Fragments of Memory: The Story of Dazhai

Fragments of Memory: The Story of Dazhai

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Because of the memories of his childhood, because of the story of the "wolf's nest in the three wars", because of Chairman Mao's call for "Agricultural Science Dazhai", and because of the emergence of a peasant premier Chen Yonggui, for many years, he has always wanted to go to Dazhai, where his soul is haunted... On May 2 this year, the trip finally took place.

This morning, with excitement, we drove more than 300 kilometers to Dazhai Village in Xiyang County, Shanxi Province, which is located in the foothills of the Taihang Mountains.

What I didn't expect was that due to the extraordinary influence of Dazhai in the 60s and 70s and the brand effect of Dazhai, it has developed into a national 4A-level tourist attraction.

On one side of the visitor center is a huge red flag sculpture waving in the wind, with Chairman Mao's inscription "Agricultural Dazhai", five large golden characters shining under the sun's illumination, and many tourists take a group photo under the flag to record their feelings for the former Dazhai.

We took the tour bus to the scenic spot. On the way, the past events related to Dazhai are presented in front of us again. When I was in elementary school, the Miners' School organized students of the fourth grade or above to visit Dazhai to conduct ideological and moral education for teachers and students. I couldn't go because I was a third-grader, and I thought that I would have to make up for this lesson in the future. The teacher who returned from the visit told us a small matter, saying that the primary school students in Dazhai had a strong sense of collectivism, and there was a fruit tree in the courtyard of the primary school, which was full of fruits, but none of the students would steal the fruit, which was the consciousness of the primary school students in Dazhai at that time.

In my memory, there is also the text I learned in elementary school, "Three Battles of Wolf's Den", which tells the classic story of the Dazhai people's hard struggle with the harsh natural environment under the leadership of Chen Yonggui. After three marches into the wolf's den and five years of hard struggle, the People of Dazhai used their own hands to transform the living environment of the poor mountains and bad waters, and promoted the continuous improvement of grain production in the whole village, during which 1.7 million jin of grain was provided to the state, with an average of 2,000 jin per household.

Later, I saw the song and dance "Dazhai Yaxi" sung by the Mining Literature and Art Propaganda Team, the performance of the actors at that time was still vividly remembered, the actors wore "Duopa" four-sided small flower hats, wore "Yuanyuan" robes, wore black leather boots on their feet, and sang with emotion, "I visited Dazhai to return to my hometown, I said endless happy words inside my heart, I arrived at such a good place, how can I not sing", and then, the actor used the song to describe the spiritual outlook of the Dazhai people, "The Dazhai boy has a stiff waist, The girls in Dazhai are all iron shoulders, the old men in Dazhai are all old fools, and the little dolls in Dazhai go to school to carry dung baskets. ”

In the memory, the car stopped, the classmate said, what do you think, the scenic spot has arrived. Presented in front of the eyes is a two-story building, directly above the roof is "Dazhai" two huge red characters, the left side of the door is "self-reliance", the right is the slogan of "strive to be strong", the courtyard is the Red Flag Square, Leren Tree, Chen Yonggui's former residence, train box cave, Dazhai Auditorium, the former site of the People's Commune and other attractions.

We first visited the Dazhai Exhibition Hall to learn more about the development process of Dazhai and the formation process of the spirit of Dazhai. Dazhai Exhibition Hall is a national antique glazed tile courtyard building facing west and east. To the west is the flat-roofed exhibition hall, the eaves covered with yellow glazed tiles are supported by 8 lacquered red pillars, and the plaque of "Dazhai Exhibition Hall" hangs above the gate, which is Guo Moruo's handwriting, with vigorous and majestic handwriting.

