On April 23, 2021, He Jiaolong came to Beijing. (Reporter Hou Xinying / Photo)
"The eighteen martial arts we learned and the higher education we received were not to get us out of our impoverished hometown, but to get our hometown out of poverty." This is the belief that He Jiaolong has always adhered to.
| Author: Yang Xueyi
"It's still foreign to me." In late April, in the office of the Ili Prefecture Bureau of Culture and Tourism in Xinjiang, He Jiaolong, who had just assumed the new deputy directorate, told the Global People reporter: "Since I was born, except for the years of school, I have been growing up in Zhaosu and rarely left. ”
After coming to the State Bureau of Culture and Tourism, she also took three paintings hanging in the original county government office and hung them on the wall. One is a photo of the scenery of the Green Lake taken when she was the party secretary of Tianshan Township, "This lake is on the top of the Tianshan Mountain, the lake surface is heart-shaped, and it changes different colors throughout the year." The other is a huge scenic photograph of the Sciatta scenic area, hanging behind a desk.
In He Jiaolong's office, the scenic map of Zhaosu Xia Pagoda hanging.
The third painting is the most familiar to netizens, in the vast snowfield, He Jiaolong is dressed in a red cloak, galloping across the horse herd, cool and grand. The picture hung across from her desk, and she could see it as soon as she looked up as she sat there. "I rode a local Ili earth horse with a shoulder height of one meter and seven meters. Ma Is eight feet is a dragon, and I am also He Jiaolong, so this photo shows the 'Dragon Horse Spirit'. ”
In He Jiaolong's office, there is a picture of her galloping among the horses.
He Jiaolong's heart was still nostalgic for the land she was familiar with. For most people, the above scenery is a secret place. But for her, it was home, with a sense of security that nowhere else could give her. "My roots are there, everything there seems to belong to me, and everything I have belongs there."
In November last year, in order to "bring goods" to the county's unsalable enterprises during the epidemic period, He Jiaolong, then deputy county magistrate of Zhaosu County, galloped in the snow-capped grassland, and was immediately well known by netizens across the country and became a "net red female county chief".
Over the past few months, more and more people have begun to learn about Zhaosu County, which is located in the northwestern border of the motherland, through her, and they like it there. "So when the organization talked to me, I said I was willing to stay in Zhaosu because it was a good place for me." Eventually, she was transferred to the state. Since becoming popular, He Jiaolong has not only received praise, but also questions, "This new appointment is the organization's greatest praise and affirmation for me, and I also have honor and satisfaction."
Therefore, at this time, He Jiaolong became a contradiction. On the one hand, she did not fail in her mission, adapted to her new position, and planned the statewide tourism promotion and training in charge, on the other hand, she constantly looked back at Zhaosu's bits and pieces.
My "human design" is natural growth
Not long ago, while filming in the Apricot Blossom Valley of Fushou Mountain, He Jiaolong saw the Yili horse that waved goodbye in Zhaosuyi.
In an indoor stadium training, she rode on this horse that was accustomed to running on the grassland, full of momentum, and at the end of only 800 meters of the track, the horse suddenly came to an emergency stop, He Jiaolong fell to the front of the horse in an instant, and for a moment of time, she seemed to see the god of death. And just as she landed, the horse took an arrow step and jumped over her.
Since then, He Jiaolong has communicated with this horse's heart and established a certain life connection, and as long as he is photogenic, he will try to ride it. After taking up the post of new state bureau of culture and tourism, what she missed most was this horse, and when they met again, she kept stroking the horse's mane, and the tears couldn't stop falling.
He Jiaolong loves the Yili horses together.
In fact, becoming an "internet celebrity" is not what He Jiaolong wants. Not only was she unable to see her beloved horse very often, but she also added to her troubles. "Everyone is staring at you, are you going to play a big card?" Is it some unintentional act that will be interpreted as free and loose? So, she restrained herself more strictly, "In the past, in the county, in the face of any job, I was always confident that I could do it, but now I am worried that even a small mistake may be magnified several times." ”
Becoming popular has made He Jiaolong a public figure, and has also ushered in many tasks outside her job. Previously, she had always insisted on using all the tips of Douyin Live as charity. Today, the families of critically ill patients turn to her for help. The benevolent person specially brushed tens of thousands of yuan during her live broadcast, "Some people also sent me 15,000 kilograms of rice, and there is only one request: let me personally send these to the hands of poor households." I think these people believe that I can benefit the weak." These tasks once put a lot of pressure on her.
