Where does Houzhuang Fucun belong to?
Houzhuang Fucun is located in the hinterland of Jiaodong, Shandong Peninsula, 7 kilometers west of the center of Laixi City, on the right bank of the Dagu River in the alluvial plains of the Dagu River (Eastern River) and Xiaoqing River (Western Xiaohe) superior. The village is 2,560 meters long from east to west and 2,000 meters wide from north to south, with a total area of 3.65 square kilometers. ***685 households, 2582 people.
Houzhuang Fucun is the birthplace of Qingdao Jiulian Group, a "national key leading enterprise in agricultural industrialization". Houzhuang Fucun's economic, political, social and ecological civilization construction ranks among the best in Laixi City.
Houzhuang Fucun has a long history. There are still several ancient stone mortars that prove that people lived here before the Ming Dynasty. During the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, people of the Zhuang and Fu clans moved in from Shanxi and settled here. Later, people with surnames such as Wang, Zhao, Guo, Jiang, and Sun moved in one after another. Since the 1950s, more than 20 people with other surnames have married and moved into the village. As of 2014, the whole village has Wang, Zhao, Guo, Jiang, Sun, Zhu, Zhou, Dong, Yuan, Sheng, Li, Chi, Xu, Sui, Jia, Qin, Jie, Zhang, Xu, Lu, Ren, Liu There are 33 surnames including Han, Xing, Dan, Chen, Cui, Fang, Yu, Ma, Mou, Hu and Zheng. Among them, the population with the surname Wang accounts for 75.2, and the population with the surname Zhao accounts for 11. Historically, people of all surnames lived in harmony, worked together to defend their homeland, and finally built Houzhuangfu, their home for generations.
Houzhuang Fucun has fertile land, abundant water resources, four distinct seasons, pleasant climate, convenient transportation and smooth information. The large alluvial plains of rivers have given the people of Houzhuang Fuxing natural good living and farming conditions. Dagu River (Eastern River), Xiaoqing River (Western Xiaohe), Changguang River (Eastern and Western Rivers), and Shi_he River have provided a steady stream of water for the production and life of Houzhuang Fu people for generations. The warm temperate monsoon climate with distinct four seasons and pleasant livability has allowed generations of Houzhuangfu people to feel the magic and mystery of Houzhuangfu, a geomantic treasure land. After the Shanghai Road Dagu River Bridge (called the "Jiulian" Bridge by villagers) is completed, it will only take 10 minutes to drive from Houzhuang Fucun to the center of Laixi City. Houzhuang Fucun is connected to the outside world in all directions. To the east of the village is Diding Road on the right bank of the Dagu River, to the west of the village is "Jiulian" Road, to the south of the village is Huangdao West Road, and to the north of the village is Shanghai West Road. All roads are connected to national or provincial roads. connected. The Laixi bus opens from Houzhuang Fucun, making it more convenient for people in Houzhuang Fucun to travel. By 2014, most people in Houzhuang Fucun owned smartphones, and many households had computers connected to the Internet.
The villagers of Houzhuangfu have always been mainly farmers. Before 1949, production conditions were poor and grain output was low. After the 1950s, with the changes in production relations and the construction of farmland water conservancy, grain output increased significantly. In 1971, the grain production exceeded the "Outline", 4320 kg/hectare (288 kg/mu); in 1973, the grain production exceeded the "Yangtze River", 6825 kg/hectare (455 kg/mu); in 1974, the grain production exceeded the "Qianjin" ”, 7620 kg/ha (508 kg/acre). In 1980 and 1981, it sold more than 500,000 kilograms of grain to the country for two consecutive years. Since 1983, the staple food of members of the Houzhuang Fu Brigade has changed from mainly coarse grains to mainly fine grains. From 1967 to 1983, 23.34 hectares (350 acres) of apples, chestnuts, hawthorns and other fruits were developed. The highest fruit income reached more than 700,000 yuan in the year. Vegetable production began to be developed in 1982. By 1985, more than 480 households in the village were growing vegetables. Vegetable production has become the main industry that increases villagers' income. In 1990, the village's vegetable income reached more than 3 million yuan. The family started raising laying hens in 1991. By 1997, there were more than 420 chicken-raising households in the village. Chicken raising has become the main industry for villagers to increase their income.
“Without agriculture, there is no stability, without industry, there is no wealth, and without business, there is no life.” While developing agriculture, the industry and commerce in Houzhuang Fuxun continued to develop within a certain period of time. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, several people in Houzhuang Fucun were engaged in low-level individual and private industry and commerce. In the early years of the Republic of China, there was some development. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, due to Japanese aggression, most of the industries and commerce run by villagers inside and outside the village were damaged and closed down. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, private industrial and commercial households that had closed their businesses but still had conditions to open resumed production. By 1953, there were more than 30 individual and private industrial and commercial categories in the village.
