She is in junior high school, still taking her mother to school every day, and helping her mother stand up by supporting her waist. After the high school entrance exam, she was admitted to the key middle school in Shangyu City, Dongguan Middle School's experimental class with excellent results, and still brought her mother along.
Our correspondent Pan Yu, our reporter Xian Guojian
Now, at 19 years old, she is in her third year of high school, and she says: "Even if I go to university in the future, I will still take my mother with me."
At the age of 8, she started elementary school, but it was too far from home, so she decided to rent a house near the school and take her mother to school with her. In the third grade of elementary school, in order to supplement the family income, she took on some processing work, sewing gloves after finishing her homework every day, earning 5 cents per pair; she also asked her neighbors for a small piece of land to grow vegetables for herself. In the fourth grade, the first thing she did after school was to stretch out her neck to help her mother support herself...
According to reports, in Shangyu, there are two well-known stories of filial piety: the legend of Yu Shun, the first of the twenty-four filial piety stories, and Cao E jumping into the river to save her father. Nowadays, on the banks of the Cao'e River in Zhangzhen Town, Shangyu, another touching story of filial piety has unfolded.
At the age of 4, she learned to take care of her mother, using clothes to cushion her mother's waist and using her small hands to help her mother stretch her arms.
Fourteen years of persistence have finally paid off, as the mother can now finally stand up... This extraordinary little girl is Cao Qiufang from Zhangzhen Town, Cao'e River, Shangyu.
On the 58th day of her birth, her mother suffered from a surgical accident, leading to compressive vertebral canal obliquity, full-body contraction, and being bedridden. The family incurred huge medical debts, forcing her father to leave home to work.