One year into reconstruction, Mianwu amphibious students return home to study in the fall
◎Background
When Chen Renfu and others arrived in Mianwu amphibious, they found that all of Mianwu amphibious' infrastructure, such as water, electricity, and roads, as well as public ****ing facilities, such as schools and health centers, had been destroyed after the earthquake. "(Reconstruction) prioritizes survival issues and focuses on building livelihood infrastructure projects that concern the people." To this end, the reconstruction team took the lead in constructing projects such as the Mian amphibious elementary school, the Mian amphibious central health center, and 32 roads through villages.
On the side of the former Mianwu amphibious secondary school, two rows of boarding house door written: "Zhuhai counterpart aid construction Mianwu amphibious work group" (hereinafter referred to as the aid group), 45 staff from Zhuhai are busy, they are wearing dark blue overalls printed on the back of the "Zhuhai aid construction The 45 staff members from Zhuhai are busy, wearing dark blue overalls with "Zhuhai Construction Support" printed on the back. Here is the work and living place of the reconstruction support group. on August 9, 2008, Chen Renfu, Huang Yadong and Li Xupeng took the lead in arriving at Mianwu, and formally opened the curtain of Zhuhai's reconstruction support work. Chen Renfu, assistant to the mayor of Zhuhai and leader of the reconstruction support team, was appointed as deputy secretary of Mianwu amphibious township committee.
Chen Renfu arrived in Mianwi, where water, electricity, roads and other infrastructure and schools, health centers and other public **** facilities have all been destroyed, the vast majority of houses collapsed or seriously damaged. Many villages do not have access to vehicles or water, and landslides caused by aftershocks and mudslides often block the roads. On August 21 last year, the reconstruction team to rush to Chengdu to participate in the provincial working group meeting, but that day, after the heavy rain caused by landslides, such as the north and south of Mianwu amphibious road are blocked. The aid team had to "wait for several hours until a landslide in the north was cleared, and only then did they venture across the road to Jiuzhai Huanglong Airport to catch a flight to Chengdu".
How can Mianwu recover in the shortest possible time from such a heavy disaster? This problem is in front of the aid team and Mianwu amphibious town government.
"Prioritize the survival issue, focus on the construction of livelihood infrastructure projects concerning the people." Chen Renfu said, "On this basis, moderate balance of development." To this end, the aid group took the lead in building the Mian amphibious elementary school, Mian amphibious central health center, 32 roads through the village and other projects.
January 19, 2009, Mian amphibious elementary school has become the first project of the aid construction. This new elementary school, which is a full-day boarding elementary school with a capacity of 900 students, applies the style of combining western Sichuan architecture and Qiang-style architecture, including a special teaching building, an ordinary teaching building, a student dormitory and a kindergarten.
"You rode for more than 10 hours the day before yesterday (April 27, 2009) to get here from Chengdu, and you should be able to appreciate the difficulties caused by the inconvenience of transportation after the earthquake, especially the reserve of building materials, which took us a lot of effort." Aid group staff to the Southern Metropolis Daily reporter introduced, in overcoming the outside world transportation inconvenience brought about by the shortage of building materials, land acquisition and relocation and other difficulties, the general teaching building and other all building units in May 11 all roof, is expected to July 20 this year can be delivered to the use of the day.
This fall, in Guang'an, the amphibious elementary school students, will be able to return home. Mianwu amphibious sky, will once again resound with the sound of reading. In addition to the amphibious elementary school, one of the key construction projects in the amphibious central health center on March 22, 2009 also started. In addition, 32 village roads Phase I project, river embankment disaster restoration and reconstruction project, village drinking water and farmland irrigation restoration and reconstruction project, is expected to be delivered by the end of May this year. Mian amphibious town cultural activities center (including intangible culture training center), town municipal rehabilitation and reconstruction works, Mian amphibious town water purification plant, etc., is expected to be in early to mid-May this year construction bidding, the vast majority of the end of the year will be delivered.
Chen Renfu said, "When the livelihood infrastructure projects are completed, the basic living and production facilities in Mianwang town will return to the pre-earthquake track." He also revealed that at present, Zhuhai and Mianwu amphibious town agreed on post-disaster reconstruction aid projects with a total investment of about 300 million yuan.
