Dazhai Dazhai

? Dazhai. Dazhai "Learn from Dazhai in agriculture and Daqing in industry". In the 1960s, 1970s and even the 1980s, many buildings had such slogans on their exterior walls. At that time We are still in primary school and don’t understand what Dazhai is? What is Daqing?

Later, as I grew older and read more deeply, oh, these are two place names. Dazhai is located in the hinterland of Taihang Mountains, at the foot of Hutou Mountain. The average altitude here is 1,000 meters, the average temperature is 9.4 degrees, the frost-free period is 145 days, and the average rainfall is 550mm. Dazhai is an advanced example of self-reliance, hard work, and fighting to transform the land. In 1964, Chairman Mao Zedong issued a call for an agricultural competition to the whole country. Together with the spirit of self-reliance and hard work, it entered the stage of history. The hard work and entrepreneurial spirit of Dazhai people attracted the attention and recognition of people all over the world. So I wanted to know where the fascinating Dazhai, as well as the thunderous Chen Yonggui, Guo Fenglian, and Hutou Mountain are? What does it look like?

? I have been thinking about it for decades. Due to my busy work, I took the Tianli Expressway (Dongzong Expressway in Shanxi, from Tianzhen to Licheng) several times and passed through Xiyang County in Jinzhong, Shanxi. Due to time constraints and other reasons, I did not go to Chengdazhai. On September 3, 2021, my friend and I went to Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province to send our children to school on the way back. We finally made up our minds to go to this dreaming place. We drove from the Beijing-Kunming Expressway (Taijiu Expressway) to the Tianli Expressway. In a short time, we arrived at the border of Xiyang County and the purple tourist destination of Dazhai. The sign was very conspicuous on the highway. It was already past 4 pm when we turned into Xiyang County. We followed the navigation and drove southeast. After more than ten kilometers, we arrived at Dazhai Town. We just turned a corner. , we saw the bright red "Dazhai" characters standing high on the top of the village gate from a distance. At this time, we were extremely excited. Walking up the mountain, we first came to the Dazhai Strange Stone Museum. Here, there are many strange-shaped stones, such as limestone and granite. Due to the action of geology, they have all kinds of strange shapes. It is said that these stones Most of them were picked up from the mountains and fields. In addition, there are root carvings, and there is a huge pool outside the Strange Stone Museum. It is said that the villagers collectively built this pool to fight the drought. Walking up the mountain, you will reach the famous Hutou Mountain. There is an inscription by Comrade Ye Jianying here. Standing on Hutou Mountain, you can overlook the entire Dazhai. The brick cave dwellings in the distance are neatly arranged, which is also the most beautiful place in Dazhai. The typical symbol of the village is the lush trees on Hutou Mountain. Many comrades such as Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, Ye Jianying and other leaders of the party and the country have climbed Hutou Mountain and walked down the steps from the mountain to the famous Dazhai Museum. There is a stone statue of Comrade Chen Yonggui in the courtyard. In the Dazhai Museum, there are many items from the 1960s and 1970s on display, including physical farm tools, pictures, and video materials of leaders from various countries visiting, allowing us to reminisce about the past. century of hard work and self-reliance.

? Dazhai is no stranger to those born in the 1970s. It can be said that the 1960s and 1970s were the most popular years of Dazhai. Under the leadership of Comrade Chen Yonggui, Dazhai people made countless achievements in extremely difficult circumstances. He overcame natural disasters and renovated the terraced fields without requiring a penny of support from the state. Through several years of hard work, he created successive bumper harvests of food, provided for his own food and clothing, and also paid public grain to the state. The spirit of Dazhai is the collectivist spirit of "not afraid of difficulties, hard work, self-reliance and selfless dedication". In the 1980s and 1990s, with the deepening of reform and opening up, Dazhai gradually faded out of people's sight. He once sank and even disappeared, and people didn't want to talk about him. But in the new century, Dazhai people, under the leadership of branch secretary Guo Fenglian, embarked on a path of reform, opening up, entrepreneurship and innovation. In the 1960s and 1970s, Guo Fenglian, known as the "Iron Girl" and the hard-working Dazhai spirit, became famous throughout the country. After that, the fate of Guo Fenglian and Dazhai experienced ups and downs in history. With the development of the times, the living standards of Dazhai people and the appearance of the village continued to change. So what will remain unchanged? What remains unchanged is the spirit of hard work. The people of Dazhai now have a very beautiful environment for food, clothing, housing and transportation, and their lives are also very prosperous.

Guo Fenglian has been elected as a representative of the National People's Congress since she was 24 years old. Now, at the age of 74, she has been a representative of the sixth National People's Congress. She said that because she has been in the countryside, she will speak for farmers whenever there is an occasion. She founded a A series of factories, Dazhai Woolen Sweater Factory is famous far and wide. Especially in recent years, Dazhai's tourism industry is in the ascendant and has been identified as a national 4A tourist area.

? Today, under the new historical conditions of the new century, new era, we must learn from Dazhai’s spirit of self-reliance and hard work, and make it our spiritual weapon to pioneer, innovate, overcome difficulties and forge ahead, and never stop, strive and enterprising The internal motivation enables us to overcome obstacles and stride forward on the road of reform and development.

Saturday, March 26, 2022