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Source: Li Xuchen Xinzhou Memory
After working hard in the city for many years, I miss my hometown in the early winter. I haven't returned to the countryside for a while, I don't know if the landscape in my hometown has been painted with a faint winter color, whether the corn is still piled up in the streets and alleys, and whether the villagers in the winter storage season are still busy, so I decided to go back to the countryside to accompany my mother, live for a few days, and return to the place where the dream began.
The car is driving in the northwest direction, the trees along the way are no longer verdant, the nearby is the field after the straw is returned to the field, and the silver mountain in the distance is in the distance, under the winter sun, as if to say that this mountain is young, this mountain is still young.
On the day I returned to the village, I happened to meet several men and women, and the sound of firecrackers rose and fell, deafening, except for the Spring Festival, which was probably the most intense firecracker sound I heard. In order to please the auspicious, the Xidong family hired a group of people to set off cannons to celebrate, which was not to be blamed, but it was put on for dozens of minutes endlessly, and it was a bit too much. Nangao Village, an urban village, explicitly prohibits the display of fireworks and firecrackers, which is similar to the decision of the Xinfu District Government to ban the burning of straw. However, there are policies at the top and countermeasures at the bottom, and the customs and habits of hundreds of years will be difficult to change for a while and a half; one is that propaganda and education are not in place; second, it is necessary to start from the source, strictly prohibit trafficking and selling fireworks and firecrackers; the third is to learn from the city, reform the wedding model, promote environmentally friendly artillery trucks, and tie flowers and tie balloons. Everything is difficult at the beginning, and it is not difficult to start at the beginning.
The four characters of "Hot Spring Sacred Land" on the wall at the entrance to the south of the village are particularly eye-catching under the autumn sun. Nangao Hot Spring, which originated in a hot water well, has been boiling for fifty years, attracting the outside world with her warm-veined song. Thirty years in Hexi and thirty years in Hedong, under the impact of the market tide and the storm of honest government, dozens of hot spring and recuperation places operated by collective units have deteriorated, and many have closed their doors. In stark contrast, the hot spring establishments run by shares, private enterprises and individuals have sprung up, growing wildly along Yongshu Road, Hot Spring Street and the streets and alleys south of the village, and dozens of them have sprung up in less than half a year.
Xinzhou City proposes the integration of industry and city, builds an industrial city, and takes the lead in forging a road of transformation and development. Four major functional areas were established, and the northern part was led by hot spring health care to improve the quality of the city and drive the tertiary service industry to the level. The advantage of Nangao Hot Spring is that the water quality is good, and the shortcomings are chaotic management, each with its own array. The village party branch and village committee responded to the voice of the masses and implemented the hot spring water into the household project from the south of the village for qualified households, and delivered hot water to the gate. As a result, many villagers paid money early, started work early, and accessed early, and tasted the sweetness of hot water entering the household.
My classmate Xinhe renovated the house, the second floor of the street was raised, the guest rooms were added, and tourists from Hohhot and Baotou in Inner Mongolia came to take a tour and bathe, and they were in a state of fullness. A standard room charges sixty or seventy yuan a day, and the high-grade house is more than one hundred. According to the calculation of ten rooms, after these seven or eight days, only one accommodation can earn five or six thousand yuan. Large-scale high-grade customers have a large number of incomes, and they can earn two thousand yuan a day. Wang Wang, Yong Yong, Xiu Yue, and the whole people have all opened. Sanquanxing is stepping up construction, and it can open its doors to customers before the New Year. Chang Erjia has not yet been fully completed, there are tourists from Inner Mongolia to the door, the building is two floors, different sizes, but also built a bubble pool in the courtyard and in the air. This time back, I took a shower at his place and was very tasteful and very comfortable.
Zengbao and Aimei are also my classmates, both retired, invested half a million yuan, and built a hot spring cultural garden in the village. The "Hot Spring Cultural Garden" sign on the door was inscribed by Mr. Zhou Rubi, a famous calligrapher and former propaganda director of the Xinzhou Municipal Party Committee, and the "Proud of Wrestling because of the Spring" on both sides of the door was written by the author and written by Mr. Lü Feng, a member of the Chinese Calligraphers Association, which is elegant and atmospheric, and has an extraordinary shot. The Cultural Garden has a cultural wall, a farmhouse, an open-air bubble pool, a picking garden, a fitness area, a children's entertainment area, and a barbecue area. The seven or eight plates on the wall include the style of Nangao Village, the introduction of hot springs, the history of wrestling towns, the wrestling family, the list of wrestling heroes of Nangao wrestling, and the travel guide. On the east wall is a painting by Lu Wenyuan and Ban Meiying, a couple of village painters with water as the theme, from ancient water extraction to today's hot spring plumbing, a total of seven paintings, vivid and fascinating. Not only that, the Cultural Garden also often holds special sessions for ticket holders to enliven cultural life. Zengbao is a national wrestling referee, with wide connections, many friends, and foreign tourists often charter the venue to enjoy the fun of hot spring culture. Culture Garden Restaurant is headed by Ai Mei and her mother-in-law, the dishes are all grown by farmers, pollution-free kind, red-faced fish and fish sauerkraut broth soup, the most characteristic is copper hot pot. That day, I went to visit, and before leaving, Ai Mei packed a cage of red-faced fish and fish half-hot pot dishes and asked me to take it back to honor my mother.
