Chapter 1 The east wind turns into rain, and spring arrives in Liangshan
It is said that three hundred miles of Daliang Mountain, thousands of peaks and ravines, high peaks and deep valleys, cliffs, waterfalls and flowing springs, empty valleys sound, sound shock clouds. In the mountains and forests, the ancient trees are towering to the sky, the tigers are roaring and the apes are crying, and the birds are flying and the snakes are walking; Between the cliffs, the strange rocks are craggy, the spring water is dingdong, the clouds are steaming, and the height is unfathomable. Since ancient times, there have been some scattered mountain people living here, they live on the mountains, also farming and herding and hunting, although far away from Pingchuan, in a desperate situation, facing difficulties and dangers in the morning and twilight, the difficulties of life can be imagined, but the mountain is high and the emperor is far away, the valley is deep and there are many stones, the wilderness of the place, the people who are outside, the officials are frightened, no one is too lazy to ask, they seek peace in danger, seek happiness in suffering, but also live freely and freely.
There is a small village called Chunfeng Li in Daliang Mountain, less than 20 households, houses made of stone in one color mountain, mountain trees are beams, mountain grass is on top, scattered and scattered in a narrow two or three miles of big mountain col. People work at sunrise and rest at sunset, work and feed themselves, fend for themselves, and have no resentment or hatred. Cows, sheep, pigs, dogs, chickens, and rabbits are raised at home, roe deer, elk, jackals, foxes, and pheasants hunted from the mountains are hung on the beams of the house, animal skins of various colors and sizes are nailed to the gables, corn cobs, cotton balls, ears of rice and mountain pepper bunches are hung under the eaves of the yard, and various medicinal herbs and mushrooms collected from the mountains and forests are dried on the ground. From morning to night, men and women sing, cows and sheep bleating, chickens and dogs barking, and the sound is continuous; Three meals a day, smoke curling, wild mountain dishes, fragrant meals. Adults and children from all families, Langhan mothers-in-law, far and near, come and go, in and out, laughing and greeting each other, looking very united and friendly, close and harmonious. If something happens to any family and encounters difficulties and dangers, the whole village will come to help, regardless of each other. Around the village, the green mountains are stacked with green, the green water is murmuring, the forest is lush and thick, the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant, and the scenery is very beautiful.
The people here are hardworking, brave, simple and kind, and have lived by farming, animal husbandry and hunting for generations. Wheat, corn, cotton, and millet are planted on the hillside; The mountain valley is irrigated with spring water, and some rice, pampas reeds, and water chestnut roots are planted. There are birds and beasts in the deep mountains, and medicinal herbs are everywhere, so they pick up hunting rifles, carry backpacks, and hunt and collect medicines when the farm is slack. All seasons of the year have their own livelihood, and they work hard. Although life is not rich, families can barely get by.
Due to the blockage of the mountains, the winding and narrow roads, and the difficulty of entering and exiting, people here rarely go out of the mountains, so they rarely understand the outside world; Occasionally, a vendor who collects medicinal herbs and hides will come and they can hear something about the outside from his mouth. Therefore, people's lives are both hard and monotonous, and they are ignorant and ignorant.
This situation has been passed down from generation to generation, and people have long been accustomed to it. Even after the liberation, the county sent a working group to organize a dozen or so small mountain villages scattered in the mountains into agricultural cooperatives and people's communes, and to bring all the mountains and forests under public ownership, there was not much change. Except for the summer and autumn seasons, a cadre was sent to urge the payment of public grain, and it was rare to see people outside the mountains in the rest of the time. Therefore, they still live a hard and monotonous, free life. As usual, he sang the mountain songs and ballads that seemed to have been passed down from his ancestors for the ages:
There are tigers in the mountains, elk in the deep forests,
Medicinal herbs grow under the cliffs, and grains are planted on the slopes.
The sun is the father, the moon is the mother,
The mountain god is the lord of our mountain people.
Offering at four o'clock, praying for constant blessings.
Offering at four o'clock, praying for constant blessings.
In terms of historical knowledge and cultural life, in addition to knowing that the Manchu emperor was driven away, the Chinese can no longer keep braids; Now it is New China, and the people are the masters of the country and build socialism; The rest don't know much news either. After the liberation, the biggest joy in the village was to let go of a movie. The projector was carried by more than 20 young and strong men from the three villages. The name of the movie is "Southern Expedition and Northern War", and it is a war. This made the people in the Baili Daliang Mountain very happy, and they talked about it for several years. Later, I didn't come to the screening, because when the projector was sent back, it accidentally hit the cliff and broke it. Everyone was sorry and scared when they heard it: it was a pity that the projector was broken, and they would not be able to see the movie in the future; What they were afraid of was that the projection team asked them to pay for the projector, and they didn't know how much the family would have to share. - Actually, it's all unnecessary. Today's state cadres serve the people, love the people and cherish the people, and do not ask them to compensate. Another happy event was the establishment of a small school in the commune, and the cadres came to mobilize the villagers to send their children to school. Although studying is a blessing and a great thing for future generations, everyone thinks that it is enough to live in a ravine all their lives, farm, hunt and collect medicinal herbs, and know hoes, sickles and shotguns, and it is not of much use to be illiterate; I also think that the mountains are high and the roads are far away, and the children are small, and there are wild beasts on the mountains, so I am afraid that there will be danger on the way to school, so few people send the children there. In order to complete the task, the village chief had to send his son away, but after two years of study, the child broke his leg and stopped going.
