At the beginning, the natural conditions of Guo Zhuang Brigade were extremely poor. 1900 mu of land has been seriously eroded by salt and alkali. Low-lying, barren soil, no harvest. Many people fled to other places. The folk song says: "Bald old alkali ladle, ten kinds of nine seedlings, plant one ladle and collect half a ladle." "The Great Northern Wilderness, the Great Northern Wilderness, the wind blew all night, the earth was bleak, first frost was everywhere, and snowflakes were flying."
1964 Comrade Guo Hong Jie was the president of the Party School of Li Shuo prefectural committee, the director of the management committee of Douzhuang commune, and concurrently the secretary of the Party branch of Liu Zhuang Brigade. Seeing that the villagers suffered from the poverty of "one year's chaff and half a year's grain" and "half a year's grain", they volunteered to go back to their hometown as party branch secretary by relying on state relief. When I was in my twenties, I decided to change the face of my hometown. Leading a group of people, men, women and children 1700 people, onto the arduous road of saline-alkali control. Dig three feet, bury the upper saline-alkali soil deeply, drill wells to irrigate saline-alkali, and transport manpower from the foot of the mountain outside Wuliuli Road to neutralize saline-alkali. The huge project of "Wan Li has thousands of cars and acres of land" is being implemented. Through a series of management measures and villagers' unremitting efforts for several years, the soil quality has undergone fundamental changes and good crops have grown. It is this struggle spirit of "thinking about change when you are poor" that has become a model of the times. After Dazhai, Guo Zhuang, Qiliying in Henan and Huaxi Village in Jiangsu became dazzling agricultural stars, affecting the whole country and overseas. All over the country, from all walks of life, a large number of people flock here to visit, study and experience life. The government has set up a reception station for more than 100 people here to undertake reception and publicity work.
During this period, Comrade Guo Hong Jie visited the DPRK as the head of the "China Youth Delegation", and was warmly welcomed by the Korean people and cordially received by Kim Il Sung. He has served as secretary of Xiaoxian County Party Committee, member of the Party's top ten central committees, secretary of Anhui Provincial Committee, member of the Central Qualification Examination Committee, and member of the preparatory group of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League. Guo Zhuang has also become the focus of Anhui, attracting national attention. It's very lively here. "Anhui Agricultural Science Dazhai Conference" was held here nine times before and after, including many provincial-level cultural performances and educational conferences, and the fourth national youth basketball championship. Chen Yonggui once visited here, and Li Desheng, Song, Li Renzhi and others, then leaders of Anhui Province, often visited here. More than a dozen agricultural experts from China Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Anhui Academy of Agricultural Sciences stationed in Guo Zhuang, opened up dozens of acres of land as experimental bases, explored new ways of high-yield grain and cotton in this area, explored reasonable rules of planting, water use and field management, provided high-quality grain and cotton varieties, and promoted the steady increase of output.
1969, 1974, sixty or seventy intellectuals and four college students, including Wang Renyi, Meng Fanyi, Zhang Jianying and Lu Yemiao, were sent to the Guo Zhuang Brigade in Shanghai and Hefei. While receiving rural re-education, they also made an indispensable contribution to the development of Guo Zhuang. Some became leading members or production captains of Guo Zhuang Brigade. They can be seen in experimental fields, pig farms, machinery fields, weather stations, health centers, kiln fields and other places. 1970, Guo Zhuang Agricultural College was established, located in Caiwa Brigade bordering Guo Zhuang. Students come from all the communes in the county, and often take the fields in Guo Zhuang as the classroom, and the experts from the Agricultural College "help and guide", and return to their original places after graduation. It has injected new vitality into the development of agricultural science in our county. News media have settled in Guo Zhuang in succession. Ding Zaixing, a reporter from People's China, used dozens of pages in People's China to comprehensively report Guo Zhuang and introduce overseas. Special issue of Anhui Pictorial introduces Guo Zhuang.
Anhui Daily, People's Daily and other newspapers and periodicals reported extensively. The Central News Film Studio filmed a feature film with the theme of "Vowing to Turn Xiaoxian County into Xiyang". There are aerial panoramic views of Guo Zhuang and many scenes. Mr Ouyang Long and Mr Zeng live next door to us. I often go to play, and see them creating the cartoon "When Guo Zhuang is Going on" in the form of colored ink traditional Chinese painting. Guo Zhuang is in full swing. Guo Zhuang's special booths are located in Beijing Agricultural Exhibition Hall and Canton Fair. Guo Zhuang needs a matching window to show it to the public.
