"The birth of the King of Winter Melon in Datang! 118.64 pounds! On August 3, coinciding with the summer harvest, the first Foshan Station of the 1st Agricultural Games of Guangdong Province and the 13th Winter Melon King Competition of the 2024 Datang Healthy Life Festival in Sanshui District were held in Jinnong Agricultural Park, Modern Agricultural Park (Central Park) of Datang Town.
As the first launch of the Foshan Station of the first Agricultural Games of Guangdong Province, the event set up 3 interesting sports with the theme of winter melon, through the way of "agriculture + sports", to create a good social atmosphere for the whole people to participate in agricultural activities, so that the majority of farmers and friends can share the beauty of the countryside and the joy of the countryside.
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Datang Winter Melon King Selection
After the early launch, a total of 16 candidate melon kings participated in the final competition of this year's winter melon king competition.
The 16 participating winter melons are combined with 16 China's dominant sports, giving vivid, creative and interesting elements to this competition in the name of the Olympic Games.
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In the end, the winter melon weighing 118.64 kilograms planted by Li Jianhai, a grower from Xintian Village, won the 13th Winter Melon King Crown!
After the birth of this year's Winter Melon King, three of the winter melons that won the award on the same day raised a total of 134,000 yuan through on-site auction, which will be used to support poverty alleviation, education and other public welfare undertakings in Datang.
Culinary specialties
At the event site, you can visit the stalls of the winter melon food market along the way. Fun games were also set up in the venue, allowing the public to enjoy the black-skinned winter melon in Datang and taste the special food of Datang at the same time!
Workstation unveiling
Centralized signing of co-construction projects
At the event site, the unveiling of the Datang Workstation of the Intellectual Property Research Center of South China Agricultural University was held, and the cooperation framework agreement between the Datang Town Government and 8 units including Zhongjian Xinchuang Group Foshan Project Company was signed to help the development of new agricultural productivity in the town.
Twelve melon flavors 2.0 released
Wu Rongkai, the winning star chef of Foshan City's "Chef God Competition", ...... the river fresh winter melon boat and the hundred flowers stuffed melon ring The original "12-course melon flavor" dish was upgraded and the "12-course melon flavor 2.0" was launched.
"Happy melon" inter-work exercises
The IP of "Tangdong Melon" was released
In order to actively respond to the call of national fitness, the event specially launched the "happy melon" inter-work exercise.
Inspired by Datang's characteristic agricultural product "Winter Melon", the IP image of Datang Winter Melon was officially launched, and the IP image of Datang Winter Melon with novel design and full of creativity was customized.
Source: Quality Datang
Editor: Foshan News Network Luo Minling
Reviewers: Song Yang, Zhu Jingyi, Min Xin, Zhu Guanghui