But gradually, He Jiaolong found that "although doing public welfare is hard, it is addictive." She realized that her current troubles could be dispelled with the happiness on the recipient's face. "When I see the children in the welfare home, my heart is comforted. Their trusting eyes are what I need most when I encounter doubts. So, it seems like I helped them, but in fact they healed me. ”
Once, someone said to He Jiaolong: The character you created is very real and very successful! Confused, she asked, "What is a human design?" The other party said: "You are a deputy county magistrate, and you help farmers for public welfare; you are in the northwestern border of Xinjiang, and you are also galloping horses." He Jiaolong was even more puzzled, "But then I understood, isn't the so-called 'human design' a fake?" But what I did was obviously true. ”
In May 2020, Ili Prefecture promoted the resumption of work and production, business and market, to help alleviate poverty, and required counties and cities to send 1 county leader and 1 head anchor to participate in live broadcast activities. The cost of inviting the head anchor is high, so He Jiaolong decided to personally fight.
Halina, deputy director of the Zhaosu County Cultural and Tourism Bureau, told reporters: "Deputy County Governor He is very 'cutting the door' in our eyes and wants to spend every penny on the blade. I remember when I first tested the water, there were only thirty or forty people in the live broadcast room. But He Jiaolong realized that live broadcasting can not only solve the slow sales of goods caused by the epidemic, but also promote the beauty of Zhaosu and drive tourism. So she called others for advice, and connected with the popular anchor to accumulate popularity.
In July, Zhaosu ushered in the annual International Pegasus Festival, which was affected by the epidemic and the event was held online. "I remember when she was broadcasting live on it, and she already had more than 1,000 followers." At that time, when the rape flowers of 10,000 mu in Zhaosu County were in full bloom, He Jiaolong went to the field and photographed everything she loved: horses eating grass, blooming rape flowers, buzzing little bees, and snow-capped Tianshan Mountains all year round...
Subsequently, the epidemic situation in Xinjiang was repeated. He Jiaolong did not stop "bringing goods", not only broadcasting outside, but also at home. Harina said: "I once told her if I could not start broadcasting every day, I was too tired. But she said, 'bringing goods' is like opening a store, you can't open it for one day, close it for three days, so where are the customers? He Jiaolong often said that although the network is virtual, traffic is economic.
He Jiaolong in the live broadcast "with goods".
In the unremitting persistence, He Jiaolong's popularity has become more and more vigorous. She "brings" honey, rapeseed oil, crystal powder, cheese, etc. to the county and makes them a part of life. Even if someone came to Zhaosu to learn the scriptures, He Jiaolong would invite them to their home and use crystal powder to make fried sauce noodles while broadcasting them correctly.
September is the autumn harvest season of Zhaosu, she walked to the harvest wheat field, put on the national costume, and danced the Kazakh national dance "Black Walking Horse" with her colleagues. In November, He Jiaolong began to strongly recommend Zhaosu ice and snow tourism resources, and she chose a red cloak to set up a horse snow field. It is this short video that has finally become a hot search on the whole network. He Jiaolong was on fire, and Ili Zhaosu was on fire.
As a close friend, Halina saw that she was distressed: "In order not to delay her normal work, she began to broadcast live at 8 o'clock in the morning (according to the local schedule, equivalent to 6 o'clock in Beijing), and broadcast until 11 o'clock in the evening, or even until 1 o'clock at night." I told her that we waited until this day, and it was really not easy. ”
He Jiaolong believes that although it is separated from the screen, the truth will always be moving. Since becoming popular, many people will ask her: How did you plan it? Whenever this happened, she answered truthfully: "Everyone on the team is an 'amateur player' who has not been specially planned." "Even the red cloak she wore was rented from the photo studio, and after the video was fired, it was bought at a high price, and the red cloak she wore later was remade by the county cultural and labor troupe."
Asked a lot, she will also ask herself: When netizens like me, what do you like? "Now somewhat understand that the video of the Cema Snow Field, like nature's magic of the Tianshan Mountains, is something that grows naturally." These heartfelt true outpourings must have hit some of the complexes in the hearts of netizens. But the imagery of these complexes is vague and makes people want to stop talking. "Maybe if you go to Zhaosu, you'll find the answer." He Jiaolong's suggestion made the reporter decide to leave immediately.
