At the scene of the program, Long Xianlan (second from the left) shared his sweet new life after poverty alleviation.
Red Net Moment reporter Pan Jin reported from Changsha
Long Xianlan was on television again, and it was also broadcast worldwide, which was a good story in the Eighteen-Hole Village.
On February 12, the "2021 Global Overseas Chinese and Chinese Spring Festival Gala" hosted by the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council and undertaken by Hunan Radio and Television Station was broadcast on Hunan Satellite TV and broadcast globally by Hunan International Channel on February 13.
At the scene of the program, the Long Xianlan family shared their sweet new life after poverty alleviation and celebrated the festival with overseas Chinese and Chinese around the world. Looking at his ten-month-old daughter, Long Xianlan happily told everyone: "I named her 'Long Si'en' because I wanted to thank the people who helped me and our eighteen-hole village."
At the critical moment, the "drunken horse" becomes a "horse"
In 2020, the decisive battle against poverty was achieved and a Chinese miracle was created in the history of poverty reduction in the world.
As a villager in the eighteen-hole village of the "first initiative for accurate poverty alleviation", Long Xianlan's life has changed dramatically, and naming his daughter "Long Si'en" is indeed his heartfelt words.
In the Eighteen-Hole Village, people familiar with Long Xianlan knew that he was once a bitter child and once lost hope in life.
Because of the death of his father and the remarriage of his mother, Long Xianlan became an orphan at a very young age. He did not study much, his skills were insufficient, his part-time income was not high, a broken tile house leaked rain everywhere, and there was really no hope in life. Long Xianlan, who is in his 20s, anesthetizes himself with alcohol day after day.
Once, the lack of family affection and management made Long Xianlan sad and helpless, like a wild horse that had lost its reins, lonely and violent. Wine became his instrument for disposing of everything. Escape in wine, anesthetize in wine, rejoice in wine, heal in wine. Where to drink, where to get drunk; where to get drunk, where to sleep.
Later, the battle against poverty was launched, and the poverty alleviation team was stationed in the eighteen-hole village. At the beginning, Long Xianlan felt that the poverty alleviation task force had come to issue relief, and he noisily went to find Long Xiulin, the leader of the poverty alleviation task force at that time, to ask for money and goods.
Long Xiulin said that poverty alleviation is not only to help money, but more importantly, to help aspirations, and "waiting, relying on, and wanting" is a manifestation of no ambition. With the care and warmth of the party, with the ideas, policies and concepts of getting rid of poverty and getting rich, it is the greatest wealth and the greatest money. It is a good thing that you are back, it shows that you have vision, see the future and hope of our eighteen holes, and I and the people of the poverty alleviation team will fully support you and help you.
In fact, Long Xianlan was neither stupid nor lazy, but when someone helped him at a critical moment, he passed the most difficult hurdle.
With the help of the poverty alleviation task force, Long Xianlan went to agricultural school, learned knowledge, and broadened his thinking. Eighteen-hole villages are beautiful and beautiful, like a treasure trove of resources, and poverty alleviation and prosperity should be adapted to local conditions. The wildflowers of the eighteen-hole village are all over the mountains and are an excellent source of natural honey. Long Xianlan thought that he could keep more bees, collect more honey, and sell more money.
When Long Xianlan told Long Xiulin these thoughts, Long Xiulin was particularly happy. He knew that this wild horse would no longer be a drunken horse, but a horse. This wild horse began to be ambitious, wise, and powerful. He immediately helped Long Xianlan contact the professional beekeepers in Huayuan County, and let Long Xianlan learn to keep bees and cut honey. Long Xianlan, who was born smart, soon mastered the technique of beekeeping and cutting honey. Long Xianlan, who returned from school, tried to raise 4 boxes of wild bees, and his income was more than 5,000 yuan that year.
Long Xianlan said, "I picked up the 'Golden Yuanbao' in the mountains!" Mountains are wild, flowers are wild, bees are wild, honey is wild, isn't that what is it that is picked up? ”
Saying that it was picked up is actually hard work. In order to grasp the living habits of the bee colony, Long Xianlan would crouch in front of the hive every day to observe, and even follow the bees to observe the bees collecting honey. Over time, he could see with his naked eyes the joys and sorrows of the bees, which bees were the janitors, which bees were the cleaners, which bees had concerns, and which bees had happy events. To the bees, he treated them like his own little babies, covering them with a film on a rainy day to shield the bees from the rain; in the winter, he would put on a quilt to keep the bees cold; when there was nothing wrong, he would run to the apiary to see if the bees were safe, in case any animals got in and wreaked havoc. The sweetness of life is exchanged for hard work and sweat.
