The sun was just rising in the east, and the sound of a few chickens crowing woke up the quiet village of Dazhai.

With the morning tourists strolling through the streets of Dazhai village, the people of Dazhai seem to be still dreaming, only a few elderly people "creak" to open the thick wooden door, pouring the dirty water of the night into the village public toilet, stretching and returning home. In the Dazhai village entrance, I saw a few to Dazhai tourist guests, they looked at the village compound, health room, Chen Yonggui residence, busy with cell phone photos, talk about the former glory of Dazhai, and the history of the year to learn Dazhai.

In the village, there is a big willow tree, which is divided into two big branches and reaches to the sky. The sign under the tree explains that the tree is of great historical significance and has become a landmark of the village, protected by the village. Before the liberation, it was used as a place where landlords punished poor families who could not pay the rent by hanging them from the tree and beating them, and it was also a place where poor families were punished for oppression. In the Dazhai people self-reliance and hard work in the years, every important meeting of the village is held here, the party secretary Chen Yonggui whenever there is something important is also always announced under the willow tree, the big tree witnessed the changes in the village, the willow tree records the history of the development of the village.

Dazhai village **** has two hundred and twenty households, five hundred and thirty-two people, land area of five hundred and forty acres. From the sixties, under the leadership of Chen Yonggui, secretary of the branch, in the face of seven ditches and eight beams and a slope environment, self-reliance, hard work, mobilizing the masses of the three wars of the Wolf Wozhang, the bitter battle of the Tiger Mountain, change the natural landscape, become a model for the whole country to learn, Chairman Mao issued a "national learning Dazhai" call. Rapidly in the country set off a powerful national learning Dazhai climax, Dazhai became a flag of the national agricultural and rural construction.

After the reform and opening up, the rapid development of the market economy, Dazhai village also fell from the altar. The new helmsman Guo Fenglian also from a single agricultural production to diversified business development. Has built a Dazhai winery, beverage factory, clothing factory, the development of tourist attractions, a variety of homes, lodging built one after another. Dazhai has become a place of admiration for people all over the country, and the spirit of Dazhai has been implanted in the spiritual world and values of the people of that era

Walking in the village of Dazhai, I measured this magical land, and felt that this land had once made me yearn for it. Marvel at this village shrouded in myth. A few of us finally realized to visit the Red Flag Canal, to realize the wish to visit Dazhai.

A family gate opened, a student carrying a brand new schoolbag, toward the high standard Dazhai school. Looked at the first generation has been left out of the kiln, visited a high-standard modern villa, see a car out into the senior car, listening to a burst of Tiger Mountain Scenic Area, a burst of pleasant "agricultural learning Dazhai" red song, I y feel that the village of Dazhai has been into the tide of the market economy.

In the morning, Dazhai, from quiet to prosperity, into the calm and fresh day.

Written at noon on April 20, 2021, at the Tieneni House Inn in Dazhai Village, Shanxi Province

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Ma Xiliang, a native of Tengzhou City, Shandong Province, is a writer and cultural scholar who has published several collections of essays such as "Fondness" and "Sinking Fragrance", and has published more than 300,000 words of essays, novels and other works in domestic newspapers and magazines. He has published 300 million words of prose, novels and other works in domestic newspapers and magazines.