Wake up（77）

 

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As long as there is trauma in the heart, there will be scars. the

As long as there is pain in the mind, there is memory.

What I am most afraid of seeing in life is that people fight each other and hurt each other. In a society that has lost its humanity, benevolence and kindness will suddenly disappear, and they will pass by us like strangers. Ugly human nature has kept China for thousands of years.

In the past, Li Tiandao felt that even though life was rough, he would not let himself be mediocre, so he was keen on running around for knowledge. When he was a librarian, he read countless classic books from all over the world, and later found that this is the real mediocrity. Mediocre, the aphorisms spread in the book are just flower arrangements in a vase. The life of a flower arrangement will not last long.

Stubborn people go the farthest, because they are not afraid of anything, except that they will not reach the end. Li Tiandao began to stubbornly explore the true meaning of life and social justice.

When Li Tiandao chatted with He Jiafu, the most common topics still couldn't get rid of those things in the Great Leap Forward era. Although the two old men have kept pace with the times and accepted the folk consensus of "living in the present", they are different from ordinary people in that they find that the so-called "present" is a copy of the "past". Cruel demons all have that same face, terrifying and ferocious. the

Li Tiandao talked about those events during the Great Leap Forward:

At that time, a series of whip-driven hard labor and crazy recklessness destroyed the countryside and drained the vitality of people, seriously damaging the human settlements and ecological environment. The great destruction caused by the Great Leap Forward coupled with the continuous years of deforestation and land reclamation, reclamation of lakes and land, abandonment of grazing land, reclamation of seas, "war against nature" and "learning from Dazhai in agriculture" have been carried out for many years. A series of "battles against heaven and earth" against heaven, earth and the universe have caused a sharp deterioration of China's ecological environment and the living environment of ordinary people, causing huge trauma that can never be repaired.

In 1957, the Sanmenxia Reservoir Project was launched by forcing Professor Huang Wanli and other opponents to be rightists, using the reason of "the sage comes out, the Yellow River is clear" and other reasons to praise Lao Mao. The history of flooding, endangering the safety of people's lives and property, and the blood and tears of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, after several decades of reconstruction and repeated tossing, is still facing an inescapable chronic disease.

In 1958, Hunan Province organized a large number of farmers to move to the Dongting Lake area to reclaim land around the lake, and built many dams to block the water of Dongting Lake, making the historical "Eight Hundred Li Dongting" into "Three Hundred Li Dongting".

Lop Nur in Xinjiang used to be the largest inland lake in China. In 1958, there was still more than 5,000 square kilometers of lake surface. Due to the savage reclamation of upstream rivers by the Great Leap Forward, there was no reinjection of river water. By 1962, the entire Lop Nur was completely dry and soon became a desert Gobi.

The Hulunbuir Grassland is one of the best natural grasslands in China, but 200,000 hectares of land were reclaimed from 1958 to 1962. Only two or three years later, the most fertile grassland pasture, namely the volta, was exposed, forming mobile sand dunes, and gradually buried the grassland. In the vast prairie, "the wind blows the grass and sees the cattle and sheep", many of them have become "the wind blows the yellow sand and no cattle and sheep".

In 1958, Gansu Province carried out the project of "Driving Tao River up the Mountain" and built a 1,400-kilometer-long canal that crossed more than 800 mountains in an attempt to divert water from the Tao River to the Loess Plateau. The 170,000 migrant workers who participated in the construction dug caves in the mountains and valleys to live, lay on the ground, picked wild vegetables in the mountains and brought their own dry food to satisfy their hunger. After three years of hard tossing, countless migrant workers died on the construction site, and exacerbated the famine in Gansu Province. As a result, not a drop of water was attracted and serious ecological environment damage was caused.