Entering through the main door of the exhibition hall is the middle hall of the exhibition. The large crimson screen facing it is a huge red flag with five large golden characters inlaid with Mao Zedong's handwritten "Agricultural Science Dazhai". On both sides of the screen are the "self-reliance" and "hard struggle" of the Mao body, as well as the spirit of Dazhai summarized by Premier Zhou Enlai. There are 3 giant photographs on the left side of the gate. One is "Cordial Reception, Great Encouragement", which is frozen in the moment when Chairman Mao Zedong and Chen Yonggui shook hands cordially on December 26, 1964. Below the photograph, there are peasant clothes, socks and white towels worn by Chen Yonggui when he was received in 1964. The second photo is "Premier Zhou and Dazhai People Together", which is fixed on the moment when Premier Zhou Enlai frequently shook hands and had cordial conversations with Dazhai people during his visit to Dazhai. Below the photo, Chen Yonggui wears a Chinese-style cardigan white shirt and black pants on a visit abroad. The third painting is the village after the 1963 flood, and the scene of the house collapsing and the mountain slipping into the ground in the photo can't help but remind people of the verse "The vicissitudes of the sea are flowing, and the hero's true colors are revealed". It was precisely in the face of serious natural disasters that the Dazhai people put forward the slogan of "three don'ts, three no less" (no relief grain, no relief money, no relief materials; the members of the community had a lot of rations, a lot of income, and a lot of grain purchased by the state in that year), thus highlighting the Spirit of Self-Reliance and Hard Struggle of the Dazhai people and the style of loving the country and the collective, so that Dazhai would be famous throughout the country.

The atrium is the core part of the exhibition. At the top of the nave is a red five-pointed star pattern surrounded by golden ears of wheat, and on the front wall is a large set of reliefs of the "Heroes of Dazhai". The whole group of reliefs shows the scene of the Dazhai people, led by Chen Yonggui, relying on themselves to fight the floods, the wolf's nest of the three wars, and the sale of patriotic grain. Below the relief is a red flag-shaped reclining stele inscribed with the experience of Dazhai summarized by Premier Zhou Enlai in the three NPC government work reports: "The principle of political command and ideological leadership upheld by the Dazhai brigade; the spirit of self-reliance and arduous struggle; and the communist style of loving the country and the collective are all worth greatly advocating." Thus formed the "Dazhai Spirit".

In difficult times and under difficult conditions, the People of Dazhai, with Chen Yonggui and Guo Fenglian as the leaders, were determined to change the appearance of poverty and backwardness, fought against the heavens and the earth, struggled hard, managed the mountains and waters, built layers of terraces on the slopes of seven ditches and eight beams, and changed the situation of relying on the sky to eat through arduous labor. In order to inspire the people of the whole country to work hard, speed up the development of agricultural production, struggle with the harsh nature, and struggle against all difficulties, in 1964 Chairman Mao issued the call for "Agricultural Science Dazhai", which thus became a banner of agriculture in the whole country.

A total of more than 500 precious historical photos and dozens of cultural relics are exhibited in the entire exhibition hall.

The North Hall and the South Hall divide the exhibition content into two parts. The first part is "Dazhai Arduous Entrepreneurship", which mainly shows the history of the arduous struggle of the Dazhai masses in dazhai from the 1950s to the 1970s, under the leadership of Chen Yonggui, the first generation leader of Dazhai Village, to transform the old Dazhai and develop agricultural production, a total of 11 units. They are "Arming Ourselves with Mao Zedong Thought," "Waging War Against Poor Mountains and Bad Waters," "Overcoming Flood Disasters by Self-Reliance," "Chairman Mao Called on Dazhai for Agricultural Science," "International Friends To Dazhai," "Moving Mountains and Filling Ditches to Build Plains," "Marching Toward Agricultural Mechanization and Hydraulic Conservancy," "Developing And Producing Scientific Farming," "Comprehensive Development of Agriculture, Forestry, Animal Husbandry, and Vice-Mates," and "Building Dazhai County in Xiyang."

The next part is "Dazhai Reform and Opening Up", which mainly shows the difficult and tortuous process of Guo Fenglian, the second-generation leader of Dazhai Village, leading the people of Dazhai Village to deepen reform, emancipate the mind, and start a business to get rich after 1991, and the achievements made by Dazhai in reform and opening up, a total of 7 units. The first unit is "The Party and the Government Care About Dazhai". The second unit is "Out of Dazhai to See the World". The third unit is "Agro-Industrial Commerce and Trade Flying". The fourth unit is "Ecological Agriculture Rich Village". The fifth unit, "Substantial Improvement in Living Standards". The sixth unit "Remarkable Achievements in Civilization Construction" and the seventh unit "Today's Dazhai Scenery Is Infinite".

