2003年10月3日,是一位普通的共产党员、土家族干部、宣恩县椿木营乡民政助理周国知安葬的日子。 这一天,村村寨寨的乡亲们天不亮就起床,从几公里、几十公里外,打着手电,举着火把,扛着花圈,冒着雨雪,翻山越岭,来给周国知送葬。长长的送葬队伍,从头看不到尾,从尾看不到头。在送葬将要经过的小径旁,人们在自家那即将成熟的玉米地里砍出一条四、五米宽的大道,让周国知的灵柩顺利通过。安葬时,人们肝肠欲断,撕心裂肺,大人们哭得孩子一样,孩子们哭得大人一般。连哑巴、瘸子、重病号也被人搀扶着来给周国知送葬。有许多群众哭昏在周国知的坟前,拉都拉不起来。哭声、雨声、风声、鞭炮声交织在一起,肃穆而悲壮。 October 3, 2003, is an ordinary communist, Tujia cadres, civil society assistant at the county of Chunnang Xuannian Zhou Guochen know the day of burial. On this day, the villagers of the village walled villages got up on the very day when they were awake. From a few kilometers and tens of kilometers, they flashed a torch, holding a torch, carrying wreaths, braving rain and snow and turning the mountains and mountains to give Zhou Guizhi a funeral. Long funeral procession, can not see the tail from the beginning, can not see the head from the tail. Beside the trail to be passed by funeral, people cut a four or five-meter-wide boulevard in the mature cornfield of their own home to let the gods of Zhou Guizhi pass smoothly. At the time of the funeral, people were infatuated, heart piercing, adults crying like children, children crying adults. Even dumb, lame, serious illness has also been helped to Zhou Guizhi funeral. There are many people crying unconscious in the grave of Zhou Guizhi, La do not pull up. Cries, rain, wind, firecrackers intertwined, solemn and tragic.