The Injustice and absurdity behind the Fengxian case of Xuzhou

Poverty, ignorance and moral disability form a vicious circle.
Please keep your justice.
Blindly protect oneself, blindly silent, any one of us could be the next to go on a leash.

The horrible reality of humanity

“Tying a woman up like a dog and giving birth to eight children is not something you can find in a nineteenth-century Russian novel.” Yes, the startling reality of our times today is far truer and crueler than fiction.

As Mo Yan, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, was asked: “Is there really hell after death?” Mo Yan responded, “You don’t have to be dead to see hell when you’re alive!”

In 1991, Cao Xiaoqing, a female college student in Sichuan province, took a train alone to look for her sister in anger with her parents. The train station did not come out, was under the drug traffickers, abducted to Inner Mongolia Xujiayao village. From then on, this teenage girl, became the tool of the village old bachelor sex and reproduction, also was beaten to mental disorder, was shut in the pigsty. Two years later, Cao Xiaoqing’s family found Inner Mongolia. At this point, Cao Xiaoqing is already pregnant. They did not take Cao Xiaoqing. Instead, she bought a dowry and left. A year later, Cao xiaoqing was resold again after giving birth. From 1991 to 2008, she sold four roads in 17 years. She was raped, co-married, beaten and abused by countless men. From a smart little girl, to a lost language and the ability to care for themselves “crazy woman”. When reporters and police found Cao in 2008, she was imprisoned in a dilapidated cave without clothes.

A few years ago, a female graduate student of a famous university in Shanghai went to various places to do social research for her graduation thesis. The female graduate student went to Zhengzhou and was abducted. At the time, the female graduate student was sold to a hunched middle-aged farmer for 2,480 yuan. That night, the female graduate student was forced to marry the farmer. The whole village came to the bridal chamber, the farmer’s brute force pressed her to violence, she desperately resisted, screaming. The next day, she was thrown into the dark room. The next night, bound and carried to bed. Despite her pleas, the farmer wouldn’t listen: “I bought you for sex.” Forced sex with her. She began a hunger strike, but it was completely ineffective. No one cared about her resistance.

There are no human rights, no reason, no rules, not even laws. There is only “buy you to give birth to sons.” A woman who is abducted to the mountain ends up never leaving the dark house unless she gives birth to a son.

In 2022, in Fengxian County, Xuzhou, another “crazy woman” was chained and gave birth to eight children at the age of thirteen or fourteen. The woman said the man’s father “picked her up” by the side of the road. Picked up in June 1998, in August, was taken to the civil affairs bureau registration marriage. The man also gave her a new name: Yang Xia. Through it all, no one called the police, no one questioned it, no one thought it was illegal. People take it for granted. The neighbor said the woman, who was 15 when she arrived and spoke English, had been stripped of her teeth, her throat had been drugged, her tongue had been clipped, her mind was on a dog leash, and she had been so tortured that she could not speak a complete sentence.

All “accustomed” people are guilty in front of chains, and silence is an accomplice. Bad people are unscrupulous, it is because of the silence of “good people”, the dereliction of duty of law!

The weakness of the law

And now we buy a girl how many years? Luo Xiang put it more technically.

China’s current Criminal Law quotes the first paragraph of Article 241 “Crime of Buying abducted women or children”: “Whoever buys an abducted woman or child shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance.” Article 6 of the law also stipulates that “whoever buys an abducted woman or child, does not maltreat the abducted child and does not obstruct the rescue of the abducted child, may be given a lighter punishment.” To put it bluntly, if you buy a daughter-in-law or a son, the maximum sentence is three years, and if you do not abuse the abductee and do not stop and rescue the abductee, you can get a lighter sentence. As Teacher Luo Xiang once warned girls in one of his classes, “Buying your sentence is like buying 20 toads. You are not even a parrot.”

If the public authority cannot take an inimical stance against such acts that insult and trample on the basic dignity of citizens, how can it show that it has the minimum determination to protect the lives and dignity of the people? How can injustice everywhere in the society not become “comfortable” common?

Foolish human nature

From 1986 to 1989, there were 48,100 abducted women in six counties of Xuzhou, among whom the youngest was 13 years old. In a village called Niulou, two-thirds of the married young women in the village were trafficked. In a village like this, you can’t run away. Even if the family and the police find, most likely cannot take people away on the spot. It’s a long tradition, a hard folk custom, and the people here are all their own. Don’t think this is a distant “thing”. You can search for social news of this decade with keywords such as “rural daughter-in-law” and “single woman delirious”. The result is such: rural male bachelors, everywhere in “pick up” mental disorders of the female. There are even 70-year-old bachelors who “pick up” teenage girls and give birth to several children.

What are the chances of a living person being found on the side of the road? Have you ever picked it up?

Even more frightening is the indifference of society to such things. From the bottom individuals, to the customs of the countryside, even to the grassroots government organizations, the media, the staff of government agencies, from top to bottom, no one thinks that this is a crime.

On October 14, 2021, a man from Hunan published an announcement on the fourth page of Chenzhou Daily in Hunan province, saying that he had picked up a delirious woman in Dongguan in June 1989 and brought her back to his hometown in Hunan province. Ninety days after the announcement, if no one claims it, the woman is his.

Take a name to get a certificate, no one to get settled, everything is legal.
Look at the official statements of Fengxian county, and the attitude of the people. The most ironic thing is that this eight-child family is not unnoticed. On the contrary, their family is a local Internet celebrity and has been advertised as positive energy.
If you do a Search on Baidu, you can find a lot about them:

On the short video platform, the father has opened an account and has more than 200,000 likes.

A modern civilized society, the occurrence of such people as people, not only did not get due sanctions also got relief and praise! It’s magic! Did the authorities know anything about it for 24 years? The official is “the superior leadership does not take seriously no matter, the public opinion media does not expose no matter, the matter does not make big no matter”……
If this kind of incident is not dealt with, I do not know who will be the next, it is because there is no accountability before, there is one tragedy after another.

A netizen said that after the last article was issued, there were some magical messages in the background. Did they say that men at the bottom are not entitled to reproductive rights? Something about sending this man to prison, tearing his family apart. You will be happy to see this? Still say, such a crazy woman, you raise?

After reading these messages, you will suddenly understand why the abduction and trafficking of women and children is not banned, and why even in 2022, the ignorant and backward side of Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, is not significantly different from the ancestral villages of the old society. Because, the person’s consciousness, idea, value, civilization degree, did not change very much.

Please keep your justice

How does one man stand up to a crowd? Why has no one stood up for her for so long?
A normal society would not allow anyone to live outside the civilized society, allowing a person to live an inhuman life. As long as one person lives in misery and injustice, we are all guilty. The so-called modern civilization is just an empty word that deserves everyone’s reflection and vigilance.

To condone the actions of the wicked is to do injustice to the good. Please keep your justice, keep your sanity, keep your silence, any one of us could be the next prisoner in a chain.

“When I looked up the history, there was no age. On every crooked page were written the words’ benevolence, justice and morality ‘. I couldn’t sleep at all, so I looked at it carefully at midnight, and then I saw the words in the cracks. There were two words’ eating people ‘written all over the book!”

Lu Xun’s Diary of a Madman was published in New Youth magazine on May 15, 1918. More than 100 years have passed since the diary of a Madman was published, and man-eating is still happening…