County East County West

Wang Vieng’s County West and County East

Core comparison:

If you get lost and ask questions, there will be two answers for County East and County West: People in the east county will take the initiative to point you in the direction when they see you wandering around; people in the west county will wait until you ask before telling you the way.

Their own thoughts:

People from the west of the county said: I use my skills to make money

People from the east of the county said: I rely on the land to make a living

Introduction: Since moving to the county seat in 20 years, I have been working in a news unit. In people's minds, a journalist is a profession with a wide range of contacts, acquaintance with many people, and knowledge of many things. Even a stupid person will accumulate a certain amount of experience after working in this industry for a long time. Due to work needs, I have visited more than 200 villages and have a basic understanding of the customs and customs of each place. So, for a long time, I wanted to write a paragraph about the west and east of the county. Because our county, which consists of 14 towns, 281 administrative villages, and a population of more than 400,000, was merged from the two old counties of Ronghe and Wanquan after liberation. There have been differences in cultural concepts between the East and the West throughout history. And this traditional regional cultural thinking and ancient quality are still being passed on. Due to the geographical shape of Wanrong County, Wanrong County is long from east to west and narrow from north to south, so people are accustomed to using the two large adjectives of county west and county east to compare. The words south of county and north of county rarely appear, so I will briefly describe it. Let’s discuss the west and east of the county.

To sum it up in a simple sentence: people in the west of the county are energetic but smart, while people in the east are kind and honest.

1. Concepts and styles along the Yellow River

To be more precise, there are still two kinds of thinking in the west of the county. The villages along the Yellow River in Guanghua, Peizhuang, have had rough folk customs since ancient times. There was a saying in the past: Are you just going wild on the Yellow River beach? It means that it has the nature of bandits. The Yellow River beach used to be a hiding place for bandits. People here naturally develop the habit of daring to fight and kill. He often starts a fight with just a few words, and often relies on his fists to solve problems. Let’s not talk about the old society. Let’s compare it to a few examples from the 1980s and 1990s: A village elected the director of the village committee, and this candidate offended a young man. During the meeting, this young man rushed into the venue with a shotgun and fired it randomly. The candidate was riddled with slag bullets and almost died. Later, the Public Security Bureau arrested the young man and the court sentenced him to several years. The village chief ran away the day the young man was released from prison and hid for several years without coming back; a branch secretary buried his mother, but the grave was blown up by a pack of explosives at night. The branch secretary organized manpower to dig the grave again overnight, and after it was dug, eight people were assigned to guard it. The next day, when the coffin was about to be carried, the sworn enemy ran out of the woods with a lit explosive bag in his arms and rushed to the tomb like lightning. The guardian was shocked when he saw this and ran for his life. The coffin bearers also threw away the "eight carriages" and ran away, and the coffin was overturned on the ground. There was a loud noise, and the tomb collapsed again; on the seventh day of the first lunar month in 1987, a fight broke out between two factions in a village. One faction had a large number of people and used dozens of shotguns to besiege the other faction. Seven or eight people from this faction were blocked in a street. In the alley, at a critical moment of life and death, they drove a tricycle. Seven or eight people squatted in a circle on the tricycle and rushed out with shotguns. They killed and injured seven of the other people on the spot. One year, two villages fought over the beach land. The Public Security Bureau went to deal with it. They overturned the car of Deputy Director Zhu Lachu into a ditch and knocked Director Zhu's hat off. Director Zhu fled back panting. Many years later, I met Director Zhu at the entrance of the Public Security Bureau, who had set up a cigarette stall after his retirement. He was still frightened when talking about this incident.

The character of the people along the Yellow River still comes from the Yellow River beach. Wanrong is the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River. Fenhe, the mother river in Shanxi, originates from Guanqin Mountain and after more than 600 kilometers, it meets the Yellow River here. The tens of thousands of acres of land between the Yellow River and Fenhe are called Jiatan, Jiatan is also called "enclave". As the name suggests, enclave is unstable land. "Thirty years to the east of the river, thirty years to the west of the river", the Yellow River flows to the east and the people in the west cultivate the land, and the Yellow River flows to the west and the people in the east cultivate the land. This is the law of farming the floodplains throughout history.

? When you are poor, you want to change. The environment changes people, but people can also change the environment. This is the soul and essence of Xianxi people.

