Dongkeng Town, Jingning, Zhejiang: The Road to Prosperity of "Pig Man" Old Hong
When people mention Hong Yunze, a villager of Dongkeng Village in Dongkeng Town, many know that he was once a livestock farmer in the village, a typical "pig man."
Today, the "Five Water Governance" campaign has entered the "street fighting" stage of small watershed and micro-treatment. To preserve the gains of earlier water treatment efforts under the new normal, Dongkeng Town has fully launched the governance of the livestock and poultry breeding industry. "Pig Man" Old Hong actively cooperated with the work and shut down his own livestock and poultry farm. However, with a low education level, no skills, and a lack of social experience, he found it difficult to increase his income sources other than farming.
In his youth, "Pig Man" Old Hong was a bamboo craftsman in the village. On the village's road of "Six Sides, Three Transformations, Three Beauties," Old Hong revived his old craft, using the resource and industry advantages of bamboo to weave bamboo into bamboo fences, bamboo stools, and bamboo chairs. In his home, several thousand moso bamboo poles were piled into a "bamboo mountain." Sawing bamboo, splitting bamboo strips, and weaving - every step was orderly. In just a few days, the "Pig Man" turned into a "craftsman." Over half a year, he made bamboo fences for several villages and delivered bamboo stools and bamboo chairs to farmhouse restaurants. Everyone gave a thumbs-up to his craftsmanship, and it also brought considerable income.
"Work a few days, rest a few days. Not only can I earn wages, but I can also take care of my family." Villager Old Li helped out at Old Hong's home and earned a monthly wage of over a thousand yuan. Old Li greatly appreciated this road to prosperity that Old Hong had opened up.
Old Hong told this writer that his child would also open an online shop on Taobao, and the bamboo chairs, bamboo stools, and other items they weave would be sold in large quantities through the online shop to farmhouse restaurants in counties and cities such as Taishun, Wencheng, and Wenzhou. "Next, I plan to carry out deep processing of bamboo products to make the industrial chain longer." When speaking of the bamboo product processing industry, Old Hong's eyes shone with light.
In the past, bamboo weaving was a skill that rural people all had. Using bamboo, they could skillfully weave it into some very practical daily necessities. Nowadays, things woven from bamboo may be gradually fading out of people's lives, but as the crystallization of labor wisdom from the farming era, bamboo weaving has left a deep emotional bond in people's hearts. More people have already come to regard this bamboo weaving as an art, and the things woven are more like works of art. Just as Old Hong said, many people also come to buy their "handicrafts," and it is precisely this opportunity that also provides more channels for employment and income growth for ordinary people farming at home.