Land-lost farmers in Qindu District of Xianyang City learn to plant flowers and embark on the road of entrepreneurship and prosperity

"in fact, growing flowers is similar to growing vegetables. If you take care of them, fertilize them diligently, and give them sunshine and water as needed, you will certainly get a harvest with your heart." After setting up pots of green flowers, the villagers squatted or stood to listen to an "old man" teach the Classic of Flowers and plants. In the Chen Yang Street Office in Qindu District, a "grass-roots class" tailored for landless farmers is held once or twice a month, but it is not famous masters who come to the podium, but a group of grass-roots "famous mouths" that often meet the residents. They are all about family affairs, and most of them are life skills. Such an approachable lecture hall naturally attracts a large number of die-hard "fans."

Land-lost farmers take the stage to teach and pass on their life skills

"Master Zhao starts a flower-growing class, and everyone hurriedly goes to learn it!" in the early morning of October 29, a flower market in Chen Yangzhai Village was full of residents. Zhao Xiongwa, 45, is a famous flower lover in the village. he takes care of the hundreds of pots of flowers and plants placed in his family.

On the small and exquisite iron flower rack, lovers' tears and other hanging plants are green, crab claw orchids and longevity flowers are in full bloom; in large-scale potted plants, Phoenix tail bamboo and evergreen are tall and straight and beautiful, so that the hearts of the residents tickle, and they wish their homes are full of red flowers and leaves. "evergreen should be planted in moist but non-stagnant soil, and the planting environment should not be less than 5 degrees Celsius. Crab claw orchids should be watered less and should not be exposed to direct sunlight." Zhao Xiongwa is like a family treasure, encountered the key content also repeated once or twice, convenient for everyone to remember clearly.

The reporter saw that the newly built flower trading market has shops, warehouses, and thermal insulation greenhouses. These are the "achievements" of Zhao Xiongwa, who has been engaged in indoor flower management for eight years.

Zhao Xiongwa told the reporter that she used to be a villager of Chen Yangzhai Village. She used to make a living on her 2 mu of vegetable land. She went to pick vegetables at more than 4 o'clock every morning and rode a tricycle to the vegetable market at more than 6 o'clock every day. If the price sells well, she can earn about 200 yuan a day. When the price is not good, she can only earn about 50 yuan a day. He said that he used to sell vegetables all day long, getting up early and late, working very hard, and earning little money. He persisted for three years, especially in the third year, and lost all the profits of the previous two years because of the bad market in vegetable trading.

Growing flowers and starting a business drives more people to start a business.

In 2004, cultivated land was requisitioned. Considering that I usually like to grow flowers, I can grow flowers to achieve the purpose of starting a business. Since then, Zhao Xiongwa bought several books on flower cultivation, studied while planting, rented an acre of land out of her own pocket, borrowed 35000 yuan in addition to her previous savings, and began to plant flowers. At that time, due to limited conditions, only a dozen kinds of 6000 boxes of flowers were planted, put the planted flowers on the car from morning to night, rode tricycles all over the streets and alleys and sold them loudly, through their own efforts. The net profit in the first year is about 30,000 yuan. "I was very happy at that time, and it was several times higher than farming." He said excitedly.

With the expansion of the scale of planting flowers. In 2007, Zhao Xiongwa spent money on renting 3 mu of land and opened a flower garden, which expanded from more than a dozen planting a few years ago to more than 30 now, totaling more than 10,000 pots of flowers. She also bought a computer to study, bringing in more than 30 fixed sources of tourists. "you don't have to run all over the street looking for customers anymore," he said. "it's much easier than before."

Talking about profits, he calculated an account for the reporter: "for example, the cost of a large pot of flowers is more than 100 yuan, and the profit of planting a pot of flowers is more than 30 yuan. When business is good, at least 80 pots can be sold a day, with a profit of more than 3000 yuan."

Zhao Xiongwa said that growing flowers and plants in winter is the hardest. It is necessary to constantly warm the flowers, check the thermometer 3-4 times every night, and eat and live in the flower shed all winter. After years of efforts, the farmers of martial arts, Xingping, Jingyang and Yongshou often come here for advice. At first, the purpose of raising flowers is to support their families. Up to now, it is necessary to consider bringing more people into employment. Now, his flower garden employs three workers, all of whom are landless farmers in the village. The family conditions are difficult, and his greatest wish is to let them support their families and let more workers learn real skills. Later, they can have the opportunity to start a business.

The Historical Story of Chimonanthus and the praise Poems of the Literati of past dynasties

Wax plum blossoms in the depths of winter, with bright color, pure fragrance, refreshing and enduring. Therefore, since ancient times, there have been many moving stories and beautiful legends. According to legend, after Qin Shihuang unified the world, he built A Fang Palace and collected a wide range of beauties from all over the world. Her surname was Huang and her name was Mei'er. She fell in love with his cousin Yao before entering the palace and was robbed into the palace. Yao also became a palace bodyguard. Later, when Qin Shihuang discovered that the guards were driven out of the palace gate, Huangmei was given death and buried under the wax plum tree in front of the palace gate. A few years later, the guards followed Liu Bang's uprising, broke the capital of Qin, and went to A Fang Palace to find Huangmei. When it was December, the wax plum blossom in the burial place of Huangmei suddenly blossomed into golden yellow flowers. The guard was in a trance immediately, and the sword was broken from the tree, calling loudly to Huang Meier, Huang Mei er. " He picked up the wax plum tree and ran away. Later, the earliest wax plum blossom in winter was called Huangmei.

