The Dong girl Ah Xiang wore traditional ethnic costumes and came to her own fish pond.
In a melodious background sound, she threw the fry into the pond without hesitation. The picture then cuts to the full picture of the fish pond, and there are fish fry that flutter into the camera from time to time.
This short video that restores the daily life of the countryside has now exceeded 3.8 million views on the watermelon video and won 900,000 fans.
Ah Xiang was originally no different from the girls who struggled in the city, if there was to say that there was, it was that people earned 500,000 yuan a year, waved their sleeves, and walked gently.
"The son wants filial piety and does not wait for the family" only wants to fulfill the father's last wish
In the winter of 2015, Ah Xiang's father was hit while cutting down a tree on the mountain in order to prepare firewood for the winter, and unfortunately passed away.
Ah Xiang's father liked Dong music before he was born, and through sorting out his father's relics, he found that his father had a deep affection for Dong songs.
The unexpected death of her father did not make the post-90s girl depressed, but regained the courage to resolutely give up her 500,000 annual salary, return to her hometown to inherit her father's will, pass on Chinese culture to herself, take her father as an example, re-collect and sort out the Dong culture and Dong song songs that are about to disappear, and let the Dong culture return to the public's vision.
This girl is crazy
Ah Xiang, whose real name is Zhang Guodan, is a native Dong girl.
At the age of 18, Ah Xiang left dashan, went to other provinces to study at university as desired, and after graduation, went to Guangzhou to do foreign trade business, with a surplus of more than 200,000 yuan all year round, his parents were proud, and his clan was envious.
When Ah Xiang decided to give up her job in Guangzhou with an annual salary of 500,000 yuan and return to work and live in the village of Liping, Guizhou, this practice was not understood by the people around her, and the neighbors shook their heads and accused her of studying in vain as soon as she came back.
The mother also did not understand why her daughter "self-destructed her future", three days and two ends persuaded her to return to Guangzhou to make money, and when the quarrel was the fiercest, she once threatened Ah Xiang to break off the mother-daughter relationship.
But Ah Xiang did not waver, still buried his head in filming, and also purchased a professional camera to teach himself photography techniques. The voice that appears most often in the ear is "This girl is crazy."
There is light in the heart, and illuminating oneself illuminates others
At the end of 2018, Ah Xiang began to upload works on Douyin, named "Village Girl Ah Xiang".
Videos of her singing, cooking, and doing farm work in national costumes have attracted many fans. Many people are curious about the Dong culture, and have asked her in the message area, "is the pickled fish delicious", "is there a tutorial on panfa", and some people are attracted by the simple rural life, sighing "I really want to go to you as a guest".
On June 18, 2019, a Douyin video uploaded by Ah Xiang about stepping on a stone mortar to make chili sauce suddenly caught fire. This unexpected gain allowed Ah Xiang to find a way to create short videos that combine content and e-commerce.
After that, she posted a video of growing rice and helped her uncle's family sell six or seven thousand catties of rice. The appearance of flat shoulders, baskets and stools in daily videos has also aroused the interest of fans. In March this year, Ah Xiang contracted a 200-acre piece of mountain in the village, planted fruit trees and vegetables, raised fish and ducks, and invited the neighbors in the village to start a business together.
In Ah Xiang's conception, this orchard can not only provide agricultural products to generate income, but also build a Dong cultural tourism base, and Dong culture can also be inherited in this process.
In December 2021, Ah Xiang was certified as a non-hereditary heir of the Dong Great Song. She and her father have recorded more than 2800 Dong songs, and her father's last wish has finally become a reality.
The mother finally understood Ah Xiang's decision and gave her daughter a deep hug.
Ah Xiang said that if her father had a spirit in heaven, he would be proud of her.
The meaning of life
Young people can choose poetry and faraway places, or they can choose the future and development.
Dreams are things that make people feel that persistence is happiness, because with dreams, stereotypical life has the possibility of ever-changing, and ordinary life can also achieve extraordinary achievements.
Although this road is difficult, Ah Xiang feels that his life is very valuable. Because she not only inherits the Dong culture, but also subtly drives the awakening of rural women's self-awareness.
When women's consciousness begins to awaken to itself and is no longer attached to others, they have long learned to take the bumpy road of life on their own, and since the ups and downs are inevitable, they are fearless.
As Mr. Chen Yong's "Six Secrets of Life" said in the meaning of life: our ordinary life is extraordinary because of dreams, if we are fortunate enough to find crazy passion to pursue, to burn desperately, to aspire to achieve the dream, then this sense of mission that touches the soul from the heart is the meaning of our life!