Childhood of Zhang Yaowen
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    This little boy is the loveliest one we meet in the interview. And he is the youngest. He is 10 years old this year. Seeing our arrival, he runs away far initially. We have to chat with his families in his home. In a short while, he saw we still here, ran back. This time, he has courage to be round us, continuously looking at the camera in our hand.

    We can't get more information from him, so we talked with his grandmother. From her grandmother we know that seven members are in this home. They are grandpa, grandmother, father, mother, two elder sisters and Yaowen. Father and mother do part-time jobs in the outside all year long to maintain the whole family. They sometimes work on the building land, and sometimes go to work in Xinjiang. Everything at home is looked after by grandpa and grandmother. Two elder sisters all go to a primary school. Yaowen is too young to go to school, so he everyday stay with grandpa and grandmother. In spare time, two old men can look after him. But sometimes when in busy, they forgets to look after him.

    The old men fear some accident happen on Yaowen, so when working, they keep him nearby. Hence a story about Yaowen happens.

Photo of Yaowen taken by Peng (Second from left) Yaowen being interviewed