As the 13th anniversary of the Wenchuan earthquake is approaching, the “Jianchuan Museum” posted a message on Sina Weibo, saying that the “strong pig” has entered a state of mortality, “only in a moment”. In the Wenchuan earthquake 13 years ago, a big fat pig of Wan Xingming’s family in Tuanshan Village, Longmenshan Town, Pengzhou City, Sichuan Province, miraculously survived after being buried under the rubble for 36 days after the earthquake, and was then bought by the “Jianchuan Museum” founded by private entrepreneur Fan Jianchuan, named “Pig Strong”. “During the past 13 years, “Pig Tough” has also been touted as a mascot to promote “positive energy” and is loved by the nation.
According to a report by Free Asia today, “Pig Tough” is said to represent the strong and optimistic attitude of Sichuan people, and was selected as one of the “Top Ten Animals that Moved China in 2008”, for which a “Pig Tough Song” was composed. It was selected as one of the “Top Ten Animals that Moved China in 2008”, for which a “Pig Tough Song” was written and a “Pig Tough” Spring Festival Gala was held to promote the spirit of “Pig Tough”. In recent years, the Chinese Communist Party has made the “white event a red event” and designated May 12, the “National Tragedy Day” as the “Thanksgiving Day”. The “strong pig” has also been touted as a mascot to promote “positive energy”.
The report said that the “strong pig” is now 14 years old, and after the news of its death, it was widely reported by Chinese official media, including People’s Daily, Xinhua, and China News Network, describing “it did not abandon its life in the 36 days of darkness and ruins, but lived through 14 years with strength, realizing The year of a pig’s talent”. Chinese netizens have also left messages to cheer him up – “Two more days until 5.12, be strong! and “Tribute to the strong pig!” and “Amazing pig!”
According to the Free Asia report, the “strong pig” is left in the country’s heart, Wenchuan tofu-dreg project of the dead no one asked. While the “strong pigs” are left to die and attract national attention, on the other hand, the only people who still remember the students killed in the tofu-dreg projects are their parents. Over the years, many parents have insisted on defending their rights, hoping to be held responsible for the tofu-dreg projects that killed the students and to seek justice for their children, but they have been persistently pressured and monitored by officials, and some parents have been imprisoned several times as a result.
According to Radio Television Hong Kong, one of the parents, Lu Biyu, is convinced that her son died as a result of a man-made disaster caused by a tofu-dreg project. She has been arrested and detained 50 times since she began defending her rights in 2008. She hopes that the authorities will give the parents a reasonable explanation, but every time they change leaders, their hopes for justice are dashed. Zhou Xingrong, another parent of a student who died, is still unable to overcome the pain of losing her son, and has been imprisoned several times, leaving her health intact and unable to use IVF to have another child, and is nearly blind in her left eye and unable to adopt.
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