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Lead by example: young Chinese man donates blood 18 times in three years and gives hair to cancer patients
- Tang Yazhu said he stopped cutting his hair in 2019 when he read about how cancer patients need hair donations
- The student in Chongqing has inspired his friends to start making blood donations
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A young man in southwest China has refused to cut his hair for three years, and it has nothing to do with style.
Tang Yazhu, 21, who lives in the municipality of Chongqing, had not visited a hairdresser since 2019 before this month after he read an online post about how cancer patients often need donated hair, local media reported.
When it came time to cut the locks earlier this month, Tang told the hairdresser that he planned to donate it to “cancer patients who lost their hair after chemotherapy”.
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The donated hair needed to be over 30cm long and could not be dyed or permed.
Tang, a senior at Chongqing Metropolitan College of Science and Technology, said he chose to grow his hair while at school.
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“Since it might be harder for me to get employed wearing long hair after I graduate, the chance for me to donate my hair may only be in my university years. So I decided to start growing out my hair when I read about the donations,” he was quoted as saying by Chongqing’s official news portal cqnews.net.
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