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"Go to a Windy Place": Xie Heshun rejects the Internet, reflecting the plight of rural elderly

"Where the wind arrives, the poetry of life is scattered", a seemingly understated slogan, but it expresses the theme of "To the Windy Place".

In the ordinary and busy life, we were tired and half dead for Brother Kong Fang all day, and in the end we didn't earn money, we didn't take care of our family, and even our body and mood became worse day by day. But we forget that the clouds in the sky, the wind in the mountains, all the poetic things have always been with us, but we have not looked up at the sky for a long time.

In "Go to a Windy Place", Xu Hongdou said goodbye to the busy life of the city and came to the leisurely Dali, following Xu Hongdou's steps, we appreciated the local customs and people, and also saw the idyllic scenery of clouds and clouds. Before we know it, we are also intoxicated and reap happiness and healing.

In addition to the beautiful idyllic scenery and rural life that bring people a sense of comfort, the local customs and customs also bring us too much touch——

Xie Zhiyao washed grandma's hair, leaned on grandma and chatted affectionately after work, gagged with his brother in front of grandma, Aunt Aquarius who was happy to share food with neighbors, Aunt Agui, who was hospitable, children who couldn't sleep late at night and grandma lying in bed chatting with their grandmother, telling their dream of "wanting to open a commissary"...

Such a relaxed and pleasant life has always been our ideal state, and many times, we are yearning for such a life.

But we forget that life is a beautiful robe, full of lice. In the pleasant and relaxed plot, we also see the clutch joys and sorrows of the little people - rebellious children, old people who protect calves, short trivialities in parents...

"Go to a Windy Place": Xie Heshun rejects the Internet, reflecting the plight of rural elderly

Screenshot of the TV series "Go to the Windy Place"

 Of course, in the first few episodes of the story, what touched me the most was Xie Heshun's experience.

At that time, Xie Heshun was the best wood carving master in the village, and there was a long queue to find him to make a wood carving, so in those years, many young people were willing to follow him to learn wood carving skills.

However, in just over a decade, the wood carving business plummeted, and people were more willing to buy cheaper and faster machine carving works than Xie Heshun's elaborate wood carving works.

Although we also know that handmade works are more artistic, for most consumers, they do not pay attention to these lofty things.

Therefore, although Xie Heshun carved a lot of works, these works were placed in his own home and could not be sold at all.

However, it was his apprentices who blocked Xie Heshun the most-

When the wood carving business was good, everyone worshipped him as a teacher, but now that the wood carving business is not good, those young people have chosen to leave one after another to find their future in the city.

Although Xie Xiaoxia has been learning wood carving skills with him, Xie Xiaoxia is not an absolutely good student, because he not only does not do wood carving according to the master's arrangement, but even plays live broadcast.

Because of this incident, Xie Xiaoxia was scolded by Xie Heshun.

It's just that he never expected that this last apprentice, under the instigation of netizens, left the wood carving workshop and wanted to go to the big city to see the world.

After knowing this, although Xie Heshun did not get angry, the disappointment in his heart could be felt across the screen.

"Go to a Windy Place": Xie Heshun rejects the Internet, reflecting the plight of rural elderly

Screenshot of the TV series "Go to the Windy Place"

 As a child growing up in a rural area, I can empathize with Xie Heshun's disappointment.

In the countryside of my hometown, there were many such capable people, and when I was young, they even became my idols for a while——

Some of them can carpenter (carpenters), whoever makes furniture will invite them to go, in addition to earning wages, they can also "change jobs" for the family (when their family is busy, others will go to help);

Some of them can build earthen walls (commonly known as earthlayers), but whenever someone wants to repair a house, they are skilled workers, and they can be respected by others wherever they go;

Some of them can beat pigs, and in the era of "one plow, two supplements, three strikes of iron", but in just ten minutes, they can earn the money that others can earn in a whole day with their own skills...