The three-sided building encloses a courtyard, and the pines and cypresses in the courtyard are covered with a bust of Chen Yonggui carved from Taishan stone. The image of Chen Yonggui is realistic, with a white towel on his head, wearing a cardigan, thick eyebrows, large eyes, thick lips, and the wrinkles carved on his face by the vicissitudes of time, which is very impressive.

Behind the statue of Chen Yonggui is the tomb of Chen Yonggui built on the mountain. Chen Yonggui is a national model worker and a former vice premier of the State Council. Becoming vice premier of the State Council in one fell swoop by being the secretary of a village party branch is a legend of that particular period and the only legendary figure in China who holds seven positions (secretary of the Party branch of Dazhai, secretary of the party committee of the commune, secretary of the party committee of Xiyang County, secretary of the municipal party committee, secretary of the Jinzhong Prefectural Party Committee, deputy secretary of the Shanxi Provincial Party Committee, and vice premier of the State Council). During his tenure as vice premier, he still wore a white towel on his head, wore a cardigan, and wore black cloth shoes on his feet, still had a rural hukou, still earned work in Dazhai, and still ate rations from Dazhai. Always maintain the true color of a simple and simple farmer.

Chen Yonggui came from a poor background and joined the Communist Party of China in 1948. In Dazhai Village, where the environment is very harsh, he led the peasants to work hard to start a business, and used the flat burdens from the bottom of the mountain to build land on the mountain, improving the lives of the local people. His deeds were affirmed by the central government, and Mao Zedong called for the whole country to be "agricultural villages", so he became a model for the whole country. After the reform and opening up, he resigned as vice premier of the State Council and served as an adviser at a farm in the eastern suburbs of Beijing.

Chen Yonggui died in Beijing on March 26, 1986, at the age of 72, and according to his will, his ashes returned to Dazhai on April 4 of the same year. Climbing up the stairs, it is Chen Yonggui's tomb. In front of the tomb are three groups of stone steps, one group is thirty-eight steps, symbolizing Comrade Chen Yonggui's party age; one group of seventy-two steps, symbolizing comrade Chen Yonggui's age; and one group of eight steps, symbolizing Chen Yonggui's eight years of work in the central government. Chen Yonggui's tomb is backed by a mountain and faces the earth, fulfilling his last wish that "I will be buried on Hutou Mountain after I die, so that I can see the changes in Dazhai" with my own eyes.

Since the "Dazhai of Agricultural Studies," Premier Zhou Enlai has accompanied foreign heads of state on three occasions to inspect Dazhai, and more than 120 party and state leaders of the older generation, including Hua Guofeng, Li Xiannian, Ye Jianying, Deng Xiaoping, Chen Yi, and Deng Yingchao, have visited Dazhai. In the past fifteen years, 10 million people have visited dazhai. In addition, there were 2,281 foreign friends visiting Dazhai, with a total of more than 25,000 people from 134 countries. There are 22 heads of State and Government, which the President of Mozambique visited twice. As a banner on the national agricultural front, Dazhai at that time undoubtedly became a "holy land" in the hearts of many people.

After leaving the exhibition hall and visiting the tomb of Chen Yonggui, we visited Hutou Mountain, Zhou Enlai Memorial Pavilion, Guo Moruo Monument, Tuanjiegou Aqueduct, Dazhai Terrace (Wolf's Nest of the Three Battles) and other landscapes.

Hutou Mountain was originally an unknown hill, but after the unremitting efforts of Chen Yonggui and the Dazhai generation, especially after Mao Zedong called on the whole country to "agricultural dazhai", Hutou Mountain became famous all over the world. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, going to Dazhai was the first choice for domestic tourism. The highest number of people is more than 3.7 million in a year, and the peak period is as high as tens of thousands of people a day.

