In 1992, the state officially decided to build the Three Gorges Project. Guilin Village, Zigui County, near the Three Gorges, many people are talking about this matter after receiving the news, the elderly in the village are not willing to relocate, after all, here live their ancestors, all the memories of life are in the homeland, how can they be left behind? However, after the completion of the Three Gorges Project, it will benefit more people, and although the people in the village love their homeland, they love the country even more, and in the end they still choose to leave.
Parents arrange marriage, and after marriage, the in-laws are indifferent
Hubei Province is mountainous and watery, and the places close to the Three Gorges are also mountainous, and most of them are inconvenient to traffic. Many villages can only be built next to the mountain, but the village on the mountain and the village under the mountain are completely different. In their leisure time, the villagers under the mountain can go out at any time to do odd jobs and earn more money to subsidize their families. And the villagers on the mountain are not convenient to go down the mountain, it is even more troublesome to go to the odd jobs, and it takes several hours to buy something. Over time, the income of the villagers under the mountain is getting higher and higher, and the villagers on the mountain can only live a hard life.
Zhang Bing'ai's family lives on a mountain near Guihua Village in Zigui County, and Zhang's father and mother know deeply how difficult it is to live on the mountain, and it is even more difficult to raise children. Those who are parents and children are far-reaching, and Zhang's father and mother are no exception. Zhang's father and mother thought that the mountain was not far down, the living conditions were better, they could know the situation of their daughter at any time, and their daughter could also go home at any time. So Zhang's father and mother Began to plan for Zhang Bing'ai early, and finally settled a family under the mountain.
Zhang Bing'ai was told that her parents had been arranged as soon as she became an adult, which made it difficult for her to accept. She also learned from her parents that her future husband was disabled, which made her even more unacceptable. Moreover, at that time, she had an object she was getting along with, and her limbs and sound appearance were not bad, except that her family was a little poor, and there was nothing wrong with it.
In order to change her parents' arbitrary decision, Zhang Bing'ai chose to tell her parents that she already had an object, and her parents not only did not understand, but forced her to break up with the object. Zhang Bing'ai was in pain, and used hunger strikes to express his dissatisfaction, and in the end he failed to change his parents' decision. Zhang Bing'ai could only break up with the object and was forced to marry into the Yamashita family.
The in-laws have more than one child, so they do not attach great importance to their husbands, and arranging for their husbands to get married is only to hope that someone can take care of him, and finally not become a burden. According to common sense, the in-laws should feel guilty, and more help is enough. But after Zhang Bing'ai and her husband got married, the in-laws rarely came forward. Some of the work in the field, but Zhang Bing'ai's parents came to help.
This made Zhang Bing'ai particularly helpless, and the family's life was pressed on her alone. Zhang Bing'ai wanted to flee several times. However, looking at her generous husband, Zhang Bing'ai could not bear to abandon her husband like this.
Zhang Bing'ai Is fair to say that her husband did nothing wrong. Although he could not afford the living expenses of the family, he could not go out to do odd jobs. But he will also try his best to go to the field to help Zhang Bing'ai do things, and even the hygiene of the home is that he is cleaning, and Zhang Bing'ai never has to worry.
Every time she came home from work, Zhang Bing'ai could eat hot meals, and her husband would pinch her shoulders and calves to relax, except that her husband was disabled, and there was really nothing to criticize. In the end, Zhang Bing'ai still chose to stay, live with her husband, and strive to improve her family's life, and everything is developing towards a beautiful place. But the day did not go according to people's wishes, and the peaceful life was shattered by a piece of news.
After choosing to settle down, life is forced to leave the homeland
In 1992, the state officially confirmed the establishment of the Three Gorges Project. In 1993, the immigration documents were issued, and Zhang Bingai's Zigui County was undoubtedly to be relocated. This is a difficult choice for many people in Zigui County, Chinese have a homeland complex, and how can they easily give up the place where they have lived for generations. But the Three Gorges migrants have no choice, this is a project that benefits one side, and no one wants to drag their feet.
In addition, the state also takes into account the difficulties and problems of migrants, and promises to arrange a place with superior conditions for migrants as their future place of residence, and will allocate subsidies to enable them to settle down and start their lives again.
The people of Zigui County responded to the government's call to relocate. In 1995, the villagers of Guihua Village also began to relocate, but Zhang Bing'ai was reluctant to relocate, choosing to rely on immigration (retreating to a safe distance to live and not leaving his hometown). Before long, the people of Guihua Village had basically completed their relocation and lived in spacious and bright houses in places with convenient conditions arranged by the government. However, Zhang Bing'ai still chose to rely on immigration and refused to move abroad to a place arranged by the government.
