Struggle is the most beautiful color of youth - and then go up to Saihan Dam

Struggle is the most beautiful color of youth

- Re-going to Saihan Dam (I)

On May 23, the young pioneers of the Yinhe Forest Farm of Saihanba Mechanical Forest Farm were carrying out afforestation on the stony Slope. Photo by reporter Huo Yanen

The source of the river, the home of the clouds, the world of flowers, the ocean of forests.

The "beautiful high ridge" Saihan Dam is destined to be colorful.

The sky here is deep blue; the trees here are thick green; the snow here is dazzlingly white...

With these thousands of colors, there are young faces, permeated with "plateau red" and "oil pine black", they shuttle through the larch and sassafras pine forests, sometimes with a focused look, sometimes smiling like a flower...

Look, they're coming—Peng Zhijie, Li Mingjun, Zhao Ning, Zhang Jiandong, Ding Yuhui, Zhang Haijun, Song Yanwei, Yin Hailong, Fu Lihua... In mid-May, the reporter went to the Saihanba Mechanical Forest Farm to interview these ordinary post-80s and post-90s forest builders in the depths of the forest, observing, listening, recording, and feeling the most beautiful colors of their youth.

"No one will choose a career for the sake of suffering, but there will be someone who chooses to suffer for the sake of a career"

On May 19, on the Saihan Dam, snow flakes flew and the white hair wind swirled, and the temperature suddenly dropped below zero degrees Celsius.

The next day, the Saihanba Mechanical Forest Farm Mille-feuille Board Forest Farm Tobacco Kiln Camp Forest Area was already a forest sea snowfield.

“20”“22”“23”“27”“21”...... Deep in the dense forest, there was the sound of counting one after another. A team of staff from the General Farm Forestry Survey Planning and Design Institute, the forest farm and the camp forest area is doing survey design here.

The cold wind is biting and the cold is compelling. The snow in the forest is seven or eight centimeters thick, and people step on it step by step, and they fall down if they are not careful.

"These shouted numbers are the diameter of each tree in an acre of standard land at a height of one meter and three heights, also called chest diameter." Zhang Jiandong, deputy director of the mille-feuille forest farm, told reporters that the purpose of the investigation and design is to design a general plan for thinning according to the survey data of these samples, carry out nursing operations, go to the inferior and the superior, go to the small and large, go to the dense and even, and improve the quality of the forest. "We have a total of four camp forest areas in the forest farm, three of which have been investigated, and no matter how cold it is today, we have to rush to investigate the last part of the field, which will not affect the progress of the whole field."

In this team, wearing camouflage hats and camouflage uniforms, is Ding Yuhui, a construction worker in the tobacco kiln camp forest area. He held a bottle of self-spray paint in one hand and made marks on each tree: blue paint remains, red paint is cut.

After the day's survey design was over, his work could not be completed. Of the more than 3,000 mu of woodland that the camp forest area plans to cut this year, he has to go through it, which tree to cut, which one to keep, all of which must be marked.

In this team, Zhang Haijun of the Forestry Survey Planning and Design Institute of the General Field has been buried in the record. While listening intently to every number shouted out by everyone, he quickly filled in the "Survey Design Questionnaire for Middle and Young Care" in his hand.

After the day's survey design was over, his work could not be completed. Back in the field department, he also had to do the internal business, enter the day's field survey data into the computer, calculate, make maps, and work overtime until ten o'clock at night is the norm.

I had been busy for more than an hour, and the investigation of this standard land in front of me was over. The team members packed up their tools and walked towards the dense forest higher and farther.

How cold is Saihan Dam? Xu Ying, a post-90s man in the North Mandian Forest Farm, experienced it for the first time on the mountain.

It was December 2016, and she went to the forestry yard to count the logs piled up there. It was the coldest time on the dam, and the wind with the hard stubble blew and hit the face with pain. She was fully armed, wearing two cotton coats, two pairs of cotton pants, and warm treasures on the soles of her feet, knees, and stomach, while recording with a pen, she kept dancing "tap dance". "At that time, there was ice on the eyelashes, and there was ice on the brim of the hat and the place where the mask touched the exhalation. This kind of cold, cold enough to get cold into the cracks of the bones, I had never experienced it before. ”

The winter on the dam is not only cold, but also windy, sometimes catching up with the windy day, the face is scraped for a day, fiery, as if feverish; in the summer, the sun is also large, the ultraviolet rays are strong, exposed to the hot sun, just one day, the neck can be sunburned off a layer of skin.

