On the afternoon of November 23, Guizhou Province announced that all 66 poverty-stricken counties in the province had achieved poverty alleviation. So far, all 832 poverty-stricken counties on the mainland have been lifted out of poverty, and the national poverty alleviation target has been completed.
The good news came at the moment when the most important festival of the Miao people , the Miao New Year. Longtang Village, Leishan County, Qiandongnan Prefecture, Guizhou Province, which has been lifted out of poverty in 2019, has long become an ocean of joy:
Brilliant fireworks bloom in the depths of the mountain, and the lights of every household reflect the Miao village in the middle of the mountain into a galaxy. Firecrackers are roaring, children are laughing, adults are toasting each other, cooking and frying in the kitchen...
In Longtang Village, where Miao Nian "traveled in full dress", we saw a new picture of a beautiful countryside.
Longtang Miao Nian Real view
Chinese New Year's Eve: Beating New Year rice, making fish jelly, eating Tuan New Year meal
November 20th is Longtang's New Year's "Chinese New Year's Eve" this year.
Uncle Pan, 52, caught a basket full of fish in his rice field the first day. Rice crucian carp and soybeans stewed into fish jelly are things that Uncle Pan has to do every year before the New Year.
In the first few days of the Miao year, every household began to prepare. They cleaned the house, beat glutinous rice dumplings, brewed rice wine, made tofu, sprouted beans, and killed pigs, cattle, sheep, and so on.
The Miao people celebrate the New Year, the Annual meal is sumptuous, pay attention to "seven colors are prepared" and "five flavors are complete". Among them, fish jelly is a very important and necessary dish. Uncle Pan prepared these, and then helped his wife to soak the glutinous rice into a large vat, and the next day he was going to steam the New Year's rice. Uncle Pan said that this year, his son's colleagues and friends, the relatives of his daughter and son-in-law, a total of more than 20 people, all have to go to the home for the New Year, and they need to be more fully prepared.
At nightfall, the room has a long table, and the carefully prepared dishes stretch for about 10 meters, which is very spectacular. Before eating, fireworks are set off in every house, and the children cover their ears and scream and jump with excitement. The female relatives dressed up solemnly and wore silver Glittering Hmong costumes to participate in the party. Uncle Pan filled the rice wine with a large open kettle, poured it into everyone's cup, and the laughter and blessings rushed out of the window of the wooden building.
Longtang Miao Nian Tuan Nian Nian Dinner Real view
The Wen family, who was with him, was also killing chickens and ducks, and was very busy. The Young Son and Daughter-in-law of the Wen family all work in the village, and there is no longer any need to leave their children to work everywhere. The eldest son worked in Beijing, and after the rural tourism in his hometown developed, he also brought a group of friends back for the New Year. The two grandchildren were buzzing in front of their knees, and the old father of the Wen family wanted to shed tears when he looked at it, this situation, he did not dare to think before, "Tuan New Year dinner, or many people can get up lively!" ”
New Year's Day: Sacrifice, catch fish, jump reeds
The Hmong have their own rules for the New Year. On the morning of the first day of the first year, the most solemn thing is the sacrifice.
At 9 a.m., before the fog of early winter had cleared on the mountain, the men put on traditional Miao costumes, black robes and black hats, and prepared to participate in the annual Miao Nian sacrifice ceremony. The drum chief of the village invited the copper drum to the copper drum square, and the twelve elders each equipped with a long pipe to perform the drum sacrifice ceremony; people lined up in a long line to hold a solemn sacrifice ceremony in the pond, praying for a smooth wind and rain in the coming year and a prosperous year.
Longtang Miao Nian Ancestor Worship Real view
The morning sacrifice is the main thing, and the afternoon rice field fish catching competition is the joy of the whole village. After lunch, the whole village gathered around the rice paddies, crowding the fields and the roads above. The fish catching competition was played with bare hands, everyone pounced on the field, and the people on the shore screamed and commanded. The person who caught the fish stuffed the fish into his clothes and pants, and the commander said that "it can be stuffed into his mouth"; some people did not catch a single one, and began to "grab" the fish hidden in the clothes of others, the villagers in the field chased each other, the villagers cheered on the onlookers, and everyone laughed and breathlessly.
The heartfelt shouts and laughter released the fatigue of the villagers from a year of hard work; and the fat rice field fish also conveyed the beautiful expectations of the Miao family every year.
Longtang Fry Year Fish Catching Competition Real view
In the afternoon, gong and drum square is a stage for dancing reeds. This elegant legacy has been passed down for the Miao family for more than 2,000 years. Walk, kick, straddle, turn, stand, flip, don't, hook... Lusheng blew out an exciting tune, and the villagers stepped on a strong and powerful step, dancing in a variety of ways, knocking a happy beat on the ground.
Longtang Miao Nian Jumping Lusheng Real View
After dinner, a roaring bonfire is raised in the village's cultural square. Men and women dress up in festive costumes and gather around the campfire. The women dance the bench dance first, each holding two small benches, rhythmically touching each other, dancing while touching, improvising.
After the bench dance, the reeds sounded again. The guests who came from afar were also infected with joy, and everyone sang and danced around the campfire, singing and dancing to express their hearts. In the rising fireworks, half drunk and half awake, the campfire reflected the red face of the people...
Longtang Miao Nian Bonfire Party Real view
There are many tourists in Miaozhai, and rural tourism is booming
These days, 60-year-old Wen Delong speaks a "Miao-style Mandarin" and drags his two grandchildren around the village to watch the liveliness.
On the day of Chinese New Year's Eve, a grand welcome ceremony was organized at the entrance of Miaozhai, the girls put on festive costumes to toast at the village entrance, the boys blew the reeds, this large-scale welcome ceremony lasted for two hours, and the tourists who came to the New Year crowded the village's homestays and farmhouses.
