The Taihang Red River Valley is blessed with unique cultural resources, with rich cultural accumulation such as the red revolution culture, the ancient myth of the creation of Nüwa and the folk culture of Taihang Mountain. This is the base of the anti-Japanese revolution, the birthplace of Liu Deng's army, and the capital of the Jinji-Hebei Luyu Border Region, composing an immortal legend of "9,000 soldiers entering the county and 300,000 troops going out of Taihang".
During the Spring Festival, tourists visit the ancient town of Chishuiwan in Wading County. Photo by Hu Xiaohua, a reporter from the Handan News and Media Center
"Nowadays, relying on the rich red and ecological tourism resources of Taihang Mountain, our city wants to build the Taihang Red River Valley into a new hot spot for national tourism and a new business card for Tourism in Hebei." Li Xiaoliang, director of the office of the Taihang Red River Valley Promotion Headquarters in Xiangxian County, described the future with sonorous words.
During the Spring Festival, reporters from the Handan News and Media Center's "New Year Grassroots Walk" interview team walked into the county and along the Taihang Red River Valley Cultural Tourism Economic Belt, touring the town, visiting cave dwellings, listening to the voices of the heart, and feeling the footsteps of the people in the old areas running toward happiness.
During the Spring Festival, tourists will watch the big red lanterns in the ancient town of Chishuiwan in Shixian County. Photo by Hu Xiaohua, a reporter from the Handan News and Media Center
Red good day
At the southern foot of the Taihang Mountains, on both sides of the Qingzhang River, a Taihang Red River Valley Cultural Tourism Economic Belt stretches for 132 kilometers between the beautiful waters of the Lingshan Mountains, stringing together the entire territory of Xiangxian County and parts of the Cixian and Fengfeng Mining Areas. On the afternoon of January 30, Li Xiaoliang led a team of reporters to a village within the economic belt, Changle Village, Sobao Town, Xiangxian County.
Strolling through the streets and alleys of Changle Village, you can see that the spacious road is surrounded by newly completed houses, which look magnificent against the background of the mountains. At this moment, every household in the village is busy pasting the Spring Festival. A brush, a piece of red paper, a foot of brick table, the tip of the pen is pressed to run, and the bright red paper surface leaves a long and fragrant taste of the year. "As the saying goes, it's better to have no meat than to have no connection." Liu Kuifang, a villager who was writing about the Spring Festival, said with a smile, "In my hometown, eating dumplings and pasting spring leagues is an indispensable New Year ceremony. ”
"In the past, there were hundreds of people scattered in the village, everyone was poor, few people could read, and even fewer people could write about the Spring Festival. Fortunately, Liu Kuifang, who works outside, writes well and returns to the village every year before the Spring Festival to write the Spring Festival for everyone. Xu Guiliang, secretary of the village party committee, said that don't look at the 5A-level national scenic spot across the village, the Imperial Palace, and some old sites left behind when the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army advanced into the county, but the villagers guarded these "treasures" for a long time. Later, in order to completely help the village to uproot the "poor roots", the local government relied on the local unique cold spring water resources and fertile land to help the villagers develop special planting and breeding industries such as sturgeon, sturgeon, crayfish, ice grapes, etc., so that the villagers gradually touched the way to get rich.
"In just a few years, the industrious Changle people have spelled out a good life with their hands. Everyone has money in their pockets, and they all compete to learn culture and write spring festivals, hoping to express their joy in running on the road to prosperity in this way. Xu Guiliang said.
"Blue sky and clear water, thousands of years old, birds and flowers fragrant spring" "Door even Yinfu Road, spring to the well-off home"... Looking around, these Spring Leagues, which write a new era, dress up Changle Village as a fiery world. The reporter read these spring leagues, unconsciously came to the sturgeon breeding base in the village, and saw a square fish pond, a tail sturgeon swimming in the clear water.
"The largest sturgeon here is more than two meters long and weighs more than 300 kilograms, attracting many tourists to visit." Xu Guiliang said that even during the Spring Festival, tourists visiting the Imperial Palace will stop by Changle Village to experience the fun of fishing. In addition to fishing, there is also a fresh and delicious sturgeon feast for visitors to enjoy. Last year, with the help of the government and society, the village built a Changle sturgeon town, and built an industrial chain integrating seedlings, breeding, processing and red tourism, which not only revitalized the economy of one side, but also allowed the surrounding villagers to find local employment nearby.