Since 1964, it has developed many projects such as embroidery, sewing, hairdressing, tin processing, oil workshop, powder workshop, wood shop, straw weaving and other projects. Since the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in December 1978, more and more villagers have engaged in individual and private industry and commerce at home and abroad, with more and more professional and key households, and the categories have continued to increase and the scale has continued to expand. By 2012, the village's individual and private industrial and commercial income reached more than 7 million yuan.
From the agricultural cooperativeization in 1956 to 1978 before the reform and opening up, Houzhuang helped people overcome difficulties and developed more than 10 collective industrial and commercial projects. In 1978, the brigade's total industrial and agricultural income reached 718,000 yuan, of which industrial and commercial income was 244,800 yuan, accounting for 34.1% of the total income. Become a famous wealthy village in Laixi County. After the implementation of reform and opening up in 1978, Houzhuang Furen took advantage of the situation and set up six enterprises including a flour mill and a chicken farm according to local conditions. By 1995, the village's collective industrial and commercial income reached 600,000 yuan. In 1995, Houzhuang Fucun became the first batch of “well-off villages” in Laixi City.
In September 1994, the village-run chicken farm (Zhuangfu Poultry Industrial Company) implemented a joint-stock system transformation. After the restructuring, the company was renamed "Qingdao Golden Rooster Breeding Co., Ltd." and in 1998 it was renamed "Qingdao Jiulian Group Co., Ltd." After 20 years of hard work, it has now developed into more than 100 production enterprises with total assets of 2.5 billion yuan, more than 16,000 employees, and annual sales revenue of 7 billion yuan, integrating breeding poultry breeding, broiler breeding, feed production, slaughtering and processing, and cooked food. It is a national large-scale one-stop enterprise group specializing in the production of broiler chickens, integrating product processing and import and export trade. After entering the 21st century, Houzhuangfu villagers' share income and salary income from Qingdao Jiulian Group have become important sources of family income.
Culture and economy advance simultaneously. Generations of Houzhuang villagers have not only used their ingenuity to prosper the economy and create material wealth, but also created a splendid and splendid spiritual culture that will be passed on.
For more than 600 years, generations of Huzhuang Fu people have been diligent, simple, wise, kind, selfless and fearless, inheriting and creating excellent spiritual culture. In the sixth year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1867), Wang Yuanxin, the 13th member of the Wang family in Houzhuang Fucun and Qing army general, died in battle while leading the Qing army and the Nian army. He was recognized as a martyr by the Qing government and awarded the hereditary Yunqi Lieutenant. To the fifth level. In the first year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty (1875), Zhao Zongsheng, the 19th generation of the Zhao family in Houzhuang Fucun, was recommended by the Qing government as an alternate road to Anhui Province for his military merits. Villagers Zhao Shenjing, Wang Shunxiang, Zhao Shensi, and Wang Hengfeng died in the Battle of Xiagezhuang during the Liberation War in 1947 (the 36th year of the Republic of China). Villager Wang Tingyong was awarded second-class merit twice and fourth-class merit five times in the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea. He died on the Korean battlefield in 1952. During the 30 years when villager Wang Shunshou was the secretary of the village party branch from 1961 to 1990, he regarded the village as his home and people-oriented. He was upright and dedicated, and devoted his whole life to developing the collective economy and serving the villagers. In the cause of getting rid of poverty and becoming rich, Houzhuang Fucun has become a model of prosperity and civilization in Qingdao's rural areas. In 1989, he was awarded the title of "National Model Worker". After retirement, he continued to use his spare energy to serve the people until his death on September 12, 2009. Since the 1980s, two Shandong Province model workers, Wang Huakai and Wang Zhenjiang, and several Qingdao and Laixi City (county) labor models have emerged in the village; many five-good families, star-rated civilized households, and outstanding party members have been selected in the village. Excellent families and advanced individuals such as league members, good mother-in-law, and good daughter-in-law.
The excellent spiritual culture of Houzhuangfu comes from the good village customs, the inheritance of civilization and the advocating and endless education. From childhood to adulthood, the children in Houzhuang Fucun have been receiving education and influence from their parents, schools and society. Traditional virtues such as patriotism, clear aspirations, integrity, self-improvement, integrity, awareness of shame, reform, benevolence, respect for harmony, loyalty to relatives, valuing righteousness, love of learning, timeliness, innovation, diligence, thrift, public service, and pragmatism are always cultivating their lives. The soul guides them to grow. The contemporary core value system is like a bright light, guiding the traditional virtues of Houzhuang Fucun people to continue to sublimate.
