Jiang Han, Yang Xian, A Zheligu, Sichuan View News reporter He Qinhua
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At the beginning of spring ploughing, all things are born. On the morning of April 14, with the spring breeze blowing, the fields of Puxiong began to be lively. Many tourists and media gathered on the terraced fields of Yangpo Village, Puxiong Town, to participate in the 2nd "Wangzhou Flower Affair Poetic Pastoral" spring flower appreciation in Yuexi County in 2024 and the "Fields of Wangwang" colorful terraced fields in Yi Township of the series of activities of "100 Backbone Tourism Enterprises in the Country" in Yuexi County, and experience the unique charm of the integration of traditional farming culture and Yi ethnic culture.
More than 400 people turned the mountain around the landscape plank road, which kicked off the ploughing festival. The villagers are dressed in sheepskin coats, leading the family's hunting dogs, and holding the family's native chickens, implying the prosperity of the six animals; the Yi girl holds the Yueqin in her arms, and the young man wears a "Charwa" and holds a torch, showing the traditional musical instruments, daily wear and torch festival customs of the Yi nationality; a team carries a bamboo basket, a hoe on the shoulder, and a wooden plow in hand, which truly restores the scene of working in the field.
The festivities are varied, the most distinctive of which is the traditional farming rituals. After the blessing ceremony, the villagers led the ploughing oxen to slowly go down to the field, harrowed and ploughed along the terraces, and opened the first plough of spring ploughing, implying the start of spring ploughing, encouraging farming, and wishing the fragrance of the grass. The women of the Yi nationality wearing characteristic national costumes carry green seedlings on their backs, chanting and planting seedlings along the ridges, forming a beautiful scenery of spring sowing.
At the same time, the wonderful performances of intangible cultural heritage programs are also dizzying, and the praise is endless. The Yi girls held yellow umbrellas in their hands and danced in festive costumes, and traditional folk intangible cultural heritage instruments such as the moon qin, mouth strings, and bamboo flutes also took turns to fight......
After the event, the tourists went to the ancient village of Puxiong Town to experience the ethnic customs of the first village of Yi embroidery on the Chengdu-Kunming line.
In the ancient Yi embroidery research base, embroidery girls sit together to show tourists the intangible cultural heritage skills of Yi embroidery. "Our ancient embroidery girls are all ingenious. Luo Wuliangzi, secretary of the party branch of Xiagu Village, enthusiastically introduced to every tourist and media reporter.
"The villagers were very welcoming, it was my first time participating in such an event, and I will come back more often in the future. Dong Xiaobing, a tourist from Qingdao, Shandong Province, said.
It is understood that this event relies on the spectacular colorful terraced agricultural landscape of Puxiong Yangpo, through "folk customs + culture + agriculture + festivals", to show the characteristic farming culture of Puxiong in Yuexi in an all-round way, and form a complete chain of spring plowing and autumn harvest with the intangible cultural heritage project "Yi Nationality Tasting New Rice Festival", so that tourists can experience the fun of integrating agriculture, culture and tourism, feel the charm of traditional farming culture, stimulate new vitality of rural tourism, jointly build the brand IP of Yuexi agricultural and cultural tourism, expand the influence and reputation of Yuexi cultural tourism, and promote the integrated development of Yuexi agriculture, culture and tourism.