"Millet" is the ancients' written general term for millet, "millet" is an annual plant of the grass family, widely planted in the northern region of the mainland, and is commonly known as "millet" after hulling. As the oldest crop that originated in China, millet was at the top of the five grains in ancient times.
The world Xiaomi looks at China, and the Chinese millet is in Ao Han. On August 22nd, the Inner Mongolia Station of the "Pomegranate Blossoms, Seeds and Seeds" network theme activity Inner Mongolia Station interviewed the Xiaomi Museum, known as the "hometown of millet in the world", to learn about the past and present life of Ao Han millet up close and explore the rich culture it carries.
Xiaomi Museum
Founded in September 2018, Ao Han Banner Millet Museum is a cultural integration and display platform for the globally important agricultural cultural heritage "Ao Han Dry Farming System" represented by millet, and its architectural form is inspired by the typical cultural carrier of Xinglongwa Yujue and barrel-shaped clay pots. In addition to the display of the dryland farming system dominated by millet, the museum also sets up a special area to display the production environment, quality characteristics, production conditions, geographical indications, honorary reports, etc. of Ao Han millet, and comprehensively displays the dry farming cultural system with a long history and rich culture in Ao Han Banner.
In the museum, you can see Xiaomi-related peripheral products everywhere. Millet oil, millet soap, millet pot, millet mooncake, etc., the innovation chain around millet is getting longer and longer. "It tastes particularly good, I didn't expect millet to make so many delicacies, and I can see that Ao Hanqi has made good innovations in the development of characteristic agricultural products." Lun Xiaoxuan, a reporter from China.com, said after tasting.
Xiaomi products
In recent years, Ao Hanqi has firmly grasped the golden signboard of "Globally Important Agricultural Cultural Heritage", expanded and strengthened the millet industry, and made use of the influence of agricultural cultural heritage to make a nationally famous regional public brand: Ao Han millet, which has completed the development of the whole industrial chain from planting to processing, from sales to food, from culture to tourism. Markets are wider and farmers are richer.
Exterior view of the Xiaomi Museum
At present, the museum has become an important place for the general public to understand, understand and experience the Su culture, showing that the ancient ancestors of the Ao Han area have made outstanding contributions to the development of Chinese civilization and even human civilization, showing that the people of all ethnic groups in Ao and Han have protected, inherited and developed the cultural treasure of the Ao Han dry farming system in the long-term exchanges, exchanges and blending, and has also become a cultural business card of the Ao Han Banner to improve the level of agricultural culture, enhance the competitiveness of agricultural products, and promote the development of millet industry and cultural tourism.
Executive Producer: Li Zhongfeng
Text: Xu Jing
Photo by Wang Xiaobo
Editor: Wang Lihong