In 1965, Premier Zhou Enlai came to Hutou Mountain and told the people of Dazhai that although Dazhai had made good terraces and had more grain, it still needed a variety of trees to fundamentally change the ecological environment. Since then, the Dazhai people have begun the afforestation of Hutou Mountain. In the 1960s and 1970s, when they were reluctant to plant trees in the crop fields, they planted trees in the crevices of the stones on Hutou Mountain, greening more than 1,000 acres of barren mountains. In 1996, Hutou Mountain was built as a forest park, and a number of historical places such as premier Zhou Mountaineering Memorial Pavilion, Guo Moruo Monument, Ye Jianying Memorial Pavilion, and writer Sun Qian's tomb were located in the park. There are also ye Jianying's inscriptions of "Hutou Mountain" three big characters engraved on a natural boulder in the mountains. In the 2019 National Day holiday alone, the ticket revenue of Dazhai Scenic Area was as high as 660,000 yuan.

Why is there a monument to Guo Moruo here? In the cangsong cypress halfway up Hutou Mountain, there are two well-known and ancient old people buried - one is Chen Yonggui, the founder of the great cause of Dazhai; the other is Guo Moruo, a leading literary hero at home and abroad, a university scholar and former president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

People who know the situation at that time said that Guo Moruo, at the end of his life, left a last word saying: After his death, he scattered part of his ashes on the land of Dazhai.

In the winter of 1965, Guo Moruo, who was then president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, personally led the experts of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to visit Dazhai, studied and visited Dazhai, practiced eating, living, living and working together, fighting against the heavens and the earth, and while humbly learning from the Dazhai people, he also enthusiastically taught the Dazhai people scientific farming knowledge, both as a student and as a gentleman, and in the days of arduous struggle and sweating, they formed a deep friendship with the Dazhai people.

Guo Moruo was a passionate person, during the visit to Dazhai, the poetry flourished, and with the courage of a great calligrapher, he wrote the poem "Ode to Dazhai", and later wrote the poem "Visiting the Dazhai Exhibition Hall with Feeling", which was also published in the "People's Daily" on December 7 of that year, which played a big role in promoting the "Agricultural Dazhai" movement that was rising throughout the country at that time. In particular, the two sentences he wrote, "The whole country learns Dazhai, and Dazhai learns the whole country", are more philosophical and dialectical, which also shows the materialism and loyalty of an old scientist. After Guo Moruo returned to Beijing, there was another thing in his mind, that is, when he left Dazhai, when the Dazhai people sent him off, Guo Moruo promised a sentence with great affection: When he is free in the future, he will definitely come to Dazhai to see.

On June 12, 1978, Guo Moruo passed away, and people could not come to Dazhai again. The wish had to become the last words of "scattering part of the ashes on the land of Dazhai".

November 16, 1992, was Guo Moruo's 100th birthday. On this day, the people of Dazhai, with deep affection for the old dean of Guo Moruo, carried out a grand and simple ceremony for the placement of some of Guo Moruo's ashes in the half slope of Hutou Mountain and in the lush pine and cypress places, so that guo Moruo and the people of Dazhai's wish were fully expressed and realized. This is the ins and outs of why there is a Guo Moruo monument in Dazhai.

In the blink of an eye, Guo Moruo has been dead for more than 30 years, and the milestone of reform and opening up has also gone through more than 40 years, and great changes have taken place throughout the country. Dazhai has also returned to the human world from the clouds and returned to the masses of the people, which may be the change of history.

People who are now interested in taking a walk in Dazhai again may be revisiting the old place, perhaps thinking of the years when the passion was burning vigorously, perhaps recalling the past and lamenting the changes of the times, or perhaps having a long-cherished wish that has not come. When you see the two tombstones where Guo Moruo and Chen Yonggui live side by side, there will be many emotions. Maybe it's to see things and people, to feel a lot of emotions, or to read and appreciate it as a history, a book, a play, a story. In short, the story of this Hutou Mountain will always be with the people and will always live in people's memories.

Here, we listened to the classic stories of "beating the gong and drum for 5 acres of land" and "three battles of wolf's den".

