Mountain and River Iron Clothes

He was never a mountain god, just a mortal. When the Han River burst its embankment in 1981, Zhou Qiming, an infrastructure engineer, guarded the embankment and controlled the danger within an error of 0.6 Millimeters. When the flood receded, he picked up a steel nail that was corroded by the torrent, and made a lifelong promise with Fanxia Mountain in eastern Guizhou. After retiring from the army, he declined job placement and stayed alone in Mount Fanxia for forty-six years. Stop illegal logging, patrol thousands of mountains and valleys to cooperate with geological research, and help declare world natural heritage; from relying on soil methods to monitor mountain cracks, to self-study satellite cloud images to identify geological hazards. As he got older, he walked down the mountain and brought that protective heart to his post in the community, becoming a gatekeeper that neighbors could entrust to their care. The years in the mountains are long and lonely. The niece Liu Ling wrote down this silent past one by one according to his dictation, and compiled it into "The Iron Clothes of Mountains and Rivers". An ordinary veteran, with a lifetime of perseverance, established a silent spiritual coordinate. At dusk, he often returned to the swollen embankment in a trance, clutching the steel nail in his palm, and the vow in his heart never dissipated: The embankment is where the people are. A wordless monument has been erected on Fanxia Mountain, with a QR code embedded on one side of the monument. When visitors scan the QR code, they can hear the old and thick accent of Qiandong Township: "When the mountains are stable, the heart is at ease." Mountains don't speak, but people practice diligently. In the life of ordinary people, they use loneliness as their clothes and steel nails as their bones to guard a green mountain and let their sincere perseverance last from generation to generation.