Chen Huifang and Yuan Chunsheng had planned to celebrate a joyous Valentine's Day. Xinhua News Agency reporter Cheng Min took the photograph on February 13, when Chen Huifang played the violin in an underground passage in Wuhan. Another photograph taken by Cheng Min shows a kind-hearted person donating money to encourage Chen Huifang to keep going with her music. On February 13, Chen Huifang (the first on the left) helped Yuan Chunsheng, who was recovering after surgery, wash his hair along with some nurses.
According to Xinhua News Agency, "In life we share dreams, in death we pursue the same goal." From being "classmates" to becoming "soulmate lovers," and later "a couple in adversity," from the age of 12 to 53, the couple Yuan Chunsheng and Chen Huifang have known and cherished each other for 41 years.
Yuan Chunsheng and Chen Huifang were once elementary school classmates who knew each other at the age of 12. Yuan Chunsheng loved singing since he was young, while Chen Huifang started learning the violin in elementary school. In 1984, the lovers finally got married. Less than half a year after their marriage, Yuan Chunsheng suddenly became paralyzed and bedridden. It wasn't until 1999 that they found out Yuan Chunsheng suffered from "bilateral femoral head necrosis." However, both were laid-off workers, and their daughter needed schooling. Chen Huifang had no choice but to earn money by carrying passengers on a tricycle. After 2003, when Wuhan City completely banned tricycle operations, Chen Huifang decided to pick up her violin, which she hadn't touched for decades, and perform in the subway tunnels to support her family and raise money for her husband's treatment. She has been playing the violin for 8 hours a day in the underground tunnel for 9 years.
On the seventh day of the Chinese New Year this year, Yuan Chunsheng finally underwent an artificial femoral head replacement at the Wuhan Pulei Hospital. The surgery went smoothly, and he is currently in the postoperative recovery phase. Before the operation, Yuan Chunsheng and Chen Huifang made a decision: to donate their bodies to the Red Cross after death and give all their organs to those in need.
High-definition pictures: For nine years, the wife performed on the street to raise money for her husband’s treatment and they agreed to donate their bodies.
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