On December 23, the 8th (2023) "Belt and Road" Culture and Tourism Development Forum and Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Cultural and Tourism Integration Forum was held at Wuzhou Hotel in Shenzhen. Xinzhou District of Wuhan City was invited to promote cultural tourism at the project promotion meeting, bringing poetic and picturesque enjoyment to the guests, promoting cultural and tourism exchanges and docking in various places, and seeking high-quality development of cultural tourism.
From now on, [Cultural Tourism Xinzhou] will launch the column "Exposure to Cultural Tourism and Travel to Xinzhou", which will continue to show the natural features and humanistic characteristics of various scenic spots and places in Xinzhou, show the beauty of the city with the beauty of the scenery, and let readers deeply understand and understand the brand image of cultural tourism of "Wenjin Millennium Pattern Xinzhou". Today, let's walk into the ancient brown sugar town of Dianxiyuan.
Exposure to cultural tourism, tour Xinzhou|Dianxiyuan ancient brown sugar town
Located in Fenghuang Town, Xinzhou District, Dianxiyuan Ancient Brown Sugar Town, with convenient transportation and beautiful environment, is the first intangible cultural heritage "ancient brown sugar" production base in Hubei Province, and the "ancient sugar making skills" have been rated as intangible cultural heritage. Since its completion in 2016, the base has planted 100 acres of sugarcane, and about 50 tons of handmade sugar every year, which have been sold all over the country through e-commerce platforms and local specialty stores, becoming one of the specialties of Xinzhou with local characteristics.
Today, the town has developed into a rural theme sightseeing park with a distinct theme, green environmental protection, beautiful scenery and sustainable development. The construction area of the park is 225 acres, which is composed of five parts: sugarcane planting ornamental garden, ancient brown sugar processing area, wildflower combination ornamental area, organic jasmine, osmanthus, rose planting area, and bonsai area. There are also Hui-style B&Bs, which allow people to relax and enjoy the idyllic life in the white walls and tiles and paradise. This has also attracted many family family trips, corporate team building, institutional meetings, class reunions, cultural lectures and other teams to come to experience.
Ancient brown sugar inherits ingenuity
"When I was a child, my grandfather often told me about the fiery scene of making ancient brown sugar when they were young and the pure taste of ancient brown sugar, which made people drool, so I had a dream in my heart to dig out the unique skills of my ancestors in making brown sugar by hand, and then carry it forward. With dreams and responsibilities, the founder Jing Xianglin took the meaning of "little by little into a stream", founded the ancient brown sugar town of "Dianxi Garden", and transferred nearly 300 acres of land to be planted with sugarcane, driving the local villagers to get rich.
"Ancient method of brown sugar" is the intangible cultural heritage of Xinzhou District, its boiling process is very complex, the sugarcane harvested on the day is chopped and rolled, and the juice pressed out removes impurities such as soil, bacteria, fiber, etc., 9 chain pots on the wood stove are boiled over low heat, after juice extraction, foaming, water, filtration, shaking scoop, sand, forming and other processes, different pots undertake different tasks, after "five squeezing, three filtration, two floating and one sinking", about a few hours later, the brown sugar can be scooped into the mold, cooled and formed. The whole sugar boiling process has very high requirements for the master's craftsmanship, and the whole process has no measurement, no parameters, no dashboard, and it all depends on the experience of the sugar boiling master.
The brown sugar boiled by the ancient method is different from other brown sugars, and the "ancient brown sugar" is a simple raw sugar extracted from sugarcane, which basically retains all the nutrients in sugarcane. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that brown sugar is warm, sweet in taste, and enters the spleen, which has the effects of invigorating qi and replenishing blood, strengthening the spleen and warming the stomach, warming and relieving pain, invigorating blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and also has the effects of curing liver qi stagnation, relieving intestines and laxative, warming the liver and brightening the purpose.
Watching art and appreciating the ancient music is beautiful
Every year from October to December, tourists from all over the country will come to the town to visit and experience, for which the base has developed homestays, purple sand art museums, ancient stone pillar gate series, picking and flower appreciation tours, parent-child farming experience, reservoir fishing and other projects, to create a set of production, sightseeing, leisure, tourism, eating, living, playing as one of the cultural tourism industry.
"Jinfu Mountain, a roll of stones, so large, plants and trees, birds and beasts dwell, treasures prosperous. The name is taken from Confucius's "The Mean", the "Rolling Stone Zisha Art Museum", which was completed in 2022, contains more than 200 pieces of painted purple sand collected from all over the Ming and Qing dynasties, and currently has 54 pieces of trial exhibition in the first phase.
At the entrance of each walking path in Dianxi Park, there is also a "Ancient Stone Pillar Gate Series" that can be visited for free. These stone pillars are collected from various ancient villages, and each stone has a variety of auspicious patterns hand-carved by skilled craftsmen, which are still clearly engraved after the vicissitudes of life, expressing the yearning of the vast number of farmers for a better life. The old blue bricks are built with stone pillar doors to build a variety of porcelain shapes, which have a unique charm and are worth tasting.
In the ancient brown sugar town of Dianxi Garden, the Hui-style courtyard house is built on the mountain, and the grass is green in front of the door, and the flowers are like a brocade. Surrounded by greenery, the sparkling reservoir is home to fatty fish such as Dabaidiao and Daqing, which is not only a natural oxygen bar, but also a paradise for anglers.
Edutainment, study and travel are suitable
In order to continuously improve the sense of participation and experience of different tourists, the town combines the integrated development model of agriculture, culture and tourism to promote the diversified development of the countryside, and regularly carries out diversified experience and education activities such as planting sugarcane, cutting sugarcane, picking roses, and appreciating powder, effectively combining agriculture and entertainment, agriculture and education, agriculture and cultural tourism, and integrating development, gradually making the town an Internet celebrity check-in place for citizens and tourists to experience the "brown sugar culture".
From January to February every year, the parent-child experience activity of "beating glutinous rice cakes and spreading beans, digging water chestnuts to make rock sugar gourds", from March ——-to June every year, the parent-child experience activity of "planting sugarcane, picking mugwort leaves, and making youth leagues", from May ——-to October every year, the parent-child experience activity of "picking roses and making flower cakes", and from late October to early December every year, the parent-child experience activity of "cutting sugarcane and boiling sugar in ancient methods...... With various forms and multiple activities, the town with the integrated development of "agriculture + culture + tourism" has become a place for parents and children to learn and learn through entertainment and hard work.
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Editors: Zhang Qi, Li Jiaxin
First trial: Jiang Chengfeng
Source: Dianxiyuan Ancient Brown Sugar Town
Final review: Wuhan Xinzhou District Culture and Tourism Bureau
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