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”. “.
“The “strong pig” 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”. The “pig strong” spirit of the “pig strong” Spring Festival Gala. In recent years, Chinese officials have been “treating white events as red events” and have designated May 12, the “National Tragedy Day”, as the “Day of Thanksgiving”. The “strong pig” has also been touted as a mascot to promote “positive energy”.
After the news of “Pig Tough”, which is now 14 years old, was widely reported by Chinese official media, including People’s Daily, Xinhua, China News, etc., describing that “it did not give up its life in the 36 days of darkness and ruins, but lived through 14 years with strength, realizing the talent of a pig. The year of the pig”. 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!”
While the “strong pig”‘s death has attracted national attention, on the other hand, only the parents of the students who died in the tofu-dreg project are still remembered. Over the years, many parents have insisted on defending their rights, hoping to be held accountable for the tofu-dreg projects that killed the students, and to seek justice for their children, but they have continued to be pressured and monitored by officials, and some parents have even been imprisoned several times as a result.
Radio Television Hong Kong reported that 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 the authorities will give the parents a reasonable explanation, but each time the leadership changes, 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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