In the spring, the fields are full of jasper, and the autumn harvest is full of gold. This year, there was a lot of rain, the sorghum millet on the slope grew happily, and the four mao planted more than eighty mu of corn, plus ten mu of sorghum and ten mu of millet, and the corn was too much to put down. The eighty-five-year-old uncle Jin said happily that farming is not bad, and this year is another harvest year! No, the price of corn has risen to one yuan per catty, sorghum granules are eight pieces, and millet is five pieces five.
When it comes to harvesting, it is natural to think of farming. There are more than 7,000 mu of fertile land in Nangao, more than 2 mu per capita, but in recent years, there has been a sharp decline. A few years ago, as long as the village cadres nodded or said a word, some villagers divided the land into circles, or built houses, or built pig farms, sheep farms, chicken farms, and chicken farms, and their families became rich, and the good cultivated land was occupied free of charge, affecting the environment and polluting the air. Not long ago, several large signs were erected in the south of the village, on which were written several big characters of the Xinzhou Qiquan Holiday Wellness Project, and an enterprise planned to invest 320 million yuan to cover an area of 110 acres to build a series of health care projects, which were completed in a year. There are also larger investors who have signed contracts with the district government to invest 6.3 billion yuan and expropriate hundreds of acres of land to develop the hot spring and health industry. That is to say, in the future, Nangao will become the hot spring health center of the northwest township of Xinzhou, and become a village going to the city, the farmland in the hands of farmers will be less and less, and more and more people will transform into citizens. The land is the lifeblood of the peasants' survival, and if the skin does not exist, the hair will be attached.
Nowadays, the Nangao mansion is becoming more and more valuable, and a five-point landfront hot spring street can be sold for 300,000 or 400,000 yuan. If there is a house with attachments, it will be sold for half a million yuan. Those good houses in the village will sell for at least 200,000 or 300,000 yuan. Land prices and house prices have risen, all because of the name of a hot spring, a hot spring health policy, and a village in the city.
The children surnamed Sun were admitted to Tsinghua University this year, which is nothing more than an explosive news that quickly spread throughout the village, making those parents who are wandering and watching have an iron heart to send the next generation to the city to study. In order to change the fate, in order to get ahead, in order to jump out of the farm, both. In stark contrast, the Nangao School was rented out in half, and there were only about thirty people left in the kindergarten and primary school. When we were in school, from primary school to high school, there were as many as 600 to 700 students, and Nangao School was one of the best rural schools in Xinzhou City, and a number of educational celebrities such as Zhao Baohong, vice principal of Xinshi Division, Lu Weizhong, director of Xinfu District Education Bureau, Lu Lizhao, director of Qicun School District, zhang Chunhe, director of Yanghu School District, and many provincial and municipal leading cadres emerged from here. How can we improve the conditions for running schools? How do I retain students? How to deal with the relationship between children going to school and the family going to the city? How to lay the foundation for the future of NGC? This should be an issue that the village committee, the school authorities, and the people of Nangao must seriously consider.
At present, the biggest human expense of nangao people is to go to the banquet. If your family marries a daughter-in-law, his daughter-in-law, or a funeral, those who are close to you and who are nearby must be accompanied by a gift, ranging from two hundred, three hundred, or five hundred. The grades of wedding celebrations are compared to each other, some are "one-stop", some go directly to the restaurant, big fish and meat are on the table, good cigarettes and good wine. In the past few years, life has been good, people's appetites have been high, a table of meals can not eat much, a lot of leftovers, resulting in great waste. On the wall opposite the village committee is pasted the Nangao Village "one about three meetings" system, one of which is to give play to the role of the Red and White Council, strictly prohibit big operations, and advocate changing customs and customs, I smiled bitterly and shook my head.
People eat grains and grains, and they can't stop living, dying, sick, and dead. Now the wind of making paper at the white feast has basically stopped, but where to bury the dead is a big problem. There is a place named Nanpingliang in the south of the village, and I don't know which feng shui gentleman said that this place is the blissful place where the deceased are buried, and this has become the most popular place in Xinfu District after Hexitou Village. A cemetery of 20,000,000, 50,000, or 60,000 yuan has become a place for some people to collect wealth. It is said that this move was investigated and punished by the discipline inspection and land departments, but it did not work out and intensified. In a few years, it is bound to form a situation in which the living and the dead will compete for land, and it is difficult to predict whether they will win or lose, and it will depend on the determination and deeds of the departments concerned.
