There is a great uncle named Cai Zhonghua in Zhangbian Village, Sanmenxia City, Henan Province, he raises 1 mule at home, 1 person cultivates 30 acres of land with traditional farming methods, has been more than 30 years, originally lived a peaceful pastoral farm life day after day, but what he never expected was that this year he and his mules have become Internet celebrities, let's see what the life of the old man has become.
Uncle Cai lives in the Shaanxi countryside is a famous pit village, the village still retains more than 10 pit yards, there are a group of old people living inside, the old man's home is also an old pit with a history of hundreds of years, more than 10 years ago a nearby place called Beiying will be the pit yard development tourism, these years the operation is quite booming, tourists from all over the country flock to visit the pit yard, during which some of the tourists who like the original pit yard extend to Zhangbei Village. Here photography records the real pit people's life, hospitality, industrious and simple, adhere to the traditional farming life of Uncle Cai has naturally become the preferred object, his pit yard is often tourists continuously, uncle seems to adapt to this life, and even with many photographers have become a good friend, photogenic has become a part of the life of the uncle, the time of the old man facing the camera is quite natural, "pinching, patting" has become the mantra of the uncle and the photographer to meet, but the old man's life is still step by step , quite natural.
In the past two years, the network small video is quite hot, like the traditional farm life of the netizens accounted for a considerable proportion, some of the tourists will be the uncle's life into a small video, very characteristic of the uncle Cai will naturally become a character that everyone likes, and even as long as he shoots his works will be popular, especially this year not only have foreign film friends and local Internet celebrities have come to rub the heat of the elderly, Uncle Cai's home has become a variety of Internet celebrities punch card, the elderly will never be irritable about this, on the contrary, it is calmly accepted, Maybe it's because I've seen more photographers over the years. Speaking of Uncle Cai, he can't do without his old buddy, the big mule in the family for more than 10 years, uncle said that playing small is living in the countryside, when he was young, he raised mules and horses for the production team, after the land contract responsibility system, he raised for himself, the peasants planted land can not do without mules, of course, they also have special preferences, although social development progress is very fast, but the old man is still very fond of his own old mule, the village has not seen the mule for many years, his mule has become the only one, the people in the city see it is very strange, this is not a strange thing.
Uncle lost his parents very early when he was a child, grew up under the care of his sister and brother, took on the pressure of life at a young age, in his words, he was a person who suffered greatly, rural children grew up in the field from a young age, and they had a special affection for the land in their bones, and they were almost inseparable from farm tools and crops, the ploughs and rakes in the field were proficient, feeding livestock and raising pigs and sheep was not to mention, with their own contracted land, it was more powerful, these years the grandfather was in good health, it seemed that he had endless strength, Planting his own responsibility field still felt unsatisfied, so he began to contract other people's land, the number of acres of land reached 30 acres, of course, the uncle had 30 acres of land in his heart is a small thing for him and the mule.
In fact, in the heart of Uncle Cai, there is a traditional idea of the older generation of farmers, he once said that the old peasants, that is, planting land to eat, having land to plant rice to eat is a good life, people in this life is to serve their own rice bowl, so we see That Uncle Cai's life is almost running at both ends of the field and the family, planting crops and eating is the big thing in his life. The old man's thinking is traditional and conservative, "eat better and wear worse, walk slower in front of people" is his life motto, he said to go to Zhangbei Street to buy fertilizer, he never set mules, he pulled the flatbed truck himself, he said: "Buy a few bags of fertilizer and use mules, let people see jokes, it is a shameful thing."
Local farmers have long adjusted the industrial structure, most of them are planting apples, peaches and plums and other fruits, or built greenhouses to engage in efficient agricultural production, but Uncle Cai has always adhered to the traditional farming methods, planting wheat and corn and other grain crops in the field, the income is not very high in a year, but he does not seem to care about these, still repeating the traditional farming with his mules, spring planting and summer harvest as usual, the daughter holds an opposing attitude towards his planting, thinking that uncle is not suitable for continuing to plant low-income crops when he is older. I want to buy him 2 cows to occupy my heart, but I can't convince the old man, there is no way but to come by his nature, and then take leave to go home to help the uncle do farm work in the busy agricultural season. In fact, there are many such situations in the current rural areas, and the elderly in rural areas are not willing to idle.
Let's put the topic back to the Internet celebrity this matter, Uncle Cai's traditional farming methods have left us with the memory of traditional Chinese agriculture in the last century, many people in the interested crowd are nostalgic plots, some people come to take pictures, some people come to live broadcast, are recording the life of Uncle Cai, especially Uncle Cai is very popular on the Internet, many people want to understand his life, live broadcast has become a very hot topic, Uncle Cai is very natural to accept this, and even very happy, whether it is tourists there or local Internet celebrities, He was very cooperative with whoever came to shoot him, and never showed disgust.
Netizens see the traditional life of Uncle Cai Some people feel that they do not understand, there are also people who feel that the elderly are very hard, often local netizens come to help the elderly to do farm work, bring some daily necessities to the elderly, and foreign netizens entrust people to send condolences, Uncle Cai is naturally willing to accept.
Uncle Cai built a new house in the village, whenever someone asked about this topic, he always proudly said that his new house is the only one in the village, "Ming Huang Huang, Bright Hall, Boxy" is very luxurious, the reason why he does not leave the pit old courtyard is for a reason, the first is the pear rake of the crops is not put on the ground, this side also has to raise mules, the new home can not be messed up, and then the elderly can not live in the new house, the cave in the winter warm summer cool ground, the body has become accustomed, its three generations live together the habits are not the same, are not convenient, Here's the picture of freedom. Local Internet celebrities live broadcast the life of the uncle, every time to bring him almost to bring him gifts, the most is fresh vegetables and meat, said that here the uncle has a little secret, he once said that he does not eat meat is because there are bacteria in it, in fact, the old man's life is frugal, is not to spend money, we once saw our daughter to send him leek meat stuffed flapjacks he ate with relish, and the big meat brought by the shadow friends He also ate very fragrant.
We talked about uncle Cai is an Internet celebrity, he smiled happily and said: "Foreigners all know my old Cai and my mule, of course, the people in the village know, even many people envy it, now I still plant my land, they shoot them, I should eat to eat, I should sleep, no one affects anyone, not to mention that I can still know many people, life is more happy, children who work outside the home can still see me on the Internet, very good." "Listening to the local film friend teacher said that Uncle Cai was on fire, and after becoming an Internet celebrity uncle, life was better."
Internet celebrity is a new term of the times, uncle Cai who is over 70 years old also passively got on this car, he was not disrupted by fame and fortune, still living a traditional rural slow life, cultivating land and farming to eat, in fact, it is a good thing, for the elderly, the Internet is not red, not Internet red is not as important as his dozens of acres of crops and mules, do you say ah? I wish Uncle Cai good health, a long life and a happy life. 【If you want to see more stories of the people, please click to pay attention】