【Bright Praise of Moral Model】
Yumai Township is an inconspicuous border township on the thousands-kilometer-long border in the southwest of the motherland, and it is difficult to find it even on a map.
Since the 1960s, the father Sanjay Choba and his two daughters Zhuoga and Yangzong, with only a family of three left in the township, have not been afraid of difficulties and have adhered to the firmness of "home is jade and wheat, and the country is China". Faith, for more than half a century, guarded thousands of square kilometers of the country by grazing and patrolling the border, and planted the national flag on every border patrol road that he walked, composing the hymn of the era of patriotism and guarding the border.
In the 1980s and 1990s, according to media reports, the deeds of Yumai's "Three Township" grazing and guarding the border spread all over the country.
On October 28, 2017, General Secretary Xi Jinping stated in his reply to the Zhuoga and Yangzong sisters that he hoped they would "continue to inherit the spirit of patriotism and guarding the border, and drive more herdsmen to take root in the snowy borders like Gesang flowers. Be the guardian of the sacred land and the builder of a happy home."
This is exactly the wish and pursuit of the 7th National Moral Model Zhuoga and the Yangzong sisters' family for decades.
"To protect your home is to protect your country"
Right now, the warm and humid air of the Indian Ocean is heading north, the valleys are covered by clouds and fog, the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant, and it is the best season of the year.
In the past, when going from Yumai Township to the county seat, you had to climb three mountains with an altitude of more than 4,700 meters.
Today, there are three highways from Longzi County, Jiacha County and Lang County to Yumai, such as the open arms that hold Yumai tightly into the arms of the motherland.
The reporter drove over the mountains and mountains from the adjacent Jiacha County, and the Panshan Road turned a few turns.
Overlooking the whole town, the roads are clean and tidy, the newly built Tibetan-style dwellings are scattered, and several construction sites are under intense construction, a thriving atmosphere.
At the foot of the mountain, the eight big red characters of "Home is Yumai, Country is China" expresses the strong aspirations of the people of the township to the motherland.
Zhuoga, who just returned from milking the Nanshan Ranch, is preparing dinner for her family.
There are fresh beef, eggs, green peppers and Shanghai greens on the cutting board, as well as eggplants and tomatoes picked from their own vegetable gardens. The recipes are simple but rich.
"It's hard to imagine these days. Back then, we didn't even have enough tsampa!"
Affected by the monsoon of the Indian Ocean, the jade wheat has abundant rain, but the overly humid climate also makes this land unable to grow a single crop.
"The food that the family eats has to be transported by the livestock over the mountains, and it takes a whole day at the earliest." Going out from Yumai, it is necessary to climb over the Rila Mountain, which is more than 5,000 meters above sea level.
When winter comes, the only road for this jade and wheat to the outside world will be completely covered with snow.
In those years, the Zhuoga sisters would get up at four or five in the morning every day, patrolling the borders, grazing, milking, making ghee and milk dregs until very late.
In the summer, the sisters often spend a whole season at the grazing point to take care of the livestock.
This kind of life has been like a day for decades.
"Why don't you move out of Yumai and live in a better place?" Facing this question that has been asked countless times, Zhuo Ga said with a smile. She also asked the same question when she was a teenager, and it was her father who gave it to her. Answer.
Historically, Yumai had more than 20 households with more than 300 people at its peak.
With the peaceful liberation of Tibet and the implementation of democratic reforms, earth-shaking changes have taken place in various parts of the plateau.
In 1960, Yumai Township was established, and Zhuoga's father, Sangye Quba, served as the first township chief.
For a long time in the 20th century, in this remote mountain village with an area of more than 3,000 square kilometers, only Zhuoga, Yangzong and their father Sangye Chuba lived.
Facing Zhuoga's doubts, his father Sangye Quba said, "If we also move out, there will be no one to protect this land of the motherland!" For the first time, Zhuoga and Yangzong sisters have a "home" in their hearts. and the concept of "country".
