On the occasion of the "May Fourth" Youth Day, the Beijing News, together with Tencent News and Kuaishou, launched the planning report "Bai Gong Four Seasons Illustrated Book", showing the grace of young craftsmen. The report shows one of the most unique and exciting careers. Shooting the aurora in the Arctic at minus 30 degrees Celsius, finding cordyceps on the snowy mountain at an altitude of 4700 meters, and de-icing the ropeway at a height of thousands of meters ... We used text and video to record the most amazing moments and the most moving stories of these workers. There are occupations you have n’t heard of, wonders you ’ve never seen, and life styles you ’ve never tasted.
"Blowfish Bodyguard":
Father let me see finless porpoise and I will let children see
He Dongshun China Green Hair Association East Dongting Lake finless porpoise protector
He Dongshun (first right) and his colleagues supervised ship pollution in the waters of Dongting Bridge.
He Dongshun grew up next to Dongting Lake. After graduating from college, he chose to go home and became a patrolman at the Dongting Lake finless porpoise reserve of the Chinese Green Hair Association. "Maybe it was influenced by my father. My father protected the finless porpoise." The three generations of He Dongshun's family originally lived on fishing until his father's generation, because of an encounter with the finless porpoise after an encounter, after changing Life trajectory.
"One day he went fishing and found that the net caught a little finless porpoise. The female porpoise had been arching under the back of the finless porpoise and arched it to the surface, because the finless porpoise is a mammal and needs to surface to breathe. At that time, my father felt that maternal love was very great. "That is from that moment on, He Dongshun's father and finless porpoise were inextricably linked. After that, he began to protect the finless porpoise, and he gradually called on the surrounding fishermen to protect, and the gang of fish hunters became guardians.
The "Porpoise Bodyguard" has to work on the water for 360 days a year. The spring and winter seasons are their busiest. Spring from March to May is the season for finless porpoise breeding and migration. October to January of the following year is the season for the retreat of Dongting Lake. During this period, the finless porpoise needs to be protected most. Dongting Lake is on duty. They patrolled the lake in the summer and were peeled off in the sun, and the cold wind in winter seemed to be carved into their bones. "But there is no escape route."
The most sad thing for me is that I still smile when I see the finless porpoise die. If our young people do not protect the finless porpoise, no one will protect it. My meaning is not to let the finless porpoise go extinct. My father let me see the finless porpoise and I will let my children see it.
"Chongcao Xishi":
Established a cooperative to help local sales of Cordyceps matsutake
Villagers in Gongsha Village, Daocheng County, Ganzi Prefecture, Sichuan Province
Finding Cordyceps is very difficult. Drum is very excited when he finds a Cordyceps.
The Tibetan girl Gerondrom, born in 1997, is already the mother of two children. Every May, she and her family must bring livestock, bring enough dry food, and move to a small house on Cordyceps Hill, so that they can save 3 hours of travel every day. Cordyceps can only be harvested for more than one month each year, which is their important source of income.
Cordyceps grows only on the highest mountain, and the place where Gorong Chom digs Cordyceps is about 4700 meters above sea level. Cordyceps grows insidiously, and it takes a lot of experience and some luck to discover. Drum said with a smile, since 4 years of marriage, her husband from Yunnan has been going up the mountain together every year. Even Drum himself can only find five or six at most. So every time he found a cordyceps, Drum was very excited.
After the Cordyceps season, the Matsutake season is followed, and Drum will go to Matsutake Mountain to find Matsutake in the forest. In Zhuom's hometown, many old Tibetans do not understand Chinese and cannot go out to work. They can only rely on picking cordyceps and matsutake for a living.
In 2017, Zhuom asked her father to shoot a video of picking Cordyceps for her, and Zhuom became popular and became a "Chongcao Xi Shi" with millions of fans. She set up a cooperative in her hometown to help local residents sell Cordyceps matsutake. The girl with only elementary school culture said that she hopes to promote her beautiful hometown through her own efforts so that her parents and fathers can live a better life.
Picking Cordyceps is the best thing for me. I also went out to work, and the outside life was very stressful. It was the happiest in my hometown, and I could n’t compare it anywhere. Now this is the life I want, I think this kind of life is called alive.
Coral growers:
Coral remnants planted back into the reef
Xia Jiaxiang Secretary General of "Sneak Love" of Shenzhen Coral Conservation Organization
Divers picked up and planted corals on the seabed.
Due to fishing boat trawling, garbage cover and other reasons, there are fewer and fewer corals. There is such a group of people who silently guard and rescue corals. Xia Jiaxiang, Secretary-General of the "Sneak Love" of Shenzhen Coral Conservation Organization, said that summer is the fastest time for corals to grow. They dived into the bottom of the sea, picked up the coral stumps that were broken by anchors, fishing nets, and fish hunters with fishing guns, fixed them to a suspended net, and isolated them from the sand, observing them for six months to a year , Choose to restore the coral remnant species back to the reef.
Xia Jiaxiang began to participate in the volunteer activities of "Qian Ai" in 2012. According to its introduction, subsea operations are sometimes dangerous, but they all feel well worth it. When working underwater, ships flew over their heads, and abandoned fishing nets floated. Once people were trapped by the fishing nets, and the oxygen in the gas cylinder was not enough, it would directly threaten their lives. Xia Jiaxiang said that sometimes the temperature is very low, and it will be trembling cold under water, and have to endure finishing things, "because someone always has to do things."
"Divers are born with a feeling for corals that no one else can understand. You will find it worthwhile to do this." Xia Jiaxiang expressed the hope that the whole society will realize the importance of corals to the entire ecology and the urgency of protecting corals. Many people can participate.
Coral is a very poor creature, it has been silently under the pressure of survival brought by human beings on the seabed. The coral doesn't make a sound, so we have to make a sound for it. The love for corals is born by divers, and every coral stump saved is their child.