It is said that the imperial gardens of the kings of Henan Province in ancient times were full of strange flowers and plants. In the cold winter month, the flowers withered, but the yellow plum was in full bloom in the snow, which won the love of the king, but there was no fragrance. It was ordered that if there was no fragrance of yellow plum the following year, all the gardeners would be executed. In the twinkling of an eye, when Huangmei was in bud, the gardeners were still at a loss. One dusk, a beggar was holding several smelly plums in his hand and muttered, "Don't laugh at my dirty body, the flowers in the imperial garden are not fragrant."... " He was forced to break into the imperial garden and was beaten by the guard. The gardeners came forward to stop him and each paid him to persuade him to leave quickly. Beggar said, "I have nothing to repay. A few plums are given to you. It has an inextricable bond with Huangmei in the garden." When the gardeners took the plum, a bad smell went straight to their noses and was about to throw it away when they suddenly felt that the money they had given came back to their respective pockets. Only then did they realize that Huazi was a living immortal to rescue them, and they attached the smelly plum to Huangmei. A few days later, Huangmei was in full bloom and the garden was full of fragrance. The king rewarded the gardener. Since then, Huangmei has become a fragrant flower, because it blossoms in the cold winter month, the flower color is like wax, it is called Chimonanthus.

In the Han Dynasty, Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty built Shanglin Garden and selected rare flowers and treasures into it. After the completion of Weiyang Palace, Chimonanthus was selected and implanted into the palace, and Zhao Feiyan was set up to build Zhaoyang Hall. Zhao Feiyan lives in it. She likes flowers, especially Chimonanthus. Emperor Cheng personally planted several plants of Chimonanthus in Zhaoyang Hall. That winter, wax plum was in full bloom, and Feiyan played day and night, forgetting to eat and sleep. In order to please Feiyan, Emperor Cheng chose several new wax plum blossoms and wore them on Fei Yan's forehead with a string of Zhu silk. Feiyan was so happy that she danced a song for Emperor Cheng to thank Shengen. After that, Emperor Cheng had to pick wax and plum blossom makeup for Feiyan every day. Since then, wax plum ornaments have become popular all over the world. "Ancient style * Mulan ci": "when the window is cloudy, the mirror is pasted yellow", which refers to the wax plum blossom. Chinese girls often have the habit of putting wax plum branches in front of their breasts or on their heads to welcome the spring. In Sichuan and other places, when people visit relatives and friends in the cold winter months or during the Spring Festival, they like to send a few wax plum blossoms to wish the host family prosperity and peace and happiness. Many people also offer wax plum blossoms as offerings to gods. The people of Zhong Yuan also have a special fondness for Wintersweet. People in Mianling County, Henan Province, as early as the Song Dynasty, have cultivated excellent wax plum varieties such as "vegetarian heart", "sandalwood" and "Xinkou". Up to now, most local florists call wax plum as a plum tree. In the manor of Liu Jing, Shang Shu of the Ministry of punishment in the Ming Dynasty, there was a wax plum forest of dozens of acres, which was named "Plum Blossom Village". When Su Dongpo, a great poet of the Song Dynasty, lived in Xuchang, he widely planted wax plum in front and behind the house on the bank of the small West Lake. the plaque of his room was also written as "Plum Blossom Hall". In his poem "waxingmei goes to Jingqu", there is a sentence of "Tianjingdian crisp making plum blossom". Lotus pictures

Wax plum has always been chanted by Mohist poets and loved by the broad masses. Song Dynasty Huang Tingjian praised Chimonanthus: "Jinbei lock spring cold, annoying fragrance not yet unfolded." Although there is no peach and beauty, the flavor is not shallow. " Song Dynasty Lu you's poem "Xun Xiucai sent Wax Plum": "with the same spectrum as Mei, it seems more strange for me to judge the fragrance." Heavy drinking will be sentenced to a thousand days of drunkenness, Qing madness suddenly reduced ten years of decline. Sex suspicion at the beginning of cutting bee spleen honey, the shadow wants to bully the knee branch. It is not said to insert into the treasure pot, and the golden house will be stored in an elegant manner. " Xie Xiangshi, a poet of the Southern Song Dynasty, said: "Lengyan fragrance is known by snow, who wears wax in the rain." If the honey house is done, it will be colorful, leaving it so cold that the bee will not return. " These three poems show the characteristics of wax plum, the fragrance of wax plum, the character that is not afraid of the cold, and the crystal and lovely shape of the flowers covered with wax clothes. Wang Shipeng wrote in the upper story of the word "vermilion lips a strange fragrant plum": "Wintermeizi, the natural fragrance is not vulgar at the beginning. Butterfly racing bees after another, honey in the tip ripe. " Write out the flower posture, charm and mellow of Wintersweet, which is very moving.