Section 37 Transcription of Notes on Going to the Countryside
I am very interested in these authentic "native texts". When I saw the activities of the Red and White Council, I remembered that this council was jointly promoted by the Catholic Church and the New Taoism in Lingao, and I was very impressed by this.
I was interested, so I asked about the work of this council.
Lao Huo said that the Red and White Council has indeed done a lot, especially the "Australian Etiquette" they have established in the village. Because the scene is grand and the cost is not much, it has become more and more popular among the villagers recently. Asked about the specific methods,
It turns out that the board of directors adopts a believer volunteer system. Catholics and New Taoist believers in each village have to volunteer when the villagers have weddings and funerals. As for the various ritual materials and props required, they are provided free of charge by the board of directors.
The ceremony's master of ceremonies and sutra chanting were also provided free of charge by the two religions, and were well received by the masses.
Turning to the records of the village team’s most recent democratic life meeting, on June 15 this year, the content township randomly organized villager representatives to conduct secret voting reviews of three village cadres, including the village chief and deputy village chief. Each of the three received 15 "work performance cards".
"Yes vote", which shows that the village team is trusted.
I flipped through a few more pages and saw that there was a page about the democratic life meeting in the village. In addition to the village leaders, there were also the leaders of the group A in the village. I noticed that there was a group leader named Guo Jin recorded in it.
Speech: "I have been frequently transferred from the township this year and rarely participate in village work, let alone take the lead or help the masses. I hope everyone can give me valuable opinions and help." Next, a person named Huo was recorded.
The female committee member of Shouying said: "As a female cadre, I am also the contact person of Director Du of the Social Investigation Department, and rarely participate in the work of the village. I only think that I can do a good job in the central tasks assigned directly by my superiors, especially Director Du.
I rarely interfere in the affairs of my own village, so I must work hard in the future." Needless to say. The straightforward words of the two grassroots cadres objectively reflect the current situation of some local rural cadres being used in many places.
I was a little surprised to see that there were women committee members in the village: I visited many villages, and except for some villages in the old Lingao District that had women committee members, most villages did not have women committee members. Tankou is neither a model village nor an old district village, so how could there be such a thing?
Is there such a job?
I asked Lao Huo to find out. It turns out that this village is a village where Du Wen, director of the Social Investigation Department, works directly. Therefore, the foot binding situation, beating and scolding of women, and female literacy situation in this village are better than those in surrounding villages. Especially foot binding, in society
After several campaigns to mobilize troops to "concentrate forces to fight a war of annihilation", they have completely disappeared.
It seems that our women's work also includes many tasks that are urgently needed to eliminate bad customs. It is not enough to engage in "three and one minor". For some key backward areas, we must cook more "stuffed rice" and make full use of the weapons of law and dictatorship.
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I asked to see this female committee member, and Lao Huo quickly called her over. It turned out that Huo Shouying was Lao Huo's distant niece. She was only in her early twenties but was already a widow - the evil Kong Youde mutiny.
She killed her relatives, and now she has no relatives around her.
But from her face, you can't see any decadent emotion. It can be seen that she is full of enthusiasm for the life and work here. I noticed that she had cut her hair short - you must know that although most rural women here no longer have
They wear their hair in an overly complicated bun, but few people cut their hair short.
"This way, you can spend a lot less time washing and combing your hair." Huo Shouying said, "The extra time can be used to study and work."
During the conversation, I learned that she was a female cadre specially selected for training by Du Wen. She was a student of the Ma Niao Nong Lecture Center. She had recently participated in a three-month "special training class for women cadres." After talking with her, I found that not only was she
He is good at speaking new words and has a strong grasp of the policies of the Senate. When it comes to the work in the village, he is very thorough and has the extra care of a woman.
Talking about women's work in the village, Huo Shouying said that after Chief Du brought people to "rectify" it several times, the habit of beating wives has been restrained. However, most villagers do not understand and disagree with this work, and most people think it is a dog-fighting
Rats are nosy, and many women have the same opinion.
"...Some women themselves are often beaten and scolded by their husbands, but they make sarcastic remarks about our work." Huo Shouying showed a helpless expression when describing it. "Some people even make jokes about me, saying that I can dance happily now, but I will be better in the future.
The in-laws also ask the man to press him on the kang and jerk off his buttocks..."
Although she spoke in a joking tone, it was clear that this female cadre was deeply troubled. It seems that changing customs in rural areas is not an easy matter.
Afterwards, we talked about other things. We talked about many livelihood issues that were mentioned repeatedly in every village I visited: bride price, broken shoes, bachelors raiding toilets... She also mentioned women's fertility, which was rarely mentioned by male cadres.
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"Everyone lives a stable life now, with food and clothing. Women are giving birth to many babies. Even women who are about to lose their monthly pregnancy are pregnant. The town has come to the village several times to promote 'delivery in the hospital' and "midwives must be certified to deliver babies."
