The woman who gives the corpse makeup

Born in 1987, Zhang Yan, at the age of 35, before becoming a division, she was a 13 -year -old travel leader.

To a large extent, becoming a helpless choice for the remains of the remains -because of a sudden epidemic, her life trajectory in the past few decades has been disrupted and crushed.

After 2019, she began to contact "death" frequently.

At first she was also afraid of this, but then she gradually understood that compared to "passing", this job told her more, in fact, how she lived.

Since 2019, Zhang Yan's life has been closely related to "death".

At that year, at the age of 32, she became a remaining cosmeticist. In her hometown of Harbin, the person who engaged in this industry was also known as "Mr. White".

Prior to this, Zhang Yan was a 13 -year -old outbound tourist leader. After the epidemic struck, the overseas travel fell from "hot" to "freezing point" overnight.

Zhang Yan described himself to enter the funeral industry. When she entered the industry, it was when the new crown epidemic broke out for the first time, and the sudden virus that suddenly raged made many things stop instantly, leaving only "time" and "death" without stopping.

The first deceased she served was left at this time.

At that time, the family members of the deceased first found Zhang Yan's lover Xiaoliang, hoping that he could contact a remaining cosmetic master to make up for his late mother -before that, Xiaoliang had entered the funeral industry for nearly 10 years.

Because of the epidemic, the original bodybuilding beauty artist was isolated at home and could not go out. Xiaoliang thought of seeking his wife Zhang Yan for help.

"He told me a bit, and then asked me if I was afraid," Zhang Yan recalled, "Actually, I was very scared, but when he was busy in the store at that time, I really looked at the distress, and then I felt distressed. accepted."

Zhang Yan

It was an aunt who was less than 65 years old. Due to sudden diseases, the old man suddenly died at home. In fact, similar situations at that time were not in the minority. "Most of the most people went because of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, because many hospitals suddenly did not take the consultation. question".

The daughter of the deceased told Zhang Yan that her mother loved beauty during her lifetime. Even when she was old, she would insist on makeup every morning, so if she could, she hoped that her mother could go to the last journey of life beautifully.

After learning about this, Zhang Yan first checked many information about the beauty of the remains on the Internet, and then called to consult some remains cosmetic.

During the process, she learned that because of this type of disease, people who died of the death usually had a faint purple. In addition, "the body was not particularly good -looking at the end."

According to the conventional operation method, cosmetic masters will use the foundation to mix the oil paint used by human body painting, and apply the face of the deceased to cover up the "sickness" and correct the skin color. Zhang Yan also tried this method, but the effect of the final presentation is not good. The overall makeup looks "particularly false and a bit of people."

In the early years, Zhang Yan had learned a year's beauty and beauty. Her past experience gave her inspiration. She began to try to use Vaselin as a facial base, and then evenly applied the foundation with a darker color number than the normal skin color. On the face, finally a layer of makeup powder.

Compared with the previous makeup method, Zhang Yan's method will make the makeup more natural. To this day, she has no need to use thick oil paint to cover up the defects of the deceased's face.

Zhang Yan work everyday

Despite being technically prepared, Zhang Yan's heart was still impacted when he met the deceased for the first time.

The fear of "death" made her subconsciously realize the idea of ​​shrinking, but in the end she still started the first body cosmetic work: scrubbing, bottoming, makeup, makeup ... Zhang Yan carefully followed the steps. Dressing carefully for the deceased, thinking that the old man loved beauty before his lifetime, she also specially put on two small braids for her.

After the remains, the relatives farewell. The daughter looked at her mother's face for a long time, and then turned to say "Thank you" to Zhang Yan.

The attitude of the family is beyond Zhang Yan's expectation. In her opinion, the work was not ideal, because the relatively sparse techniques and the unavoidable fear have caused more or less impact on her work. Essence

At that time, she couldn't fully understand. Behind this gratitude, there were actually many meanings.

"Many times the requirements of family members for our requirements are not 'beautiful' and 'beautiful', but to restore the state of the deceased during their lifetime."