In May last year, Zhao Ning, a post-80s technician at the Yinhe Forest Farm, was afforested on the mountain and did not return home for more than half a month. After returning home, pushing open the door, the 3-year-old daughter saw him, her eyes lit up, and shouted happily: "The big black man is back!" ”

Approaching Saihan Dam, tourists who come and go see the beauty of Saihan Dam.

Rooted in saihan dam, the young "lin three generations", tasted the bitterness of saihan dam.

Ask them, why do they ask for "bitter" food and choose to work in SaihanBa, which is far away from the city and is still difficult?

They said: "This forest has reached the hands of our generation, and it cannot be smashed, but it can only be made greener and healthier." ”

They said, "There will be no one who chooses a career for the sake of suffering, but there will be people who choose to suffer for the sake of a career." ”

"The predecessors planted trees, and the posterity cannot just cool off." To protect and develop this forest well, we must shoulder the burden of breaking through the barriers."

In the early morning of May 24, saihanba mechanical forest farm woke up Yin Hailong, deputy director of the forest farm, to get up and walk from the dormitory to the forest farm nursery. In a nursery, green larch seedlings hang from the drops of water, shining in the morning sun.

More than 50 years ago, in this nursery, a group of forestry technicians represented by Li Xingyuan, deputy director of the forest farm, changed the "shade seedlings" to "all-light seedlings" and took the initiative to "roast" the seedlings in strong light. As a result, the newly bred seedlings have developed root systems, solid wooden strips, drought resistance and insect resistance, so that the survival rate of larch seedlings in Saihanba has increased from less than 8% to more than 90% at once.

For more than 50 years, due to the heavy use of stubble in nurseries, the soil has been significantly degraded, diseases and insect pests have increased, and excessive fertilization has caused the main root of the saplings to develop less lateral roots and low survival rate. Nursery - a great evoke of the forest farm, this well-known golden sign ushered in a new test.

This year, they cooperated with the Chinese Academy of Forestry to experiment with a light matrix seedling expansion system, which is expected to make the golden sign that arouses the seedlings of the forest farm shine again.

On the west side of the nursery, more than a dozen workers are building greenhouse frames. Yin Hailong walked closer and shook the steel pipe columns one by one to see if they were firm.

Yin Hailong, who was born in 1982, studied economics at Hebei Agricultural University, but after working in Saihanba in 2005, he fell in love with the technical post and plunged into the afforestation and forestry frontline.

The cat leans down and pulls out a sapling of about 20 cm in the nursery. "This sapling has been growing for more than two years and will have to be transplanted into a nutrition cup for more than a year before it can be planted on the mountain." Yin Hailong told us that in the future, the use of light matrix seedling expansion system and the use of cuttings for cultivation will shorten the breeding cycle by half.

Not only the cultivation cycle, according to the experimental data, the tree growth cycle is also expected to be shortened by half. Yin Hailong proudly said that the economic and ecological benefits of forest farms can be doubled.

"It will be completed at the end of this year and put into use next year." He envisioned that after the success of the experiment, he would also build a factory nursery workshop like that of developed forestry countries, "At that time, saihanba seedlings were even more famous!" ”

"The older generation of Saihanba people have conquered the introduction of seeds, seedlings and afforestation." Liu Haiying, secretary of the party committee and director of the Saihanba Mechanical Forest Farm, said that today, Saihanba is still breaking through the barriers: the introduction of fine seeds, the optimization of resource structure, the improvement of forest quality, and the sustainable development of forestry.

The "three generations of Lin", which are mainly post-80s and post-90s, have now become the absolute main force to break through the barriers.

Through the mud and into the forest sea, on the afternoon of May 23, Fu Lihua, an engineer from the Saihanba Mechanical Forest Farm General Field Research Institute, and his colleagues came to the sheep farm operation area of the mille-femininous board forest farm.

"We're going to build a model here today." Fu Lihua told us that the project "Research on Ecological Restoration and Management Technology of Typical Woodlands of Saihan Dam" declared by the general field has been approved and needs to be implemented urgently.

Take out a tape measure and circle a sample field according to 20 meters × 30 meters; take out a hammer and nail, and set a number plate for each tree; measure the chest diameter of each tree and the distance between trees and trees with a small ruler; aim at the ruler and record the relative position of each tree. Fu Lihua and her colleagues were sweating profusely.