Build-up ideas Developing and protecting cultural and historical resources
◎Background
The characteristic culture of the Qiang ethnic group is also a key concern for the aid group. "We can't ignore Qiang Feng Village, which is known as the 'First Village of Western Qiang' and was awarded the title of 'Hometown of Qiang Embroidery in China', and in 1997, Fei Lao (scholar Fei Xiaotong) even wrote an inscription for it. " Chen Renfu said. These ideas and concepts, all one by one into the amphibious recovery and reconstruction planning.
Before the earthquake, the net income per capita of farmers in Mianwu amphibious is 2,864 yuan, agriculture, the main production of corn and cherries, etc., industry, mainly for small hydropower, quarrying and stone processing. After an earthquake, Mian amphibious disaster arable land area reached 13,469 acres, lost 5570 acres of arable land, this is not a system of industry, but also hit hard. "There is no other way to find money (Sichuan dialect, meaning earn money), only out of the motorcycle." In Wenchuan County, driving a motorcycle Lao Guo said. In Wenchuan County, from Mianwu motorcycle master, and many.
"The people later rely on what to eat, this is the local government and we must consider." Chen Renfu said, "The development after the reconstruction of Mianwu amphibious is not only a political requirement, but also a requirement of conscience." And all of this will probably rely on the development and utilization of tourism in Mianwu Amphibious, "Dayu culture, the gateway to the West Qiang, this is the most valuable development resources in Mianwu Amphibious." Chen Renfu said.
Pointing to the distant Shi Niu Mountain, Gao Dian village motorcycle master Lao Guo said, "Legend has it that Dayu was born in our Gao Dian village ...... over there on that mountain (Shi Niu Mountain) on the router ping, is the place where the legendary Dayu was born." According to legend, it was at Rou'erping on Shi Nu Mountain in Mianwu Amphibious that Dayu was born. According to Yu Zhi, "Yu was born in Shi Niu". History also records that there was a Yuwang Temple on Lu'erping, and Du Fu even wrote poems in the temple. On the old street of Mianfeng Village in today's township, the Yuwang Palace built in the Qing Dynasty is still standing despite being severely damaged.
These are all gems to be developed in the eyes of Chen Renfu and other aid workers.
In addition, the Qiang's distinctive culture is also a key concern for the aid team. "Can not ignore the Qiang Feng village, it is known as 'the first village of West Qiang', was awarded the title of 'China's Qiang embroidery township', in 1997, Fei Lao (scholar Fei Xiaotong) had also written an inscription for it. " Chen Renfu said.
These ideas and concepts have been incorporated one by one into Mianwu's recovery and reconstruction planning.
January 10, 2009, after many revisions, expert review and Mianwu amphibious township people's congress presidium to consider the adoption of Mianwu amphibious township earthquake restoration and reconstruction planning (2008-2011), was formally submitted to the Wenchuan county planning department.
In the specification of the plan, the township Mianfeng Village will be planned as the Mianwang Ancient and Modern Cultural Exhibition Area, including the ancient street, Yuwang Temple, Yuwang Square, etc.; the "first village of Western Qiang," Qiangfeng Village is planned as a Qiang style exhibition area, including the history of the Qiang people, culture, handicrafts, and Qiang architectural art.
This planning program, in March 2009, Wenchuan County held a post-disaster recovery and reconstruction planning and design program selection, won the master plan, urban design, individual design and new rural village planning four first. Aid group members, from the Zhuhai Municipal Planning and Design Institute of the blue sky in order to plan often "stay up late at night two or three o'clock", he said, "we really take Mian amphibious as their own home to rebuild. The culture here, the history here, including every old tree here, every boulder with history, we will take it into account in the planning."
Wu Kaiming, standing committee member and propaganda minister of Wenchuan County, commented, "The planning program of Zhuhai's reconstruction support working group integrates post-disaster reconstruction and the protection, inheritance and development of Qiang Yu culture, which is very good." In fact, the development of tourism in Mianwu is not only the expectation of the reconstruction support group and Mianwu town government, but also the expectation of Wenchuan county government.
In April this year, Wenchuan County issued the "Wenchuan County construction of Qiang Yu culture and ecological experience area of the implementation of the views" put forward, around the Dayu culture, Qiang embroidery townships and other four aspects of the development of cultural tourism industry. And the culture of Dayu and the countryside of Qiang embroidery are precisely the characteristics of Mianyu.