Riding a horse in Hanfu, galloping in the great rivers and mountains
On May 12, 2014, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out at the special conference of the World Sweat and Blood Horse Association and the president meeting of the Chinese Horse Culture Festival that horses have an important position in Chinese culture and China's horse culture has a long history. Building a country requires the momentum of ten thousand horses galloping, promoting development requires the momentum of speeding up the horse, and pioneering and innovating requires the courage to take the lead. The horse is a symbol of continuous struggle and self-improvement, and the horse is the representative of hard-working and courageous progress. Chinese people are working hard to realize the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
After taking office, He Jiaolong made clear his goal: to promote Yili to the whole country and the world. "In the face of big goals, there are small incisions. I have a fire in my heart: riding an Ili horse, wearing Hanfu, and galloping in the great rivers and mountains of the motherland. ”
In fact, when she first galloped in the snow field, her heart was dissatisfied: "When everyone mentions horses, it is a Mongolian horse, or even a small pony; when equestrianism is mentioned, it is a stadium equestrian in Western-style clothing." But we Zhaosu is the hometown of Tianma, and I just want everyone to see Zhaosu Tianma. ”
Zhaosu Tianma culture originates from unique natural conditions. "First of all, it is above 2,000 meters above sea level, which is a sub-plateau basin. The opening opens to the west and allows cold Siberian air to blow in, forming more precipitation, so the water and grass here are abundant. Secondly, the temperature here is lower, and the horse's nature prefers cold and cold. Li Hai, director of the Horse Industry Development Service Center of Zhaosu County, told reporters. Zhaosu County has a permanent population of 120,000 people, and there are 120,000 horses, one horse per capita.
The horses here are mainly modified Ili horses of mixed breeds, and they are generally taller than other horse breeds. "I've been in the mainland for more than 20 years, but I still have to come back." Bayin Belek is the gold medal coach of Zhaosu Tianma Cultural Park. Known as the "Horse King", he has a brilliant career, "Compared with other horse breeds, the Ili horse is an all-rounder, which can compete, perform, and travel and ride." "The competitive characteristics of Ili horses are excellent endurance, the so-called "road remote knowledge horsepower", compared with foreign valuable thoroughbred horses, once the competitive mileage exceeds 10 kilometers, Ili horses almost have no opponents. Ili horses are not picky eaters and have a strong ability to adapt to the environment.
"After spending a long time with the horse, you will find that its happiness and sadness can only be understood by the owner, and outsiders cannot see it." Bayinbelek said a battle-hardened horse that had accompanied him for 10 years died of a hernia in 2015. He still can't get out of the pain, "it's like a loved one has died." He said that the horse is one of the most spiritual animals, riding on it, the slight movement of the person will be perceived, and over time, the horse will become a part of human life.
The "second generation of zhiqing" should be a good tinder
Zhaosuma culture has a long history. The "Book of Han and the Biography of the Western Regions" records: "The divine horse came from the West, and the good horse of Wusun was called the Heavenly Horse." According to research, Zhaosu is the xia capital of the ancient kingdom of Wusun, and the tianma is the Ili horse.
In the territory of Zhaosu, there is the tomb of the princess of the Western Han Dynasty. In order to fight against the Xiongnu, Emperor Wu of han made Liu Xijun a princess and a pro-Wusun. After many years of stationing outside the border pass, Liu Xijun missed his homeland and sang sadly: "My family marries me to the heavens, and entrusts wang Yan in a foreign country." The vault is the wall of the chamber and the meat is the pulp. Ju Chang Tu Si Xi was wounded in his heart, and he was willing to return to his hometown for Huang Huxi. "The harmony of Princess Xiaojun was exchanged for the harmony and tranquility of the frontier, and brought the canonical system and ritual music culture of the Central Plains to the distant western region."
・Statue of Princess Xiaojun in Zhaosu County.
After Princess Xiaojun died of illness, Han sent Princess Xie and her relatives Wusun. The dowry maid Feng Yan became a generation of diplomatic women, and she became proficient in the language and writing of the Western Regions in only a few years, and princess Jieyou traveled to neighboring countries to promote the indoctrination of the Han Dynasty. Later, in the civil unrest in Wusun, Feng Yan continued to mediate, and was made an envoy by Emperor Xuan of Han, playing an important role in the dingguo an state. Some of these stories predate Zhaojun's departure. When Princess Xiaojun, Princess Jieyou, and Feng Yan were far away from their homeland, perhaps only Ili horses could give them some comfort.
