Cha’an Village, Jinci Street: Deepening the Change of Customs and Establishing a New Style of Civilization

Cha’an Village, Jinci Street is located on the banks of the Lishui River in the west of Cili County. It is formed by the merger of the original Cha’an and Zhangjiayu, about 4 kilometers away from the county seat. There are 22 villager groups in the whole village, 740 households and 2351 people. The leading industries are rice, corn, citrus, honeysuckle and greenhouse vegetables. Walking into Cha’an Village, the village is clean and tidy outside the village, and you can see a series of landscapes, models of integrity, famous sayings, laws and regulations, folk customs, filial piety culture…..

From poverty alleviation to rural revitalization, along the way, Cha’an Village takes the construction of spiritual civilization as the carrier, takes changing customs and establishing rural civilization as the starting point, and integrates the core socialist values ​​into the construction of spiritual civilization. Get rid of bad habits, establish a new style, and promote righteousness”, build the spiritual power of rural revitalization, and drive the people’s morale upward. “We are guided by village rules and regulations, promote the construction of democracy and legal system in our village, maintain social stability, establish good village customs, and promote rural revitalization.” Zhu Guiqiu, Secretary of the Party Branch of Cha’an Village, said.

Rural revitalization is inseparable from a clean and upright grassroots office environment. The formation of a civilized village style lies in strengthening the party’s work style. Cha’an Village closely revolves around the general idea of ​​”grasping party building is grasping development”, continuously deepens the leading achievements of party building, organically integrates rural civilization construction and industrial development, and makes full use of the power station dam in Cha’an Village according to the model of “party building + industry” The location advantage of the natural sandbar between the water diversion canal and the Lishui River is to develop 50 mu of selenium-enriched greenhouse vegetables to create “one village, one product” selenium-enriched greenhouse vegetables.

In order to meet the spiritual and cultural needs of the villagers, the village has built a new village-level cultural activity venue, equipped with cultural squares, farmhouse bookstores, activity centers for the elderly, moral lecture halls and other functional rooms. The first is to carry out extensive and colorful mass activities. The villagers have established 4 self-compiled and self-performed, self-entertaining old and middle-aged dance teams and 1 basketball team. Every night, the square for cultural and sports activities in the village becomes a space for the elderly, a playground for the middle-aged, and a place for the young. In addition, on Women’s Day, Double Ninth Festival, and National Day, cultural performances are organized to organically combine the party’s policies, science and technology, good morals, hygiene habits, etc. The second is to do a good job in the construction of family culture and organize the selection of “good mother-in-law and good daughter-in-law”. The third is to carry out publicity and education activities, popularize scientific and cultural knowledge, and improve the quality of villagers. The fourth is to actively organize the activities of sending operas to the countryside, and carry out cultural services to the villagers face to face. Various forms of activities have greatly improved the spiritual outlook of the whole village, respecting the old and loving the young, family unity, and neighborly harmony.

In order to continue to promote the improvement of the living environment and improve the happiness of the masses, the village has adopted a combination of centralized and decentralized methods to carry out the renovation work on a regular basis, led by village cadres, party members, team leaders, and volunteers , The masses actively participated in the cleaning of garbage and weeds in the village. Walking into the house of Zhuo De’e, a villager, the windows are bright and clean, the furniture and items in the house are neatly arranged, and the front and back of the house are clean and tidy, which is pleasing to the eye. “Now the village is carrying out a quarterly living environment competition. I will clean up my house first, hoping to get a good ranking,” Zhuo De’e said. At the same time, the village uses “Village Sound”, WeChat groups, and broadcasting promotional recordings to create a good atmosphere for environmental sanitation villagers to build together, guide villagers to establish hygiene awareness, consciously clean the front and back of the house, change uncivilized behaviors, and establish environmental protection awareness.

In the early years, weddings and funerals in the village were generally a big deal. In order to stop the problem of illegal weddings and funerals, promote the change of customs, and create a new and upright environment, the village started from party members. Crack down on party members’ unhealthy habits such as making a fuss, showing off their wealth, and extravagance and waste. Change customs and customs, and drive people’s customs with a good party style.

Zhu Guiqiu, secretary of the general party branch, said: “Through a series of measures and actions, the awareness of the common people has been improved. Now the unhealthy atmosphere in the village, such as grandiose celebrations, mutual comparisons, extravagance and waste, has been initially curbed. The new trend of the era of frugality, civilization and harmony, new weddings, simplified funerals, happy events and festive occasions, and rich care and light burials are gradually taking shape.”

In recent years, Cha’an Village has been rated as an ecological civilization village in Zhangjiajie City and an excellent grassroots party organization in Cili County. With the continuous advancement of rural revitalization and spiritual civilization construction, the rural civilization of Cha’an Village has been continuously improved, and the villagers have practiced new customs and spread civilized sentiments with practical actions.

[Source: Cili County People’s Government_Township]

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