What you don't know is that Yi Zhongtian, born in 1947, spent the most precious ten years in his life in Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps. He often misses the place where he started, the place where he let his youth fly, the place called Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, and the place where he lived and worked for ten years, which was the best time in his life 18 to 28.
Yi Zhongtian's Ten Years in Corps
"As a matter of fact, I still often dream of that regiment until now. Later, I slowly understood He Jingzhi's Back to Yan 'an. I returned to Yan' an several times in my dreams, and my hands were fixed on Baota shan. " Speaking of the Corps in those days, Yi Zhongtian felt this way.
1954 Xinjiang production and construction corps was established, and labor shortage became one of the most troublesome problems in corps construction. 1955, Mao Zedong issued an appeal to the educated youth in the article "The socialist upsurge in rural areas of China": the countryside is a vast world, where you can make great achievements! The Corps then decided to mobilize mainland intellectuals to support the frontier. ...
After reading Brave by Soviet writer Willa Kitlinska, Yi Zhongtian, who was bent on writing a China version of Brave in Xinjiang, set foot on the westbound train with thousands of Wuhan youths in September 1965. Yi Zhongtian and his comrades-in-arms arrived at their distribution place by the "smoke roll from the locomotive", which is known as "Little Siberia" (150 Tuan is the farthest farm in Shihezi, with a cold winter, a minimum temperature of MINUS 40℃ and a hot summer with a maximum temperature of above 40℃).
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Yi Zhongtian was assigned to the animal husbandry class, herding cattle and milking, and later herding sheep, harvesting wheat and picking cotton ... The arduous reclamation in Shahai City made him go through many hardships and tests.
From 65438 to 0966, the year after Yi Zhongtian arrived in Xinjiang, the Cultural Revolution began. Shortly after the Cultural Revolution began, Mao Zedong Thought's literary and art propaganda teams spread all over the country. Because of Yi Zhongtian's outstanding performance in literature and art, he was transferred to the regimental headquarters by the company leaders and became a propagandist. His main job is to write plays. In order to take pleasure in suffering, Yi Zhongtian began to write poems in his spare time. His works have been published in Poetry magazine, People's Liberation Army Daily, Xinjiang Literature and Art, and Army Reclamation Daily, and he was praised as a "new frontier poet" by friends for a while.
Through hard work, Yi Zhongtian's literary life quietly bloomed in the hot land of the Corps ... No longer an ignorant teenager, he had a deeper thinking about life and the world through hard work.
1On March 25th, 975, Yi Zhongtian took advantage of his literary expertise and entered the Bagang Children's School in Urumqi. He was appreciated by the principal and became a high school teacher. 1977 The CPC Central Committee decided to resume the college entrance examination, 1978 The state resumed the postgraduate examination. Yi Zhongtian went all out to prepare for the postgraduate entrance examination. After three months' hard work, he got a master's degree in literature from the College of Literature of Wuhan University with high marks and embarked on an academic path.
The legion retained his youth.
In the Corps, Yi Zhongtian had ups and downs, many entanglements, and many frustrations and confusions, but for him, the Corps gave him more memories and nostalgia.
Whenever Yi Zhongtian returns to the Corps and sees his old friends, he will feel warm in his heart. For him, the Corps is a place to go out but never forget, because his youth is here.
Yi Zhongtian's Corps Poems
6543810.7 is the 60th anniversary of the establishment of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps. I have worked and lived in the Corps for ten years, and I present this song to congratulate you:
How much does Jiangnan know beyond the Great Wall? Yellow sand is full of heroic brigades.
The fragrance of rice flowers is like the wind of wine flags, and the waves of wheat are like the rain at night in spring.
In those days, the bonfire destroyed the wolf mountain, and the general fought the giant panda.
200,000 people are disarmed, and the wasteland is no longer a wasteland.
Autumn geese fly away without a shadow, and red willows wake up in the rustling wind.
Junggar is a desert and Tarim is a glacier.
Aspiring young people came from all directions and put on red uniforms overnight.
In order to treat the vast sea as the sea, he recognized his hometown.
Banner exhibition Qiang Di Yan, a hundred years of loneliness and a thousand years of industry.
It's hard to reward your country for three years, and failure hangs over the capital for a month.
Before the moon blooms, the moon is happy, and the peaches and plums in the garden have become shady.
Peach, red, willow and green are divided into heaven and earth, and spring buds are everywhere.
Don't forget the bitter days when the harvest is good, and the ambition of strengthening the army will last forever.
May you go upstairs step by step.
Nowadays, Yi Zhongtian, who is famous all over the country, often says: "Without the corps life of 10 years, I could not learn the spirit of being pragmatic, understand human nature and know the truth of being a man ... 10 years of corps life taught me the creed of being a man: First, I should do things in a down-to-earth manner and be a person in books; Second, the life of the Corps tells me that human nature is interlinked; Third, the legion taught me the language of the people. This is where I have benefited a lot from my future academic and research!
Yi Zhongtian's past in Xinjiang
Source: Wei Xinjiang
"I am a rogue. In my dictionary, there is no' should', only' should not'. I changed a place with one shot until I was' unidentified and unrecognizable', which made people who used to label completely unable to start. " Yi Zhongtian can be said to have described his years in Xinjiang Corps.
