Knee-deep, colourful rice paddies glow golden in the morning sun; roads as blue as the sky wind the rice paddies in half a circle to the distant green mountains. Jiang Yiqing, 80, with light music playing in his wired headphones, slowly walked around the rice paddy twice. The 110 acres of rice paddy field is a painting that is already being harvested today, and more than a dozen villagers in Baoshan Temple Village, Baoshan Town, Huairou District, Beijing, have used their scythes to remove the rice from the ground, while the combine harvester in the distance has sounded a roar.
The golden and colorful rice fields of Huairou Baoshan Temple Village. Beijing News reporter Wang Wei photographed
Painting of the northernmost rice field in Beijing
On a good morning, Jiang Yiqing would listen to music alone and walk along the road next to the rice paddies, saying that the rice fields here used to be colorful, bright and bright, and now the rice was ripe and all turned yellow, and it needed to be carefully identified to see the original color of the colored rice.
The drone flew to about 200 meters, and a huge pattern of red stars appeared on the screen. Although it is 120 kilometers from the North Fifth Ring Road, citizens who drive to take pictures can often be seen in the village. Ms. Chen, a resident of the town, said, "Some time ago, when the rice was still brightly colored, many young people came here with drones and long and short cameras to take pictures. It was as if we had a photography contest here. ”
Painting overlooking the northernmost rice paddy field in Beijing. Beijing News reporter Wang Wei filmed and produced
For the villagers, this is the first rice field in the village in 16 years. Liu Changming, secretary of the Baoshan Temple village branch, told reporters that before the 1980s, hundreds of acres of rice were planted on both sides of the Baihe and Tianhe rivers in Baoshan Town, "Baoshan rice is grown in the mountains, the temperature difference between day and night is large, the sunshine is sufficient, and it is still a single-cropping rice, the growth cycle is long, the taste is particularly good, the yield of Baoshan small rice is lower, the yield of four or five hundred catties per mu, but this is enough for the villagers to eat at home." People call our rice 'Baoshan Xiaodao'. ”
"Rice due to the need to apply pesticides, which will pollute the river, coupled with the decline in river water level, in order to protect the water source, Baoshan Temple Village in response to the ecological conservation area 'return rice to the field' and 'return wheat to save water' policy call, after 2005, no longer plant rice." Liu Changming told reporters that the current crops in Baoshan Town are mainly wheat, corn and millet.
Children experience the joy of cutting rice and the joy of harvest. Beijing News reporter Wang Wei photographed
"In the years of rice cultivation, whoever made rice could smell the aroma from outside the yard, and this smell has been too long ago." Villager Han Xiaoliang remembers that the taste of Baoshan rice is particularly fragrant, "When I was a child, cutting rice was also cut by adults with sickles. When the rice is cut home, it will be eaten with fragrant rice. ”
Colored upland rice promotes collective income increase
In late May this year, 470 acres of multicolored dry rice were planted on farmland in villages such as Baoshan Temple and Daodekeng. The village signed a purchase and sale contract with a professional breeding company, and uniformly carried out the purchase of fine seeds, fertilization management, on-site technical guidance, and grain recovery. Liu Changming introduced that the colorful rice fields in Baoshan Temple Village can harvest tens of thousands of kilograms of rice, and also provide more than 150 jobs for villagers in daily fertilization and weeding work. ”
The Beijing News reporter broadcast the rice harvest live. Beijing News reporter Wang Wei photographed
"When the rice was first planted, some people saw the colorful rice and asked, can this rice be eaten?" Some people are more confused, there is no water in this rice field, how can the rice grow? A villager holding a sickle cut a handful of rice neatly in three or two movements, "Now people are accustomed to it, knowing that this is colored upland rice, a unique species." This kind of rice looks particularly good and brings the popularity of our village. ”
Coloured upland rice to be harvested. Beijing News reporter Wang Wei photographed
Upland rice, also known as land rice, is suitable for cultivation in dryland, but the traditional upland rice is generally produced between 200-600 catties per mu, with low yield, poor taste and lack of nutrition, so the total amount of upland rice planting is not large, and the popularity is not high. Baoshan Town introduced is a long-term selection of multi-colored dry rice, the rice has the advantages of drought resistance, high yield, lodging resistance, disease resistance, mu yield can reach more than 800 catties. Some researchers told reporters that color rice contains high anthocyanins and other special nutrients, nutrients will be richer than ordinary rice, "anthocyanins belong to flavonoid substances, its main physiological activity function is free radical scavenging ability and antioxidant capacity, so the anthocyanins in color rice, as well as anti-aging effects." ”
Hand holding a full-grained multicolored rice. Beijing News reporter Wang Wei photographed
Baoshan Town government staff introduced that Baoshan Town around the optimization of the adjustment of planting structure, this year's planting is mainly five varieties of colorful upland rice such as multicolored carmine, green grain sand, plasma rice, etc., "seeing the colorful rice with full grains, it also lays confidence for continuing to promote planting next year." Next, Baoshan Town will also lead more farmers to deeply promote the planting of colorful upland rice, enhance the added value of agricultural products, and improve the competitiveness of agricultural products in the market. ”
Beijing News reporter Zhao Lixin Zhang Shujing photography Wang Wei
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