Calligraphy art activates Chengnei Village in Jiangxian County

In a village, it is not uncommon for the party branch secretary and village committee director to have special talents; but the two main leaders of the team are both fond of calligraphy and have achieved little success, which is really not the case. In Chengnei Village, Jiangxian County, Shanxi Province, not only are party branch secretary Wang Yunzhi and village committee director Ji Huamin highly accomplished in calligraphy, but they also use calligraphy art as the leader and wenxing the village, purifying the social atmosphere of the village in the city and promoting the development of various undertakings in the village. , making Chengnei Village a vanguard in the county's new rural construction, and has been commended by governments at all levels many times: the Yuncheng City Party Committee awarded the Chengnei Village Party Branch the title of Red Flag Party Branch, and the Jiangxian County Party Committee awarded the Chengnei Village Party Branch the title of Advanced Party Branch.

?Hot up the cultural front

The village in Chengnei, Jiangxian County, Shanxi Province uses calligraphy art as a link and pays close attention to the construction of cultural activity rooms and cultural squares. In addition to the cultural front in the village committee, many resident groups have also built cultural activity rooms and cultural squares. The 2nd Resident Group raised its own funds and spent one year building a cultural activity room that integrates reading, training, and conferences, and a cultural square of more than 2,400 square meters that integrates culture, sports, gatherings, and leisure. Every time the morning sun has not yet appeared and the breeze blows, in the square, men and women do exercises to keep fit, and young and old hang out together. As night falls, the neon lights flash and the venue is brightly lit. Handsome men and beautiful women stretch their waists and dance gracefully, straighten their necks and sing songs?

They also conducted distance education and lectures on politics and science and technology in the cultural activity room. Recruited Cui Zhi'an, former member of the Standing Committee of Jiangxian County Party Committee and Minister of Propaganda, Han Zheqing, executive vice president of Jiangxian County Party Committee Party School, Zhang Aijun, lecturer of Jiangxian County Party Committee Party School, etc. to provide more than 10 lectures (times) on the documents of the 17th National Congress, Hu Jintao's speech, rural economic policy, etc.; More than 100 lectures (times) were held by inviting experts in agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, etc. to impart agricultural science and technology knowledge. Since 2005, we have invited dance and music teachers Jin Xiaoxia and Yang Xiao to take over our classes on weekends and during winter and summer vacations. We have successively trained more than 500 Latin dancers and pianists, and many of them have participated in county and city music and dance competitions. Award winning. Talent competitions such as painting, paper-cutting, gourd pyrography, root carving, dough sculpture, and strange stones were held, and a large number of folk art experts emerged. During major festivals such as the Spring Festival, lively social fire performances such as gongs and drums, flower drums, yangko, lion dance, and stilts are performed, and have won the first prize in the county many times. The 30-member flower drum team in the village not only stole the show in the city, but also in the provincial capital, winning many awards.

When there are weddings and funerals, they will be there in time, write slogans, wedding couplets and elegiac couplets on their own initiative, which not only enhances the atmosphere of the event, but also saves money for the victims, and at the same time deepens the relationship with the masses.

The most commendable thing is that they compiled their own couplets based on real life. In view of the phenomenon that couplets are almost connected with one word when they are passing events, they pay attention to the relevant people, relevant things, relevant times and relevant emotions when writing couplets. Before every event, they communicate with the host as early as possible to understand the basic situation of the person concerned, then grasp their characteristics, choose words and sentences, and write carefully. As for the major events in the village, they adapted to the time and local conditions, devoted themselves to choosing words and sentences, and carefully considered them, so that the couplets they compiled gave people a refreshing feeling.

On July 1, 2011, the village held a calligraphy and painting exhibition to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Party. There were 70 or 80 participants and 208 works on display. Many leaders from the county and town came to observe. Many calligraphy and painting works from surrounding counties Experts came to congratulate. On the day of the exhibition, on the lintels and pillars of the village cultural activity room and cultural square, couplets reflected red and shone with gold: "On July 1st, the square inspires development ambitions; on the 90th anniversary, the city draws a picture of soaring again." The landscape in the city is exquisitely painted; the horizontal and vertical dots in the study are cleverly imitating the charm of the Orchid Pavilion; calligraphy and paintings are displayed in the city, giving a panoramic view of the world; the square gathers people and culture, and embraces the sun and moon; and paintings of pines, plums, insects and birds are , the painting will always be there; the calligraphy, seal script and regular script, the calligraphy and calligraphy are always new?,? compete in the calligraphy world; compete in the painting garden to compete between the male and female?,? the old farmer is good, overview of the world of literature and painting; the infatuation has not diminished, the pursuit of elegance These couplets in Shu Chunqiu are not only neatly contrasted and of a certain artistic level, but also relevant, vivid and memorable, arousing praise from visitors.