197 1 year, the government decided to set up an exhibition hall in Guo Zhuang to fully display Guo Zhuang. The preparation and opening of the exhibition hall is a systematic project. In addition to objects, pictures and words, exhibitions are words and paintings. Firstly, an exhibition team of dozens of people was organized to mobilize the strongest design, photography, writing and painting forces in the province to invest in this work. Dong Boxin, Qiu, Shi Songling, Tao, Lin Zhiyue, Li Hongxun, Zheng Yinong ... Lin Quan's, Wang, Guo Dahua, Xie Xie,, Gao Chuanye, Cai Shiming,, Su, Kong Qingfu, Yang Tianxu of Huaibei,
"Guo Zhuang Exhibition Hall" is located on the east and west sides, covering an area of nearly 1,000 square meters, and its name was inscribed by Mr. Li Bairen. In the middle of the main hall of the exhibition hall is Mr. Zhang Quan's large-scale oil painting "People in Guo Zhuang". On the right is the woodcut "Huaibei Renxue Dazhai", a large-scale multi-color woodcut created by, Shi Songling, Lin Zhiyue and Tao. On the left hand is Mr. Zheng Yinong's large-scale Chinese painting "The New Appearance of Xiaoxian County". There is a scene picture painted by Fu Qiang in the second exhibition hall. In the third exhibition hall, Mr. Wu Ran's multicolored print Harvest, in which the hero is Comrade Guo Hong Jie. I created a Basket of Red Clay in the form of New Year pictures based on Wei Liu. Anhui Slide Studio produced a set of eight slides, which were shown in the fourth exhibition hall. There is a portrait of Mr Ouyang Long's China in the sixth exhibition hall. The rest are pastels, oil paintings, Chinese paintings, prints, photographic pictures and layout words. Main bid, paid bid, small bid, beautiful imitation song, bold. The title of this beautiful picture comes from the handwriting of Guo Dahua and Zhang. Two groups of sculptures were completed by Mr. Song and Mr. Zhang Zumin respectively. Mr. Zeng participated in the overall design. During this period, Mr. Xue Zhiyun not only participated in the related work of the exhibition hall, but also created the cartoon "A Flower in Dazhai, Huaibei Plain" with Guo Zhuang as the background, which was published by Anhui Fine Arts Publishing House. The cover of the cartoon "Snow and Salt" was enlarged into a huge oil painting and stood at the southern end of Nanbei Road opposite the county party committee. The exhibition hall has been constantly revised, supplemented and improved, and the overall scale and layout level should be above the provincial level.
Guo Zhuang reception station has three guest houses. An auditorium can hold more than 1000 people, and a large oil painting "Guo Zhuang Brigade is marching" on the west wall behind it is the work of Mr. Garbo. Across the two gates stood a big sign of tens of square meters. The oil paintings above are the works of Qian Liu and Wu Jun, who were very young at that time. When I first came to Guo Zhuang, the leader arranged for me to paint a sign more than one meter long that read "People's commune must plant wheat well", "Water conservancy is the lifeblood of agriculture" and "The route is an outline, and the outline is open to all". One brand and one word, I wrote it carefully in imitation of Song Dynasty. Although when I was studying in Gu Yong Middle School, I have skillfully written several school blackboard newspapers with pine, and I have commanded my classmates in Class Two of the same session with excellent teacher * * * on the hillside at the southern end of Gu Yong Reservoir, but I intend to use pine imitation to "learn from Dazhai and drive Guo Zhuang" within 200-300 meters, and whitewash the stones, which can be seen 20 miles away. It is majestic, magnificent and spectacular. I know they want to try my work. The sign says, stand on the side of the road in Guo Zhuang. Two or three years later, tens of millions of people are still looking back every day. Later, I wrote most of the words on the wall on one, two and three walls. Frequent wall newspapers, slogans at the meeting place and welcome slogans. I run a newspaper in Sanqiu every summer (hand-carved mimeographs on steel plates with wax paper). On the gable of a house, Ma Xinhua and I finished a large oil painting "Agricultural Dazhai". I remember Chen Yonggui wearing a white towel in the photo, with Dazhai terraced fields as the background. Later, I drew several big oil paintings of Chairman Mao and put them on the rostrum of the conference. Many years later, I still see them placed in the center of the stage of the county cinema.
