On the ancient "Silk Road", there is an important town - Ping'an Yi located in Haidong, Qinghai, which is also an important post station of the "Tangbo Ancient Road". It is located in the Ganqing Trunk Road, where the Yellow River, Huangshui River and Datong River flow together, historically known as the "Hehuang Valley", and is also the birthplace, core area and bearing area of the Hehuang culture, one of the four major cultures of the Yellow River.
Recently, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism launched the second phase of 143 national rural tourism boutique routes in 2023, and the Hehuang Folk Culture Tour in Haidong City, Qinghai Province was selected as the theme route of "Poetic Habitat". Enter the national tourism and leisure block - Ping'an Yi, Haidong City, Qinghai Province, review the local thousand-year history, and experience the folk culture of Hehuang↓
Recreate the thousand-year-old history and experience the folk culture of Hehuang
CCTV reporter Liu Lulu: The Ping'an Station in Haidong, Qinghai, has been one of the important towns of the ancient "Silk Road" since ancient times, and it is also an important post station of the "Tangbo Ancient Road", where the civilization of the Central Plains and the civilization of the Western Regions meet. Now Ping'an Yi has been built into a place for experiencing Hehuang folk culture.
Walking into the main entrance, the two big characters "Peace" on the castle are very eye-catching. Later, strolling along the stone road, the antique gate tower, the loess rammed earthen outline, the ancient city alleys of the Republic of China style, and the Tibetan, Hui, Tu and other ethnic styles of buildings reproduce the historical style of the old Ping'an Yi.
According to historical records, in 60 BC, that is, the second year of Emperor Xuan of Han, Anyi County was established here, and it was changed to Ping'an Town in the Qing Dynasty, and its name has been inherited to this day.
Former peace, today's peace. In late autumn, strolling along the stone road through the streets and alleys of Heian Yi is like being in a museum that displays the culture of Hehuang.
Wang Hui, deputy general manager of Ping'an Yihehuang Folk Culture Experience Place: This year, during our National Day, there will be some normalized performances every day, such as folk performances. Arrange some merchants to interact with tourists, for example, we make mooncakes, because this year is National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival together, and then visitors will be allowed to experience in the store. Compared with 2019, the number of tourists is expected to increase by about 20%.
Heian Yi: River Huang Special Food "Grand View Garden"
As a thousand-year-old inn, Ping'an Yi has a long history and rich and colorful food culture. Here, strolling along the bluestone road, barley noodles rubbed fish, leek boxes, churned balls, handmade mooncakes and so on, these local Qinghai delicious snacks, you can find everything. In addition to gathering more than 300 kinds of Hehuang special snacks, Ping'an Yi also introduces the customs and specialties and folk workshops of the Hehuang area, and tourists can experience a strong cultural atmosphere.
Salix skewers, braised potatoes, sala meals, wood turkeys, cannon fights, dried plate fish... Walking in the alleys of Ping'an Yi, you will be greeted by all kinds of special snacks from Qinghai.
Tourist Ha Zhen: It's not far from the city, so take your family around during holidays. Just tried it, every snack feels good, the taste is good.
The clean crucian carp is sprinkled in hot oil, and when it is just out of the pan, it is sprinkled with the store's secret spices, and the aroma is overflowing. This is the specialty snack here – dry plate fish.
Ma Zhiying, owner of the dry plate fish shop: Today I can sell more than 1,000 pieces. There were especially many queues during Eleven (holiday) and we were tired (but) very happy.
The mooncakes in Ping'an Yi are also very distinctive. Ping'an local mooncake is actually a kind of flower bun, the red yeast powder, turmeric powder, fragrant bean powder layer by layer into the white flour cake, steamed out of rich color, cut is even more beautiful to make people unbearable.
Xining tourist Ma Ting: After turning around, I think it is very good, I eat a lot and play a lot. I just saw this (mooncake) here, and I have a feeling of finding my childhood.
There are many snacks in Ping'an Yili, and the name of the store is also simple and clear, what is the name of what is sold. On holidays, there are long queues in front of almost every shop in this "Gourmet Happy Valley".
According to statistics, there are currently more than 180 merchants in the park, including homestays and shopping, and there are more than 380 kinds of special snacks alone.
