The innocent reaction of children is sometimes the most distressing. A 3-year-old little sister in Sichuan, mainland China, saw a statue at school and “immediately recognized it as my father.” She opened her small hands to touch and caress the statue, and finally hugged the statue with tears in her eyes, reluctant to leave for a long time. The owner of the statue is the donor of the charity school and the father of the little girl who passed away 2 years ago. When the video of the girl hugging the statue of her father was released, countless netizens were moved to tears.
According to Lu media reports, the girl’s father, Zhang Xiaolin from Jiangsu, was in a public welfare activity in Daliangshan in 2014. Because he mightn’t bear the difficulty of schooling for children in the mountainous area and it was difficult to turn over by education, he decided to build the Hope Primary School in the local area. As a result, the cover was built. 39 schools also solved the most difficult teacher problem, and invited teachers to teach in the mountains in the remote countryside. However, he, who was affectionately called “Dad Zhang” by the students, was diagnosed with terminal liver cancer in early 2020 and passed away in the same month.
A few days before Zhang Xiaolin’s death, he completed fundraising for his last Hope School, and bought more than 10,000 masks for his hometown. After a sculptor learned of Zhang Xiaolin’s kindness, he made a free bust of him and donated it. To the 39th school. Although her father died at the age of 1, Zhang Xiaolin’s daughter still recognized her father through videos and photos, and when she first saw the statue last year, she “threw up on it with excitement” and touched the bronze statue’s facial features, saying nose, eyes, ears.
Wu Meili, the widow of Zhang Xiaolin, said that her daughter did not respond to her call when she saw the statue, and said, “I saw a fake father.” Later, her daughter found out that she was crying and turned her head away. As a result, she was crying secretly. When I saw the statue for the first time, although I already knew that my father was a statue, my daughter still hugged and touched, and was reluctant to part for a long time. And Zhang Xiaolin’s kind deeds have also blossomed with time. A school-weary girl in Daliangshan resumed her studies with Zhang Xiaolin’s encouragement. Now she has graduated from college and is ready to return to Daliangshan as a school teacher.
