Xiamen'S Nine Decade Old Homemade Insole Makes A Living

At the age of 93, she still had her ears and eyes, and set up a stall for herself. She was very embarrassed, but firmly believed that wherever she worked hard, "wherever she went, she had food to eat."

Reporters recently found the magic and stubborn old lady in the "wall top lane" near the Siming East Road in Xiamen.

　　網友呼吁

The old lady received donations.

Recently, a post on a forum in Xiamen called "selling self made insoles on the street in Xiamen's 94 year old woman" has aroused widespread concern among netizens.

According to the netizen account of "flying Jordan", there is a 94 year old lady in the street beside the Siming cinema in Siming Road East of the old downtown area of Xiamen.

Many netizens follow suit, some express sympathy, some say they want to see for themselves, others want to buy an insole with the elderly.

The Xiamen citizen named Xia Hai is one of them. With his help, the old lady received a donation of 200 yuan from two friends in Hongkong and Kunming in two days.

Dark and damp

Mother and son live in a room.

The reporter found the old woman and her son, Lao Jiang, at the corner of the wall top lane near Siming East Road.

A homemade hand push pouch is full of various numbers of insoles, colorful and stacked together.

Lao Jiang said that the old lady used to go out at two o'clock in the afternoon and come back at five o'clock.

Recently, it was a lot earlier, and just after lunch, I went out.

Usually he always sends the old lady to the corner of the lane.

The place where the old lady and Lao Jiang live is also in the "wall top lane". It is a room with 20 square meters on the first floor. Without toilets or bathroom, the kitchen is secretly built by itself.

There was no sunlight in the house, and the ground was damp; Lao Jiang himself built a loft and lived on it.

Lao Jiang said that after he went to sea early, he failed in business and later hired a taxi.

But in recent years, taxis have not been opened, and they have no jobs.

Mother and son can only rely on the old lady's 200 yuan / month minimum living allowance and skills.

　　細密針線活

Summer sales in winter

The old lady's identity card shows that her surname is Huang and she is born in 1916.

She had some piggyback, but she had a lot of ears.

The old lady said that since she came to Xiamen at the age of 30, she had worked as a needle and thread.

The process of making insoles is very, very time-consuming. Every time she starts work, she first brings some old clothes from her relatives and friends, and selects some of them that are of good color.

After cleaning up, make the flour into a muddle on top, cover it up one layer, stick to four or five layers, and then take it out to dry.

After drying, cut along the lines you draw.

The insole mold comes out, and the stitch is used to sew the edges of the insole to complete the insole.

The old lady is not as good as she used to be, but only a couple of days a day.

And drying the paste needs a big sun, plus a good business in winter. The old lady always sells insoles in winter and sells in winter.

　　結過兩次婚

From Nanan to Mansion

"I first married to Nanan and later came to Xiamen."

The old lady said she had been married two times and her ex husband died at the age of 30.

Unable to endure the exclusion of her husband's family, she took the eldest son away from home and was ready to make a living in Xiamen.

On the way, he was taken to Quanzhou by a self proclaimed "Xiamen man" and he worked part-time jobs there.

While doing odd jobs, the old lady ran into her second husband and followed him to Xiamen.

Because the Xiamen people had no offspring, the old lady's eldest son was left in the family.

Gradually, she lost contact with her former husband's children.

After arriving in Xiamen, the old woman gave birth to two men and one woman, including Lao Chiang.

Only Lao Jiang and his sister are still alive today.

Now that Lao Jiang has lost his job, life is becoming more and more difficult.

Although life is not easy, the old lady is not pessimistic. "I work hard and I can earn my meals wherever I go."