Malan Village is located in the southeast corner of Linzhou City, 14 kilometers northeast of Wulong Town. Malan Village is surrounded by mountains on all sides, surrounded by Panshi Reservoir of Hebi City in the northeast, bordering Nianshang Village in the southwest, and has jurisdiction over two natural villages of Malan and Yayuan, with an area of 10 square kilometers, 900 acres of cultivated land, 9 villager groups, 442 households, and 1725 people.
During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, the family surnamed Wang in Honghe Village, Dongyao Town, and the family surnamed Sun in Tanyu Village, Hebi City moved into the village. Malan Village was originally called Ranma Village, the origin of the village name is related to a historical event, according to the record of "Rebuilding Lin County Chronicles", Ming Chongzhen thirteen years (AD 1640), famine everywhere, people are sleepy and horses are lacking, Qi County thief Su Sun led more than 10,000 soldiers from the county seat, through Huangdong Township Daquanzhuang invaded Malan Village. Bai Baoyi, the magistrate of Linxian County, appointed Li Kun, a native of Yi, as the commander-in-chief, mobilized more than 10,000 soldiers and civilians in Linxian County, and personally led more than 500 cavalry to the area of Malan Village to meet the bandits. When Su Yangyang's troops marched to the mountainside of Lao Yeding in the west of Malan Village, they were suddenly attacked by Li Kunda's troops. After several attacks, they were repelled by the condescending local defenders of Linxian County with stones. After more than 30 battles, Su Taiyang's men and horses were all driven out of the territory of Lin County. In order to commemorate the success of the thieves, the villagers named the village "Stopping Horses" Village. Later, the villagers felt that the name of the village was vulgar**, so they reversed the two words and changed the name to Malan Village.
In 1927, Wang Moniu was born in a peasant family in Malan Village. At that time, the elderly parents were afraid that this little single seedling would not be easy to feed, so they worshiped the stone mill in front of the door as "godmother", and called the girl by the name "niu".
In 1946, when fighting landlords and anti-feudalism, Wang Moniu was at the forefront of everything. In 1947, when the fields were divided into individuals, he and other cadres in the village set up a mutual aid group to help front-line soldiers collect food at home, becoming a role model in the eyes of the masses. In 1952, 25-year-old Wang Moniu honorably joined the Communist Party of China; In 1953, when the sixth district of Linxian County joined the junior society, he was recommended by the masses as the president of the junior society; In 1956, when the senior society was established, he was elected by the masses as the president of the senior society; In 1958, when the Zexia People's Commune was established, he was elected as the deputy secretary of the party branch and the captain of the brigade, and participated in the construction of the Yaozi Street Reservoir in the same year.
After the Spring Festival in 1960, when she was still in the canteen of the People's Commune, 34-year-old Wang Moniu responded to the great call of the Linxian County Party Committee and the county ** on "rearranging the rivers and mountains of Linxian County", and actively went to the north of Linxian County to participate in the construction of the Hongqi Canal. At that time, the country's economy was in a very difficult period, each person had one pound of coarse and fine grain a day, and the rest of the living was insufficient to eat one or two wild vegetables (i.e., peach leaves, poplar leaves, spiny mustard greens, etc.), and wrapped a wild vegetable bag, which was satisfied when it was able to fill its stomach.
The whole commune is organized according to the brigade, a brigade is a company, Dongshan Pian is a battalion (a company of about 150-200 people), Wang Moniu served as the commander of the construction company of the Malan brigade, and led the members of the brigade to set off from the mountain nest at the southeast end of Linxian County, traveled nearly 100 kilometers, arrived at the bank of the Zhanghe River, and set up a battlefield on the cliff of Taihang Mountain. Because everyone understands a big goal in their hearts: that is, only by fighting the battle of "bringing water into the forest" can Linxian completely change the appearance of "water shortage like oil".
On the fifteenth day of the first month of 1960, Wang Moniu and the Malan militia company drove into the construction site of the Sangerzhuang Brigade of Rencun Commune in Linxian County to drill holes. From 1957 to 1962, he led a team to Sangerzhuang many times to squat, eating, living and working with the masses, and the mass foundation was relatively good.
Due to the difficulty of living in the place, Wang Moniu's company was assigned to live under the cliff of the west mountain of the Sangerzhuang brigade, and used the quilt as a bed every day, in order to ensure the early completion of the task of building the Red Flag Canal, they opened the mountain to dig the canal during the day, and worked overtime at night. Due to their superb speed and hard-working spirit, it took only 20 days to complete the task half a month ahead of schedule, and the first shot fired after Ma Lanlian's "introduction into the forest" construction site, and the Red Flag Canal Command greatly praised Ma Lanlian's construction quality and speed. In particular, the leader Wang Moniu's spirit of taking the lead, practicing herself, enduring hardships first, and enjoying the last and the migrant workers won the championship in construction quality, construction safety and construction progress in one fell swoop, and became one of the people who won the leadership commendation for the first time.
