On December 23, 2023, I was invited to participate in a cultural event with the theme of "Red Cow Spring" cultural exploration tour, which was of high standard, wide range and strong atmosphere, which was unprecedented and influential.
Niuquan Town is located in the southwest of Laiwu District, bordering the Dawen River in the north, Lianhua Mountain in the south, and Tai'an Daiyue District in the west, with rich ecological and cultural resources. The first time I went to Niuquan was in 1994, when I worked in the Propaganda Department of the former Laiwu Municipal Party Committee. On the eve of the National Day, nearly 30 people from the subordinate units of the ministry took a bus to Yuntai Mountain to visit the establishment of the Laiwu County Party Committee of the Communist Party of China and review the oath of joining the party. First, visit the site of the monk cave, and then face the "red flag floating in all generations" stone monument, raise your fist and swear, and finally take a group photo.
It was from that time that I began to understand the history of the Laiwu Party, the former residence of Liu Zhongying, and even the former site of the Shandong Provincial Working Committee of the Communist Party of China - Niuquan is a proper red town.
In Laiwu, comparable to Niuquan Town, it can only be the tea industry. During the Anti-Japanese War, the territory of the tea industry was the main battlefield in Luzhong, where the army and civilians fought bloody battles and defeated the enemy, and the heroic deeds of the martyrs can be sung and cried; As early as the autumn of 1932, the red regime was born in Niuquan, which gathered the talents and backbones of the party organization, and was a place of "strategizing". The advantages of the two interact and complement each other.
Now, the former site of the Shandong Provincial Working Committee of the Communist Party of China has been unveiled with a new look: multi-angle and all-round construction, physical and real-life display, three-dimensional and immersive experience. It can be said that the renovated and renovated site of the Provincial Working Committee is high-end and high-grade. Because of this, party members and cadres from all over the country have come to take it as the main front for carrying out party spirit education.
I have visited the scene many times, visited the exhibition hall, admired the heroic spirit, and always felt a magical power, as if I was in a strong magnetic field.
The red hot land lives up to its name, and the relics of the ancient relics show the outstanding people of the earth.
The third national cultural relics census, which lasted five years, determined that "the Great Wall of Lu is in Laiwu" was included in the third cultural relics census in Shandong "the twelfth new discovery". The Great Wall of Lu is 70 kilometers away from the Great Wall of Qi in the north, starting from Chongya Mountain in the west and reaching the area of Huangyang Mountain in the east, with a total length of more than 30 kilometers. It was built about 601 B.C. by the Lu State to defend the Qi State. Most of the Great Wall of Lu is in the territory of Niuquan Town. There is the Great Wall of Qi in the north and the Great Wall of Lu in the south, and Laiwu was once repositioned, that is, "a city sandwiched between the Great Wall".
In 2018, the then Laiwu ** Society decided to use a month to organize reporters to conduct interviews on the entire line of the Great Wall of Lu. On September 17, as the executive editor-in-chief, I led the interview group to the first stop, which was Qi Province Zhuang in the southwest of Niuquan Town. On that day, we boarded the nearby Zhanxiong Village.
Zhanxiong Village, named after people, is the base camp of the Liuxia Plantar Rebellion. Liu Xiajiao, also known as Liu Zhanxiong, was a famous leader of the slave uprising. After more than 2,000 years, the stone wall of Zhanxiong Village is still there, and the ancient style still exists.
In the same year, due to interests and responsibilities, after systematic combing and induction, "The Roots and Soul of Laiwu Culture" was reported. Fortunately, with this interview, the historical facts of Zhanxiongzhai have not been omitted.
Sitting and meditating, there will be a magnificent picture scroll flashing: one south and one north of the mountains, extending the ancient Great Wall, the eight treasures of the Phoenix City inlaid in it, the surging Dawen River around the west of the city ......The picture scroll is imposing like a rainbow and is very poetic.
It is still in this area that Qilu Jiagu will join the alliance, and the holy Confucius shows his wisdom and bravery; At the foot of the towering Bijia Mountain, the sage of the book Wang Xizhi expresses his feelings; The place where Huang Chao fell from the horse witnessed the death of a generation of uprising leaders; Wu Zixu whipped Wolongshi, leaving behind a popular legend ......
I've been thinking and asking, is there a huge magnet for these major historical events to converge here?
The cultural landscape is shining, and the natural endowment condenses the treasure.
In 2003, due to the task of attracting investment in Baocun, my colleague Director Sun and I decided to take the May Day holiday to Xinjiang by train to inspect the project. We are going to visit Director Sun's cousin, Boss Li, and the gift we chose is a swallow stone, sixty or seventy centimeters high, which was specially bought at the holy well in Niuquan Town. Since we couldn't check it in, we took turns to carry it around.
When we arrived in Urumqi, at Boss Li's house, we installed the swallow stone and gave a brief introduction. Boss Li's eyes lit up, he was amazed, and praised "priceless treasure" repeatedly. It turned out that he studied geology and knew the preciousness of billion-year-old fossils. Through the "unexpected joy", Boss Li took us on a tour of southern Xinjiang and gained a lot.
Tin carving, swallow stone, treasure gourd are known as "Laiwu Three Treasures". Artificial, God-given and "divine help", the three have their own merits, and they can all be called ingenious and breathtaking. It's hard to imagine that hundreds of millions of years ago, those trilobites, which resemble swallows, gathered here in large numbers, and how could they be done without strong magnetic adsorption?
Niuquan Town has green waters and green mountains, rich mineral deposits, and more "cattle". Laiwu's planting and breeding industry is developed, and "three spicy and one hemp" and "three black and one flower" are famous all over the world. Among them, chicken legs, green onions, and long-haired rabbits with flower ears are unique to Niuquan; Dahongpao peppercorns, several cattle springs are of high quality and high yield.
Red Cow Spring, Green Cow Spring, Ecological Cow Spring, Sunshine Cow Spring, ......The scholars and experts who came to participate in the event expressed their opinions on how to position themselves. In fact, Niu Quan is like an elegant and beautiful woman, and like a trendy man, no matter how she dresses up and how she names it, it is very suitable and suitable.
The red is sacred, the antique is heavy, and the green is abundant. A limited area, dense with many historical elements and symbols of the times, converges into an ecological bonanza and cultural highland.
The magnetic effect of Niuquan is getting stronger and stronger, attracting a lot of cultural scholars. They came from the provincial capital to carry out cultural excavation and discussion, compile a cultural map of the town, upgrade and empower, and help rural revitalization and strong town construction. The local rulers took advantage of the trend, skillfully took advantage of the east wind, "the inside should be the outside", hired a group of consultants and village sages, set up a high-profile research center, organized theme activities, and started a journey of cultural exploration.
Culture focuses on construction and inheritance. In an article, I cited examples and came to the point that the name of the ruler is often not in GDP, but in cultural construction. Although biased, it is not without reason. Because culture has a unique charm and its own light, it can not only improve the position, enhance self-confidence, but also stimulate empathy and illuminate the future. (Jinan** Author: Zhang Quanbao).