It's said that what's going on in Loudi's new village? Why do men die in successive years? What is the secret behind it?
The so-called "Widow Village" is the second group of Longtang village, Youxi Township, Xinhua. Local villagers are very angry about the statement of "Widow Village", which affects the marriage men in the village to find local partners.
It's because a video from seven years ago was hot on the Internet
Longtang village is located in Youxi Township, Xinhua, on the West Bank of Zijiang, about 2.5km away from Zijiang, about 3km away from Meishan Dragon Palace, a famous scenic spot on the East Bank of Zijiang and Youxi township. The longlang Expressway under construction (from Longtang Town, Lianyuan City, to Langtang Town, Xinhua County) passes by.
It is rumoured that the Widow Village is group 2 of Longtang village. At the end of July, a video of "the truth of life taking 'widows' village", which was shot in group 2 of Longtang village seven years ago, was reprinted in some new self media. In order to attract people's attention, the reprinted self media platform renamed it "terror! Newfound 'life taking' Widow Village".
In the 29 minute video, most of the previous time is about the death rate of nearly 30 adult men in the village in several years. Only in the last segment is based on the results of the investigation and detection of various factors such as water source, epidemic diseases and local genetic genes by the disease control center of Xinhua County, and then through data comparison, it shows that the death rate of the village population is normal.
On August 1, Liu Qingnan, a retired teacher from the second group of Longtang village, complained that many people are impatient to watch the 29 minute long video. Most people think that the second group of Longtang village is really a widow's village after watching the first half of the video. Some people think that the whole Longtang village is a widow's village.
Investigating villagers think that video shooting is for Poverty Alleviation Fund
On the afternoon of August 1, Liu Qingnan, 63, introduced that the second group of Longtang village is called "Widow Village", which has a lot to do with a teacher named Liu Yuxi (pseudonym) in Longtang village. In the summer of 2010, Liu Yuxi, a primary school teacher, went to work at a construction site in Changsha to increase his income. He usually liked to write some articles and met a reporter while working in Changsha. In 2011, the reporter read an article written by Mr. Liu Yuxi about the death of nearly 30 adult men in group 2 of Longtang village within 7 years, and then came to group 2 of Longtang village with his colleagues to shoot the program, which was broadcast under the title of "the truth of life taking 'Widow Village'.
Liu Yuxi, who introduced the shooting team to the village, died half a month ago. On August 1, the reporter found Mr. Chen Denan, a colleague and friend of Liu Yuxi, who appeared many times in "the truth of the deadly Widow Village". Mr. Chen Denan, 60, recalled that many of the scenes at that time were set. He and the other people who were photographed didn't understand the real intention of shooting. They thought that the purpose of shooting the video was to seek for poverty alleviation funds from the relevant departments. He recalled that he had been asked to find an old dress and put it on. According to the 'design', he was on the way to the second group of Longtang village, where a 'cold wind' blew, and he fell on the road where he had already padded the grass.
Mr. Chen said that because there was a class to be held, he only participated in the shooting for two days at the weekend, and all the shooting scenes were completed under the guidance.
The truth is that in seven years, more than ten men died
Mr. Chen Dunan recalled that he and the shooting team, as well as the village branch of Longtang village at that time, counted the widows in the village, "the old and the young" had more than 20. At that time, the shooting team also took the well water from the village to the disease control department for test. The test result was that there was no problem with the water.
On the afternoon of August 1, Liu Qingnan introduced that in the years before the video was shot, there were indeed more than 10 young and middle-aged men in group 2 of Longtang village who died, but there were far less than 30, 'about a dozen'. Liu Qingnan introduced that in those years, three of the dozens of men who died successively were brothers, two of them were liver cancer and the other was diabetes. On August 1, the reporter saw in an official notice of Youxi Township in Xinhua county that from 2003 to 2009, 9 married men under the age of 60 died due to illness, 2 died accidentally in migrant work, 5 died normally in the elderly, a total of 16 people, and 3 died for more than 20 years at that time. The data is similar to what Liu Qingnan said.
Liu Qingnan introduced that except for the second group of Longtang village, all the women married here are surnamed Liu, and they are a large family. 'this big family has longevity genes. "For example, two groups of long-lived men over 90 now have two. His father died four years ago when he was 95. He believes that the relatively large number of adult men died of cancer and other diseases from 2003 to 2009, which is related to the lack of labor protection and food safety in those years.
The reputation of "Widow Village" influences the villagers to find objects
Liu Yilong, a 41 year old villager from the second group of Longtang village, said: 'it is normal for two or three people in a village to die of illness in one year'. He believes that at that time, the shooting team and Liu Yuxi did not count nearly 30 widows.
Liu Jinxing, director of Longtang village, introduced that in 2010, when group 2 of Longtang village was considered as a widow village, the population was 320; in 2018, the population was 385, an increase of 65. Liu Jinxing said that although the "Widow Village" mentioned in the video is group 2 of Longtang village, many people actually extend the "Widow Village" to the whole Longtang village.
Liu Yilong said that the saying of "Widow Village" has had a bad impact on the marriage and love of the marriageable men in Longtang village. "Someone introduced the objects to people in our village. As soon as they heard about it, they said it was a widow village. '