Gender: Female
Birth Year: October 1964
Date of Sacrifice: September 16, 1987
Hometown: Qiqihaer, Heilongjiang Province
Family: Manchu
Family: Crane-taming family
The story of "The girl who tamed the cranes--Xu Xi Juan" in the primary school book "Blue Sky of the Motherland". Ethnicity: Manchu
Family: Crane-taming family
When she was 17 years old, she went with her father to work as a temporary laborer at the Zalong Nature Reserve in Qiqihar, where she was responsible for raising and taming cranes.In 1983, she was in charge of rearing fledgling cranes, and the fledglings had a survival rate of 100 percent. As a result, Zalong Nature Reserve's crane hatching, rearing and taming techniques became famous in China and abroad. International Crane Foundation President dawei.George, Archibald visited and said "OK". Xu Xiujuan was also the film and television industry, the press attention, public opinion called her "China's first crane girl".
Born in October 1964 in Qiqihar, Heilongjiang Province, Xu Xiujuan was born into a Manchu fisherman's family, a crane family. She grew up with a good family education. Her father was a crane conservation engineer at the Zalong Reserve, and her mother raised cranes at the Zalong Reserve for 10 years. Xu Xiujuan often helped her parents feed the cranes when she was a child, and she fell in love with the cranes by osmosis.
In 1981, because the local high school high school was closed, 17-year-old Xu Xiujuan to Zalong Nature Reserve and his father together to raise cranes, becoming China's first Xu Xiujuan sister a crane girl. She soon mastered a full set of techniques for raising, grazing, breeding, incubating, and brooding rare birds such as red-crowned cranes, white-pillowed cranes, and bad-feathered cranes, and the survival rate of the young cranes she raised reached 100 percent.
In March 1985, Xu Xiujuan went to the wildlife department of Northeast Forestry University for further study at her own expense. Although the school took into account her practical difficulties and reduced her tuition by half, she still could not afford to eat 60 cents a day, and relied on steamed buns and pickles to maintain her intense study every day. In the second semester, because she could not pay the tuition fee, life is difficult to sustain, she has been behind the back of teachers and classmates, several times to donate blood in exchange for some money to maintain their studies. Later, she decided to compress two years of study into one and a half years. After hard work, she was able to score "excellent" or above 85 in 10 out of 11 subjects in the final exam. During this time, she also taught herself English. The fact that she donated blood for money was discovered after her death in a few pages of her diary written in English.
In May 1986, Xu Xiujuan had just finished her advanced training from the Northeast Forestry University when she received an invitation from the Yancheng Nature Reserve to work in the Sheyang mudflats. Yancheng Nature Reserve and Zalong echo each other, one south and one north, and this is the main wintering ground of the red-crowned crane. If a non-migratory wild population of red-crowned cranes could be established in this place, it would be a major breakthrough, and perhaps a world-class scientific and technological subject. Xu Xiujuan, for the sake of her career, convinced her grandmother, parents and siblings to leave the Zalong Reserve in Qiqihar, which she was familiar with, and traveled thousands of miles south to Sheyang. Here is the main wintering place of the red-crowned crane, there is a large area of mudflats and marshes, full of reeds, salt artemisia, a north to south of the Fudu River naturally separates the marshes and villages, and is rare, is very ideal for the red-crowned crane habitat. In Yancheng Reserve, Xu Xiujuan's talents were fully utilized. She used her theoretical knowledge to study crane breeding techniques. At the third meeting of China's Joint Crane Conservation Committee in 1986, Xu Xiujuan wrote a paper that was praised by experts.
Xu Xiu Juan went to the Yancheng Nature Reserve in Jiangsu Province, the wintering grounds of the red-crowned cranes, and took three crane eggs with her. This is a gift that Xiu Juan brought to the Yancheng Reserve, three crane eggs for her are three future cranes. A distance of 5,000 miles, Xu Xiujuan used a synthetic leather bag, a warm water bag, half a catty of cotton wool, a thermometer to take care of the three crane eggs. Eggs in the artificial leather bag, temperature, humidity, as long as the slightest change, the baby crane will not hatch out. If the train cuts off the boiling water, she will have to put the crane eggs against the flesh in her arms, because the human body temperature is exactly 37 degrees. In this way, all the way to the train and all the way to the car, the baby cranes finally broke out of their shells. The three cranes were called Longlong, Dandan and Shasha by Xiujuan.
