the past few years, there have been more than 20 Xiaodao villages in Wei County that hold dumpling feasts and provide free lunches to the elderly.
"Kiss is the greatest thing."
When filial piety becomes a habit of mutual imitation, when love becomes a kind of magical gravity and begins to spread everywhere, we look forward to The long-awaited spring has truly arrived.
The story of the Thousand Old Man’s Dumpling Banquet in Sunjiazhai is like a fresh wind blowing across the vast land of the motherland and the tired and desolate hearts of people. After media reports, more and more people know about this paradise on earth, and more and more people come to Sunjiazhai with an innocent heart to consciously accept the education of traditional Chinese filial piety culture. Anyang in Henan, Shiyan in Hubei, Anshun in Guizhou, Taiyuan in Shanxi, Xianyang in Shaanxi, Beijing, and Shanghai, on the first and fifteenth day of every month, there is an endless stream of people from all over the country coming to visit and study.
In Fu Hongwei’s view, the dumpling banquet is just a carrier to promote the Chinese culture of filial piety. The more important connotation it carries is to gather and chat, expand living space, improve the quality of life, and provide the elderly with opportunities to warm each other spiritually.
Fu Hongwei said: "It is my Chinese dream to build the village into a nursing home without walls. In order to realize this ideal, I will spare no effort, be tireless, have no regrets, continue to work hard, and be determined." Go on unswervingly and let filial piety become a phenomenon and a habit. ”
The home of love is a spiritual haven for guests from all over the world
A person’s gratitude to others starts from being grateful to his parents. Kindness arises; benevolence towards others also starts from loving and respecting parents. After that, such feelings extend, and it is a matter of course to have love, respect, and sincerity for others, for the cause, for the team, for the nation, and for the country.
People say that Fu Hongwei is not only a filial son of Sunjiazhai, but also a filial son of all Chinese people, because what he promotes and practices is a kind of education that everyone respects and needs. The spirit of filial piety. Fu Hongwei moved and influenced everyone around him with his profound Chinese filial piety culture of "kissing relatives and benevolent to the people, benevolent to the people and loving things."
There is an old saying in China, "Those who are close to the best will become red." When you are with good people, you will become good. In the spread of love, some hearts are influenced, others are called, and more hearts are baptized and sublimated.
In Sunjiazhai, those children in the village who initially lived separately from their parents and did not care enough about their parents not only reflected on their behavior and changed their attitudes towards their parents, but also joined the volunteer team without hesitation and became Followers and disseminators of traditional filial piety culture. Young people who travel all year round and rarely go home to visit the elderly have also begun to arm their minds with filial piety and demonstrate the infinite charm of "Chinese filial piety" with actions.
Speaking of the volunteers of Sunjiazhai Filial Piety Center, two people have to be mentioned, one is Cao Minglan and the other is Pan Yupeng. Cao Minglan and Pan Yupeng are both from Linxi. When they were young, they were all well-known local talents. Cao Minglan is in the clothing business, and Pan Yupeng is in the bearing business. Like Fu Hongwei, they relied on their intelligence and diligence to work hard in society and lived a prosperous life very early. They and Fu Hongwei were truly like-minded "comrades". Since they met Fu Hongwei and participated in the filial piety workshop held by Fu Hongwei, they gave up their comfortable family life, spent their savings, and stayed with Fu Hongwei. Sunjiazhai started volunteering. Over the past five years, they have formed a deep friendship with Fu Hongwei. Together they cooked and delivered meals to the elderly, made dumplings for the elderly, developed organic agriculture together, dug ponds together, and painted the land of lotus leaves and fields in the south of the Yangtze River in northern China. scenery.
There is a group of young people, wearing red vests with the words "Beautiful Soul, Beautiful Words, Beautiful Behavior", walking through the streets and alleys of Sunjiazhai, and at the grand Qiansou Dumpling Banquet. When people see them, they have pagers tucked into their waists, smiling with low eyebrows, and walking in a hurry. They are either working in agricultural ecological parks or stone flour mills, or walking on the road delivering meals to the elderly. On the day of the dumpling feast, they were the ones who got up early in the morning to work, and they were the last ones to eat. They are the legendary volunteers in Sunjiazhai. These volunteers call Fu Hongwei teacher, Pan Yupeng Uncle Pan, and Cao Minglan Aunt Cao. They come from all over and live in Sunjiazhai to take care of the elderly in the village.
This is not a show. Most of them come to Sunjiazhai as volunteers and stay there for four or five years. They have no names, their names are volunteers. They don't have a job, their job is selfless dedication. If someone insists on calling this a show, this can be regarded as the most lasting and beautiful "show" in the world:
Get up at five o'clock in the morning, clean the courtyard, and recite "Disciples' Rules" and "Filial Piety" Sutra"; during the day, while cooking and delivering meals to the elderly in the village, they were engaged in production in the organic ecological garden; in the evening, they sat together to exchange the day's learning experience, reflect on and review personal behaviors.
Fu Hongwei made selfless contributions and took care of the elderly. He promoted the traditional culture of filial piety and spread love. The greatest power in the world is not the ideal of seeds, but the power of love.
Inspired by this huge force, more and more people have joined the volunteer team. Among them are children who have difficulty communicating with their parents at home, and parents who have difficulty communicating with their children; there are farmers who have lived on the yellow land all their lives, There are also urban upstarts who admire traditional Chinese culture and have no worries about food and clothing. When they came to Sunjiazhai, a magnetic field of love centered on Fu Hongwei was formed.
There is a room, large or small, deep in everyone's heart, and this room is used to hold love. When love fills the heart, the person has the ability to receive love from the world around him. Love is not for collection, but for exchange. In the scene of love, when love is like a beautiful shell, floating freely into the distance between the streams of the soul, the human soul can get the greatest relaxation and comfort. The most beautiful nature is not the top of a mountain, but the habitat of a soul with flowing love; the greatest happiness is not learning to collect love, but learning to release love.
The reason why Sunjiazhai can become a spiritual Eden that everyone yearns for is because there is a man named Fu Hongwei in this village. Fu Hongwei is not a painter, but he painted a picture that shocked the world on the land of China; Fu Hongwei is not a poet, but he wrote a poem on the small road in the Chinese countryside that can be passed down through the ages; Fu Hongwei is not thousands of people The son of millions of Chinese people has become the son of millions of people in China. Pursuing dedication, helping others, and making yourself happy are Fu Hongwei's philosophy of life and the fundamental reason why he has been able to achieve great things for a long time.