On the Zhaosuge Mountain near the border, there is a piece of the Qianlong Emperor's imperial pen "Pingding Junggar Le Mingge Mountaineering Monument". In 1755, the Qianlong Emperor sent troops to quell the rebellion of the Dzungar noble leader Dawazi who split the motherland, and the Battle of Geleng was a decisive battle to put down the rebellion. Back then, Tianma witnessed the determination of the Qing generals to guard the frontier here.
"In the northwestern frontier of the motherland, even women like me have a kind of power in their hearts: grow savagely and live towards the sun. I am courageous, positive and fearless. When He Jiaolong recalled these histories with reporters, she deeply felt the spiritual wealth brought to her by this land.
He Jiaolong grew up in the Ahegazi Ranch, and like other children, he learned to ride a horse at a very young age. Li Zongyi, a zhiqing who served as a deputy director of the ranch, recalled to reporters: "In the 1960s, Zhaosu wheat generally had fishy smut disease, and everyone ate noodles black. Roads throughout the county are muddy and there are no hardened roads. If you go to the countryside, you can only drive a tractor, or ride a horse, and walk for most of the day. Even the shuttle bus from Ili Prefecture to Zhaosu County is made up of simple wooden planks behind trucks. At that time, the county had little electricity, it was difficult to draft water, and it was often necessary to go to distant rivers and dams to fetch water to drink, and people and livestock drank together. ”
He Jiaolong's father is from Sichuan and his mother is from Jiangsu, and they are all members of countless young people in the border areas, dedicating their youth to the construction of the frontier. "Our generation dedicates the best youth to Zhaosu. If China wants to develop and its cause is to advance, a large number of people need to pass by. That spirit of sacrifice, dedication, is hard to empathize with without experiencing it. Li Zongyi said.
In September 2012, He Jiaolong went to Zhaosu Town as party secretary. She was attracted by the zhiqing culture of the lighthouse ranch here, remembering the words and deeds of her father's generation, and she felt that she had the responsibility to pass on the spirit of zhiqing. In 2015, after renovation and upgrading, the Lighthouse Ranch Office was transformed into the Lighthouse Zhiqing Pavilion. In those years, He Jiaolong often explained to visitors the spirit of Zhiqing. Harina, an ethnic Kazakh, said that the Kazakh name of the ranch is "wick" and the Chinese is "lighthouse", which is the light in the spirit of the people of the frontier.
・Lighthouse ZhiqingGuan. (Reporter Yang Xueyi / Photo)
The motherland supports the frontier, and the frontier also pays attention to the motherland. In 1977, more than 90 herdsmen from the Zhaosu Military Horse Farm set off to prepare to send 3,000 Ili horses to Tangshan to support post-disaster reconstruction. Huoka, a 27-year-old boy at the time, told reporters that in order to avoid the dispersion of military horses, they divided into 18 groups, and after more than 50 days of arduous trekking to Reach Urumqi, they then took 3,000 military horses by train.
They had to climb over icebergs, the trail openers had to carve a path out of the glaciers; they had to go through primeval forests, infested with poisonous snakes and beasts; they had to cross swamps, trapping 20 military horses at a time, and the herdsmen were desperate to rescue them, and they fought for an hour to get the horses up.
Huoka remembers: "When the train arrived in Tangshan, we saw people waving red flags, but there was a ruin around them. At that moment, we all cried bitterly. One side has difficulties, the eight parties help each other, and the hearts of the Zhaosu people have been sent! ”
In the Zhaosu Tianma Museum, there is a ceramic cup donated to the Zhaosu herdsmen by the people of the Tangshan disaster area, which reads "Sending military horses for thousands of miles, and the friendship between the military and the people is deep." (Reporter Yang Xueyi / Photo)
He Jiaolong passed on the fire of the older generation and first came to Tianshan Township, the farthest from the county seat, to work. "I often recall the scene at that time, Tianshan Township was on the border, and we often rode horses to patrol the border." When people see He Jiaolong's horse snow field, they should also imagine that more than ten years ago, this red-clad "heroine" braved the snow to patrol the border passes, as if Princess Xiaojun and Princess Jieyou were riding horses and stepping out of the snow; and it was as if the father's generation had a heroic feat of sending military horses on the glacier...