Life goes from beginning to end, those who have lived fresh should eventually leave.

During the epidemic period, Zhang Yan works everyday

Zhang Yan has also seen many facial appearances. Most of them died of disease. Among them, cancer was described as "the most uncomfortable", because until the last moment of life, the patient was still enduring Pain caused by rapid expansion of malignant tumors.

She had sorted out her legacy for a middle -aged male who died of cancer. When communicating with her family members in the early stage, the daughter of the deceased told her that her father was a very strong person. Tell.

But Zhang Yan knew that the father must lie, because "there is no kind of cancer in the end", and many times the patient does not say because they have been gritting their teeth.

Reality is indeed the case. After seeing the deceased, Zhang Yan saw a distorted expression on his face. It was a trace of forbearance, and it was also the last comfort given to his daughter to his father -if you finally have a different way, I just hope that every time I think of it, I will smile. Still there. On that day, Zhang Yan first massaged his face for the deceased to help him return to a peaceful state, and then made up for makeup.

When the father and daughter met again, the father's face was already serene, and her daughter looked quietly and did not say a word for a long time.

Farewell, always speechless.

Zhang Yan (white mask) work everyday

Zhang Yan has met many families who dare not look directly at their relatives. The reason is mostly due to fear, and the responsibilities of entering the division is to give the deceased decent, and to help the students face:

"We accompany our family members and send their loved ones for the last journey, so that we will not regret it later, because when you leave, everyone will say goodbye."

Zhang Yan is accustomed to carrying the makeup box with her. No matter where she goes, she will leave a position in the trunk of the car and place the clothes and tools she needed when she works.

This occupation will not give her too much preparation time, just like a lot of parting, and she is silent and caught off guard.

Last summer, she served an 8 -year -old child.

At that time, the boy was at home with his mother. At the time of eating, my mother walked into the kitchen for lunch, and the boy stayed alone in the bedroom to play with his mobile phone.

Just a few minutes later, her mother yelled at her son "ah". She hurried back to the bedroom, and found that her son who had just jumped alive and talked to herself had no breath, and her hands were tightly holding the charging mobile phone. Intersection

Because the mobile phone charger had a leakage accident, children who were only 8 years old would never grow up.

Zhang Yan always remembered that the boy's mother cried in heart that day outside the funeral home.

Destiny made the two of them the closest, but in the end, they did not even leave them to them. The mother and son had a game. Zhang Yan knew that the mother's rest of her life would be spent in remorse.

After the child's funeral, Zhang Yan never saw the mother again. Although occasionally I want to know the story of this family, but the thoughts are just a flash.

Because of the special nature of the occupation, Zhang Yan has never taken the initiative to contact any family of the deceased after completing the job. "Everyone will think of bad memories, so sometimes it is the most gentle" greeting ".

Zhang Yan, who worked for a day

Perhaps for this reason, Zhang Yan's career is full of stories without ending.

As of now, she has experienced the longest -lasting body cosmetic surgery for 3 and a half hours.

On that day, a lady called Zhang Yan and said that her husband died of an accident, and his body was stopped at the hospital's first aid center.

According to the request made by the family members, Zhang Yan only needed to wear a life clothes for the deceased, and then simply cleaned up for a simple legacy, but after arriving at the hospital, Zhang Yan found that things were far more complicated than expected.

The deceased suffered a severe car accident during his lifetime. Large bulldozers directly crushed the man's left half of the body, causing a large area of ​​open skin to tear injuries in the large area of ​​the left leg and the left arm.

When Zhang Yan and his colleagues rushed to the hospital, what he saw was such a blurred scene: the man was lying pale on the hospital bed, the bones of the entire left limb were almost all exposed and crushed. "".

After the forensic identification, Zhang Yan began to replace the life clothes for the deceased, but because the body was damaged too seriously, she tried several times that she did not succeed.

In the face of such a large area of ​​damage, Zhang Yan usually recommends sewing and then beauty, but for this proposal, the family members seem to be hesitant.

