‘Come and hug her’: teacher asks students in class to help comfort sobbing girl whose single father recently died, warming hearts on Chinese social media
- A video of a teacher comforting a girl with no parents upset by a film on family love shown during class goes viral on mainland social media
- The teacher hugs the distraught girl and then asks the rest of the class to offer comfort, prompting the other students to join in the hug
A teacher in China who encouraged her students to group hug a distraught girl whose father died and was abandoned by her mother has touched mainland social media.
Jiupai News reported that the teacher, surnamed Xu, from Anhui province in eastern China, asked her students to comfort the girl after she was emotionally overcome while watching a film in class.
In the video posted with the story, Xu is seen talking to the sobbing girl as she put her head down on her desk.
Xu then wiped her tears away, and when the girl stood up, Xu hugged her tightly. After this, her classmates came over and offered the girl hugs.
Xu said that the girl was distressed by a film the class was watching about parental love. She said she knew it was a difficult topic for the girl after her mother abandoned her following her parent’s divorce, and then her father died shortly after that.
“She is such a poor little girl,” Xu told Jiupai News.