Xiaozhuang: 70 years, I use the camera to record the story of the Yangtze River and canal

Attachment News On July 2nd, the 12th Jiangsu Book Fair "Xinhua Studies" Reading Forum opened in Suzhou. Jiangsu is located at the intersection of the Yangtze River and the Grand Canal. It is the only province in the country with the cultural resources of the Yangtze River and the Grand Canal. This forum is based on the theme of "Reading the Yangtze River and Canal". As the oldest guest in the forum, the first batch of female photography reporters and famous photographer Xiaozhuang in New China, through a series of precious old photos of the Yangtze River canal, tell you the memory and story of the Yangtze River Canal.

Xiaozhuang

At the age of 18, Xiaozhuang transferred from the army to Xinhua Daily as a photographer. Until 90 years old, she never put down her camera. For more than 70 years, she took a large number of photos of the Yangtze River and Canal in Jiangsu Province, and brought together a book. At this year's Jiangsu Book Fair, Xiaozhuang participated in the "There are people on both sides of the canal", and her another collection of photography "I Shooting the Yangtze River 70 Years" is about to meet readers.

1951 Xiaozhuang is on the front line of Zhoushan Hairi Defense

In July 2021, Xiaozhuang took the new appearance of Nanjing Yangtze River

The old photos displayed on the forum on the forum are the stories of the Yangtze River and the canal. Beads are threaded and recorded the breathing and fate of this land. The Sanhe Gate is the largest restraint gate in the Huaihe River Basin and is a key project for governing Huai. In 1951, Chairman Mao Zedong issued a call to "must be repaired by the Huaihe River". The Sanhe Gate was started the following year, and 160,000 people were constructed at the scene. "During the construction, I was ordered to visit the launch. At that time, the traffic was very inconvenient. I had to rush the train from Nanjing to Zhenjiang Pier early in the morning. Thousands of troops and mountains and mountains. "I interviewed, I dare not drink water a day, I am afraid of going to the toilet. There are only open and simple toilets on the construction site. It is shared by men and women. I can't help but go to the toilet with the newspaper." After a large number of engineering construction and people's labor scenes, a major pioneering work in the history of Chinese water conservancy was used to use the lens. The Xinhua Daily also published a whole version of the image. In recent years, Xiaozhuang has returned to the Sanhe gate many times, thinking of the past scenery, "it has still stood there firmly there in 70 years, exerting its function of water storage and flood prevention, and benefiting the people on both sides of the strait."

1953 The migrant workers were digging the river under the call of Chairman Mao "must play the Huaihe River"

1953 Sanhe Gate Completion Ceremony

A bridge flying north and south, and the sky has changed. The construction of the first railway and highway double -layer two -tier bridge on the Yangtze River on the Yangtze River, which is designed and built by China, is enough to be included in the history of the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge. In November 1968, Xiaozhuang received a shooting task of the newspaper and stayed on the bridge for a whole month to live and work with the builders. In the end, a long volume of the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge spanned the cross -strait scene by three photos of the three photos and the panoramic view was published on the "Xinhua Daily" at the end of the year. This image of the immersiveness of the readers at the time was really hard to come. "My equipment at that time had only one standard lens Lalai camera. How to take a photo can completely show the full picture of the Yangtze River Bridge. On the screen, it is necessary to reflect the huge portrait of Chairman Mao on the road and bridge. The colorful car team has to shoot the train from Mercedes -Benz, but also see the ship driving on the Yangtze River -so many scenes to appear on a picture at the same time, there is no wide -angle mirror, so I have to use the method of stitching to complete it to complete . "The day before the Yangtze River Bridge was opened to traffic, Xiaozhuang still remembered that at that time, she was hanging on the south bridgeburge with a rope ladder shaking and shaking and climbing. In order to obtain the best shooting angle, as the only female photographer, she grabbed the rope ladder to climb up, stepped on the air in the middle, and almost fell out. Then let her witness this historical moment with the camera.

1968 Yangtze River Bridge Tong Train Ceremony Team Cross Bridge

1962 Construction of Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge

The shooting is a story, and there are stories on the shooting road. In the fall of 1962, Xiaozhuang went to Qidong to shoot. Qidong was the entrance of the Yangtze River. It was the earliest place where Jiangsu saw the sunrise. When the seawater decrealed, the fishermen carried the small baskets and bamboo hooks to catch the sea. "When I was about to be the beach, I saw a group of small black spots running around in the distance, and heard someone shouting:" There is a woman here, hurry up wearing pants! 'People hurriedly took from the basket from the basket to take from the basket. Put of cloth strips and pants. At this time, I dare not go forward again, and the cadres who accompanied me told me that he was going to work so that they could take pictures after wearing pants. " Go naked to catch the sea. It turned out that when eating for food during the difficult period, it was salty to dress. The sea water was salty. The fishermen were afraid of the sea water to break their pants. After the fishermen put on their pants, Xiaozhuang pressed the shutter and took the classic work "Yu Gui". The work was also selected as the seventh National Photography Exhibition.

1962 "Yu Gui"

In front of the camera, there is the most moving "human fireworks" in the spring breeze. After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, the lives of urban and rural people on both sides of the Canal of the Yangtze River had undergone a gratifying change. In 1982, Xiaozhuang often linger on the streets and lanes and the market market, and used the lens to record the most simple and happiest life. "At that time, professional households had appeared in the countryside. They pushed the car shoulders and sent agricultural and sideline products to the city when they were dawn. It happened that there was a day in the morning, we just came out of Zhenjiang Park and saw a couple in the distance. With the fat and large white geese feeding at home to sell in the city, isn't this the subject of the professional households I want to reflect? I quickly adjust the aperture and visually inspect the distance. Hidden behind him, when the two of them came to my request and the best expression, they picked up the camera and took this photo. "The picture of this character's expression was natural, only this photo, once in the country's women's photography across the country, in the country's women's photography Won the silver award at the exhibition. The people in front of the camera are the most vivid footnings in the scroll of reform and opening up. 1982 After the reform and opening up, the professional households in the suburbs of Zhenjiang City entered the city

The Canal of the Yangtze River is the happy river of the people on both sides of the strait. The people have always been the focus of Xiaozhuang's lens. At the forum, Xiaozhuang brought a series of works reflecting the pictures of people's life on both sides of the strait. From the crowd of the Zhongshan Wharf, which crosses the Yangtze River; to the Yangtze River Bai Fan, which is complemented by the mountains and the distant mountains, to the busy row of the dragging fleet in the busy Port of Nantong in the 1970s - Take the people to a happy life. The energy -intensive transplanting women's army, the best dressing of the seedlings of the best costume in order to take out the mirror, the commune of the rice harvest of rice — with hard -working hands and simple sweat, people on both sides of the strait relied on their own labor to exchange for their glorious and sweetness. Days. Whether it is a athletes to be across the Nanjing River, or a barefoot doctor who patrolls in the field, or a commune member who tried to wear new clothes for children ... a beautiful and happy life, in the quiet pulse of history, recorded on the film rolls on the rubber rolls , Stay in the smile of ordinary people.

1964 Jiangdu County Wujian Commune Tanggen Nu was rated by Wuhao members to insert seedlings.

Ni Julan, a member of Yinyang Commune in Qidong County, Jiangsu, is trying to try new clothes for her daughter

Xinhua Daily · Jiaojiao Reporter Yao Yiyi/Wen Yu Ping Zhao Yaling Chen Yan/Photo

Picture provision: Xiaozhuang

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