"A generation has a generation of responsibilities, and the older generation has given us a good example." For the frontier, bravely facing the dividends of the 5G era, daring to break through and try, is also a kind of responsibility. As long as I am selfless in my heart, I will be brave and fearless, and I will work harder to take responsibility. History will prove a lot of things. ”
In that year, Zhiqing sang all the way and was inspired by this banner to join the zhaosu plateau.
Not to get rid of the poor hometown,
Only for the hometown to get rid of poverty
She also sees hope in contemporary youth. After graduating from university, Mao Lide returned to his hometown to start a business and engage in the production and sales of honey, and last year's epidemic hit him. "Before Deputy County Governor He 'brought goods', sales in 2020 were only more than 10,000 yuan. But in the end, online sales in 2020 reached more than 2.3 million yuan, while driving offline sales of two or three million yuan. Our sales in 2019 were $970,000, which increased at least 4 times in 2020. ”
Most people see he Jiaolong's impressive achievements in "bringing goods", but in that battle against poverty, the road she has traveled is even more tortuous and arduous. "On the frontier, it's too hard to change the face of this huge poor group." Especially seeing some backward thinking of poor households, she was even more helpless, "In the first year, you gave him a poverty alleviation sheep, and he sold it in the blink of an eye; the second year, you gave him a poverty alleviation cow, and he sold it again, and he also said that this year's harvest was not good." ”
He Jiaolong looked in his eyes and was anxious in his heart. She also set up a breeding greenhouse for poor households, prepared chicken seedlings and chicken feed, and talked with poor households. Later, the poor family finally got on the right track, "after getting rid of poverty, he came back to me and said that he was stupid at the time, and now he especially thanks me."
"I came all the way from the grassroots level and was accepted by everyone on the short video platform, which should also be related to this." He Jiaolong said that when dealing with the people in the fields, he needed to translate the "tall" language in the document into the words of the people. "Only if the people can understand, they will understand and can give you more things back." Netizens are also people, and they are more real people. I can make the villagers understand, and I can make the fans understand. ”
During his tenure as deputy county magistrate, He Jiaolong contacted the village of Senmutas in the town of Kashagar. In May 2019, He Jiaolong walked into the home of villager Zabila Nusfu Khan for the first time. Because of an accident, Nusfu Khan was able to raise a few children alone and became a single mother. He Jiaolong saw the four walls of Nusfu Khan's family, and he was very distressed, and immediately took out 1,000 yuan. What worried her even more was the despair and decadence of Nusfu Khan.
"Governor He said to me at that time, no matter what, there are children with you, this is the greatest happiness in life." The current difficulties, with the help of the party and the government, will surely pass. A sentence awakened the dreamer, Nusfu Khan suddenly realized, but she had a serious illness and could not support herself. He Jiaolong said to her again, "First cure the disease, and I will help you during this time." ”
During that time, it was the low point of Nusfu Khan's life, and He Jiaolong had to visit her once a month. Even during the 2020 epidemic, He Jiaolong came to her house at least once a quarter. Through two years of encouragement and support from He Jiaolong, the situation of the Nusfu Khan family has finally improved. He Jiaolong helped Nusfu Khan find a cleaning job at the village committee and put her life back on track.
On April 3 this year, on the eve of He Jiaolong's new appointment, he came to Nusfu Khan's house again, and the children hugged "He Mama" and begged her not to leave. She told the children that although they would not come so often in the future, they would come at least twice a year. The eldest daughter, Ayuna Gjumanur, said to Ho jiaolong, "I will be like you in the future." He Jiaolong smiled and said, "Like me? "Yes, become the county magistrate." "Good boy, you have to study hard to be like me." Jumanur nodded seriously, and the flame of hope was ignited.
Nusfu Khan still remembers the joy and excitement of her crazy liking with her children when the video of He Jiaolong Cema Snow Plain went viral on the Internet. "Is this image different from her usual?" The Global People reporter asked. In the video, she is chivalrous; in reality, she helps the weak. This spirit is consistent and eternal. Nusfu Khan said thoughtfully, in fact, this is the most real He Jiaolong in their hearts.