My youth became a "new villager" in Liuxiang 丨 famous school students, so that the intangible cultural heritage was strung together into an industrial chain in the Taoist Chong
Editor's note: When the youth are prosperous, the country is prosperous, and when the youth are strong, the country is strong. The comprehensive implementation of rural revitalization is a major decision and deployment made by the Nineteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, a national strategy to promote the work of "three rural areas" in the new era, and the focus of China's rural work during the "Fourteenth Five-Year Plan" period. Talent is the most critical and active factor in rural revitalization and an important guarantee for achieving rural revitalization. To achieve rural revitalization, we must make more talents willing to come, retain, do a good job, and be brilliant.
At present, the rural revitalization strategy has begun in an all-round way, and many new young people have returned to their hometowns, practiced the original intention of struggle, bravely undertaken the mission of the times, and become the "leading geese" of rural industrial development, the "vanguard" of rural construction, and the "spokesman" of rural image, composing an exciting song of youth on the fertile soil of Liuyang countryside. From now on, this newspaper specially launched a column entitled "My Youth in Liuxiang" to tell the story of their growth into talents in the countryside and show the youth style of the frontline of rural revitalization.
Liu Lan demonstrated how to print with Gushan tribute paper at the Daoguan Chong Gufa Papermaking Research Institute.
A piece of paper is clear and happy, and the circulation is far away. Zhangfang Town Shanghong Village DaoguanChong Group, located in the easternmost part of Hunan Province, is located in the depths of dawei Mountain at the junction of Xianggan and Gansu, most of the villagers are Hakka, and the Hakka culture is profound. Here, there is still an ancient intangible cultural heritage project - the ancient mountain tribute paper that originated in the Song and Yuan dynasties and flourished in the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty. In 2021, Liuyang DaoguanChong Ancient Method Papermaking Research Institute was awarded the second batch of Liuyang Demonstration Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection and Inheritance Institute, which better realized the "local living protection and inheritance" of intangible cultural heritage.
"Someone always asks me, why do you want to stay in Daoguan Chong?" In the quaint research hall, the reporter met the curator Liu Lan. Originally from Jiangxi, after graduating from Hunan University in 2020 with a major in journalism, she became a "new villager" of Daoguanchong. Her experience also records and witnesses the pace of rural revitalization in Liuyang.
Text/Figure Liuyang Rong Media Center reporter Ouyang Wenjiang Peng Hongxia
Resolutely decide
Famous schools generate "new villagers" of Daoguan Chong
"The Papermaking Research Institute mainly introduces the historical origin, development context, inheritance lineage, craft characteristics, etc. of Daoguanchong handmade papermaking, and interested tourists can also try the DIY experience link..." Whenever the holiday comes, Liu Lan enters the busiest time. Her main job is to contact schools and research institutions, and use the holidays to organize students to experience the ancient papermaking skills and feel the charm of intangible cultural heritage.
Daoguan Chong Ancient Method Papermaking Research Institute extends the intangible cultural industry chain and drives local villagers to increase income through the development of projects such as "intangible cultural heritage + research" and "intangible cultural heritage + homestay".
Before 2020, Liu Lan was a journalism student at Hunan University. After graduation, she did not choose a job in a big city, but came to Daoguanchong and became a "new villager". The story of this has to start from the intangible cultural heritage - in 2018, Liu Lan, who is studying at university, came into contact with a somewhat special reporter, Li Feng, a photographer who is obsessed with recording intangible cultural heritage projects. For decades, Li Feng traveled all over Huxiang to record the traditional skills and folklore of various parts of Hunan.
"I began to record intangible cultural heritage in 2006, and photographed hundreds of intangible cultural heritage projects and inheritors." For more than a decade, Li Feng has seen the departure of too many craftsmen and the decline of craftsmanship, "Some old people have gone without anyone to take over, and this thing will no longer appear in people's vision." ”
There are too many witnesses, and there is more than just recording. In the end, Li Feng found Daoguan Chong, who was located at the southern foot of Dawei Mountain. Because there is less contact with the outside world here, it retains a relatively pure original village appearance, the folk customs are simple and enthusiastic, and the folk customs are small in scale, and what makes Li Feng even happier is that there is an intangible cultural heritage that he has in mind - ancient papermaking skills.
Liu Lan carefully sorted out the works left by the students during the study.
"Regarding non-genetic inheritance and protection, Teacher Li Feng proposed 'living protection on the ground', which can also allow traditional skills to take root in its original place and blossom new flowers." In 2018, through Li Feng's efforts, the Daoguan Chong Ancient Method Papermaking Research Hall was built, which has an ancient method papermaking original ecological workshop, a handmade paper exhibition hall in Various parts of China, a liuyang handmade papermaking technology exhibition hall, a research activity room and other areas. According to Li Feng's vision, the PaperMaking Research Institute will extend the industrial chain through the way of "cultural creation + tourism".