"Beating gongs and drums for 5 acres of land" is also the story of Dazhai's artificial fields. During that difficult period, the Dazhai people chose the first battle in Baituogou. The White Camel Ditch is more than 500 meters long and more than ten meters wide, with strange rocks and dense thorns. Chen Yonggui and a group of people from the branch studied the battle plan: A total of 24 embankments should be built, and the "large corps" combat method should be adopted. The so-called "big corps" operation is that 58 male laborers in the whole village participate in the battle. There were no explosives, no machinery, just primitive hammers, shovels, steel brazes, and sledgehammers. Remove the strange stones, remove the roots of the thorns, and smooth the wasteland. The stones that were smashed and the soil shoveled down filled in the ditch, and then built layers of stone dams to form a step-shaped soil "platform", which is the famous Dazhai Terrace. 58 men, working together, got up early and greedy, the original plan of two months of project, only 48 days, built 24 levees, 5 acres of land! Although I only got 5 acres of good land, it was very encouraging, after all, this was the first piece of land that the People of Dazhai wanted to come to the poor mountains and rivers. On the night of completion, under the large willow tree that had fallen out of leaves, the whole village beat gongs and drums to celebrate the victory. Since then, Baituogou has been renamed Cooperative Ditch. A year later, in the winter, the 58-man "big army" of Dazhai advanced into the houdi ditch, this time building 25 stone ridges and obtaining 25 acres of good land; in the early spring of the next year, the ice and snow had not yet melted, and they built 8 acres of good land in Xiaobeiyugou. By the winter of 1955, the scattered ditches had become terraces for grain. In the past few years, Dazhai ushered in the first bumper harvest year after land creation, and the grain yield reached 349 catties per mu. Dazhai walked in the forefront of the county and became an advanced model of Xiyang County taking the road of cooperation, and Chen Yonggui was commended by Xiyang County.

"Three Battles of wolf's den palm" is a colorful movement in the story of Dazhai. Wolf's nest palm, is the largest of the 7 ravines in Dazhai, more than 1560 meters long, more than 13 meters wide, up and down the drop of more than 200 meters, every rainstorm season, the mountain flood in this ditch is particularly large, like a wild horse that has lost its reins, straight down, raging rampant. Therefore, there is no arable land in the long ditch, only rocks rolling, wild grass, and inaccessible. In the early years, there were often wild wolves in the middle of it, and they were all over the place, so it was called "wolf's nest palm".

The first battle of the "Wolf's Den" was in the winter of 1955, when Chen Yonggui led 58 laborers from the village to the construction site. It worked all winter, until the Chinese New Year's Eve of the lunar calendar. After the Spring Festival, the construction continues on the third day of the first lunar month until the spring ploughing. After a winter and a spring of hard work, 25 stone dams were built in the ditch, filling in tens of thousands of square meters of loess, turning the former desolate ravine into a layer of terraces. After the beginning of spring, the seeds are planted in the newly built field, and the seedlings are soon ready. At a glance, there are ditches full of green crops. In the summer, Zhuang He thrives and is even more gratifying. However, a torrential rain, a flash flood broke out, the turbid waves in the wolf's den were terrible, all 25 dams were washed away by the flood, the terraces and the dense crops on the ground were all washed clean, and the wolf's den became a rotten stone ditch.

Faced with this scene, Chen Yonggui, who did not accept defeat, walked into the ravine of rotten rocks, thought about the reasons for being washed away by the flood, and prepared to do it again. After the autumn of 1956, he mobilized and organized 58 laborers in the village and once again walked into the wolf's den. The flood washed away the dam and the ground, one is that the foundation of the dam is not deep and unstable, and the other is that the stones used for the dam are not large enough, so the impact of the stone dam against the flood is not enough. They decided to dig the foundation of the dam deeper, take in bigger stones, and re-build the dam. At the same time, they also built a small reservoir at the head of the ditch, which was two acres large and two meters deep, to block the flash flood and reduce the impact force. Before the spring ploughing, Chen Yonggui led the villagers to finish all the projects happily.

