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The opening ceremony of the 2024 Lingmei Cultural Tourism Festival in Binyang County. Photo by reporter Tang Yiwen
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Nanning Yun - Nanning News Network News (Reporter Tang Yiwen) Thousands of flowers, no more than plum blossoms. On the morning of December 30, the 2024 Lingmei Cultural Tourism Festival in Binyang County was grandly opened at Meihua Square, a famous mountain eco-tourism scenic spot in Chenping Town, attracting a large number of citizens and tourists to watch and play.
According to historical records, the famous mountain has planted plum trees for more than 1,000 years, at present, the area of plum trees planted in the scenic area is about 1,000 acres, and there are more than 4,000 hundred-year-old plum trees. Every year from late December to late January, in the cold winter season, the plum blossoms all over the mountains compete to be the first to bloom, and the beauty is breathtaking. Walking into the plum forest, the plum blossoms all over the mountains are competing to open, the white petals, the pale green calyx, exude a faint fragrance, with the antique lanterns of various colors, it is a beautiful landscape.
A large number of citizens and tourists enjoy plum blossoms in Meilin. Photo by reporter Tang Yiwen
In the plum forest, folk music performances such as guqin, pipa, erhu, and opera attract many tourists and photography enthusiasts to check in and take pictures. "The plum blossoms in the scenic area are very beautiful, and the on-site activities are also colorful, and I had a lot of fun. Ms. Deng, a citizen, heard that the plum blossoms in the scenic spot were blooming, and specially invited her sisters to come and enjoy the fun. Ms. Liu, a citizen, dressed in Tang costumes, shuttled among the plum blossoms all over the mountains, like a fairy in the mountains, she said that she was very happy to participate in this kind of activity for the first time, like a dream through the past and the present.
In Plum Blossom Square, the sky is full of snowflakes, and the artificial snow gun reproduces the dreamy scene of "stepping on the snow and looking for plums". Children cheering, jumping, chasing and playing in the snow...... In close contact with the snow, you can experience the joy of ice and snow games. The snowy scenery and the plum blossoms in full bloom at the moment, the romantic "Snow Treading and Plum Hunting" Ice and Snow Park project is just one of the many wonderful activities of the Lingmei Cultural Tourism Festival in Binyang County. It is understood that the cultural tourism festival is rich in content, carrying out a series of activities such as the Snow Music Festival, Plum Garden, Snow Plum Hunting, Lingmei Market, Wang Yangming Mind Conference, Photography Competition, Garden Fun Experience Activities, "Green Plum Love" Single Youth Friendship and other activities, so that tourists can feel the multi-level rich cultural experience while appreciating the plum.
Plum blossoms competing to open. Photo by reporter Tang Yiwen
Folk music performance in Merlin.
As the only scenic spot featuring plum in Nanning, the Mingshan Ecotourism Zone has launched the brands of "Lingnan Plum Township" and "Chenmei Ancient Rhyme", and was rated as a national AAAA-level tourist attraction in December 2022. In recent years, in accordance with the idea of "scenery in the village and village in the scenery", the Mingshan Eco-tourism Zone has integrated the development of the three major industries and developed diversified tourism projects around the main line of tourism functions of "plum appreciation, mountaineering, water playing, and village residence". "The plum blossom festival is an important display window for the development of rural tourism in Chenping Town, and through this series of activities, it aims to continuously stimulate the vitality of cultural tourism and enhance the brand influence of Binyang's 'Lingnan Meixiang National Style Town', so as to promote rural revitalization. Meng Chaoming, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of Chenping Town and mayor of the town people's government, said.
It is reported that the 2024 Lingmei Cultural Tourism Festival in Binyang County will last until February 24, 2024.
Editor: Pang Lina
Editor on duty: Huang Deng
(Author: Tang Yiwen)