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The micro-documentary | sweet village

When the rising sun began to rise in the east, the cooking smoke gradually swirled, the village was slowly waking up, the teachers and masters of Huangtian Village had raised the fire of the sugar stove early, the sun-dried bagasse was stuffed into the stove, and the roaring fire reflected the cold morning of the village.

The micro-documentary | sweet village

Huangtian Village, located on the southwest side of the Chixi Valley, has abundant land. The local brown sugar making technique is native and not recorded, but has been passed down from generation to generation.

The micro-documentary | sweet village

The piping hot syrup was sprinkled on the bamboo mats that had been prepared, and three or four masters with wooden sugar knives repeatedly mixed and spread the syrup.

The micro-documentary | sweet village

After the syrup is left to dry for two hours, it is raked with iron into small pieces of twenty centimeters square.

The micro-documentary | sweet village

The stoves in the sugar workshops are bright day and night, the rolling sound of water wheels and stone mills is incessant, and the fields are full of people who pick cane, harvesting sweet days.

Produced by Creative Video Studio of The Audio and Video Department of Xinhua News Agency

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