Original link: https://macin.org/2022/10/24/mo-xin-po-kuang/
Tianfu Mining Bureau is 6 kilometers south, and a fork in the road is Moxinpo Coal Mine .
Before we found the coal mine, we first found the Moxinpo Railway Station. This small station on the Xiangyu line is not very conspicuous, but the sight line is excellent. You can see the house across the mountain and the road that is not clean even if the coal is not transported.
Later, I went to the Moxinpo mining area. As a child of the factory and mine, I smelled a familiar smell and knew that I had found the right place.
A house built in the 1980s was a grinding office building at that time. Next to it was a coal mining club. It seemed that it was not completely abandoned. The place with the words “odd number” and “double number” was the cinema inside the club. .
The building of the club was built in the early 1990s and was several years older than me, but I also knew that the club was a good place to be “happy”. That’s how musical enlightenment begins.
In a building next to it, “Tianfu Mining Company Archives” is written. Out of curiosity, I really want to go in and see some stories from the past. The door is locked and I can only give up.
However, the power of search engines is infinite. Here, I would like to share a set of data of Moxinpo Coal Mine in 1985: As the largest pair of production mines among the five pairs of production mines affiliated to Tianfu Mining Bureau, by the end of 1985, the entire Moxinpo Coal Mine had The mine has fixed assets of 18.74 million yuan, industrial output value of 6.5127 million yuan, raw coal output of 285,154 tons, and 2,850 employees.
Chopsticks Xiaoshou once wrote “Tianfu Town: Shancheng Coal Mine Is Here to Prosper” and introduced the past and present life of Tianfu Mine in detail, while Moxinpo is a smaller microcosm.
Although it is a holiday, the residential buildings in the mining area are still very quiet. There are only two tables of mother-in-law playing mahjong and grandfather smoking in twos and threes. Seeing outsiders coming, everyone couldn’t help but take a second look. After all, I am a new face that is different from the familiar ones.
I chatted with the old man casually, and learned that they are not employees of the mining area, but security guards who are hired to guard the “relics”. The behavior of renewing the contract every month made me stunned. This is because I am confused about the future. I don’t know what will happen after a year and a half or even a month.
What is even more exaggerated is the numbers we heard. When Moxinpo was at its most prosperous time, there were tens of thousands of employees and their families. When Chongqing completely closed state-owned coal mines in 2020, 2/3 of the people left the original ones. In the first half of 2022, there are still more than 100 people doing the finishing work, but only more than 30 people were left in the last month – including the former leaders, who stayed to manage the files of the mining area.
Unintentionally flipping through some archives from the past, I felt that most of my parents’ generation wrote good-looking characters, and whether it was italic script, they were all pleasing to the eye.
Now our generation may have improved their education, but the characters are written as “ghosts and peach characters”. It is not easy to find someone with “beautiful handwriting”. It is no wonder that so many up-writers will gain a lot of fans—— Rare is expensive.
The coal mines at that time were huge in scale. In addition to large mining areas, office buildings, staff dormitories, etc., auditoriums, nurseries, schools, hospitals, etc., and a technical school for staff training was set up inside. The functions were complete like a small town.
The rain dripped down on my hair as I wandered. Around the corner, I saw a building with an arc-shaped appearance. I was saying that I wanted to take a photo and thought it was interesting, and I saw the sign of “Mining Kindergarten”.
I don’t know why it reminds me of when I was a child in front of the rotating small plane in the kindergarten of the machine repair factory. The wild weeds in summer vacations were almost as tall as me. When I was 2 years old, I had a bunch of keys in my hand. The picture my mother took for me. a photograph.
I want to go back to that time, when my parents were still so young and beautiful, when I didn’t understand anything, at least back to the past when everything was known, and the future was terribly ambiguous.
Opposite the kindergarten is a commissary. I was surprised that it was still in business, and no one paid me any attention. There was only a kitten meowing. Decades ago, maybe only on the 7th pay day, the children were treated like me. Boldly buy a bottle of soda.
On a long flight of stairs is the Moxinpo Primary School. The gate is closed, and there are several layers of fallen leaves in the courtyard. The children inside, like me, will never find their own primary school after they have passed their youth. The introduction of the ash said “founded in 1946, the school site has been relocated several times”, as if it foreshadowed something.
Strolling through the water tower, I saw the staff tea garden on the roadside, and only the state-owned enterprises at that time were so generous (humanized) to set up chess and card rooms and tea gardens for their staff. Just like the teahouse named “Yutai” in Lao She’s “Tea House”, which revealed the dark corruption and bizarreness of Chinese society in the past half century, the tea garden of the employees of the mill must have also witnessed the ups and downs of the mill for 65 years and its shelter. The multitude of people below.
Later, I saw a small two-story building with the name Moxinpo shopping mall, and I exclaimed in my heart that this small coal mine even has its own shopping mall? I looked at the small supermarket in Moxinpo that is still in operation. It may not be that the times are going downhill, but that the times are going too fast, leaving behind the grinding and grinding people.
One empty house after another, no one cares about the front room, and the upstairs is even more desolately empty. The empty windows on the building are like people who have lost their eyes, have no soul, and are corpses under the concrete exterior.
An old man stood in front of the grinding bathroom to hide from the rain. I began to think that it was just a simple public bathroom, but I thought it was very large. When I was about to sigh about the wealth of state-owned enterprises, my mother told me that it was also the entrance of the minecart. When the ding-ding small mine truck came back with Wujin and the coal miners, they washed off the dust in the bathroom, and they were a fresh and fresh man again, as if they had washed away the uncertainty and anxiety about the future, and washed away the future. The risks and insecurities that may be encountered under the coal mine.
Before leaving, I glanced at the once lush little garden in the drizzle, and the yellow juicy orchid was still fragrant. The water in the pool has dried up, the water is the main gold so the black gold is gone, and the carved railings are still there, but the former leaders have become archives managers.
In the mining area where I grew up, for the first time, I experienced the death of my relatives. When I was squatting on the side of the road waiting for the bus, I thought about it. When I first knew that we were parting, people were not that far apart.
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