2. The traditional cultural thoughts of Xiandong people

I first came into contact with Xiandong people around 1998. That year, Wanrong County implemented wheat coverage in the eastern part of the county, but the people in the eastern part of the county, which has a relatively large land area, did not accept it. They did not believe it. At that time, in order to promote this technology, the government gave away all the plastic fertilizers, seeds and plastic films to the people for free. But they just don't cover it. Rural cadres and working groups forcibly planted the land for them. At night, they secretly tore off the covering and continued to sow the seeds again while shaking the wooden building with a clanking sound. If this matter were placed in the west of the county, the people would be very happy! Later, someone actually reported the government's forced promotion of wheat coverage to the Yuncheng news unit. "Yuncheng Daily" publicly criticized the township's practice of forcing farmers to implement wheat coverage. The wheat coverage "aborted" halfway. This is the thinking of people in the east of the county: they don’t believe in science and technology, and they don’t take advantage of you in vain. Last year, a friend and I rode a motorcycle to the east of the county. Due to carelessness, the motorcycle ran out of gas halfway. We were struggling to push the car up the hill, when a 60-year-old man driving a three-wheeled motorcycle came over. After the old man stopped the car and asked us what was going on, he unloaded several buckets from the car that were used to spray medicine on fruit trees, and handed an oil can to my friend to drive his electric motorcycle to fill it with oil. This friend of mine is a slow guy. He drove for almost two hours before he came back. He just delayed the old man's time of spraying medicine on the fruit trees. However, in the face of our apology and the 20 yuan thank you fee I paid, the old man resolutely refused to accept it and happily sent us away. To be honest, if this was done in the west of the county, it would be impossible. When people from the west of the county encounter difficulties with people from Mo Shang, they may not take the initiative to take care of them. I just want to help you, so it would be strange if I don’t ask you for dozens of yuan in compensation! This is the difference between people from the east and west of the county. In terms of comprehensive quality index, people from the east of the county are definitely not as good as people from the west. But in terms of pure character comparison, people from the east of the county are definitely better than people from the west.

The people in the east of the county are full of kindness and kindness, but they are also full of traditional and backward ignorance. This combination of advantages and disadvantages is still related to the local conditions, living environment and development and evolution. Compared with the western part of the county, their pace of development is at least 10 years behind. Twenty years ago, the reform and opening up had allowed people in western counties to wear fashionable clothes. Men wore suits and leather shoes, women wore fluttering skirts, and some people wore down jackets in winter. But that winter I went to Sanwen Township in the east of the county for interviews, and met two middle-aged farmers, still wearing old-fashioned double-breasted cotton-padded jackets. Their expressions are dull, and they rarely have the brilliance on the faces of people from the west of the county. On the eve of the Spring Festival in 2006, I went to the mountains with the county party committee secretary to visit poor households. Some natural villages did not have electricity! However, this particularly backward situation is limited to the eastern part of the county and does not represent the entire situation.

? The reason why the eastern part of the county lags behind the western part of the county is mainly due to the difference in conceptual thinking. The land area in the east of the county is vast, with an average of three to four acres of cultivated land per capita, and some as high as five or six acres. The soil is fertile and is the main wheat-producing area of ??Wanrong County. For example: My hometown is a village in the west of the county. There is less than 2 acres of cultivated land per capita, and the wheat yield per mu is about 200 kilograms. In the Western Han Dynasty, Xue Huangfu's per capita cultivated land in the county was 4 acres, and the wheat yield per mu was more than 300 kilograms. Land is the basis for human survival. People in the east of the county have a lot of land and the quality of the land is good, so they have the traditional concept of "a cow on thirty acres of land, a wife and children on the bed", and they are content with the status quo and do not go out to explore. Not going out to explore will bring about two results: one is that you are unable to contact the wonderful world outside and have no motivation for development; the other is that you do not contract the bad habits outside and maintain your original character. Therefore, people in many villages in the east of the county are kind but ignorant.

However, in recent years, the pace of development in the east part of the county has kept up. New rural planning, roadway hardening, public welfare infrastructure, apple and peach planting, agricultural park construction, poverty alleviation and immigration projects, etc., are springing up everywhere like bamboo shoots after a rain. But Xianxi seems to be still in the same state as it was 10 years ago, motionless. What is the reason? It's very simple. The people in the east of the county have enjoyed the country's policies, and the cadres in the east of the county have found a way to get projects from the country.