65438-0975 Created the New Year picture "Happy Rain" and participated in the Anhui Fine Arts Exhibition. During this period, I was obsessed with comics, such as He Youzhi's Great Changes in the Countryside, Zhao Hongben's Monkey King Thrice Defeats the Skeleton Demon, Ding Shibi's Furious Tide on the Fishing Island, and Liu Guohui's A Grass on the Kunlun Mountain. Most of them were carefully copied by me to study their composition rules, performance skills, characters and scene changes. I also wrote my own script "Crossing the Grass", and there are many pictures. Come to Guo Zhuang to experience life. There are many celebrities in the fields of literature, art, calligraphy and painting, such as the famous performing artist, poet Sui Min, and drama actor An. Famous painters such as,,, and Mr. Xu have all left footprints here. Mr Kong Xiaoyu and Jenny lived together for half a year and several months. I often have time with them to study pen, ink and paper. Teacher Qiu and I are in charge of the teaching work of Guo Zhuang Brigade Art Troupe. We often go back and forth side by side between the school, the first school, the second school and the third school (the art group is composed of students at school and several intellectual youths who like painting and calligraphy). Mr. Qiu and Mr. Fang are painting friends, and Mr. Fang wrote the inscription "How to Draw Figures" as our teaching material.
We talk about books and paintings together. Teacher Qiu once said to me, "I'm going to visit Mr. Ouyang in Xiaoxian County today." Mr Sun Nan is the first time I have heard about it. I saw him buy two fried dough sticks for Mr. Sun Nan in everyone's canteen. This is a rare gift in times of poverty. At the same time, we can also see Mr. Qiu's respect for artists and art. Once we watched the movie "Rock Bay" together at night, and one of the villains was called "Qiu Erneng". He whispered in my ear, "Qiu Erneng, why don't you call Jiang Erneng?" Panshiwan is one of the model operas launched by Jiang Qing, so Mr. Qiu made this remark. The bad guys don't call you Jiang Qing Jiang, call me Qiu. Deep down, he was dissatisfied with the social state at that time. Mr. Qiu is in his fifties and comes from Hangzhou. The work unit is Anhui Group Art Museum, a famous painter, peacock painter and philologist. At that time, I was shown an unfinished manuscript of a nine-volume dictionary in private, and I was shocked by the small script of the big seal script. How much effort, how much skill, how much patience. You can't be aboveboard in your academic career, you can only sneak around and eat and live with your members. One bubble is five or six years ... Mr. Liu Xiangting is the curator of Xiaoxian Cultural Center, transferred to the secretary of Guo Zhuang reception station, and is good at painting and calligraphy. Over the years, many works have spread to the society.
At that time, I was young and busy, and I wrote and painted whenever I had time. Painters in Guo Zhuang often draw books intentionally or unintentionally. Once I went to Mr. Li Bairen's room and saw him writing regular script on the Mi Zige. Later, a student copybook was published by Anhui Publishing House. In that era when no one cared about literati painting and calligraphy, painters and calligraphers were willing to give their works to people they really liked. During his stay in Guo Zhuang, Mr. Lai Shaoqi left more than 15 plum blossom and calligraphy works, Mr. Kong Xiaoyu left more than 20 panda and grape works, Mr. Xiao Longshi came to Guo Zhuang twice and left more than 20 bluegrass and bamboo works, and Mr. Wu Ran, Zheng Yinong, Li Bairen and Zheng Zheng left many calligraphy and painting works. Mr. Zheng Yinong once asked me to hand over a dozen four-foot-four-open landscapes. My roommate Zheng Yongmin once asked Mr. Li Bairen to write four cursive scripts with banners four feet apart. At that time, although I was young, I didn't like Mr. Li's handwriting very much, and I felt sweet. At that time, I collected five works by Lai Shaoqi Kong Xiaoyu. Teacher Ouyang Long said to me, "Love the people, show me the old peacock cat." .
I said, all right! You can have these two! Mr. Zhang came to Guo Zhuang after his job transfer. Everyone knows that he writes well. His title of "Hefei Teachers College", especially "Cultural New Village", was praised by Chairman Mao. At our request, in addition to the title "Guo Zhuang Exhibition Hall", three or four works were written for us. Inside and outside Guo Zhuang, our county painters and painters, Du Changjing, Jin Jiashi, Xu Jingru and Li Dinghua, especially young people who love painting and calligraphy, such as Hu Zhixin,, Luo, and many foreigners, such as Yang, etc., all studied sketch and color under the guidance of teachers ... More than 30 years have passed, and the lively scenes and painting situations in Guo Zhuang period are vivid. It broadens our horizons and exerts a subtle influence on Xiaoxian's calligraphy and painting through participation and listening, which is an inseparable part of the development and growth of our calligraphy and painting. For me, it is the most critical growth stage.