Building a land temple is not as easy to be understood and accepted by the broad masses of the people as building bridges, paving roads, and building schools. Wang Xiaofeng wants to rebuild the land temple on the site of the original land temple at the west end of Liushulin Village. As soon as the news spread, many villagers said they could not understand and accept it. Some people also expressed doubts, saying that Wang Xiaofeng was born in a feudal family and had old ideas, did he do this to restore feudal superstition? Some people close to Wang Xiaofeng privately persuaded him: "When you build bridges, pave roads, and build schools in the village, the whole village raises their hands in favor of it, praising you for your righteous and good deeds, and for doing a great deed for the village." However, everyone has a different opinion on building a land temple, thinking that it is a feudal superstitious idea, and some people are still linked to your family background. In my opinion, you don't want to do this thing, if you can't get it right, you will cover up all your previous credits. Wang Xiaofeng said: "How is it a feudal superstition to build a land temple? Like the Temple of Literature, the Temple of Guandi, haven't many places been rebuilt? The Temple of Literature, Guandi Temple, represents the Chinese people's worship and love for the Confucian idea of benevolence and the spirit of loyalty. Build a land temple and worship the god of the land, expressing the gratitude and love of the people for the land. The land of China is the mother of the Chinese nation, the origin and protector of our lives, she does not avoid cold, heat and disasters, grows thousands of things, and nurtures generations of Chinese. The people should have reverence and gratitude for the land. The construction of the land temple is the embodiment of this spirit of the people. So, I'm going to rebuild the Land Temple! ”

Then the man said, "These are the great truths you have said, which you cannot see or touch. The people in the village are the most practical. When you build bridges, pave roads, and build schools, why does the whole village support it, and not one of them opposes it? Because it is real, the whole village can see, touch, and enjoy it. If you have a lot of money, buy more rice, flour, and fertilizer, and send them to every household, and everyone will support it. Wang Xiaofeng said: "These are two different things: building bridges, paving roads, and building schools, which the masses need, I must do it, and I must do it well, so that everyone is satisfied." Rice, noodles, fertilizer, I can also deliver. But the reality is that now the whole village has solved the problem of food and clothing, and every household no longer lacks a scoop of rice, a bowl of noodles, and a bag of fertilizer. I think what we are lacking now is spiritual food, gratitude and gratitude for the country's policy of poverty alleviation and prosperity, and unswerving will and belief in the spirit of reform and innovation. To know that today's happiness is not easy to come by, how did it come about? Where do we go from here? How should we understand and do it in order to conform to the trend of the times? So we have to build a spirit and a belief that we will stick to for a long time and never forget. This is like the pioneer cow statue on the street of Shenzhen, which is a symbol of the spirit and belief of Shenzhen people's reform and innovation. After the land temple is built, we can often worship the god of the land, reflect on the dedication of the land, and thank the selfless gift of the land, and we will never be ungrateful and never forget our roots. Just like when people go to Beijing, they must go to Tiananmen Square to pay respects to the Monument to the People's Heroes, the Museum of Revolutionary History, and the Great Hall of the People. After listening to my heartfelt words, the man finally nodded and said, "Maybe you are doing the right thing, but you don't understand it for a while." I don't know if he really understood and accepted it.

Wang Xiaofeng felt that the problem was serious: people always associated temples with feudal superstition, believing that building temples was to promote feudal superstition. He came from a feudal family and was more likely to be suspected and misunderstood. What to do? If people don't understand it, they can't accept it, and even if the land temple is built, it will be knocked down and smashed by the people. After some thought, he had a good idea: ask government cadres to help with propaganda. Because the masses of the people trust the people's government the most, and if government cadres come forward to help propagandize, the masses of the people will believe and accept it. So he repeatedly went to the village committee, the township government, and even the Propaganda Department of the county party committee and the Education Bureau to find leading cadres to explain his original intention and intention of rebuilding the land temple.

Wang Xiaofeng said that he worked hard to donate money to build the land temple, not to promote feudal superstition, let alone himself, but to publicize the importance and great significance of the land to the people, so as to arouse the people's love, awe, gratitude and protection for the land from the depths of their minds. Land is our food and clothing, the past and future of the people of China and the world, no matter who they are, workers, farmers, soldiers, scholars, businessmen, from national leaders to the common people, no one can do without land. Land is vast and scarce, because it is not renewable, and if you use a little, you will have less. China is a country with a large population, and land is even more precious, so it is all the more necessary to cherish and protect, and must not be wasted and wasted, otherwise, after tens of millions of years, our children and grandchildren will have no land to cultivate and live. Therefore, he rebuilt the land temple to appeal to the broad masses of the people: but leave every inch of land for future generations to cultivate. Cherish the land under our feet, respect the land is to respect ourselves; To cherish the land is to cherish our future.

