In Yu Dafu's pen, "Autumn is always good no matter where it is; but, the autumn in the North Kingdom is particularly clear, quiet, and sad."
As everyone knows, autumn in the North is not only with yellow grass and scattered leaves, but also with the majestic and passionate forests.
On the east bank of the Nenjiang River, 30 kilometers southeast of Qiqihar, Heilongjiang, the lake is densely covered with reeds and grass. The red-crowned cranes come in autumn and spring comes. You can stroll here or stroll in the garden, or under the flowers before the moon, when the autumn is getting stronger. It's time for them to move south.
A group of natural elves travels north and south, and the cloud is the hometown of red-crowned cranes. has been with cranes all his life, but the habitat of the red-crowned crane has become the resting place of the "red-crowned crane girl" Xu Xiujuan and her younger brother.
The red-crowned crane girl died in the wetland
In 1981, because the local high school was closed, the 17-year-old Xu Xiujuan followed her father to the Zhalong Nature Reserve to raise cranes together.
The Zhalong National Nature Reserve Wetland was completed in 1975. At that time, Xu Tielin's family was next to cranes and near the edge of the water tower. Xu Tielin was invited to participate in the management and protection of the wetland. At that time, the total number of red-crowned cranes was only about 140. What's interesting is that At the beginning, the sign of the protected area was hung in his home.
Under the influence of her father's generation, Xu Xiujuan has become acquainted with red-crowned cranes since she was a child.
Red-crowned cranes are rare species in nature and need to be cared for by humans. However, because the red-crowned cranes grow in wetlands, this is a huge challenge for conservationists, requiring long soaking or trekking in swamps.In order to prepare to grasp the growth of red-crowned cranes.
Perhaps Xu Xiujuan was born with a special fate with red-crowned cranes. On the third day of coming to Zhalong, she was able to raise small cranes by herself very skillfully, and she could also remember the birth year and month of each crane and identify the cranes. Number.
The survival rate of the baby cranes she raised has reached 100%.
Red-crowned cranes are full of spirituality. The cranes who have been with Xu Xiujuan for a long time can sing, dance and fly with her.
Xu Xiujuan, who is a minor, is a temporary worker in the Zhalong Wetland, but she is diligent and diligent, taking care of every crane.
In 1983, Xu Xiujuan became the cover of "Friends of Women" magazine, and for a while, the red-crowned crane girl became a household name.
In 1985, Xu Xiujuan received a recommendation letter from two professors of Northeast Forestry University, and went to the Wildlife Department of Northeast Forestry University for further studies at her own expense, and continued to study her passion for animal science on campus.
The school learned about the red-crowned crane girl's deeds and cut Xu Xiujuan's tuition fee by half, but she still can't pay 60 cents a day for food.
In the second semester, because there is no tuition, living expenses are even more problematic. Xu Xiujuan has secretly sold blood for money to maintain her life on several occasions.
The hard life did not dampen Xu Xiujuan's enthusiasm for learning. She made an unexpected decision to complete two years of studies in one and a half years, which would save more than half a year of living expenses.
Xu Xiujuan did it, and she completed her studies ahead of schedule with very good grades.
In nature, Xu Xiujuan is an excellent crane-raising girl. On campus, she is a diligent and motivated student, All this stems from Xu Xiujuan’s red-crowned crane complex.
May 1986,Xu Xiujuan, who has not yet graduated, received an invitation from Yancheng to participate in the preparation of the Yancheng Tidal Flat Rare Birds Nature Reserve in Jiangsu.
Today, with high-speed railways extending in all directions, we can hardly imagine the difficult journey when Xu Xiujuan went south.
It was a long 5,000-mile road. She needed to travel from Inner Mongolia for three days and three nights to reach Yancheng. At that time, there was no train in Yancheng. Xu Xiujuan needed to take a train and then change to a car to reach Yancheng.