"We are mainly collecting data in the early stage today, and in the next step, we will carry out artificial intervention in the sample forest, and through multiple data collections, we will finally draw scientific conclusions." She explained to us that the project at hand can clarify the positive succession law of forest ecosystems in the Saihanba area, and lay an ecological foundation for the management of artificial ecological forests in nature reserves, the construction of degraded vegetation forests in stony mountains and sand wastelands, and the transformation of inefficient natural secondary forests.

In 2008, Fu Lihua graduated from the Chinese Academy of Forestry with a master's degree, and after working in the city for three years, she came to Saihanba.

At the end of 2016, she participated in the "Comprehensive Supporting Technology for Afforestation of Difficult Forest Land in Northern Hebei", which provided technical support for improving the level of afforestation of difficult sites in North China and promoting the better play of the ecological benefits of northern forests.

"The predecessors planted trees, and the posterity cannot just cool off." To protect and develop this forest well, we must shoulder the burden of breaking through the barriers. Fu Lihua said.

On the afternoon of May 21, on a hillside in the Sidaogou Camp Forest Area of North Mandian Forest Farm, a larch tree in its early 1-meter head was veiled and swaying in the wind.

Yuan Zhongwei gently untied the veil, pointed to a branch and said, "See? The yellow one is the larch sheath moth larvae. ”

We leaned over and looked hard for half a day before we could see this larvae about the size of a small grain of rice.

"There are more than a thousand larvae here." Yuan Zhongwei, who works at the forest defense station of the Saihanba Mechanical Forest Farm, told us that due to the lack of life history data of larch sheath moths in the Saihanba area, on May 8 this year, they took larch sheath moth larvae-like branches in the Red Water Camp forest area of Yinhe Forest Farm and placed them at this monitoring point for artificial breeding. "When the insect state changes, it needs to be observed once a day."

In recent years, the forest defense station of the main field with only 8 people has presided over the completion of five provincial local standards of "Technical Regulations for prediction and forecasting of pine line small curl moth and larch line small curl moth", "technical regulations for the prevention and control of pine line small curl moth and larch line small curl moth", "technical regulations for the prediction and forecasting of white hairy bark elephants", "technical regulations for the prevention and control of white haired bark elephants", and "technical regulations for prediction and forecasting of spruce flat leaf bees", and won the first place in the joint inspection of forest defense organized by the province for many times.

"Not only can you suffer, but you can also chew out the sweetness from the bitterness of reality"

A pair of rubber shoes, two pairs of hiking boots, washed clean, placed in the doorway.

This 16-square-meter cottage is the dormitory of Li Shuang and his lover Liu Yang after 90 years in the North Mandian Forest Farm. Separate bathroom, one meter five wide double bed, a wardrobe, a desk, the furnishings in the house, simple and tidy.

They met in 2017 and married in 2018. "Don't look at the two of us working in a forest farm, and we often don't see each other. No, he went to the forest area on April 12, and now on May 19th, he will come back in the middle. Li Shuang said that she had to go to the camp forest area for attendance registration on the 1st of every month. On May 1, she specially carried apples, biscuits and two clothes for her lover, and when she returned, she had three more pairs of dirty shoes covered with mud.

"There is no signal for phone calls in the mountains, but there is WiFi in the camp forest area, and we have agreed that every day at noon and at night, after eating, we will chat in WeChat for a while." Li Shuang said and smiled.

Come to Saihanba, with the green mountains as a companion, with the green trees as friends, here in love, marriage, have children, the young "three generations of forest", like a pine tree seedlings, rooted in the dam, began to stretch out the tender green branches and leaves.

"There is an old saying in Saihanba Forest Farm, offering youth for life, and offering lifelong sacrifice for children and grandchildren. Only when you get down to the roots will you understand the forest farm and understand the forest farm people. They say that this is probably the "gene" inherited from the previous two generations of Saihanba people - "not only can they endure hardship, but they can also chew sweetness from the bitterness of reality." ”

In the Sandaohekou Forest Farm, Song Yanwei carried several burdens. Because the Sandaokou Forest Farm is smaller than other forest farms, it is also simpler in terms of department settings. Nominally he is the head of the production unit, but in fact he also has the work of forest protection unit, resource unit, nature reserve management of other forest farms, afforestation, investigation, monitoring, and epidemic prevention, all of which he has to do, and there is only one "soldier" under him.