Yi Zhongtian, a rogue, 1965 graduated from high school and went to Xinjiang, from a "student doll" to a "revolutionary soldier"; 13 years later, 1978 was admitted to Wuhan university for postgraduate study, and changed from a "revolutionary literary youth" to a "young scholar"; 14 years later, 1992, from Wuhan University to Xiamen University, from "traditional scholars" to "alternative scholars"; 13 years, since 2005, he has changed from an "alternative scholar" to a so-called "public figure" by attending a lecture hall.
Tractors must be given to people trusted by the organization.
Yi Zhongtian sang red songs into Xinjiang. Not the Soviet Union's Song of the Communist Youth League, but China's Going to the Countryside to the Frontier. The influence of Soviet literature is also there. At that time, he read a Soviet novel Brave, which was about a group of young people who went to Siberia to build a "Qingcheng Mountain". Yi Zhongtian felt that he should also go to Xinjiang to build a * * * Qingcheng Mountain, and also write a "brave" in China. He was assigned to the "* * * Youth Farm" of the Eighth Division of Agriculture of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, and he was 18 years old that year.
Yi Zhongtian was a young man of literature and art at that time. Before graduation, I finished reading all the famous Chinese and foreign books I could read at that time, and also wrote a book, Three Hundred Tang Poems. He also writes poems, especially like He Jingzhi, Guo Xiaochuan, Wen Jie and Li Ying. His entry into Xinjiang and his subsequent changes were all related to his "literary dream", which was shown in the first volume of the collection "Towering Trees". But this dream was quickly shattered. "In that poetic place, I understood that life is not a poem." Yi Zhongtian said.
On the Corps farm, Yi Zhongtian did most of the farm work. Up to now, he can say many farm work names like a jingle: breaking corn, picking cotton, pulling sand, breaking clods, taking off pants, spinning top, trimming wool canals and preparing soil. These "technical terms" are not incomprehensible to engineers. Breaking clods means making adobe, and the most tiring thing is "mixing mud". Working people should stand in the pit, mix the mud with a shovel like kneading dough, and then throw it on the ground with a shovel. "At the end of the day, I feel that my intestines are going to be broken." Take off your trouser legs, that is, kneel on the ground and take off the extra leaves under the cotton seedlings. This job looks easy, but it's actually very tiring. You have to kneel on the ground all day and move quickly, or you can't finish the task. "How big is the venue of the health team? As far as the eye can see. At this time, I will think, when is this day? "
There are things he hasn't done, such as driving a tractor. "Don't drive a tractor, I haven't driven a carriage, only an ox cart. Those are' advanced production tools' and represent' advanced productive forces', which should be handed over to people who are politically reliable and organizationally trustworthy. "
I fell in love with my wife at first sight when I was an educated youth in Xinjiang.
Zhan Shiping, a senior editor of Hunan Daily, is from Xinjiang. 1966, as an educated youth in Urumqi, he went to the Eighth Agricultural Division 150 Regiment, which is located on the edge of Gurbantongkut Desert in Junggar Basin, as a soldier for army reclamation. 1972, Zhan Shiping published a poem about a female soldier herding sheep across the Tianshan Mountains in Xinjiang Daily, which made him famous in the whole regiment. At this time, Yi Zhongtian worked as a screenwriter in 150 Art Troupe and wrote many plays. One day, Yi Zhongtian found Zhan Shiping and they hit it off. Influenced by Zhan Shiping, Yi Zhongtian also began to write poems. Unexpectedly, when I wrote it, I was different and became a "new frontier poet" at that time. "At that time, he was our popular lover, and the poem was well written. Many excellent intellectual women chase him, but he is like a log and doesn't know anything about amorous feelings, so I can assure you that he never talked about love before he got married. " Scolded by an old friend's brother-in-law, Yi Zhongtian just smiled shyly and nodded silently.
Zhan Shiping also said that both of them participated in the creative backbone class organized by Xinjiang Federation of Literary and Art Circles, where Yi Zhongtian met his current wife Li Hua, who writes prose. At this time, Yi Zhongtian fell in love with his wife at first sight, and they got married after talking for about three years.
150 Interesting things in the group
When Yi Zhongtian worked as a reclamation soldier in Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps 150 Regiment, the poet Gao Jionghao swung a hammer and struck the iron in a factory in Shihezi. Because they both dance and write, they all have news about each other.
1In the summer of 974, Xinjiang Literature held a pen meeting in Shihezi. Yi Zhongtian took time to visit Gao Jionghao in the factory, and Gao Jionghao entertained him with inferior wine and light meals (at that time, he could only afford loose wine). When asked how to allocate it to the 150 farm called "Little Siberia", Yi Zhongtian said: When I arrived at the Eighth Agricultural Division from Wuhan, I heard that there was a * * * youth farm, and I thought the name was nice, so I encouraged everyone to go. I didn't cry until the farm was divided equally into 150 farm.
