The change of this family stems from China's successful bid for the Olympic Games. 2001July 13, Liu Hanzhong saw the news of Beijing's successful bid for the Olympic Games in the news broadcast he watched for a long time.
"Wife, we have something to do." Seeing the news, Liu Hanzhong excitedly said to his wife Peng Xiaochan: "The Olympic spirit is friendship and peace, and everyone can participate." Liu Hanzhong didn't say what to do, and his wife Peng Xiaochan didn't care.
June, 5438+this year 10, Liu Hanzhong returned to the old mother's house in the postal kiosk. Her mother asked him, "I heard that our country will hold an' Olympic Games'. What do you mean? " Liu Hanzhong listened to the music: "Where is the Olympic Games? This is the Olympic Games! It is an activity that welcomes the participation of all countries in the form of sports competition, which symbolizes peace and friendship. There is no war if there is peace, and everyone does business. " Liu Hanzhong told his mother about the Olympics. Hearing this, the old lady said, "This is a good thing. If necessary, I will also pay some money. It must also represent the hearts of farmers. "
During the conversation between the reporter and Liu Hanzhong, a postman rode a motorcycle in the rain and brought him a copy of China Sports Daily, which was his favorite newspaper. Just after Beijing's successful bid for the Olympic Games, China Sports Daily issued a call for "a gift from the whole people".
Liu Hanzhong began to ponder, with what to express a farmer's mind to the National Games? In June this year, he had an idea: the lighting ceremony of the Olympic Games. "Once my mother and I went to the temple to burn incense and suddenly saw a dragon, and he shouted,' Yes, I have something for the Olympics,'" Liu Hanzhong's wife recalled.
This idea began to gradually strengthen in Liu Hanzhong's heart. Dragon is the totem of China, and it is most appropriate to light it with dragon. But how to have some? Liu Hanzhong fell into another difficult problem.
In the Spring Festival and Lantern Festival in 2002, Dazu County held a literary evening. Some folk dragon dancers were invited to perform on stage. Liu Hanzhong was overjoyed when he saw it under the stage. As soon as the performance was over, Liu Hanzhong ran backstage and found Long Yongguang, a 60-year-old man with more than 30 years' experience in dragon dancing. He chatted with him about his own ideas and asked for advice on how to be a dragon. Long Yongguang said after listening, your idea is good and high in technology, but whether it can be done is a problem. He is still very supportive of Liu Hanzhong, providing him with some information about how the traditional dragon dance jumps and how high it needs to be raised to make these technical details.
The prototype of the dragon is there, but how to make the dragon ignite? Without the guidance of experts and the help of technicians, Liu Hanzhong, who is "closed to the outside world", is in trouble again.
One day, Liu Hanzhong came to Dazu to visit Nanshan stone carvings. He looked up and suddenly appeared a stone carving of "flying dragon around the column". He suddenly had a brainwave: if the flying dragon rose to the flame platform along a pillar, wouldn't the ignition problem be solved?
So far, the design concept has basically taken shape, making a cylinder with dragons winding on its side. When it rises to the highest point, the faucet emits flame and ignites the flame. Knowing the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games on August 8, 2008, Lieutenant General Liu Han set the size of the flying dragon as 28 meters in total height. After learning of his huge plan, his wife, who initially expressed her support for his gift to the Olympics, was frightened and immediately resolutely opposed it: "It is not easy to make some money in business. Our family just has some money now, and the children are still studying. We are still renting a house. Besides, you are a gift, which is wishful thinking. "
Liu Hanzhong began to grind in his wife's ear like Tang Yan every day: this opportunity is too rare. This is the pride of all China people and the first time for China people. Liu Hanzhong once picked up a stick to scare Peng Xiaochan when he was fierce.
Peng Xiaochan gave in, perhaps because he saw her husband's persistence in doing something. "It is not easy to hold an Olympic Games once in a blue moon. It costs hundreds of thousands at most to support him. Let him do it. "
Credit, loan, loan
From June 5438 to October 2003 10, Liu Hanzhong started the first step of this long project. Liu Hanzhong's garage is also divided into two parts. The auto repair business is finished. The eldest son Liu Wei is in charge of several workers, and the other four or five workers, led by Liu Hanzhong, are responsible for manufacturing this steel column.
