"The Beauty of Rice"

Zhu Yan, who returned to her hometown to start a business, is called "the Beauty of Rice" because all her work in the past four years has been related to rice.

When the "rice beauty" stood in front of us, we couldn't connect this girl named Zhu Yan with the countryside and crops at all.

She is called "the beauty of rice" because all her work has been related to rice for more than four years.

Zhu Yan is a native of Yexie, Songjiang, who has been farming for generations. During the 13 years after graduating from college, she worked as a programming engineer in a software development company and worked in an internet law company, which was smooth sailing and earned a lot of money.

Every time she comes home from the city, Zhu Yan will see everything in her hometown and her fellow villagers. There are always bursts of melancholy in her heart: the changes in her hometown are still not big enough or fast enough! It is said that cities make life better, but can't villages make life better? Farmers provide many valuable agricultural products to cities, but they don't have much sense of value. What is the reason? Zhu Yan has been thinking.

Zhu Yan decided to quit her enviable city job and return to her hometown where she was born and raised to start a business.

During that time, she often sat on the stairs, looked at the rice fields outside the door and imagined what the village would be like many years later ... Finally, she took out all her savings, renovated the yard and decided to run the rice industry.

In order to save every penny, she climbed the ladder with her father and grew vegetables with her mother. Parents support their daughter unconditionally, but they feel sorry for her and blame her for her choice. Stubborn Zhu Yan, under the pressure of family and relatives, weaves beautiful dreams with her heart. She wants to make her rice and derivative products bigger and stronger on the land cultivated by several generations.

She rented land from the village and planted the seeds of hope.

Sweat drops turned into particles and rolled into rice. She went to the market with rice on her back.

The road to selling rice is hard and bumpy. Zhu Yan's perseverance touched the sky. Slowly, starting from friends around Zhu Yan, more and more people are deeply impressed by the taste of Zhu Yan rice through word of mouth. Zhu Yan was very pleased to see that her rice had finally gone abroad. She named her yard-"eighty-eight acres". "Eighty-eight", together is not a "meter"? Vividly highlights the theme of excavating rice culture and concentrating on making rice articles.

After doing nothing, Zhu Yan joined 12 excellent family farmers and established Tian Zi Agricultural Cooperative. Why is it called "Tian Zi"? Zhu Yan said, I want to leave the good land (field) to future generations, and I don't engage in short-term behavior.

As a native of party member, Zhu Yan regards common prosperity as his sacred duty.

In 20 19, through the efforts of all members of the cooperative, 1838 mu of paddy fields were all marked with "green rice" and "green rice", and "88 mu of paddy fields" changed from selling rice to selling rice. In the name of cooperatives, families and farms are tied together, and every bag of rice sold is returned to farmers, which brings effective income increase and truly enhances farmers' self-worth. They are proud and happy of their identity, love the land more and grow better food. It is precisely because of this that the citizens have more delicious rice on the table.

The power of example is enormous. Zhu Yan's entrepreneurial determination touched many people, and many young people readily joined her team. This team is a combination of old and young, a combination of young college students and stable villages. At present, among the nearly 30 employees in the team, half are college students born in 1980s and 1990s, and the other half are local aunts and mothers. The combination of tradition and innovation has always been the lever fulcrum of "88 mu of land" entrepreneurship. In the traditional countryside, it takes courage and courage to try to break through innovation and create a new countryside, a new concept and a brand-new life concept. The injection of a group of young people with ideas, ideals and beliefs has made the originally quiet countryside young and full of vitality.

In order to carry forward the "rice culture" better, Zhu Yan established the "Jumudian" company, focusing on rural tourism, and engaged in the development of the intangible project "Yexie Soft Cake". Their B&B has won the nameplate of Songjiang 00 1 business license, and now it has attracted eight surrounding rooms to join it, becoming a comprehensive rice culture experience center integrating catering, leisure, activities, intangible experience, forest children's play, rice culture class and farming research. Here, farmers have become attractive and ideal jobs, and the countryside has become a charming home for living and working. In 2020, 88 mu of farmland won the first prize of Shanghai Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition.

In addition to innovating production methods and improving agricultural efficiency, Zhu Yan's actions broke the narrow pattern of rural areas, activated and enhanced the vitality and attractiveness of rural society, and conveyed an exciting force.

I remember that more than ten years ago, the author and my photography friends went to a county in Zhejiang to collect wind. In a well-known large-scale natural village, apart from the old people and children, we only met a young woman, so hunters and other two groups of people with long guns and short guns met their prey and took turns to "chase" her. Afterwards, I learned that the young woman used to work in Hangzhou, but now she just goes home to visit relatives. Previously, the author had visited an ancient town with many bridges in the suburbs with literary friends. Apart from dilapidated old houses, old people and sporadic chickens and dogs, there are basically no young people along the way. Asked Lu Yu, he replied that young people moved to the county seat, and the county seat can still live in the city. ...

The feeling of sadness is worrying. The vast countryside is the mother land of the city, our route and the cradle of realizing the Chinese dream. After her contribution to the reform, opening up and rapid economic development, it is time to be grateful and give back to her! Homesickness is a feeling that everyone will have. The best way to express homesickness is to think about what we can do for her when we are homesick. In this respect, Mi Meiren is undoubtedly the forerunner and deserves people's respect and imitation. (Gan Jianhua)