The double couplet on the gate of the Nangao Guanyin Temple is very straightforward: Guanyin Bodhisattva sits facing east, blessing the whole village to be well. About 500 meters east of the Guanyin Temple, Ganlu Temple was built, which is the largest temple group in the northwest township, where the five masters are praying and singing, there is only one actor on the stage singing, and there are only two spectators under the stage, including me, maybe people are busy doing other livelihoods, maybe people are not interested in Ya Ya Ya.
On the afternoon of the third day, I walked to the Catholic Church in the north of the village. In less than a year, the place has changed its appearance, the gates are newly built, the church is newly built, and even the tables and stools for chanting and listening to lectures are newly made. Father Wang Yongsheng told me that catholicism has been rooted in Nangao for 108 years, and these have not cost a penny of the state, but they are all donated by believers and Catholics, a total of 170,000 yuan. It is foreseeable that this area will become the center of Catholic activities in the northwest township of Xinzhou, and more catholics will join in. Standing at the gate, I suddenly remembered the South High School, if so many people could donate money to teach, what an exciting act of kindness!
If you want to be well-off, first of all, keep healthy. I have developed the habit of getting up early to walk in the city, and returning to the village is no exception, every day. At six o'clock in the morning, walking out of the alley, you will meet many people who practice in the morning, in addition to tourists who are recuperating in other places, but also villagers. Three, three, two, laughing, walking along Chiton Road, Yongshu Road, and Hot Spring Street. After half a day and forty, I will go to the morning market, buy vegetables and go back to make breakfast. Nangao is a famous wrestling athlete village in the country and shanxi province sports work advanced village, a few years ago, the village set up a walking team, a mighty gong and drum team, a flower car team, one person initiative, a hundred people responded, of which the walking team also had to go through the municipal level than the third place, its leader Wang Youming is a retired officer, known by the villagers as Wang "regiment leader", a little famous. They are full of vitality, dispelling the cold, awakening the sleeping dawn, and are the first people in the village to usher in the winter sun.
In just a few days, I feel that there is still a long way to go to the revitalization of the countryside in my hometown, although in recent years the village has built many greenhouses, planting melons and vegetables, but the production and operation mode is still very single, the production technology is backward, the industrial driving capacity is not strong, the villagers' income is still very low, if the family has school or sick hospital, it will not be able to make ends meet, or even return to poverty. His neighbor Ming Zhaoshu suffered from esophageal cancer and had been hospitalized in Taiyuan, and for more than four months he was in debt, so he had no choice but to launch 360 major disease chips. The ecological environment is worrying, hot spring sewage discharge, a large number of mulch film, fertilizers, pesticides, livestock manure improper treatment, garbage littering, did not attract enough attention. There is a fault in the inheritance of the civilization of rural customs, and a swarm of people flocks to the city to study, the leading role of party members and cadres is not obvious, and rural governance lags behind. Speaking realistically, only when the infrastructure is perfected, the villagers' production and life are improved, and the quality of the villagers is improved, can we achieve rural revitalization in the true sense and move toward a well-off society in an all-round way.
Urban people yearn for Nangao's hot springs, air, and pastoral life, and Nangao people envy the city's high income, high-rise buildings, education and entertainment, this kind of urban and rural scissors gap will continue to exist in a certain period of time, and will become bigger and bigger. In addition to shaving food in the soil or transferring land for a fee, the People of Nangao should change and make a difference, using their wise brains and skillful silver hoes to paint a picture of the north and the south of the Jiangnan. One day, when domestic and foreign tourists come to Nangao in groups for sightseeing, Nangao people can say with their heads held high: Hello, Nangao welcomes you!
"Why do I always have tears in my eyes, because I love this land so much." I like Ai Qing's poem very much, it maintains my nostalgia and also speaks to the voices of the children of Nangao who are working outside. It's a land of love more than hate, a land of joy more than sorrow, where my ancestors were buried and where my mother and brother still live. I was born here, spent an unforgettable childhood and adolescence, many scenes and many things are deeply buried in my memory, so vivid, so vivid, so haunting. This is a land where the future is better than the present, this is a land where joy replaces sad songs, I will often come back to accompany my mother, visit my childhood friends and villagers, and hope that they will live a good life as soon as possible.
In just a few days, there are also joys and sorrows. The winter colors that cannot be dissolved, the stories that cannot be written, the nostalgia that is constantly cut, and there is a taste in the heart.
【About the Author】Li Xuchen, a native of Nangao Village, Xinfu District, is currently the director of the Special Topic Department of Xinzhou Radio and Television Station. He was awarded the title of the 5th Top 100 Journalists of Shanxi Province and the Gold Medal of the National Association of Journalists. He has published 800,000 words of news and literature, and has published essay collections "Flowers in Dreams" and "Flowers in Dreams".