"At the beginning, I felt that Daoguan Chong was a peach blossom-like being." Subsequently, Liu Lan set the content of her short video course homework as shooting intangible cultural heritage projects. As a result, she has traveled to Daoguanchong many times, and has also left a deep impression on this simple mountain village, "This quiet and beautiful small mountain village, just like the village where I lived in my grandmother's house when I was a child, has a harmonious and harmonious sense of comfort. ”
"Life in the big city may be glamorous, but working and living in the countryside cannot become a new way of living for young people." In April 2020, Liu Lan, who had interned in Beijing and other places, heeded the call of his heart and became a "new villager" of Daoguanchong at the invitation of Li Feng.
"A lot of people didn't understand my choice, and at first, my parents weren't very supportive of me, but in the end they respected my choice." Liu Lan told reporters that she also became the director of the Ancient Law PaperMaking Research Institute and officially embarked on the road of protecting and inheriting intangible cultural heritage.
Rooted in the countryside
Lead the villagers to plant non-genetic seeds
"Here, I wrote research courses for the first time, organized research activities for the first time, dealt with parent-child families for the first time, cooperated with education and training institutions for the first time, wrote various materials for the first time, and changed from a journalism student to an interviewee for the first time..." After arriving at Daoguan Chong, Liu Lan's first thing was to prepare for the "May Day" research activities of the Ancient Law Papermaking Research Institute. Contrary to her imagination, there were too many pieces of work to refer to, and she could only feel the stones to cross the river.
Liu Lan and villager Huang Jianhong discussed the direction of papermaking development.
According to the original idea, the exhibition hall of the Ancient Papermaking Research Institute is divided into three sections: "Paper Love Liuyang | Daoguan Chong Ancient Method Papermaking", "Paper Color|Chinese Handmade Papermaking", "Brilliant Paper Road | Circulation of Papermaking", which respectively introduces in detail the historical origin, development context, inheritance genealogy, craft characteristics, and historical evolution of Chinese handmade papermaking. What Liu Lan has to do, in addition to explaining the past and present life of the ancient mountain tribute paper for the tourists who come to visit, also needs to take students and tourists to experience the papermaking process.
"What exactly can we bring to this village?" If there is no papermaking research institute, what will Daoguan Chong look like? After a period of practice, Liu Lan and the team had to face the real situation in the village.
Gushan tribute paper originated in the Song and Yuan dynasties and was exported to Southeast Asia, but for a period of time it was on the verge of extinction. Huang Longgen, the village's paper maker, has inherited this ancient handmade papermaking technology from his father since he was 17 years old, and has been passed down from the fifth generation. In his memory, making ancient mountain tribute paper used to be the livelihood of the villagers. Most of the villagers own their own bamboo forests, and the paper produced is also sold to Changsha, Liuyang and other places for artists to splash ink. Later, with the rapid development of the economy, labor costs increased significantly, and the paper mills in the village also changed from the heyday of papermaking to a few scattered households.
"Intangible cultural heritage is a form of life, and only by putting it in life and letting it create value can it live for a long time." After many studies, the team agreed that to inherit and protect intangible cultural heritage, we must first open up the connection between intangible cultural heritage and modern life, let it live in the present, and enter the folk, that is, to achieve "local living protection and inheritance". Therefore, how to string together elements such as intangible cultural heritage and traditional culture dissemination, intangible cultural heritage and research, intangible cultural heritage and market, intangible cultural heritage and inheritors, and how to promote rural construction by intangible cultural heritage has also become a new road that Li Feng and Liu Lan and others have been thinking about and exploring.
Soon, Liu Lan began to take the lead in promoting the joint shares of all the villagers of the Daoguanchong Group, the Shanghong Village Collective and the Hunan Canghaitian Intangible Cultural Heritage Communication Co., Ltd., registered and established Liuyang Daoguanchong Rural Tourism Development Co., Ltd., combined with the local culture to achieve the "local living protection and inheritance" of the intangible cultural heritage, and build an intangible cultural heritage ecological village.
Through the development of projects such as "intangible cultural heritage + research" and "intangible cultural heritage + homestay", the research institute has also extended the industrial chain of intangible cultural heritage, and has driven local villagers to increase their income by sharing tickets, renting idle houses, and sharing shares, and has embarked on a new path of intangible cultural heritage to help rural revitalization.
"In fact, I have also quietly shed tears because of different concepts from villagers, but when you open your heart and chat with the villagers, you can also feel their simplicity and kindness..." Many times, Liu Lan will also be discouraged because the work is not going well. But more often, she found that with real effort and time, the villagers would change from not understanding to following, "which makes me very happy and more confident in the future." ”
"Isn't it a good thing to be able to take care of your family and make ends meet?" Huang Jianhong is the "post-90s" in the village, after seeing the changes in Daoguanchong, he saw the changes in Daoguanchong, and returned to his hometown to take over the "baton" of inheriting the ancient papermaking skills; the villager Huang Longguo's uncle and nephew sold the trucks originally used to make a living, returned to the village to start a business, and built a farm to provide catering services for tourists...
