Where to go for a romantic spring trip when spring is in full bloom? From March 4th to 30th, the 6th Guanhu Water Town Cauliflower Festival of "Xiangcun Sweet Garden Colorful Horse Irrigation" will be held in Maguan Town, Zhongxian County. At that time, there will be many unique activities such as the water sports carnival, the "one village, one product" ring competition, and the hot air balloon overlooking the sea of 10,000 acres of flowers. Take advantage of the spring breeze and carry the fragrance of flowers, you may wish to head to Maguan Town, which will surely bring you a beautiful encounter and memories while living up to the spring light.
Beautiful view: Guanhu water town rape flowers bloom colorful countryside
In the past, most of the villagers cultivated traditional grain crops, and although it was known as the "granary of Zhongxian County", the type of industry was single.
In recent years, Maguan Town has continued to consolidate the achievements in poverty alleviation, solidly promoted the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas, fully integrated into the construction of "one place, one city and three districts", focused on the development idea of "ecological town, industrial strong town, and tourism rejuvenation town", focused on cultivating modern mountain characteristics and efficient agriculture, accelerated the pace of rural tourism development, strengthened infrastructure construction, and effectively guaranteed and improved people's livelihood.
Especially after the highway was connected in 2016, Maguan Town saw the resource advantages of nearly 10,000 mu of good land distributed on the shore of the lake, and began to plan to take the road of integrated development of agriculture and tourism, and in 2019 alone, the rapeseed planting area in the town increased to more than 12,000 mu, and named it "Guanhu Water Town".
Mid-March is the time when the rape flowers are in full bloom. At the 6th Guanhu Water Town Cauliflower Festival held this year, the organizers specially introduced colorful hot air balloons to overlook the golden flower sea of Guanhu Water Town and the whole picture of the scenic area through the sky.
Food: "Top 10 Maguan Gourmets" is waiting for you to judge
Good scenery naturally needs to be accompanied by food. In the Guanhu Water Town Food Street, around the scenic area and other dining places in the town, in addition to enjoying a good meal, you can also like various foods on the organizer's "check-in page" and select the tourists' favorite "Top Ten Maguan Food".
During the whole event, the live broadcast of agricultural special products carried out by the e-commerce center of Maguan Town, United Post and other units will drive the sales of agricultural special products and increase the sales channels of agricultural special products, and will also negotiate offline sales channels with agricultural special product buyers, which will add a touch of brightness to the "Beautiful Rural Agricultural Special Industry Live Broadcast Month".
It is reported that the event is divided into four themes, including a lifetime flower sea run, a village and a pint competition, a week and a rhyme exhibition of rural style, and a landscape and a garden study tour, each theme lasts for one week.
The prologue of the Guanhu Water Town Cauliflower Festival was kicked off by the "1314 Flower Sea Run", which will be a bright color throughout the event. At that time, many runners from Zhongxian, Shizhu, Fengdu, Liangping, Matjiang and other surrounding districts and central urban areas will come to Guanhu Water Town to compete. At the same time, there will also be trapeze artists, jet ski performances, water balance beam intangible cultural heritage performances, etc., which will also bring a visual feast to the audience.
The "One Village, One Product" ring competition was also another highlight of the event. In the event, 20 villages in the town will select high-quality agricultural products from the needy people to participate in the exhibition competition and conduct sales awards.
Beauty: Wear Hanfu and walk through the sea of flowers to feel the traditional culture
It is understood that during the National Chao Traditional Culture and Art Week, "Hanfu beauty" crossing the sea of flowers will also be a major attraction of this event. This can not only promote the excellent traditional Chinese culture, but also tourists can even wear Hanfu and go deep into the fields to wander the sea of golden flowers, and record the next unforgettable moment with beautiful shots.
According to reports, while constantly improving the infrastructure, Maguan Town set up a tourism company to operate scenic spots, so that it transformed from the original single rape flower industry planting to the development of rural pastoral complexes, and gradually became a rural tourism destination with pastoral scenery as the main body and "nature, ecology, tourism and leisure" as the theme. Since 2018, Guanhu Water Village has received more than 1 million tourists.
The happiness of tourists and the increase of income of villagers are the most direct effects of the rape flower industry in Maguan Town in recent years. With the rise of rural tourism, nearly 1,000 people in Maguan Town have returned to their hometowns to start businesses and find employment, cultivating 15 new agricultural management entities and 30 new professional farmers, driving the annual sales of local agricultural products to exceed 10 million yuan, which can be described as "a rape flower activates the town's rural tourism".