No one knows what kind of care Xiu Juan gave to the three eggs; but people know that the cranes died in the state-of-the-art incubator imported from the United States.
After 83 days and nights of meticulous care, the three young cranes finally spread their wings and flew into the blue sky.
Xu Xiujuan loved these creatures so much that the cranes had become an inseparable part of her life.
The best building in the crane farm at that time was an abandoned post with two floors, each less than 6 square meters. There was no doubt that since this was a paradise for birds, it could not be a prosperous place for human beings to aspire to. Not to mention the scarcity of people, the sea breeze, the roar of the tide, the birds and animals is a necessary symphony.
The conditions were even worse than Xu Xiujuan had expected.
But Xiu Juan was not the least bit intimidated or deterred, and immediately got down to work. There was no advanced incubation equipment, so she built a kang workshop, and on that kang was the precious crane eggs that Xu Xiu Juan had carried from Zalong. She and her two assistants worked around the clock, fearing that the temperature would get out of control - no heat, no cold, these baby bumps are delicate!
Finally, one day, from inside one of the eggshells came a "duk" sound, which was so low, so low that it was lighter than the sound of a match falling to the ground; and this sound was so high-pitched that it could penetrate through the clouds and crack the silk, and went straight to the sky.
This sound is the marching song before the birth of a new life. This sound is a sign of a miracle to come: the successful hatching of the cranes in the low-latitude wintering area - a world-class problem!
Raising cranes is the most exhausting job in the reserve. Xu Xiujuan water, food, feeding cranes, cranes, cleaning the crane house, diagnosis and treatment of sick cranes, all do very well, she raised alone young crane survival rate of 100%. After domestication of the cranes can listen to people command dance, fly. State leaders came to visit the reserve and watched Xu Xiujuan's crane-taming performance, and Zalong Nature Reserve's crane-taming technology became famous all over the world.
In June 1987, Xu Xiujuan traveled from her home to Yancheng, accompanied by two swans from Inner Mongolia. She called them Dawn and Muren.
This year was disastrous for Xu Xiujuan, and people could not see the trauma in her heart. At the turn of spring and summer, following the death of the white-naped crane Pan Pan and the red-crowned crane Dandan, the Demoiselle cranes and young geese from the Hulunbeier grassland were infected with germs and died, or were stolen and eaten by other animals, Xu Xiu Juan felt pain, disappointment, but then also the pursuit of perfection more recklessly.
The white swan, Dawn, was sick again, with blood in her stool and dysentery.
The heat was intense, and there were many mosquitoes in the Yancheng mudflats, so Xu Xiu Juan carried Dawn back to her own dormitory, put down the mosquito netting on her bed, and gave Dawn medicine and a fan. Dysentery of Liming made Xu Xiu Juan's bed and dormitory stink everywhere. A girl who loves cleanliness and a girl who is not afraid to get dirty is so perfectly embodied in Xu Xiu Juan. How much difference there is between accompanying a bedridden patient and serving a dying white swan is something that only Xu Xiu Juan can tell. Xu Xiu Juan ate poorly, slept poorly, and guarded and observed Liming's condition day and night. Liming could not speak, but only looked at her with pained eyes, or occasionally moaned a few times, answering Xu Xiu Juan's anxious questions: Liming, are you feeling better? Lai Ming, I know you feel bad, sister feed you medicine ...... Suddenly, Xu Xiu Juan remembered the northeast of the treatment of dysentery a recipe, sugar boiled eggs. Dawn loved it, the blood in the stool stopped, and Dawn returned to the crane field.
Xu Xiu Juan accompanied Liming for exactly eight days and eight nights.
The white swan, Liming, was just getting better, but the cranes, Longlong, was in critical condition after eating a parasite. Xu Xiujuan hugged Longlong and cried bitterly. On the 20th, she wrote on the back of Longlong's photo:
The late Longlong can no longer get my love, and its death has turned my life around, and I've chosen a more rugged path, and perhaps the blood of my youth will be spilled on this path, and I'll spend my whole life struggling for it.
