The Spring Festival Eve is a time for family reunion in China. Chinese people get together and set off firecrackers to celebrate the lunar New Year. But for 90-year-old Huang Wendian, it is the time that he feels most unloved and lonely.

Huang lost his sight at the age of five and has been living alone in a century-old building in Fuxi village in southeast China's Fujian province since he was 20 years old. Huang's father died when he was 17 and his mother died when he was 20.

Huang said that he has never received any education. Therefore, he has no other choice but to live off the farmland.

Huang leads a difficult life. He cannot afford to buy washing powder or soap and he has to walk with a cane to the nearby creek whenever he wants to wash his clothes. He collects other people’s timber scraps and uses them as firewood to boil porridge. One batch of porridge serves as two, three or even four meals. Since he cannot look at his food to tell whether it has gone bad, he often goes neighbors’ houses to ask them for advice.