Source: World Wide Web
Wushen Banner is located in the southwest of Ordos, in the abdomen of the Maowusu Sandy Land, and is the "southern gate" of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. On October 17th, the "China on the Mother River" network theme activity interview group walked into the Ordos Wushen Banner, where they heard and saw the stories of many ordinary people, who may not have heroic deeds or great achievements, but they jointly adhere to their hometown.
The inheritance of the "Wushen Spirit"
The whole territory of Wushenqi is located in the abdomen of the Mu Wusu Sandy Land, and the stability of the forest ecosystem is not high and the ecological environment is fragile. In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, due to natural disasters, indiscriminate logging and excessive grazing, Wushenqi once became one of the flag counties in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region with the most concentrated desertified land, the most serious sand damage and the most fragile ecological environment.
On October 17, the interview team went to the "Pastoral Dazhai" museum in Wushenzhao Town, and the museum systematically restored the scene of the Wushen banner people governing the desert from the 1950s to the 1980s. The reporters also met the two local "sand control households" Jizhi Galatu and his wife in the museum, and they recalled the scene to the reporters.
Gizhgalato with his wife
40 years ago, it was full of yellow sand, and the few sheep that were left unsatisfactory. Because they really couldn't live, their family had also left Wushenqi to go to the city, but because they were not used to life in the city, they did not take long to return. In order to survive, sand control is a top priority, and looking at the yellow sand, Jizhi Galatu vowed to turn this sand into green space. At the beginning of planting, they could only ask for some saplings from a few kilometers away, artificially back to plant around their homes, but because of lack of experience, just planted in the second year was blown away by the wind, so they learned lessons from the continuous "planting - failure - planting", planting high survival rate, drought-resistant sand willow and firewood, etc., turning sand beams into pastures, which not only played a role in sand control and sand control, but also solved the contradiction between forest and pastoral, and increased the output of forage. Jizhi Galatu recalled, "I am very happy that a sand beam can become a tree!" "This shows how difficult it is to plant greenery in the sand and survive! For more than 40 years, the couple has jointly controlled more than 12,000 acres of sand and afforestation.
A local party member who accompanied the interview group told reporters that he had been organized to plant trees every year since elementary school, and now he has been working for many years and is still planting saplings every year. Today's Wushen Banner has long disappeared from the yellow sand, and green plants can be seen everywhere. It is that thousands of sand-control people like Jiri Galatu have used their own hands to improve the homeland on which they depend for their survival, creating the "Wushen Spirit" of "facing difficulties, working hard, moving mountains with foolishness, and benefiting in the long run."
Perseverance in the red hot soil
In addition to the hard-working "Wushen Spirit", there is also a red hot land in Batuwan Village, Wudinghe Town, Wushenqi - the former office site of the WUshen Banner Committee of the COMMUNIST Party of China after the autumn of 1949, which was originally a house of local villagers, and was temporarily borrowed by the Wushenqi Committee of the Communist Party of China after the autumn of 1949 for office. In the spring of 1950, the organs of the Wushen Flag Committee of the Communist Party of China left Batu Bay. Since 2017, the site has been protected in accordance with the principle of "repairing the old as old and maintaining the original appearance" and is open to the public as a red tourist attraction and a patriotic education base for young people.
Here, the reporters met Mr. Bai Zhiwen, a 68-year-old volunteer docent, who told the red stories of his ancestors that he heard from his father to every visitor who came here by word of mouth.
Volunteer docent Bai Zhiwen
Bai Zhiwen, the allusion to an iron pot and a table, spoke a thousand times, but he still spoke endlessly in front of the reporter. If you hadn't heard Mr. Bai Lao tell me, everyone wouldn't have thought that in this small cave, there were so many vivid historical stories buried.
When talking about why he was a free interpreter here, Mr. Bai said emotionally that he missed his father very much, he was a Communist Party member, and he used to tell himself his experiences and stories, and Mr. Bai Lao then connected the things told by his father with history by reading materials and memoirs, and then passed them on to the next generation. "A happy and beautiful life is not easy to come by, it is the ancestors through the arduous struggle to buy, in the new era we must not forget the past, we should jointly pass on these red memories."
Local staff said that Mr. Bai was diagnosed with stomach cancer in 2015 and should have gone to review in June this year, but it was the peak season, and Mr. Bai had been busy explaining here and had not yet gone to the review.
In the vast world, they may be just "small dust"; in the great cause of Fengfeng, they may only have done their "meager efforts". At the moment of the new era, it is precisely because there are "little people" like them who have moral righteousness and do not forget their original intentions, and pass on the most authentic spiritual power to people.