His father's words became a firm reason for the father and daughter to grazing and patrolling the borders, guarding the family and protecting the country for decades.
Later, Zhuoga became the deputy mayor, and his younger sister Yangzong was the only villager.
Although there are few people, father Sanjie Quba always conveys the spirit of the meeting to the sisters as soon as he returns home, and tells them that although Yumai is remote, the government has never forgotten them.
Besides herding, the most important thing in a family's life is raising the flag.
In order for the sisters to enhance the concept of the motherland, Sanjay Choba insisted on raising the flag every day, and sewed four five-star red flags by hand for this purpose.
Under extremely difficult conditions, they guarded the frontier of the motherland day and night for more than half a century.
To this day, whenever the national flag is raised, Yang Zong's ear always echoes his father's firm and powerful words: "Every inch of land here is China's land, and each of us is the coordinate of the motherland."
Prospering borders and enriching people, Yumai ushered in the spring of development
In 1988, Zhuoga took over the post of the mayor of Yumai Township from his father's shoulders, and he has been working for more than 20 years.
During this period, Yumai has undergone earth-shaking changes.
In 1996, two families moved back from Zari Township to Yumai. Longzi County sent two cadres here for the first time, and Yumai said goodbye to the "Three Township" completely.
This year, Yumai Township established a township party branch.
The rhododendrons in the mountains withered and bloomed again, and the bamboos grew again and again.
The persistence of Zhuoga and Yangzong's sisters' family finally ushered in the spring of Yumai's development.
In September 2001, Dad's biggest wish came true - the road to the outside of the mountain was repaired.
When the first car drove into Yumai, the old father presented Hada to this "iron yak".
This year, Sangye Chuba sat on the "Iron Yak" and went to Lhasa, where he was haunted by his dreams.
It was also in this year that he passed away with a passion for Yumai.
The road is open, and the Yumai people have more and more opportunities to get out of the mountains and increase their income and become rich. Every household is connected to the Internet. The villagers have set up family hotels and small shops, and connected to the national grid. Say goodbye to candle and oil lamp lighting, cultural and recreational activities have become colorful.
"All this stems from the party's good policy of prospering the borders and enriching the people." Zhuoga said that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Yumai Township has undergone gratifying changes. By 2016, the population of the township has increased to 9 households with 32 people.
On the occasion of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Zhuoga and his sister Yangzong wrote a letter to General Secretary Xi Jinping, reporting on the experience and experience of guarding the border for the country and the development and changes of their hometown, expressing that their fellow villagers will continue to stick to herding and guarding the border and repay the party. Grace's determination.
"After the general secretary replied, Yumai Township has undergone new changes!" Zhuoga said, as a sample of Tibet's acceleration of the construction of a well-off village on the border, the township has built roads of higher standards and built new houses with national characteristics. With the rapid development of tourism, the local handicrafts such as bamboo weaving and chicken blood rattan bracelets are in short supply in the market... Today's jade wheat, the five-star red flag is hung high in every household, and everyone is the coordinate of the country.
From 1 household with 3 people to 67 households with 234 people today, in 2021, the per capita disposable income of Yumai Township will reach more than 50,000 yuan.
"The development and change of Yumai Township is the result of the care of the party and the government, and it is the epitome of the prosperity and strength of the motherland." Zhuoga said.
Decades of guarding the border and protecting the country have made Zhuoga and Yangzong sisters deeply realize that only if a country can have a family, without the tranquility of the border, there will be no peace of ten thousand families, let alone economic and social development.
"We must keep in mind the entrustment, and drive more herdsmen to take root in the snowy borders like Gesanghua, and protect the grass and trees of the motherland."
Follow the footsteps of the fathers, guard the borders of the motherland, every grass and every tree
Yangzong's son, Solang Thondup, still remembers that when he was very young, his grandfather Sangye Chopa hoped that he would join the army to protect his family and the country when he grew up.
