[Forge ahead in a new journey and make contributions to a new era and a new look in the old district] Wenchang Overseas Chinese Village, Hainan: filial piety and virtue inherited for a century, the integration of agriculture and tourism is reborn
China News Service, Haikou, May 10th, topic: Hainan Wenchang Overseas Chinese Village: Filial Piety and Virtue Inheriting Centuries of Agriculture and Tourism Integration Revitalize
Reporter Zhang Qianyi
"Lianxin Road", "Qixinba", "Tuanjie Canal", "Tongxin Gate", "Aunt's Well"... In Maoyuan Village, Shuibei Village Committee, Gongpo Town, Wenchang City, Hainan's hometown of overseas Chinese, these infrastructures with special names are the The pride of the villagers by word of mouth.
In recent years, Maoyuan Village has integrated traditional culture and folk virtues to build a beautiful village with new vitality.
The picture shows the "Linking Heart Road" in Maoyuan Village.
Photo by Luo Yunfei
There are only more than 20 villagers in Maoyuan Village.
The reporter recently walked into Maoyuan Village, which is surrounded by trees and full of greenery.
For more than 100 years, Maoyuan Village has taken the ancestral motto of "a family in trouble, the whole village helps" and "relief in distress, everyone is responsible", forming the unity of brothers, harmony between aunts and sisters, mutual help, filial piety to the elderly and loving relatives, There are many stories of filial piety and virtue that the villagers are fond of talking about.
There is an ancient well in Maoyuan Village called "Auntie Well".
Photo by Luo Yunfei
"The culture of filial piety in Maoyuan Village has a long history." Lin Yun, deputy secretary of the Gongpo Town Party Committee, told reporters: During the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, a young man named Han Shengbi in Maoyuan Village was admitted to the martial arts exam.
Due to the serious illness of his mother at home, Han Shengbi chose to postpone his appointment to serve his mother.
His filial piety story spread all over the country, people often teach their children this story.
The appearance of Maoyuan Village.
Photo by Luo Yunfei
Maoyuan Village is an overseas Chinese village.
In the 1920s and 1930s, the people of Maoyuan Village returned the income from overseas struggles to their hometown.
They transported the timber, floor tiles, and cement used to build the houses back from the South Ocean ship by ship.
Today, the houses of Maoyuan villagers are lined up in rows, each with its own characteristics.
The "filial piety bridge" in Maoyuan Village was donated and built by Han Qiuhua, an overseas Chinese in Thailand, in 1997.
At that time, Han Qiuhua’s grandmother, Mrs. Fu, often returned to her parents’ home to take care of her parents who were sick. Because Mrs. Fu was not familiar with water, her son insisted on carrying his mother across the river every day, leaving behind a good story. Later, Han Qiuhua touched the scene and planned to build a stone bridge.
The appearance of Maoyuan Village.
Photo by Luo Yunfei
In recent years, overseas Chinese from Maoyuan Village have returned to their hometowns to invest and build their villages.
Together with the villagers, they donated more than 60,000 yuan to build a "Qixin Dam" to solve the villagers' production and living water problems; together they donated more than 160,000 yuan to the Shuibei Primary School Education Charity Association and more than 110,000 yuan to the Maoyuan Village Education Foundation Yuan.
The reporter visited the village and found that the gates of many villagers' houses were hung with plaques such as "Model Respect for the Elderly", "Home for Respect for the Elderly" and "filial piety".
Villager Han Xiuyuan is a "model of respect for the elderly" in the village.
According to reports, Han Xiuyuan is the eldest son in the family, and there are three younger brothers in the family, all of whom are married and have children.
Over the years, the four aunts and sisters have been in harmony, filial piety, and loving relatives. They have taken good care of their elderly mother for many years, and they have also taken good care of many bedridden elderly people in the village, which has become a good talk in the village.
Maoyuan Village's important platform for "cultural poverty alleviation" - "Xianxian Classroom".
Photo by Luo Yunfei
"Sincerity" culture is another characteristic of Maoyuan Village.
Han Hanquan, a 70-year-old villager, said that Maoyuan Village's main income comes from planting peppers and off-season vegetables every winter.
In good weather, the harvest is good, and the villagers' income is higher.
But if the weather is bad or market prices are low, the economy will decline.
Maoyuan Village has a good reputation. The villagers go to the rural credit cooperatives to take loans. After harvesting and selling peppers, they will repay the loan in time.
Therefore, in 2003, Maoyuan Village was rated as a "Credit Village" by Wenchang Rural Credit Cooperatives, and villagers could borrow without any guarantee procedures.
Han Hanquan said that Maoyuan Village has a fine tradition of solidarity and mutual assistance, and there is a WeChat mutual aid group in the village.
In 2014, the super typhoon "Ramazon" hit Maoyuan Village. After rebuilding the damaged houses, the villagers donated the remaining cement one after another. Everyone worked hard to build a 100-meter-long and 1.5-meter-wide "Lianxin Road". ".
On the gates of many villagers' residences, plaques such as "Model Respect for the Elderly", "Home for Respect for the Elderly", and "filial piety" are hung.
Photo by Luo Yunfei
There is an ancient well in the village called "Auntie Well".
"The story of this well is that there are two aunts and sisters who all get up early in the morning to fetch water for a lonely old man, and try to take care of the lonely old man first." Han Hanquan said.
"The villagers are like a family. Big things are discussed by everyone, and trivial matters are laughed off." said Pan Juxian, deputy leader of the villagers group. "The older generation has set a good example and played a very good educational role for future generations. Generation after generation, continue to pass on.”
The picture shows the "Unity Canal" in Maoyuan Village.
Photo by Luo Yunfei
Today, Maoyuan Village has become a pilot village for spiritual civilization construction in Hainan Province, a three-coconut-level beautiful village in Hainan Province, and an excellent traditional Chinese culture education base in Gongpo Town, Wenchang City.
At present, this small village is planning the integrated development of agriculture and tourism.
Lin Yun said that a comprehensive professional cooperative for planting and breeding has been established in the village to develop pasture and rice, cattle and Wenchang chicken and other planting and breeding industries, and explore a new way of industrial enrichment and rural revitalization.
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