On this road, Xu Xiujuan didn’t take anything. She only carried 3 crane eggs and went on the road. There was no advanced egg incubation equipment. The only equipment had was an artificial leather bag, a warm water bag, half a catty of absorbent cotton and A clinical thermometer . The water was cut off on the train, so she put the egg and meat in her arms.
After a while a train, a while a car, the three crane eggs that bumped all the way successfully hatched three small cranes by Xu Xiujuan's body temperature. Xu Xiujuan named them Longlong, Dandan and Salsa.
Xu Xiujuan once again completed the amazing task of the world. In that era, the artificial incubation of red-crowned cranes was a world-leading problem. Even in the most advanced incubator in the United States, small cranes died.
And Xu Xiujuan hatched a miracle with love. These three small cranes are not only physically strong, but also can spread their wings 20 days earlier than the normal cycle.
In 1987, Xu Xiujuan went home to visit relatives, and when she returned to Yancheng, she made a detour to Inner Mongolia. She had to take two swans from Inner Mongolia to Yancheng. These two swans were Liming and Muren.
When you get off the train, what is waiting for Xu Xiujuan’s death is Dandan’s death. Dandan has a problem with one of his legs. Taking Dandan to catch insects in the wild, Dandan is very close to Xu Xiujuan.
Before he had time to say goodbye to Dandan, he passed away. Xu Xiujuan did not know how many tears he shed.
After Liming fell ill, Xu Xiujuan took care of Liming for 8 days. After Liming recovered, she fell ill.
On the bed, the blows came one after another, and Longlong vomited blood during the injection and died.
Xu Xiujuan wrote in her diary: I have never cried like this in front of people. Dan Dan went, and Long Long went too. Poor Sasha turned around and fled in fright. I couldn't calm down.
Xu Xiujuan regards cranes like her life, One after another red-crowned cranes hatched by her own hands pass away, her heart is like a knife.
One day in the late summer and early autumn of 1987, after Dawn recovered, Xu Xiujuan bathed Muren and Dawn in the river. She didn't want them to have too much fun. She broke away from the rope and flew away and forgot to go home.
Xu Xiujuan searched everywhere without saying a word. In the evening, only Mu Ren was found back. She was still missing at dawn. She wandered in the dark reeds for a day and was already exhausted.
The next afternoon, Xu Xiujuan heard that there was a call of suspected dawn on the west bank of the Fudui River. rode out without paying attention to dinner. There are no Liming and Xu Xiujuan on the riverside of Fudui, only her bicycle is left.
On September 16, people found Xu Xiujuan in Fuduihe, her body curled up.
When the villagers salvaged Xu Xiujuan's body, two red-crowned cranes hovered beside her, constantly lowering her red-crowned heads, using long sharp edges to tidy up her soaked clothes.
two days later,Liming and Mu Ren flew back, but they could no longer find Xu Xiujuan with them day and night. What they saw was a funeral where thousands of people gathered. Tomb.
It is also said that on the Ching Ming Festival that year, a group of red-crowned cranes hovered in front of Xu Xiujuan's tomb for a long time when they got up and went north.
Xu Xiujuan was only 22 years old when he died. Xu Tielin and his wife lost their beloved eldest daughter. From now on, every Chinese New Year, a pair of empty dishes and an empty seat will be placed on the dinner table.
The story of the red-crowned crane girl Xu Xiujuan's dedication to the crane touched thousands of Chinese sons and daughters. She was chased as the first martyr in my country's environmental protection front.
The younger brother dedicated his life, the niece took the baton
The red-crowned crane became the imprint of Xu's life that cannot be erased, and it is also the eternal concern of the Xu family.
In 1997, Xu Xiujuan's younger brother Xu Jianfeng followed his parents' instructions and gave up his job in the city and returned to Zhalong. continued his sister's unfinished career, which lasted 18 years.
colleagues said: "Xu Jianfeng cares more about raising cranes than raising children. He was sick and he did not dare to go home because he was worried about being blamed by his father. Xu Jianfeng, like his sister, treats cranes as his life."
