Saturday, February 26 Sunny
According to Tan Shihua, the leader of the Shazhou Village Rural Revitalization Task Force, this is the first sunny day in Shazhou Village since the Spring Festival this year. At 11:18 a.m., the Shazhou Village Literature and Calligraphy Institute was officially inaugurated.
This is my second time in Shazhou Village, in March 2021, I once visited the "Warmth of Half a Quilt" exhibition hall, visited the former residence where the story of "Half a Quilt" occurred, and deeply understood that "the Communist Party is the person who has a quilt and has to cut half of it for the people." ”
The quality of the villagers in Shazhou Village is very high, the early years of the house has an overall plan, and now the front of the house is clean and tidy, and there is a pool of clear water in the village, which adds vitality and aura. As the weather warms up, the villagers have gone deep into the fields, where the vegetables have been contracted by the company and shipped to Guangdong all year round. However, last year, the traffic was hurried, and I could not properly feel the beautiful scenery of the village. Before the unveiling of the institute, Tan Shihua, the first secretary of Shazhou Village and the leader of the task force, warmly invited: "I will accompany you to the village and visit once along the route taken by General Secretary Xi Jinping in 2020." ”
We first came to the demonstration base of the modern agricultural brigade in Shazhou, and then to the first primary school of the civilized Yao nationality township, and also visited the General Health Department, the General Political Department, the General Headquarters, the General Logistics Department, the Garrison Headquarters, the former site of the National Bank of China and the Soviet Union when the Central Red Army passed through here in November 1934, as well as the temporary residences of Mao Zedong, Zhu De, Mao Zemin, Deng Fa and others when they marched.
Zhu Xiaoyong, a villager in Shazhou Village, is a calligraphy addict who enjoys a high prestige among the villagers, and when he heard that I wanted to run a literary and calligraphy training center here, he had a feeling of seeing each other and hating the evening. After the unveiling ceremony, Zhu Xiangqun, the secretary of the village party committee, expressed his intention to invest 60,000 yuan in the institute, and I immediately said: "After the funds are in place, I will write for free for your new house!" ”
In 2018, the report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China pointed out: "The main contradiction in mainland society has been transformed into a contradiction between the people's growing need for a better life and unbalanced and inadequate development. I think that the "good life" mentioned here should focus on spiritual life, our party and government should provide high-quality cultural services for the people, and after poverty alleviation, the Chinese people should become spiritual aristocrats.
My cultural poverty alleviation began in 2008, and has trained more than 20 typical successful cases with literature and calligraphy, including Li Yanhong, a peasant woman in the depths of the mountains, Yi Chengwu, who has been addicted to gambling for 40 years, and Zeng Xiangping, a teenager addicted to internet. I think: rural revitalization, culture first! Cultural revitalization should start from literature and calligraphy, low cost, easy to promote, grounded! Reading, writing, and practicing calligraphy can cultivate our cultural self-confidence, cultivate children to form a correct world view, values, and a rigorous work attitude and style, and cultural identity will make them love our motherland more. Over the years, I have been looking for a test field to promote my philosophy of "forging a spiritual home for Chinese with literature and calligraphy".
Poetry and wine to take advantage of the years! Before New Year's Day this year, Tan Shihua and I hit it off in small talk and decided to open a literary and calligraphy training center in Shazhou Village to organize villagers to study literature and calligraphy. In the evening, hunan satellite TV was opened, and Wang Han's "Every Day Upward" was discussing how to help revitalize rural culture. Last night, I already gave a lecture to the cadres and masses of Shazhou Village on "Using Literature and Calligraphy to Cast the Spiritual Homeland of Chinese", and today the Shazhou Village Literature and Calligraphy Transmission Institute was officially listed, and a reading and calligraphy group in Shazhou Village was quickly established. Shazhou Village is making every effort to build a "place of interpretation of the original heart", "a place where the task force (first secretary) was sent to initiate the initiative", and a "national rural revitalization demonstration village", and in time, it will surely achieve fruitful results. A spark that can ignite! May more Chinese farmers devote themselves to the study of literature and calligraphy, and create one book after another!
(Author: Cao Junping, Deputy Director of Hunan Provincial Culture Center)