China News Service, Chongqing, May 31st: The village song is loud and the Xiaoshan Village in Chongqing sings the "cultural chant" of rural revitalization
Author Liang Qinqing
"Yuchi Village is a good place, with green mountains, green water, clouds and seas, the wind blows the bamboo forest and the rice is fragrant, and the ecology is clean and a good place..."
On May 31, at the activity center of Yuchi Village, Dongquan Town, Banan District, Chongqing, the villagers sang the newly composed village song "Yuchi on the Cloud".
The song was composed collectively by Sun Heng, the initiator of the "Love Hometown Village Song Project", teachers and students from Southwest University and Chongqing Technology and Business University, and villagers in Yuchi Village. It borrowed from the local labor chants of quarrying stones. Villagers love it.
The "Love Hometown Village Song Project" was launched in 2018. Since its launch, Sun Heng and the Love Hometown team have successively visited Waipu Village, Chuxiong, Yunnan, Siping Village, Pingnan, Fujian, Dongsheng Village, Beibei, Chongqing, and Ulanjilin Village, Ordos, Inner Mongolia. Waiting for more than 20 villages to complete the collective creation of village songs.
Yuchi Village is located at the southernmost end of Dongquan Town. It is the teaching practice base of the Rural Revitalization Strategy Research Institute of Southwest University (China Rural Construction Institute).
"Fish ponds on the cloud, ecological harmony, idyllic songs, and a land of small beauty" is the positioning of the village for itself.
Just like the song "Watching the Sea of Clouds and Watching the Sunset" in the lyrics, there is a sea of clouds in the early morning, and sunset in the evening.
There is a saying in Yuchi Village that "the mountain is high and the soil is thin and the people are diligent".
This sentence alone has undergone many changes.
Feng Chengjun, an 80-year-old villager, said that "soil thin" was originally changed to "earth fat", but it was not pleasant to sing, so he changed it to "earth fertile". Many villagers did not understand the meaning of the word, and finally changed it to "earth" The word "fat", "is not only down-to-earth, but also the word 'di' contains the dual meanings of 'earth' and 'field'".
"The creation process of the village song is like an adventure, and all the lyrics are discussed by the villagers themselves." Sun Heng said that each participant can share his own story with the village, and each lyric is full of the villagers' memories of the village. , This common sincere emotion has shortened the distance between people.
"My dream is for everyone to sing." In his opinion, inviting villagers to compose village songs together not only condenses the hearts of the villagers, but also establishes the villagers' recognition of their own value and the value of the village.
"The villagers are very motivated to participate in the creation of village songs." Yao Xiubing, a villager in Yuchi Village, said that the village songs made the original ecological scenery such as the sea of clouds and sunsets visible to the city, deepening the mutual understanding between the city and the countryside, and at the same time driving the village's The ecological products go out to promote the realization of the ecological value that has not been fully exploited, so that the villagers can make a fortune.
"Music stimulates the endogenous power of rural revitalization." Sun Heng believes that music is an expression that cannot be expressed in language but directly touches people's hearts. Village songs can revive people's hearts.
He said: "As soon as you sing in the village, you will find that the old people have smiles on their faces, the children also have smiles, and there will be light in their eyes."
Wen Chengjun, Secretary of the Party Committee of Yuchi Village, Dongquan Town, said that the process of creating village songs united the hearts of the villagers, enabling each villager to enhance their sense of participation, identity, and belonging to the village, and to realize that everyone is a part of rural revitalization. The participants, builders, and promoters of the project cannot be bystanders.
In his view, the village song not only sings the voice of the villagers, but also sings the "cultural chant" of the revitalization of the countryside.
"Rural revitalization should be rural revitalization with villagers' main body and social participation." Professor Pan Jiaen, deputy dean of the Rural Revitalization Strategy Research Institute of Southwest University (China Rural Construction Institute), believes that the village song is a process of exploring the history and value of the village, and the villagers will grow up. , will be more concerned about the village.
The creation of village songs is participatory in co-creation, allowing villagers to speak freely. After the value of each person is discovered, the power of the collective is highlighted.
Only by giving full play to the autonomy, subjectivity and participation of the villagers, can the village song come alive and lively.
"To govern a village, one must govern the heart first," said Fu Haihong, an associate professor at the School of Law and Sociology, Chongqing Technology and Business University. Yuchi Village is a very common village in China. There are thousands of such villages in China. The village is rejuvenated, and Yuchi Village's "Village Song Governing Village" provides a model.
She believes that increasing income is no longer the main problem of rural development in China, but how to improve the happiness of villagers.
Singing is a very effective way to unite people's hearts, and the threshold is very low, which can quickly mobilize the enthusiasm of the villagers, which shows the rich history and strong nostalgia. "The village song has truly achieved the effective connection between rural revitalization and cultural revitalization. ".
In the "Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Doing a Good Job in Promoting the Key Work of Rural Revitalization in 2022" issued on February 22, 2022, it is mentioned that the integration of cultural and people-benefiting activities resources will support farmers to organize their own village songs, "village evenings", Cultural and sports activities such as square dances and fun games that reflect the taste of farming and farming.
"The country has sent a message that it attaches great importance to the spiritual and cultural life of the villagers at the lowest level." Sun Heng said, this gave him great encouragement and confidence. He plans to complete at least 100 villages in the next two to three years. Village songs, so that each village can sing their own songs, and promote the revitalization of rural culture in this way.
Today's Yuchi Village, the village song is loud and the people's hearts gather.
"The mountain road bends and moves forward, yo wah lihe, my hometown of ecological fish pond, yo wah lihe..." Accompanied by the sound of Sun Heng's guitar, the melodious singing sounded again in Yuchi Village.
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