The girl gave up her annual salary of 500,000 yuan to fulfill her father’s last wish
The girl gave up her annual salary of 500,000 yuan to fulfill her father’s last wish. A post-90s Dong girl gave up her job with an annual salary of 500,000 yuan and chose to fulfill her father’s last wish— —Collect and sort out the Dong culture that is about to be lost. The girl gave up her annual salary of 500,000 yuan to fulfill her father's last wish. The girl gave up 500,000 annual salary to fulfill her father's last wish1
Axiang often thinks of her father's wish during his lifetime.
Axiang’s real name is Zhang Guodan, a post-90s generation born in Zhongluo Village, Sanlong Dong Village, Liping County, Qiandongnan, Guizhou. After graduating from Hunan Business College (now Hunan Technology and Business University), he worked in Guangzhou Foreign trade business.
In the winter of 2015, her father had an accident. Axiang returned to the Dong village where she was born, opened her father's computer folder, and found that her father had left behind a large number of precious Dong songs. She decided to stay in the countryside and inherit her father's legacy. Her mother once wondered why she gave up a good job in a big city. She quarreled with her, threw her things outside the house, and threatened her to return to the city by severing the relationship between mother and daughter.
Starting in November 2018, Axiang made short videos about her rural life and Dong culture and posted them on the "Village Girl Axiang" Douyin account. So far, she has gained 1.13 million fans and 8.58 million likes.
Recently, the Douyin creator series of micro-movies "Respect Yourself" was launched. Among them, "Chasing Zhang Xuecheng" tells the story of Axiang returning to his hometown to pursue his father's legacy, and finally inheriting the Dong nationality songs through Douyin short videos.
Father's Last Wish
The "Zhang Xuecheng" in the title is Axiang's father, a barefoot doctor who likes Dong music.
After returning home, Axiang discovered by sorting out his father’s belongings that his father had deep feelings for Dong songs. His incomplete notebook wrote, "I have photographed a lot of Dong songs, and there are still many that I have not photographed. I am afraid that our generation... will be lost." His computer password is also the melody of Dong songs, which contains a large number of precious images of Dong songs that he has recorded for more than ten years.
Stills from the micro-film "Chasing Zhang Xuecheng"
Dong song is an ancient singing art of the Dong people. In the past, the Dong people did not have their own written language, so cultural customs relied on Dong people. Song inheritance. In 2006, the Dong song was listed as the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage. In 2009, it was included in the "Masterpiece of Human Intangible Cultural Heritage" list by UNESCO.
Therefore, older Dong singers are deeply respected in the local area. Axiang remembered that when she was a child, she went to a neighboring village to play, and others were vying to treat her to dinner. Later she learned that the reason why others were so enthusiastic about her was because her father had been teaching Dong songs in different villages since he was young. And my grandmother is also one of the few old singers in the village of 3,000 people who knows thousands of Dong songs.
Axiang was deeply moved by all this. She decided to give up her annual surplus income of more than 200,000 yuan in Guangzhou and stay in her hometown to inherit her father's legacy. When she first made this decision, her mother didn't understand it and thought she was "goofing around", so she persuaded her to go back to Guangzhou to make money every now and then. During the most violent quarrel, the mother threw Axiang's things into the yard outside the house, saying that she wanted to sever the relationship between mother and daughter. The villagers also thought she was "crazy and stupid".
Stills from the micro-movie "Chasing Zhang Xuecheng"
Raising your mobile phone to change your hometown
Until November 2018, Axiang opened Douyin When she uploaded her first short video using the account @村女阿香, she had been working hard in her hometown for three years and had recorded four to five thousand Dong songs with her father. She cut the scene of the autumn harvest in the Dong village and the picture of the Dong girl walking on the country road holding rice into short videos and posted them on Douyin. However, in the first month, it only accumulated more than a hundred fans, which made Axiang, who wanted to spread Dong song culture, a little frustrated.
Soon, she realized the crux: there were only pictures, no clues and characters for fans to project their emotions, no matter how exquisitely shot it was, it was useless. So Axiang began to adjust her strategy. She hired neighbor sisters as photographers and embedded herself in Douyin videos.
In the video, she is dressed in Dong costumes. She not only sings Dong songs with the villagers, but also introduces the traditional food of the Dong people, teaches netizens how to put their hair up, and takes netizens to appreciate the traditional Dong customs. . As her fans continued to accumulate, finally, a video she recorded of stepping on a stone mortar to make chili sauce went viral.
In the video, Axiang, dressed in traditional ethnic costumes, stepped on one end of a piece of wood, and the stone pestle on the other end of the piece of wood fell to the ground. In a stone mortar full of chili peppers.