Wang Hui, deputy general manager of Ping'an Yihehuang Folk Culture Experience Place: (Tourists) live here for three months, and the snacks every day can be different. The stores in the entire park are one store and one product, and there is no duplication. We're here to preserve the diversity and uniqueness of the park, but also to better showcase the local culture and character, [and] to prevent some vicious competition."
CCTV reporter Liu Lulu: In Ping'an Yi, in addition to concentrating various special snacks in the Hehuang area of Qinghai, it has also moved in the common customs and folk workshops in this area, such as tofu shops, oil mills, chili workshops, etc.
Walking into the chili workshop, as soon as you enter the door, the spicy smell comes to your nose.
Chili workshop staff Nan Xiaoyu: Our spicy seeds are milled by traditional stone grinding, which stimulates the aroma of spicy seeds. There are several kinds of spices, including Qinghai Xunhua local chili peppers and Shaanxi foreign chili peppers, which are blended in different proportions according to the taste of customers, all of which are quite fragrant.
In vinegar, noodles, oil, tofu, yogurt, etc., there is a "front shop and back field", that is, tourists can choose products in the front store, and visit the processing process in the back store. These specialty workshops not only provide raw materials for local snack merchants, but tourists can also buy and take away.
It is reported that since its completion and operation in 2019, Ping An Yi has developed into a centralized display place for Hehuang culture, Qinghai folk culture, special food, and mass entrepreneurship, which has played an important role in promoting local economic development, rural revitalization and labor employment, and has also become an incubation base for many entrepreneurs to start their own businesses.
Liu Zhengxin, member of the leading party group of the Haidong City Bureau of Culture and Radio, Qinghai Province: The construction of many characteristic towns in Haidong City is led by the Hehuang culture, and the cultural industry and tourism industry are the dual engines. By building a modern industrial system that integrates three industries, it will become a typical project of "agriculture + tourism, new-type urbanization construction" and a development platform for cultural and creative industries.
Folklore Show: Experience the beauty of diverse cultures
During the Mid-Autumn Festival National Day holiday, you can not only taste a variety of Qinghai food, but also experience many characteristic folk performances. It is a place where Han culture, Hui culture, Tibetan culture, Turkish culture and Salar culture meet. While highlighting the beauty of various cultural characteristics, it also reflects the harmonious integration of coexistence and development.
The Chen Family Tea House is in the northwest of Ping'an Yi, where there is everything for brewing tea, milk tea, and gaiwan tea. At the entrance of the tea house, in the distance, you can hear the melodious "song" of the river. Approaching the tea house, guests enjoyed Qinghai opera art while drinking tea. According to reports, the performances on stage are all local folk artists in Ping'an District. Whether it is Qinghai Pingxian, Yuexian, Xianxiao, or Taoqing, it all condenses the essence of Hehuang opera culture.
Folk artist Liu Jinbo: (The performance is) Qinghai Yuexian, (singing) visiting guests and friends. There are still many people who like it, and young people are now slowly having it, and those who have preferences come up, and we also (sing) together.
In addition to the folk artists in the teahouse, a variety of folk performances are arranged at the theater of Heian Station during holidays. For example, flower singing, traditional social fire, shadow puppet and other characteristic national performances. When we arrived at the theater, the actors on stage were rehearsing Qin dialect.
Nai Donghong, representative inheritor of local opera masks of Haidong City's municipal intangible cultural heritage: We have arranged the repertoire of the ugly and ugly, and there are also modern plays in it, which can enrich our National Day performances. Qin cavity, in our five northwestern provinces, people are more liked. In recent years, with the support of the government, we have a lot of folk theater troupes, and we basically have five or six such private theater troupes in every county and district. Not limited to performance, we are now doing more abundantly, opera into the campus, opera study, opera experience, opera training, etc., we are using various methods to inherit.
In Ping'an Yi, the intangible cultural heritage that can be experienced is not only local opera, but also folk literature, Qinghai embroidery, Hui medicine, Tibetan thangka, etc.
Old streets, old alleys, old buildings, old tastes, this Ping'an Yi scenic spot created by introducing new concepts and characteristic operation models, with colorful river architecture, Qinghai cuisine full of memories, characteristic folk performances have attracted a large number of tourists, becoming a "dark horse" in the tourism industry in Qinghai and surrounding areas.
(CCTV News Client)