I believe that many people have heard the story of Yugong moving mountains, but the practice of Yugong is benevolent and wise, some people say that he is ignorant, and some people praise him for not being afraid of hardships and dangers, making the impossible possible.
I agree with the second view. Because in today's society, there are also such a group of lovely people who struggle hard, persevere, and open up a new world with a "stupid spirit".
Liu Guojiang: Use a lifetime to build a ladder of love
When he was 6 years old, Liu Guojiang first saw Xu Chaoqing, and the 16-year-old Xu girl sat on the Eight Lift Bridge and married happily; Liu Guojiang lost his teeth, and in order to make his teeth grow faster, bo niang blocked the bride's palanquin and asked Xu Chaoqing to touch Liu Guojiang's gum bed (the local custom of the bride touching the gum bed, the teeth grow faster), Xu Chaoqing smiled and agreed.
Many years later, Xu Chaoqing became a widow, alone with 4 babies, hard life, Liu Guojiang sympathized with her, from time to time to help, one after another the two people got better.
But in the 1950s and 1960s, young unmarried young men fell in love with widows who were 10 years older and had 4 babies, and they were inevitably criticized by their neighbors.
The women's director said directly to Liu Guojiang: "What do you see that, I said you just miscalculated, you are twenty years old, your mother-in-law is thirty years old, with a few babies, you can't talk about young girls?" You pick up the couple halfway through the house, old woman. ”
Xu Chaoqing's father also objected to the feelings of the two, he scolded his daughter: "That boy is only in his 20s, plus the drag of the baby, what do you talk about, can you eat as a meal?" ”
In order to avoid gossip and pursue what they loved, they eloped late one night and climbed the 1500-meter-high half-slope with 4 children.
The mountain peaks are steep and steep, and there is a shortage of food on the mountain, so at first they could only pick up wild mushrooms and dig wild vegetables to eat, and there was no salt. Talking about his initial life, fifty or sixty years later, Xu Chaoqing still can't control his face and cry.
Despite the difficulties, they never wanted to back down. They began to plant fruits and vegetables, raise chickens and ducks, and fish from streams.
Initially, they lived in caves, but later they burned tiles out of mud and spent 2 years building three small bungalows.
In the next few years, they had 4 more children, one in the middle, 7 children, and life became more difficult. However, in order to satisfy Xu Chaoqing's wish to visit his relatives, Liu Guojiang made up his mind to carve a way home for his beloved wife, lest the old mother (Liu's nickname for Xu) accidentally slip and fall.
Liu Guojiang got up early every day and worked greedily, and he couldn't stand up until he stood up, while Xu Chaoqing took the child while doing housework and prepared a rich meal for Liu Guojiang, the day was hard and sweet. When Liu Guojiang returned from work, Xu Chaoqing would always twist a towel to wash his face, and Liu Guojiang said that they shared a basin of water to wash their faces to represent affectionate love.
In the era of no modern heavy machinery and equipment, chiseling mountains and opening up roads is a huge project, not to mention that next to the cliffs, with the simplest iron hammer, relying solely on manual hammers to dig it!
Regarding the construction of roads, Liu Guojiang was also worried at first that he would not be able to repair them in his lifetime, but he was worried about them, and he still began his huge project of "moving mountains by foolishness" without hesitation.
Unexpectedly, this repair is fifty or sixty years.
The young man with the green silk head turned into a white-haired old man, and his teeth were gone, but he never regretted it.
For his wife's behavior, Xu Chaoqing once touched the calluses on Liu Guojiang's hand and said with tears: "I am distressed, but he always says that the road is repaired, and it will be convenient for me to go out of the mountain." In fact, I have never been out of the mountains several times in my life. ”
For more than 50 years, Liu Guojiang chiseled more than 20 iron shovels, cut more than 40 iron pickaxes, and finally chiseled out a 6208-level ladder.
After the road was repaired, in order to maintain the road, he had to rebuild two stone slabs every day, worried that his wife would slip and fall, and he had to wipe off the moss every year.
Years later, the stone steps he built were discovered by the expedition team, they were called love living fossils, and the stone steps were known as the love ladder.
Decades ago, the rebellious love, because of persistence and affectionate waiting, became one of the top ten love stories that touched China, and their seclusion has also become a peach blossom source for the impetuous world to find the true meaning of love.
Regarding the secret of their love, Liu Guojiang summed it up in three words - by conscience", he said: "You honestly speak according to conscience, you don't think about it." If you think about it, your conscience is not good, and you are not sincere with people! Like our age, she brought a few children, thirty-something women, saying something that shouldn't be said, playing friends and talking about love is too great, if there is a contradiction, I don't want you. I can also ignore your children, and I will not tell you that husband and wife are long. The thinking of saying these words is not correct. I have a disease she saves, she has a disease I save her, help each other, talk about unity. ”
Living in seclusion in the deep forest with people and building heavenly ladders with Tiandou, Liu Guojiang and Xu Chaoqing composed a long-lasting love affair with hard work and persistent waiting, leaving a love pilgrimage site for the world.
In addition to Liu Guojiang, the "foolish duke" who loves to chisel the mountain, there is also the female "foolish gong" Deng Yingxiang, who is looking for a way out for life and spending 12 years to mobilize the masses to dig tunnels.
Deng Yingxiang: Chiseled out of the cliff wall "Ma Huai out"
Mahuai Village, is a deep poverty area in Qiannan, Guizhou, the place "nine mountains and half water and half a field", the mountain road is rugged and dangerous, the way out is extremely inconvenient, not only the children go to school late, but also because the road is too tired to climb the mountain, there is no mental performance in class, and even families have died prematurely because they are too late to send their children to medical treatment, and they have become lonely and widowed.
