Xinhua News Agency, Urumqi, September 16 title: "Folk Museum": Feel the Xinjiang hometown Ben Xiaokang
Xinhua News Agency reporters Zhang Zhongkai and Zhang Xiaolong
A few days ago, the reporter walked into the home of Wugabra Ahmad.
His home is located in Wutamu Township, Ruoqiang County, Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang, an oasis caught in the middle of the desert. When you walk into its spacious compound, you feel that this home is no different from other neighbors, and when you go inside, you feel that there is something different.
Wooden basins, oil lamps, copper pots for waterlogged dams, tv sets the size of tissue boxes... The four rooms are filled with decades-old utensils, production tools, and cultural daily necessities.
The 59-year-old Wugabra has been working in the countryside for cultural work in the past, and out of hobby, he has collected hundreds of old objects over the decades. Later, he spent nearly 200,000 yuan to build this small "folk museum" at home. After opening to the public in May 2017, more than 3,000 visitors came from all walks of life.
Wu Gabula still remembers the tight days of his childhood: living in an earthen house, sleeping on the earthen kang, eating ramen once a week, making a good bun to hang up, afraid of being eaten by rats..." I want to show my past life, let the young people know how much change has changed, and the good days are not picked up! He said.
Eiskar Ahmet, a 23-year-old local university student, came to visit Ugabra's house last summer, "I saw some of these objects when I was a child, and now that I look at them, there is a feeling of being in a trance." ”
In contrast to the old objects in the collection are the paintings of Ugabra. Since childhood, Ugabra has loved to paint watercolors. In the early days of reform and opening up, he worked as a film projectionist for 6 years, during which time he painted many movie posters, such as "The Mysterious Buddha", "Erif and Senem" and so on. Since then, he has painted local agricultural and animal husbandry production and the customs and customs of Ruoqiang. These watercolor paintings, full of personal style and local characteristics, add a different color to the "museum".
Since 2001, red dates have become a new theme in Ugabra's paintings, from planting to management, beating dates, selling dates... He used a paintbrush to paint the entire jujube "industrial chain". With superior light and heat conditions and deep ploughing of the industry, today's Ruoqiang has become a famous "hometown of red dates" in China, the jujube industry has truly become a local "cash cow", the annual per capita net income of farmers and herdsmen in the county has increased from more than 2200 yuan in 2001 to more than 33,000 yuan in 2019, and the annual per capita net income of farmers and herdsmen accounts for more than 70% of the annual per capita net income of farmers and herdsmen.
Wugabra's most proud painting is "Golden Tree": a date farmer and his daughter stand under the date tree, and the huge red dates flow out of gold; on the picture, there are new houses and cars of farmers and herders, local couples traveling...
At present, several jujube trees in the Ugabra courtyard are full of fruit, and their appearance is beginning to turn red, just waiting for the autumn to be sugared. "The days of the fellow villagers are like this red date, getting sweeter and sweeter." The owner of the "museum" said. (End)
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