Why did a poor female college student work part-time to support three poor students and revealed that they were her father?

Yesterday, Chengdu Business Daily published a report on "Sister Sha". This female college student from a poor family shined leather shoes, sold waste paper, and worked as a teaching assistant in a training school during her college years. She has worked more than ten jobs. Working part-time, he used his income of nearly RMB 20,000 to help three poor students from Longxi Middle School in Dazu District, Chongqing to complete junior high school.

Yesterday afternoon, a reporter from Chengdu Business News found Tang Lisa’s home in Longshui Town, Dazu District—an old rental house of 60 square meters, where her bedridden grandmother lived, and she worked in a factory. Mom who works part-time and Dad Tang, a teacher in the township.

Unexpectedly, the family is in a difficult situation. What is unexpected is that Tang Lisa’s family has concealed Tang’s father’s other identity—he is actually the class teacher of three poor students. According to yesterday’s report Journalists are kindly requested to pay attention to Lisa Tang’s “Teacher Tang”.

Why conceal this identity? Why not reveal the father-daughter relationship with Lisa Tang? Why did it take three years for her daughter to sponsor students before the media paid attention to her daughter's charity?

An expected scene

A family of four is squeezed into a 60-square-meter rental house in Tang Lisa’s home

Yesterday afternoon, a reporter from Chengdu Business News was in Dazu District In Longshui Town, I met Tang Lisa’s 45-year-old mother Xu Hong (pseudonym). Xu Hong took leave from the factory a few kilometers away and went home after learning about the media's visit. She did not complete the workload of making thousands of hangers a day on the assembly line.

The reporter followed Xu Hong through the alley and up the narrow and dark stairs. A 60-square-meter two-bedroom apartment on the fifth floor that was more than 20 years old was the home rented by Tang Lisa's family of four. Almost no piece of the indoor wall was peeled off intact. The mold on the kitchen wall was covered in every nook and cranny. There was no refrigerator in the house. The cucumbers, jelly and green peppers for dinner were placed by Xu Hong on the shoe rack at the entrance. There were only two TVs in the house. There are no other electrical appliances except a fan and a small-screen TV.

Tang Lisa’s 73-year-old grandmother lies on a “bed” made of two benches spliced ??together. The “pillow” she leans on is a discarded sponge picked up from outside. There are nearly 10 kinds of medicine on the table. Grandma looked at the medicine jar and shook her head: "High blood pressure, emphysema, coronary heart disease, everything is bad." Xu Hong told reporters that when Lisa Tang was here, she slept on this "bed" with her grandma. The current house is rented for more than 3,000 yuan a year, but I finally paid the down payment for a house recently.

When talking about Tang Lisa’s part-time job to support poor students, Xu Hong hesitated and said that she probably knew about it. "She went to college, and her family scraped together 9,000 yuan for her tuition and living expenses. Three months later, she called back several thousand yuan, saying that she had found a part-time job without any family subsidies." Xu Hong told reporters, The family's income is not high. I earn more than 1,000 yuan a month doing odd jobs in the factory, and Tang's father earns 2,000 to 3,000 yuan a month. "My daughter has been independent since she was a child and can take care of housework at the age of 5, so it's not surprising to hear her find a part-time job. She said she supports supporting poor students." In the past three years, Xu Hong has only raised objections to Lisa Tang's making money by shining shoes. Opinion, "A young girl shines her shoes at the station. The crowd is too complicated and dark (very) dangerous."

The shocking truth

"Teacher Tang, the head teacher" is Papa Tang

At 6 o'clock, Dad Tang came home from school. During the conversation at his home, the reporter found that Tang’s father’s voice was very similar to that of “Teacher Tang, the head teacher” who had previously begged reporters to pay attention to Lisa Tang, and he couldn’t help but become suspicious. Under repeated questioning by reporters, Tang’s father admitted that he was “Teacher Tang”—he was also the head teacher of three poor students supported by Tang Lisa.

Who is Papa Tang?

