After three years of hard work and quick hands, can yoga really help Yugou Liang get rid of poverty and become rich?
Editor’s note: This article is from WeChat public account “Fueling Finance” (ID: rancaijing ), author Yan Lijiao, editor Su Qi
On the dam of minus 20 degrees, it is easy to imagine a handstand without any assistance. It is hard to imagine that this action is an old man who is over 70 years old.
“Two legs stretched around the head”, “shoulder inverted variant”, “half lotus bundled side bend”… For the old man of Yugou Liangcun, these are very read Laborious yoga movements, they are not in the eye. Eighty-year-olds can easily make a word, and it is a minute to move their feet parallel to the head. After these videos were uploaded to the fast hand, “Yu Dog Liang” unexpectedly became popular.
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Yugouliang is a poverty-stricken village located in the northwestern part of Hebei Province and a microcosm of rural China. Many of the people here have never walked out of the village, but through the short video platform such as vibrato, fast hands and so on, the circle of their original life was penetrated.
These short video platforms are changing the way Chinese farmers live and play, and are also changing the way they earn income. These videos fill the peeks and imaginations of urbanites about rural life, and more and more users are willing to reward rural bloggers or purchase their agricultural and sideline products.
But the problem and the envy are coming. It is difficult for villagers to have time and energy to create high-quality content that is continuously updated and attracts enough fans. In addition, those show owners and “old irons” are able to control the field, and the farmers who work all day can easily control.
They expect to be seen by more people through the short video platform, so as to sell the local agricultural products and solve the poverty problem of “no mountains, no water, no water”. Paradoxically, they don’t know how to run themselves, not even Mandarin. Net red jade dog Liang, there are too many troubles.
01 Young people’s self-satisfied “young yoga”
In the fast hand, there are a lot of accounts for rural life, but the jade dog beam is typical enough.
Before the emergence of Yugou Liang, no one would associate farmers, seniors and yoga. If you don’t see it with your own eyes, it’s hard to imagine that the 80-year-old can flexibly twist his hands and feet.
This old man wearing red socks and a blue headscarf is the grandmother of Xu Wei after 90 years. The posture she is doing, the yoga term is called “hand support.” At the beginning, he also sent a video of his grandmother practicing yoga to the fast hand. From the beginning of March this year, the account named “Yu Dog Liang Yoga Granny” accumulated 156,000 fans in less than half a year.
He also launched a set of 7 sets of junior and intermediate yoga courses, each set for 19 yuan, and 542 people have already purchased this course.
In the village, a group of grandmothers with an average age of 70 or so are standing upside down and doing a word horse. It is not a problem at all. They can easily lift their legs and put their feet behind their heads. The flexibility makes you ignore the age and feel the dance.
< Span> After seeing the video, some people thought that Yugou Liang had a tradition of yoga training for decades. Some people questioned that they were for the sake of the eyeballs, and some people were concerned about the health of the legs and feet of the old people. But many people don’t know that these people have been practicing yoga for more than three years, and it is precisely because of yoga that they have alleviated the root causes of their years of work
. Yu Xiuying is the director of the Women’s Federation of Yu Dog Liang. She runs another fast hand, “Yu Dog Liang, the first village of Chinese Yoga”. On August 2, she took a group of old people practicing yoga to Zhangjiakou City, and more than 5,000 people watched the live broadcast online.
OldPeople laughed and laughed all the way, said Yan Xiuying, which was hard to imagine in the past.
02 “Hollow Village” Jade Dog Beam
The traffic to Yugouliang is not convenient.
From Beijing to Zhangjiakou, take a train for nearly 4 hours. Take the train for an hour to Zhangbei County, then transfer to the CMB in the villages along the two sides of the town. CMB has only one trip per day and the ticket is 15 yuan. Once it is missed, the price of the taxi will be 10 times.
Before driving, CMB always stops at the side of the road. Here is the place they have agreed to. The locals are called “Ximenkou”. The car that went to Yugouliang was only a glimpse. The driver had been driving for seven or eight years, and everyone in the village knew him.
CMB bumped on the dusty dirt road for an hour and a half, and it was already afternoon to reach Yugouliang. This is a poor village in the northwestern part of Hebei Province. The only income that has been living here is the crops that are to be eaten by the sky. Staying in the village can’t see hope, young people and middle-aged people choose to leave their hometown, and Yugou Liang becomes a “hollow village.” There were more than 190 villagers in the village, and now only 60 are left, and 80% are elderly.
In 2016, Lu Wenzhen came here with a working group on poverty alleviation. The difficulty of poverty alleviation once made him unable to sleep. “There is no mountain on the back, no water on the water.” The economic crops that can be planted are very limited. Potatoes, beets, and buckwheat, due to insufficient water resources, years of insufficient rainfall, land harvest Only enough to eat and drink.
Zhangbei is located in the alpine region of the dam, adjacent to the North China Plain, with an elevation of over 1,400 meters. The crops are cooked every year, and the whole family relies on the food of dozens of acres of real estate. Although there are many places, the yield per mu is limited and it relies entirely on rainwater. Take buckwheat as an example. Under good circumstances, an acre of land can produce more than 200 kilograms. If it is not good, even 50 kilograms can not be produced.
Looking at the food alone, I couldn’t live a comfortable life. The villagers’ habit of sitting cross-legged, suddenly let Lu Wenzhen have inspiration. Cross-legged and yoga “double disc” is very similar. This made him realize that some of the peasant habits may be combined with yoga.
“If you can’t get rid of poverty in the short term, you can start with health.” In retrospect, Lu Wenzhen also admired his courage at that time, because he encountered very great resistance in the early implementation. <