May 16 this year, Wenchuan County, the second session of the Qiang Cultural Festival, but also in Mianwu amphibious town of Sanguanmiao village held. Mianwu amphibious bearing expectations, extraordinary.
After the earthquake, the ancient "labyrinth" disappeared
Background
According to the mayor of Qiangfeng Village, Qiangfeng Village has a history of thousands of years. Since the 1990s, the development of tourism in Qiangfeng Village has been on the agenda, but not quite on track. Even before the earthquake, tourism brought Qiangfeng not much income. Hearing that Qiangfeng village is planned to become a Qiang flavor display area, and is likely to embark on the road of tourism development again in the future, the villagers have renewed their hope.
In early May 2009, almost a year after the earthquake, Qiang Feng village of the 60-year-old Zhou Pingkang stood in front of the ruins of his family's Nongjiajia Hotel, recalling the night of May 11 last year, tourists from Chengdu sat around a bonfire roasted mutton, Qiang song resounded over the village. Mianfeng village from the amphibious town town along the Minjiang River down about 2 kilometers, the roadside has a mountain road stretches up. Along this road, a Qiang-style buildings will be presented in front of the Zhou Pingkang is the "first village in the West Qiang" Qiang Feng village, Qiang Feng village is also known as "Qiang embroidery township.
Before the earthquake, a donkey friend who visited the village wrote, "Don't look at Qiangfeng Village, it's like a magnet, and every year there are no breaks in visitors. The donkey friend also wrote, "The secret of Qiangfeng Village that attracts tourists lies in the stones, costumes and dances here. Although the Qiang people do not have words, but those made of stone walls, stone houses, stone watchtowers and carrying the village of the rock, those bandanas, long skirts, Yunyun shoes and have a variety of patterns of jewelry, those ancient songs and ancient dance, is not a rich text?"
The scene of tourists getting lost in the walled village before the earthquake still lingers in Zhou Pingkang's mind, "Hello, how can I get out of here?" This is exactly the characteristics of the Qiangfeng village architecture, the families are connected together through alleyways which are built with high stone walls, and tourists are in the middle of it as if they are entering a maze. "Now you can't see the road that used to go around and around like that," said Gao Guoyou, head of Qiangfeng Village.
Passing villagers pointed to the highest building in the village --- Qiang Diaoyu told reporters: "This Qiang Diaoyu has more than 800 years, the original height of 28 meters, the earthquake collapsed more than 5 meters". This in the Songpan earthquake escaped the rescue of the Qiang watchtower, in last year's earthquake was severely damaged. In 1997, Fei Xiaotong in the Qiang watchtower on the title of the "first village of West Qiang" of the word, now only "Qiang" visible.
Gao Guoyou introduced the walled village *** more than 800 people, of which less than 30 people are not Qiang. During the earthquake, 11 people were killed and more than 95 percent of the houses in the village were severely damaged. He also introduced the ancient fortress of Qiang Feng village has a history of thousands of years, the village will be a lot of Qiang embroidery talent. Since the 1990s, tourism development in Qiangfeng Village has been on the agenda. However, due to various reasons, the tourism development of Qiangfeng Village was not fully on track. Even before the earthquake, tourism brought Qiangfeng not much income.
Hearing that Qiangfeng village has been planned to become a Qiang flavor display area, and is likely to embark on the road of tourism development again in the future, Zhou Pingkang is a bit excited, although he also understands that this is not something that can be realized in the blink of an eye.
Development of the ancient village to build their own housing and then rectify the appearance
◎Background
Chen Renfu and other members of the reconstruction team visited Qiangfeng village many times. In the process of reconstruction and development, how to ensure that the new houses built in the walled village not only maintain the traditional Qiang style, but also economical and practical, without adding burden to the villagers? How to retain the original flavor of Qiang culture? How to ensure a certain source of customers? The development and utilization of Qiang Feng Village is not easy.
"Now Qiang Feng village tourism development, once again on the important agenda. The village is being treated as the core village of Mianwu amphibious to focus on construction, the village road coming up from the bottom of the mountain, is now being widened. In this way, in the future, tourist buses will be able to enter the village directly," said Gao Guoyou, who is looking forward to the tourism development plan of Qiangfeng Village.
