Bai Juyi Shiyun: "Life has changed endlessly, and he was a court official in the past." The poem laments the impermanence of life, and the court officials of the past have become old men in the countryside today. When I mentioned this, I thought of Huang Xinwen, the first 10,000-yuan household in New China, after the glory of life, but now he has become an old man struggling below the poverty line. A grain of dust of the times, falling on the head of an individual, is a mountain.
The road to riches
Speaking of Huang Xinwen, we have to mention the principle of reform and opening up and the principle of package production to households. The process of reform and opening up began in 1978 when an old man went to the south to inspect a circle drawn by the South China Sea, and in this year the Chinese market underwent earth-shaking changes, and the private economy in China was finally corrected, a large amount of capital poured into the market, and a large number of people began to seek a way to survive in the wave of the market.
Huang Xinwen is the first person to stand on the tide of the times, different from others who choose to go to the sea to do business, this proletarian working man in Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province, relies on his own hands to raise pigs and sell the vegetables he grows, and justifiably wears the hat of "10,000 yuan household".
Huang Xinwen proved with his own hands that even if he did not speculate and only relied on hard work, he could take off the hat of poverty, and even become a "rich man".
At that time, the state encouraged the common people to raise pigs, Huang Xinwen's keen insight found a business opportunity here, and he took out a loan to buy 25 pigs, relying on his exquisite pig raising skills, others needed a year to raise 150 pounds of pigs, Huang Xinwen only half a year can do it. With such technology, it is naturally not difficult to get rich, and in just one year, 25 pigs made him earn a huge sum of 5,000 yuan.
His superb pig farming skills allowed him to go ahead of the times, and in his spare time from pig farming, he also achieved a small success in cultivating crops to meet the needs of his family and sell them. The manure produced by the pigs is also returned to the fertile soil, which he sells to the production team for an income.
These total revenues add up to the cost Huang Xinwen has a net profit of more than 5,000 yuan, and the money can raise more pigs next year, Huang Xinwen's days should have snowballed like this, but there were some changes in the future.
The highlight of life
The "10,000 yuan households" in the 70s and today's Ma Yun should belong to the same class, with thousands of dollars in their pockets, as everyone's "rich idol". At that time, Huang Xinwen was in the spring breeze, which was the first case of farmers getting rich, and it is not surprising why he was regarded as a propaganda target.
In February 1979, the "People's Daily" reported on the deeds of Huang Xinwen, a member of the second production team of the second brigade of the second brigade of the Lanxi Commune, with the title of "living a prosperous life through hard work": In 1978, Huang Xinwen relied on the collective labor income of the production team and the development of the family sideline business based on pig raising, with a total annual income of 10,700 yuan, deducting the cost of the family sideline, and the net income was more than 5,900 yuan. This is the first peasant "10,000 yuan household" that appeared in New China.
In that era of low material level, a regular worker in a state-owned enterprise could only get 30 yuan a month, according to this salary level, he had to eat or drink for more than ten years to be worth more than 10,000 yuan.
At that time, Huang Xinwen built a large house and purchased high-end items such as sewing machines, radios, watches, and televisions bought at a large price from Hong Kong, so that the gap with other families in the village was clearly revealed.
As a "celebrity" of the times, Huang Xinwen did not look down on everyone because of his pride. Instead, it still maintains the simplicity of the peasants. In addition to being hardworking and capable, this first 10,000-yuan household in New China is also a warm-hearted person. After getting rich, he didn't forget about the people around him.
He shared his experience with the villagers so that everyone could live a better life. Due to the propaganda of the People's Daily, Huang Xinwen became famous in China, and people who admired and asked for experience came one after another, and the patient Huang Xinwen gave them guidance. There were also some letters asking for help, and Huang Xinwen also patiently replied to them one by one.
Life is impermanent
However, fate made people, when helping a neighbor repair the roof, Huang Xinwen slipped and fell off the roof, fell into a concussion, and after being admitted to the hospital for treatment, in the face of high medical expenses, the 10,000 yuan household was finally emptied of his pockets.
Time has passed, and Huang Xinwen's life has not been so good later, living the life of an ordinary farmer every day, but now he is gradually getting old, and his brain does not seem to be so sober. But he can still recall his highlight moments, remember how brilliant he was back then, and the memory of that period really left a deep imprint on this old man. It is really embarrassing that the people's idol of the past has fallen so much now.
Huang Xinmin's experience is very similar to that of Sun Shaoan in Lu Yao's "Ordinary World". Sun Shao'an embarked on the road to prosperity after opening a brick factory, and tried his best to improve the fired bricks after they were unqualified instead of complaining, the difference is that it is just a novel, and Huang Xinwen is a real character, Mr. Lu Yao can capture the emotions of the peasants in that era, and it is logical to win the Mao Dun Literature Award.
In Alive, an even more tragic story is told, the tragic life of an old man named Fugui, a character like Sisyphus mentioned by Camus, who constantly rebels in the face of the absurdity of life. Although Huang Xinwen's experience is tragic, it may be closer to the face of life itself.
Cao Xueqin's sorrows and joys are all the same as illusory, and the dreams of ancient and modern times are all absurd. In the end, the 10,000 households did not continue to make money and live a better life according to people's expectations, but ended up like this, individuals are insignificant in the face of fate, no one knows how the next second of life will change, the fall of a 10,000 yuan household may give us some inspiration.
Shen Fu wrote in the Six Records of Floating Life, "Life is busy, it is short and long, but it is not as good as the withering, and the gains and losses are difficult to measure." "Yes, we will face many things in our lives, sometimes we will gain, sometimes we will lose, but everything is as Schopenhauer said, people are always swaying in pain and desire, throwing away the heart of gain and loss, utilitarianism, and seeing life clearly is the only way to make us happy.
"Life Haihai" is a southern Fujian dialect, which means "life is as changeable as the sea, ups and downs, but you still have to live well." "There are always some moments of triumph in everyone's life, after which some people can continue to soar up to 90,000 miles, while some people can only enjoy the prosperity of this moment.
How to deal with this pride after a moment of pride is what we should think about. After all, honor is only temporary, while virtue is eternal. No matter what the outcome is, as the first farmer household of 10,000 yuan in New China, Huang Xinwen is worth remembering.