Song Rui, the first secretary of the village, and her cultural poverty alleviation experiment: "Small willow shoots" rake "iron rake teeth are not moving bent willow tree"

Song Rui Xinhua News Agency (Photo by Hao Yuan)

Beijing, 13 Dec (Xinhua) -- On 13 December, the Xinhua Daily Telegraph carried a report entitled "Song Rui, The First Secretary of the Village, and Her Experiment in Cultural Poverty Alleviation: "Little Willow Branches" Rake "Crooked Willow Trees With Iron Rakes And Teeth Moving."

In 2013, a "Dexiao Lecture Hall" was held in Wanliushu Village, XiXian County, Henan Province, where a group of villagers often gathered to listen to lectures.

Wang Xuehua, who is in his early 50s, is not impressed by this.

He is a capable person in the village, earning more than 100,000 yuan a year by growing grain. He earns money and likes to drink and play cards, and when he loses, he beats his wife, thinking that "men live like this way is dashing."

He did not look down on the "bitter haha" in the village who worked in the village, and naturally he also looked down on Song Rui, the first secretary of the village who led the villagers to learn the culture of filial piety.

"What can traditional culture stand up to, can it eat?" Or can you drink it? Once drunk, Wang Xuehua wandered to the Dexiao Lecture Hall, slapped the table hard, and tried to mock the villagers in class. The villagers pressed him to his seat and said, "You drink and make trouble, and you beat your wife." This is the lesson you should listen to the most! ”

Wang Xuehua was so dizzy that he listened to a class. Unwilling to be reconciled after waking up drunk, he went to the Dexiao Lecture Hall again. While rubbing the air conditioner, Wang Xuehua wanted to see what kind of "ecstasy soup" Song Rui poured into everyone.

After listening to a few lessons, he heard something famous - what is traditional culture? It was originally to teach people how to be filial to their parents, how to be harmonious in the neighborhood, and how to be happy in the family. Gradually, Wang Xuehua became a loyal audience member of the Dexiao Lecture Hall.

His wife complained that you didn't do the right thing all day and listened to some kind of class. Wang Xuehua asked rhetorically: "After listening to the lecture, have you been beaten again?" His wife thought, indeed, there was none, so she also went to listen.

In this way, Wang Xuehua changed, "Mahjong Captain" Xu Lanzhen changed, and Zhao Zhongzhen, who was self-seeking short-sighted, also changed... Crooked Willow Village has gradually been revitalized - from a village with filial piety, mahjong addiction, drinking and fighting, 7 years ago, it has become the 17th "Chinese Filial Piety Demonstration Village" in China.

The person who changed the village was Song Rui, the first secretary of the Henan Investigation Corps of the National Bureau of Statistics stationed in Wanliushu and a national second-level psychological counselor. In the past 7 years, she has been stationed in the village three times, and has unremittingly lectured the villagers on etiquette, righteousness, honesty and traditional culture. In the ordinary plain countryside of Xixian County, Henan Province, a "different road" has been embarked upon to lead the rural poverty alleviation and revitalization with cultural rejuvenation.

(Subtitle) "The Crooked Willow Tree with Iron Rake Teeth Raking"

"It's hard to buy interest on the county slope with money, half rice and half steamed bread." Located on the banks of the Huai River, Xi County, Xinyang City, Henan Province, has historically been the "hometown of fish and rice". But a few years ago, there was another local saying, "Once you enter the county slope, the road is like a chicken nest." This is another true portrayal of the once-poor situation in Xixian County.

In the late autumn of 2012, Song Rui bumped into the village along a "chicken nest road" 8 kilometers from the county seat. Song Rui, 48 years old, has short hair in his ears, always has a smile on his face, and does not speak quickly. "The seemingly weak and gentle lesbians don't know if they can bear this suffering." This was Yu Jinxia, then a member of the Standing Committee of the Xixian County CPC Committee and director of propaganda, who had an impression of her. She knew the "power" of the crooked willow tree, and she was a little worried about Song Rui.

Crooked Willow Village is an ancient village with a thousand-year history, with 14 natural villages, 2150 people, and 3600 acres of fertile land. Of the 460 households in the village, 146 are poor households, and the incidence of poverty exceeds 30%.

The situation was indeed beyond Song Rui's imagination.

As soon as Song Rui was stationed in the village, he visited the poor households of Crooked Willow Tree one by one. She found that many poor families were destitute, and some did not even have decent beds and decent bowls; the elderly lived in low, damp "lying houses" at the head of the village. "I can't sleep when I think of their suffering." At night, Song Rui, who lived in a poor family, couldn't sleep all night, and the more he thought about it, the less he felt in his heart.

The problem of bending willow trees is not only "poor", but also "sick".