But in the interview, he has always been happy, no matter the words or the look, there is no trace of pressure and complaining. On the contrary, what the reporter heard and felt was his satisfaction from the heart.

"This spring we planned to plant more than 1,100 acres of forest, and now we have exceeded the plan and created more than 1,300 acres." "Why more?" That's right, some of the corners and corners are empty, although they are not in the plan, but we build it once and build it. ”

"In 2014, I bought a Volkswagen Sagittarius, and since then, every winter and summer vacation for my son, our family of three will drive to the surrounding cities or scenic spots to travel, guaranteed to be once a year."

Their happiness, so simple, so warm.

Speaking of his son, who was just one year old, Peng Zhijie, deputy director of the Yinhe Forest Farm, had a happy face, and every night after dinner, watching his son on video was his happiness.

Speaking of her daughter who is in kindergarten, Zhao Ning looks forward to it. April 26 was a Friday, and the work on the mountain was done early. After he returned to the paddock county, he went directly to the kindergarten to pick up the children. The child saw that it was his father who came to pick him up, and happily raised his small hand to let him see: "Daddy, I got a small sticker today." "Being able to pick up his daughter from school one more time is his happiness."

Saturday, May 18. Xu Ying traveled from the North Mandian Forest Farm to the Yinhe Forest Farm to visit her boyfriend Xi Jiankun.

She came by a colleague's car. Two forest farms are next to each other, but it takes more than two hours to detour through the township by shuttle.

Shawl long hair, red sweatshirt, gray coat, lipstick, dyeing nails, Xu Ying in front of the reporter's eyes, fashion and beauty.

"On Saturdays and Sundays, I was on duty and he was on duty to see him. However, if you are busy, you basically do not take holidays. Xu Ying quipped: "Although it is only separated by a mountain, it feels like a long-distance relationship." ”

"Fortunately, the same work is easy to understand each other." She told reporters that the two have bought a house in the paddock county and can move in at the end of this year, "When the time comes, we will get married!" (Reporters Cao Yangkui, Huo Xiaoli, Li Jiancheng)

【Short Comment】Tribute to the struggling youth

From the vast wasteland of "birds do not inhabit, yellow sand shades the sky" to the beautiful high ridge of "green and endless flowers", three generations of forest farm builders have worked hard to create the Saihanba spirit of "keeping in mind the mission, hard work and green development".

Here, the youth of three generations of forest farm builders was left behind.

The background color of youth is always the word "struggle".

From the choice of the young "Lin Sandai", we see the inheritance. Many of them grew up in the forests of Saihan Dam. The story of the two generations of grandfather and father sowing green with their lives deeply touched them. It's not just some old photos, it's living history, and these histories are not far away, they are all around, within reach. Today, the "three generations of Lin" choose to take root here, which is inseparable from the influence of their parents and grandparents. Li Mingjun, a technician in the production unit of Yinhe Forest Farm, said that when he was a child, he often hid cats and cats with his friends in the yard where the timber was stacked, and the reason why he came back from college was because he was "steadfast in his heart when he saw the mountain."

From their choices, we see love. In the interview, what impressed us the most was not the "suffering" in their work and life, because there are three hundred and sixty lines, and each line has its own suffering. Whether it is the meticulous measurement of the record by the designers or the shining eyes of the nursery bearers holding the delicate seedlings, what impresses us most is their heartfelt love for the job. Some afforestation technicians said that they were particularly proud to see the forest they had built grow from seedlings to large trees. Some forest protection technicians said that in addition to the heavy snow sealing the mountain, there must be 8 months a year on the mountain, sampling and investigation, pest control, but as long as the forest is guarded, "bitter, but worth it." "It is the love of the cause that makes their hearts full of mission, and they write the youth me with the struggle of me."

There is only one youth in a person's life, how to spend it, so that the branches of youth can bloom with the flower of dreams?

"Now, youth is used to struggle; in the future, youth is used to remember." As General Secretary Xi Jinping earnestly admonished, "Striving for the realization of the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is a rare opportunity in our lives." Every young person should cherish this great era and be a strivers in the new era. ”

In the great journey of the new era, struggle is the most beautiful youth oath, let us pay tribute to the youth of struggle! (Huo Xiaoli)