Yang Qiming: World West Rivers patron god (figure)

　　Yang Qiming, male, 45 years old, Guizhou Leishan County police station West River Local police station political instructor concurrently thousand households seedling stronghold community police, the local Miao national minority compatriots kindly praised him are “the world West River’s patron god”.

　　“Guizhou name card” bitter experience “tiger stove”

　　West River thousand households Miao Zhai is called “the Guizhou name card”, because “nationality constructs treasure” and “dance sea” is well-known was long, in 2006 is listed as by United Nations Chinese 35 world culture inheritance preparation name list. Miao Zhai is living more than 1200 households Miao populace, is in the world biggest Miao Zhai.

　　However, is behind these rich and unique ethnic customs, is actually hiding not allow to neglect fire safety problem. Because the Miao populace mostly live together as an ethnic group in one community, backer to build the room, wooden structure’s house is crowded, in addition uses the fire way to be backward, until now also continues to use takes the lumber, charcoal and firewood primarily “tiger stove” and fire barrel and brazier roasting food and warms up with the fire way, will have slightly causes the fire carelessly, quick will roll up like a mat the fire intensity the entire village. Specially some villagers superstitiously think that the fire is “god fire” and “day fire”, meets the fire to meet one’s fate with resignation frequently, does not go to save goal positively and to prevent. Therefore, many Miaozucun Village, once has fire, the fire intensity spread is quick, is extremely easy to cause “to burn down Lian Ying”, a household catches fire, the entire stronghold met with a disaster. “Laborious dozens years, burnt down pre-liberation”, “have burnt a stronghold, have destroyed a piece of forest, painstakingly several generations of people”, are to the Qiandongnanzhou countryside fire consequence real description.

　　In 1989, after retiring from the armed services to return to home village worked as police Yang Qiming to assign to West River Local police station, in the institute arranges him to be in charge of the fire work. Hits slightly witnesses seedling stronghold fire Yang Qiming to fully realize that completes this work critical time thousand households seedling stronghold populace’s personal safety and property, a critical time side livelihood of the people. He secretly sets firm resolve, must complete fire work of West River, does not let this Tu Tan who has several hundred years brilliant history culture old town to suffer the fire evil spirit. To the familiar service, he pay own expenses to purchase the commonly used fire security books as soon as possible, has studied independently outside the massive rural fire prevention security knowledge, but also had free time to run toward the village, door to door propagandized the fire protection general knowledge by the village, guided the villagers to set up the science with the fire consciousness, prevented with the fire not, when initiated the disaster. Several months later, other people ran thinly, the leg also ran thin, but Xijiang Town’s more than 20 villages actually under his insistence, completely established the fire security measure and contingency plan, each village group built up the voluntary fire brigade, the village cadre inspects the fire insurance hidden danger every day from house to house, the villagers starts with the primitive way to call the gong to shout the stronghold in the evening in turn, momentarily reminded everybody to pay attention to the fire protection.

　　In order to establish “firewall” reliably, causes the villagers to be far away from “fire evil spirit”, he also under fire service the coordination, actively carries out in Xijiang Town “changes the stove, to change the water, to change the electricity, to change stronghold” project, encourages the villagers to change the primitive backwardness with the fire way, and not standard installs the line to make the adjustment to the aged electric wire, opens the trench in the village, constructs the reservoir, installs the hose saddle, provides the fire fighting equipment. After him year after year the unremitting efforts, fellow villagers gradually changed has continued many generations of people with the fire custom, the determination remove more than 600 to be easy to initiate fire’s old style smoke window, transforms more than 700 Mars flew randomly “tiger stove”, the firewood also piled up to the security spot.

　　Because locality’s economy is also very backward, some “extremely poor family” family does not have ability “to change stove”, he pulls out to disburse money from his wages, Zhang 100, Li Jia 200, buys the cement and firebrick for them reorganizes “tiger stove”. Mr. and Mrs. Jiang in Zhiyuan mutton chop village already over 70-year-old, and is childless, at this time has worked as assistant manager’s Yang Qiming another two police to donate money with the institute for the old person immediately together 800 Yuan, buys the building material and electric lamp and electric wire delivers to the old person, and begins to stir the cement, to build the firebrick personally, arranges the electric circuit. Then, he throws more than ten households financial problems, do not have the labor force “extremely poor family” and “priority-area household” in family, first company bustles about for several months, has carried out thoroughly rectification and reform work which “tiger stove” and electric circuit got older, removed the hidden danger.

　　For many years the local police station funds have been insufficient, Yang Qiming is under such extreme difficult condition, strives for West River Miao Zhai to the massive fire facility, installs 56 hose saddles in Miao Zhaili successively, purchases 4 power pumps, as well as massive fire bag, water gun and other fire fighting equipments. Strives for the countries support at the same time, individual is also positive contributes, according to his colleague recollection, these years, he “changes the stove, to change the water for villagers, to change the wages which electricity” pulls out at least also to have 7000 Yuan, enabled fire work of West River to have the qualitative leap from the form to the content.