But Yi Zhongtian belongs to the better type of "combination of workers and peasants". When they arrived at the company, the peasants and workers saw that he was thin and weak, like a white-faced scholar, and they were unwilling to be in his class. Who would have thought that he took off his student clothes and put on his vest, and he was dry and thin, less than 1.70 meters, but he worked hard. Heavy physical labor made his appetite big. There is a big bowl of potato bumps in the sea bowl, and five steamed buns are put on the chopsticks. In a short time, all of them were stuffed into his stomach, which made the female educated youth stunned. He can eat and cook, so no one dares to call him "useless"
Yi Zhongtian was born in a scholarly family, with the integrity of China literati in his bones. During the "Cultural Revolution", he joined a factional organization to protect veteran cadres. Because his father was an intellectual and belonged to "smelly Laojiu", Yi Zhongtian was put into "internal control" by the "leftist" in power, and many posters were put up in the canteen. But he has a way to protect himself. Every time he buys food, he wears a shabby straw hat with a low brim. You can put up posters everywhere, and he won't even look at them. A "leftist" saw through his mind and went forward to find fault and said, "Why do you wear your straw hat so low?" Zhongtian pretended to be ashamed and said, "Mr. Lu Xun once said,' A broken hat covers the downtown area, and the ship leaks wine'. "Left" grabbed the braid and said, "This is' pointing to a thousand people and bowing down as a willing ox'. Who are you' shy' and' pointing'? "Zhongtian is eloquent, and retorted," The last two sentences are also poems by Lu Xun. Do you dare to oppose Lu Xun? Besides, I didn't say anything later. Even if you recite it, do you think you are the Kuomintang, or is it a' condemnation finger'? " "Left" saw that Zhongtian still dared to match, so he mobbed him. Then Zhongtian took off his straw hat and said, "Can you take off your hat?" Then he rushed out of the tight encirclement and recited a poem by Qu Yuan: "We are unattainable! "At that time, only Lu Xun's works were allowed. Zhongtian quoted Qu Yuan's poems, but no one could understand them. There was a contemptuous smile on his lips.
A popular guest
Mosuo Bay, located at the northern foot of Tianshan Mountain and south of Zhungeer Basin, is a virgin land reclaimed from Gobi Desert in the late 1950s, 98km away from Shihezi City. In front of people are: desert, saline-alkali land, Gobi, poplar, strip field, underground nest, red willow. There is a Populus euphratica forest that lived for a thousand years, died for a thousand years, and fell for a thousand years. The trunk is thicker than the crown. There are no four seasons here, the winter is cold, the lowest temperature in half a year is MINUS 40 degrees (from the end of 10 to the beginning of May next year), the summer is hot, and the highest temperature is above 40 degrees. There is a great temperature difference between day and night. At that time, Yi Zhongtian, the "Superman of Agriculture and Workers", braved the cold wind of "the limelight is like a knife, and his face is like a cut" to pull a cart with more than 500 kilograms of yellow sand; I have dug cotton on frozen cotton peaches; I used to break corn cobs and harvest wheat in a steamer-like farmland; I have been kneeling in the potholed ground to transplant rice seedlings and pull weeds; Once I held a lantern in one hand and a spade in the other, and watered it all night. At that time, Yi Zhongtian could eat a catty and a half of steamed stuffed buns for a meal. Drink in a big bowl, eat meat in chunks, shout loudly, and stride. He is a strong worker everywhere.
In those days, Yi Zhongtian always went out clean and simple. In winter, I often wear a blue khaki long cotton-padded jacket with two big leather bags and a pair of polished black leather shoes. In summer, I always wear an exquisite canvas overalls and a pair of suede shoes. He is less than 1.70 meters tall, but he looks very strong. He has bright eyes on his slightly larger head. Only from the teasing smile that often hangs around his mouth can we see his true nature as a smart scholar. He has an excellent memory, is humorous and helpful. In the words of fellow villagers, "he is quite gregarious."
At that time, although there was a rule of visiting relatives once every three years, at that time, in the sandbag nest far away from the emperor, it was just a dead letter. Even if a few "good performers" enjoy this honor, a short one-month holiday (at that time, the traffic was inconvenient, and it took 8 or 9 days to go back and forth) can make up for the scars of family ties. I don't know how many relatives and friends shed tears on the railway line from the inland to Xinjiang. Among them, Hubei people miss bones particularly strongly. In Xinjiang, no matter you are from Huangpi, Xinzhou or Wuhan, as long as you hear a southern accent, you feel particularly cordial. Let's get together and talk. "Villagers see villagers with tears in their eyes" is not a joke at the Spring Festival party, but it is indeed a true portrayal of the mood of people who live in a foreign land all the year round. In order to seek spiritual comfort for each other, people get together every festival and tell each other what they want. Zhongtian is a close friend who comes to every party and one of the most popular guests.
Yi Zhongtian: It's good to be home.
Yi Zhongtian returned to his second hometown, the Eighth Agricultural Division 150 Regiment. Facing his old comrades-in-arms and hometown, he fought back his excited tears and said loudly, "I am a soldier of 150 regiment, and I will always be a soldier of 150 regiment."