Zhang Bing'ai is very stubborn, from 1995 to 2002, the staff in charge of relocation came to Zhang Bing'ai's home countless times, the legs were almost broken, the mouth was dry, Zhang Bing'ai still insisted that the village approved a homestead for her, she only decided to rely on immigrants on the spot.
Even if the staff told her that if the conditions were better to move outside, the children could receive a good education, Zhang Bing'ai still did not nod her head and moved out, and she would die in Guihua Village. Zhang Bing'ai only stayed in his own world, paying no attention to the voices of the outside world.
Zhang Bing'ai's behavior is considered by many people to be a rat's eye or a woman's opinion. Everyone does not understand, why do you have good conditions but are not willing to enjoy it, and you have to stay in this small mountain village? Even if it is for the sake of a better education for her children, she should also move out.
Although this is indeed a sadness that belongs to Zhang Bing'ai, it is also possible to understand her choice if you think about it carefully. After all, she couldn't do anything but farming, and even farming was only learned after marrying her husband. How could Zhang Bing'ai not be envious of following the villagers to move out to live, living in a beautiful and spacious big house, and having children receiving a better education?
But it was like a fleeting firework, and the short beauty would disappear after that, and she still needed to think about the life of the family. The husband is disabled and unable to work, she still has her son and daughter in school, the external conditions are good and expensive, how can she support this family alone, and what should the life of four people do?
Even if Zhang Bing'ai continues to farm, let's not say that it is not enough for a family to live. When she was farming in Guihua Village, Zhang's father and mother on the mountain and Zhang Bing'ai's brother would come to help her, so that she could barely take care of the field. This relocation is 120 kilometers, who can be counted on at that time? Zhang Bing'ai's in-laws did not help from the beginning, how can they be counted on after relocation?
Therefore, Zhang Bing'ai can only make such a difficult choice, firmly rooted his home in Guihua Village, closer to his parents and brothers, in order to survive. Later, the staff saw that Zhang Bing'ai could not be persuaded, and could only agree that Zhang Bing'ai would continue to stay in Guihua Village and rely on immigration. In order to improve his life, Zhang Bing'ai picked up the land of other people in the village and planted it, but he planted more than twenty acres of land, and little by little, his life became better.
Coupled with the fact that the people in the village have moved away, the school has also moved away from here, and the son and daughter have to walk a long way to go to school in other places. But the son and daughter understood Zhang Bing'ai's approach very well, and never said that it was too tiring to walk to school, or why they couldn't move outside. The family's heart is in one place, and the days are getting more and more hopeful, so they insist on it for six years.
In 2003, the water level of the Yangtze River had risen to 135 meters. According to the regulations, households below 175 meters above sea level must be evacuated. Zhang Bing'ai's home is under 175 meters and must be moved out immediately, otherwise the house will be flooded by the river at any time. So Zhang Bing'ai had to give up his home where he had lived for many years, take her husband and the pots and pans at home, build a simple shed in a higher place, and continue to live.
Soon after, Zhang Bing'ai's original home was flooded by the billowing river water, and he could no longer see half a trace, and even many memories were buried under the river.
In the end, it is still relocation, and it is emotional to look back
Before the homestead has not been approved, Zhang Bingai can only stay in the old house for a full six years. Now that the water level has risen, Zhang Bing'ai's family has to relocate, and the homestead requested by the village has finally been approved. The family was happy and found a problem, the village homestead is on a remote hillside, just bulldozing the place to build a house, it takes a lot of time and money, the family has so much money.
Even if you bite your teeth and borrow money to build a house, there is no way for the family to go, and the traffic is so inconvenient. The most important thing is that water and electricity are difficult to move over, and daily life is completely impossible to maintain. The homestead is down, but when the family has everything done and then lives in a new house, I don't know how long it will take.
There was no way, Zhang Bing'ai could only build a low and even somewhat leaky shack with her husband in a corner of the vegetable field, and lived in a shack without water and electricity for a year. Fortunately, in the end, the government took into account Zhang Bing'ai's actual situation and allocated some compensation to her, and finally Zhang Bing'ai's family chose to use this money to buy several shacks next to the highway for the family to live temporarily.
In 2007, Zhang Bing'ai's son took the college entrance examination. Zhang Bing'ai has not been bothered by the children's learning, the children of the poor family have long been in charge, the son and daughter are also very sensible, and each exam is basically at the top. Zhang Bing'ai is also particularly proud. A year before his son's college entrance examination, Zhang Bing'ai was trying to save money.