Local media once reported on this "King of Rags"

According to a report in Chongqing Evening News in September 2010, Dad Tang was a teacher at Longxi Middle School in Dazu County, but some people called him "King of Rags" "Wang": Picking up rags, digging coal, blacksmithing, and carrying construction materials. He brought students who dropped out of school due to poverty back to class. With these manual jobs, he paid the tuition of more than 30 students in one day. Because of his deeds of supporting poor students, he was awarded the "Top Ten Citizens of Chongqing" in 2006 and the first "Top Ten Teachers of Chongqing" in 2010.

Yes / words / soup / dad / dad

Why conceal the identity of father and daughter?

Reporter: Why conceal your identity? If I don’t make it clear, “Teacher Tang” is actually Lisa Tang’s father?

Daddy Tang: This was spontaneously done by my daughter. She knew that some children in my class were poor and could not afford to study, so she wanted to help them. I think this matter has little to do with my identity.

Reporter: So you always knew that your daughter worked many part-time jobs to support her? Did you know that your daughter shines shoes?

Daddy Tang: Well, I’ve always known it. However, I initially objected to her shoe polishing because I thought she was more dangerous as a female child. Later she said she wanted to experience life, so I had no objection.

Reporter: As a father, how does it feel to see your daughter working so hard to help poor students? Accident?

Daddy Tang: Not surprising. I have been teaching for 25 years and have been helping the poor students in my class. In the past, in order to raise money for them, I dug coal and went to the construction site to roll iron. Sometimes I took Lisa Tang with me. She has watched me do this since she was a child, so I am not surprised that she is doing this now. But she never told us how hard it was.

Reporter: Have you been helping poor students?

Daddy Tang: Well, I can help as much as I can. I hope they can all pass the high school entrance exams and the university entrance exams.

Reporter: Have you ever induced Lisa Tang to help poor students?

Daddy Tang: No, no, I can only say that she may have been influenced by me. After she entered college, she asked me about the situation in the class, and I gave her the contact numbers of three poor students. She contacted them herself, while I helped with the other students in the class.

Reporter: Since Lisa Tang has been helping like this for three years, why did she choose to contact the media at this time?

Daddy Tang: These kids are about to graduate and go to high school. The tuition fees, living expenses, and teaching aid materials in high school are much higher than those in junior high school. I knew that Lisa Tang had spent a lot of money in three years since she was in high school. During that time, our house was very tight. Now several children have to go to high school, and we, father and daughter, can no longer afford it.

Reporter: Want to appeal to society through the media to provide them with funding?

Daddy Tang: To be honest, yes. More than ten years ago, Chongqing media interviewed me about helping poor students, and the response was huge. Those children received social help and went to high school and college. Now two of them have PhDs and are very promising. . If those kids in the class now can't go to high school because the two of us can't afford it, their good grades will be in vain. Lisa Tang didn't agree with me telling the media about this at first. She didn't want to be high-profile, but we really couldn't find a better way. They couldn't go to high school, and our efforts in the past few years were abandoned halfway.

Reporter: Although her family is in a bad situation, she still supports poor students. Lisa Tang’s tuition fees are all financed by loans. She also needs to go to undergraduate and postgraduate studies. We have received calls from readers saying that they want to support Lisa Tang.

Daddy Tang: No, no, no, Lisa Tang doesn’t need any financial support. If she wants to go to graduate school after taking out her undergraduate loan, our family will pay for it, but we won’t accept financial support. I hope everyone will help those poor students.

Finally, Dad Tang took the reporter to his office at Longxi Middle School. He took out a shabby book from the folder, and on the title page was written "List of Tang Lisa's Loving Students." Every sum of money that Lisa Tang remitted was recorded in a book by several poor students. This was the idea of ??Papa Tang as "Teacher Tang".

“I don’t want them to remember their gratitude, I will tear it up when they read it. I just want them to remember this kind of kindness, to give people roses, and to have lingering fragrance in their hands. I hope they will be able in the future. To be able to pass on the goodwill."

Sister Sha has a dream to be a teacher

After three years of auditing all courses in the education major

Lisa Tang yesterday. It's no different from the past. Several media reporters contacted her for interviews, but she politely declined. "On the one hand, I am busy preparing for the exam to graduate from junior college to bachelor's degree. On the other hand, I don't want to receive too much attention."