Deng Yingxiang's three-month-old child died prematurely because he could not be sent to the hospital. In order to find a way out, she and her husband had to leave their hometown.
In 1999, the state implemented the transformation of the rural power grid, but mahuai village was blocked by mountains, and the poles and transformers could not be transported in, and they could not be connected to electricity.
In order to change the status quo, Li Delong, director of the village committee, called on everyone to dig the tunnel together. Upon learning the news, Deng Yingxiang and his wife also returned.
In order to raise funds, the local discussion decided to let the villagers who contracted the land contribute 15 yuan, so a total of 1350 yuan was raised to buy candles, kerosene, hammers and hoes.
In addition, every household in the village must work hard to dig tunnels. In the low and narrow cave, everyone sat on the ground one by one, their heads could not be lifted, lighting candles and kerosene lamps, breathing the smell of kerosene, using the most primitive method to cut the mountain and chisel the stone, and the sweat soaked through the whole body in a short while.
Deng Yingxiang said: "Except for the time of saliva blowing, all of them are black, and when they are wet with sweat when they work, they only see two eye circles turning, and they can't recognize each other." ”
After such hard work, in 2001, they finally dug a small hole and barely could bend over. As a result, the way out of the mountain has been shortened from 3 hours to 15 minutes.
But Deng Yingxiang was not satisfied, as long as she could raise a little money, she mobilized the villagers to dig a little. However, due to the slow progress, it is inevitable that some villagers want to give up, and although Deng Yingxiang has blood bubbles on his hands, he always encourages the villagers to "rather do it slowly than stop, as long as we don't give up."
In 2004, tunnels were finally able to barely pass motorcycles and horse-drawn carriages. But in this year, Deng Yingxiang's husband, who was working outside the country, died in a mining accident, leaving her and a pair of six- and seven-year-old children. Since then, she has been digging tunnels during the day and washing and cooking at night.
She also thought about leaving, but because of the child, she stayed.
In 2007. She formed a new family with Li Delong, who was widowed in the same village.
In 2010, Li Delong's daughter got married, and it rained that day, and the car that received the kiss could not pass through the low tunnel, so the bride had to step on high heels and wear a wedding dress through knee-deep water. Walking through the tunnel, the white wedding dress was stained with dirt, which was both embarrassing and awkward.
Seeing this scene, Deng Yingxiang was very sad, so she made up her mind to make the tunnel wide and high, so that the car could go back and forth.
This idea was opposed by Lee Tak Lung, who believed that there were not tens of millions of people who could not achieve this goal.
But once Deng Yingxiang made a decision, it was difficult to change, her husband did not support, she went to do it herself, and a week later, Li Delong was touched by her perseverance.
They began to persuade the villagers to join in, and the villagers were satisfied with the status quo and did not want to suffer from the pain of digging holes, and refused.
In this regard, Deng Yingxiang adopted a strong strategy: since you do not do it, then buy a large iron gate, and in the future allow the path passed by horse-drawn carriages and motorcycles not to be locked, but the avenue will be locked and will not let you cross.
The villagers compromised, but some people did not work. She prescribed the right medicine and adopted a placement strategy to prescribe the number of meters each family did.
When the villagers were reluctant to invest, Deng Yingxiang also mobilized people from outside the village to come to help, because the people of that village had to pass through the tunnel in a hurry.
More than 20 people from that village came to help, and the food of these people was provided by Deng Yingxiang at his own expense, and she said that at that time, the family had to cook 50-100 kilograms of rice every day.
She also owed more than 5,000 yuan for asking the tractor master to transport sha xiudong, and the other party actually came to her house on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve to pay off the debt.
In order to raise funds, and because Li Delong was deaf when he was firing cannons, Deng Yingxiang often had to accompany Li Delong to the county to report to work, but it was stipulated that every family must work, and Deng Yingxiang had to endure the pain of letting his 14-year-old daughter Yuan Hongmei take the winter vacation of junior high school.
Looking at her daughter's blood-soaked, cracked hands, she was distressed but helpless.
His body is upright, his followers are many, and many people collect firewood and the flame is high. On August 16, 2011, a tunnel 216 meters long, 3.9-5 meters high and 3.9-5 meters wide was finally opened.
In the 12 years of building the tunnel, they used 2,300 candles, 100 kilograms of kerosene, fried more than 2,000 gun holes, put in more than 5,800 jobs, and transported 15,000 cubic meters of sand and gravel, which could fill a 2-meter-deep standard football field.
The determination and perseverance of Jingwei Reclamation allowed the illiterate Deng Yingxiang to lead the local villagers to bid farewell to the days of shoulder-to-shoulder horses and keep up with the modern train, and new resources and new projects also entered this remote mountain village. The local per capita income also increased from 800 yuan in 2011 to 8200 yuan in 2017.
In addition to Liu Guojiang and Deng Yingxiang, there are also many Yugong in contemporary times, such as The Indian Yugong Manji, who spent 22 years digging through the mountain for his deceased wife; Huang Dafa, who led the masses to spend more than 30 years to build a 9,400-meter-long "Life Canal"; and Mao Xianglin, who led the villagers to risk their lives to carve out an 8-kilometer "heavenly road" on the cliff...
Although they are ordinary people, they have created extraordinary deeds with their hard work and perseverance, which not only changed their own destiny, but also affected others.
May we also stick to our ambitions and work hard for them. Come to Radish Run, write down your ambitions, and record the pace of your efforts!