Subsequently, the Red Flag Canal Command Headquarters dispatched Wang Moniu's company to the east of the Wangjiazhuang Brigade in Shicheng Commune, Pingshun County, Shanxi Province to build a channel. The cliff here is like a knife splitting an axe, and you can't see the top of the cliff up to see it, and the surging Zhanghe River is turbulent and turbulent downward, and the waves are rolling. The main trunk canal of the Hongqi Canal has to be interspersed in this halfway up the mountainside.
Ma Lanlian's migrant workers' residence is arranged in several newly built pigsties, the shed is very low, can not stand up, lie down and stretch their legs, because of the small area to the outside of the pen, the personnel one by one, a pigsty can hold more than a dozen people.
At that time, Wang Moniu was young and vigorous, and when she went to the headquarters to receive the task, she was not afraid of difficulties and resolutely asked the leaders to assign the most difficult tasks to their company. After careful consideration, the leaders decided that Wang Moniu would be the battalion commander and be responsible for the operation points of the three brigades of Qiyu, Nianshang, and Malan in Zexia Commune, and assigned the most dangerous and difficult section of the "Tiger's Mouth" canal line to the Dongshan camp.
On the way back, Wang Moniu led the two technicians of their battalion to climb to the tiger's mouth for the first time, and they held the stone crack in their hands and climbed to the top of the mountain step by step like geckos. The tiger's mouth is indeed difficult and dangerous, the upper 40-meter-high half-section of the mountain, stretching out to the sky above the Zhanghe River, the lower half is a 50-meter-like knife-like cliff and steep wall, and the middle mountain is only 07 meters wide, people walk on the top, step by step to climb forward through the stone cracks. After climbing to the top of the mountain, the three of them sat down and discussed how to assign tasks. Wang Moniu said: "The 103-meter dangerous project of the tiger's mouth is undertaken by our team, and the remaining 300 meters are undertaken by the two of you. "The Qiyu Brigade and the Grinding Brigade are two people, look at me, I look at you, and want to compete with Wang Moniu for this project, but Wang Moniu refused.
At dawn the next day, the migrant workers followed Wang Moniu to the construction site. The migrant workers of the Malan Brigade saw that it was a tiger's mouth, and some said: "If you fall down, it will fall into a meat pie." At this time, Wang Moniu said: "The revolution must not be afraid of death, although the tiger is dangerous, no matter how dangerous it is, it is dead, people are alive, as long as they have the courage, they dare to pry open the tiger's mouth and erect a red flag canal." The migrant workers said, "! It's the Longtan Tiger's Den, as long as you take the lead, we dare to go up. ”
According to the design requirements of the Linxian Command, it is hard to gnaw down from the top of the cliff piece by piece, which is both laborious and delayed. To build the Hongqi Canal from the "Tiger's Mouth" cliff, it is necessary to open a passage 8 meters wide and 9 meters high into it, and then build the canal on it. After the project began, Wang Moniu, like the migrant workers, tied a rope around her waist and held a sledgehammer in her hand, and she was on the cliff. However, the tiger's mouth is made of granite, and the stone is particularly hard. The migrant workers fought for a long time, and the steel drills broke one after another before they hit a small pit the size of a walnut.
Seeing that time passed day by day, Wang Moniu saw it in her eyes and was anxious in her heart, hoping that the progress would progress quickly. He first climbed the rugged mountain trail, and when he surveyed the rock formations, he found that there were cliff layers about 1 meter thick, purple-red in color, and the stone was soft. Wang Moniu immediately convened a backbone meeting like the discovery of a new continent, and expressed his thoughts, and everyone agreed that we should start from here, and the explosives should be hard but not soft, and the soft layer must be dug up before the explosives can be installed, and the "tiger's mouth" can be blown up, and the red flag canal should be opened.
He personally led the migrant workers, each of whom wore safety ropes and worked suspended on the cliffs. Because there is no place to stand, the hammer has to ride on the body of the iron chisel, the danger is very great, and this can not be constructed according to the requirements. Wang Moniu quietly said to the migrant workers, we are hiding from the headquarters, and if there can be any accidents, everyone must be careful. After working for a day during the day, he worked overtime under the stone cliff at night with his job and worked secretly, and after the cannon hole was hit to a depth of 6 meters, he saw hope and told the Red Flag Canal Command. Subsequently, the general headquarters also knew the bold idea of Wang Moniu of the Malan Brigade, and carried forward the ambition of "one is not afraid of hardship and two is not afraid of death" in the spirit of "one is not afraid of hardship and two is not afraid of death", and in the cliff that everyone is afraid of, it has made seven cannon holes, with a depth of 9 meters, a width of 5 meters and a height of 5 meters, and a total of 2 fillers such as explosives and salt at one time50,000 kg.