What Wang Xiaofeng did not expect was that these ideas and viewpoints of his were exactly what governments at all levels wanted to widely publicize and that the masses of the people must implement in their lives, production, and construction, so the two sides hit it off. The people's government and state cadres came forward to publicize it, and the masses of the people quickly understood and accepted it. As a result, the land temple in Liushulin Village, which Wang Xiaofeng funded and aided, soon broke ground.

A year later, the construction of the land temple in Liushulin Village was completed with the assistance of Sister Yun and Wang Xiaofeng, and the consecration ceremony was held, inviting villagers from Liushulin Village and nearby villages, village cadres, township cadres, as well as representatives of the County Culture and Education Bureau and Buddhist Association. Sun Jianjun and I were also invited.

The reconstructed Land Temple in Willow Forest Village is a palace-like building with four corners upturned. In the hall, the tall and benevolent gold-painted statue of the Lord of the Land is placed high on the opposite door; On the offering table in front of the statue, locally produced cereals and various fruits are placed; In front of the offering table is a large incense burner and futon mat for pilgrims to burn incense, worship and pray. On the walls on the left and right, various myths and stories of the land lord for the benefit of the people are depicted.

On the square in front of the temple, nearly 2,000 people from nearby villages sat in Hei Press. At the beginning of the ceremony, the host announced loudly that he would first warmly welcome Mr. Wang Xiaofeng, the builder of the Land Temple in Liushulin Village and the chairman of Fengyun Washing Machine Factory, to deliver a speech.

Wang Xiaofeng straightened his clothes and strode to the front of the stage. He first bowed three times to the statue of Lord Di, then turned around and bowed three times to thank the crowd on the field, and then made a speech.

Wang Xiaofeng said: The land of Kyushu, east and west, north and south, thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, thousands of villages and thousands of falls, from ancient times to the present, there are land temples built everywhere to worship the land god, what is this for? Is it just feudal superstition? Definitely not. This can only explain one reason, one truth: land is precious and valuable, and it is incomparable. Thousands of living things in the world, whether they are emperors and dignitaries, ordinary people, birds, animals, flowers, grasses, insects and fish, must rely on it for a living, and no one can live without it.

The importance of the land is described in the seventh-grade geography textbook as follows: "The land is the root of mountains and rivers, the foundation of all things, the bread and clothing of human beings, and the source of all wealth. "It's true, it's true!

There is also a poet who describes the greatness of the land and eulogizes the spirit of the land. He's so well written. Here I might as well read it to you, so that you can seriously experience and understand. So he recited aloud:

We walk the land every day,

Every day with the land.

But we often ignore its existence,

Ignore its might.

Isn't it?

No matter what kind of profession we are in,

No matter where we are,

We can't live without the land.

Early in the morning, stepping out of the house,

We walk on the rugged mountain roads of the countryside,

Or gallop on the flat roads of the town,

Even if we're in a tall building,

The foundations of this tall building,

Isn't it also built on solid ground?

Even if we fly in the clear sky,

It was also a short trip,

Eventually, it will fly to the ground.

In the night, we return home like birds,

Go back to your own home in a bungalow or a building.

Dinner, watched TV,

We go to bed sooner or later.

is solid ground that holds the bed up,

Let's sleep peacefully.

Like crops and trees that grow in the ground,

We are creatures walking on the land.

Reverence for the land –

land

Plain land, plain land.

Plain is overlooked,

It's so simple that it's hard to remember.

however

Who can realize the power of the land,

The tenacity of the land.

Say it's powerful,

Since ancient times

I only heard that the sea changed into mulberry fields, but I didn't hear that mulberry fields changed into the sea.

Say it's tough,

For thousands of years,

How many heroes and heroes,

Collapsed in its broad bosom,

Eventually, it will turn to dust.

When I was younger,

I used to receive late at night in the autumn on the land of my village.

In the bright moonlight,

The land of autumn dew,

Silence and emptiness.

