Let intangible cultural heritage promote rural revitalization - the story of the first secretary of the village.
Original creator: Wu Jing.
In the six years before March 2020, the first secretary of Dujia Village, Jingangtai Township, ** County, at the northern foot of Dabie Mountain, was Weng Hao, and after Weng Hao was Jiang Feng. Wang Jian, then secretary of the party branch of Dujia Village, told the author that during their tenure as the first secretary of the village, they wanted to be together with the people in the village. It has made contributions to the construction of beautiful villages, poverty alleviation, rural customs and civilization and village cultural squares. There is an old house in the villager group of the middle courtyard of Dujia Village, Jingangtai Town, which was built in the late Qing Dynasty, and there are many cultural traces of brick carving and wood carving on the walls and windows, which belong to the intangible cultural heritage. There are 5 existing houses in the old house, 3 main houses and 2 partial houses, with a construction area of 120 square meters. In the process of investigation and research, Weng Hao and Jiang Feng found that some old houses were in disrepair and their walls were damaged. Weng Hao and Jiang Feng both believed that although the old house was old, there were traces of history and culture, and a slight repair of doors and windows, beams, eaves and walls would bring about a cultural tourism effect. Weng Hao discussed with the village cadres to find a capable person who knows how to design and strive to repair the old house in antique. This idea of his was supported by the town party committee and the town **. When Jiang Feng took over as the first secretary of the village, Jiang Feng and the village cadres thought and worked hard in one place in the implementation of the renovation of the old house (repairing the old as the old). Before the provincial civilization on-site meeting was held, the renovation project of the old house of the villager group of the middle courtyard was completed. There is an ancient soaphorn tree around the village, and from a distance, the white walls and green trees in the village form a scene of their own. Jiang Feng and the village cadres were meticulous, and they listed them to protect them. Like the villager group of the middle court, the village Beiwan villager group also has 3 houses in the late Qing Dynasty, with blue bricks and small black tiles, hard mountain beam structure, brick carvings in front of the hall and the outer wall, etc., which are made of flowers, birds, animals, auspicious patterns, etc., with a construction area of 40 square meters, and the town and village organizations have also been repaired and protected. Nowadays, the villagers group of the middle courtyard of Du Jia Village and the villager group of Beiwan village have ancient wells, ancient trees and ancient houses, green trees and white-walled ponds, showing a new style of ancient style. The roads of the villagers and farmers in Dujia Village have also been hardened, purified and beautified, attracting many tourists from other places to take photos and sightsee in the village.
On August 29, 2022, I received five books from Mr. Yu Shui. The editor-in-chief is Mr. Yu Shui himself, and the executive editor-in-chief of two of the books is his son Yu Qiang. Yu Qiang succeeded Jiang Feng as the first secretary of the village, and he was also the third person selected by the Organization Department of the Xinyang Municipal Party Committee to serve as the first secretary of the village in Dujia Village, Jingangtai Township, ** County. Yu Qiang is a good young man and a good cadre. Like his two predecessors, he worked very well in the municipal party committee, but he did not rest on his laurels and was nostalgic for the big city, but chose to return to his hometown and serve as the first secretary of the village in Dujia Village, Jingangtai Township, ** County, at the northern foot of Dabie Mountain. From March 2020 to March 2023, in the past three years, in addition to fulfilling his duties, Yu Qiang also put pressure on himself, collected and sorted out the songs and folk songs of Du Ji villagers, and edited and printed a copy of "Du Ji Folk Tune". Not long after, Yu Qiang edited and printed a copy of "Du Ji Traditional Agricultural Proverbs" according to the traditional agricultural proverbs of the village. Most of these agricultural proverbs are based on the clouds and the weather, which are closely related to agricultural time. When to plough the land, when to sow seeds, when to fertilize, when to weed, when to harvest agricultural fruits, all have to adapt to the changes of nature and seasons. Both books are intangible cultural heritage, easy to understand, easy to learn and easy to remember.
Wang Jian, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of Jingangtai Town, secretary of the Party branch of Duji Village and director of the villagers' committee, said of Yu Qiang, the first secretary of the village: "Yu Qiang has a passion for work, and he often uses his working relationship to run projects for the village and strive for financial support. The Internet information platform has a large amount of rural revitalization information, and Yu Qiang tries to screen the information that is in line with the development of the village from the Internet platform. Liang Xifeng, a Ph.D. in history from Zhengzhou University and now an associate professor at China Jiliang University, said, "With the progress of society, the development of science and technology, accurate weather forecasting, agricultural machinery, trains and automobiles, and Internet mobile phones have gradually entered our lives, and the traditional farming society is becoming history." No matter how nostalgic you are, old oxen, iron ploughs, stone stones, waterwheels, flails, samarium sickles, wood oil presses, adobe walls, watching the clouds and knowing the weather, ......And those agricultural proverbs created by our ancestors and with us to this day will be far away from us......"Some of them are gone, although there is no regret, but we should know her preciousness. At a time when the agricultural proverbs in his hometown are about to be obliterated by the dust of history, Yu Qiang, the first secretary of Du Ji Village, and the old folks who tell about these agricultural proverbs, in line with their love for their hometown and love for culture, have collected and sorted out such an original Du Ji agricultural proverb. Through these agricultural proverbs, we can also recall how our ancestors lived on this land and retained a precious nostalgia. "There are a lot of folk songs, ballads and red songs in "Du Ji Folk Minor". For example, "Sending Brother to the Red Army", "Sending Lang to the Red Army", and "Ten Cups of Wine to Toast the Red Army" have been sung for a long time. "Sister-in-law Flying a Kite", "October to Flowers" and "Brother Singing Riddles for My Sister to Guess" and other folk songs and ballads are all popular with the old folks. Dr. Yang Chao, a master's tutor at the School of Philosophy of Zhengzhou University, said, "Yu Qiang, the first secretary of the village, compiled the "Du Ji Folk Tune", which touched the lyrics and gave rise to feelings, and I felt a lot of emotion when I thought of the past. ”
Today, Weng Hao, Jiang Feng and Yu Qiang have completed the mission of the first secretary of the village, they left the village is a beautiful countryside, poverty alleviation, rural civilization, rural revitalization footprints, the first secretary of the village is Li Liping, he is continuing the development concept of the previous first secretary of the village, work style and village cadres and the masses continue to move forward. May the lamp of hope illuminate the way forward for Li Liping, the first secretary of the village, and also illuminate the door of Li Liping's village.
December 12, 2023.
The author is a researcher at the China Academy of Management Sciences, a fourth-level researcher of the County Federation of Trade Unions).