The next chapter of Gaoping Town: Career and Choice: The Future Always Looking

The surrounding mountains have caused inconvenience in connecting with the outside world, giving Gaoping people a peaceful hometown; and the difficulty of mountain roads has also created the villagers who are not afraid of hardships, perseverance, and brave. Dry temper. The villagers recuperate here, but their hearts are always filled with the desire to break out. The longing for the outside world has led generations of villagers to adopt different methods, speak authentic Gaoping Mandarin, and rush to the outside world without hesitation. When you are tired, go back to this mountain town to rest and recharge your energy. Because this is the root of every Gaoping person. Selling mats once became a synonym for the occupation of Gaoping people. Gaoping, located among the mountains, is rich in bamboo. Through the exploration of the ingenious Gaoping people of the past generations, the functions of Nanzhu have been developed to the extreme. Dou hats, bamboo mats, shed curtains (for drying millet), summer beds, bamboo chairs, bamboo baskets, bamboo brooms, etc. have all become essential household items, which are both environmentally friendly and low-carbon. Among them, the most famous ones should be bamboo mats. Many people from Gaoping carry a load of bamboo mats and sell them in other places; while the clever bamboo craftsmen travel around with a bamboo knife to take on the endless work. Gaoping bamboo mats, and of course other bamboo products, have been successfully introduced into thousands of households in other places, making it convenient for generations of users. While making a living for their families, mat makers and sellers also make bamboo products more exquisite. Gradually, making and selling mats has become the main business of Gaoping people in the eyes of many outsiders.

Those who sell bamboo mats often unfold a bamboo mat on the spot for people to appreciate the excellent workmanship. After standing for a long time, it is common to sit and lie down on the bamboo mat. Perhaps this is why "selling mats" was later extended to mean sleeping in? What I believe more is that Gaoping bamboo mats are well made and very comfortable to sleep on, making people want to sleep in without getting up.

In the era of collective economy, Houtian bamboo mats were the most famous and were once listed as export products. Gaoping's bamboo mats have traveled across the ocean and truly arrived in a foreign land, adding the fragrance of Gaoping's hometown to foreigners' dreams. In the 1990s, there were more plastic products, Simmons became popular, and bamboo mats began to be used less. With the development of the economy, young people are either studying to be soldiers, or going out to work, or doing business, and there are fewer and fewer people who are serious about being a bamboo craftsman. For Gaoping people, selling mats has gradually become a history, legend and conversation piece. Of course, Gaoping still produces exquisite bamboo mats. However, that is industrial production and commercial marketing, and has nothing to do with traditional handicrafts. What it inherited was the historical reputation of Gaoping Bamboo Mat. "If you study hard, you will wear leather shoes in the future; if you don't study hard, you will wear straw sandals in the future." This is a saying that our elders often taught us when we were young. Leather shoes have become a status symbol.

Older people may still remember Gaoping Leather Shoe Factory. It was a district-run collective enterprise. In my impression, scrap car tires were originally collected and then cut and processed into rubber straw shoes, not leather shoes in the current sense. At that time, the common shoes used by Gaoping people were not only cloth shoes and Jiefang shoes, but also straw sandals. When going up the mountain to cut firewood, people usually wear straw sandals. And before I wore leather shoes, I often wore the rubber straw sandals produced by this leather shoe factory, going up the mountains to chop firewood and go down to the rivers to catch fish. In the mid-1980s, contracting became popular. A person from our production team contracted this shoe factory and started making leather shoes. Thus, the first 10,000-yuan household in the village was born. Wearing leather shoes, bell-bottom pants, and listening to a tape recorder have become the norm for his children. And the matchmakers began to squeeze through the threshold of his family. The emergence of this 10,000-yuan household has greatly stimulated the villagers and aroused many people's thinking. Therefore, many villagers who were unwilling to live in poverty decided to send their children to learn how to make leather shoes and leather goods. Gradually, the young people who learned the craft were no longer willing to stay in the small place of Gaoping and began to travel to other places like their ancestors. Under the example of the first generation of leather shoemakers, more young people who have not been admitted to high school or college have embarked on this road that is expected to make a fortune. While making leather shoes and leather goods, they also wear leather shoes.

Of course, with the reform and opening up, the number of rural people making leather shoes or leather goods has increased in scale. There are those who have been making leather shoes, and there are also those who have started their own businesses overseas. It is said that there is a place in the Pearl River Delta where hundreds of leather goods factories are all owned by Gao Ping. Some are OEMs, and some have created their own brands and gone global. Now, when you walk in a certain city, you may see several leather shoe stores on a certain street. These leather shoe stores, with front stores and back factories, sell a variety of fashionable leather shoes with exquisite workmanship. As long as the styles are available on the market, they can also be customized.

And when you talk to your boss, nine times out of ten, what you hear is authentic Gaoping Mandarin. Selling "leg strength"? I can't find the right words to accurately describe one of the popular main businesses of Gaoping people in the market economy. "Lei Gu" in Gaoping dialect is also "bag" or "bag" in Mandarin. Well, for the sake of simplicity, let’s say “selling bags”!

