VIDEO: He Spent His Entire Life Carving Through a Mountain for His Village

There are two types of people in the world, those that want to get as further away from their home town as they possibly can and those that want to go to college and then return and spend the rest of their lives in their hometown.

Those that really love their hometown want to see it grow and get better in time and not just stick to the same old, same old. And this is exactly what the man you will see in the video had in mind.

He did his best and struggled for years to better himself so that he could do everything in his power to make his hometown a lot better and help all the people there.

According to viral4real.com, the village of Caowangba is located deep in the heart of the mountains of Guizhou, a mountainous province in southwest China.

Guizhou is known for its traditional rural villages, like Caowangba, wherein people thrive in a self-sufficient society. But like many rural villages, Caowangba has many problems in the past, especially when it comes to water.

Since the village was located thousands of feet high above the mountain, getting water was limited, that it was often distributed in rations. They desperately needed a water source to survive—and fast.

This prompted Caowangba’s chief, Huang Dafa to carve through the mountain since 1959, to create a canal leading to a water source.

In 1959, when Huang Dafa was just 23 years old, he started a legacy that will be forever carved in stone. They started carving the mountain, digging through rocks to create a tunnel in hopes to connect the village to a water source.

Unfortunately, the first canal failed after 10 years of digging and carving. Huang Dafa needed knowledge about irrigation in order to fulfill his dream.

Huang Dafa left his village and headed for Fengxiang, where he learned how to be an engineer. He them went back to the village, with a revolutionary plan that will literally move mountains—he decided to build a 7,200-meter-long water canal in order to get water to his village.

To build a canal, villagers had to carve along the sheer cliffs of three karst mountains, dangerous work that involved climbing up the side of the mountains, tying themselves to trees, and rappelling hundreds of meters down the cliff to dig.

Fast-forward to 1995—and the majestic canal was finally finished. Not only did Huang Dafa save his village, but four other neighbouring villages as well!

He really struggled for a while and he had to get over a lot of problems but he never gave up and he never stopped he just kept going at it until everything was done and ready.

When most young men that had the intelligence to get into a college just left and never looked back, he didn’t give up on his dream and the people that believed in him and he came back to finish the job he promised to.

Learn about Huang Dafa’s legacy in the video below.