Life goes on like this, year after year, uneventful. Although it was hard, lonely, and monotonous, the mountain people also ate, worked, and slept every day; Although they are ignorant and ignorant of it, young people will also know how to fall in love with mountain songs, and then get married, have children, and reproduce offspring. Since it was a time of peace, there was no war, and by the end of the seventies of the last century, the population had more than doubled. When the population grew, the village grew, and there were more stone houses in the col. Anyway, there are endless stones, trees and grass on the mountain, and the mountain people have the strength and know how to unite and help each other. However, they soon discovered that as the population continued to increase and the consumption increased, the trees, wild beasts, and medicinal herbs on the mountains gradually decreased, and no matter how hard people worked, their lives still did not change much. This inevitably causes them to worry again.
The sun and the moon are like a shuttle. In the late '80s and early '90s, there were tremendous changes that had taken place in the area. People's living environment has changed greatly, and production and living conditions have also changed greatly. More importantly, their ideology has completely changed: they no longer focus only on the slopes, wild beasts and medicinal herbs in the mountains, but only focus on building stone houses, having more children, and pinning their happiness on the next generation; For the first time in their lives, they emancipated their minds, let go of their fears, walked out of the mountains, and were pleasantly surprised to find that the outside world was more exciting, with high-rise buildings, busy traffic, dense population, thriving industries, advanced technology, and a relaxed and happy life, comfortable and happy. Their eyes were hot, their hearts were moved, and they began to learn new ideas, new technologies and advanced things from outside, so as to change the traditional production technology and lifestyle of the mountain people. As a result of learning from the outside, their knowledge and horizons have broadened, and they have understood the importance of protecting mountains and forests and rare animals, and have stopped indiscriminately opening up mountains, cutting down forests, and hunting birds and beasts. Then learn the places of scenic spots, develop scenic spots, build winding mountain roads, stone steps ropeway, develop tourism, attract tourists from all over the world to flock to it, and find a new way out for the mountain village to get rich. People began to abandon the old methods of thinking and living habits, extensively studied science, used science, bought all kinds of new household appliances home, and introduced them into daily life, so electric lights, telephones, televisions, and refrigerators entered every household in the villages, so that the villagers in the deep mountains and old forests had the breath of the new era. They also deeply felt the importance of learning culture from their own ignorance, began to pay attention to education, attached importance to education, and took the initiative to send their children to school to study, and if the conditions were good, they were also sent to middle school outside the mountain, and even to study in college, so that the golden dragon and jade phoenix also flew out of the mountain nest, and cultivated the elite of the times, they actively dedicated their youth and blood to participate in the socialist construction of the motherland, so that the Daliang Mountain area could keep up with the development trend of the times and begin to develop greatly. Big change.
What is the reason for such a big change in the deep mountains and old forests? It is the party's policy of reform and opening up. It is like a warm and strong spring breeze, blowing all over the land of Kyushu, and also blowing into the 300-mile Daliang Mountain, and this small mountain village in the mountain depression - the spring breeze, which greatly encouraged people's enthusiasm for labor and vigorous revolutionary energy, fully mobilized and stimulated people's enthusiasm and wisdom to get rich through hard work, and let the mountain people see the hope of life and the road to prosperity again. They emancipated their minds, boldly broke the isolation, innovated the old and innovated, contracted the land and mountains and forests to the households, and obtained an unusually good harvest that year. Then there's outward development. In the 90s, the township sent a party branch secretary named Wang Lixin, who brought innovative ideas, determined to change the poor and backward appearance of the mountainous areas, unite and lead the masses in the spring breeze to contribute money and build the road from the mountains to the county seat. With the roads, the villagers will be able to transport the grain harvested in the fields, the timber, medicinal herbs, and mountain goods collected in the mountains, and the poultry and livestock raised at home to the city to sell. The greater progress was that the people in the mountains began to go out and seek life and development outside. Young people, in particular, are no longer satisfied with the life and harvest in the mountains, but regard the news coming from the special zone as good news, tell each other about it, discuss, inspire, and excited, and continue to go out of the mountains to study, work, and start businesses in the open cities along the coast and in the south, integrate into the outside society, fully enjoy the democracy and freedom brought about by reform and opening up, make scientific progress, greatly increase their income, greatly broaden their horizons, rapidly improve their lives, and gradually become wealthy, thus becoming the best and the leader of the new generation in the spring breeze. The whole village has attracted attention, the whole district has attracted attention, and it has been praised and passed on as a good story, and it has become a learning example for young people in Daliang Mountain District.
This year marks the 40th anniversary of reform and opening up. In order to review the great achievements of the country's reform and opening up over the past 40 years, sum up experience, and strengthen convictions, the people of the whole country have launched commemorative activities with great fanfare. A writer read the news report on the great changes in the reform and opening up of Daliang Mountain, and personally went to Daliang Mountain to collect style. He watched the beautiful scenery of Daliangshan Scenic Area and listened to the entrepreneurial stories of the young generation in Liangshan, and was full of emotion. After coming back, he used what he saw and heard in the collection as the material, lifted his spirit, used his imagination, and wrote a long novel entitled "New Children of the Mountain Township". The storyline is euphemistic and twisty, vivid and touching, and inspiring. and improvised a poem titled "Qinyuan Spring, Liangshan New Children" to express his true feelings. The transcript is as follows:
Baili Liang Mountain, the clouds surround the strange peaks, and the fog locks the beautiful mountains. Look at the towering ancient trees, the sound of the waves; Cliffs and waterfalls, streams and waterfalls. Rui beast hiss, brocade soaring set, ancient and modern traces of people. In the prosperous era, Ren Si is in a desperate situation, and tourists are trendy.
When spring comes, hundreds of flowers compete for beauty, leading swallows and dancing warblers to sing out of the mountains. Just in the age of youth, in the prime of life; Scholars are talented and ambitious. Strive for knowledge, work hard to start a business, and be infatuated without fear of difficulties. Looking back, I remember the ups and downs, and climb all the way.