　　Yang Qiming fully realized: Completes the fire protection work, but must constantly sound the alarm bell. In 2000, he passed through to finance to buy a set of simple public-address equipment in every way, in established the Guizhou first countryside fire prevention broadcasting station less than 20 square meters offices, was the radio announcer personally, was familiar with the Hmong language to carry on the broadcast with the fellow villagers, every day each one time, will propagandize the fire knowledge to everybody sooner or later unceasingly. Specially during Miao populace “eats evening of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month” and “seedling lunar new year’s season” and so on folk festival celebrates the activity, he is uninterruptedly repeatedly to the villagers and tourist prompts the dangerous situation hidden danger.

　　At the beginning of 2008, Guizhou encounters the historical rare low temperature sleet freezing disaster, Shan Gaolu far West River thousand households Miao Zhai long time cuts power to cut off the water supply continuously, causes the fire pipeline to ice up the jamming, the livelihood of villagers suffers the enormous difficulty, the fire security faced with the serious threat. To remove the fire insurance hidden danger promptly, Yang Qiming day and night leads the voluntary fireman to enter each village to call the gong to shout the stronghold. Simultaneously he also does everything possible to use the boiling water to drench, the straw fever and drill rod to hold and other method emergency repairs to ice up the jamming hose saddle, enables the entire stronghold’s hose saddle every day to supply water normally. During this, because the mountain road freezes slippery, the once his falling down several meters high road ridges, create the right hand skill dislocation carelessly, more than one month later restores.

　　And pays through his year after year endeavor, “thousand households Miao Zhai” set the record did not have record of the fire accident consecutively for 30 years. Experienced the seedling stronghold fire old people to sigh: “Before, we were worried daily the fire from our border process, has a dream in the evening often is awakened. After having Yang Qiming, we slept are dependable.”

　　“West River cannot not you ……”

　　Arrived at West River Local police station from 1989, Yang Qiming did the assistant manager, manager and political instructor concurrently community police from the ordinary police, for 20 years, he believed, only then this kind of truth: “Is the lump coal must burn, is individual must offer, walks one chapter to be unworthy in the world in vain.”In 2001, the bureau party committee was transferred to him from county near Fang Yang the township local police station is appointed the manager. But he transfers for one year, leadership of Xijiang Town jointly submits a written statement to the county party committee county government, requests to recall Yang Qiming West River Local police station, the reason is: “West River thousand households Miao Zhai fire situation is stern, West River cannot not he.”Because the Leishan county party committee county government has set up the written pledge to fulfill a military order to West River: West River thousand households Miao Zhai cannot burn, the fever do not! Regarding this, Yang Qiming has accorded with the decision of organization unconditionally. He said: “Present’s West River, is not the region and in name significance West River, West River, is China’s West River, is world West River. If there is ruined West River because of our negligences, we will become the history criminal”.

　　Regarding elder in West River, Yang Qiming is qualified police. But regarding the family member, he is actually not a competent husband and father. Yang Qiming’s family lives in Xijiang Town, was he is very busy, is almost busy at almost sacrificing all holidays and two-day weekend, little had the time to take into consideration the wife and daughter. The wife has not worked, and valetudinarianism, the family shoulder pole presses completely on the wife shoulder. The busy farming season, Yang Qiming cannot go home, the wife must ask the human to plow and to transplant seedlings threshing. The wife because of having heart disease is admitted to hospital repeatedly, but he actually does not have the time protection side the wife. Therefore, the wife once was in a pet child gives the parents to look, goes to Guangdong to work solitarily. After the bureau leaders know the situation, sent the specialist to look to Guangdong his wife. “In my memory, the father has not delivered me to arrive at the school, has not led me and mother has strolled a market ……”, this is words which at heart in this year the high two daughters say with tears. On after daughter high school, the wife has rented a housing in the county, at the same time looks after the daughter to study, at the same time maintains the livelihood depending on the handed down in the family embroidery craftsmanship. For all this, the wife get excited said at the family member symposium: “Our family have already been used to him not in the day. Who lets him is police, who let me marry the police?”

　　“Thousand households Miao Zhai recognizes him ……”

　　Because thousand households Miao Zhai villagers recognized specially the steadfast personhood, worked earnestly Yang Qiming, in addition here fire work’s particularity, the county police station has to “giving up reluctantly”, change to a new post Yang Qiming for the local police station political instructor concurrently thousand households seedling stronghold community police , to continue to be in charge of the fire prevention and level, Yang Qiming has not disappointed the trust of organization and populace, still as was always fulfilling his Miao Zhai bodyguard’s responsibility.