Longtang MiaoNian welcome guests Real view
It is difficult to imagine that longtang village two years ago was still a second-level poor village in the country. Here the mountain highland is thin, the transportation is inconvenient, 285 households, 100 are poor households. In order to support their families, the young people in the village basically go abroad to work and earn money.
The transformation originated in 2018, when Sunac China joined hands with the People's Government of Leishan County and the Youcheng Entrepreneur Poverty Alleviation Foundation to start pairing up to help Longtang Village. The villagers thought that the help was to send chai, rice, oil and salt, and continued to live their own hard life after eating. However, this time is different, Sunac and Youcheng Foundation have sent many people to go deep into the front line of poverty alleviation to provide strong and professional guarantees for the revitalization and implementation of Longtang...
Stimulating the endogenous power of rural areas and exploring sustainable rural development is the purpose of Sunac's implementation of the rural revitalization plan. For a long time, Sunac has devoted itself to the public welfare undertakings of rural revitalization, and has invested about 230 million yuan in the rural revitalization plan, and has formed a comprehensive and three-dimensional poverty alleviation program integrating cultural tourism entry, industrial promotion, cultural activation, and education support.
In Longtang, Sunac donated about 24 million yuan to tailor a three-dimensional precision poverty alleviation plan based on industrial poverty alleviation combined with local resources, cultural geography and other actual conditions, and created a "Longtang sample" for rural revitalization.
In more than two years of practice, Rong has created 9 buildings, made into a "five-star hotel-like" homestay - Longtang Mountain House, and also transformed 2 wooden buildings of villagers in the village as a demonstration homestay transformation, driving villagers to develop homestays and farmhouses, and at the same time, improving the environmental health of the village.
Longtang Mountain House Real view
Last month, Longtang Mountain House B&B also opened, rural tourism has better development conditions, and there are more and more faces in the village. For these "earth-shaking changes", Wen Delong is very proud: he guards the gate of the village, and is most willing to introduce his hometown to tourists and set up the legend of the dragon pond.
With industry, young people returned to their hometowns to get rich
Pan Xiaofen did not expect that one day she could earn money in the village.
Pan Xiaofen and her husband used to work in Beijing, and the children stayed at home in the elderly management. After the establishment of the Longtang Miao Embroidery Workshop, Pan Xiaofen returned to the village, participated in the training, and joined the "Embroidery Girl Group". Their tie-dye and embroidery products have now become the characteristic tourism products of the village.
Pan Xiaofen
Her husband, Wen Yuansheng, is the director of the office in the village cooperative, mainly responsible for village tourism; Wen Yuansheng's brother, who previously worked in Beijing for education and training, also returned this year to work in Longtang Mountain House.
Mao Haiyan, 40, also returned from an electronics factory in Guangdong to work as a waiter at a mountain house. Her income was guaranteed, but she was happiest that she could take care of her two children and do the farm work in the fields. She said that now her family is also renovating the house and making it a homestay.
In Longtang's poverty alleviation and support, Sunac uses its advantages as a cultural tourism industry to vigorously support Longtang Village to develop rural tourism, in addition to building homestays, it also helps the village to develop high mountain tea, ecological rice, tie-dye, Miao embroidery and other products. With the industry, the journey back to their hometowns has been opened, and more and more young people have returned to the beautiful Longtang.
Wen Chong, director of Longtang Village, explained to the tourists
"When the young people come back, the village is more vibrant." Wen Chong, director of Longtang Village, said happily. He calculated the account, longtang mountain house homestay after the opening, more than a month on the income of more than 40,000 yuan, this is Sunac donated to the village collective assets, so calculated, just the mountain house homestay, a year can increase more than 400,000 yuan; in addition, Sunac for the village to rebuild the homestay, a year can increase the income of more than 200,000 yuan.
At present, 13 villagers in Longtang have made homestays and restaurants with their own wooden buildings, all of which are integrated into the unified management of the village to ensure the quality of service. Coupled with other industries, the annual income increase is about 3 million, and a large number of laborers have been solved.
In WenChong's plan, in the future, it is necessary to realize the internal cycle of homestay-planting-breeding. He is very confident, "In the past three months, tourists have consumed more than 1,000 chickens from villagers." ”
Today, it is the third day of the Chinese New Year, and the joy in the village continues: embroidery competitions, fishing competitions, tug-of-war competitions, cockfighting, bullfighting, bird fighting... People here are still continuing the rituals of the festival and releasing the joy in their hearts. Only this year, the joy that pervaded Longtang Village was particularly confident. They said that they had never been so rich and down-to-earth for a year.
Real view of Longtang Village
Miao Nian is a facet, which reflects the process of Longtang regaining the vitality of the countryside, and also means the beginning of a new year, pinning people's purer hopes and firmer yearnings.
Taking the "Longtang sample" as a model, Sunac's poverty alleviation model is being applied to more projects. Up to now, Sunac has deeply participated in the poverty alleviation of 21 poor villages in 13 provinces and cities, such as Zhongyi Township in Chongqing, Guangnan County in Yunnan Province, and Hongwei Village in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, helping more than 40,000 poor households to win the battle against poverty.
In the future, Sunac will continue to take the sense of responsibility and mission of "a beautiful city co-builder", give full play to the potential of enterprises, exert its strengths, use its own professional skills, and explore a sustainable and beautiful rural revitalization public welfare practice path by promoting cross-border cooperation between the cultural tourism industry and public welfare, and the beautiful co-construction of cities and villages, helping to stimulate new momentum for the development of poor areas and revitalize endogenous power, and driving more social resources to create longer-term value for the whole society.