Lanzhou is a famous city in the northwest surrounded by two mountains and the Yellow River flows in the middle. In the 1930s, there were still lush forests with "leisure forests and springs" and "luxuriant forests". Due to the indiscriminate logging during the Great Leap Forward, the vegetation in Lanzhou decreased sharply, leaving behind What people live on is only the barren hills stretching across, which has seriously affected people's lives and the image of the city.

The "Little Jiangnan in Longshang", which was once famous for its beautiful mountains and clear waters, and Zhouqu County in Gannan, the habitat of giant pandas, suffered predatory damage to its forest resources during the Great Leap Forward. The excessive imbalance of the ecological environment has exacerbated the occurrence of floods, landslides, mudslides and other disasters, directly threatening the survival and safety of local residents.

Yunnan Province, famous for its "Kingdom of Plants" and rich in animal and forest resources, suffered severe ecological and resource damage during the Great Leap Forward. Since 1969, another 100,000 people in Yunnan have been organized to mine and transport a large amount of earth and stone from the west mountain of Kunming to "relocate mountains to fill lakes and ask for food from Dianchi Lake". They have buried 35,000 mu of Dianchi Lake to build farms, which seriously damaged the aquatic and terrestrial ecology of Kunming. . After the completion of the Dianchi Farm, it was losing money every year, and the financial subsidy of more than 10 million yuan was still unable to support the farm, and it was forced to close down in 1982.

Beidahuang Farm successively accepted 1 million educated youths from Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai and other underground villages. These educated youths wielded primitive hoes and shovels and braved the wind, snow and cold of dozens of degrees below zero to build a "granary". As the largest inland wetland in China and even in Asia, the natural ecology of the Great Northern Wilderness has deteriorated sharply in just a decade, and the inland wetland is on the verge of disappearing. Tens of thousands of educated youths and land reclamation workers from the Guangdong Production and Construction Corps built stone dams in the shallow sea, cutting mountains and filling the sea, turning "the beaches into good fields". However, a black tide washed away the dams, swept away houses, killed hundreds of people, and owed more An ecological account was created.

From the Great Leap Forward in Hubei Province to the 1970s, a large number of lakes disappeared, forest-producing counties decreased significantly, and the stock volume of mature and over-mature forests dropped by 50%. Due to water and soil erosion and reservoir siltation caused by the sharp decline of upstream forest vegetation, 56 reservoirs in Zhumadian, Xuchang, and Nanyang, Henan Province were built in August 1975 (most of them were inferior water conservancy projects built at the cost of starving to death during the Great Leap Forward) The dam broke during the torrential rain, and the Central Plains was covered with oceans. At least 80,000 people were killed in the flood.

A series of stupid and reckless actions against nature and morality. From the Great Leap Forward to the end of the Cultural Revolution, in less than 20 years, China's desertification area exceeded the total history before 1949, and the area of soil erosion was as high as 3 million square kilometers. According to the report of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the four provinces of Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, and Shanxi newly reclaimed more than 10 million mu of wasteland from 1960 to 1962, and the 3.33 million hectares of cultivated land reclaimed in Xinjiang since 1949 are mostly high-quality pastures. As a result, the area of pastures and forests has decreased sharply, which has become an important reason for the deterioration of the ecological environment in the western region, the "five disasters" and the "four materials".

Sichuan Province, which has always had a good ecological environment, had a forest coverage rate of 33% before 1958, but it had dropped sharply to 13% by 1980. In just 20 years, more than half of the forest resources were destroyed, and the damage to the ecological environment was extremely alarming.

Li Tiandao said to He Jiafu: "Xichong is my hometown. I saw a research report written by an expert in Xichong, which made me very upset."

The Xichong expert wrote:

I witnessed the destruction of forests during the Great Leap Forward in Xichong County, and the situation became more and more serious. In the 1970s, after I left Xichong to make a living in other provinces, I heard that Xichong had no firewood or even dried sweet potatoes for cooking. If it weren't for the great famine after the Great Leap Forward, who in the "Sweet Country" would be willing to burn the dried sweet potato that they worked so hard to use to overcome the famine as firewood? Some old classmates of Xichong reflected that the suffering of life in the 1970s was even comparable to the Great Leap Forward-Great Famine.