One day, there was a violent storm in the reserve, thunder and lightning, and several young cranes flew by surprise. Xu Jianfeng rushed to rescue the small crane after arriving.
Seeing Xu Jianfeng's body was covered with mud, the leader asked him fearfully: " " is it dying.
Regrettably, Xu Jianfeng failed to become the darling of fate. Unfortunately, when descends again,He is doomed to escape.
April is a critical period for the breeding and incubation of red-crowned cranes. The spring of 2014 was extremely dry, and there were fires near the wetlands from time to time. Xu Jianfeng's workload naturally increased.
On the morning of April 18, Xu Jianfeng waded 2 kilometers into the core area of the wetland to observe the breeding situation of free-range red-crowned cranes. On the same day, he found a crane nest and the small cranes inside were about to break their shells. Worried about a fire around Crane Egg, Xu Jianfeng worked in the wetland for a day, and when there was a meeting that day, he asked the leader for leave.
The next day, Xu Jianfeng, who had been worrying about crane eggs all night, came to the wetland early in the morning. On the way back, because of exhaustion, Xu Jianfeng drove his motorcycle out of control and fell into the ditch under the roadbed. was just far away. The reserve was less than 3 kilometers away. Unfortunately, died on duty.
This year, Xu Jianfeng was 43 years old. 27 years after his sister sacrificed his life, also gave his precious life because of the red-crowned crane he had been worried about all his life.
On April 25th, Xu Jianfeng's memorial service was held at the first funeral home in Qiqihar, . Many villagers came to see off.
Looking through his father’s diary, Xu Jianfeng’s daughter Xu Zhuo discovered: ’s father kept track of his work every day, down to which crane he cleaned the pen and which group of cranes he had done for epidemic prevention.
Xu Jianfeng is gone, leaving the group of natural spirits, but leaving behind the persistent dedication to protect the wetlands and red-crowned cranes.
Now, Xu Zhuo has taken the baton and continues the relationship between the Xu family and the red-crowned crane.
When Xu Jianfeng sacrificed his life, Xu Zhuoben studied gardening at Northeast Agricultural University.Suddenly applied to the school to transfer to Northeast Forestry University, the aunt's alma mater, to study wildlife protection.
After graduating from Northeast Forestry University, Xu Zhuo returned to Zhalong. She wanted to continue to write the story of the Xu family and the red-crowned crane. Only in this way can she stay with her aunt and father in the sky.
Everyone in Zhalong knows that red-crowned cranes are proud and the embodiment of loyalty. As long as they become a partner, they will stay with each other for their entire lives and never leave.
If your partner is injured and unable to move south, the other one will definitely stay with him day and night, regardless of wind, frost, rain, and snow, and there is no fear of death. And why is it not like that for crane raisers?
The Xu family’s feelings for red-crowned cranes cannot be copied or replaced. Three generations of people and cranes have never left behind, but Zhalong’s “semi-wild” protection method is destined to require crane protectors to pay Hardships that ordinary people can hardly imagine.
Even though Xu Xiujuan and Xu Jianfeng are very water-based, long-term trekking in the swamp is extremely exhausting, and they finally devote themselves to the wetland due to fatigue and sleep here.
The 30th anniversary of Xu Xiujuan's sacrifice was solemnly commemorated in Qiqihar City. At present, Huang Yaozhen has lost a pair of children, almost crying blindly, and left in tears in the middle of the memorial venue.
Xu Zhuo said: "After the death of his father, in front of grandparents, everyone never took the initiative to mention aunt and father. They couldn't bear each other."
is the only remaining in the world. Among the three major red-crowned crane populations, only the Zhalong population in my country is still vigorously maintaining natural migration. Behind the is the tragic experience of the Xu family, and it is also the persistence of generations of the Xu family. They use their actions and even their lives to compose the symphony between man and nature. song,The remaining sound curls up.
At the end of April 2021, a movie based on the story of the red-crowned crane girl Juanzi was released in theaters, telling later generations of the fading love between people and cranes.
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