Sometimes low and melodious, sometimes crisp and bright, the sound of music comes from the antique courtyard from time to time, and the qin, zheng, ruan, pipa and other banners line up along the village houses with blue tiles and white walls.
This is Xuchang Village, Qiyang Town, Lankao County, Kaifeng City, Henan Province. In this small village of only 105 households in eastern Henan, 90 households produce national musical instruments and ancillary products, covering 20 varieties and more than 30 series, with an annual output value of 1200 million yuan.
I've been in this business for more than 30 years, and I used to work for people, and 10 years ago I had the idea of starting my own business. Xu Yushun, the operator of Mowu Qin Workshop, told reporters, "At that time, half of the families in the village made national musical instruments, and everyone was optimistic about the national musical instrument industry in Lankao." ”
In the 60s of the last century, the cadres and masses of Lankao County investigated the outlet, chased the source of sand, and found a good way to plant paulownia to control sand. Nowadays, bidding farewell to Lankao, which is suffering from wind and sand, vigorously develops the national musical instrument industry, and thousands of hectares of paulownia has become a "green bank" to promote rural revitalization.
Xu Yongshun, director of the village committee of Xuchang Village, said that in the 80s, villagers brought bellows made of paulownia to other places to sell, because of the crisp sound when blowing the wind, which attracted the attention of experts from the Shanghai National Musical Instrument Factory. With the advantages of good sound permeability, high resonance, and strong heat and corrosion resistance, paulownia is considered to be the best material for making national musical instruments. Since then, the national musical instrument industry in Xuchang Village has developed and grown, and more and more villagers have turned from carpenters to luthiers.
There is experience, resources, market, and helpers. Xu Yushun thought of his son who was learning Xi ** in other places, so he persuaded him to come back and work together. "The child was reluctant at first. If nothing else, the impression given in rural areas is that the environmental conditions are poor. Like the road in front of the house, when it used to rain, it was full of muddy car wheels, and the legs were muddy when you went out, how could you keep people?Xu Yushun said.
Rural revitalization, industrial prosperity are the key, and ecological livability is the key. In recent years, Lankao County has built and renovated 122 kilometers of "four good rural roads", focused on rural toilet reform, hardening, drainage, greening, pit pond treatment, and beautiful courtyard construction, focusing on 150 village potholes, upgrading and renovating 14 sewage treatment plants, and afforestation and greening 2320,000 acres, won the title of National Civilized City, National Ecological Civilization Construction Demonstration County, etc.
The environment of our village has changed a lot!Xu Yongshun told reporters that the "muddy road" has become a "cement road", and many brick houses have also become antique courtyards. With more development opportunities and a better living environment, Xu Yushun's son has also returned to his hometown, and many surrounding villagers have also come to work here.
Kuoyang Town promotes the integrated development of "industry + tourism + culture" of national musical instruments, and builds the Lankao County National Musical Instrument Industrial Park (** Town) in three phases, and more than 40 well-known national musical instrument enterprises have settled in the first phase of the commercial street. Combined with the elements of national musical instruments, Xuchang Village has built five amusement parks of "Palace, Business, Corner, Levy and Feather", providing rural tourism services integrating sightseeing and vacation, musical instrument experience, local cuisine and homestay. Qiyang Town was rated as a characteristic eco-tourism demonstration town in Henan Province, and Xuchang Village was rated as an entrepreneurship demonstration village in Henan Province.
This year, the number of orders for the piano workshop has increased significantly, and there is an endless stream of customers who come to visit. Xu Yushun said that the piano workshop can produce more than 700 sets of guqin and other musical instruments a year, with an output value of nearly 3 million yuan. ”
Today, the national musical instrument industry has grown into a pillar industry with characteristics in Lankao County, with a total of 219 musical instrument production enterprises and supporting enterprises in the county, with an annual production and sales of more than 700,000 sets of various national musical instruments, more than 5 million sets of soundboards and accessories, and an annual output value of more than 30 billion yuan. Ren Shengli Zhang Wenhao.
*: People's Daily Online, People**.