? Corrected the folk customs and sentiments

The cultural front in the villages in Jiangxian County provides farmers with diverse, healthy, beneficial, convenient and long-term cultural channels, making the countryside rich in traditional culture Glowing with vitality.

They further focused on the creation activities, grasped the practical interests of the farmers, and always placed the construction of spiritual civilization in a prominent position. First, while comprehensively advocating the knowledge of honor and disgrace and establishing a new socialist concept of honor and disgrace, , convened many villagers' congresses to formulate the "Village Rules and Conventions", which were then printed and distributed to households, making them a code of conduct for villagers. The second is to strive to create a civilized new village with civilized village style and clean appearance. The continuous enrichment of material civilization has led to the needs of the masses for spiritual civilization. The lazy living conditions of the past have been completely changed. The phenomena of card-playing and feudal superstition have been basically eliminated, and the spiritual outlook of the masses has been greatly changed. The third is to make great efforts to support people in need, providing rural subsistence allowances to more than 20 households in need, helping 5 poor households to renovate dilapidated houses, and more than 98% of farmers in the village have participated in the new rural cooperative medical care. The fourth is to carry out a series of special activities such as moral lectures, village style and civilized posts, civilized new style city insiders, civilized families, and five good villagers, and more than 50 civilized families and more than 120 model individuals have emerged. Pei Yingcui, an elderly woman in her 70s from the 9th Resident Group, has two sisters-in-law living in Beijing and Taiyuan respectively. Regardless of her old age and frailty, she has shouldered the heavy responsibility of taking care of her mother-in-law for decades, working hard and without complaint. Now my mother-in-law is 102 years old, still strong and energetic. Pei Yingcui deserves to be called a "good wife". By carrying out socialist concept of honor and disgrace education, socialist democratic legal education and public ethics education, farmers' legal concepts, moral concepts and civilized awareness have been effectively enhanced. There is a villager in the 5th residential group who was sentenced to three years in prison for violating the criminal law more than 10 years ago. In these years, through active education in the village, he engaged in cold storage storage and vegetable trafficking, with an annual income of more than 40,000 yuan, and embarked on the road of hard work and prosperity.

Revitalizing the rural economy

Jiangxian Chengnei Village takes the art of calligraphy and painting as its source, cultural construction as its support, and spiritual civilization construction as its driving force, giving full play to the local resource advantages in the county. , embarked on the path of economic development guided by market demand and transformed resource advantages into industrial advantages, effectively promoted agricultural industrialization, and realized the effective connection between small production and small products and the large market.

At present, the villages in the city have formed a two-line business structure within the village and outside the village. The village is dominated by middle-aged women and is mainly engaged in planting and breeding. It has developed more than 500 acres of seedlings, more than 300 acres of medicinal materials, and more than 20 breeding households. In addition to providing professional training for everyone in the cultural activity room, the village has organized more than 20 people from the whole village to visit and learn planting and breeding techniques every November 5th since 2008 during the Shaanxi Yangling High-tech Expo. Have persisted for 3 years.

Outside the village, mainly young people are engaged in catering, supermarkets, transportation, construction, processing and other services in the county and other places. Only in the transportation industry, the village has more than 120 large and small vehicles. The Eight Immortals of the villagers crossed the sea and each showed their talents, creating remarkable and impressive achievements together with their hard work. Group 6 Xu Liyun started raising chickens 10 years ago and has an annual income of more than 50,000 yuan. Group 7 Zhang Hongwen has been raising pigs for 89 years, slaughtering about 200 pigs every year and earning more than 60,000 yuan. Zhu Hong, from Group 2, aims to open a Baihui supermarket chain store in the county town, employing more than 30 surplus laborers and generating a net income of more than 200,000 yuan. There are also many villagers who leave the county and cross the province, traveling north and south to display their skills and become famous. For example, eight groups of brothers, Maiwanguo and Maiwanquan, have run a shoe factory in Henan Province for more than 10 years, with an annual income of more than 50,000 yuan. Zhang Yanlong from Group 3 and Wang Yutang from Group 7 each opened a freight inn in Hainan Province, with annual incomes of more than 100,000 yuan. According to statistics, in 2010, the village's total economic income was more than 12 million yuan, and the per capita net income of farmers was 4,973 yuan, ranking among the best in the county.

(The 8th issue of this magazine in 2011 published the calligraphy works of Wang Yunzhi, secretary of the Party branch of Chengnei Village, and Ji Huamin, director of the village committee - Editor)