"License", but there are only three licensed midwives in our town, and we can't cope with it at all. Besides, it's not easy to go to the county. Most women still have their babies at home, because it is very dangerous for women to give birth.
In the past few years, several women in this village have died due to childbirth, and some even died twice."
Having said this, the eyes of this female cadre turned red. I deeply feel that in the field of health care, we still have a lot of work to do.
During the conversation, I felt that this female cadre had a very serious attitude towards work and had the drive to get things done to the end.
Later, at my request, the accountant took out the village's land and household registration files. Not only did it have detailed land registration, but also a sketch map. The farmland in the village was very neat, which is a typical work of our surveyors. The accountant said: "
These cultivated lands were all measured by the 'chief's apprentice'. The area of each mu is exactly the same. There is no longer any difference between large and small acres."
Because the area of mu is exactly the same, we have to consider the issue of good land and bad land when allocating land. The general principle at that time was "determine the number based on the output." Generally speaking, those who get good land will get less, and those who get bad land will get more.
Consider that this can roughly equalize the total income of each household.
However, the accountant said that this would be very problematic in practice. Farmers assigned to bad land would have to invest more labor in production, which would in turn increase their burden.
“Without large livestock, it is difficult to plant 20 acres of good land, not to mention that some people have poor land allocation and have to plant 30 to 40 acres!” said the accountant. “Many people, in order to save trouble, plant sweet potatoes and grains that do not require much maintenance.
.Many people in the village have opinions about the quality of this land allocation. According to the habits of our hometown, good land, bad land, paddy fields and dry land are all different in size per acre, but it should be more fair."
Regarding this situation, I have heard the reactions of village cadres and villagers more than once. It seems that we still make too many "brain-based decisions" in our work and underestimate the complexity of the actual situation we face.
In addition to the issue of land allocation, the individual enthusiasm of farmers has not been fully mobilized. Many immigrants are not familiar with rice production, and Tiandihui does not organize the production of wheat, millet, and sorghum that they are familiar with, nor does it provide corresponding seeds and technical guidance.
Many farmers adopt extensive planting practices, resulting in very low yields.
The accountant said that the immigrants had strange things at the beginning: They had been cultivating the land all their lives, and now they wanted a few southern barbarians to be their masters and teach them how to farm. Now there are less strange things, but the villagers still want to grow wheat.
These vivid situations reminded me that the education of immigrants does not happen overnight. Rural work should be based on reality, and guidance should be classified and cannot be one-size-fits-all. Especially the fact that the actual area of each mu of land is not the same has made me realize the difficulties of rural areas.
The concept of numbers is quite flexible and can even be agreed upon by villagers. This does not conform to standardization, but it does have a certain rationality in rural areas. How to take into account rationality while adhering to standardization seems to be a subject that tests our ability to govern.
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Because no one had checked the household registration file for half a year, many pages were stuck together. I flipped through it, but I couldn’t see the flow of the rural population. Except for births and deaths, there had been no change since the village was founded. But when I asked about the details, I found that there were more than a dozen
The farmers have gone to Lingao and Qiongshan to recruit workers and no longer live in the village. Because there is no migration household registration, the household registration files cannot be reflected in a timely and accurate manner.
Next, I visited several families in the village. The first family was the village accountant. His family had 5 people, 3 girls. The eldest daughter and the second daughter were brought here by his wife when she remarried. Only the youngest daughter was born locally. In this way.
Reorganized families are common in various immigrant villages.
His family was allocated 30 acres of land, including paddy fields and dry land. The annual yield of sweet potatoes per mu is more than 500 kilograms, and the annual yield of rice is about 300 kilograms. With the allowance from being an accountant, it is considered good in the village. Therefore, the family has many daily necessities.
The proportion of fine grains in the food is also higher.
After leaving the accountant's house, I randomly visited three households of farmers. One of them was a middle-aged couple with two sons. The eldest son is 20 years old. He injured his shoulder while working in the Jiazi coal mine and returned home due to illness. Now he is working at home and farming.
Because he couldn't do heavy work, his income was greatly affected, and he couldn't marry a wife because he had no money. The younger son stayed at home at first. Last year, he went to Sanya to find a job, but he couldn't save much money. When he returned to the village before the Spring Festival, he entered the house empty-handed. The old couple now has the biggest problem
The hope is that the two sons can find wives - but because of the issue of betrothal gifts, there is little hope.
The situation of this family is a small microcosm of the countryside. I have also investigated some farmers in the past. Most of the unmarried young people who go out to work have little financial support for their parents. It is considered good if they can start a family and start a business. It goes without saying that farmers
The "account" for doubling income needs to be recalculated. We must not be blindly optimistic. We must take measures to increase income comprehensively through multiple channels. (To be continued.)