Deicer:
Thousand-meter high-altitude ropeway de-icing was shocked by strong wind
Zhang Changheng Zhangjiajie Tianmenshan Ropeway Maintenance Officer
The ropeway maintenance personnel carry out the ropeway deicing operation at a height of 1,000 kilometers.
Every December, Zhangjiajie Tianmenshan ropeway wire ropes and communication cables are covered with snow and icy. Ropeway maintenance staff Zhang Changheng needs to carry out ropeway deicing operations at a height of thousands of kilometers. If the ice on the wire rope is too heavy, it will break the communication cable and affect the communication between the upper and lower stations, and the safety line of the ropeway support will not be guaranteed.
Ropeway maintenance crews carried out de-icing operations in groups of three, with the temperature of minus ten degrees in the air, the wind blowing like a knife on the face. Zhang Changheng said that the deicing pole is about six meters long and twenty-five-six pounds. Every time when deicing, a person hugs the bottom of the pole as a fulcrum. Another person throws the pole directly over it and smashes it back and forth It ’s harder when it ’s cold, so in a cold day, you will basically sweat a lot after breaking the ice. ”
From time to time, the deicing operation will encounter strong winds, and the swing of the cable car will increase. If the shaking is too strong, the ropeway support will be damaged. They sway left and right with the cable car in the air, all movements must be careful and careful, it can be described as step by step.
There are 57 supports on the Tianmen Mountain cableway. When de-icing, the maintenance personnel should pay attention to the operation of each bracket, "Look at whether the rim is broken or worn, and whether the wire rope is off track." A de-icing operation takes about an hour and a half, and works at least four times a day. Zhang Changheng said: "Everything is to ensure the normal operation of the ropeway. It is a great sense of accomplishment for tourists to sit on the safe ropeway and enjoy the snow scene."
Although deicing at high altitude is cold, tired, and dangerous, I am very satisfied to see the tourists safely riding on the ropeway. To ensure the normal operation of the ropeway, everything is worth it.
"Forest Guard":
Fire protection in summer and forest protection in winter
Han Bo, Deputy Chief of Forest Fire Brigade, Mohe City Fire Prevention Office, Heilongjiang Province
In the winter, forest firefighters will be ice pickers for about 20 days.
There is a forest fire brigade of about 300 people in Mohe, Heilongjiang. They usually guarantee the fire safety of Daxinganling forest. In late November of each year, after the snow covers the forest, they will be ice pickers for about 20 days. Han Bo, the deputy captain, introduced that this kind of life of "ice and fire" has been over ten years.
Shoveling the snow on the river, revealing a mirror-like ice surface, if the quality of the ice is good, they will start ice mining. They invented the ice mining equipment by themselves, cutting the whole ice into ice blocks weighing about 200 pounds, fishing them out of the river, freezing them for two hours to dry them, and transporting them away by truck. Be very careful when picking ice. If you accidentally crush the ice, the whole person will fall into the glacier. During the ice mining season, they are busy every day from 7 a.m. until the sun sets, and they can produce more than 2,000 pieces of ice a day. These ice cubes will be made into ice sculptures for local tourism.
When the first thunder sounded in June, they had to be nervous about the security of the forest. The climate here is dry, and if it does not rain, the forest will be prone to lightning strikes. It is difficult to find the location of the lightning strike. It is five or six kilometers as soon as you walk in. It is very difficult for them to walk in the lush forest with fire-fighting equipment. Han Bo proudly said that although there are many wildfires every year, but in the past few years their team has no casualties. "We have to learn how to protect ourselves every year."
I have been in this profession for more than 20 years. This job is very bitter and exhausting to tell the truth, but I feel very honored in my heart because our 300-person team protects 770,000 hectares of green forest. After each fire scene is over, in retrospect, I will also feel relieved.
"Light Hunter":
Shooting the aurora at minus 30 ℃ wants to bring a little light
Aso Astronomy Photographer
Aurora's works shot by An Jiu.
Shooting the aurora in the Arctic at minus 30 degrees Celsius, the limbs are almost frozen and frozen; staring at the roaring wild dog for a long time, thinking that he is about to face death; driving in the dark in the night when he encounters a snowstorm and gets lost ... These are encountered by astrophotographer An Ji Thrilling moments passed by.
An Jiu captured the fleeting sky like a hunter, and captured countless amazing lights and shadows. She used to be an ordinary employee of a consulting company, and lived 9 to 5 every day. By chance, three years ago, she participated in a friend ’s starry sky photography event, “I was shocked to breathe for the first time when I saw the Milky Way with my own eyes.” Since then, she has studied and photographed with teachers in the circle as soon as possible. Chase astronomy. As her work was slowly recognized, some magazine advertisements began to find her to cooperate. With these incomes, An Jiu began to concentrate on astrophotography.
Winter is the best season to photograph the aurora. She often goes to Iceland and other places to chase the gorgeous aurora wonders. She said that she was most impressed when she encountered a roaring wild dog while shooting in the Arctic at minus 30 degrees Celsius. She looked at her for a long time. "At that time, I felt like I was hanging up, but I was still watching the camera. From that moment on, I am convinced that this is what I love and am willing to do all things for. "
When I shared my work on the Internet, more and more people sent me messages. Some were cured by the starry sky like me. Some of them passed the confusion period. Some people regained their astronomical dreams. I think this is how life affects life. I want to convey some humane warmth through the works, which can bring even a little light to people.
Written by / Reporter from Beijing News Tian Haowen, Li Shuyi, Zhang Shuangying, Cao Yingru, Li Huishi, Wang Xingtong, Zhang Xi, Intern, Qian Jiaxin Photos / Photograph by Interviewee