Rice farmers are in Rongxing
Rongxing, which is bordered by the sea and the river, became the land of the "Yingtian Company" in the 1920s, and was the first historical precedent for the large-scale rice planting in The Market, and in the 1950s, it became one of the first state-owned grain farms in New China, contributing to the achievement of Panjin as a rice base. However, in the following time, Rongxing, which is located in the southernmost part of the city, was gradually marginalized, and it was not until 2016 that the rice farmers quietly came out and attracted people's attention again.
"Rice Farmer's Home" is a homestay village in Rongxing, the largest in northeast China.
This was not deliberate, but was spawned.
In recent years, with the continuous advancement of urban-rural integration construction, more and more private houses in Rongxing have been idle. Most of them were built in the 1970s and 1980s, and every house was built with great effort, so that it still looks neat and tidy today, which makes people feel that it is a pity to demolish. At that time, the adoption of rice fields was unfolding in Rongxing, and more than 1,000 acres of rice fields were successively adopted, and Rongxing Street packed up two houses to serve as a place for adopters to experience rice cultivation. Unexpectedly, the popularity of these two houses far exceeded expectations. I hurried to pack up a few more buildings, but they were still not idle.
One after another idle houses, just like this, one after another were spawned into homestays, and were collectively called "rice makers", and quickly became the most eye-catching place in Rongxing. The yards that had been empty for months or even years were bustling with people again. The well in the courtyard that had been left out in the cold also flowed again.
Rongxing has not been so lively for many years. To be precise, since Zhiqing returned to the city in 1978, Rongxing has never stayed so many outsiders. This does not mean that the traffic is underdeveloped, in fact, on the contrary, Rongxing is extremely convenient everywhere, to Tianzhuangtai, Erjiegou and Yingkou, it is only a ten-minute drive. However, the convenient transportation is actually only Rongxing people, outsiders have rarely patronized Rongxing for many years, and the re-liveliness of Rongxing is really dependent on the advent of rice farmers.
Every house of the rice farmer family has preserved its original appearance to the greatest extent. When a respected scholar visited, he inadvertently saw the untouched water-brushed stone floor in a homestay room, and introduced the novel concept of "light museum", and also suggested that the elements that should be rich in chronological and regional characteristics should be displayed one by one, in order to enrich the cultural connotation of rice farmers and enhance their cultural taste. What is particularly important is that this arrangement also allows each occupant to learn more about this sea-facing riverside land in a relaxed manner.
Since then, the "light museum" has become the established development direction of rice farmers. Since its launch in midsummer 2016, rice farmers have never stopped passenger flowing, and they are getting more and more popular. Most of the people come together as a whole family, and they also have three families and two families to accompany their children. The adults sat in the courtyard drinking some wine and nagging at home, and the children rushed to the field to recognize rice and barnyard grass. There are also specially to hold the wedding, there are also specially led grandparents to ground, the old man often stepped on the wet soil after the rain, carefully plucked two small onions, and got excited, saying: This has not been the ground for many years.
The fact and achievement of such a boom is that the rice farmers have properly catered to people's current moods. As there are fewer and fewer villages in sight, more and more people aspire to rural life. As the generation that came out of the countryside grew older, the desire to relive rural life became more and more urgent.
The beauty of the matter is that the rice farmer's home is just a village for people to experience or relive, which filters out for us the toil and persistence, as well as triviality and helplessness, which are almost born in the countryside, leaving only leisure and mood, as well as rituals and nostalgia. In other words, the "Rice Farmer's Home" has reserved a scene of rural life for us, which is both realistic and perfect.
I believe that more and more people will have an increasingly urgent yearning for the "rice farmer's family". It is believed that the steps of the "rice farmers" towards the "light museum" will also become more and more stable.
▎Author: Yang Chunfeng
Professional writer, member of China Writers Association, student of the 24th Advanced Research Class of Lu Xun Literature College, vice chairman of Panjin Writers Association. He has created and published more than ten works, such as "Red Beach", "Chronicle of Breaking into the Guandong", "Tianzhuangtai Incident", "Geography and Culture of Liaoning", "Love for the Land Xiao Zuofu", "Impression Panjin", "Overview of Liaoning Regional Culture • Panjin Scroll", "Wetland Wind", "Panjin Matter", "Spring Return to Kubuqi" (co-authored) and so on. Among them, "Chronicle of Breaking into the Guandong" and "Tianzhuangtai Incident" won the 7th and 8th Liaoning Literature Awards consecutively, and "Spring Return to Kubuqi" won the "Five One Project" Award of the 15th Spiritual Civilization Construction of Liaoning Province, and was selected as "Recommended Catalogue of 100 Translation Books in New China in the Past 70 Years".
Source: Panjin Release