At the same time, Daoguanchong, which has a bright starry sky, has also ushered in its homestay development journey: as soon as the Daoguanchong Harajuku, surrounded by mountains and streams, opened, it was loved by a large number of tourists. Yi Chengye, project leader of Daoguanchong Rural Tourism Development Co., Ltd., said: "This place was originally an old rammed earth house that was idle by villagers, but after the transformation, it not only retained the 'intangible heritage' rammed earth wall process, but also became safer and more beautiful. ”
"Daoguan Chong originally had 57 villagers and more than 300 people, and before the establishment of the research center project, many people went out to work. Now more and more people are returning, which is what we want to see. Liu Lan laughed and said that in addition to the locals of Liuyang who come to study in Daoguan Chong, there are also many Changsha people, and everyone has come with the four words of "intangible cultural heritage".
Although the museum has recently opened, it has held dozens of study activities and received tens of thousands of tourists, "Next, the village will also consider introducing intangible cultural heritage projects with endogenous power such as shadow puppetry and cloth dyeing, making it a colorful 'intangible cultural heritage village'." Liu Lan said.
"In the past two years, many people have asked me, why do I stay in Daoguan Chong, why can I stay?" Liu Lan told reporters that in fact, the reasons are not complicated. As Ai Qing said, "I love this land deeply", she also maintains a deep love and hope for this land of Daoguan Chong, "In the context of rural revitalization, I am just a screw." Being able to bring some changes to this place is the meaning of my stay in Daoguan Chong, and it is also the best reason. ”
Liuhe Times Comments丨 Talents build bridges of intangible cultural heritage and development
Dong Huaiguo
Shanghong Village, located on the border of Xianggan and Gansu, is located in a relatively remote location, but it gathers three intangible cultural heritages: ancient papermaking, rammed earth walls, and sending spring cattle. In recent years, a group of foreign talents with higher academic qualifications have successively chosen to take root here and become "new villagers". They have made many efforts to develop popular projects such as "intangible cultural heritage + research" and "intangible cultural heritage + homestay", which have driven local villagers to increase their income and embarked on a new path of intangible cultural heritage to help rural revitalization.
On the one hand, it is because of the unfavorable geographical conditions and other restrictions, resulting in more difficulties in social and economic development, and there is still a certain gap in the degree of development compared with advanced areas; on the other hand, because of the accumulation of history, it has a large number of intangible cultural heritage that is breathtaking, and shoulders the heavy responsibility of protecting and developing cultural heritage. Nowadays, on the basis of not fully understanding and exploring the value of intangible cultural heritage, many places are worried about funds, projects, talents, and policies in the fierce regional competition, which has become a typical "begging for food with a golden rice bowl".
What Liuyang is taking is a path that fully integrates intangible cultural heritage with economic development. As a thousand-year-old county, Liuyang's intangible cultural heritage is rich in categories and diverse forms. Up to now, the city has 3 national intangible cultural heritage projects, 4 provincial intangible cultural heritage projects, 23 Changsha municipal intangible cultural heritage projects, and 61 Liuyang municipal intangible cultural heritage projects. These unique intangible cultural heritages meet the requirements of local characteristics, industrial foundation and participating groups in the rural revitalization work, and their docking with local economic development has been proved to be practical, effective and influential.
We must recognize that the fragility of intangible cultural heritage comes from its chain of inheritance. The long-standing non-hereditary transmission of word of mouth has made it face the threat of disconnection of the inheritors at any time. What we need is effective means to combine history and reality, combine tradition and modernity, combine handicraft and industrial development, so that intangible cultural heritage can achieve its own growth in the new era and new social environment, and then promote social and economic development - the key here is talent.
Therefore, to strengthen the protection, inheritance and rational use of intangible cultural heritage and help rural revitalization, we should make great efforts to do a good job in the construction of talent projects in the big proposition of rural revitalization, provide a broad stage for young talents to show off, and let more talents be willing to come, retain, do a good job, and be brilliant. This should become a social consensus.
If the rapid development of today's society and people's fast-paced life make it difficult for young people to calm down and focus on a skill that needs to be honed for many years, it is difficult for non-genetic inheritance to attract more young people and bloom its vitality in modern society. Then, the non-genetic inheritance that is fully integrated with modern elements, through market-oriented development, continuously extends its industrial chain, provides a broad stage for social talents to show off, and helps them realize the value of life, and the problem will be solved.
"Intangible Cultural Heritage +" was put forward under such a line of thinking. In recent years, Liuyang attaches great importance to the protection and inheritance of intangible cultural heritage, issued the "Ten Articles on the Protection and Inheritance of Intangible Cultural Heritage", actively explored, and set up a special fund of 1 million yuan for the protection of intangible cultural heritage at the municipal level. We can see that with the bottom of the policy and the corresponding incentives, all kinds of talents have poured into Liuyang to devote themselves to the "intangible cultural heritage +" cause in Liuyang. They brought knowledge, skills, funds, and connections, giving Liuyang's non-genetic inheritance unlimited imagination space. At this time, the disadvantage of location has become an advantage, the task of protection has become an opportunity, and the handshake between policy and talent has promoted the integration of intangible cultural heritage and development.
We believe that with a deeper understanding of market operations and the continuous addition of more talents, Liuyang's cultural heritage will be more closely integrated with modern social and economic development, huge economic and social benefits will be more fully produced, and the pace of rural revitalization will continue to accelerate.