However, with the development of the times, their talents have lost their use-

Today's people, no longer pursue the durability of furniture, compared to heavy wooden furniture, they are more willing to buy exquisite finished furniture in the mall, the craftsmanship of the carpenter master, naturally abandoned;

Since the village had a road, people began to be dissatisfied with the original adobe houses, even the pigsty was made of cement bricks, and the earthmasons, who had been "in the storm", were naturally unemployed;

In recent years, there have been fewer and fewer pig owners in my hometown, and even if there are pig farmers, they are also piglets who buy good gelding, and I have not seen those geldingsmiths who go from house to house for several years...

When I return to my hometown, I can still meet those former "stormy figures", now they are old, they can't go out to work, they can only serve their own acres and threes of land, but every time I mention that year, I can feel their inner unwillingness and regret.

"Go to a Windy Place": Xie Heshun rejects the Internet, reflecting the plight of rural elderly

Screenshot of the TV series "Go to the Windy Place"

 In fact, we all know that Xie Heshun's wood carving is really good, and even the works carved by Xie Xiaoxia, an apprentice who has not yet become a master, can make Xu Hongdou from the big city shine.

The reason why there is no market is because of the lack of publicity.

In this place of Dali, not only is there wood carving, an intangible cultural heritage, but Xie Huailan, the inheritor of embroidery, not only uses the Internet to sell his works, but also participates in various exhibitions everywhere.

On the other hand, Xie Heshun not only does not know how to promote his works, but even everything on the Internet is regarded by him as a symbol of evil. Therefore, he will oppose Xie Xiaoxia's live broadcast, and even Xie Xiaoxia's technological innovation has been denied by him.

Although we know that in the later story, Xie Xiaoxia was deceived and returned to his hometown to continue to learn wood carving, and Xie Heshun was also persuaded by Xie Zhiyao, Xie Heshun jumped out of the shackles of self-perception and started publicity, but we have to admit that this is the most real life of most rural elderly people -

They haven't read many books, they haven't seen much of the world, and when the digital age comes and new things are updated in a geometric progression, they can't keep up step by step, from refugees in the digital age to outcasts in the digital age.

Xu is embarrassed to ask young people for advice for the sake of face; Xu is because of the limitations of self-knowledge, which makes them full of fear of the unknown world; Xu is because they live a life of sunrise and do not need many advanced things... For whatever reason, they are isolating themselves from the world.

Every year at the New Year, young people play with mobile phones, but the elderly, just sit like that, can't talk at all, even if they finally hold out a sentence, young people don't have the energy to respond to them.

"Go to a Windy Place": Xie Heshun rejects the Internet, reflecting the plight of rural elderly

Screenshot of the TV series "Go to the Windy Place"

 Frankly speaking, Dali in the plot is actually a special case, because of the unique tourism resources here, because of the support of the local government, they have not only not been forgotten by the times, but are more lively because of the tourists from the south and north.

But countless villages are slowly dying out of sight – a 2017 group of Chinese ancient village and town conference data showed that China's traditional villages have plummeted by nearly 920,000 in the past 15 years and are continuing to decline at a rate of 1.6 per day.

Even my hometown is no exception.

Although my hometown in my memory was just a small mountain village, when we were children, chickens and dogs smelled each other, and at dusk, walking on the country roads, we could smell all kinds of meals.

In recent years, because of the impact of the economic tide and urbanization, young and middle-aged people have gone out to work, and after making money, they have all lived in the town and bought houses in the county and city, staying in their hometowns, most of them are elderly people, and they are being eliminated by the times.

Although every New Year, young people will return to their hometowns, which will bring a little anger, but when the New Year is over, young people will rush to a new life, and the mountain village of their hometown will decline day by day.

Although the current hometown has not yet reached the point of ten rooms and nine empty, those iron generals who have been hanging on the door all year round have already foreshadowed the inevitable end of the slow demise of the hometown.

It is not difficult to imagine that when the last old man in the village died, the mountain village was completely empty.

Although rural revitalization in recent years has revitalized the hometown, if the young people in the countryside do not return, without the infusion of fresh blood, where the hollow countryside should go will become a completely new issue.

"Go to a Windy Place": Xie Heshun rejects the Internet, reflecting the plight of rural elderly

Screenshot of the TV series "Go to the Windy Place"

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