The money was spent before you knew it. Peng Xiaochan initially thought that it would cost hundreds of thousands at most. Liu Hanzhong also told her that it wouldn't cost much, but she didn't expect that her 700,000 savings for many years would be spent in two or three years, and the flying dragon around the column that Liu Hanzhong wanted to build was just a pile of iron. Whether it will succeed is unknown.
What shall we do? Let it go, just as a dream? Or take a gamble on debt? In the second half of 2004, this problem was put in front of Liu Hanzhong's family.
Liu Hanzhong's choice is the latter. At first, he was still on credit, giving 20 thousand to 30 thousand steel to the steel boss who had the most business dealings. Three or four bosses also extended the repayment time for friendship and trust in him. Due to the fine of steel processing fee, more than 50 thousand only paid 30 thousand, and still owed more than 20 thousand.
However, in his own rear, this time Liu Hanzhong got the support of his family. The eldest son didn't talk much. He didn't blame his father for tossing away hundreds of thousands of savings and didn't buy him a wedding room. But when my father was a dragon and didn't care about the garage, he silently shouldered the burden of the garage.
Liu Hanzhong was even moved by the support of his 80-year-old mother. In the second half of 2004, Liu Hanzhong felt a little overwhelmed and went back to tell his mother that the economy was a little tight. In the next two or three years, after selling groceries saved a few hundred dollars, the old lady personally sent it to her son, ten times before and after, adding up to tens of thousands of dollars, all of which she sold for one yuan and two yuan when she was in selling groceries. "Every time I come over, I ask with concern, what happened to the dragon? Need money? When she was ready to show where she was going, she also said that she would go to see it. " Liu Hanzhong was a little sad when he talked about it.
The youngest son, who goes to primary school in Longgang, Dazu, is only 12 years old, and he also saves his lucky money for his father. Every year, when relatives leave, they will give him tens or hundreds of yuan of lucky money. He specially got a passbook and set a password for himself, saying that when he succeeded, he would go to Beijing to pay for his father's trip. Now he has saved more than 500 yuan, and his goal is to save 1000 yuan.
For this huge project, the money of mother and son is more spiritual motivation, but it is still a drop in the bucket for the dragon-making project. If you want to continue, you can only borrow money.
From initial opposition to reluctant consent, his wife later became his staunch supporter and even cooperated with Liu Hanzhong on such a major family issue as borrowing money. The first borrower is Liu Hanzhong's sister-in-law, who is doing building materials business in the county. His wife personally went out and told her sister that her garage was going to expand production and there was a shortage of funds and raw materials. She borrowed 40,000 yuan in cash and steel with a value of 1 10,000 to 20,000 yuan from her wife and sister.
The second object is Liu Hanzhong's own brother. Facing his brother, Liu Hanzhong told the truth, saying that the dragon was short of money and asked his brother for support. The younger brother's attitude encouraged him even more: "We must support things at home, and we must support you with this money. Be sure to return it in the future. " My brother lent him more than 50 thousand at a time.
From June 5438 to February 2004, Liu Hanzhong contacted the director of a rural credit cooperative through a friend, saying that his garage needed to expand production and hoped to get loan support. The other party agrees to the loan, but needs a mortgage. Liu Hanzhong has nothing to mortgage himself, but the landlord who rents the garage has a piece of land, so both husband and wife go out, his wife is the landlord's wife, and Liu Hanzhong is the landlord himself. On the one hand, the landlord was also moved by Liu Hanzhong's enthusiasm for making dragons. Of course, he also saw that Liu Hanzhong still had a lot of equipment, and the value of these equipment could be used as a loan, so he agreed to use this land as a loan for Liu Hanzhong. After evaluation, he borrowed 250,000 yuan according to the maximum loan limit.
Chongqing sports director personally inspected.
Money is spent one by one. Fortunately, the shape of the flying dragon around the column in Liu Hanzhong's heart is maturing.