At that time, the body was repaired by the body that was damaged by 20%of the skin, and the cost was expected to be around 2,000 yuan. According to the situation of the deceased, the wound area exceeded 50%, and the basic suture cost was 10,000 yuan - - For family members, this is obviously not a small number.

The wife of the deceased told Zhang Yan that their husband and wife were migrant workers, and there were two children who were studying in the family. The eldest daughter was just 17 years old and the younger daughter was less than 8 years old.

The husband is the main economic source of the family. In order to feed a family of 4 people, the husband has taken a lot of work every day, and he goes out early every day. Their home lives in the suburbs, and her husband will ride a motorcycle around the suburbs every day.

On weekdays, the husband will not arrive at almost 8 o'clock in the evening. The night of the accident can occur. The wife waited until 10 o'clock and did not see the lover. The last thing was the bad news.

Due to the sudden incident, the wife didn't even know what her husband had experienced, so when she first found Zhang Yan, she only put forward the request of "dressing", and everyone did not expect that the reality would be so miserable.

Looking at the woman who was a few years older than herself, Zhang Yan was silent. She thought about it, and finally decided that no matter what the specific cost of the remains was repaired in the future, the remains of the remains were charged at the lowest standard of 2,000 yuan, because she knew that she knew At this moment, if you don't do something, "then this person can only leave like this in the end."

Zhang Yan

At 8 o'clock that night, Zhang Yan officially began to sew the remains. In the following hours, she could hear the footsteps and sobbing of his wife and daughter pacing at the end of the corridor at the end of the corridor.

A iron door separates the two realms of yin and yang, there is life outside the door, and the inside of the door is dead. After becoming a remaining beauty master, Zhang Yan has seen too many same scenes. She is used to being speechless, and she also learned to face the tears of the living calmly. mood.

She remembered the father who loved riding a motorcycle, "the first is to hope that the people around you should not have the same thing";

Then I remembered the mother and daughter outside the door, "What should their lives do in the future", and the deceased in the door, "This person is a pity, blindly" -Irladites that they have worked hard and love Over the expectation.

At 11:30 at midnight, all the remains of the remains ended. After seeing the lover's legacy, the wife of the deceased suddenly kneeling in front of Zhang Yan, crying — this is the first time she met her family to kneel. Thank you. Essence

After the man's funeral, the lonely mother and daughter disappeared into the vast sea of ​​people, and Zhang Yan never saw them again.

As a remaining cosmeticist, she can try my best to give the deceased's last decentness, but for the living, the comfort is always limited.

Not all regrets and regrets can be relieved by time, and some stories have no end, because the thoughts have never ended.

Zhang Yan

At present, Zhang Yanzheng and his lover Xiaoliang run two funeral supplies shops.

The way of wearing Shi Yi, the choice of the paper sacrifice, the various burial customs ... Now Zhang Yan can be skillfully talked about every business of the shop.

It is difficult for others to imagine that only 3 years ago, she knew nothing about this line.

At the end of 2019, Zhang Yan ended all the work abroad and returned to life in China.

That is, at this time, she was introduced to the lover Xiaoliang by the person. At that time, the introducer said that the man worked in the civil affairs system, and she subconsciously thought that the other party was working at the marriage registration office until the relationship was developing until the marriage theory and marriage. It only knew that "civil affairs are not only in charge of happy events, but also in the same way."

Because of Xiao Liang's profession, Zhang Yan was struggling for a long time, and eventually love defeated prejudice. She decided to marry him, and soon gave birth to a cute daughter.

Zhang Yan during his work in Thailand

After getting married and having a child, Zhang Yan officially entered the funeral industry under the guidance of her husband. At that time, many people suggested that she think about it again, but she did not hesitate for too long -after the epidemic, many industries showed unstable. But it was not affected too much. She thought that this was also a "steady career."

Because it was "halfway", at first Zhang Yan didn't know when he could persist. In fact, she also thought about giving up several times, but the family's help can always give her the reason.