Zhou Pingkang is even more looking forward to an early resumption of tourism. He said, "If the tourism development plan of Qiangfeng Village is realized, I will have another whole farmhouse." In May 2006, Zhou and his wife, Wang Qingshu, opened Qiangfeng Village's first farmhouse, "Qingshu Qiangjia," and became one of the village's pioneers in relying on tourism to get rich.
"Although I've never studied, it was my wife and I who suggested the idea of opening a farmhouse. The village often has tourists who come from Chengdu to play (in Sichuan, meaning "play"), and they need to eat after playing in the village, so I thought there must be a market for it," said Zhou Pingkang, describing his idea of opening a farmhouse to make a fortune. During the day, "Qingshu Qiangjia" provides ordinary Sichuan cuisine, and at night, tourists can roast goats in the open air while listening to Qiang songs and enjoying potshuang dances performed by Qiang girls.
"A year's net income of more than 20,000", but after the earthquake, "Qingshu Qiang family" all collapsed, Zhou Pingkang said, "I really want to village as soon as possible to restore the original state or even more than before, so that not only me, the village of the I really want to restore the village as soon as possible or even more than before, so that not only me, but also all the people in the village can rely on tourism to get rich," he said.
Villager Wang Qibin is also thinking, if the village tourism can be developed, then you can make your house into a small hotel. After the earthquake, Wang Qibin work of small hydroelectric power station for some reason stopped production, he did not have a monthly income of more than 400 yuan, "Now, the family has more than 2 acres of land, mainly to grow corn to feed the pig, two pigs, then, a year can earn about 3000 yuan. There is also a part-time job, so you can find more money for the two children to study", "If there are many tourists to play in the village, then we can not go out to work, you can do some business at home".
However, the development and utilization of Qiangfeng village is not so easy. In the process of reconstruction and development, how to ensure that the new houses built in the village not only maintain the traditional Qiang style, but also economical and practical, without adding burden to the villagers? How to retain the original flavor of Qiang culture? How to ensure a certain source of customers? ......
Chen Renfu and other members of the aid group have visited Qiangfeng Village many times. Chen Renfu said that the most important thing in Qiangfeng Village is that the villagers should first build their own houses. On this basis, the villagers can be guided to carry out the style rectification and yard organization, in order to talk about tourism development. At present, the Guangdong Provincial Overseas Chinese Federation and Hong Kong Tsang's Charitable Foundation, will be taken out of funds to support the construction and development of Qiangfeng Village, "the premise is to respect the wishes of the people of Qiangfeng Village, to let them understand that everything we do is for their development. At the same time, it is also necessary to make the donors feel satisfied."
Inheritance difficulties
Shibi has been elderly, the successor is still no one
◎Background
Shibi is generally passed on to men, not women, pass inside, not outside, in order to be able to pass on the mantle, this condition has also been relaxed, but 76-year-old Shibi Wang Zhisheng is currently still no successor.
For the Qiangfeng village tourism development, Chen Renfu also have their own worries, "Qiangfeng village to the entire Mianwang, there is only one Shi than, if no one, how to do?"
He said the only release than, is Qiang Feng village 76-year-old Wang Zhisheng, and according to Qiang Feng village villagers, the 1950s, the village has four release than.
Shibi, known as the inheritor of Qiang culture, the encyclopedia of Qiang culture, similar to the Han culture, such as Duan Gong. The Qiang people do not have writing, and thousands of years of national memory, knowledge and history have been passed down orally through the generations of Shibi.
Wang Zhisheng learned the skills of Shibi from his father when he was 11 or 12 years old. Now, at the age of 76, he has no heirs. He is a bit helpless, "young people have gone out to work to earn money, now there is no one to learn. According to the traditional requirements, Shibi is generally passed on to men, not women, not passed on to the inside, but now the conditions have been relaxed. Originally, there were young people in the village who wanted to learn from Wang Zhisheng, but in the end there was no following. "I will teach him if someone learns." I'm almost 80 years old", Wang Zhisheng said.
Of course, the issue of Shibi's legacy has also received attention from Wenchuan County. On April 23 this year, Wenchuan County Standing Committee, Propaganda Minister Wu Kaiming also and the ancient Qiang culture research expert Zheng Zhencheng, went to Qiang Feng village research, on how to better protect the Qiang language, clothing, Shibi culture and other exchanges, and listened to the views of the villagers.