　　Travelled the development along with recent years thousand households Miao Zhai, fame in West River is also getting bigger and bigger, every day has large quantities of tourists to come, to lead thousand households Miao Zhai Miao silver personal ornament and other tourist goods stores to be day by day prosperous in admiration of somebody’s fame, Miao Zhaili successively had some robber cases of robbery. In view of this new situation, Yang Qiming enlarges at the same time to area of jurisdiction’s patrol control dynamics, leads the police completely biggest strength to ensure tourist’s safety; On the other hand, he also mobilizes in the village joint defense unit, the voluntary fire brigade and local police station joint defense linkage, wipes out 2 to steal the silver personal ornament shop and tourist belongings burglary gang in West River continuously, solves 8 series to rob the case of robbery, recovered for the merchant and tourist is robbed the belongings. For “beautiful West River” is more beautiful

　　The appearance simple and honest and slightly obviously clumsy with words Yang Qiming whoever always smiles. No matter Zhaizili which family had the matter to find him, he will be glad to do very much, whenever when some people expressed gratitude to him, he actually said that “your matter was my matter”.

　　Before thousand households seedling stronghold tourist development, what major economic origin of the local masses depends is plants the agricultural product and works. Therefore, when whenever the busy farming season or the villagers concentrate goes out to work, he must on own initiative lead in the institute police to walk the village residence to visit for the populace to hold the matter. One day of 2:00 am, day is raining hard, is on duty to perform duties he to receive to think that a village villagers’ seeking help telephone, said Mr. and Mrs. Gu Yongwen 7 month-long the baby boy had serious illness, in the village the clinic cannot treat, changed to more than 10 kilometers far towns to receive a medical examination urgently needed. After knowing the situation, he without demur, goes by car to rush to the villagers family immediately in spite of the rain. Because this families do not have the umbrella, he takes off his clothes to wrap to hug the child solid boards, fast delivers to the town hospital the child and his parents whole families, and carries on the guarantee by individual name, enables the child to obtain the immediate cure. When the child is out of the danger time, day already greatly bright, but this time’s Yang Qiming must fall asleep tired on hospital’s bench, is irrigated thoroughly clothes also almost warmly to be done by his body’s quantity of heat by the heavy rain. Afterward, child’s parents put out 100 Yuan cashes which they work to save to thank Yang Qiming, Yang Qiming politely refuse, therefore child’s parents said whoever happens to come: “Yang Qiming is child’s one’s saviors, Yang Qiming promptly gets rid to help one another, the child possibly died”.

　　Such instance, Yang Qiming will meet the time every year. After may he complete each time, including oneself could not remember that is how a chapter of matter, because of these for him too usually. In May, “Guizhou Metropolis” published a Beijing tourist Mr. Li’s letter, in the letter narrated Mr. Li in a West River unforgettable travel. Originally, on April 8 this day, Mr. Li and wife came West River to play, finally entered Miao Zhaicai to discover that own wallet disappeared, the couple worried not to know that for a while how was good. But, Mr. Li under the direction of villagers, holds the point of view which is trying to look to arrive at the local police station to seek the help. After been on duty Yang Qiming finds out the situation, lending lets stony broke Mr. and Mrs. Li gentleman be admitted to the hotel to rest immediately, then immediately leads the human to throw seeks. After search, Yang Qiming contacted with Mr. Li to ride vehicles’ pilot quickly, from was waiting for similarly anxiously owner of lost articles’s pilot there has brought back the wallet, returned to Mr. Li. Those who stem from Mr. Li to anticipate, wants to treat to thank Yang Qiming he, continually is actually taken along urged to pull by Yang Qiming actually the dinner table, and has received warm receiving cordially. Recalled that unforgettable travel, Mr. Li get excited said: “Through with Yang Jingguan short contact, I retrieve, is not only the loss wallet, found that joyful, happy and affected. The simple West River people with the simple and natural way, has annotated the world are greatly really greatly friendly and US”. That evening, rice wine stamina is very freely big, Mr. Li unrestrainedly has drunk, is infatuated with and subdues in beautiful Miao Township ……Mr. Li has taken a title to this letter – “Beautiful Guizhou West River Seedling Stronghold”.

　　Under the vigorous support of government, Xijiang Town also expanded only then 6 person’s professional fire brigades 18 people, but also provided one to be able on the mountain road high-speed mobility’s small fire engine. According to West River Scenic area Administrative bureau statistics which establishes newly: Since this year thousand households seedling stronghold daily average receives the tourist quantity is more than 2900 people, compared to formerly grew more than 6 times, traveling synthesis revenue growth more than 9 times, the villagers receive greatly enhance. All these changes, are accumulating Yang Qiming’s thick true feelings and deep affection. Facing the honor, he only lightly said: “Honor can only show the past, must let beautiful West River be more beautiful”. (This article originates: People.com)