She hopes that she will not drag her son back, and she has no money to study after being admitted, and even Zhang Bing'ai has thought that she is going to borrow a bank loan to let her son go to college, because she has suffered a loss without culture and can no longer delay her son's future.
Who knows that Zhang Bing'ai's son did not end up in college, regrettably falling off the list, but Zhang Bing'ai's son did not choose to repeat a year, after all, he also knows that the conditions at home are not very good, not to mention that his sister is still studying, the family living expenses are not small, and he cannot drag down the whole family. In the end, Zhang Bing'ai's son chose to become a soldier and was assigned to Xinjiang.
Zhang Bing'ai's son knew the difficulties of the family, and he did not dare to spend money indiscriminately in the army, but saved all the salaries of the troops so that they could be left for the family to build a house in the future. Later, Zhang Bing'ai's son returned from the army and took this money to build a house for the family, and the family's life was more and more hopeful. After the house was built, Zhang Bing'ai's son went to Guangdong and became a security guard.
In 2007, a documentary called "Bing Ai" was released, and countless people were moved by this story and wept for it. It is also because of this documentary that a Shanghai boss learned about the family's situation and chose to hire Zhang Bing'ai's son, and their lives went in a better direction.
Feng Yan
The author of the documentary "Bing Ai" is Feng Yan, and the documentary has actually been filmed for a long time. In 1994, she went to the Three Gorges Reservoir area to prepare to photograph a group of farmers who loved the land and had their own unique spiritual existence. However, it is just in time for the establishment of the Three Gorges Project and the relocation of the people in the reservoir area. So Feng Yan changed the subject matter, changed her own conception, and photographed these immigrants in the Three Gorges.
In fact, there were a total of 4 people in the first shooting, and finally only the story of Zhang Bing'ai was edited out and made into a documentary "Bing'ai". Through the documentary "Bing'ai", we can see the life of Zhang Bing'ai's family, a family's struggle for more than ten years.
In fact, under the background of a specific era, each of us is constantly pushed by history, and no one can predict the future, nor can we stop the ignorant self at a certain moment in the past.
The background of the times and the entanglement of fate, we can not judge Zhang Bingai's approach. Rightly or wrongly, she was just choosing her own life, perhaps making a problem for the government job, but relying on immigration was also a method proposed at the time, and she was just insisting on what she thought was right.
Zhang Bing'ai just wants to live with dignity, does not want to be wrapped up in the times, and does not want to be arranged by others. That was her best bet. In the moment, who can guarantee that she has the courage to stick to herself rather than take money to relocate?
In this era, Zhang Bing'ai missed the opportunity to make a fortune, and there is an insurmountable gap with others. Zhang Bingai himself could not help but sigh, if he had relocated with everyone, what kind of picture would it have been? No one knows what kind of picture other choices will be, people can't make both choices at the same time, and it is not easy to grasp the moment.
In 2006, Feng Yangang completed the editing of the documentary "Bing Ai". On the eve of the preparation for the screening, Feng Yan specially invited Zhang Bingai to come to Beijing, first, to show Zhang Bingai this documentary, and second, to let Zhang Bingai visit the capital. Zhang Bing'ai took the bacon that Hubei people love to make and the vegetables and fruits he grew himself on the train to Beijing.
Looking at the film released by Feng Yan, the picture of the scene appeared in Zhang Bingai's mind, and the road that was difficult to walk one foot deep and one foot shallow made Zhang Bing'ai feel a thousand emotions. Looking at his former self, Zhang Bing'ai only felt very magical. Zhang Bing'ai told Feng Yan that although the past was difficult and her persistence suffered, she never regretted her choice, and her family did not complain about her choice, which was enough for her.
Zhang Bing'ai only hopes that when the future is released, others can say that she can really work hard and work hard to support this family, without sorry for her husband and children.
Zhang Bing'ai did not stay in Beijing for a long time, because he was not used to staying, and finally Zhang Bing'ai left Beijing happily with a photo of her in Tiananmen Square.
Zhang Bing'ai still lives with her husband in the house built for them by her son, working silently in the fields and earning money to live for two people. And the children have their own home, no longer need her and her husband to worry, which is the best state of life for her.
epilogue
A woman carries the whole family, and she could have enjoyed a good life alone, but she did not abandon her disabled husband or her children. She knew that she had been carrying the doubts of others for a long time, and she had never been a naïve and romantic little girl, but a strong person for the sake of her family. Now her life is very happy, and she has never regretted it.