Selling bags began in the late 1980s, and also began as a demonstration effect caused by fellow villagers who made their fortunes by selling bags for others. As a result, Gaoping people who longed to get rich, brought their relatives and friends, and began to head towards the unknown outside world. Generally speaking, when you first start, you buy some goods from wholesale bosses, carry them on a pole, and sell them in crowded places. When doing business, you have to guard against urban management coming to snatch your bags, and you also have to tangle with local gangsters. Negotiating prices with customers further tests the bag seller’s wisdom and emotional intelligence. After a certain amount of accumulation, I rented a small shop and started purchasing goods from manufacturers myself and doing wholesale. The main sources of goods for people selling bags in Gaoping are from Hebei and Shaodong. And when it reaches a certain scale, some people will switch careers and open a small factory to make their own bags. When I was studying, every time I came home, I would hear stories about fellow villagers who made a fortune selling bags. And what we see is that new houses are constantly being built. Chatting with former classmates, they will happily talk about their travel experiences and all kinds of interesting stories about selling bags. And all the hardships turned into smoke amidst the laughter and admiration, and went away with the wind. In their descriptions, from Heilongjiang in the north, Hainan in the south, Shanghai in the east, and Xinjiang in the west, there are businessmen who speak Gaoping Mandarin selling all kinds of exquisite bags.

During the summer vacation the year before last, I went to Yinchuan with my children. Because I wanted to buy Ningxia wolfberry, I went to a famous local market. While carefully selecting wolfberries, the familiar Gaoping Mandarin came from a shop not far away. I couldn't help but walked over. It turned out that in a shop selling bags, two siblings were arguing. I asked and found out that he was from Xiaoao, Gaoping, his surname was Zhou, and his younger brother was my junior brother! Perhaps because of the long history of Nan Gaoping County, which was established during the Three Kingdoms period (its former county seat is located in Xiao'ao Village, Gaoping Town today), the villagers have valued education since ancient times. For families with a little bit of conditions, their children must be sent to school. As long as you can read, you will continue to pay even if you are trying to sell iron.

In the history of Gaoping, there are many famous scholars. In the Qing Dynasty, there was Zou Wensu, who had six sons. Both father and son were scholars. His third son, Zou Hanxun, together with Wei Yuan and He Shaoji, is known as the "Three Heroes of Central Hunan". There is a proverb: "If you can't remember everything, ask Wei Yuan; if you can't remember it, ask Han Xun."

In modern times, Mr. Yuan Jiliu was good at ancient prose and wrote quite a lot. His most popular disciples were headed by Taizu. There are doctors Yuan Ziai and Jiang Yilan who have superb medical skills and are said to have the power of rejuvenation. They all have their own personalities: those who treat the rich need to prepare sedan chairs and generous gifts, while those who treat the poor need nothing. During the Republic of China, Yan Gong Liu Xunchu served as patrol envoys in several provinces, Fuyuan Liu Zhefu served as the prosecutor general of the Jilin High Court, Yuan Pu, the Kuomintang general, and Yuan Yunzhong, the navy rear admiral. In contemporary times, there is Major General Yuan Yuan, who is even more proud of the locals. Throughout the dynasties, there have been countless celebrities in Gaoping. The villagers are not good at publicity, but they are of no use to future generations when it comes to practical matters.

In the 1980s and 1990s, in view of the tragic situation of thousands of troops squeezing the single-plank bridge, some villagers with some connections did not hesitate to spend money to transfer their children's household registration to Hainan, Guizhou and other places, and embarked on the " "College Entrance Examination Immigration" road. At that time, if there were children in the family who were admitted to school and graduated from farming, they would have to hold banquets and show movies. Relatives, friends, and members of the production team will all come to congratulate me. The parents who had worked so hard to support the students were proud and proud at this moment. In this rich atmosphere, many students leave Gaoping and look at the country and even the world. As far as I know, there are many doctors and professors, and there are even more successful people in their careers. Of course, staying in Gaoping is indispensable for continued exploration and spiritual pursuit. Yuan Jiansu, a native of Wensheng Village in Houtian, an authentic farmer, began to explore the manufacturing of airplanes at home. The test flight in 1997 made him the first farmer to build an airplane. Regardless of success or failure, this reflects the intelligence, tenacity and exploration spirit of Gaoping people. Thoughts **Every Gaoping person has a different hometown in their eyes. Every Gaoping person has a unique memory of his hometown hidden in his heart. If you have been in Gaoping for a long time, you will not realize how beautiful the scenery around you is; if you have been wandering outside for a long time, you will find that the thing that makes you most peaceful is your hometown. **Every countryman is looking for what he wants. Every villager has something to lose and something to gain while searching. When he gets what he wants, he also loses what he has. ** Due to terrain reasons, Gaoping is easily isolated from the outside world.

Therefore, the Gaoping dialect is less influenced by the outside world and inherits more ancient sounds. In terms of inheritance, Gaoping dialect is the most authentic Chinese dialect. Attachment: A few Gaoping nursery rhymes or ballads (have you sung it or heard of it?) 1. Diudiugao, Diudiugao, thirty taels of silver to buy a girl, but the girl doesn’t want to help me find a mother-in-law, so I pick up my baggage and go to Yiyang. It is difficult to travel in Yiyang. Ji Ji can weave, but there are few shuttles for weaving. Ji Ji can sing, but it is rare to shout when singing. Ji Ji can hold an umbrella... 2. Sell matches, sell matches, and if you can make money, come and give me , um, my mother-in-law, um, follow me, um, like me. 3. If you are lucky, if you are a little sister, if you are a little girl, 4. If you are afraid, you will be afraid, and you will be able to enjoy the cotton. Ennei was fake and got caught in Anhua. Anhua caught fire and caught me. If I ask for it, I will catch the fisherman... 5. The adults are looking at the rice fields, and the young people are looking at the New Year. 6. There is no shortage of clothes, and there is no shortage of food. It is not a good deal to live in poverty. 7. The beggar is burning, only going to his crotch (ka ). 8. Spanking will not stick to your thighs - your words are seriously out of touch with reality