"The change in Changle Village is a microcosm of the high-quality development of the countryside in the county since the construction of the Taihang Red River Valley Cultural Tourism Economic Belt." Li Xiaoliang said that our city insists on combining the construction of the Taihang Red River Valley with the construction of the old revolutionary areas and the promotion of the strategy of rural revitalization, adheres to the goal of gathering and strengthening industries, small and complete functions, and new and active mechanisms, and builds a development model of "scenic spots with towns, small towns with villages", which will drive nearly 100,000 people in more than 20 townships and villages in the three places of Xiangxian County, Fengfeng Mining District, and CiXian County to achieve employment and income increase.
Reporters who went to the grassroots level in the Spring Festival were interviewed in Changle Village, Sobao Town, Xiangxian County. Photo by Hu Xiaohua, a reporter from the Handan News and Media Center
The Red Tour is popular
On the morning of the first day of the first lunar month, the reporter drove to an important scenic spot in the Taihang Red River Valley Cultural Tourism Economic Belt - the red memory town in Xiangxian County. At this moment, there are already many private cars parked in the parking lot of the scenic spot. The reporter turned around inside for more than 20 minutes before finding a parking space.
Li Xiaoliang introduced: As an old revolutionary area, there are nearly 30 representative red sites in Xiangxian County, such as the auditorium of the Political Department of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, the former site of the Government of the Luyu Border Region of Jinji and Hebei, and the headquarters office of the Taihang Military Region. Local innovative work ideas, in accordance with the ratio of 1:1 in the town rehabilitation, and supporting the canal, stone mill, theater and other original ecological folk landscapes and experience formats, so that here become a tourism, research and learning experience in one of the boutique red tourist attractions.
In the town square, loudspeakers repeatedly played the relevant regulations on epidemic prevention and control, and the staff at the entrance took the forehead temperature gun to measure the temperature of each tourist wearing a mask and registered the information.
Among the duty personnel at the gate of the red memory town, the reporter met the person in charge of the town, Wang Xiangyi, deputy director of the Memorial Hall of the 129th Division. "I really didn't expect that there were so many tourists on the first day of the first month of the month, and I was afraid that the scenic staff would not be able to come, so I came to the door to work with everyone." While guiding tourists to maintain a distance of one meter, he told reporters that in order to allow tourists to get a more realistic and three-dimensional study experience, the town launched military simulation training, battle experience, farming labor, red classic performances and other activities during the Spring Festival.
At the moment, there were many tourists standing in the square in front of the town, as if they were waiting for something. The reporter approached these tourists and wanted to interview, but suddenly heard a "rumbling" sound behind them. Turning his head to look, he saw that not far away, two "heavily armed" armored vehicles were slowly approaching. When the armored car was parked, several children stuck out their small faces from the car, and then shouted happily: "It's so fun, I have to do it again!" The parents on the side persuaded for a while before the children climbed out of the car and rearranged behind the crowd to wait for the opportunity to experience it again.
As soon as the two armored vehicles were removed, they heard a series of gunshots coming from the town. Looking for the sound, the reporter came to the town's battle experience area, only to see the children here incarnated into a "small eight road", through digging trenches, practicing target shooting and other ways to experience military life.
"It's an experience that's more fun than playing with your phone." In the experience area, an 8-year-old child with a sweaty head said, "I learned a truth here, that is, everyone can only defeat the enemy if they are united." ”
"This year's Spring Festival back to my hometown of Waxian For the New Year, I saw that my hometown had changed a lot, and I felt very shocked." Tourist Cheng Yumei said that when she was a child, she often listened to the older generation tell red stories, and this time she specially brought her children to visit and learn, so that he could receive red education, remember history, and learn to be grateful.
Li Xiaoliang introduced that at present, the red memory town is fully put into operation, which can not only provide nearly 100 jobs, but also stimulate local economic development, and open a new breakthrough for the high-quality development of tourism and rural revitalization in the Red River Valley. Next, the county will focus on the core resources of the birthplace of Liu Deng's army in the Red River Valley and the capital of the Jinji-Hebei Luyu Border Region, do a good job in the protection and restoration of cultural relics, give play to the role of red tourism in patriotic education, revolutionary traditional education and national defense education, and strive to build the Taihang Red River Valley Cultural Tourism Economic Belt into a national-level red study and tourism demonstration zone.
Actors from the Red Memory Town Theater in Akian Village, Shibu Prefecture rehearse a dance. Photo by Hu Xiaohua, a reporter from the Handan News and Media Center
Listen to the voices of the people in the cave
On the afternoon of the first day of the first lunar month, the reporter came to the former site of the headquarters of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army and found that it was full of tourists and even more lively. In the place where Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping personally planted the two saplings of bauhinia and lilac, many tourists were taking photos with their mobile phones.
In the crowd, an old man with white hair attracted attention. He is wearing a commemorative medal of "Fifty Years of Glory in the Party" and is excitedly telling tourists the red story of Liu Deng's army strategizing the Red Shore and bathing in blood. Inquiring learned that he was Zhang Hetian of Chi'an Village and had served as the leader of the militia in the village. This year, although he is 80 years old, he is still enthusiastic about public welfare, and often goes to the former site of the 129th Division Headquarters to give voluntary explanations.
