Urgent, ask for information about "old seagull"

A bronze sculpture of an old man was recently completed in Cuihu Park, Kunming. He is an ordinary old man, and people call him "Old Seagull". /kloc-0 0 years ago, his story touched Kunming. 10 years later, people made a statue for him, which made the city remember his peaceful smile. This is the first statue of ordinary people donated by citizens in Kunming-a statue of nobody who was once suppressed by history at the bottom of society.

Introduction of seagull old man

His name is Wu Qingheng, and he is an ordinary retired worker, who has suffered a lot all his life. He is a poor old man. He has no children all his life. After retiring from the factory, he lived alone in the suburbs, living in poverty and having nothing decent at home. Because I am idle at home, I have a lot of free time, and sometimes I will go to the Cuihu Park in the city center.

Introduction of specific deeds

One day in June, 1985, 1 1, the old man met a group of "guests" he had never seen before on the Cuihu Lake-a group of birds from far away Siberia. Their mouths and feet are red, and their length is mostly between 3 1 cm and 40 cm. Old people who usually like flowers and birds know that this is a red-billed gull that can only be seen frequently in the northern hemisphere.

seagull

They came here to escape the cold and food shortage in winter in the north. They came all the way to seek human help! Without a moment's hesitation, the old man immediately bought some biscuits from the store and sprinkled them on the birds ... The birds flapped their wings and pecked at the old man's hand. On this day, the old man felt the joy and happiness that life had never had before from the cheerful pecking of birds!

This year, more than 6,000 red-billed gulls stayed in Kunming for several months and didn't leave until the following March. Because it is spring in the north and there is plenty of food, they will go back there to have children. In recent months, no matter whether it's windy or rainy, old people bring big cloth bags to the lake to feed birds every day, just like school teachers come to school from home to give lessons to students every day. He came to feed the birds and play with them ... because of the arrival of the red-billed gull, the expenses of the elderly suddenly increased, and the retirement salary of more than 300 yuan per month was used up.

With the red-billed gull gone, the old man's life is stingy: a steamed bread and a bowl of porridge with pickles is a good meal for him; He smokes more than 20 cents a pack of Jinsha River cigarettes; He has never been reluctant to take a 50-minute bus. No matter where he goes, no matter how far it is, he insists on walking. Every time he goes out, he takes a rag bag, in order to pick up dry branches and cinders along the way and bring them home as fuel ... Neighbors ask him why he is so stingy, and he smiles and says, "Red-billed gulls will come again next year, and there will be more. I'm afraid I can't afford them unless I save some money. "

In the second and third years ... the red-billed gull arrived as scheduled, and as the old man expected, it gathered more and more. Old people bend over and walk for two or three hours every day to feed and look after them at Cuihu Lake, so as not to let anyone hurt them. Tea bottled with old drinks and two dry steamed buns are eaten by the elderly, almost every day. But four or five yuan a catty of biscuits, he bought a big bag, without blinking an eye. These cakes are for the distant red-billed gull.

Old Seagull-Wu Qingheng

Damn it, he never wants a piece. Sometimes there is no money to buy cookies or want to change the taste of the red-billed gull. The old man simply buys flour and eggs and personally cooks "extra meals" for the birds. Day after day, year after year, the red-billed gull knows the old man with a hunched back. As long as the old man comes, the birds will stay with him for a long time!

Slowly, foreign tourists visit Kunming in winter and spring, and seeing seagulls in Cuihu has become the first beauty of tour guides' promotion-red-billed gulls are white on their chests, and when they fly in groups, they are like countless snowflakes flying in the air, so that countless tourists can experience the happiness of harmony between people and birds. Tourists are moved and intoxicated by the harmony between man and nature, and even have no time to notice why this group of migratory birds always fly around an old man. Until the winter of 1995, a local photographer followed the old man and captured many scenes of old people playing and laughing by calling the names of birds. ...

One day, the photographer found that the old man had not come to feed the red-billed gull for several days! He drove to the old man's residence to visit him, but he was surprised to find that the old man had passed away the day before. The photographer posted an obituary in the place where the old people often feed the birds.

Put the picture of the old man feeding the birds there. Unexpectedly, as soon as the photo was put up, countless red-billed gulls began to hover over the portrait of the old man. They sang plaintively, just like children left by a group of old people, who were reluctant to leave for a long time. ...

Seagulls stayed in front of the old man's portrait for a long time and refused to leave.

The touching scene of "Birds mourn for the people" is widely circulated among Kunming citizens. Soon, the whole city knew about this "old seagull" named Wu Qingheng. After Wu Qingheng's death, many old people were afraid that Kunming, a spring city, would lose its unique beauty, so they spontaneously took over his "class" and insisted on buying dry food at their own expense to feed the birds every year. I heard that the red-billed gull's "ration" was insufficient, and the boss of a company offered to give 65,438+10,000 yuan to Kunming Bird Association every year to let them produce bird food for the public to feed the red-billed gull free of charge. In Kunming, the red-billed gull who came here temporarily for the winter was regarded as a "bird of his own keeping", and special funds were allocated to prepare nutritious bread for the red-billed gull ... In order to commemorate the righteous act of old Wu Man Qingheng, people also wrote the story of his thrifty feeding of the red-billed gull into the textbook. To the surprise of Wu Qingheng, an old man in the tomb, in the winter of 2006, when migratory birds returned to Kunming Cuihu Park after his death 10, he could return to the flock of birds: he sat by the water, smiling, holding bird food in one hand and reaching into the air. On his hands and body, his favorite "elf" red-billed gull is parked ... This is a bronze statue, which was spontaneously proposed and donated by Kunming citizens on the occasion of the 0/0 anniversary of the death of the old man.

Concluding remarks

A sculpture defines the harmonious and peaceful beauty of human gulls as eternity, and at the same time shows the world that the kindness and pursuit of harmony is a monument standing in the hearts of everyone who loves nature and life! And as long as a person can persist in his inner integrity and persistence in death, even if he is ordinary, he can live as a monument in the eyes of others!