Chongqing, January 8 (Reporter Bai Diaoyin correspondent Peng Yuan) "Rural revitalization must not only shape the body, but also cast the soul. "Industry is the foundation of the countryside, culture is the future of the countryside, only by truly realizing the revitalization of rural culture can we depict a better future, let the nostalgia have a place to come, and let the nostalgia have a home."
The joy of the harvest in Hejiayan Village, Huatian Township (Photo by Peng Yuan, Yangguang Network)
In recent years, in accordance with the general requirements of "industrial prosperity, ecological livability, civilized rural style, effective governance, and affluent life", Chongqing Youyang has closely focused on the strategic goal of "1234", based on ecological and humanistic resources, tightened the "roots" of culture, cast the "soul" of culture, and vigorously implemented the use of culture to promote construction and cultural rejuvenation, so that villagers can live a rich life, the environment is beautiful, and the spirit is happy, and a song depicting "poetry" and "far away" rural cultural revitalization is constantly sung in the local area.
Art empowers the countryside to refresh the rural value
Back baskets, buckets, mouths... Pieces of peasant production and living utensils in the old era were painted on the walls of residents' houses; works of art such as "Beautiful Climbing", "Fluorescence", and "Good News" stood in the village, which was the result of the "Hope Flower Field - The Second Rural Art Season of Youyang, China" held in Youyang County. With the advancement of the rural revitalization strategy, such a piece of art with characteristics of rural life has become a reality in Hejiayan Village, Huatian Township, Youyang County.
Rural Art Season Works (Photo by Peng Yuan, CCTV)
"These works of art decorate our village beautifully, each work is close to our lives, and we can still feel the influence of art culture after tea and dinner." When it comes to the works of art rooted in He Jiayan Village, villager He Shaohua's face is full of confidence.
It is reported that from July to October 2021, more than 30 artists from the top artists in China and sichuan academy of fine arts, southwest university art college, southwest university art college, Sichuan conservatory of music and other colleges and universities ate and lived in the village, and he Jiayan villagers spent more than 2 months to jointly create 29 unique rural art works, exploring a new path for art to revitalize the countryside, and a magnificent rural pastoral picture scroll of co-construction, co-creation and sharing was slowly unfolded in the flower field.
Rural Art Season Works Chai Feng Art Museum (Photo by Peng Yuan, CCTV)
"Buckets, benches, bee barrels and other agricultural tools are assembled from the bottom up into a staircase, the bucket at the bottom of the ladder is used to harvest and store grain, which means food and clothing, the middle of the ladder is the mouth, the plough rake, and then up is the turning point of life, and finally the bee bucket, symbolizing the villagers through hard work and struggle, from bitter to sweet, will eventually harvest a sweet and happy life." Fu Biao, one of the creators of the work "Beautiful Climb", introduced that the work adopts the form of surrealism, vividly and vividly combines the production, living tools and natural ecology of He Jiayan, showing the mountainous style of He Jiayan and the living habits of the locals, symbolizing the villagers' better life in the integration of production, life and ecology.
"These works of art cover various types of light and shadow installations, sound installations, wooden sculptures, wall paintings and graffiti, each of which is closely related to the production and life of local villagers, which thickens the cultural heritage of He Jiayan and realizes the deep integration of art, culture, agriculture and tourism." Tao Tao, secretary of the party branch of Hejiayan Village, said that the artists have applied art elements and artistic elements to urban and rural planning and construction, using art as a bridge, allowing art to nourish the hearts of the masses, enrich the spiritual world of the masses, stimulate the endogenous motivation of the masses, promote the villagers' artistic life and artistic life, enhance the self-confidence of rural culture, and provide strong support for the revitalization of Huatian Township.
Revitalize intangible cultural heritage and increase villagers' income
Intangible cultural heritage is the "living fossil" of people's production and life, and these traditional cultural skills are like cultural treasure houses that can be excavated deeply, from which cultural forces can be found to promote rural revitalization. How to revitalize the intangible cultural heritage, help revitalize the rural cultural industry, and retain nostalgia? By supporting intangible cultural heritage projects based on traditional crafts, Youyang County has planned and organized the construction of intangible cultural heritage workshops to achieve local employment and home employment of rural populations, forming a vivid practice of intangible cultural heritage to help rural revitalization.
Villagers embroidery and miao embroidery works (Photo by Peng Yuan, YangGuang.com)
"Youzhou Miao Embroidery" is the sixth batch of intangible cultural heritage projects in Chongqing. On July 3, 2021, Chen Guotao, a non-hereditary inheritor of "Youzhou Miao Embroidery" and a representative of intangible cultural heritage enterprises, took the opportunity that Huatian Township is a key township for rural revitalization in Chongqing and moved the Miao Embroidery Workshop into Hejiayan Village, Huatian Township, marking the official opening of the Miao Embroidery Training Class in Huatian Township.
