Composition: Pay attention to the lonely back of the elderly.

Spring City was moved by the rickety back of a lonely old worker.

There is a beautiful artificial lake-Cuihu in the center of Kunming. In the autumn and winter of the past 20 years, people will always see an old man by the lake, hunched over and feeding the red-billed gull with the food he carefully prepared. Therefore, in the cold season, blue sea water, white seagulls, lonely old people and swaying wickers constitute the unique landscape of Cuihu in autumn and winter. This scene will last until the white migratory birds return to their nests next spring.

The faltering old man named Wu Qingheng is a retired worker of Kunming Chemical Plant in the western suburbs of Kunming.

It is more than 0/0 kilometers away from Cuihu/Kloc. It is said that the old man never married, graduated from the National The National SouthWest Associated University, was labeled as a "Rightist" and was imprisoned on trumped-up charges. The cruel life experience makes the old people unwilling to get close to others and have instinctive fear of protecting them.

1985 10 The red-billed gull from Lake Baikal in Siberia came to Kunming for the first time. Since then, this northern elf has visited Kunming every year, bringing endless joy to Kunming people and becoming a famous scenery in Kunming. Old people in Wu Qingheng gradually felt their loveliness and began to like these birds.

The old man with a monthly pension of only 308 yuan hobbles from his residence in the western suburbs of Kunming every morning until noon 12. Then he took out the gull food carefully prepared the night before from his satchel and put it on the guardrail by the lake, watching the red-billed gull eat happily. Because of the long journey, the old man must get home before 3 pm. Li Zhixiong, a photographer who knows the old man, said that in order to save money and feed the seagulls, the old man did not want to spend 50 cents on the bus. I have to save half of my monthly salary to buy food for the red-billed gull.

Old people walk 10 kilometers every day just to feed seagulls; I only smoke 23 cents for a pack of cigarettes, but when I saw that the red-billed gull liked Kyrgyzstan's biscuits and bought a catty of biscuits from 4.5 yuan, the old man resolutely made a move. The old man also bought eggs, cooked noodles at home and cooked food for seagulls. Every day 10 kilometers, the elderly are almost rain or shine, and they regularly date seagulls to bring them food.

It seems that the red-billed gull who comes to Kunming for vacation in the cold season every year is the only spiritual sustenance for the elderly, and communication with the red-billed gull seems to be the only happiness for the lonely elderly.

Finally, for several days, the photographer who has been paying attention to the old man found that the old man had not come to feed the seagulls for several days. A sense of foreboding hung over Li Zhixiong. He invited some friends who worked in the media to visit him at the old man's house, but it was still late-the old man had died the night before.

Li Zhixiong has paid attention to the elderly for 10 years.

Old people in Wu Qingheng love gulls to protect them, and bend down to feed the red-billed gulls. With the efforts of Li Zhixiong and others, the photos of close contact with the red-billed gull were enlarged, and the image of the old man gradually became the most powerful city business card.

June, 5438+October, 2005 10, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the red-billed gull's visit to Kunming, a 2 1 year-old Kunming girl named john young submitted a manuscript to the influential media in Kunming, suggesting making a statue of Wu Qingheng as a souvenir. This proposal immediately received a warm response from all walks of life.

"Wu Qingheng's story touched all Kunming people, and the statue of the old man was agreed by Kunming people. The completion of the statue of the old seagull is also a commemoration of the indissoluble bond between Kunming and the red-billed gull for 20 years. " Zhao Jianwu, editor-in-chief of Metropolitan Times, said. Zhao Jianwu took the lead in donating money to the statue of the old man in the Urban Times.

City Times, Cuihu Park and Kunming Municipal Bureau of Landscaping and Greening took the lead in proposing and funding the statue of the elderly. For a time, some well-known enterprises came, primary school students came with lucky money, and many ordinary citizens also helped each other. It didn't take long for the funds to build a bronze statue for the old man.

Teachers of Yunnan Art College created a touching statue of the old man and the red-billed gull living in harmony according to the photos left by Li Zhixiong and others. Mr. Zhang Wenxun, a famous professor of Chinese Department of Yunnan University, wrote an inscription for the statue in classical Chinese.

At the end of 2005, this bronze statue was completed and placed in Cuihu Park. The old man roamed among the seagulls before his death. At 65, 438+0, 65, 438+08, 65, 438+00: 30 in 2006, the statue of the old man was officially completed and unveiled, so the first statue created by ordinary citizens was born in Yunnan to commemorate ordinary citizens.