Wednesday, February 01, 2006

A Son like Zhang Shangyun


《玛特琳娜的家》: “我们就生活在她身边,她就是最正直的人。俗话说,要是离开了这种人,就不会有村庄存在。也不会有城市存在。更不会有我们的整个地球存在。” 

Nowadays, many Chinese men and women have been praying: if they would have a son, he should be like Zhang Shangyun.

子曰,“夫孝,天之经也,地之义也,民之行也”。

Shangyun is a 24 years old young man recently graduated from college. Almost right after he was admitted to Changchun Taxation College in the year 2000, his mother was diagnosed with a disease associated with severe brain damage. In order to better take care his mother, he took her to Changchun, where he attended college.

弘一法师:‘日日做不怕千万件事,日日走不怕千万里路’

Shangyun took all kinds of jobs he could reach, including mentoring students, washing dishes, construction, transportation, etc. to earn money for mother's medications, his tuition and living expenses for the family: his mother, his grandmother and himself. To take his mother to see specialists, he bought a tricycle, and peddled thousands of miles among several cities. They can't afford taxi, or often even public transits. People often saw he carrying his mother on his back, walking miles.

Hard labor did not stopped him stayed up to study college courses. He was the first in his class to pass the national computer exam. In the next six semesters, he was awarded merit based scholarships five times. On November 30th, 2004, he scored Number one among more than one thousand applicants in the civil servant examination for the national tax bureau in Kaifeng, Henan Providence.

蓼莪

蓼蓼者莪,匪莪伊蒿。哀哀父母,生我劬劳。
蓼蓼者莪,匪莪伊蔚。哀哀父母,生我劳瘁。
瓶之罄矣,维罍之耻。鲜民之生,不如死之久矣。无父何怙?无母何恃?出则衔恤,入则靡至。
父兮生我,母兮鞠我。抚我畜我,长我育我,顾我复我,出入腹我。欲报之德。昊天罔极!
南山烈烈,飘风发发。民莫不穀,我独何害!南山律律,飘风弗弗。民莫不穀,我独不卒!

Dahew, Henan Baoye, Renmin Daily

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