Zhang Yan once received a call from Beijing. The call person was a lady. The other party said that his grandfather suffered from oral cancer and his condition had developed to the advanced stage. He is currently undergoing treatment in Harbin.

After getting sick, Grandpa's left face ulcerated, and severe defects appeared next to the cheeks and corners of the mouth.

Today, Grandpa's body is getting worse, and the moment of parting seems to be in front of him. The family members want to ask Zhang Yan this time to repair the damaged face for him after the death of Grandpa.

Through the recent photos provided by the family members, Zhang Yan found that Grandpa's face had formed a smooth old wound on the edge, and he could not complete the repair by simple sutures and filling.

For this reason, Zhang Yan asked a number of cosmetic masters, but because there was no similar experience, all found nothing. Considering that again, she found a teacher who was engaged in special effects makeup in Beijing. The other party told her that she could try to reconstruct the face with a whole plastic wax. (Plastic wax: Full plastic wax of meat can shape the special effects makeup effects of film and television atmosphere such as knife injury, gunshot injury, abrasion, bruises, burns, broken limbs, etc. One of the most commonly used film and television makeup supplies.)

At the suggestion of special effects makeup artists, Zhang Yan started his own attempt: she bought a lot of models used to practice, grinded many wounds on it, and then repaired with a whole plastic wax. Only found some techniques.

Shortly after that, the grandfather with oral cancer died, and she also used this method to help him restore the facial defect.

This work impressed Zhang Yan, "it is a breakthrough in itself."

In the field of remains in the field of remains, the difficulty of repairing large -scale defects is still on the top of the mountain. This difficulty comes from technology and technique, and the other is because of brutal reality.

Zhang Yan has tried to repair the legacy and remains for a deceased with an area of ​​90%of the whole body, but because most of her skin has shocked coke, she has failed to succeed in various ways.

This "failure" experience has become Zhang Yan's heart knot. To this day, she is still looking for and exploring the way of cosmetic surgery for the burn.

Zhang Yan told us that the use of 3D printing technology to repair large -scale injuries may become a trend in the future.

At present, in a small part of the funeral parlor in Tianjin, Shanghai and other cities, there are already services to help some of the deceased returning to the state of life, but the cost of using 3D printing technology for remaining cosmetic surgery is extremely high. It costs 50 to 80,000 yuan.

Money can be used to buy technology, but not everyone has money.

For relatively wealthy families, repairing the appearance of the deceased may only be a "technical issue." But if you can't pay for it? Do you just give up? Zhang Yan thinks that if this is true, there is no need to enter the division. Death is the least divided into three or six nine. People in this world are different at birth, but there is no difference at the end of life.

After obtaining the consent of the family members, Zhang Yan will record the entire process of the german's remains of the oral cancer, for future teaching to use.

In her opinion, "this can help more ordinary people", after all, everyone has the right to bid farewell to the people.

Zhang Yan at work (second from left)

Zhang Yan's body has an extremely obvious characteristic of Northeast women, boldness, righteousness, unwillingness, straightforward personality, and carelessness.

After becoming a body beautyian, she saw the suffering of the world, and also perceive the complexity of human nature. Every time she met "something that could not be seen", she would think of "the road to see the rush".

One day on New Year's Eve, Zhang Yan received a call from the community service center. The community staff said that an old man who lived alone died at home and needed to go to the scene to sort out his legacy for the deceased.

After putting down the phone, Zhang Yan and colleagues rushed to the scene based on the address provided by the street. As soon as they entered the room where the deceased lived, they noticed that things were not as simple as imagined.

"That's not a normal death scene." Zhang Yan recalled that at that time, the female deceased was lying on the ground, with white foam in her mouth, and a bottle of liquor drinking at hand. Essence

After realizing this problem, Zhang Yan reported the police with his colleagues. Later, he was identified by forensic doctors. The real cause of the old man was poisoning and excluded the possibility of his killing.

Since then, the police have contacted the deceased's son and Zhang Yan to deal with the funeral of the elderly together. However, for the reason, the family members seemed particularly indifferent and exclusive during the whole process.

