Banggai Village, Mengyang Town, Lianghe County
It is the birthplace of the Dai musical instrument Hulusi
Also the "Prince of Hulusi" - the hometown of Zhuo Dequan
In recent years, the general party branch of Banggai Village in Mengyang Town has closely focused on the main line of building a sense of community of the Chinese nation, and adhered to the integrated planning, deployment and simultaneous development of poverty alleviation, industrial development and national unity and progress. All ethnic groups are like pomegranates. The seeds hug each other tightly, showing a vivid situation of solidarity, coexistence and harmonious development, striving to draw the national chapter of "the Chinese nation is one family and one heart and one heart to build the Chinese dream". The young artist we are going to introduce today is the nephew of the cucurbit flute performer, the master maker Mr. Dequan, and the true disciple of the art of performance - Miao Congguo.
Micongguo, Dai nationality, Dai name: Rock, born in the early 1980s, currently the party branch secretary of the Manggun Group of Banggai Village, Mengyang Town, Lianghe County, Lianghe County Luyuan Hulusi Cultural Industry Development Co., Ltd. General manager. He has successively won honorary titles such as "Model of Self-improvement in Yunnan Province", and the leader of Dehong Prefecture to get rid of poverty and become rich.
In November 2019, Micongguo was announced as the representative inheritor of the sixth batch of provincial intangible cultural heritage projects.
Influenced and influenced by the family environment since childhood, Mio Congguo has a strong interest and deep affection for the culture of Hulusi and Bau. In the process of growing up, he has received the training and guidance of Mr. Dequan and other seniors, and gradually embarked on the The path of the cultural heritage of Hulusi and Bawu. After years of hard work, the production and performance of cucurbit flute in Micong has become more and more exquisite, especially in the performance skills of Dai folk ancient tunes, and has gradually formed its own unique style, which has been widely recognized and praised. Efforts are made to inherit the culture of Hulusi and Bawu.
In terms of cucurbit silk production, after graduating from junior high school in 1999, he followed Master Zidequan to learn the cucurbit silk production technology. In 2002, he founded the cucurbit silk · Bawu production studio, and in 2003, he became the head of the original cucurbit silk professional cooperative. Since the establishment of the cooperative, Micongguo has taken it as its responsibility to lead the masses to become rich together. Over the past few years, he has successively led and introduced more than 50 people from the village and surrounding areas to work and find employment in his studio, successfully helping them get rid of poverty and winning the praise of the people in his hometown. In order to establish a good cooperative, he devoted almost all his time to the development of the cucurbit silk industry. During the day, they teach the apprentices to make handicrafts such as cucurbit silk, bawu, and tea sets; at night, they go to the village to find suitable farmers to grow cucurbits, sign agreements, and discuss cooperation projects. Through hard work, the cooperative's daily output of cucurbit silk has increased from 7 to 8 pieces to 50 pieces now, and 300 sets of cucurbit tea sets and handicrafts can be produced every year.
In the eyes of Man Congguo, the gourd is not only the memory of childhood cartoons, or the beautiful and good-sounding gourd silk made from gourd, but also a "treasure" that helps the people of Mengyang Town, Lianghe County to get rich. gourd". He is good at innovating boldly on the basis of inheriting the skills of his father's generation. While trying to make his "treasure gourd" more and more famous, he also wants this "treasure gourd" to become everyone's treasure. "'Individual Lele is not as good as all Lele', the cucurbit silk made by my family is very recognized, but to realize the industrialization of cucurbit silk, more people need to participate in its production and inheritance." Therefore, while teaching the skills, he While leading the villagers to plant gourds, vigorously develop the gourd silk industry.
Micong has fulfilled its promises and established Mow's Luyuan Cucurbit Silk Cultural Industry Development Co., Ltd. in 2014, and started the expansion and development of the cucurbit silk industry in the form of "company + cooperative + farmers". In 2018, with the support of policies and technologies, the company broke through the bottleneck of raw material cultivation of cucurbit silk, and built a 10-mu cucurbit breeding demonstration greenhouse in Banggai Village, with an annual output of 50,000 cucurbits. At present, the company's annual output value exceeds 450,000 yuan, providing more employment opportunities for the masses and helping everyone to become rich together.
"Look, in the open space behind our studio, a hall for training and performance of cucurbit flute is being built. In the future, more and more tourists will come to Banggai Village. I will also consider building homestays and other supporting facilities." Cong Guoxin Looking forward to a bright future for the development of the village.
Under the influence and leadership of Micongguo, more and more young people joined the team to learn the culture of Hulusi and Bau. Cultural inheritance should be started from an early age. During the implementation of the ethnic culture campus inheritance project implemented by the middle and primary schools in Mengyang Town, Micongguo actively participated and taught by hand, which truly promoted the positive energy of the culture of national unity and progress.
Several times of wind and rain, several times of spring and autumn, after 20 years of tempering, Miao Congguo has grown from an ordinary farmer to an inheritor of the cucurbit silk culture in Dehong Prefecture, and a leader of the masses to become rich. He always kept in mind that he was the son of a peasant, and when a flower blooms, it is not spring. Only when the masses are rich is the last word.
In the long days to come, Micongguo will continue to explore new directions and new ideas for the development of the cucurbit silk cultural industry, and strive to cultivate more cucurbit silk enthusiasts. Thereby attracting more cucurbit silk lovers and tourists into Lianghe and Banggai Village. In addition, the "Hulusi Roots Tour" project is launched to provide tourists with services such as large-scale gourd planting tours, experience in the production of cucurbits, and learning of cucurbit performance, so that small cucurbits can become a "treasure for tourists to experience the beauty of cucurbit culture in Lianghe." gourd".