In June 2006, the machine was put into trial operation for the first time, and the machine was able to run. "I was so happy", but this was only the first step. It is still necessary to make tracks on dragons and then install power devices. However, after this trial operation, Liu Hanzhong learned a little about it, and at the same time began to make the "Dragon Nest", making a design that symbolizes that the East Dragon is in the hands of 56 ethnic groups.
From June 5438 to February 2006, the dragonfly was put into trial operation, but at this time, Liu Hanzhong found that most of the pulleys were stuck in operation-the dragonfly did not fly. The problem found after inspection is that there are thousands of pulleys and bolts and nuts in the whole car. Some materials were bought in Chongqing, while others were bought in Chengdu. Bolts are large and small, and the specifications are different. It is difficult to ensure the normal operation of the dragonfly. If you want them, you must replace all pulleys, bolts and nuts. The Liu family can't afford the money
"I think we had better stop. Even if it is done, the Olympic Organizing Committee will not necessarily let our machines light the flame. " His wife always supported him, but later she backed out.
"Whether you use it or not, you have to build this machine!" At this time, it is the Spring Festival. Every year, Liu Hanzhong's family will kill two pigs for the New Year. In order to buy materials, after Liu Hanzhong killed the pig, he sold another 200 kilograms of meat and bought materials in cash.
On June 28th, 2007, 65438+20071October 28th, the trial run was conducted again, and the remote control was pressed. The 20-meter-long dragon circled down the track. After entering the dragon's nest, the faucet is high above and spirals up to the top. As Liu Hanzhong pressed the button again, the faucet spouted flames and was successfully ignited.
After the success of the igniter, especially after media reports, people around him began to change their evaluation of Liu Hanzhong. A colleague told Liu Hanzhong that you did a good job and won honor for Dazu. People who originally called him "Har" still called him "Har", but the meaning in the words contained a kind of praise: I didn't expect this Har to really get things done.
Liu Hanzhong is also famous in this small town, which makes his wife's face very glorious. Friends who play well praise your husband for his ability. Even the classmates in the same school as his son Liu Xing say that Liu Xing's father is really smart and can make such fun things. The 80-year-old mother was afraid that he would get carried away, and specially reminded him that we should do a good job and not be careless in technology, so as to show foreigners and China people and win some glory for China.
What makes him care more is the official approval. After reading the newspaper report, Director Zhong of Dazu County Sports Bureau went to his house several times to see his dragon, and said that he would report to the county and city leaders, contact the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee and ask him what difficulties he had. On May 2 this year, Wu Jianhua, director of Chongqing Sports Bureau, and his party drove eight cars to see Liu Hanzhong's dragon, which really made Liu Hanzhong earn enough face in the eyes of his neighbors. Wu Jianhua praised his spirit and asked him to hurry up and finish the closing ceremony. At the same time, he said that he would contact the Olympic Organizing Committee, and the Secretary-General of Beijing Folk Artists Association also visited, saying that Liu Zaolong's incident was the first in the world and relatively novel, and that he would help him recommend it to the Olympic Organizing Committee. Director Zhong of Dazu County Sports Bureau told the reporter that he also expressed support for Liu Hanzhong's own dragon-making, and expressed the hope that through the joint efforts of the government and the people, he could recommend it to the higher authorities.
Although the debt pressure of 300,000 to 400,000 yuan still exists, Liu Hanzhong is very excited by the official recognition. Now Liu Hanzhong is still perfecting the final design, and at the same time entrusts all parties to contact BOCOG, but so far there is no response, and he has been looking forward to it.
I am willing to ship it to Beijing out of my own pocket.
After Liu Hanzhong's story was published in the newspaper, he also received calls from three Chongqing bosses asking him to bid for his dragon. This also produced different ideas in Liu Hanzhong's family. Although my wife supports it, she also hopes that if someone buys it, the price can be negotiated, and she can also consider selling it to reduce the financial burden on her family, especially the interest pressure of tens of thousands of yuan a year. Liu Hanzhong's opinion is that we should try our best to present gifts to the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee before 2008. "If it was for sale, I wouldn't have to spend so much effort to make this thing, and I have already started commercial operation. My greatest wish is that BOCOG can accept my gifts, meet them and tell them my experiences and ideas over the years, preferably for the lighting ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games. "