On August 20, 2021, an 86-year-old man distributed this year's scholarship in the village committee building according to previous years' practice.
Since 2015, the old man has spent his life savings of 2.65 million yuan to open this project, but the elderly who dress simply and live a frugal life has attracted the attention of netizens.
The old man is named Xu Jiren. In 2015, the old man started his 80th birthday, and he set up his own scholarship project - Xu Jiren Scholarship. After that, every year when the summer vacation is approaching, the elderly will personally distribute scholarships in the village committee. The amount of
scholarship ranges from 3,000 to 10,000 yuan. The total amount of 128,000 yuan was paid for the scholarship on August 20, 2021, which has become something that Mr. Xu Jiren must do every summer.
The old man Xu Jiren was included in the 2017 list of good people in China because he lived a frugal life and donated all his savings. After hearing about the old man’s deeds, netizens were also worried about whether the old man could maintain a normal life in the future.
But this time, netizens' concerns were a bit redundant. Old man Xu Jiren did not donate money in a way that he lost all his money without regard to the consequences.
But the old man is not rich, and the 2.65 million yuan is also very important to him, not a drop in the bucket. He can be given out at will without blinking his eyes.
There are many ways to do charity. So why did Mr. Xu Jiren devote his life savings to the cause of education?
The old man Xu Jiren was born in April 1936 and lives in Xiaomen Village, Ningbo City. At that time, China was still unstable and was in the war-torn years, and Xu Jiren had not received higher education.
When I was a child, my family and social conditions did not allow Xu Jiren to continue studying. He only went to school for five or six years. Xu Jiren, who graduated from elementary school, had to give up his studies and help his father do some chores.
At that time, the Xu family was a big surname in the local area, and the entire family had also produced celebrities in history, and they could be regarded as a scholarly family. However, before liberation, the living conditions of Chinese residents were extremely difficult, and it was a great regret for Xu Jiren to fail to continue studying.
After a little older, in the 1950s, Xu Jiren came to Shanghai to work. His first job was to work as a canteen in the canteen of an accounting school in Shanghai.
Although Xu Jiren was very young at that time and had ambitions, he had no education and could only do some work without technical content. was still selling popsicles and debris on the street in his spare time.
Xu Jiren, who knew that odd jobs had no future, returned to the small village of Ningbo . With the introduction of his friends, he entered the relevant institutions of the government department - Railway Bureau and shipping company to do things.
Because of the loss of not studying, even if he entered a well-known unit and had a stable job, Xu Jiren has always been an ordinary employee. No matter how hard he struggled, he could not escape the reality that he had not graduated from junior high school.
After staying in the railway bureau, steel factory and other units for a few years, Xu Jiren decided to leave, wanting to start his own business and make decisions on his own. So he started going out to work hard again.
But when he thought that he had no life, almost no unit was willing to hire an illiterate person who didn't even know big words, so he thought about engaging in the breeding industry.
After seven or eight months of going out, Xu Jiren's beekeeping career started slowly and his family conditions improved accordingly. During his hardships, Xu Jiren has become increasingly aware of the importance of reading.
Although the material conditions of the elderly have been improved with the help of beekeeping factories, this is far from enough for the elderly to save money for 2.65 million yuan. How did they save this money?
Xu Jiren and his wife Liu Xinlan have been married for 55 years and have two sons and two daughters. When the family conditions were not so rich at that time, it was extremely difficult to support a family.
Even after it arrives, the income from beekeeping can barely support the normal operation of the entire family.
So Xu Jiren and his wife Liu Xinlan usually live a very simple life and live a simple life.
The general evaluation of Xu Jiren and his wife is that their family is very simple.
People often see Xu Jiren riding a shabby bicycle, and some of the metal has rusted. But as long as you can still ride, it is Xu Jiren's means of transportation.
A blue old-fashioned Zhongshan suit was hung in the courtyard in front of Xu Jiren. The villagers also said that this dress has been around for more than ten years, but Xu Jiren has been reluctant to throw it away, and it has been another year of sewing and repairing.
Usually he doesn't go out. When he is old, his legs and feet are inconvenient and he can no longer ride a bicycle, but he even a tricycle worth 5 yuan is reluctant to ride . As long as there are no holes in your usual clothes, they will continue to be kept.
and even in 1986, a family that was supposed to live normally actually had a disaster and a fire burned out the entire Xu family.
Xu Jiren also felt very sad when she recalled the fire at that time. All the belongings were burned, all the clothes were burned, and the valuable things in the house were turned into ashes.
At that time, Xu Jiren's food and clothing were all spontaneously helped him by his neighbors. During the most difficult time, there was no decent clothes at home, and he could only eat rotten vegetables and leaves thrown away by others.
At this point, we seem to think that it is a fantasy for Mr. Xu Jiren to raise 2.65 million yuan in savings, but even in the most difficult time of his family, Xu Jiren still did not let his four children give up their studies.
At that time, relatives and friends at home were all advising Xu Jiren, said that he was sending his four children to the factory to work, so that their family could get out of the predicament. Xu Jiren also struggled for a while.
But Xu Jiren didn't want his experience to happen to his four children again. He himself knew that only by studying can there be a way out and children can have greater room for development.
So as a father, Xu Jiren rejected the suggestions of relatives and friends, and would rather go out and do more work by himself than let the children drop out of school early and suffer.
Facts have proved that Xu Jiren's decision was completely correct. His four children were all successful in their careers. His eldest son was the leader of an oil refinery, and his two daughters were the heads of their respective companies, and his status was of great importance.
The youngest son has been traveling abroad all year round and is the most promising. He has become the chairman of a well-known company and has more than 10 subsidiaries.
