Husband carries paralysed wife up Mountain Tai
A Chinese husband carried his paralysed wife up Mount Tai in eastern China’s Shandong province in order to keep his promise of taking her to see the sunrise.
The man's name is Zhang Mingrong 张明荣 and the wife is Kong Yan 孔燕.
Both of them are from rural families, and met in a factory in Qingdao (a major city). The man has 4 siblings and a mother who slipped and became disabled in the winter. The girl was raised by adoptive parents because her biological parents wanted a son (and could not keep her due to China's one-child policy). When they met, she already had a fiance arranged by her adoptive parents. So naturally the parents were very angry when they learned she wanted to be with him instead. They had to deal with the fiance's family. He also took her to a different city (Tianjin), and the parents even called the police on him. So it's not just about him not "being rich".
After her disability, life was very hard for them in the beginning. He basically left his mother to his siblings, worked two jobs and slept on the floor. She didn't even have a wheelchair in the beginning. Later they opened a restaurant in Qingdao, where they still live.
He first carried her up Mount Tai in 2017 but did not post videos on Douyin/Tiktok until 2021. They married in 2007 so it's been 15 years.
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