It is normal for girls to like cats and dogs, but Guo Xin, a 27-year-old girl, fell in love with piglets, and rented a rural courtyard in Maojiashan, West Coast New Area, Qingdao, and opened a "pig courtyard", raising 18 little fragrant pigs, and inviting everyone to play together.
On April 17th, the reporter came to Guo Xin's pig courtyard, the yard is not large, the design is full of fashion, the ground is paved with stone bricks, clean and tidy, and there is no uncomfortable smell at all. Guo Xin is petite, the first time they met, no one would associate her with pig farming, but such a girl, came to Qingdao from Harbin in 2020, opened a nail shop, and later transformed into a pig restaurant, after careful care, the best month of the small courtyard has a net income of more than 30,000 yuan, in order to expand the business, Guo Xin rented a small courtyard next to it to prepare to provide catering services.
When he first came to Qingdao, Guo Xin ran a nail salon, she raised a little fragrant pig who likes small animals, and this little pig has become the "lucky pig" in the store, many customers are coming to the little fragrant pig, and then Guo Xin simply rented a 100-square-meter house in the office building and opened a pig restaurant. In April 2023, Guo Xin moved the pig hall to the Maojiashan community, planned and designed it himself, and spent more than 200,000 yuan on the decoration. Guo Xin's pig hall is about 180 square meters, which is divided into a pig bathroom, an activity area, a tourist leisure area, and a catering area.
With a small courtyard, Guo Xin's pigs have also changed from one to eighteen, little boy, little powder, dundun, little potato...... Here all the little pigs have names. From 9 a.m. to 10 p.m., Guo Xin spends 13 hours a day with pigs. Guo Xin pays special attention to the food of the piglets, often adding carrots, cabbage, cucumbers, apples and other fruits and vegetables to them, and the piglets sleep in the bathroom at night, Guo Xin will bathe them carefully.
The reporter interviewed and found that some young people with ideas came to Maojiashan to turn the originally plain bungalow into a space with artistic atmosphere, and used their passion and creativity to help rural revitalization. In addition to Guo Xin's pig courtyard, there are also other characteristic shops, such as pizza shops, farmhouse banquets, homestays, leather goods shops, flower shops, etc., and the fashion shops have created an Internet celebrity atmosphere in the mountain village.
(Popular Daily, Popular News Client Reporter Lu Jinxing)