Two rivers converge and one river passes through the city of Xichong County. Legend has it that when Emperor Zhang Xianzhong came to Xichong, he sighed that "one city encompasses three rivers, and the emperor must be born." Later, Zhang Xianzhong died in the Phoenix Mountain of Xichong, and his dream of "becoming an emperor" ended, but the "Three Rivers" like a belt was still a good place for me to wait for children to play in the water until the 1950s. However, since the Great Leap Forward felling trees, demolishing houses, digging ancestral graves, burning, searching, and scraping, the ecological environment has deteriorated sharply. The three small rivers have gradually become dead rivers with a sharp drop in water volume. Since the 1970s, they have become disgusting smelly ditch. It was not until 2000 that the "Two Rivers Control" was determined to be vigorously carried out, and the phenomenon of dead odor was basically eliminated, the river bank landscape was newly built, and the living environment was improved. On the eve of my departure from Xichong, around 1970, my old mother, who had been sick for a long time, wanted to eat fruit. After work, I passed by a street vendor and bought a Guanggan. The price was 3 cents and 2 cents, and the difference was 1 cent, and the hawker insisted on not selling it. I was so angry that I almost used violence to buy it. At that time, more than 30 cents was not a small number, and the price of a Cantonese mandarin orange was not cheap, because the trees were destroyed during the Great Leap Forward, and the fruit became a rarity.

In those years, the damage to the ecological environment in various parts of Sichuan was extremely severe. One summer, when I was washing my feet by the Jinjiang River at the gate of Sichuan University, I suddenly felt an inexplicable itching on the soles of my feet. I saw an inch-long leech burrowing into the flesh of the soles of my feet. Fortunately, I quickly pulled them out with a towel. At that time, the Funan River in Chengdu became the main artery for storing filth and discharging all kinds of domestic and industrial sewage. Garbage can be seen everywhere along the river, and the pollution of the river water is quite serious. Then the imperial city was demolished to repair Mao's "Long Live Pavilion", the Yuhe River and Jinhe River were rebuilt into air defense tunnels, the Sandao River was intercepted, and Jiangjiayan and Zhuotouyan were filled... After a series of "filling lakes and burying rivers" Construction", Baijiatang, Wangjiatang, Lianchi Street, Shuinian River, Xiaohe Street, Banbian Bridge, Qingshi Bridge and many other places called rivers, ponds, ponds, and bridges have only bare names left. The urban landscape of "watery Chengdu" has become a swan song, and Chengdu has gradually become a "dust city". The ecological beauty of "the water is green and the sky is blue and the dust is not dusty" and "the official city of flowers and brocade" has become a distant history.

Li Tiandao talked about these past events with helplessness and resentment on his face.

Some memories are destined not to be erased; just like failures are inevitable in life, in the face of failures and setbacks, it is a kind of optimism and confidence to pass by with a smile; it is a kind of courage to regain strength. And do we have this mentality? Can we face our present life with a smile?

We all have young memories, when we were young, we were not afraid of hard life, but always dedicated our youth with optimism. Even if we sometimes face misunderstanding and hatred, it is a kind of calm tolerance to let it go with a smile, and then maintain our true colors, which is a kind of optimism. In the face of praise and encouragement, it is a kind of humility and sobriety to pass by with a smile, and then keep making progress, which is a kind of strength. In the face of troubles and sorrows, it is a kind of peace and relief to pass it by with a smile, and then work hard to resolve it. This is a state.

Li Tiandao said that life is a rosary made up of countless small troubles, and a philosophical life counts the rosary with a smile. I think life is like that rosary, so we should face failure with a smile. Let us give a bright smile to failure and create a better life. However, recalling the life I have passed, I can no longer smile. There were endless tears on my face and heart. When the tears run out, what remains should be strength.