Seeing that the reporter's hand with the pen was frozen blue, Zhang Hetian warmly invited the reporter to his home to drink a cup of hot water, stop by chian village, and listen to him tell the story that happened in this mountain village.
Leaving the old site of the headquarters of the 129th Division, the old man walked with his legs and feet neatly, and led the reporter along the path to the depths of Chi'an Village. Soon, a brand-new street appeared in front of reporters. The old man said that this is the Lianxin Alley that was just beaten in the village last year. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping led the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army into Chi'an Village, Xiangxian County, where they lived and fought for 6 years, leaving behind many old revolutionary sites. Last year, the county hosted the opening ceremony of the Sixth Provincial Tourism Development Conference, and Chi'an Village took this as an opportunity to build 11 characteristic courtyards in Lianxin Lane relying on the original revolutionary site, so that tourists can taste special snacks here, or learn more than 10 kinds of folk crafts such as dyeing, spinning, weaving, sewing and embroidery.
During the conversation, Zhang Hetian led the reporter to his residence, a small farm yard of three caves. These caves are reinforced with green bricks, which looks simple and chic. On the tables in the courtyard, there are hedgehogs, yuanbao, daisho peaches and other style flower cakes. The old man asked the reporter to sit down, and then brought hot tea.
A cup of fragrant tea entered the stomach, and Zhang Hetian's words increased. He said: In the past, under the extreme hardship of the masses of the people in the counties involved, the 129th Division and the Government of the Jinji-Hebei Luyu Border Region used the Zhanghe River to bring benefits to the people, built the Zhangnan Canal, diverted the water of the Zhanghe River up the Taihang Mountains, turned the dry land into watered land, and let the masses in the old areas survive the famine. There is still a song circulating in Xiangxian County: "The water flows to the south of the mountain, there is no need to worry about eating, without the Eighth Route Army, how can this water flow." ”
"We will never forget the Kindness of the Eighth Route Army to the people of the Old District." Zhang Hetian said: During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the villagers of Chi'an Village spontaneously sewed clothes and shoes for the officers of the Eighth Route Army on the front line, donated money and grain, vacated houses, and sent sons to Congrong, and did everything they could to support the Eighth Route Army in resisting Japan. The feelings of selflessness and fearlessness of the people in the old district and the connection of home and country are passed down from generation to generation. Today, the people in this hot land still continue the fine tradition of their ancestors sacrificing their families to serve the country.
For example, Zhang Hetian said that last year, around the Red River Valley project, a red bank park was built in the north of the village. But there were more than a hundred old mansions there that needed to be demolished. From the relocation team stationed in Chi'an Village to the successful completion of the demolition work, no villager opposed obstruction. Some villagers have just completed the renovation of their new houses and are facing demolition before they have moved in. But although they were reluctant, they still fully cooperated.
"The soldiers of the Eighth Route Army sacrificed their lives in those years, and compared to their sacrifices, our sacrifice is nothing!" Zhang Hetian said, "The people in the old district have identified a reason, that is, 'listen to the party, feel the gratitude of the party, and follow the party', and our days will become more and more prosperous." ”
Zhang Hetian said, "Now, more than a hundred residents have been assigned to beautiful new houses, and I will take you to see!" The old man was an acute child, he put down the water cup and launched an electric tricycle from the yard and took the reporter to see the new house in Chi'an Village.
The tricycle was driving on the clean and tidy village road, and the villagers on the side of the road saw Zhang Hetian and politely asked: "Old Zhang, why is this going?" ”
"I'll take the reporter to see our new house!" Zhang Hetian looked up and said proudly. After turning a few corners in the village, the old man suddenly pointed to a snow-white three-story building in front of him and said happily: "Do you look pretty or not?" Most of these houses have been capped, and by around July this year, more than a hundred demolition households will be able to live in beautiful new houses. ”
"The Red River Valley project is a popular project, with the strong support of the people in the old area, the project has completed the construction tasks of 7 major categories and 20 projects such as ecological landscape, water system landscape, land landscape, road network, characteristic town (block), key scenic spot upgrading and tourism infrastructure, and successfully passed the test of the Sixth Provincial Tourism Development Conference." Li Xiaoliang said that in the next step, all relevant units and departments will continue to work hard to further improve the tourism infrastructure, scenic quality, experience format, management service level, expand the popularity and influence of the Taihang Red River Valley Cultural Tourism Economic Belt, and make it truly become a new hot spot in national tourism and a new business card for Tourism in Hebei.
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