A 60 year old farmer from rural China brought his 100 year old mother to Beijing for a tour of the capital, on piggy-back. The sight of the farmer and his centenarian mother-cum-jockey warmed the hearts of Beijing's post-Freudian masses.
A 60-year-old farmer from eastern Anhui province carried his 100-year-old mother piggyback on a 10-day tour of Beijing to fulfil her life-long wish to see the Chinese capital.
Mr Wang Shoucheng from Quanjiao county forked out 2,000 yuan (S$420) of his own savings and borrowed 3,000 yuan from a credit agency to finance the tour, according to the Chinese portal Chinanews.com.cn.
(via New World Disorder)