Who knew that in the summer of 1957, the rain was even heavier and the flash floods were even heavier. That night, dark clouds filled the sky, and after midnight, a thunderclap of lightning and thunder broke down, and heavy rain poured down. On Hutou Mountain, the flood roared and rushed down the mountain. In the sound of wind and rain, only a muffled sound could be heard, coming from the direction of the wolf's den, shaking the earth slightly. Chen Yonggui had not slept since he was awakened by the thunder, and when he heard this muffled sound, he lit the horse lamp and ran to the wolf's nest. He climbed up Hutou Mountain covered in rain and mud, but the wolf's den palm ditch could not get close. A ditch of turbidity rushed down the soil, stones, and crops, and the wolf's nest project was washed away again.

The second failure, the mood of the Dazhai people suffered a huge blow. In those difficult days, who else in Dazhai had more pressure than Chen Yonggui? He crouched silently on the hillside of the wolf's den alone, thinking with a cigarette bag: "Can't it be done?" He was never willing to fail, and his heart was fierce: if he failed twice, then he would come back a third time, and he would never retreat!

Chen Yonggui is determined to fight three battles in the wolf's den! Speaking of this past, the older generation of Dazhai people gave Chen Yonggui a thumbs up and said that Old Chen was determined. Without him, the "three battles of wolf's den" could not be done! Especially in the third battle, the average person who lost twice has long been discouraged. This is the difference between Lao Chen and everyone else. Some people say that if the three wars are lost again, Chen Yonggui will certainly have four or five battles until the final victory. He is such a person who has such a strength not to accept defeat.

Chen Yonggui's determination in the "Three Battles wolf's den" is like iron. After the autumn, Chen Yonggui took the cadres and masses of Dazhai into the wolf's den for the third time... On the cold days of the winter of 1957, the battle of the Third Great War of wolf's dens began again. The members are all vying to go to the "front line". On the day of the start of construction, 17 couples in the village went into the ditch together, and the whole family of 7 members of the community joined the battle. At that time, there were only 58 strong labor villages, and more than 70 people were involved in work.

This time the task is even more arduous, the whole ditch to build 32 dams, the highest dam is two and a half meters high, and the lime for grouting is 60,000 catties. The stones used for damming are to be mined from the mountain and carried down from the top of the mountain. Tens of thousands of square meters of earth were washed away, and one side was asked to carry it from elsewhere and re-put it up. Such a huge project, in the absence of any machinery available at that time, could only be completed by two hands and two shoulders of people, and the hardships and hardships could be imagined.

The People of Dazhai worked hard for a winter in the ice and snow and finally completed the task. Wolf's den, this most ferocious ravine has been subdued! After the completion of the third project to control the wolf's den, it has withstood dozens of floods over the decades, including the 1963 mega-flood that was not encountered in a century, and is still as stable as Mount Tai.

From the great battle of the white camel ditch to the wolf's nest of the three wars, the Whole Winter and Spring worked hard for 5 winters and springs, and the Dazhai people built more than 180 dams with a total length of 15 miles in 7 ravines, built 2 winding mountain canals, 2 small reservoirs, and more than 3,000 fish scale pits and reservoirs; built 300 acres of slope land into horizontal terraces; leveled more than 4,700 plots of land into 2,900 pieces, and added more than 80 mu of good land.

In this way, the people of Dazhai used their own hands to transform the poor mountains and bad waters, and transformed the seven ditches and eight beams and one slope of Hutou Mountain. From 1953 to 1962, the Dazhai people surrounded most of the 200 mu of mountain beam land with a two-foot-high mound, and 400 mu of slope land built a road weir to turn it into a horizontal terrace. All 7 ditches have been paved with stone dams, creating 80 acres of good land. The improvement of basic conditions has prompted the continuous improvement of grain production in the whole village. The average yield per mu rose from 130 catties to 770 catties. During the three most difficult years of natural disasters in Chinese agriculture, not only did no one in Dazhai starve, but each person handed over more than 400 kilograms of surplus grain to the state.

The people of Dazhai fought hard against the harsh environment, did not bow to difficulties, and through the feat of arduous struggle and asking for grain from the ravines, felt the heavens and the earth and wept ghosts and gods, and became a model for the whole country to learn in that era.

