If you had a high-paying job in a big city
would you still choose to return to your hometown?
More and more "post-90s"
gave their answers
Picture source: Henan News Broadcasting
Henan Xinxiang "post-90s" boy "Daxin"
made a choice with the brush in his hand
The 29-year-old " Daxin's real name is Shang Qinjie
He is called "Ma Liang, the magic pen" by his fans.
He also received praise from Hua Chunying
"A Chinese art graffiti artist
returned to his hometown - Henan Province
and turned an ordinary The small village
has turned into a fairy tale world full of childishness. "
In reality
he is an ordinary "post-90s" young man returning home.
Xiaotun Village, located in Xinxiang, Henan, has only more than 400 people.
It was once a typical northern country. Poverty-stricken villages
were not lifted out of poverty until 2018
The village was extremely quiet during the day, and the young people had gone out to work
After seven o'clock in the evening, the elderly and children went to bed early
There was almost no light in the village
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2020 On the eve of the Spring Festival
Shang Qinjie came to Xiaotun Village to visit friends
After living in the village for a few days
The epidemic suddenly broke out
The whole village closed the road
Shang Qinjie could not return home
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He remembered At that time, the roads and walls in Xiaotun Village were full of gray
. So, he and his friend
, who also studied art, graffitied on a few walls to add a bit of color to the village.
There was an attraction behind the village. A research and study base
staff came to Shang Qinjie
and said that only painting one or two walls would not look good
and wanted them to paint the entire street
Later, the scope was expanded to include the entire Xiaotun Village
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The money he can earn from painting in rural areas is only 200 yuan a day.
Shang Qinjie, who is doing art training in Beijing, can earn up to 50,000 yuan a month.
But he thinks that he will not be able to return to Beijing after the epidemic is serious.
What can he do? It’s good that the village has become more colorful
The epidemic situation improved in March 2020
Xiaotun Village was unblocked
My friend soon returned to Xinxiang City to work
Only Shang Qinjie was left alone
He wanted to finish what he had agreed to do If you continue to paint again, it will take more than a year.
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"When I was painting in the village, the conditions were very poor and lacked water. It was very hot in summer.
It was very different from the previous life. "
Shang Qinjie also hesitated
backed down and fought several times
but he finally chose to stay
He hoped to add more color and vitality to the village while he was still young
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Villagers have various ideas about Shang Qinjie's paintings
For example, they can't draw tigers
Can't draw dragons and snakes because they are scary
If you draw a wheat field, you must draw a river
In order to make it "alive"
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After thinking over and over again
he decided to start with traditional Chinese culture
Start with familiar images and characters
He began to draw Nezha, Sun Wukong, and Phoenix
He also drew Hayao Miyazaki's "My Neighbor Totoro" " Spirited Away "
"What young people like, I draw on it.
More and more people like it.
I think rural areas may really need people like us."
Picture source: Henan News Broadcasting
In October 2020
the National Day movie " Me and My Hometown " was released
Ma Liang, played by Shen Teng, gave up going to Russia Repin Academy of Fine Arts in order to change the face of poverty in his hometown
Opportunity for further study
Go to the fields to paint
Stills from the movie "My Hometown and Me"
Dozens of minutes after this movie plot
Shang Qinjie can no longer remember
He sat in the theater blankly
As if " "Ma Liang" saw himself
Picture source: Dahe News
A few days later
he posted a video on Douyin
recording the village head painting
The copywriting is the name of the movie
"My Hometown and Me"
This video finally received
more than 100,000 likes and 2.65 million views
Many people left messages asking where the village in the video is
Slowly, this ordinary small village
attracted more and more tourists
"This The village is different from other villages.
These paintings give people a particularly beautiful feeling. "
" changed my view of the countryside.
I never thought that the countryside could be so beautiful. "
The tourists' encouragement and praise
became the motivation for him to move on.
Netizens came here to check in. Source: Dahe News
He did not expect that he, alone and with a pen
, would bring huge benefits to Xiaotun Village. The energy of
2021's "May Day"
The daily light show ticket revenue in the village exceeds 10,000 yuan
The influx of tourists
also brings more income to the villagers doing small businesses
The eldest sister selling marshmallows in the west can earn 1,000 yuan a day The eldest brother of Yuandu
Dongtou fried jelly makes more than 3,000 yuan a day
...
"Before, the left-behind elderly people did nothing but farm every day,
just go home to sleep or bask in the sun,
but now it is different.
After my graffiti wall is finished,
they can sell some things.
I will be very happy to have some external income. "
Shang Qinjie said
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After all the paintings in Xiaotun Village are completed
he will continue to paint in other villages
"When you are young, do more meaningful things.
I hope more people can understand my hometown, and
I also hope more people can love their hometown."
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After Xiaotun Village became popular
Shang Qinjie and his painting story
more and more people were attracted by this beautiful village
Young people who once left the village
gradually returned When they arrived at their hometown
this village that once turned off the lights at 7pm
was filled with new vitality
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It was not just Shang Qinjie
"Post-90s" Ni Chenkai quit his job in a big city
with 600 Yuanqian returned to the village to start a business
Using waste wood
Carving QR codes on the wood
The unique shape
Xiao Ni’s online store business is booming
Now Xiao Ni is elected as the deputy director of the village committee
He said that he wants to start from more aspects Contributing to hometown
Xiqin Township, Lazi County, Shigatse City, Tibet
Geographically remote
Poverty alleviation was once a top priority
"Post-90s" party member Ciyang returned to his hometown
and founded the first
wool products professional cooperative in the village
7 In more than 10 years, she has enabled 110 villagers to find employment at their doorsteps. After Zhang Zhouqing retired from the army and returned to his hometown,
he started filming Douyin
He bought potatoes from poor households
and carried the goods live on the short video platform
In total, he helped more than 500 poor households in Badong County
realize their wish to increase their income by 3,000 yuan
And more and more Many "post-90s"
returned to their hometowns to start businesses
to help the villagers increase their income
and make each village
rich, beautiful and happy
Just as they wish:
The purpose of our education
is not to leave our poor hometown.
but to lift the hometown out of poverty
Comprehensive People's Daily , Communist Youth League Central Committee , Dahe Daily , Henan Business Daily , Henan News Broadcasting, etc.
Compilation: Yi Qiqi
Source: Xinhua Daily Telegraph