"Dirty, messy, poor" is the first impression of the village to outsiders. In front of and behind the houses, in the canals and ponds, there are piles of garbage and dancing mosquitoes and flies everywhere; plastic bags of various colors are hung on branches and telephone poles; in villagers' homes, debris is piled up haphazardly and it is difficult to get off the feet.

In-depth understanding, Song Rui found that children are not filial piety, mahjong addiction, drinking and fighting are the "three major poisons" of the village.

At the head of the village, the "lying house", the thatched house, the watermelon shed, the old people whose children have become the family and been driven out, and even the extreme incident of the elderly committing suicide.

People who did business in other places walked around the village, and there used to be a construction team working in the village, but the iron rake teeth used to harrow the ground at night were secretly pulled out and sold. Since then, outsiders have jokingly called this village "a crooked willow tree with iron rakes that can't be rake.".

What makes Song Rui even more helpless is that the two village committees are basically paralyzed. The first time she went to the village, the ragged house, the weeds and shrubs grew more than a man tall. Two village cadres, one of whom only cares about raising pigs for himself, and one who lives in the city permanently, rarely shows his face. "In this case, who is the masses looking for? Who do poor households have trouble finding? ”

(Subtitle) Three fires in office, put a "green smoke"

Song Rui riveted enough to do something practical and completely change the appearance of the village. However, I did not admit that the three fires of the new official taking office were all smoked...

Poverty alleviation depends on industry. At the beginning of 2013, after Song Rui ran forward, he finally won a 400,000 yuan of scientific and technological poverty alleviation funds to support the development of planting and breeding industries in the poor households of Crooked Willow, and lit the first fire.

However, more than a month later, not a single cent of the money was sent. The villagers said everything: "Isn't it appropriate to divide the money equally, what else do you want to plant?" "I heard that you have to press your fingerprints and sign contracts, and the money can't be used to play mahjong?!" "The cooked duck can't fly, and no one takes the final score for everyone!" ......

Two months passed, and Song Rui went around looking for someone to do a job and no one took it. In the end, the money was allocated to other poor villages by the higher authorities, and the cooked duck really flew. The villagers talked a lot, and Song Rui complained. "Don't give me any money, why don't you help this poor?" Song Rui was in a hurry, but there was no way.

At the end of the year and the beginning of the year, the leader of the Henan Investigation Corps, where Song Rui belonged, led a team to the village to comfort the poor households, but he did not expect that just after reaching the third home, the group was surrounded by the masses. "Why send something to their house?" Our family is also in difficulty, and we also need condolences..." Surround the masses, you vent your dissatisfaction with every word you say. Later, it was learned that the few people who started the cajoling were not poor households at all, and some of them lived in buildings. Later, the county investigation team gave each family 200 yuan, and these talents dispersed.

The second fire to comfort the poor households not only did not burn, but the villagers also gave her a solid embarrassment.

Song Rui was not discouraged and began to burn the third fire. If you want to be rich, build roads first. At that time, the bent willow tree village was covered with soil on sunny days and mud on rainy days, and the masses jokingly called "water" and "mud" roads. Song Rui made up his mind to build a real cement road for the villagers.

In the summer of 2013, Song Rui won a road construction payment of 660,000 yuan. The villagers were very happy to hear that they wanted to build roads, and they also looked up to her. Song Rui found village cadres, arranged for road construction, and went to work on other poverty alleviation work. Unexpectedly, the village secretary in charge of road construction was too selfish, and originally built the main road of the administrative village, but it turned out to be built by him as the "ring village road" of his natural village.

The masses fried the pot and petitioned directly to the county. Song Rui, who had always been gentle, was annoyed this time, but after getting angry, he found that even if the village branch secretary was removed, no one was willing to do it.

The three fires all smoked green smoke, and Song Rui touched it with a "gray face". She tossed and turned again and had difficulty falling asleep. Song Rui figured it out: "What is more terrible than material poverty is spiritual poverty. The people's hearts remain unchanged, their thinking remains unchanged, and no matter how good the poverty alleviation policy is, it will not be able to help the poverty at the root. ”

(Subtitle) "One sentence understood, changed from now on"

Although the crooked willow tree is not lightly "sick", it cannot be rushed. Song Rui is a national second-level psychological counselor, who has also received systematic study of traditional culture and is well versed in the charm of traditional Chinese morality. To change people's hearts, we must start with indoctrination. She decided to open a "de filial piety lecture hall" in the village to teach traditional moral culture and educate people bit by bit.

In November 2013, the first lecture of the lecture hall was officially opened. There was no space, and a small bench was placed in the abandoned classroom of the village elementary school. No one came, she paid 1,000 yuan out of her own pocket and bought noodles, washing powder, washbasins and other gifts to attract villagers. In the end, the first class actually came with thirty or forty people, including an elderly old woman and a young daughter-in-law who stayed at home.

