Xinhua Network Shanshan, March 18 (Li Mengting) On March 18, the 8th "Desert Spring" Tourism and Cultural Festival of "Shanshan County" in Turpan City and the "Flower Blossom Tuyugou • Xinjiang First Spring" Apricot Blossom Festival opened in Tuyugou Village, Tuyugou Township!
"You are snowing in the bright sun in the south, and I am in the cold night in the north like spring in all seasons"... Zhang Pengfei, a tourist from Urumqi, hummed the classic "Nanshan South" in his mouth, reflecting the ice and snow of Urumqi in March, while Shanshan County, two hundred kilometers away, was already full of spring.
With the theme of "Desert Spring", this year's Apricot Blossom Festival integrates desert car off-road rally, photography collection, folklore program performance, investment signing, special product exhibition and sales, etc., and gradually cultivates apricot blossoms into a tourism brand activity integrating "tourism, leisure and entertainment, investment negotiation".
At the opening ceremony of the same day, "Flowers" from Dongbazar Hui Nationality Township, Xinjiang Intangible Cultural Heritage - Muqam Art Performance, Song and Dance "Tuyugou Fairy", Nag Drum Music Performance and other rich ethnic traditional culture programs were successively performed on stage. On the other side, special snacks such as roasted whole lamb, roasted eggs, and pit meat brought by special catering merchants in Shanshan County came to the scene to "help", bringing tourists the enjoyment of the tip of the tongue.
In recent years, Shanshan County Governor Erken Maimaiti introduced that in recent years, Shanshan County has vigorously developed new forms of tourism culture, successfully held seven sessions of "Desert Spring" tourism and cultural festival, in order to further improve the rural ecological environment, Shanshan County planted a large number of apricot trees in Tuyugou Village, built an apricot blossom tourist garden, developed the earliest apricot blossom brand in Xinjiang, held the apricot blossom festival for the first time this year, opened up a new model of rural agricultural leisure tourism, and became a new highlight to drive farmers to increase their income and become rich.
Shanshan County belongs to Turpan City, Xinjiang, located in the northern foothills of Kumutag Mountain (Shashan), west of the eastern end of Flame Mountain. Surrounded by mountains on three sides, the terrain is high in the northeast and low in the southwest. Bogda Mountain to the north, Turpan Basin and Hami Basin to the middle, and Gobi and Desert to the south, were important stations on the ancient Silk Road.
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