Jishishan, Gansu, February 10 On February 9, the Chinese New Year's Eve, the warm winter sun shone into Xiaohongping Village, Jishishan County. The transitional resettlement houses here have been renovated, red lanterns are hung on the doorsteps of every house, and villagers have put up couplets on the doors. The villagers sat around the open space of the resettlement site, ** village Spring Festival Gala".
On the Chinese New Year's Eve of the Chinese Lunar New Year in 2024, at the "Village Spring Festival Gala" in Xiaohongping Village, Jishishan County, the "Ga Laohan" Erhu Band is performing for the villagers. Photo by Jiumei Danzeng.
77-year-old Fan Zhengqian is the oldest member of the "Ga Laohan" erhu band, and every year he and several old friends from the same village appear at the "Village Spring Festival Gala", and this year is no exception. Their repertoire includes "Song of the Four Seasons", "Crop Man" and "Yang Jiajiang". "This year, the village was affected by the disaster, and there is not much we can do, so we can play some songs that the villagers love to listen to, and encourage everyone, life still has to go on. Fan Zhengqian said.
The musicians of the band "Ga Lao Han" have a common New Year's resolution, that is, they hope that young people will join the band and continue this repertoire every year. At the scene of the "Village Spring Festival Gala", the square was full of people, and the audience couldn't take their eyes off it, picking up their mobile phones to take pictures from time to time.
In the children's group dance program, a little girl dressed up in a particularly festive manner became the focus of everyone's photos. Her mother, Li Qingmei, said, "A few days ago, I bought new clothes, headwear and shoes for my child online. In previous years, the things prepared for children for the Chinese New Year will not be less this year. ”
In the prefabricated room of Li Qingmei's house, although it is small, it is very clean and tidy, and the table is placed with New Year's food and dried fruits that have been prepared a few days ago.
At noon on Chinese New Year's Eve 2024, Zhang Guoliang, a villager from Xiaohongping Village, Jishishan County, brought the freshly steamed buns out of the pot in the board room. Photo by Jiumei Danzeng.
Following the fragrance, the reporter came to Zhang Guoliang's board room again, and the family enthusiastically stuffed the freshly steamed steamed leek stuffed buns into the hands of people who came to his house. Each table in the board room is filled with steamed buns and fried noodles, a local must-have for Chinese New Year.
This year, the family has made more food than in previous years, just hoping that the New Year's flavor can be a little full, and the family will be prosperous together for the New Year, and the family will be safe and sound in the coming year. "In the ** more than a month ago, Zhang Guoliang's house collapsed in the **, but fortunately, everyone was safe, and the family lived in the resettlement board house. "As long as the people are good, there is nothing, and the house is built again. Zhang Guoliang said.
On December 18 last year, 6Level 2**, a total of more than 50,000 households and more than 240,000 people in the county were affected, Xiaohongping Village is one of the hardest hit villages this time, and more than 1,800 people from 379 households of 569 households in the village are currently living in centralized resettlement sites.
The picture shows Fan Shengping, a villager in Xiaohongping Village, and his lover preparing the Chinese New Year's Eve meal "hand-grabbed mutton" in the board house. Photo by Wang Muyu.
Outside the house, Fan Shengping was receiving water to wash mutton. "Anyway, you have to have a hand on it today. Fan Shengping is preparing for the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and today his two sons will return from the county seat, and the family of 11 will be reunited in the board house. Hand-grasped mutton is a local specialty that will be eaten during the New Year's holidays.
Fan Shengping's two sons have married daughters-in-law one after another in the past two years, and his family is not wealthy, and he still owes some debts. Because of **, he stayed at home to take care of his 89-year-old father, and his wife took care of his daughter-in-law who had just given birth in Lanzhou, the provincial capital. He tidied up the prefabricated house neatly and used discarded bricks to build a bed large enough for the family to sleep in.
Speaking of the situation at home, Fan Shengping's face was calm and indifferent, still with a smile. After the New Year, he will go to the county factory to work to subsidize the family.
On the day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, around the board houses of the resettlement site in Xiaohongping Village, young volunteers, public security police, firefighters and inspectors stationed at the State Grid were seen from time to time. They are busy guarding the villagers for the "New Year".
The picture shows Ma Yu (first from left) and her colleagues inspecting the safe electricity consumption in the villagers' prefabricated houses. Photo by Wang Muyu.
Seeing the smiles on the faces of the fellows, it was all worth it. "Ma Yu, who was stationed at the national power ** point at the resettlement point in Xiao Hongping Village, Jishishan County, rushed here to be on duty after the incident. A month later, Ma Yu came here again, and he said that this time he came to see the villagers with more smiles, and he and his colleagues were on duty around the clock to ensure that the villagers in the resettlement site had normal electricity.
When night falls, the heat of the dumplings cooked by every household wafts out of the board room and condenses into a cloud of white mist. Outside, children set off fireworks that illuminate their smiling faces.
Wang Muyu, Tian Penghe).