I'm thinking

How many generations,

Whether you live noble or lowly,

Whether you are rich or poor,

And whether you are in the limelight or obscurity,

In the end, no one wants to stand on the land forever,

Everyone will prostrate in the bosom of the land,

If you can't sleep, you can stay safe.

Thanksgiving to the land –

The land gives us spring grass, summer flowers, autumn fruits and winter rhyme,

Land provides us with the material basis on which we live.

The land is vast and deep,

It bears all the injustice and oppression of the world,

It contains all the squalor and filth of the world,

But it never refuses,

Never spoke.

vertical and horizontal ravines,

It's the scars on its body,

rivers, seas, rivers and lakes,

It's its surging blood.

Only the deafening thunder,

It's its extreme anger,

Only the pouring rain,

It's its sad teardrops!

Plant a tree,

That's its hair,

so that its face will not be lost;

Let's reduce the discharge of wastewater,

There is the moisture of clear water,

It's going to be plump.

And the increase in construction land,

It is tantamount to increasing the burden on its heart and lungs,

Make it breathless......

With a pure heart,

We sing of the land;

With a grateful heart,

We praise the land;

With a reverent heart,

We revere the land.

But leave an inch of land,

Leave it to your children and grandchildren to cultivate.

Cherish the land under your feet!

Respect for the land,

It's about respecting ourselves;

Cherish the land,

It is to cherish our future.

Oh, the land......

Wang Xiaofeng exclaimed: How well this poet writes! The land is the mother of mankind, she is generous, vast, and has a selfless and boundless dedication. She opened her mind and fed all living things in the world with an endless stream of sweet juice; Year after year, generation after generation, the world is endless, and the dedication is endless. The land is friendly and benevolent, and she treats all living beings in the world with an all-inclusive spirit, without rejecting the good or the bad, big or small, and letting them grow and develop freely in her broad mind, and freely choose and choose. Land is limited, precious, non-renewable, and if you lose an inch, you will lose an inch, so everyone in the world must cherish the land very much, try to protect the land, and not waste an inch or a point, otherwise, human beings will lose the foundation of their existence. The feelings and truths expressed in the poems are vivid, delicate, profound and touching. This is the truest, most noble and warmest feeling of the millions of people living on the land for the mother land, and it is the heartfelt cry and cry of the millions of people living on the land! Please let go of your eyes and legs, take a serious look at the world on which you live, concentrate your thoughts, and seriously think about the world on which you live. Isn't it the truest feeling from the bottom of your heart? Isn't that the most important of all human affairs?

That's why I want to donate money to rebuild the land temple, not to make a name for myself, let alone to promote feudal superstition, but to remind and arouse everyone's love, respect, cherish, gratitude and awe of the land in today's era of reform and opening up, large-scale development and large-scale construction. "But leave every inch of land for your children and grandchildren to cultivate." We should not waste or waste every inch of land, because it is our food and clothing, and the source of all wealth. If every inch is wasted, lost, endlessly, regretted, and not protected, then, in a few years, our children and grandchildren will have no land to cultivate, and they will lose the foundation of survival. What a terrible thing that is! For this reason, I also wrote a poem entitled "Liulin Village, My Hometown". To express my gratitude and love for my hometown mother. And as a concluding remark to my remarks today. After speaking, he cleared his throat and recited aloud:

Liulin Village, my hometown,

At the foot of a Qinling Mountain,

A small village on the edge of the Ba River,

Because the village and the village are covered with willow trees,

People call her - Willow Forest Village.

Every year together with the spring breeze,

Thousands of trees and green branches flying, powder flying,

The village is full of warblers singing and dancing, overflowing with color and fragrance.

Liulinzhuang, my hometown,

A beautiful place that gave birth to me and raised me.

The Ba River is bubbling and nourishing the granges along the banks.

On the riverbank, the smoke and willows are like dragons, and people and vehicles come and go;

In the field, Jiahe is like the sea, rippling blue waves.

She has the simplicity and elegance of Shen Congwen's Phoenix Ancient Town,

also has the quiet and introverted of Zhouzhuang, a water town in the south of the Yangtze River,

It is my love and nostalgia rooted in my blood,

Memories and ties that I will never forget in my life.