The cadres in the west part of the county did not bother with important projects. After doing one or two good things for the village with their own strength, they were at their wits end. After all, the country is still "financed" and will develop rapidly wherever it wants to support. I have been in contact with several village cadres in Hanxue Town, and they have worked together to build several 10,000-acre agricultural parks with the support of the Provincial Opening Office. Tian Chengfang and Lin Chengwang are connected by pipes and roads. The state subsidy is more than 1,000 yuan per mu. How much subsidy is required for a park with 10,000 acres? This is indeed a huge number. However, this type of project can only be implemented in the east of the county and is difficult to implement in the west of the county. The reason is that the people in the east of the county are kind-hearted and don't cause trouble. Whenever they hear that village cadres are doing good things for the people, they strongly support them. They dig trees to make way for the road, move ancestral graves and build channels, and it is easy to coordinate. But this is not the case in the west of the county. "Donkeys can go before cows can go." Village cadres want to consolidate the land contiguously, but the masses have many calculations. First, they are afraid of hurting their own interests. For example, building roads will hurt the land and dig up fruit trees, so they will Asking prices are sky-high. The second is that the village cadres are suspected of taking the opportunity to reap benefits. If I don't vacate the land, you won't be able to benefit either. Therefore, it is difficult to build agricultural parks in the west of the county. Everything in the world should be examined dialectically. Good things are not always good things, and bad things can sometimes turn into good things. The kindness of the people in the county can only be attributed to this "honest and obedient person".

3. What is the current difference between people in the west of the county and people in the east of the county?

What is the current difference between people in the west and people in the east of the county? To put it simply: the people in the west of the county are divided into two classes, while the people in the east of the county are "monks wearing their hats."

With the temporary downturn of the market economy, many farmers in the western part of the county have fallen into a difficult life. Those with fruit trees operate several acres of fruit trees, but apple prices have been sluggish for several years. Those without fruit trees are running businesses or working outside, but the market is weak, and there is no business or a good place to work. There is Baxianzhuang in Changping, Beijing, and there is a "Wanrong Village" in Baxianzhuang. There are about 10,000 Wanrong "Beipiao" people living in it. They are all from the west of the county. Everyone ate and slept all day long, and played mahjong in addition to eating. They say they are doing business and other work, but there are not many business phone calls throughout the year, and they consume two to three thousand yuan a month. When asked why they didn't go home, they said it would be embarrassing to go back. Who in the village knows whether we can work or not? In 2013, you could still earn tens of thousands of yuan a year here, but after that, it was not as good as the previous year. But these people care about face and don’t want to stay in their hometown.

After decades of reform and opening up, a group of entrepreneurs have emerged in the west of the county. These people have developed rapidly, accumulated a certain amount of wealth, and have endless money to eat and spend. However, this is rare after all, and most people still rely on part-time jobs. A few years ago, people from the west of the county worked for waterproofing people and could earn several hundred yuan a day. They can earn and spend, they are lavish, they have advanced consumption concepts, and they don’t think it will be difficult to earn money in the future, so they have little accumulation. Now, his income has plummeted and he is in trouble. Moreover, I cannot change my concept of high consumption for a while, and I live under great pressure of blaming others all day long.

In the east of the county, the situation is different. The people from the east of the county who are accustomed to ordinary consumption and stick to the old rules have no huge differences between people and no big desires in their subconscious. In addition, they have a large land area and their income can basically guarantee their daily living expenses. They can still Live a peaceful life. However, some people from the eastern part of the county say that some of them are just lazy and do not want to make progress. They will only die of hunger if they are not fat and hungry, so they are just messing around.

How to integrate the thinking and styles of people from the west and east of the county is a question that many people have been thinking about. However, "A country is easy to change, but a person's nature is hard to change." This is probably something that everyone knows and no one wants to change. Moreover, they each think that their own traditional customs are good, and sometimes they even accuse each other and look down on each other, and they all hold on to this deep-rooted concept and do not change.

In addition to the west and east of the county, there are several towns and villages belonging to the south and north of the county. Gaocun, Jiacun, Nanzhang and Tonghua are located along National Highway 209. It is neither east nor west, but several towns in the south combine the styles of the east and west of the county, which are both hard-working and sophisticated. They became rich through scientific labor and lived a pretty good life.

Many customs in the three towns in the north are inherited from the styles of Hejin and Jishan. They have the genes of doing business, and people's brains are relatively smart.

Taking the west and east of the county as an example, everyone will have a better idea of ??the character of the people in each place: If you also get lost on the way, people from the east of the county will take the initiative to come forward when they see you. Actively give you guidance and even take you to the right place; people in the west of the county will not take the initiative to ask if you have any difficulties and need help when they see you wandering around. But if you ask for directions, he will enthusiastically point you in the direction. When asked about the same question, people in the northern part of the county cast doubtful and conjectural looks on you. They were more vigilant and seemed not to believe you.

? The nine sons of Longsheng are different. They are from the same county and "baked warmly" under the same sun. However, their ideas are very different. How can we learn from each other, complement each other's advantages, and develop in a balanced way? , where is *** Tengfei? Really capable and thoughtful people are looking forward to it.

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