Feelings and Responsibilities of "Thumb-writers"-Interview Notes of Ma Huijuan, Deputy of the National People's Congress
Xinhua News Agency, Yinchuan, May 7 Question: Feelings and Responsibilities of "Thumb Writers"-Interview with Ma Huijuan, NPC Delegate
Xinhua News Agency reporters Xie Jianwen, Jin He
When she first met Ma Huijuan, the deputy of the National People's Congress, she wore plain, her eyes behind black-rimmed glasses shone with wisdom, and the "scent of books" revealed in the conversation left a deep impression on the reporter.
Ma Huijuan, 40, is from Yuchi Village, Hongsibao Town, Hongsibao District, Wuzhong City, Ningxia. He is known as "the Thumb Writer". Although she had only a junior high school education, she broke 13 mobile phones in ten years, tapped millions of words on her mobile phone with her thumb, and officially published five books, just to record the sweet and bitterness of rural women and farmers on the yellow soil. Struggle story.
In Ma Huijuan's new book "Out of the Black Eye Bay", she wrote about more than ten small people from their hometowns to their housewarming surprises, to the tortuous life of getting rid of poverty and getting rich, and also wrote about their honesty, perseverance, and fate. The spirit of resistance.
Heiyanwan Village is Ma Huijuan's hometown, located in the Xihaigu area of Ningxia, which used to be a bitter world. In 2001, she and her family moved to Hongsibao District, where more than 200,000 immigrants have been accepted. Ma Huijuan told reporters that farming, raising cattle and sheep, Gu's family, and working are almost all the lives of women in immigrant villages, but her life cannot be without books and mobile phones.
"The text is to me, to my life, it is a beam of light that illuminates the heart, and the mobile phone opens a window for me to know the world." She said.
Ma Huijuan has listened to rural women's daily life since she was a child. She understands their sufferings and sufferings, endures and periods, and recording their tenacity and strength seems to have become her mission. "I don't want people to think of Xihaigu as soon as they mention Xihaigu. With the support of the national poverty alleviation policy, Xihaigu has undergone tremendous changes." Ma Huijuan said.
The book changed Ma Huijuan's fate. In 2018, Ma Huijuan was successively elected as the head of Hongsibao Town Cultural Station and a representative of the National People's Congress. Ma Huijuan hopes to bring her luck with the book to more people. She set up a "clay book fragrance reading club" in the village, hoping that more rural women will live better by learning knowledge.
Rural culture needs continuous improvement to keep up with the pace of rural revitalization. Whether it is to establish a book club, or to propose a “second literacy” for the phenomenon of “illiteracy in the Internet era” at the two sessions of the country in 2019 to help the revitalization of the village, or this year ’s plan to put forward suggestions on “improving and improving the rural cultural system”, rural cultural construction The focus of Ma Huijuan's attention and performance.
This year, she will enter the Great Hall of the People with new thinking. "Rural revitalization requires rural cultural revitalization. Farmers will use and use mobile phones to participate in and love rural cultural activities, and they need someone to guide them." Ma Huijuan said.