Lu Shunmin

 Lushun Min In 1931, Shanxi Black yukou Xingxian people (respect for the interviewees, regardless of its name hidden).
Xingxian village off the black yukou
our village is an ancient shore of the Yellow River crossing, the town sub- . Xingxian our village in the Northwest of Shanxi Province as a whole is a well known place, first, because black is a commercial town Meiyukou, is a ferry. wharf every day dealings of Shanxi, Shaanxi ferry boat between the boat every day from a long upstream to downstream transport of goods, or vice versa the passenger and flocked to the town on the river there are two blocks of shops, the group's pharmacy is also open next three, down restaurants, shops have one or two hundred. town every day a set of very busy. Another important reason is that there is a deep black Meiyukou in reading, and everyone all the children to study, pick up street people say the black yukou manure are a higher primary school, this is no exaggeration . the village primary school has long been high, called Xingxian two high school principals for the cattle, Mr. Lan Friends. one high in the county. these two high primary and secondary schools is the Friends of the enlightened gentry Lan Shao-Bai and cattle up capital to set up. Second, always keep high more than two hundred students, most of the children of this county, there are a considerable part of the sacred trees and from Fugu, Shaanxi, all live on campus learning.
not only the boys school, girls are no exception. Shao-white in the office two high before the girls had to do over a school total of 38 female students. so very strong in reading, children develop reading every household regarded as top priority. I read the second high, there are ways to some of the people in the village, took the children to Xi'an, Taiyuan to the studies, the first time Taiyuan Teachers have five, there are three national divisions, the other enrolled in Jin Shan School, Cheng Cheng Secondary School and other schools, together more than 20.
two high in the Many poor children, poor children of these cattle by the President on behalf of the Friends of Mr. Lan pay tuition fees, daily expenses down by his hand bag. whom he sponsored many students.
students after graduation exam Teachers and students is the way meaning , consider a government to do better, it would amount to anything out. After graduating from the two high, most of the students to the field, to make a living out of people plenty of money .1958, the village would like to do some industries, outside of the local cadres for help, out of more than 160 cadres, set a 1 million yuan, 1 million dollars that time what! black yukou of those who work outside, there were four provincial-level cadres, cadres at the county level would be more the. This is a strong interest in reading the results of Ruran.
My father graduated from the Taiyuan First Normal School. Guanchiguanzhu not charge tuition fees on the Normal, is a poor family of choice for small families children. father after graduation, Weijiade in Kelan Xian Xing County has beaches and teaching. Meiyukou in black, like my father so that to make a living out of teaching are also many. but he died in 1943. That year I was 13 years old, just the upper primary graduate. I was the eldest son of four siblings, the death of his father, to the outside of this study Teachers would like to thoroughly shattered, had to return home to help prop up the poor widowed mother at home.
neither at home, I also not farming, but it does not matter. reflects environment Everyday on the water draft, black Meiyukou commercial tradition, people are quite complex, where there are home Hunan,Bailey UGG boots, Inner Mongolia people, Shandong, and Beijing, Taiwanese Jinzhong merchants settled here quite a few, in addition to businesses, most of the playing skills to make a living doing small business to survive, a carpenter, blacksmith, coppersmith, furnace Carpenter and sailors and porters on the pier. the town more than 1,400 population people, more than half of people do not farm the land, black people do not Meiyukou not surprising that farming is not farming. how to do? with his mother in the home spun cloth, and then sold on to the market. Now think of it inconceivable to rely on spinning weaving, actually take care of the family's life in perfect order, not obstruct, not the system.
human feelings very well in our village. In fact, our house is a foreign account, my grandfather hand from the mountain moved to a small village Meiyukou black. piers where black yukou is not exclusive, do not cheat strangers in black Meiyukou never felt we were outside a small family, and we are all united, someone has a difficulty, we have use the service within its power to give. So, his father died, our family life did not feel how hard it is.
village surname more common surname is any, Liu two. Renjia Shi on behalf of a scholar than a dozen, Qing than one when it comes to the lifts, the boss of any holding of any home is the local Swiss doctors, but also enlightened gentry, Friends of Portland in 1942 with the cattle, Shao-white-led and also pass on the big ceremony, poetry, any two or marriage Liu, Liu Shao-white boss and the boss is Lianjin any home.
Qing Shao-Bai is the contribution of students, graduated from Shanxi University. officialdom on the old man did in the old days better , and later in Tianjin Ziwen introduced by the Wang Ruofei and join the party, joining the party very early. He and Mr. Lan Niu Xingxian friends do too many good things, a sophomore from high office, and later from a high school organization, which Yellow River is something unprecedented in 1940, the two old man took out a fortune to do most of the peasants from Xing County Bank, to * solve the funding. Shao-white thinking is very liberal, and his three daughters grew up not bound feet, and are sent out to study, Liu Yaxiong daughter, second daughter, Liu Jing Xiong, niece Liu Peixiong are famous, have served as national senior cadres. nephews generation of 9 people, 7 people were sent to Beijing, Taiyuan, Yan'an study, participated in the revolution.
Shao-white work outside year round as a temporary council-Sui Border Region Vice President of the Senate, often not in the village, my time is small, rarely see him, a cooling off thin old man, very polite. what I'd told his niece that students So his family is quite understanding.
in the two families are very liberal, very progressive thinking. Shao-Bai Needless to say, is the holding of any Swiss family office, is quite enlightened. He fatherless boy, his father as early as funeral, he persuaded his mother remarried still young, which is almost unimaginable a century ago. his son had an incurable disease, people advised him to say please, please take a look at neurotic witch, he suddenly furious, saying that he is dead too can not please these people. Of course his son was still dead.
under the influence of this liberal atmosphere, the atmosphere is very positive in our village, the village is advocating a simple frugal, not something extravagant, is Hong Baishi feast is also very simple. I Fanshi the time when the county clerk to see people put a lot of energy and money spent on these matters did not understand, and very surprised. Our village is not even any of the two big wedding Liu, requested a three to five people people act in the tables. and a person of the village more than a thousand, head of the superstition is also very weak, for example, the most taboo to other places outside the village who died carried back to the village, we do not have this taboo place to , who died on the outside, lifted back on who would not say where the ceremony is quite simple.
black yukou be opportune, in northwestern Shanxi be a very nice place, unfortunately, in 1940 years later began to decline, the first Japanese a torch burned most of the town, after the water flooding the Yellow River, the Yellow River water to the end of 2000 acres of all eaten. Still, Xingxian settled in the base-Sui When black Meiyukou also has maintained a relatively prosperous scene.