Whenever the sun rises,

Liulinzhuang woke up happily from sleep,

Clothed in the glory of the morning glow, smelling the fragrance of willow flowers,

Facing the freshness of the morning breeze and the fragrance of cooking smoke,

In the sound of hundreds of birds contending, start the busy day.

The mist gradually dissipated, and the heavens and the earth were clear,

The sky is like a blue jewel, and the fields are like a green ocean;

The white clouds flutter like silver catkins, and the pixels of the Bahe River are rippling.

The sun shines on the willow-shaded village,

Rows of mud and straw farmhouses, fenced courtyard walls,

The aroma of wild sorghum wafts through the aroma of food.

In the village, chickens and dogs bark, and children call for their mothers.

In the field, the ploughing ox pulls the plough and harrow, and the ploughman waves the whip.

On the country road leading to the school,

Elementary school students carry school bags, in groups of three or five, laughing loudly.

On the avenue leading to the bazaar,

The people who rushed to the market carried their hands on their shoulders, and the carts squeaked and sang joyfully.

When the sunset puts away the last golden light,

After a busy day, people returned to the village.

Chickens and ducks come back from foraging, beckoning to enter the circle to rest,

The cattle and sheep are full of forage and slowly regurgitate, looking peaceful.

The woman brought dinner to the table in the courtyard,

The whole family sat around and talked about their news,

The old man picked up his wine glass and slowly told the world to be cold.

This is where I come from,

A place that I don't want to leave for the rest of my life.

The winding field path,

Leaving behind my countless pasts from childhood to adulthood,

The mud-walled huts and fenced courtyards that are constantly being repaired,

Leave me the bittersweet poems of my long years,

The mounds covered by the weeds,

Buried generations of ancestors and fathers,

Generations of sacrifices have been carried out, and traditional virtues have not been forgotten.

Liulinzhuang, a beautiful and rich riverside village,

A place where things are rich and treasures, and the earth spirits are brilliant!

With the reform and opening up to get rid of poverty and become rich, you continue to change your appearance,

High-rise buildings rose from the ground, and bursts of laughter and joy of the crowd,

Roads are paved into the distance, rows of traffic whistles are high,

It shows that you have an unlimited future and a brilliant career!

However, I still can't forget what you used to be:

Thatched houses, fence walls, and green rice sorghum in the wilderness.

It was the painstaking creation of generations of ancestors.

a place that has been inherited and relied upon for generations to survive;

It is also today's young people who struggle and work hard,

A place to take off and pursue your dreams.

Liulinzhuang, my eternal hometown!

You from the obscurity of the past Liulinzhuang,

To Liulin Township, a well-known tourist resort,

After how many muddy treks, thorny bushes,

How many ups and downs have you tasted, iron men and soft intestines,

How much naïve absurdity, mistakes and confusion are included,

How many lofty ambitions and magical dreams have been released.

Finally, today's grand cause has been achieved, and the glory of green history!

Thou hast the bosom of a mother, like the sky is broad,

You have your father's shoulders, like Qinling strong,

Bear the high-pressure trauma and create a great cause!

Ah, Liulinzhuang, the place where I was born and raised,

No matter how many children you have, where you are,

No matter how poor or weak you are, or how rich and strong you are,

You always will always be

My mother, my hometown,

A beautiful place that will never be forgotten and passed down from generation to generation!

At the end of Wang Xiaofeng's speech, a warm round of applause broke out in the venue, which lasted for a long time. He bowed deeply to the villagers and expressed his gratitude. Then he turned his body and bowed deeply to the god of the land again, expressing his awe and sincerity.

Wang Xiaofeng's speech was heartfelt, sincere and touching, and won the sincere approval of the audience. After the applause, everyone discussed and expressed their views on the land, the land god, and the land temple.

Then, representatives of township and village cadres, representatives of the county bureau of culture and education, and the county Buddhist Association also made speeches separately, and each expounded the great significance of rebuilding the land temple from different angles.

After the completion of the land temple, incense continues throughout the year. People have a better understanding of the land, are more grateful to the land, love the land, cherish the land, oppose arbitrary expansion and occupation of cultivated land, and pray for a bumper harvest and the safety of people and animals. Sister Yun and Wang Xiaofeng, Sun Jianjun and I, as well as the wanderers who work, do business, and start businesses outside in Liushulin Village, every time they come back to their hometown, they do not forget to burn a stick of incense in the Land Temple, thank the mother of the land for her nurturing and cultivation, and make a new wish.