Chinese family meets abandoned daughter via 22 of the year
'10.12.2017'
Source: SCMP
This story may seem quite incredible - but rest assured, it all happened that way. The parents of a Chinese girl left a small child in the market with a note about the meeting place in 10 or 20 years. And this meeting miraculously took place, writes SCMP.
A baby named Jingzhi was born in Suzhou, China, in 1995 year. The mother gave birth to her in a floating house, which her father specifically drove away along the channel away from people's views, so that the authorities would not know about the birth: the law prohibited her from having a second child, and they had no money to raise the girl. The father took the girl to the nearest market and left, putting a note in the blanket. On a piece of paper, he wrote the girl's name, the date of her birth, adding that he leaves the child because of poverty. The father also thanked the one who will shelter the child and will take care of him.
In the note, he said: "May heaven allow us to meet again on the Broken Bridge in Hangzhou in 10 or 20 years, in the morning on the eve of the Forty Day." The magpie holiday - according to legend, this is the only day of the year when a shepherd can meet his beloved girl. In the poem in question, lovers do find each other on the Broken Bridge. The holiday falls on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month.
What happened to the girl? In 1996, it was adopted by the Americans, the Poehler family, living in Michigan. Baby got the name Katherine Soo. When they received the note with the child, the interpreter girl burst into tears while reading it out loud. The new parents did not say anything to the child until she herself began to ask questions. Through 10 years, a girlfriend of the family came to Broken Bridge to find the girl’s real parents, found them using local television, and sent photos and a letter from the foster family. Pauler was asked not to communicate with the biological parents of the girl anymore. The same people came to the Broken Bridge every year. With the help of documentary chan Chanfu, they themselves found the Americans who adopted the child, but they refused to communicate.
When Kathryn turned 21 a year, she got ready to go to Europe to study and decided to ask her parents questions about her past. At that time, the girl decided that her parents had betrayed her, because they had not yet found her on their own. And yet I wanted to see them as soon as possible. Together with Chan Changfu, they traveled to the city of her short Chinese childhood.
In August 2017, 22 years later, parents met their daughter on the Broken Bridge on the eve of the Forty Day, in the morning. Mother and father were crying. As Katherine says, she was pleased to meet her biological parents, and they immediately began to feed her, believing that the girl was too thin. “It's good that I got closer to the place where I was born. But there is not so much Asian in me ... I would like to see them again, but I cannot understand who they are to me? I don't even know how to contact them, ”said the girl.