Unfortunes always follow. Of course, the so-called misfortune is only when you think misfortune is unfortunate, never is the heart of the misfortune, heavy love to get suffering, upright was broken. We have seen too many examples of people who were recognized after their deaths, but who were never able to achieve anything in their lives.
Next is September 15, when the white swans Makin and Dawn were lost. This day at noon two swans in the cage tweeting, Xu Xiujuan thought they wanted to come out to play and play in the water, they carried them into the pond. Unexpectedly, Muren and Liming were so excited to play that they broke the rope holding them and flew away. Xu Xiujuan rushed to go after them, the beach. Reeds, swamps, suddenly become so strange, so vast, so heartbreaking, until the evening, Mu Ren found back, Dawn is still missing. Late at night, Xu Xiujuan wait for everyone to rest and then alone into the reeds, calling for dawn. The next morning, Xu Xiu Juan went to look for, noon back to drink half a bowl of rice and then into the reeds, 5:00 p.m. back to the crane field has been exhausted. People have not yet sat still, Father Li far from a yell, said the west came from the swan's call, Xu Xiujuan and Wang, Xiaoduan rushed out the door together, to the Fudui River, Wang, Yin swam over, Xu Xiujuan shouted: "I can not!"
She retreated back to the shore to find a bicycle, along the embankment of the river around the northbound, want to meet with Xiaowang, Xiaoyin, I do not know whether it is the top wind pedal can not move the car or why, Xu Xiujuan and retreated back to the place where he had just gone into the water, put the bicycle down, and even the shoes, clothes did not take off into the Fudui River ......
She wanted to wade across this river.
She was going to wade across this river with no boat and no bridge.
Is this the only river she can ford to meet the swan?
Four hours later, Dawn found Xu Xiu Juan, and she was gone. On this night, the night of September 16, 1987, when all the lights in China's ordinary cities and villages were silent, the Yancheng beach and the reeds were full of "Juan Zi!" The cries of "Juan-zi" were heard.
Juanzi has gone ......
The passing years have traveled the road.
She also left behind some words as plain as water:
It is easiest to lose cranes in spring.
The crane house should be cleaned up
I am most afraid of gossip, I really want to become a mute, a blind man, a wooden man without blood or flesh. But, I love cranes, I love nature, and as soon as I walk into the wilderness, all unpleasant things are forgotten. I would like to search in the vast wilderness, looking for ideals, looking for friendship, looking for the answer to life.
It was so cold! Oh, it's snowing, flurries and flurries. The northeastern wind roared, at first small grains of rice-sized snow, hitting the face of raw pain, and then gentle flakes fell on the body and face. I rode my bike quickly, thinking about the difference between this snow and the snow in the north. The snow in the north is a sea of white snow, the snow here is snow in the air and becomes water when it falls to the ground.
The reeds sprouted in the first half of the month, and now the white weeds are sprouting.
The young cranes can fly far ......
On Sept. 18, white swans Dawn and Muren flew back, but they could no longer see their sister Xiu Juan, who had saved their lives; they saw more than 1,000 people gathered for a ceremony. Xu Xiujuan was only 23 years old when she died. That day, there was a total solar eclipse in the sky. Xu Xiujuan is the first martyr on the environmental protection front in China who died in the line of duty. She dedicated her 23 years of youth to the cause of raising cranes, which she loved and worked for all her life.
In order to commemorate this young angel of crane protection, Yancheng, Jiangsu Province and Zalong Nature Reserve in Qiqihar City have built memorial halls and monuments to publicize Xu Xiujuan's deeds, and to inspire people to love nature, protect wild animals and live in harmony with nature. In addition, the martyr Xu Xiujuan is also the prototype of the little girl who sacrificed herself to save the cranes in the song "A True Story". What's more, one of Xu Xiujuan's works - "Gray Starling" was also selected as a text in the second book of the fifth grade of the elementary school language of the Su Zu Zong version, and it is this text that makes more children know and understand this great big sister.