Travel Notes of Ansai (Prose Travel Notes)

Every time I tell my classmates in other schools that I will go to the countryside for social practice in the summer vacation, don't they think they just take the school money to travel? Indeed, many people will think that they go out to play in the name of research. Perhaps it can be said that the school provides some financial subsidies to solve some of your transportation expenses to a certain extent, but personal development is put after the research, and it is not an easy task to really complete the research. This year is the last time I participated in social research in my undergraduate career, but it should also be the most important year. As a senior student, I have two years of experience in social research, so as the vice captain of the team and the leader of the research group, I feel the pressure and burden on my shoulders. However, I found that research can exercise a person's strength after doing something by himself.

Before investigation

Before the investigation, the place we investigated was Ansai in northern Shaanxi, a city that can only be regarded as very distant and strange to me. I learned from the internet that it is famous at home and abroad for its folk art. Waist drum is a wonderful flower of its folk art.

Ansai is a remote small county town adjacent to Yan 'an. There are mountains and ravines in the territory. It governs 6 towns, 8 townships, 1 sub-district office, 204 administrative villages,150,300 people, including agricultural population139,000 people. The total area is 2950 square kilometers, mostly mountainous, accounting for more than 95%. It is a typical hilly and gully region of the Loess Plateau in northern Shaanxi, with a warm temperate and semi-arid climate. The Ansai waist drum culture created in such an environment always affects the national leaders and people of China, and also attracts us to investigate Ansai waist drum.

When we were eager to prepare research materials for Ansai, we were turned away first. In the social research I participated in before, when we said that we were deep, the other party received us warmly, but this time it was just the opposite. On July 18, our captain contacted the Ansai county government and the Youth League Committee, but the other party refused to contact. Our research topic-Ansai folk culture-should have been studied in rural areas. The county seat is a certain distance from the villages and towns. Because the government refused to contact us, our plan had to change the original research plan. Even when we arrived in Shaanxi, we still crustily skin of head.

While the investigation is in progress

When we were about to meet like headless flies in Yan 'an, we met Ding Dajie, a researcher in the Department of Geography of Shaanxi Normal University, on the train. She has been to Ansai before to inspect the development of geography and environment and is familiar with the situation there. Only through this conversation can we have a general understanding of Ansai. According to what she said, we re-determined the research topic-"Investigation on the development status and development countermeasures of Ansai waist drum", participated in the questionnaire design together and asked the teacher for advice. This time, we tasted the sweetness of consultation for the first time. In Yan 'an, we met other social research teams from all over the country. Their research time is earlier than ours, and they know something about the local area. We humbly asked them about the local actual situation and changed the questionnaire and investigation plan.

The whole Yan 'an tourism is called red tourism. We choose jujube garden as the place where we receive revolutionary traditional education. Here we first met our research topic-Ansai waist drum, which is a professional waist drum team. During the performance, we seized the opportunity to interview each waist drum player and got a good understanding of Ansai waist drum.

In Yan 'an, the captain contacted Ansai students of Yan 'an University, and he gave us the most sincere and important help, which made our Ansai trip a complete success. He followed us back to Ansai County and used his social skills to contact Ansai Cultural Bureau, Ansai waist drum coach Chen Piliang, Ansai paper-cutting master Hou and folk song king He Yutang ... This gave us a good start in our research and made us less laborious.

Zhang is not only the way of civil and military affairs, but also the way of life and survival. Therefore, Ansai people continue to multiply from generation to generation in this relaxation. The "Zhang" mentioned here means that you have to work hard, bear hardships and stand hard, and carry forward with heavy burdens in order to live; And this "late" is mainly Ansai waist drum, paper-cutting, peasant painting, folk songs and other folk arts, which are self-growing, not self-extinction. Ansai waist drum is a traditional folk culture with a long history. It is not based on our understanding that the government proposes reform and innovation in the process of continuous development and gives policy support. In order to solve this problem, we distributed questionnaires to the county gymnasium, Ansai Middle School, and county streets, visited the county residents in depth, and conducted on-the-spot research on the tourism development project Ansai waist drum mountain industry, hoping to put forward a substantial prospect for the development of Ansai waist drum.

In the course of this investigation, we encountered many difficulties, but we all overcame them one by one.

Feel the culture of the Loess Plateau

Yan 'an is the holy land of the Red Revolution. For me, it's a place where I live in books and TV, but I can feel it far away, but I can't touch it. On the 24th, when I walked out of Yan 'an Railway Station and set foot on the land of Yan 'an, I was extremely excited. Get on the bus, look at the caves on the mountain, walk across Yan 'an Bridge, look at Yanhe River, and imagine that this is the life in northern Shaanxi described by Lu Yao. Ordinary World tells the story that happened here. Although the legendary loess high slope has already disappeared, because the mountains here have been covered with green clothes, I still realized the origin of China's vast territory and abundant resources.

Knowing that northern Shaanxi is a place with bitter living conditions, when we arrived in Yan 'an and prepared to go to Ansai, we met many students who had been to Ansai for investigation and told us that the conditions in Ansai were bitter and needed more preparation, and even the instant noodles there were expensive, but every step we took, I only felt the vibrant life of Ansai people. From Yan 'an to Ansai County, Anyan expressway goes directly to Ansai. In a real sense, the ancestors left Ansai people with only poverty and the root of poverty, but Ansai people struggled with the harsh natural environment with tenacious vitality, such as Ansai waist drum beating on the yellow land, Ansai paper-cut by folk women, the paradise trip shouted by farmers, the smashed cave buildings on the mountainside, and the cold in summer, which touched the hearts of every viewer all the time.

Maybe I will never set foot on the land of northern Shaanxi again, but everything here has left a deep impression on me.