Through the mouth of others, Zhang Yan learned that the relationship between the elderly and his son is not good, and the main contradiction between the mother and child is because the mother has always been reluctant to sell himself and his wife's only house, and change the son to a bigger room for his son. Residential.

In order to buy a house for his son, the elderly participated in online investment under the introduction of "acquaintances". They did not want to encounter fraud. Not only did they not make money, they also lost all the deposits. The old popularity, I ran to the doorstep of the liar's house and put a fire, and then returned home to drink poison. Because the fire was extinguished in a timely manner, the scammer was unharmed, but the mother always stayed in the day before the bell ringing of the New Year.

After completing the remains of the remains, Zhang Yan asked his family to enter the lantern as usual as usual to make the last farewell with the deceased, but unexpectedly, the old man's son rejected Zhang Yan's request, and in the end, he was unwilling to want to be willing to in the end Goodbye mother.

The attitude of the family made Zhang Yan puzzled and angry. She told the other party that if the family did not confirm the identity of the body, all the subsequent links could not be performed.

Hearing these, the son of the deceased was shaken and entered the farewell room. At the beginning, he just stood in the distance in a dumbfounded manner and turned his back to his mother's statue. In the end, he was willing to turn around with Zhang Yan's many persuasion, and he looked at his mother's last glance.

Before that, the mother and son had not seen each other for a long time, and when they couldn't meet again, it was a farewell.

A room, a sum of money, the mother had no life, and the son had no mother.

There are always things that are more precious than money in this world, but people always see the money before losing those precious things.

Now that it is about this, Zhang Yan admits that the reason why she asked her son to open the coffin to verify the autopsy is because of "a sigh of relief" and wanted him to see his mother's last glance. She admits that bringing personal emotions into work is not professional, but she does not regret:

"In the future, when he has his own child, he will feel that his mother is not easy. At that time, he will regret it. Why can't he go to his mother for the last trip?

Sometimes death is not only dying, but also reconciliation and forgiveness.

Zhang Yan work everyday

Although every day is exposed to death, Zhang Yan still rarely has a moment of fear. On the contrary, most of the moment when she has made her feelings over the years, most of them originate from the actions of the students.

During the three years when he became a cosmetic cosmeticist, Zhang Yan has seen his family members who use fortune telling to determine the strange things of the "unplugging hour" of his father. He has also seen family members who insist on not giving the deceased's beauty beauty in order to save the funeral fee.

Occasionally, she also received a call from the nursing home, and most of the elderly people who died here had no children "ending".

She believes in the principle of "without the suffering of others and does not persuade others", so she will never blame and complain about it, but she will quietly perform a free body for her in the face of the lonely dead. Organize, or simply avoid all its funeral costs.

"Our line is the most unprecedented profession." Zhang Yan insisted that "what family members think are other people's affairs, and I just want to make myself comfortable."

Zhang Yan's daughter is 3 years old. Because she is young, she can't understand what the work and meaning of her parents' work.

Zhang Yan knows that her daughter will know one day sooner or later, and she will bear a lot for this.

So compared to the straightforward name of "remains cosmetic master", she hopes that her daughter can understand the meaning behind this profession. "We don't want to make children embarrassed."

Husband and daughter under Zhang Yan's camera

Fireworks in a family of three

Because of the particularity of the career, Zhang Yan has been asked for so many years: "Do you believe that there are ghosts in this world? Are you afraid of ghosts?" Whenever she meets similar problems, she will laugh, and then shakes her head: "I don’t believe it, I don’t believe it , I'm not afraid, if I was really scared, it was scared to death. "

In the grand topic of "life", the understanding of ordinary individuals may be quite limited.

Zhang Yan believes that he is a firm materialist, but due to the special nature of his career, after seeing too much life and death, she survived a lot of things.

"The only moral bottom line to do this line is your own conscience. Don't ask for the rich and noble, just ask for conscience."

24 / SEP / 2022

Source: the most character

Author: Lu Liu Liu

Weibo: Vision

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