Every time he went to the county, the gift his grandfather brought back to him was always a toy gun, and every time he went on patrol, he had to take him with him when he was young.
"Every patrol is very hard, but no matter what method I use, my grandfather will always pull me." Solang Thondup said that under the leadership of his grandfather, he has walked this patrol road countless times, and the road is full of thorns. He knew which sections of the road were prone to mudslides, and where flags and markings were hung.
In 2018, after graduating from university, Solang Thondup had the opportunity not to return to Dashan.
But when he thought of the sidewalks that his grandfather and mother took him along hand in hand, he still made up his mind and returned to Yumai.
It is also gratifying that Zhuoga's daughter, Pasang Zhuoga, also returned to her hometown to become a village professional after graduating from a college in the Mainland.
Inspired by the deeds of Zhuoga and Yangzong's family, more and more villagers from surrounding towns and towns have applied to move to Yumai to join the ranks of grazing and patrolling.
The 61-year-old Zhuoga and the 59-year-old Yangzong have had blurred vision in recent years, and their legs and feet are not very flexible. They can no longer walk on the sidewalk.
However, in order to make later generations remember the expectations and entrustment of the general secretary, the sisters continued to exert their residual heat, combined with their family's experience of patriotic guarding the border, and successively carried out more than 50 publicity activities.
Hu Xuemin, secretary of the Yumai Township Party Committee, told reporters that the Sangye Quba Memorial Hall has been built in the township, and the cadres and masses of the township have continued to carry out the "Revisiting the Sangye Quba Frontier Road" with Zhuoga and Yangzong's family as examples. The "Jade and Mai Spirit" of patriotism and border guarding has become a valuable spiritual wealth for the township to build a new socialist countryside.
"Home is Yumai, country is China", this sentence is rooted in the hearts of every Yumai children, and it also expresses Yumai people's love for their hometown and loyalty to the motherland.
Generations of Yumai people have not only guarded the frontier, but also explored new paths and established new industries.
The young Yumai people have inherited the spirit of their predecessors, and they have also shouldered the burden of building the frontier, and are builders of a happy life in the new era.
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A patriotic hymn of the times
In Yumai Township, Tibet, on the southwestern border of the motherland, Zhuoga and Yangzong's family, in their persistence for more than half a century, kept in mind that "the home is Yumai, the country is China", and for decades, they have been grazing and guarding the border despite difficulties. Like the Gesang flower, it takes root in the borders of the motherland.
They used youth and blood to protect the safety of the motherland and their homeland, and composed a hymn of the era of patriotism and border protection.
They are excellent representatives of the guardians of the sacred land and the builders of happy homes.
As General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out in his important reply to the Zhuoga and Yangzong sisters, "On the border plateau, which is more than 3,600 meters above sea level and snows cover the mountains every year for more than half a year, your father and daughter have been silently guarding the mountains for decades. It is admirable to hold the territory of the motherland.”
Ordinary years condense extraordinary spirit.
The "Jade Spirit" condensed by the patriotic deeds of Zhuoga and Yangzong's family guarding the border is a model of patriotism in the new era.
Their touching deeds of taking root in the snowy frontier and defending the country's borders fully demonstrate the political character of the Communist Party members' loyalty and responsibility, vigorously promote the spirit of patriotism and dedication, and vividly interpret the core socialist values.
In them, they embody the noble character of hard work, courage to take responsibility, and selfless dedication.
The power of example is infinite.
Seeing the virtuous and thinking together is the most powerful response to an example.
We have seen that more and more young people, inspired by the insistence of Zhuoga and Yangzong's family that "the family is jade and the country is China", inherit and carry forward the glorious tradition of patriotism and border guarding, and are willing to be like the tenacious and tenacious Gesang Rooted in the borders of the motherland like flowers, striving to be the guardian of the sacred land and the builder of a happy homeland, and continue to write the song of youth of patriotism and border protection in the new era with practical actions.
(Reporter Gama Duoji Du Qian)