Gratitude turns into a driving force for progress, and life is getting better and better
If you get rid of poverty, you have to get rid of the list. With money, Long Xianlan had the confidence to marry his daughter-in-law.
In 2015, at the blind date held in Eighteen-Hole Village, Long Xianlan and Wu Manjin, a girl from a neighboring village, fell in love at first sight. But Wu Manjin's mother, who knew Long Xianlan's past, was very concerned about the poverty of the Eighteen-Hole Village, and said that she did not agree to this family affair. The comrades of the task force encouraged Long Xianlan not to give up, to work hard for another year, and then to entrust them with the task of proposing relatives.
Happiness is a struggle. Long Xianlan inspects the hive at a honey source point in the village of Eighteen Caves. (Photo by Chen Zeguo)
Long Xianlan did not disappoint everyone, at the end of the year his honey harvest was great, this time he suddenly earned 50,000 yuan. When the day of the kiss arrived, the captain did indeed take the task force to help him to the kiss.
The leaders of the poverty alleviation task force all look up to their future son-in-law, and Wu Manjin's parents can no longer be stubborn and happy to marry Wu Manjin to Long Xianlan.
On January 22, 2016, Long Xianlan and Wu Manjin got married, which was the most lively day in the eighteen-hole village for a long time. Dozens of Miao drums were beaten for a day and a night, and dozens of Miao singers sang for a day and a night. The whole eighteen-hole people went, and the whole poverty alleviation team went. That wedding was really simple and beautiful, and Long Xianlan was moved to tears on the spot.
Many elderly people in the village also cried, they were touched by Long Xianlan's escape from poverty and happiness, and they were also happy about the changes brought by poverty alleviation to the eighteen-hole village. With the help of the poverty alleviation team stationed in the village, relying on the courage to take the fate into their own hands, all the difficult people in the eighteen-hole village have been lifted out of poverty, and more than 30 elderly bachelors in the village have also started a family.
At the wedding, Long Xianlan said emotionally: "Three years ago, I was nothing, just an alcoholic, poor ghost, epileptic, and drunkard on the side of the road; three years later, I got rid of poverty and became rich, got off the list and got married, and lived a life sweeter than honey." I would like to thank the villagers for not abandoning me and not abandoning me, and thank the poverty alleviation team for caring for me and pulling me like a relative. I also want to work hard, work hard, thank you with practical actions, and repay the society. ”
Long Xianlan did not renege on his word. After marriage, he not only fell in love with Wu Manjin, but also ran the family diligently and frugally. He also led the establishment of the Eighteen-Hole Miao Big Sister Beekeeping Cooperative. He organized five poor households in the eighteen caves, taught them free beekeeping technology, beekeeping together, cutting honey together, and selling together, and made beekeeping into a brand industry in eighteen caves. Their honey resolutely does not mix a drop of water, resolutely does not put a single grain of sugar, sells integrity honey, sells conscience honey, the more it sells, the more prosperous it is, the more famous it is. In the past, a pound of wild honey could only be sold for 100 yuan; now, a pound of 200 yuan is still in short supply, and it has long been booked. Long Xianlan said, this is a sweet cause for us, and the more we do it, the more energetic we are.
Long Xianlan not only led the poor households in the same village to get rid of poverty together, but also began to actively take the lead and participate in various public welfare undertakings. Residential renovation, village road renovation, farmland water conservancy, he did not need to greet, actively participated. There are many wild animals and rare plants in the eighteen caves, but they are often poached and logged, Long Xianlan looked anxious in his eyes, took the initiative to ask the poverty alleviation team, organized a forest ranger, and he was the captain.
The young people of the forest ranger team take turns to stand guard, put up sentry, publicize and patrol in the mountain forest every day, catch poaching and poaching, and promote environmental protection. In order to publicize environmental protection and protect the beautiful homes of the eighteen-hole village, Long Xianlan and the young people of the rangers team also ingeniously went bare, pasted with leaves, wrote a word on one person, stood in a row, and wrote "Protect the forest, love the homeland" and "Protect the homeland, benefit future generations". They also took pictures of these publicity activities and put them on the Internet, hoping to arouse more people to pay attention to environmental protection and love beautiful homes.
From the drunken drunk in the past to the enterprising and responsible ranger captain, the change in Long Xianlan's life is a microcosm of the gorgeous transformation of the Eighteen-Hole Village. In the context of targeted poverty alleviation, Long Xianlan "prodigal son turned back" and lived a happy and sweet life through his own efforts.
As Long Xianlan said in the ""Four Seas and One Spring" 2021 Global Overseas Chinese Spring Festival Gala" program scene, he is a person who knows how to be grateful, and when gratitude becomes the driving force for progress, their lives will get better and better.