"Beauty Pepper" Yinghong Zhifu Road Live a good life in Xiaomizhi Village, Shilin

Palm Spring City News As night falls, the aroma of the sheep soup pot wafts out from the home of Zhang Wensheng, a villager of Aimailong Village, Xiaomizhi Village Committee, Shilin Street, Shilin County. Crush a few "beauty peppers" sprinkled in the dipping water, reflecting the turquoise green onions, and the steaming lamb soup pot makes people feel warm. "This meal is to thank Bimo for making our lives better and better, and we have to wait until he arrives." "How many times have you said it, you have to call Secretary Chen!" The laughter of the family resounded through the night sky, and the happy life made people almost forget - 4 years ago, Zhang Wensheng's family was once a poor household in Lika.

The inheritors of Yi culture turned into poverty alleviation cadres

After parking the small motorcycle, the camouflage suit on Chen Runde, the first secretary of the Xiaomizhi Village Committee stationed in the village and the leader of the task force, was still stained with mud spots, and the momentum of the rush was just coming out of the ground. On the steaming pot of lamb soup, Chen Runde and Zhang Wensheng opened the conversation box and talked about the 4 years of arduous poverty alleviation.

"My eldest son works in Hubei, the annual income of migrant workers is nearly 50,000 yuan, plus pepper planting and part-time work income, last year's income compared with before has really undergone earth-shaking changes, good days are a string of land." To the former "Bimo" and today's poverty alleviation cadres, Zhang Wensheng has endless words of thanks.

BiMo is a transliteration of Yi, "Bi" means "chanting", and "Mo" means "knowledgeable elder". In the hearts of the Yi people, Bi Mo is an intellectual in the entire Yi society and a defender and disseminator of Yi culture.

The hereditary Bimo has been passed down to Chen Runde's generation, which is the 64th generation. As the inheritor of Bimo, Chen Runde knows that he has the mission of protecting the traditional ethnic culture of the Yi people and promoting ethnic integration. In 2011, he joined the Communist Party of China and in 2016, as a special talent for protecting and inheriting The Culture of the Yi people, he entered the Institute of Ethnic Studies of the Shilin County Bureau of Ethnic and Religious Affairs.

With the start of the battle against poverty, considering that the Xiaomizhi Village Committee is a region where the Yi and Han ethnic groups are mixed and the proportion of the Yi people is high, it has become a top priority to select a person who understands the Yi language and has a relatively prestigious reputation among the Yi people as the first secretary. Therefore, in 2017, Chen Runde, the inheritor of "Bimo", was selected as the first secretary and team leader of the Xiaomizhi Village Committee of Shilin Street, shouldering the heavy responsibility of leading the villagers of Xiaomizhi to get rid of poverty and become well-off.

"Beauty pepper" grows the fiery red life of the Yi people

A small motorcycle and a camouflage suit became Chen Runde's label. Riding a motorcycle, Chen Runde walked through the muddy paths of the mountains and forests in Xiaomizhi Village, walked through the corners and corners of the village, walked into the vegetable gardens of poor households, and walked into the chai rice oil and salt of poor households. More than a thousand days and nights, more than 30,000 kilometers, every moment of the road code on Chen Runde's motorcycle recorded his moments on the road to poverty alleviation.

In 2006, in order to adjust the structure of the planting industry, the Xiaomizhi Village Committee introduced Taiwan's "beauty pepper". However, for a long time, the extensive planting and management of peppers has been difficult to form a scale, which has hindered the villagers' way to get rid of poverty and become rich. In April 2017, under the coordination and leadership of Chen Runde, Xiaomizhi took the "industrial structure adjustment" as an opportunity to establish the "Vegetable Planting Professional Cooperative on the Mountain", set up a party branch, and adopted the model of "party organization + cooperative + broker + farmer", breaking through the bottleneck of the development of small dense branch pepper in the past 10 years and embarking on a road of collective income increase.

The red peppers reflected the faces of the villagers, the days of the villagers, and the road to prosperity of the villagers. Since the establishment of the cooperative, from August to November every year is the pepper harvest period, the cooperative can absorb more than 500 workers on that day, and can achieve more than 6 million yuan of villagers' nearby migrant income every year. Among them, the absorption of small secret branches to establish a file card poor labor force 3 households and 3 people, the average annual household income increased by 8,000 yuan. "Bimo has made our lives better in a new way!" Many people in the village say so.

"Party members and the masses were originally clouds in the sky, but later they turned into snow, fell on the ground and turned into ice, and finally you have me, I have you, and I will never be separated..." After dinner, Zhang Wensheng took out the big three strings and sang with song and dance. Enthusiastic songs echoed in the Yijia mountain village in the middle of the night, drifting farther away.

Kunming Daily all-media reporter: Ren Yixiang Intern: Wu Yanxi

Correspondent: Bi Yanlan

Editor-in-charge: Yang Rong

Editor: Zhou Xiaoxue

Final Judge: Li Yan