The four children are very grateful for their father's grace for raising them. They did not let them give up their studies at the most difficult moments of their family, and they also fully supported them.
So every time they come back to visit, will give their parents material compensation.
After hearing the most difficult years, Xu Jiren also started his beekeeping career again. Thinking that he was idle and had nothing to do, he passed the time.
If you keep beekeeping now, it is just for entertainment and you don’t expect beekeeping to make a lot of money. So over the years, it is understandable that Mr. Xu Jiren has saved 2.65 million yuan.
donated all 2.65 million yuan, not Xu Jiren's sudden idea. What is the opportunity for to make Xu Jiren decide to open a scholarship project?
After entering the new century, Xu Jiren, whose material conditions gradually improved, had more time and money to engage in the charity industry.
In 2007, Xu Jiren and Liu Xinlan formed a pair with two children from the mountainous areas of Guizhou.
Couple and wife sponsored two families living in the mountains and unable to support their children to go to school. For more than 10 years, it has been funded from primary school to junior high school.
and Xu Jiren and his wife said that if the children were willing to study, they would continue to fund them until college.
Every time I receive a letter from my children, the couple is very excited and want to know the recent situation of the two children far away in Guizhou and whether their academic progress has been made. Over the years, the children's letters have been stacked into a stack.
On the 80th birthday of Xu Jiren on May 2, 2015, all four children returned to their hometown to celebrate their father's birthday, and gave many gifts and hundreds of thousands of cash.
On the 80th birthday of the old man, Xu Jiren immediately announced the major event of his desire to start the Xu Jiren scholarship project . He said this to his children:
not only uses money, but also uses it, which is equivalent to throwing it away by throwing it away. I think the most meaningful thing is to help children read. If you want to help other difficulties, such as not having enough to make some money for them to eat, it is useless. It will never get better, and it will not work without studying.
The four children also agreed with this approach to their father's idea. thought that if their father had not insisted on offering and did not let them give up , they would never have achieved what they have today.
Children also think that this is their father’s money and use it whatever they want.
So Xu Jiren rebuilt the village auditorium so that every time he comes to the villagers' meeting, he can have a comfortable environment.
Although their wealth is now endless, they are still not intoxicated by it. Instead, they remain calm and want to use their extra wealth to help more people in need.
Since the founding of the Xu Jiren Scholarship Project, poor students will receive scholarships issued by Xu Jiren every year, with different bonuses. There are certain standards for issuing scholarships in
, which are roughly 3,000 to 8,000 yuan. In order to encourage the villagers to strive for the spirit of upward struggle and reduce the burden on students in college, if they are admitted to a prestigious school, Xu Jiren will also give an additional scholarship of 50,000 yuan.
Although this money is not particularly large, it has alleviated the pressure on students from poor families to go to school to a certain extent.
In the village committee building, the figure of Xu Jiren appears every summer.
In the summer of 2021, Xu Jiren was already 86 years old and was very weak. Only then did Xu Jiren who suffered a stroke could not send the scholarship to his child.
The scholarship project plan announced at Xu Jiren's 80th birthday was naturally reported by the news media.
But why don’t netizens who hear the words of savings throughout their lives and not know the truth, why don’t they praise Xu Jiren’s great love and selflessness and self-sacrifice, but instead worry about the elderly’s life situation afterwards?
Netizens are worried that Mr. Xu Jiren will lose all his money for his kindness, and there have been previous examples to help.
On September 14, 2009, Lin Xiuzhen, who was frugal, supported 6 widowed elderly people in the past 530 years. As an ordinary rural aunt, since 1994, he has also sponsored 14 poor students to get a secondary school degree.
Since 11998, she started her own business in the village and devoted all her income to the construction of her hometown and rural areas.
Her deeds were praised and she was successfully named one of the 100 people who moved China.
The top ten Chinese figures used such words to describe her:
Rich people do this kind of things, poor people do this kind of things, officials do this kind of things, and farmers do this kind of things, and they are great people.
After the media's extensive revelations, the "civilian charity" atmosphere has been widely spread to the whole of in China. This of course promotes the positive energy of society and makes us realize such a great rural woman.
Lin Xiuzhen's deeds have inspired ordinary people, making them feel that charity is not the patent of wealthy families, and ordinary people can also make their own contributions to charity.
"Civilian Charity" is first to make the public understand that charity is not far from us, and we can support and aid people in material need within our ability.
Faced with the Wenchuan earthquake, some elderly people who made a living by begging and worked hard to beg along the street for more than half a month to raise hundreds of yuan, but they still exchanged the change for hundreds of yuan and put it into the donation box.
This undoubtedly seriously affected their basic lives. They do not have a certain material basis , which can support such a large-scale donation for them.
is like Wu Xialin, a sanitation worker couple who donated 10,000 yuan to the epidemic in Wuhan. They live frugality and have nowhere to do.
It is reported that the two of them have no material savings. Since the 1990s, Wu Xialin has taken his wife to live in a rental house with difficult conditions.
The two of them are farmers who are dedicated and have no education. They can only do odd jobs and give coal balls on the streets to make a living. When they donated 10,000 yuan in , they were temporary sanitation workers in the local streets.
The couple's monthly salary is less than 4,000 yuan , but the big money in the face of the epidemic has made countless netizens feel ashamed, and it makes netizens even more worried about their recent living conditions.
Although their lives are better than before, 10,000 yuan is almost the income of this family for three months without food or drinking. They said they wanted to repay the party and the country in this way, and we also feel awe of them.
In the information age, there are too many such examples. While doing charity and showing love, netizens also think more dialectically about whether a person can bear the price of paying, which also reflects the social care of netizens.
If you are poor, you will be safe, and if you are prosperous, you will help the world. In the atmosphere of "civilian charity", we must do our best.
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