The thunderous sound of this spring cannon shook people's hearts. But when the migrant workers approached the tiger's mouth, they saw the mountain wind blowing the live stones, huhula and falling straight into the Zhanghe River. Wang Moniu stepped forward and said, "I'll go down!" As soon as his words fell, many young people such as Song Jingshan and Wang Yuansuo also stood up, and several people pulled a rope and argued. In the end, Wang Moniu said: "You can't go down, because we have no experience in the next brand, and if you are not careful, your life will be in danger." The two of them, one has no children, the other is not married, I am already a person from the past, and I am a party member and cadre, and I have children, so I am the only one. ”
As he spoke, he tied the rope around his waist, and then he kicked against the cliff, and he swung down the cliff. He used a crowbar to pry off the live stones from the tiger's mouth, and the sound of rolling stones swished and stirred up a tall column of water in the Zhanghe River.
One day in March 1960, Wang Moniu was leading people to the construction site. At a distance of 500 meters from the construction site, he looked up and saw that there were still dangerous rocks left on the cliff after the cannon was fired, and he was in danger of falling at any time. He immediately asked the others to evacuate, and then took three migrant workers to the top of the cliff, tied ropes and went down the cliff to remove danger. When the rope went down to 70 meters, a bowl-sized rock hit his back. When he looked up, several pieces of rubble fell on his face, two large teeth were smashed off, and his face was injured in multiple places. After working overtime at night, Wang Moniu went to check other construction sites, but unfortunately was hit by a stone falling from the mountain and fainted immediately. The migrant workers searched for him all night before they found him.
Once, when the Zexia Commune Sub-Headquarters organized a safety inspection, Wang Moniu found a one-foot-wide crack on the top of the cliff when Wang Moniu was inspecting the operation point of the Huadi Brigade, and there was a danger of large-scale collapse at any time. At that time, there were still more than 30 people below in the ** eye. He quickly notified the workers to evacuate and ruled out the danger, avoiding a major accident.
After removing the dangerous stones, he led the migrant workers into building the ditch and the bank. After several months of hard fighting, the tiger's mouth was finally conquered, and the boiling water of the Zhanghe River, passing through the tiger's mouth, rushed eastward. Now the tiger's mouth is still dangerous, its purple-red cliff is like a towering stone monument, carved the entrepreneurial poems of the people of Linxian County.
When repairing the Hongqi Canal, there were no major safety accidents in the construction company of our Malan Brigade, and there were no fatalities, which was inseparable from Wang Moniu's tight grasp of safety and his sacrificial spirit of rushing forward in the face of danger. Hu Hailin, who worked with him back then, said.
When recalling the years when the Hongqi Canal was built, Wang Moniu affectionately shared: "In the more than 1,000 days and nights of the Hongqi Canal, the main canal has basically taken shape. The branch canals were built by the beneficiary units. Despite having a septuagenarian father, two young children, and a frail wife, I have never asked for leave from the organization or left the construction site without permission due to family difficulties. ”
During the tense period of canal repair, Wang Moniu's lover suddenly fell ill, and his family sent many messages urging him to go home, but due to the urgent progress of the project, he never got his wish. Until July 1964, the bad news came, Wang Moniu's lover passed away. He hurried home to attend to the funeral, and then immediately returned to the construction site.
In addition to her deceased lover, there is also a young daughter waiting to be fed. However, four months later, the youngest daughter also passed away due to severe malnutrition and inadequate medical care. In the face of such a blow, Wang Moniu did not ask for leave to go home from the construction site, but entrusted relatives and friends to deal with the aftermath. His steadfastness and perseverance are deeply admired.
Wang Moniu, an ordinary and great Communist Party member, dedicated her life to the post of labor. He has traveled to many construction sites such as Shimen Reservoir, Huangdi Power Station and Weihe River Treatment, strictly demanding himself with the high standards of party members, and leaving a shining footprint with the spirit of hard-working and tenacious struggle. His hard work has not only won the honors of "Advanced Worker" and "Outstanding Communist Party Member" many times, but also was awarded the title of "Linxian Model Worker" by the county in 1980.
Wang Moniu once said affectionately: "Although I have made some achievements, I have never been complacent and have never made additional requests to the organization. Even after leaving the leadership post, I still have the interests of the party and the people in mind, and I have always been selfless and dedicated. The spirit of the Red Flag Canal cannot be lost, and we must unite and cooperate and make selfless contributions. ** We are actively promoting the good party style and promoting the improvement of the social atmosphere, and I believe that as long as we work together, we will be able to create a more brilliant future. ”
On July 1, 1993, at the county's "July 1st" devotee footprint report meeting, Wang Moniu shared her mental journey: "The interview with the site correspondent gave me great encouragement. After the completion of the Hongqi Canal, I was honored to participate in the water opening ceremony with the provincial, municipal and county leaders, and won the title of special model for the construction of the Hongqi Canal. All these honors and experiences have become eternal memories in my heart. ”
In March 2013, this venerable Communist Party member completed his ordinary and great life at the age of 86. His story and spirit will always inspire us.