"Iron Maiden" is the title of the ancients for some women with special qualities, who are strong, hardworking, resilient, down-to-earth and willing to pay.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Guo Fenglian, a girl from Dazhai Village, Xiyang County, Shanxi Province, was also known as the "Iron Girl".
Today, decades have passed, and the former Iron Maiden has entered the age of antiquity, but the legend that belongs to her is still continuing.
In September 1947, Guo Fenglian was born in a remote mountain village, and no one could have predicted that there was a huge amount of energy hidden in this little child's body.
Perhaps fate took care of Guo Fenglian, in that era when education was not popular, Guo Fenglian finished elementary school, junior high school and high school.
With her conditions at that time, as long as she calmed down and continued to work hard for further study, college students were definitely not the end of her life.
But Guo Fenglian has never been an immortal who drinks wind and food in the sky, but a walker who wanders the world. From childhood to adulthood, she saw the hardships experienced by those relatives and friends.
Knowledge is a weapon that can change people's lives, in order not to let the next generation be confined to this difficult life, Guo Fenglian gave up the opportunity to continue her studies and stayed in Dazhai Village under the advice of the helmsman of Dazhai Village.
In fact, I don't want much, I just want Guo Fenglian to stay in her hometown and teach what she has learned to those local children. Let a few more golden phoenixes fly out of the poverty of "seven ditches, eight beams and one slope".
But in Guo Fenglian's eyes, what Dazhai Village lacked at this time was more than a few knowledgeable college students!
That year, Guo Fenglian folded her trouser legs, shortened her sleeves, and then picked up farm tools and rushed to the field.
Perhaps in the eyes of outsiders, Guo Fenglian, as a kindergarten teacher, can stay in the kindergarten and only need to bring her own classes every day.
Guo Fenglian does not think so, Dazhai Village, Xiyang County, Shanxi Province, has more than 700 acres of mountainous land, but there are only more than 100 laborers.
If these lands were even flat land, in fact, these 700 acres of mountainous land were divided into more than 4,800 pieces by various ravines and mountain beams, and the labor force of more than 100 people alone was not enough.
Guo Fenglian is also a little girl who has suffered from hardship, and after her mother died early, she was sent to her grandmother's house. My grandmother's legs are not good, and there is no male at home, so Guo Fenglian needs to do a lot of heavy housework by herself.
When Guo Fenglian grows up, the life of the family is slightly better, but every year the commune can not even fill a small jar of grain, how can she be full for a year?
Perhaps it was with this experience that Guo Fenglian never minded going to the fields to be a helper. In many cases, she even had to work harder than some of the men in the village.
Unlike others, although Guo Fenglian works in the fields, she does not stop thinking.
In the end, under Guo Fenglian's efforts and leadership, the more than 4,800 small fields were turned into terraced fields, and the harvest increased year by year. At that time, there was even a slogan "Agricultural Dazhai" because of Guo Fenglian.
Guo Fenglian first became famous nationwide because of a cover of the People's Pictorial, when she was only in her thirties, with a ponytail and a hoe in her hand, looking like a rural peasant.
This image has remained in the memory of several generations with the "People's Pictorial", and now Guo Fenglian is no longer young, and her image has begun to blur in the memories of those people, but her spirit has never dissipated.
Turning scattered small fields into patchwork terraces has changed the traditional planting pattern of Dazhai Village and increased the yield of farmland.
But this kind of change can only barely feed the parents and villagers in Dazhai Village, and cannot help them really get rid of poverty.
After the development of Dazhai Village entered a bottleneck period, the times sent another spring breeze into Dazhai Village.
With the reform and opening up, there are opportunities to make a fortune everywhere. Guo Fenglian knows that if you want Dazhai Village to become rich, you must let the people in the village also learn to do business and fundamentally improve the business model of Dazhai Village.
In November 1991, Guo Fenglian's tenacious fighting spirit and excellent leadership ability were recognized by the people of Dazhai Village. That year, 45-year-old Guo Fenglian was appointed as the eighth party branch secretary of Dazhai Village.
Under the spring breeze of reform and opening up, Guo Fenglian brought the villagers of Dazhai Village into the environment of market economy. Attracting funds, launching projects, setting up factories and other work that should be done, she has never been left behind.
In 1992, when many people had not yet accepted the idea of market economy, Dazhai Village set up the country's first village-run enterprise, although it was only a garment factory, but its changes to Dazhai Village were not limited to the improvement of economic conditions.
After years of development, this small garment factory has already completed its industrial transformation, and now includes a variety of different industrial chains such as building materials manufacturing, beverage processing and tourism development.
Reform and opening up is both an opportunity and a challenge. Guo Fenglian never thought that she could cope with various challenges well with her own abilities.
Therefore, in her pursuit of development, she prefers to see herself as a link between the villagers of Xiyang and Dazhai on the one hand, and the market and the entrepreneurs who are active in the market on the other.
After crossing the high mountains, you will understand that there is a sky outside the sky, and there are mountains outside the mountain.
Even though the economic conditions of Xiyang County and Dazhai Village are dozens of times better than those of a few decades ago, Guo Fenglian knows in her heart that there is still a long way to go, and stopping here will only make Xiyang County and Dazhai Village return to the past.
Because of this, even though she has stepped into a new era, Guo Fenglian still keeps her mission in mind, does not forget her original intention, and continues to play the leading role that a party member should play in the front-line position.
After the 18th and 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Guo Fenglian actively studied the party's instructions and policies, and combined with the policies issued by the Communist Party of China to benefit farmers, she created a series of models for farmers in Xiyang County and Dazhai Village.
Local farmers became shareholders of the company and received dividends from the company in Dazhai Village every year.
Thanks to Guo Fenglian's efforts, the mountains in Dazhai Village are greener, the water is clearer, and there are more smiles on people's faces. But there is still a gap between this and the goal in Guo Fenglian's heart.
After the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Guo Fenglian's development ideas were further opened, and the ideas of joint villages and joint industries were integrated into the development model of the enterprise, truly creating a sustainable development path.
Maybe in the eyes of some people, Guo Fenglian has done enough, but in her own eyes, these are far from enough.
Now Guo Fenglian's two sons have also built factories successively, and they are worth more than 100 million yuan, and they can also help the sustainable development of Dazhai Village.
His eldest son even paid out of his own pocket and spent 30 million yuan to build a temple to help the development of tourism in Dazhai Village.
From a certain point of view, this is also Guo Fenglian's son inherited her will, and I believe that the lives of the people in Xiyang County and Dazhai Village will get better and better.