现实版“爷爷和7个葫芦娃”爆火，网友：果然葫芦娃是来救爷爷的

近日，浙江绍兴一位75岁老人种出的7个葫芦意外走红网络。

屋檐下的木棚架上，7只青绿色葫芦大小匀称、垂挂在风中，与经典动画《葫芦兄弟》开场画面高度相似，被网友称为“现实版葫芦娃和爷爷”，吸引全国游客前来打卡拍照，寻找童年记忆。

Recently, seven gourds grown by a 75-year-old man in Shaoxing, Zhejiang province, have unexpectedly become an online sensation.

Hanging from a wooden trellis, the seven green gourds — uniform in size and swaying in the wind — bear a striking resemblance to the opening scene of the beloved animated classic Calabash Brothers. Netizens have dubbed the seven gourds and the old man the "real-life calabash brothers and grandpa", attracting visitors from across the country to come snap photos and relive childhood memories.

老人叫陈金敖。今年3月底，他在家附近的农贸市场花6块钱买了一株葫芦秧苗，图的就是“葫芦”谐音“福禄”的好寓意。他自己找了些旧木料，每天花两三个小时搭架子、引藤蔓，前前后后忙了5天。

The grower is 75-year-old Chen Jin'ao. In late March, he bought a gourd seedling at a local market for just six yuan, as he was drawn by the plant's symbolic meaning of good fortune and blessings. In Chinese, the word for gourd, hulu, sounds similar to the phrase for blessings and prosperity. He gathered scrap wood and spent two to three hours a day building a trellis and guiding the vines, a project that took him five days in total.

老人笑着说，他原本只想把小院收拾得好看些，“没想到引来这么多游客拍照，日子反倒更热闹了。”

老伴沈奶奶在一旁“打趣”道，老头子每天醒来第一件事就是看葫芦，心里可宝贝了。但她自己一看见有人举起相机、手机，就赶紧往屋里躲，“别挡着人家构图。”

His wife, surnamed Shen, joked that he checks on the gourds the moment he wakes up — he really dotes on them. But she herself dashes indoors whenever someone tries to take a photo, afraid of getting in the way.

老两口平时不刷短视频，还是从邻居嘴里才知道自己“火了”，笑得合不拢嘴：“挺意外的，看大家高兴，我们也高兴。”

面对突然多起来的游客，陈爷爷的生活节奏没变，照样晨练、慢跑、陪老伴散步。他决定不摘这些葫芦，就挂在架子上让大家看。陈爷爷已经给葫芦做好了保护措施，估计还能再观赏一个月。

据了解，两位老人是失独家庭，女儿早年间因意外去世。陈爷爷说：“我把7个葫芦娃当成自己的小孩。游客走很远的路到这里，我把他们当成自己的亲人。”

沈奶奶哽咽地说，家里这扇门平时很少打开，二十多年来冷冷清清，如今终于被网友敲开了。“感谢网友，是他们把我们的心打开了。”两位老人说。

According to reports, the couple are bereaved parents who lost their only daughter to an accident years ago. "I treat these seven gourds as my own children," Chen said. "And visitors who travel a long way to come here, I treat them as my family."

Shen said with a choked voice that their door had rarely been opened over the past two decades, quiet and solitary all those years, until netizens finally knocked it open. "They are the ones who opened our hearts," the couple said.

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来源：新华社 中国蓝新闻 杭州日报 越牛新闻 南方都市报

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