Hu Lan, 55, is one of the women who stayed in the family in He Jiayan Village, two years ago, Hu Lan's husband was diagnosed with rectal cancer, in order to treat her husband's illness, she spent all the family's savings, and in addition to taking care of her sick husband, she has been in poor physical condition and cannot do heavy work, relying on her two daughters to work to earn money to subsidize the family. After the workshop lived in Hejiayan Village, it absorbed local left-behind women to come to train and study, and Hu Lan's life changed as a result.
"Come to the workshop to work, you can get a salary of 50 yuan a day, you can earn 1500 yuan a month, and you have living expenses." Sewing miao embroidery here is easy to live, not only close to home, convenient to take care of the family, but also to reduce the burden for the children. Under the careful guidance of teacher Chen Guotao, I have mastered the embroidery skills and been able to embroider some simple Miao embroidery products. In Hu Lan's view, the Miao embroidery workshop has opened to the doorstep, and life has a head start, and there is more hope.
Miao embroidery is rooted in traditional villages, and the handicraft workshop is opened to the doorstep of villagers, which not only allows local villagers to increase their income by working nearby, but also greatly inherits the intangible cultural heritage of Miao embroidery, promotes the development of rural tourism in Huatian, drives the tourism culture of Youyang, and becomes an effective way for Youyang to promote rural revitalization and promote farmers' income and become rich.
"I want to pass on the Miao embroidery through a needle and a thread in my hand, so that the Miao embroidery can better take root and sprout on the hot land of Youyang and blossom into a beautiful Miao embroidery flower." Chen Guotao said that she will integrate the ecological and cultural resources of Youyang, so that tourists who come to Huatian can experience the Miao embroidery skills in the intangible cultural heritage workshop, but also through the Miao embroidery products, embroider the flower fields, embroider the terraces, embroider the calamus cover, embroider the farming culture, embroider the Youyang peach blossom source, let the villagers remember the homesickness, tourists can stop their steps, and let more people know the story of rural revitalization in Youyang.
Continuing the red blood line inspires patriotic enthusiasm
The literary rhyme is related to the national rhyme, and the cultural context is connected with the national context. Youyang has always paid attention to the excavation and protection of red resources, is committed to the integrated development of red resources and cultural tourism industry, relying on mountain agriculture and mountain tourism, making the red boutique tourism route bigger and stronger, and becoming a new engine for inheriting the red bloodline, promoting the revitalization of rural culture, and achieving high-quality economic and social development.
Zhao Shiyan Martyrs Memorial Square (Photo by Peng Yuan, CCTV)
Longtan Ancient Town is a national patriotic education base, a national historical and cultural town, each school here will arrange a "Zhao Shiyan reading class" every month, through teachers' explanations, student speeches, teachers' and students' discussions, to create a cultural atmosphere of "honoring the world, learning the world, passing on the spirit of the world". In addition, whenever the traditional festival comes, the students of the town will go to the Zhao Shiyan Martyrs Memorial Hall to commemorate the martyrs, and under the influence of the "Shiyan Spirit", they will stimulate the enthusiasm of loving the party and the country.
"With the further improvement of the influence of red tourism, the former residence of martyr Zhao Shiyan has attracted many government agencies, enterprises and institutions and social groups in this county and surrounding districts and counties to visit the martyrs at important time nodes such as Qingming Festival, Youth Day, and National Day, and listen to the red stories told by the explainers." According to Zeng Yue, head of Longtan Ancient Town Tourism Development and Investment Co., Ltd., this year, the red tourism market of Longtan Ancient Town has continued to heat up, and the Zhao Shiyan Martyrs Memorial Hall has become an important destination for red tourism in Youyang.
A card for the revitalization of Youyang Rural Area (Photo by Peng Yuan, Central Broadcasting Network)
Coincidentally, in the south of Youyang, there is another brilliant red pearl - the south waist boundary.
"Now that we're popular, our business is better!" Luo Qun, a supermarket owner not far from the Red Army Square in the south waist, said that red army street used to be a poor and untouched old street, but through its construction, it has now become a "fragrant feast".
"In recent years, the South Waist Boundary has become more and more famous in the country. Nowadays, more and more people from all over the country have carried out party history study and education in the south waist, and the number of tourists in the south waist has doubled. Qin Yong, secretary of the party committee of Nanwaijie Town, said that Nanwaijie is an old revolutionary area, and we will further excavate red resources to create a tourist area centered on the former site of the headquarters of the Red Three Armies, the Red Army Street, and the Red Army Village, and will also develop together with the surrounding districts and counties along the river, Yinjiang, Songtao, Dejiang, etc., to create a red tourist route centered on the south waist boundary, so that more people in the old area can eat "tourist meals" and live a happy new life.
Nowadays, walking in the land of Youyang, you can feel the sense of cultural acquisition and happiness brought by the high-quality cultural supply everywhere, and the people of Youyang are enjoying culture, participating in culture, and creating culture. In the future, Youyang will also vigorously implement the "culture +" and "tourism +" strategies, focus on building ecological beauty, industrial prosperity, and the unity of the people's rich opportunities, so that cultural heritage can become cultural assets, green waters and green mountains will become golden mountains and silver mountains, and create a "global peach blossom source and full of happiness".