"Although most of them come for small gifts, as long as they come, I have the confidence to leave them in the classroom." Song Rui said.

The first lesson teaches "filial piety." Song Rui talked about the truth of "filial piety comes first", the allusion of "crow feeding back", and also the story of Shandong Zaozhuang Tian Shiguo donating kidneys to save his mother. The lessons were in-depth and simple, the stories were loud and colorful, the villagers listened with relish, and some people were moved to tears.

One class a week, one lesson and one theme, talking about "doing good", talking about "accumulating virtue", talking about "humility"... Tian Xiuying, a national moral model in Liaocheng, Shandong Province, and Xue Rong, a national March 8th Red Banner bearer, were invited to talk about how to harvest a happy life through struggle; professors from the Central Party School and researchers of traditional Chinese studies were invited to talk about yangmingxin, Laozi thought, and etiquette, righteousness, and shame.

Is it useful to tell the villagers about this? On this question, Song Rui laughed: "Everyone has conscience and conscience, so Wang Yangming advocates 'to conscience'. The villagers are simple in their hearts, and the role of the lecture hall is to awaken their conscience. ”

"Sometimes they understand a sentence and change it." Song Rui said.

More and more villagers are listening to the lectures, and changes in the village are also quietly happening. Since 2014, 37 elderly families who have been abandoned in the "lying down house" have been taken home by their children, and the village has put red flowers on the filial piety family and the "good daughter-in-law", and the photo is on the glorious wall. Xu Lanzhen, the "mahjong captain" in the village, quit his card addiction and personally washed the feet of his mother, who was in her 90s, and her mother was moved to tears. Wang Xuehua was also elected as the head of the village volunteer group, organizing everyone to make dumplings for the elderly in the village and hold a filial piety banquet.

In August 2014, Wanliushu Village was awarded the "Chinese Filial Piety Demonstration Village", becoming the 17th demonstration village in China. At the same time, the village has also won many honors such as "Promoting Chinese Filial Piety Demonstration Base" and "Henan Province Carrying Forward Chinese Excellent Traditional Culture Demonstration New Village".

With the help of donations from the Xixian Love Enterprise, Song Rui led the villagers to fill in a large garbage pit at the head of the village, and in 2014 built a simple board house that can accommodate more than 100 people as a de filial piety lecture hall. Today, the lecture hall has been upgraded to a grand two-story building, and the audience is from all over the country.

"The buses that came to our village to study were one after another, and where they had seen this battle in the past, the villagers felt that they were raised and breathed." Wang Xuehua said. The little daughter-in-law and the student doll in the village will arch their hands and bow when they see outsiders; the construction team from outside the village sighed that the steel bars and wood at the construction site were piled up in the open for more than a month, and not a single screw was lost...

"This crooked willow tree, which has iron rake teeth that can't be rake, has been rakeed!" Yu Jinxia sighed.

"Both Daughter and Comrade"

In the summer of 2015, Song Rui's term of office as the first secretary stationed in the village arrived.

"Do you have any regrets about leaving at this time?" Across the desk, Jin Ping, secretary of the County Party Committee, opened the door and threw a question.

"There is..." The question poked straight into the heart. For a long time, Song Rui said: "The atmosphere in the village has become better, and the industry that may lift the people out of poverty has not yet developed." ”

Jin Ping continued to "attack the heart": "At present, there are 200,000 people in the first secretary of the country, but there are not many people like you who use traditional culture to help the poor in the front line of poverty alleviation. Understanding this path is also a great contribution to other poor villages. ”

"You know what? The crowd beat gongs and drums to send pennants, and the crooked willow villagers begged to leave you behind. The county party committee, the county government, and I personally want you to stay. Jinping said.

Song Rui's nose was a little sore. She said: "The party needs me to stay, and if the villagers want me to stay, I will stay!" ”

But Song Rui also has her own unspeakable secrets, and she doesn't know how to open this mouth to her daughter. Daughter Li Kuran's due date is two months away, and Song Rui and her have an agreement that as soon as the term of office is over, they will go home for a reunion, take care of their daughter, and take care of the baby.

On a sabbatical opportunity, Song Rui took his daughter and son-in-law to a place together- Wang Yangming's "Dragon Field Enlightenment". In Guizhou Longchang, looking up at the vicissitudes of the cave roof, touching the wind-permeable wall, thinking of Wang Yangming in a difficult and dangerous place, "calling the trumpet creeping, bare feet upside down, pulling the cliff wall down to save the heart", Song Rui's heart was surging with excitement. She seemed to inadvertently say to her daughter: "In such adversity, Mr. Wang Yangming is remembered for his enlightenment and protection of the people. Now I am bending willow trees, such good conditions, the villagers' hearts are also united, can not completely get rid of poverty, it is really impossible to say. After saying that, Song Rui specifically asked her daughter: "Is there any truth to what my mother said?" Li Looked at his mother and smiled.

