November 06, 2023
In the mid-Ming Dynasty, Dinggotang in the west of Wuzhi County was surrounded by water on three sides and faced a road on one side, and there were several families with the surname Ding living there. The ancestor of the surname Liu moved south with his son and lived here near the water. Because of the good Feng Shui, the Liu family has prospered, attracting many families from other places to come here, and it is named "Mujiazhuang". The village is shaped like a stone mill with two bars, and the words "mo" and "mu" sound close to each other, so it was gradually called Mozhuang.
Mozhuang Village, Xiaodong Township, Wuzhi County has 922 households with a population of 4,256 and is an old red revolutionary area. During the War of Liberation, the blood of 25 frontline martyrs, rear martyrs, and bereaved family members dyed this land red.
The representative project of Mozhuang's provincial intangible cultural heritage, "Mozhuang Four-strand String", has the sound of silk and bamboo and a long lasting charm. The gurgling water of Jianggou, Jiangou and Sanbalao River nourishes the vast land. The Fire Temple, the Guandi Temple, the Sanguan Temple, and the Liu Ancestral Hall tell long-standing legends...
Mozhuang has a history of growing edible fungi for decades. The discerning Mozhuang people introduced the white mushroom cultivation project from Beijing. The 15 growers dared to be the first to "eat crabs", and then the provincial labor model and wealth expert Liu Yinzhu carefully taught the technology, leading the cultivation of Bailing mushrooms to "start a prairie fire". The Edible Fungi Research and Promotion Center, Mozhuang Edible Fungi Cooperative, Mozhuang Party Members and Cadres Edible Fungus Demonstration Base and other demonstration and promotion and typical guidance have achieved the "aesthetic upgrade" from scattered cultivation of white mushrooms to large-scale cultivation.
Bailing mushroom is a rare edible fungus with high added value. It is known as the "Prince of Mushrooms" and has high food and medicinal value. After Bailing mushrooms became very popular, the villagers of Mozhuang became valuable "Bilingus mushroom farmers", with a planting volume of more than 1,500 tons. Customers made reservations two months in advance, but the supply still exceeded demand. White mushroom canning factories have been put into operation one after another, and many official news media have reported on it. Xiaodong Township takes Mozhuang Bailing Mushroom as its industrial leader and radiates to more than a dozen administrative villages in the township. In one fell swoop, it won the titles of Henan Province Edible Fungi Production Base Township, Henan Province Edible Fungi Advanced Base Township, and Jiaozuo City Characteristic Agricultural Township.
Today's "new farmers" in Mozhuang build their dreams in the fields, and "new rural sages" benefit the countryside and become "boosters" for rural revitalization. These dream chasers returned to their hometowns to start businesses, supporting their hometowns, stimulating rural revitalization, and creating a "new blue ocean."
Liu Dongliang returned to his hometown and founded Wuzhi County Hongyi Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Professional Cooperative, covering an area of 110 acres, 40 laying hen greenhouses, an annual stock of 300,000 laying hens, an annual output of 3,000 tons of eggs, and total assets of 23 million yuan, making Jiaozuo one of the The city's leading high-quality laying hen farm has won honors such as the National Agricultural Technology Extension Science and Technology Demonstration Subject and the Henan Province Rural Revitalization Volunteer Service Station. In 2022, he established the Wuzhi County Xingdong Agricultural Professional Cooperative Federation and signed an agricultural and sideline product order contract with Henan Simete Food Co., Ltd., a large food processing enterprise. Shanghai Xinyang black laying hens and Dawu Golden Phoenix laying hens are exported to Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai and Chongqing, Fujian and Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, and gradually realize the large-scale development of layer hen breeding, driving the surrounding regional economy and people to increase their income and become rich. Intelligent equipment has been put online and 150 million yuan has been invested to renovate the breeding sheds. Automated, large-scale and refined laying hen breeding is about to begin.
The heroine Zhang Chengxin founded Xinyang Textile Co., Ltd. and Mozhuang Breeding Business Cooperative, which helped farmers become rich and became one of the top ten entrepreneurial women in Jiaozuo City and the city's March 8th Red Flag Bearer.
Liu Zenghui originally worked in the provincial media. Relying on the textile factory run by his father, he founded Zenxinhui Shoes Co., Ltd., which employed 150 left-behind women. The products were exported to the country and favored by many military industrial enterprises, with annual sales of more than 40 million yuan. .
Liu Weiguo, secretary of the village party branch and director of the village committee, led the two village committees and a group of people to devote themselves to rural revitalization, develop the village's collective economy, and learn how to get rich by raising native chickens and egg pigeons. Bridges were built, roads were built, wells were drilled, and the barrier gate complex in the Mozhuang grain transport section was renovated to solve problems such as flood drainage in the rainy season and water storage for irrigation in the dry season. Thousands of acres of fertile farmland along both sides of the river benefited.
Pictured above is the Liu Clan Ancestral Hall in Mozhuang Village.