However, in the future, which Qiangfeng Village villagers will learn the skills of Shibi, become Shibi heirlooms, and the monkey skin cap, sheepskin drums and other Shibi practice with the instruments, for the time being, there is not a clear answer. "I still hope someone will come to learn," Wang Zhisheng said in a firm tone.
The same tone of firmness is also the head of the reconstruction team Chen Renfu, he said, the reconstruction team and Mianwu amphibious town government not only to protect the Qiangfeng village development, but also to achieve the revitalization of the whole Mianwu amphibious with the development of the "We hope to make the whole Mianwu amphibious as one of the tourist destinations," and even more so hope to make the Mianwu amphibious "to become a place to learn the spirit of Dayu and feel the culture of Qiangyu, so that the world can see the inheritance of Dayu's spirit here."
Mian amphibious geography
If there is no earthquake, the vast majority of the reconstruction team staff do not know Mian amphibious, not to mention the pronunciation and origin of the word "amphibious" (according to the Ming "Shuzhong Guangji" in the record: "Wenchuan County, Han's Mian amphibious county. The tiger has a horn said amphibious, walking in the water, the ground has this beast carry on"). Mian amphibious, Ming Xuande years to 1952 for the old county seat of wenchuan, 18 kilometers from today's wenchuan county, in jiuzhaigou - huanglong - chengdu tourism line of land must pass through the land, under the jurisdiction of qiang feng village was awarded the "qiang embroidery township of China". According to legend, it was in Mian Amphibious Amphibious Amphibious Shihnu Mountain Rouerping that Dayu was born. According to Yu Zhi, "Yu was born in Shi Niu". Qiangfeng Village is known as the "First Village of Western Qiang" and was awarded the title of "Hometown of Qiang Embroidery in China", and Fei Xiaotong wrote an inscription for it in 1997.
Mian amphibious economy
Before the earthquake, Mian amphibious farmers per capita net income of 2,864 yuan, agriculture, the main production of corn and cherries, etc., and industry, mainly for small hydroelectric power, quarrying and stone processing. After the earthquake, the disaster killed 164 people, missing 8 people, 2810 people injured, direct economic losses of 3.832 billion yuan. The affected area of arable land amounted to 13,469 acres, the loss of 5570 acres of arable land, the industry is not systematic, but also suffered a heavy blow.
Building aid
Zhuhai and Mianwu amphibious town agreed on post-disaster reconstruction aid projects with a total investment of about 300 million yuan, prioritizing the construction of infrastructure. In terms of long-term development, Zhuhai's reconstruction assistance working group proposed a program that integrates post-disaster reconstruction and the protection, inheritance and development of Qiangyu culture, which coincides with the expectations of the Wenchuan county government.
The story of the reconstruction support team
"The road to Sichuan is difficult" and the traffic jam lasted 17 hours
Chen Renfu, the head of the reconstruction support team, came back from a business trip to Chengdu at 21:00 on April 29, 2009, which is only 130 kilometers away from Mianwu. Chengdu is only 130 kilometers away from Mianwu, however, due to the traffic jam, it took nearly 13 hours. Not only him, the other staff of the reconstruction team, has long been accustomed to this kind of "being stuck in the road for a long time" life.
The longest record for the 130 kilometers was 17 hours. "No one has broken this record yet, but it's normal to walk for more than 10 hours," said a staff member of the reconstruction team with a smile.
Likewise, the 18-kilometer road from Mianwu to Wenchuan County, also from time to time traffic jams, and later, the aid group staff will be blocked out of the experience, "often bring some dry food, before going to the county to do business".
Cherry sweet thanks to the good people
"Cherry, cherry ......", April 28, 2009, Zhuhai aid Sichuan medical and health team members Zhu Keking and his companions, from the village of Sanguanmiao walking back to the township Mianfeng Village, was a woman in a Qiang costume stopped the villagers. female villager in Qiang costume stopped them. "Sorry, we don't buy, there are still places to stay," Zhu Keging and his companion said.
"It's me", the female villager pointed to the wound on her face, "you must take more, take more ......" Zhu Keging and his companions only then realized that it was a few days ago in the mountain side of labor When the falling rocks hit the female villagers of Sanguanmiao Village. On that day, they met her injury on the way to work, they rushed her to the hospital in Mianwu Town.
"The villagers here are too simple," Zhu Keging said.