That night, Song Rui received a WeChat message from her daughter: "Mom, did you bring us to Guizhou this time to let us get an education?" Want to stay in the crooked willow tree and continue to dry until the village is lifted out of poverty, right? Worried that my family and I will not support it, so use Mr. Wang Yangming to enlighten us, right? Mom, I joined the party when I was in college, and I was both a daughter and a comrade. We fully support moms, just hope that you take care of your health, and when the day of triumph, I will take the baby to the village to pick you up! ”

She is both a daughter and a comrade. When Song Rui read this, tears suddenly poured out.

After Song Rui returned to the village, he devoted himself to the industry. More people from all over the world came to Bend Willow Village to learn, and the village organized more than 50 villagers to raise funds to establish Bend Willow Village Filial Piety Culture Communication Co., Ltd., develop a cultural tourism industry with Filial Piety Culture as the core, and create a number of "Filial Piety Homestays".

Villager Zhao Zhongzhen once wanted to take his own life because of a series of blows from her husband's paralysis, family discord, and debt. Under the influence of the lecture hall, her heart gradually became clear, and she also joined the village volunteer group. Now it has opened a "filial piety homestay", with an annual income of one or two million yuan. She took Song Rui's hand and said, "I'm too short to live 100 years now!" ”

Wang Chunling was the first person to invest in Crooked Willow. By chance, I listened to Song Rui's lesson and was awakened by the saying "Do not do to others what you do not want". She told Song Rui that I was doing agricultural trade in the county, but I wanted to buy something without pesticides to eat, and from now on I would do "conscience industry" and "conscience food". She went to Crooked Willow Village, contracted 360 acres of arable land, insisted on no pesticides, no chemical fertilizers, and only environmentally friendly enzymes.

After a cumulative investment of 5 million yuan, the earthworms in the soil returned, the soil power was restored, and the enzyme rice also increased from more than 100 catties per mu to 1,000 catties, with a weekly sales of nearly one million yuan.

Gradually, door and window processing plants, e-commerce logistics parks, organic vegetable bases... Various industries have sprung up in crooked willow trees. Nowadays, the output of the development model has also become an industry in the village, and Nanyang and other places have specially purchased services from the bent willow tree to help build a Dexiao Cultural Village.

At the end of 2015, Crooked Willow took the lead in achieving poverty alleviation in XiXian County.

There are tears in his eyes, only because the love is deep

In the early autumn of 2017, Song Rui's second term in the village arrived.

"If you leave now, do you have any regrets?" Secretary Jinping still had a smiling and squinting look two years ago. "Yes!" Song Rui did not wait for Secretary Jin to say more, "The people's hearts in The village of Bent Willow have changed, and the industry has been established, but the village organization has not yet been built." This is an important duty of the first secretary stationed in the village. Jinping smiled, he knew that the desired result was already there.

Song Rui returned to the village, and the hot rice and hot dishes made by the villagers were brought to the table, and she pulled home cooking until late at night.

Song Rui is busier, and she wants to get back the confidence of the masses in the party organization. According to the list of party members, she talked to each other one by one. Those who are in the village will go to their homes to talk; those who are outside will call and talk about the development of the village, about the next step, and about the responsibilities that party members should bear.

The village cleared garbage, and Chen Wenming, a retired veteran party member in his 70s, was the first to jump into a waist-deep ditch to catch garbage, and more party members and villagers also joined in. Party members Li Jing and Xu Jian, who have made small achievements outside, resolutely resigned and returned to their hometowns, leading the villagers to engage in green ecological agriculture... With the support of the county and township levels, the crooked willow trees built a new village department, and the yard was planted with herbs and flowers, and the masses who came to do things continued one after another, and the villagers had a "main backbone".

Since 2016, a total of 22 people in Crooked Willow Village have submitted applications to join the party. The improvement of the living environment, the accurate screening of low-income households, and the demolition and relocation of dangerous houses are all difficult things that originally made village cadres daunted, and now they are all in order.

Song Rui always believes that from the withering and ruin of Crooked Willow Village 7 years ago to the vigorous vitality today, it was done by a group of responsible and affectionate Communist Party members to lead the masses. "I'm just a small willow on a bent willow tree, and the roots of the willow tree are party members and the masses."

This little willow branch and the crooked willow tree can no longer be separated.

On the way back to his hometown by car, Song Rui looked through the car window at the strange earth, looked at the peasants who were working hard, and looked at the gentle dawn in the countryside. She turned her back and burst into tears... (End)