Culture is the crystallization of wisdom and the accumulation of history.
Houzhuang Fucun people have created rich vocabulary, vivid sayings and many ballads, proverbs and folk stories in their labor and life for hundreds of years, which have been widely circulated from generation to generation, and have enriched the content with the development of the times. With connotation. Culture, sports, entertainment and arts and crafts have a long history in Houzhuang Fucun. During the Republic of China, villager Wang Chengsheng funded a yangko troupe and performed many programs such as "Children Cry at the Grave" and "Double Zero". In 1950, a small theater troupe was established in the village, performing plays such as "The Jingtai Hui", "Three Sedan Chairs" and "Havoc in the Study Room". After 1952, he performed operas such as "The Marriage of Xiao Erhei", "The Little Son-in-Law", "Three Generations of Feud" and "Seizing the Seal". Before 1957, villagers Wang Guiqing and Wang Yuncai persisted in volunteering for many years to provide storytelling for the villagers. From the 1960s to the early 1970s, the village troupe performed plays such as "Little Sister", "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai", "Taking Tiger Mountain by Wisdom" and "Shajiabang". In 2006, the "Jiulian" Trade Union Art Troupe and the "Jiulian" Primary School Art Troupe were established to perform regularly or irregularly for students, villagers and employees. Since 2007, villagers have spontaneously organized dances or yangko dances in the village cultural square during the off-season evenings. Since the Qing Dynasty, martial arts has been passed down in Houzhuang Fucun and is quite famous. Folk arts such as paper-cutting, embroidery, dough sculpture, carving, and paper-tying have been passed down from generation to generation in the village. There are people in the village who are fond of and good at calligraphy and painting throughout the ages. Today, Zhao Xiuxun has become a member of the China Artists Association.
The ancestors of Houzhuangfu Village created and inherited many cultural relics and monuments in the long history of Houzhuangfu: stone mortars, stone mills and other stone tools; furniture, money chests, etc. Woodenware; temples, ancestral halls, residences and other buildings; ancient trees such as Sophora japonica and Ginkgo trees... They all record and present the wisdom and talent of the people of Houzhuangfu from generation to generation and the profound cultural heritage of Houzhuangfu Village.
“It is better to teach your children to read articles if you have gold at home than to teach them to read articles.” This is an ancient saying passed down from generation to generation by people in Houzhuang Fucun.
Before 1932, children from wealthy families went to private schools; after 1932, most children from wealthy families went to the No. 2 Primary School in District 8, Laiyang County. In 1946, after the village of Houzhuangfu established the primary school of Zhuangfuwan Primary School and the establishment of Houzhuangfu Primary School, the number of children attending school increased year by year. By 1955, the enrollment rate of school-age children reached 79. In 1958, Houzhuang Village opened its first nursery school. From 1965 to 1971, two rows of 28 primary school classrooms and 6 wing rooms were built, and the enrollment rate of school-age children reached over 90%. Beginning in 1970, Houzhuangfu and seven surrounding brigades were converted into joint middle schools based on Zhuangfu Primary School, with occasional investment. In 1974, 9 classrooms were built and the Yuhong Class was established. In 1984, the primary school was moved to the front of the village and 30 school buildings were built. This year, all major indicators of primary schools met the Ministry of Education’s qualification standards. In 1988, the kindergarten was moved to the newly built 440 square meter kindergarten building. In 1995, the kindergarten was moved to the village primary school and 6 classrooms were built. In 2006, a high-standard "Jiulian" kindergarten and primary school were built. In the same year, Zhuangfu Middle School moved to the site of the original Houzhuangfu Primary School due to the dilapidation of the school building, and borrowed the former Houzhuangfu Primary School building for use. Subsequently, "Jiulian" Kindergarten became a first-class kindergarten in Qingdao City, "Jiulian" Primary School became a standardized school in Shandong Province, and Zhuangfu Middle School became a standardized school in Laixi City.
From 1997 to 2001, the village rewarded village students with 300 yuan for passing the technical secondary school entrance examination and 500 yuan for the students who passed the college entrance examination. From 2002 to 2006, the village paid all the tuition and miscellaneous fees for the village's primary and junior high school students; Qingdao Jiulian Group rewarded Houzhuang Fucun students with a reward of 1,000 yuan for students admitted to technical secondary schools, 2,000 yuan for students admitted to junior colleges, and 2,000 yuan for students admitted to undergraduate programs. 3,000 yuan, and a reward of 5,000 yuan for admission to Tsinghua University and Peking University. From 2007 to 2014, Qingdao Jiulian Group rewarded Houzhuang Fucun students with 5,000 yuan for admission to Tsinghua University and Peking University; 4,000 yuan and 3,000 yuan for those admitted to the first and second schools respectively.
