Why should Huian women turn 'difficult' into 'capable'?
2026-04-28
Yellow hat, floral headscarf, short jacket, wide leg pants, silver belt hanging at the waist. At the recently held "Continuing the Spirit of Benefiting Women and Blooming the Brilliance of the Times" - series of activities on innovation and value practice in the era of benefiting women culture, a beautiful figure appeared and became the undisputed protagonist. At the event, Huian women dressed in Huian women's clothing performed on stage. Photo by Yang Haoyu from People's Daily Online: "Huinu culture is the most touching urban IP of Huian; Huinu spirit is the life fireworks that dance in the blood of Huian people. ”The words of Zhuang Jiaxiang, the Secretary of Huian County Committee, express the contemporary value of these women to a city. Since being mentioned until now, more than sixty years have passed, why has the "spirit of benefiting women" remained vivid? When the times call for self-reliance, they build reservoirs, pioneer islands, and resist sandstorms, demonstrating their women's sense of responsibility; When the times call for love and daring to win, they use the "three pivot points" of hammers, mud knives, and scissors to leverage the "three national brands" of the world's stone carving capital, the hometown of Chinese architecture, and the Chinese school uniform industry base; When the era advocates the wave of innovation, they have become technological pioneers, insisting on the path of "enriching the people with new technologies", nurturing key industries such as national food and beverage leaders and petrochemicals worth billions of yuan, and supporting the backbone of the top 100 counties in the country. Behind these three sentences, the words' timeliness' run through the entire sentence. In every era, Huian women have given their own answers. As independent media personality and cultural blogger Shui Yishi once said, "In the past, Hui women's hoes and hands changed the land. Today, with design, industry, and wisdom, traditional clothing has been turned into international fashion, and 'Huian Manufacturing' has been brought to the world. They actively choose their way of life, surpass traditional roles, turn resilience into confidence, and integrate beauty into their attitude towards life." - When their hometown was still "dependent on the sky for survival," their shoulders carried the "big half of Huian's sky. In the 1950s, Huian experienced nine droughts out of ten years. 13000 Huian women picked up shoulder poles, hoes, and brought dried sweet potatoes to the construction site. They carried over a hundred pounds of granite on their shoulders and built the Huinu Reservoir in 19 months. The project known as' Ten Thousand Women Locking the Dragon 'bid farewell to the title of' Sweet Potato County 'in Huian. Huinu Reservoir. People's Daily reporter Lin Xiaoli took a photo of the same shoulder, which also blocked the sandstorm in Xiaoqiao. Twenty fishing girls rooted themselves and dug sand and planted trees day and night, but none survived for the first ten years. In 1972, Huian women explored the method of "digging trenches to prevent wind and planting trees", which increased the survival rate of saplings from 20% to over 95%. They managed to create a thousand acre forest farm on the barren beach, turning the "sandstorm mouth" into an "ecological bay". ——When the horn of reform and opening up sounded, their craftsmanship leveraged the "three national brands" of Huian. Some people clenched their steel chisels and knocked out the "One of China's Wonders" in the stone carving factory; Some people switch careers and enter the construction industry, becoming industry leaders; Some people stepped on sewing machines and "stepped" into an industry from their family workshops... As Chen Hong, Vice Chairman of the Fujian Women's Federation, said, generations of women have demonstrated the era's charm of "women are not inferior to men" through practical work and responsibility, injecting tremendous "her power" into the development of Huian County. One third of the school uniforms and one-third of the stone carvings in the country come from Huian, and shadow carvings account for nearly 80% of the national market. Huian women have grown into the "female leaders" of industries, the "women's army" of construction sites, and the "helmsmen" of docks, supporting Huian's "family foundation". ——When the "old tradition" meets the "new trend", their creativity creates the "international style" of Huian. In modern lifestyles, the culture of Huinu, represented by Huinu clothing, sometimes appears to be incompatible. Huian women did not let tradition fade away, but used their wisdom to gradually bridge this "gap". Zeng Ruting, born in the 1990s, grew up in her mother's cloth shop. She found that fewer and fewer young people were wearing Hui women's clothing. After graduating from university, she resolutely returned to her hometown to start a business, visited the national fabric market, introduced silk and brocade into Hui women's short shirts, and improved traditional square scarves into triangular scarves. She also designed the Huinu pattern on her academic uniform, which attracted orders from all over the country and even exported them overseas. In Zeng Ruting's view, tradition and fashion are never in opposition. By integrating traditional clothing into modern tailoring and innovative fabrics, it can usher in a "breakthrough" and "rebirth". Another new generation Huian woman discovered a unique "race track". Zhang Bingbing made cute figurines of Huian women, including a yellow conical hat, a green short jacket, a red floral headscarf... The palm sized figurines are vivid and lifelike, and often sell out during peak tourist seasons. Zhang Bingbing, born in the 1990s, is making figurines for women. People's Daily reporter Li Changqian's photo shows that such innovation does not only occur in the field of cultural and creative industries. In the stone carving workshop, the younger generation of Huian women opened 3D modeling software, expanding traditional shadow carving from black, white, and gray to the field of color; In the school uniform industry, they set up mobile phones, formed live streaming teams, and expanded their products from offline wholesale to online retail; At construction sites, they obtain the qualification of construction engineers and transition from frontline workers to technical management... This "dynamic updating" force is blossoming and bearing fruit on this land. With the efforts of a group of 'Hui women', more and more people are attracted by the clothing, culture, and resilient spirit of Hui women. In 2025, Huian County will receive 8.1496 million tourists and generate tourism revenue of 8.763 billion yuan, both reaching a historical high. The famous poet Shu Ting once saw the girls standing on the rocks in Huian and picked up her pen to write: "Standing so beautifully between the sea and sky, it overlooks the alkaline beach and rocks that your bare feet have stepped on. Therefore, in the cover and illustrations, you become a scenery and a legend." Today's Huian not only retains this poetic meaning, but also has new connotations. Keep it simple, come to Huian. "The invitation from Xiangxiang took on a deeper meaning at this moment. Here, there are not only mountain and sea scenery, ancient city fishing songs, but also a spiritual power that transcends time and space. (Looking into the New Era)
Edit:Luoyu Responsible editor:Wang Xiaojing
Source:people.cn
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