Xiaocheng's past life and present life 丨 Li Yan

Majestic, tall mountains and long waters, magnificent and desolate. Huize, a small border town in the northeast of Yunnan Province, has a population of 1.06 million and was once one of the 27 state-level deep poverty counties in the province.

The town is beautiful and unforgettable: a tragic mountain, a narrow deep ditch, a deep canyon, a raging wind, a piece of fresh greenery, an ancient call from the depths of the soul, like a magnificent and endless picture. The peaks are majestic and undulating, forming a natural barrier. The terrain rises and falls in a step-like manner. Oasis and river valley coexist, clear streams and green grass rely on each other, solid ice and warmth, this is a kind of yin and yang alternating, cold and warm integration of ingenuity and unique beauty. The green space full of life and the rugged and desolate canyon form a sharp contrast, giving people the feeling of half flames and half seawater. That desolate and tragic land, the crisscrossing ravines, and the cliffs cut by the knife and axe will make people can't help but marvel at the magic of nature, and can also stimulate the elements of goodness in people's bones and produce feelings of compassion for heaven and people. It is a primitive and rough beauty, a majestic beauty, a beauty that symbolizes tenacious vitality, and a thrilling and tragic beauty that melts into the blood.

The town is poor. The mountains are high, the slopes are steep, the valleys are deep, the mudslides are frequent, the living environment is harsh, and people have been living in the traditional mode of "communication by roaring, public security by dogs, and transportation by walking". The people in the mountains are poor and destitute; the children in the mountains are pitiful and it is not easy to study; the transportation in the mountains is inconvenient, and the people outside the mountains will become a memory that will be in their hearts every time they walk; they are very helpless to get sick in the mountains, it is difficult to seek medical treatment, and if they are not careful, small diseases will be delayed into major diseases; the old people in the mountains are the most distressing, they live in the mountains all their lives, from children to youth, from youth to old age, from prime to twilight, day and night with the mountains, with the poor. The mountains gave them a tough backbone, but they also completely blindfolded them, making it impossible for them to see the outside world. Ten years, twenty years, thirty years, seventy years... Year after year, spring, summer, autumn and winter, day after day of wind, frost, rain and snow, their eyes are only mountains, and outside the mountains are still mountains. They hadn't ever gone down a mountain, they hadn't seen tall buildings, they hadn't seen wide, flat roads, they hadn't seen modern transportation. Good birds choose trees to perch, good homes to choose land and build, out of the mountains, has become the yearning of generations of people in the mountains.

Small towns are changing. In order to enable the people of Dashan to cut off the roots of poverty and remove the nest of poverty, and to solve the practical difficulties of "one side of the water and soil cannot nurture the other side of the people", the Huize County PARTY Committee and the county government have adapted themselves to local conditions, launched a general offensive against poverty alleviation with the persistence of Yugong moving mountains, with the spirit of the blue wisps of the road, and with the determination of "not breaking the Loulan and never returning", decisively fighting millennium poverty, taking blocking the intergenerational transmission of poverty and restoring ecology as the root cause, and promoting the "two wheels turning together" of poverty alleviation and urban development. In 2018, Huize County launched the construction of a resettlement area for poverty alleviation and relocation in a county. On January 29, 2019, the first batch of people bid farewell to the mountains and moved to a new home. This is an earth-shattering feat in the history of Mount Umeng, and it is a great migration of happiness that can go down in history. The poor people in the mountainous areas left the old garden and entered the city life, realizing a magnificent transformation. This is the most memorable and beautiful moment, but also a wisp of nostalgia that blends into the bones and blood.

"The auspicious star shines on the blessed land, and the purple qi surrounds the new beam." For people who have lived in the mountains for generations, relocation is a "bone scraping and healing" option. Therefore, the sword is deeply loved, and the homeland is difficult to leave. Although full of yearning for the beautiful new city life, but in the end to live habitually, suddenly left the home where life has been lived for a lifetime, there are really some reluctance, when leaving, the villagers seem to be reluctant to give up, look at the snake snake line winding and thrilling "hanging wall road", look at the verdant bamboo behind the house in front of the house, look at the plum blossoms blooming on the side of the road, and then look at their step three times back, my heart is full of mixed feelings, mixed tastes, there are full of relief, there are deep blessings, there are also astringent sourness ... I know that they are walking along this mountain path of potholed, large and small, long and short to the colorful world and to a happy life. Here, simplicity and complexity, poverty and wealth, love and hate, anger and resentment, love and sorrow, all aspects of life are condensed into a leisurely nostalgia.

"The south wind knows my intentions and blows dreams to the new city." Huize New Town is located in the west of the county seat, head rest admiralty sunset, foot on the hot spring willow waves, left view of the sea autumn, right view of the dragon curtain peach blossoms. Convenient transportation, beautiful scenery, pleasant climate, is a livable environment created with heart. Looking around, it has become quite large: high-rise buildings are lined up one after another, the streets are spacious and bright, and the cultural walls are elegant. "A day in the mountains, a thousand years in the world." In the morning light, in the sunset, and in the sunset, the residents of the new city gathered everywhere, chatting about the rapid changes in the outside world, while recalling their old brick adobe houses that had remained unchanged in the previous decades, and could not help but issue the party's policy of good and catch up with the sigh of the new era.

A thousand mountains and twilight snow, the years are still in the air. The days go on and on, and the thick Umun Mountain has cultivated people's authentic, natural, simple, kind, strong, optimistic character, and at any time, they are very real. After moving into the new city, people made a short adaptation to the life of the people in the city, and actively planned a new life in the future. Looking back on the past, people's thoughts are full of thoughts and emotions; based on today, people are confident and confident; looking forward to the future, people are striding forward and full of expectations.

Yesterday has become history, today is being created in the hands of small city residents, tomorrow's life is infinitely better.