Yuanjiagou's Cultural Education

As the saying goes, "one side of the soil and water support one side of the people", the relationship between human socio-economic, cultural activities and geographical environment has formed a unique humanistic phenomenon in various regions. In this small mountain village, which is difficult to trace back on the map of Shaanxi, there have been four provincial party secretaries and more than 70 county-level cadres in the past few decades. The origin and tradition of family style can be traced back to a longer time. Since the founding of New China, this village has successively gone out of four provincial party secretaries: Bai Zhimin, Bai Rubing, Bai Cai Dong and Bai Payne, so it is called "the village of provincial party secretaries" by local people. Many people in Yuanjiagou have a lot to do with the traditions in the village. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, a man named Bai Xingshun made a suggestion in the village. According to Qingjian County Records, this man is the ancestor of Bai Rubing. After the death of the Ming Dynasty, Bai Xingshun warned future generations to be loyal and obedient to the death of the Ming Dynasty and not to be an official of the Qing Dynasty. In modern times, Yuanjiagou people still respect their family style.

Bai surname is a famous surname in northern Shaanxi. As the saying goes, "Times make heroes", since the 1920s and 1930s, important figures have appeared in the Bai family, and with the development of the revolution, they have a prominent position in China's political arena. Among them, a white surname in Yuanjiagou, Qingjian County is the most representative. The villagers said that the ancestors of the Bai family in Yuanjiagou moved from the big locust tree in Shanxi. Up to now, the village still treasures a genealogy compiled in the Ming Dynasty, which is said to be the oldest and most complete genealogy in Qingjian County.

According to legend, this ancient genealogy was written by Bai Yansheng, a tribute student during the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty. In the genealogy, the names of everyone in the Bai family are sorted by gold, water, wood, fire and earth, and sorted by five generations. However, many people who work outside the home no longer follow the family tree. When they are in the genealogy, they will take another name in the order of generations and add the current name next to it.

The old people in the village are planning to renew their genealogy, and they plan to reform it: first, re-register the Bai family who have worked outside the home or have moved their families from Yuanjiagou to other places; second, renew their genealogy for women who have married from Yuanjiagou.

There are frequent high-ranking officials in the history of Yuanjiagou, and there is naturally a tradition of attaching importance to education here. There are a large number of private schools and a strong style of writing in Alex Gao Village nearby. Many families sent their children to private schools in Alex Gao Village until Yuanjiagou also had a private school.

According to legend, a Feng Shui gentleman turned several times at the top of Yuanjiagou Mountain and even shouted, "Good! Great! " Then mysteriously said: "Yuanjiagou will produce three buckets and three liters of rapeseed officials!" There is also a legend that in the early Ming Dynasty, a prime minister saw that the geomantic omen in Yuanjiagou was full of aura and asserted that nine emperors would be created, so he suggested that the emperor build the Jade Emperor Temple in Gaojiawa, 20 kilometers away from Yuanjiagou, which broke the geomantic omen in Yuanjiagou.

There is no emperor in Yuanjiagou, but there are several provincial party committee secretaries. According to public information, Bai Rubing and Bai are the first secretaries of Shandong Provincial Party Committee and Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee respectively. Bai, former secretary of Fujian Provincial Party Committee and now secretary of Yunnan Provincial Party Committee. (In fact, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, provincial committees all over the country also had first secretaries, equivalent to the current provincial party secretaries. Therefore, Bai Zhimin's party secretary is not the same as others. Later, he became the executive vice minister of the Central Organization Department, and was still a ministerial-level cadre. )

Among the above four people, Bai Rubing, Bai died in April of 1994, in April of 2007 10 and in April of 20 14 respectively. Only the youngest Bai is still active in the reform tide of southwest development. On August 20 14, Bai was investigated by the organization for alleged violation of discipline.