Wu Xieyu, born in 1994, was admitted to Fuzhou No. 1 middle school in 2009 with the highest score in the school. In 2012, he was admitted to the Institute of Economics of Peking University, winning many scholarships in college. However, it was not his remarkable achievement that put him in the public domain, but a murder on July 11, 2015. In Fuzhou Jin 'an district, a middle school staff dormitory, Wu Xieyu's mother Xie Tianqin was killed. As her own son, Wu Xieyu had great suspicion.
吴谢宇，1994年生人，2009年以全校第一的高分考入福州一中，2012年考入北京大学经济学院，在校期间曾多次获得奖学金。可是让他进入公众视野的，却不是他令人瞩目的成就，而是发生在2015年7月11日的一起命案。在福州市晋安区一所中学教职工宿舍内，吴谢宇的母亲谢天琴被人杀死，而作为亲生儿子的他，有重大嫌疑。
Before returning home from Beijing, Wu had bought a series of tools online. After the brutal killing of his mother, he used plastic film to wrap the mother's body layer by layer. And in each layer of the gap, activated carbon was also put in to absorb the smell. Then he installed monitors and alarms in the home. Then, in the name of his mother, he borrowed money from relatives, helped his mother resign from the school, and falsely claimed that his mother accompanied him to study abroad. It was not until February 14, 2016 that Xie was discovered dead. On April 21, 2019, nearly four years after he committed the crime, Wu Xieyu was finally arrested at Chongqing Jiangbei international airport, carrying more than 30 identity cards.
在从北京回家之前，吴谢宇就已经在网上购买系列作案工具。在残忍杀害母亲后，他用塑料膜把母亲的尸体层层包裹，每一层的缝隙中，还放入了活性炭吸除臭味，然后在家里安装监控和报警器。随后，他又以母亲的名义，向亲戚借钱，帮他母亲向学校辞职，并谎称母亲陪他出国留学。直到2016年2月14日，人们才发现谢天琴已经遇害。2019年4月21日，距离他的作案时间过去了差不多四年，携带了30多张身份证的他，终于在重庆江北国际机场落网了。
As the merit student of Peking University, winner of Liao kaiyuan scholarship and elitist in GRE, why did he choose to ruin such a bright future? How could the misunderstanding between him and his mother be so deep? According to the description of friends and relatives, Xie Tianqin had a low-key introverted character, and didn’t interact much with others, but she was very good to people. Just such a person of extreme self-control and self-discipline, who never wore skirt in summer after being a teacher, had the possibility of "imposing" her own demands on the child, or even made some important decisions for the child. Wu xieyu's father died of liver cancer in 2010, but Xie Tianqin firmly refused the pension from her school, thinking she could bring up her son by herself. Wu Xieyu's school, after learning of his father's death, also tried to send him a grant, which was refused by him. But from more than 1.4 million yuan Wu xieyu borrowed from relatives after the crime, he was not as resistant to money as his mother. As a person who had never borrowed money before, was he really short of the money? Such a large sum of money was more like a catharsis, a waste after getting freedom.
北京大学三好学生、北京大学廖凯原奖学金获得者、GRE考试中成绩优异的他，为何选择如此断送了自己的美好前程呢？他与母亲之间的误解怎会如此之深？根据亲友的描述，谢天琴性格低调内敛，与人交往不多，但对人很好。只是这样一个“极度克己与自律，当上老师后在夏天就从没有再穿过裙子”的人，有可能将对自己的要求也“强加”到了孩子身上，甚至代替孩子做了一些重要决定。吴谢宇的父亲2010年因肝癌去世，谢天琴坚决拒绝了学校给她的抚恤金，觉得以自己的能力可以抚养好儿子。吴谢宇的学校在得知了他父亲病故的消息后，也想给他发一笔助学金，但被吴谢宇拒绝了。可是从案发之后吴谢宇向亲戚借钱140多万来看，他对于金钱，并非像他母亲那样抗拒。而从前并未有过借钱经历的他，是真的很缺这笔钱吗?这么大的一笔钱，更像是一种宣泄，一种获得自由之后的挥霍。
On February 5, 2016, Wu Xieyu sent a message to his uncle, saying that he and his mother would come back from Boston and would arrive at Putian high-speed railway station in Fujian province on February 6. He hoped his uncle would pick up them for the Spring Festival. Until his uncle did not pick up them, and broke into the home, the truth of the matter just surfaced. If it was not Wu Xieyu’s message, things may not be exposed. But why he chose to do this? The perfect plan to kill was not for escaping, but to reveal itself, which was really puzzling.
2016年2月5日，吴谢宇给舅舅发消息，说他和母亲要从波士顿回来，将于2月6日到达福建莆田高铁站，希望舅舅接母子俩回家过年。直到舅舅没有接到人硬闯入家中，事情的真相才浮出水面。如果不是吴谢宇发的这条消息，事情也许还未暴露，可这又究竟是为什么呢？完美的杀人计划并不是为了逃脱，反而是自己露出马脚，实在让人费解。
Facing the tragedy of "Peking University student killing his mother", what should we think? Especially in recent years, Matricide is not uncommon. There are children under 12 and also adults like Wu Xieyu, there are idle social youth and also those outstanding students with shinning success. Is this kind of maternal hatred a new social disorder? Whether our social evaluation system is too simple？What's wrong with our family education? To what extent does communication between parents and children become so deficient that it is necessary to solve the problem in this way? After getting heartache, anxiety and confused，how to reduce such tragedy of matricide? How to cultivate the healthy personality of children? How to enhance the timely communication between parents and children? Those questions do worth everyone's thinking.
面对“北大学子弑母”的悲剧，我们应该做什么样的思考？特别是近年来，弑母事件已不鲜见，作案者既有不满十二岁的幼儿，也有像吴谢宇这样的成年人，既有无所事事的社会青年，又有跻身高等学府的佼佼者。这样的仇母心理，是否是一种新的社会病症? 我们的社会评价体系是否太过单一？我们的家庭教育到底出了什么问题？家长与孩子之间的沟通匮乏到了什么程度，非要用这样的方式来解决问题？心痛、焦虑、不解之后，如何减少这样的弑母悲剧，如何培养孩子健全的人格，增进亲子间及时的交流，值得每一个人思考。
Translator: Yao Jialing
Time: 2019-5-1