Good school education and teaching work and strong support and incentives have cultivated generations of useful talents for the country, society and Houzhuang Village. Especially since the college entrance examination was resumed in 1977, the number of students admitted to colleges and technical secondary schools has increased rapidly.
The proportion of first- and second-level college students and students from national and provincial key colleges and universities has increased significantly. The number of graduate students and international students of all types continues to grow.
“Putting people first, paying attention to people’s livelihood; helping the poor and weak, and providing for the elderly” has been one of the policy philosophies of successive leaders of Houzhuangfu since the founding of New China. From 1949 to 1955, the land of the lonely elderly people in Houzhuang Village was farmed and harvested by the village's organizing team. After agricultural cooperatization in 1956, the "guaranteed food, clothing, housing, medical care, and burial" were implemented for the orphaned elderly. From 1969 to 1982, the brigade implemented cooperative medical care. Each person who participates in the cooperative medical system pays 1-2 yuan per year, and all medical expenses spent at the brigade clinic are reimbursed by the brigade; medical expenses spent at other clinics after approval are reimbursed by the brigade70. Before 1983, disabled people , needy households are taken care of by the brigade and production team in different ways; starting from 1983, voluntary labor and related fees and taxes are exempted and taken care of. From 1994 to 1996, the village provided an annual Spring Festival living subsidy of 60 yuan to each person over 70 years old; from 1997 to 2002, each person received an annual subsidy of 80 yuan. From 2003 to 2014, each person over the age of 65 received 100 yuan per year. From 1996 to 2010, the village invested in household-related property insurance for villagers. Since 1996, the village and Qingdao Jiulian Group have borne the co-ordination fees for the "three mentions and five unifications" that villagers must pay.
Since 1996, Qingdao Jiulian Group, which emerged from Houzhuang Fuxing, has continuously benefited the Houzhuang Fuxing Village where it was born and the villagers of this village. It has attracted more than 80 young and middle-aged laborers from the whole village to work in the group company. From 1999 to 2013, we invested in the construction of 23 welfare apartment buildings for villagers; built high-standard kindergartens, primary schools, apartments for the elderly, as well as the Kangxin Care Center for the elderly, the Big and Small Bushan Forest Park, the stone protective forest belt, and the cultural square for leisure and entertainment. Dagu River City Comprehensive Service Area and other facilities are designed to benefit the people. After 2007, investment in public welfare for villagers continued to increase. Each villager over the age of 65 is provided with a monthly pension ranging from 100 to 1,000 yuan. Beginning in 2012, the water, electricity and heating bills for the elderly living in the village's elderly apartments will be borne; the medical expenses of villagers hospitalized due to illness will be included in the balance of medical insurance reimbursement by the state, and will be fully reimbursed together with the village. In 2013, we funded a physical examination at the Laixi Municipal Hospital for villagers over 50 years old.
History is created by the people. The glorious history of Houzhuangfucun has also benefited from the leaders and collective leadership of the people of Houzhuangfu from generation to generation. Most of the district chiefs during the Ming and Qing dynasties, as well as the district chiefs, security chiefs, and village chiefs during the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, were people with good morals, fair dealings, enthusiastic public welfare, and sincere service to the people. Most of them contributed to the development of Houzhuang Village and the prosperity of the villagers. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, the leaders of the Communist Party branches (referred to as Party branches) of successive villages (brigades) and their members, village committees (agricultural cooperatives, brigade management The person in charge of the committee) and its members, as well as other cadres, are all outstanding talents trusted by the villagers. They have devoted their efforts to the development of Houzhuang Village and the prosperity of the villagers; successive village (brigade) party branches have led and led all village-level The organization and the people in the village overcame difficulties and continued to work hard and forge ahead. As a result, Houzhuang Fucun has been built into a well-known "well-off village" and "civilized village".
“There will be times when strong winds and waves break, and sails will hang directly across the sea.” The great people of Houzhuang will surely be able to help Houzhuang one generation after another in the magnificent and vast history of the future. Under the leadership of the Fucun leaders and collective leaders, we will forge ahead, build on the past and open up the future, use our wisdom and sweat to usher in a better tomorrow for Houzhuang Fucun, and write a more glorious history for Houzhuang Fucun!
Near Houzhuang Fucun there are tourist attractions such as Changqing Ruins, Xishabu Ruins, Shenling Ecological Leisure Valley, Qianwole Ancient Tombs, Jiarui Ruins, etc., as well as the Zhi Reservoir whitebait, Lai Xida peanuts, Malianzhuang melon, Guandao millet, Wangjiazhuang nectarines and other specialties.