Today, after more than 40 years of reform and opening up, Dazhai has long since receded its mysterious aura, returned to the original mountain village, and marched solidly on the journey of Ben Xiaokang. Now Dazhai people rely on the advantages of famous places and celebrities to create Dazhai products. Dazhai, has now become a brand of more than 30 kinds of goods, many markets in China have "Dazhai" brand goods sales, "Dazhai" brand intangible assets to Dazhai people have brought great wealth, Dazhai walnut dew, Dazhai brand shirts, Dazhai aluminum plastic pipe, Dazhai vinegar, Dazhai golden cake, Dazhai golden deer wine and other products have gone out of Niangziguan, marketing throughout the country. Guests who come to Dazhai to travel must first drink Dazhai wine, drink Dazhai walnut dew, and eat Dazhai's pressed cakes and Dazhai's nest heads. While focusing on building the "Dazhai" economic brand, the huge spiritual value condensed by the "Dazhai" brand has also begun to be concerned by more and more people, some "political stars", "film and television stars" have also become "economic stars" with the "Dazhai" brand, the former captain of the Dazhai Iron Maiden Team, the general secretary of the Dazhai Party Branch, the chairman of the Economic Development Corporation Guo Fenglian with Dazhai walnut dew drinks, like a skilled marketer to introduce Dazhai's drinks to guests, she said: "We use the brand to engage in alliances, the use of resources to produce products That is, it publicizes Dazhai itself and improves economic benefits. At present, the party Central Committee attaches great importance to the 'three rural areas' issue and tilts its policies toward the 'three rural areas', and we must seize the opportunity to accelerate the rapid development of the rural economy. ”

Shanxi Dazhai Beverage Co., Ltd. was established in 2001, after many years of development, has become one of the best quality domestic products, the fastest growth in performance of one of the beverage enterprises. The main product "Dazhai Walnut Dew" has become the first brand in China's walnut beverage market. The company has introduced production equipment from the United States, South Korea, Britain, Germany, Denmark and other countries, with an annual production scale of 600 million, providing a material guarantee for product quality. Relying on the scientific research technology of Peking University, the company adopts the formula of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, selects the high-quality walnuts of Taihang Mountain as raw materials, and is refined by modern technology. Products have won the China Green Food, China Health Food, Shanxi Province famous trademark, etc., the products through the national export qualification certification, enterprises through the ISO9001 quality system certification.

In The total economic income of Dazhai, agricultural income accounts for only 0.3%, industrial income accounts for 56%, circulation industry accounts for 10%, service industry and tourism account for 30%. After nearly thirty years of development, Dazhai has successfully transformed from a political brand to an economic brand, and the road to well-off of Dazhai people has become wider and wider.

As one of the "Top Ten Famous Villages in The Country", "National Civilized Villages and Towns", "National Ecological and Cultural Villages" and "Chinese Happiness Villages", Dazhai has brought tangible benefits to the local people, and now the whole village has achieved the goal of "small education, old people rely on, and sick people have retribution". That is, children attend school free of charge from kindergarten to primary school, and villages admitted to universities are awarded scholarships every year; Both women over the age of 55 and men over the age of 60 receive pensions. Dazhai has changed and become China's happy village.

It's time to leave Dazhai, what souvenirs to buy to go back? Fortunately, I saw a set of five special stamps "Dazhai Red Flag" issued on September 30, 1974, namely "Revolutionary Pride", "Hard Struggle", "Scientific Farming", "Festive Harvest" and "Dazhai Red Flag". On October 13, 1975, a set of three commemorative stamps of the "National Conference on Agricultural Sciences" was issued. On April 9, 1977, a set of four special stamps of "Popularizing Dazhai County" was issued, and on June 30, 1978, a set of three stamps of "Dazhai of Pastoral Studies" was issued. These stamps have become artifacts of that particular period and are extremely precious.

In addition, I bought two bottles of "Dazhai wine", and after I went back, I used wine as a medium to share the feelings of this trip to Dazhai and the story of Dazhai.