Legends about the endurance, dedication and perseverance of the Chinese people have long been circulating in the world, and more and more confirmations appear regularly. Not so long ago, the entire Internet was shocked by the story of a schoolboy named Wang Fuman. He became famous due to the fact that he walked 5 km in severe frost. To pass his school exams.
The new internet hero from Xinjie Village is only 8 years old. His photo with “icy” hair and eyelashes covered with hoarfrost spread around the world wide web and caused a lot of emotions among users. The author of the picture was the teacher of the child. He decided to share the photo via social media to celebrate the tenacity of his “desperate” student, who went to school through terrible weather without even warm clothes and a hat.
The kid quickly got the nickname Ice Boy or “Ice Boy”, his photo and story got into many world publications, and tens of thousands of people shared it on their social media pages. The young Internet celebrity was recently invited to Beijing, where he gave a lot of interviews, received gifts and even met officials. The boy visited the capital for the first time. New for him were the sensations of traveling by train and air travel. Most of all, the kid was struck by how warm it was in Beijing.
The kid said that at home he has to sleep in a jacket, and all night his family has to burn coal to keep warm.
Netizens were imbued with the story of the “Ice Boy” and organized a fund, which in a short time was replenished with an impressive amount of money. The collected funds will be used to repair the heating system at the boy’s school, insulate the houses of poor families, and buy warm clothes for the children of Xinjie village and other local surroundings.
