Agriculture is big and strong, farmers learn from craftsmen

Original title: cultivate ingenuity first to do a good job in agriculture

Drawing: Liu Nien

The present situation of large but not strong agriculture and weak competitiveness in China is related to the attitude that some producers only pay attention to output rather than quality. To do a good job in agriculture, we should first cultivate ingenuity. In the final analysis, it is to rely on the seriousness of agriculture! During the 13th five-year Plan period, developing modern agriculture and improving agricultural competitiveness is a major issue of the times. Overcoming impetuosity, patience and concentration, and striving for excellence-the craftsman spirit advocated by Premier Li Keqiang is being transformed into the practical actions of some rural entrepreneurs, which is also the basic accomplishment necessary to promote the transformation and upgrading of agriculture. -- Editor

Gao Fenglan:

The exquisite Yanmen embroidered Niang

"on the one hand, rural women would rather take care of their parents than sewing in their spare time, and on the other hand, embroidery encounters no one's interest and there are no successors."

In 1999, Gao Fenglan, a woman in Daixian County, Shanxi Province, who retired to the village, came down around the village and could not find many embroidery workers. She became worried.

The reason why she is worried is that the ancient Yanmen Road in Daixian County is the "Ancient Tea-Horse Road" and the "Silk Road on Land" in history; "the nine fortresses in the world, headed by Yanmen". Yanmen pass is not only a place where soldiers of all dynasties must compete, but also a place where all ethnic civilizations blend. Embroidery in every household is one of Gao Fenglan's greatest nostalgia, and being able to embroider at the age of 9 has always been something she is proud of.

"you have to pick up this craftsmanship and pass it on." Gao Fenglan put on presbyopic glasses and picked up the needle and thread again.

With this pinch, there is an intangible cultural heritage called Yanxiu in Daixian County, and the half-free rural women add a way to get rich.

From learning to teaching

In the following six months, Gao Fenglan traveled from village to village in eight Pingchuan townships, including Ekou, Zaolin, Mills, and Xingao, and visited more than 20 female embroidery entertainers. He established a profound friendship with artists such as Jia Cuie of Ekou Town, Cao Cuiqing of Shangguan Town, and Wei Ye of Zaolin, and collected more than 1,000 samples, patterns and materials of living and deceased embroidery artists.

Gao Fenglan carefully summarized and studied the traditional drawing, color and techniques, and finally formed a local embroidery process map of 36 embroidery methods and 12 stitch methods.

In 2008, Gao Fenglan went to Suzhou to learn art for three months, combining Daixian traditional embroidery and Suzhou embroidery techniques, innovating and forming wild goose embroidery that embodies the embroidery methods of the north and the south. She also became the inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage of this craft and was rated as a master of embroidery cloth by the National Arts and Crafts Association.

After Gao Fenglan became famous, she began to set up free training courses, setting up a platform for popularizing embroidery art and women's self-reliance in entrepreneurship, and encouraging rural women to put aside their parents' affairs, leave the mahjong table and pick up needlework to learn embroidery.

From a cabin of several square meters to a classroom of several hundred square meters, from 3 to 300 people, more and more people joined her embroidery team. Over the past decade, Gao Fenglan has trained more than 5000 people in embroidery and trained more than 40 mature embroidery women, each of whom can earn more than 20,000 yuan a year, and some of them have become famous embroidery teachers and have been invited to teach.

As a result, wild goose embroidery has become a new business card of Daixian County.

From entrepreneurship to industry

Li Fentuan, 55, is an ordinary farmer in Shilipu Village, Mofang Township, Daixian County. Before, more than 10 mu of river beach land was planted in the village, with an income of several thousand yuan a year.

In 2002, in order to let the children go to school, Li Fentuan and his family moved to Daixian County and was the first apprentice to learn embroidery with Gao Fenglan.

"in the past, when I was idle in the village, I used to play cards and fight, but now I have learned to embroider. Embroidery can sell money, and I can also go out and give lectures to make money. We can also make a living by craftsmanship. " Li Fentuan said he earned 20,000 yuan last year.

In 2009, Gao Fenglan bid farewell to basket sales and founded Daixian Yanxiu Square Culture and Art Co., Ltd., with its own skilled embroidery skills, open up the market and create a beautiful world in the national embroidery world.

At present, Gao Fenglan and several apprentices are busy with new embroidery works on the embroidery rack and will take part in this year's "hundred Flowers Cup" Arts and Crafts Award contest.

"she won a silver award last year, but she was a little dissatisfied and wanted to win the gold medal this year." Introduced by Wang Yong.

In the embroidery workshop, Gao Fenglan specially uses a room to display award-winning works and trophies over the years. She said: "some of them were stitched by dozens of embroiderers, while others took almost a year. Trophies are not only the fruits of everyone's work, but also the recognition of embroidery culture. "

Among them, embroidery "Childhood" won the 49th National Arts and Crafts Tourism souvenir "Golden Phoenix" innovative Design Gold Award. At the same time, wild goose embroidery has also been sold abroad to the United States and European markets.

Today, Li Fantuan is also a teacher in Yanxiu Square. When Gao Fenglan was away, she came to "sit down" in the embroidery workshop.

Like Li Fantuan, a large number of rural women and laid-off workers have gradually become embroidery women from apprenticeships. Embroidery technology has developed into a local industry, which not only opens up a way to obtain employment without leaving home, but also promotes the diversified development of Daixian cultural tourism industry. Not long ago, Yanxiu Square was named "Women's Entrepreneurship training Base" by the Shanxi Women's Federation, and she was also awarded the "March 8th Red Flag bearer" by the provincial government.

At present, driven by Yanxiu Square, nearly 3500 women in the county have embarked on the road of embroidery to generate income. (our reporter Ma Yu and Wu Jinbin)

Yang Tianlong:

The analogous "Brother Corn"

Dark skin, burly figure, sharp eyes, a shoulder bag, a coarse cloth sportswear. When you meet for the first time, you will never associate the person in front of you with the boss. On the contrary, he looks more like a craftsman.

He is Yang Tianlong, the founder of Cloud farming and the "Brother Corn".

"Agriculture is my dream since childhood."

In 1983, Yang Tianlong was born into a rural family in Gaoya Town, Yuzhong County, Lanzhou City, Gansu Province. "I am a mountain doll, and I love this land. Agriculture is my dream since I was a child. "

In 2003, Yang Tianlong was successfully admitted to a university. As his major had nothing to do with agriculture, he stubbornly chose to drop out. A year later, he was admitted to the seed Engineering and Science major of China Agricultural University. At Agricultural University, he met her, Fruit Corn, who had been with him for more than 10 years.

During the winter vacation in 2005, Yang Tianlong wanted to take some corn seeds home for trial planting. Relying on a wave of tenacity, he, who weighed 110 jin, carried two large bags of seeds weighing more than 100 jin and stood all the way home. "at that time, the idea was very simple. I just wanted to find good products to change the planting structure in my hometown and increase my parents' income." He may not have known at the time that these seeds had changed the course of his life.

It turns out that among these two large packages of seeds, there is a very special variety which is different from the common corn. The seed looks dry and not full. It is a new variety of corn selected by professors of Agricultural University for more than 10 years. When the corn matured in the coming year, Yang Tianlong was pleasantly surprised to find that the corn husk was thin and crisp, as sweet as fruit, took a raw bite, and the fragrant juice filled his cheeks. Put it on the market for trial sale, and unexpectedly sold out.