This video vividly shows the life and beauty of the Dong people, attracting more than 1.4 million likes from netizens. Everyone left messages, "I went to my grandma's house to play when I was little", "I also have this at home, our hometown is called Duiwo", "The clothes are very beautiful". Just one video of stepping on a stone mortar sold 3,000 kilograms of chili peppers. There was not enough chili pepper in the village to sell. In addition, local specialties such as rice and turmeric have become hot commodities.
Stills from the micro-film "Chasing Zhang Xuecheng"
The popularity of Douyin has solved Axiang's income problem.
Since returning to her hometown in 2015, she has spent money on various items such as purchasing filming equipment, visiting villages to shoot Dong song videos, and taking care of her family. Through Douyin e-commerce, she not only regained a stable income, but also led her family and even the people around her to become rich together.
Axiang’s mother finally no longer needs to urge her to return to the big city to work hard. Now she takes care of the pigs and chickens at home, and has her children by her side. She is very happy every day; Axiang’s uncle Being unable to do heavy work due to illness, Axiang's video helped open up the market for the poles, stools, baskets, etc. he made. He was no longer depressed due to illness, and his life became more positive and sunny. The second sister, third sister and younger brother joined the 200 contracted by her. The orchard is under construction, and Axiang wants to build it into an experience park that integrates pipa singing, embroidery and other Dong cultural tourism.
"Douyin not only allows us to improve our lives, but more importantly, it brings a sense of value." Axiang said. There was a local Dong singer who lived a prosperous and respected life in the past. In 2019, her husband suddenly contracted stomach cancer and died within a month. In order to repay the debt incurred for medical treatment, her son went out to work, but he also had an accident not long after. Many people thought she was unlucky and stopped inviting her to sing.
As a woman who has received modern education and worked hard in a big city, Axiang has her own considerations about what is the best and what is the dross in Dong culture. She specially invited the singer to shoot videos and sing in the live broadcast room. Some fans came to the village to visit her. It is with this kind of recognition and encouragement that the singer gradually emerged from the haze and found the motivation to live again.
Stills from the micro-film "Chasing Zhang Xuecheng"
Currently, @村女阿香 has more than 1.13 million Douyin fans and more than 8.58 million likes. In her video, netizens can not only see a large number of precious images of Dong songs, which are intangible cultural heritage, but also appreciate the traditional customs of the Dong people and people's current living conditions.
Now, Axiang has contracted a 200-acre orchard on a mountain twenty minutes’ drive from the village. There are cherry trees, loquat trees, plum trees, peach trees, and orange trees in the orchard. At first sight, Axiang thought it looked like a paradise.
In this orchard, the mother is in charge of planting crops, the uncle helps find workers for manual labor, the second sister is in charge of the after-sales service of the e-commerce, the third sister is in charge of finance, and the younger brother is responsible for taking care of all hardware facilities. The whole family is in a promising future with something to work on, and Axiang is particularly satisfied.
In December 2021, Axiang was certified as the intangible inheritor of Dong song. So far, she and her father have compiled and recorded more than 2,800 Dong songs. My father's last wish finally became a reality. The girl gave up a job with an annual salary of 500,000 yuan to fulfill her father's last wish 2
The girl gave up her job with an annual salary of 500,000 yuan and chose to fulfill her father's last wish - to collect and organize the Dong culture that was about to be lost. Faced with her personal future and the unfulfilled wishes of her relatives, Axiang chose the latter. I admire Axiang’s courage and even more admire her persistence.
Axiang, a Dong girl born in the 1990s, is an urban white-collar worker. Her father died unexpectedly. When taking care of the funeral, she found Dong song information and videos left by her father on her father’s computer, which were also unknown to her father during his lifetime. something accomplished. Despite the opposition of her family, she insisted on staying in her hometown to collect and restore Dong songs and Dong language, fulfilling her father's last wish. With Axiang's efforts, nearly a thousand Dong songs have been collected so far.
Simply choosing to give up a high-paying job and return to their hometown to fulfill their last wish is a choice that many people cannot make, and it is even more difficult to persist. On the one hand, she was facing the pressure from her family, and at the same time, she had to work hard to restore the Dong culture. Under such circumstances, Axiang did not give up, collected and organized relevant information, and made certain achievements with her own efforts. Axiang’s spirit is worth learning from, and Axiang’s behavior should be recorded and made known to more people.
In the information age where electronic products are prevalent, traditional culture still needs to be passed on, rather than becoming a substitute for the information age. No matter when, traditional culture cannot be forgotten. Axiang is our role model. The inheritance of culture needs more people like Axiang. Each of us should take action to contribute to the inheritance of culture and let more people appreciate its charm.
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