In the eyes of friends and teachers, she is a bit introverted. When she is in high spirits, she is standing on the podium.

They told reporters that Lisa Tang was very dedicated to two things: in addition to sponsoring three poor students, the other was to dream of her dream of being a teacher.

Supporting poor students for three years

But few people know about it

Yesterday, the report "Chengdu poor female college students sponsored three students to complete junior high school", It has been circulated many times among the teachers, students and alumni groups of Chengdu Normal University. After reading it, many teachers and students forwarded and commented on Weibo and Moments, saying that they were moved by having this inspiring classmate in their school.

Xiao Qin (pseudonym), majoring in art education at Chengdu Normal University, is one of Lisa Tang’s best friends. They study together and work part-time jobs together. Xiaoqin and Lisa Tang worked three part-time jobs together, distributing flyers to real estate companies, picking up children from day care classes, and working as art assistants at the Youth Palace. But Xiaoqin only knows that Lisa Tang saves money, and does not know that she saves money to give financial help to poor children. “During a heart-to-heart talk, she mentioned that she was helping a few children, but I didn’t know until I saw the report that it was financial assistance from beginning to end.”

Liao Lin, Lisa Tang’s school counselor, only found out about this after reading the news. "Silent persistence is her style. She hopes that she can solve things by herself instead of troublesome others."

Completed auditing

All courses in the education undergraduate major

Lisa Tang has not taken part-time jobs recently. She has turned down all the part-time jobs she can currently do. She memorized and did the questions in the dormitory because she was going to take the junior college to bachelor's degree exam next week. This exam is very important, as it affects whether she can obtain a bachelor's degree and become a qualified art teacher.

Liao Lin recalled that when she first entered school, Lisa Tang failed in the college entrance examination and did not study as a teacher major, but entered the advertising major. "But she really wanted to be a teacher, so I recommended her to audit classes for students majoring in art education." As a result, after three years, Lisa Tang not only completed her professional courses well, but also completed all courses in the undergraduate major of art education.

In Xiaoqin’s opinion, Lisa Tang has very few hobbies, except that she likes to be on the podium. When she is not working part-time, she will even find an empty classroom to practice teaching with a few friends majoring in teacher training. Not long ago, Lisa Tang successfully obtained the teacher qualification certificate.

"If there is a shortcut to a dream, then the name of this road must be persistence" - this is Lisa Tang's motto. She said it came from her favorite TFboys. There were not many objects beside her bed in her dormitory, but there were several TFboys posters hung up. She said that the reason why she likes TFboys is just because they are "persistent enough".

School/School/Help/Ask

Chengdu Normal University:

"If she is admitted to the associate degree program, we will provide her with as much help as possible"

Yesterday afternoon, Xiang Yongfu, Secretary of the Party Branch of the Academy of Fine Arts of Chengdu Normal University, had a chat with Lisa Tang. He felt that it was not easy for this child to help others, and wanted to ask Lisa Tang what kind of help she needed. But Lisa Tang just kept smiling and waving her hands: No really, really no.

Xiang Yongfu told reporters that Lisa Tang’s family conditions are not well-off, which is known to teachers and classmates. Therefore, while working hard part-time, she applied for a student loan from the school for tuition fees, and successfully applied for a national scholarship with a standard of 3,000 yuan for two years.

The teachers at the college also know very well about Lisa Tang’s dream of being a teacher. Liao Lin also recommended Lisa Tang to intern and teach at the Mingdao Branch of the Experimental Primary School in Chengdu. Liao Lin found the person in charge of the primary school and secured a trial teaching opportunity for Lisa Tang. After the trial lecture, Lisa Tang’s performance was very satisfactory.

"If she successfully graduates to a bachelor's degree and continues to support poor children, we will try our best to provide her with the help we can," Xiang Yongfu said. "Examinations and further studies depend on her own efforts." She wants to be a teacher, and "the school will provide her with as much help and support as possible."