fēi ěr zī jiǎng菲尔兹奖dé zhǔ得主wáng hóng王虹：pǔ tōng普通jiā tíng家庭zǒu chū走出de的shù xué数学tiān cái天才
Recently, 35-year-old Chinese mathematician Wang Hong received the highest honor in the mathematical world, the Fields Medal.
She is not only the third woman in the world to receive the award, but also the first Chinese woman to be given this honor.
The good news quickly sparked heated discussion online.
As Wang Hong became widely popular on the internet, her story of growing up attracted everyone’s attention.
Wang Hong was born in a small town in Guangxi, and both of her parents were local secondary-school teachers.
Some media outlets called her a representative of “rising from a poor background,” seeing her story as that of an ordinary person breaking through class barriers.
However, many internet users expressed different views.
They believed that although Wang Hong’s family was not in a major city, her parents had stable jobs, so it could not really be called a “poor family”; it was more like a typical ordinary family.
In fact, Wang Hong never attended expensive extracurricular tutoring classes as a child.
Her parents were very open-minded. They never put too much academic pressure on her, but instead respected her interests.
In such a relaxed and warm environment, Wang Hong, driven by her pure love of mathematics and perseverance, step by step reached the pinnacle of the world.
Wang Hong’s story has encouraged many people.
It tells everyone that one’s background is not what determines one’s life.
People from ordinary families can also reach a broad future, as long as they have lasting perseverance and passion.