Three generations of sand controllers have turned the desert into an oasis in 39 years. Is this another kind of cultural inheritance?

Babusha in Gulang County at the foot of the Qilian Mountains at the eastern end of the Hexi Corridor in Gansu now looks like an oasis, but 30 years ago, it was a barren land. There used to be a desert here, and erosion Villages, buried farmland, through the unremitting efforts of six local families and three generations of sand control people over more than 30 years, this desert has been turned into a green home. Isn't this an alternative cultural inheritance?

Today's Babusha is full of birds singing, flowers fragrant, and green shade lingering. It is hard to imagine that back then there was no grass growing and the sky was full of wind and sand. All these changes are attributed to the six old men who worked on sand control in the spring of 1981. , there are six villagers with ideas in Tumen Town, Gulang County. Their names are Guo Chaoming, He Falin, Shi Man, Luo Yuankui, Cheng Hai, and Zhang Runyuan. They want to control Babu Sand through joint household contracting. Become an oasis.

At that time, many people thought they were crazy for planting trees and grass in the desert. There was no water in the desert. How could we plant the trees alive? When we first started to control the desert, we encountered huge problems. In the first year, they planted 10,000 acres of saplings, and the survival rate was less than 30%. What followed was a series of failures. However, they never gave up and used the simplest way to explore more possibilities for desert control. They The story is very simple, but we can also feel how difficult it is to manage the desert.

After 4 or 5 years of exploration, they found that the survival rate of saplings next to grass mounds was higher, so they explored the method of planting grass first and then planting trees, gradually increasing the survival rate of saplings. In order to maintain In this oasis of their own, several of them set up home in the desert. The environment here is very harsh, with cold winters and hot summers. Food, water, and clothing have become huge problems. It takes ten years to work in such a harsh environment. , the six old men at the beginning passed away one after another, and now only Cheng Hai and Zhang Runyuan are left among the six old men.

The six old men can no longer do it, and their descendants have taken over their burdens. The six families have an agreement that there must be an heir to take care of Babu Sha. What a rare fool. With a public spirit, the six old men passed on their perseverance to future generations and left them a thriving oasis.