Spiraling up the mountain road, the silhouette of Guanshe Village, hidden in the clouds, gradually appears. Wall paintings full of She's characteristics, "ladybug houses" of different colors are scattered around the terraces...
Guanshe Village, located in Xinwei Town, Hua'an County, Zhangzhou City, Fujian Province, is the only She's village in Fujian Province named after the character "She", and the She's people account for more than 80%.
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In the past, this "Shezhai" was a well-known "Credit Village". "Clothes rely on credit, tuition depends on credit..." In the memory of Lan Gengyuan, secretary of the village party branch, Guanshe Village, where "the land is not three feet flat," lived a life of relying on the sky to eat, "Whenever the villagers go down the mountain, the townspeople shout in fear and shout 'credit again'." ”
The twist in the fate of Guanshe Village came from "a leaf". In 2003, under the leadership of the village party branch, the villagers began to experiment with tea cultivation, and the unique laterite soil and humid climate of the high mountains allowed Tieguanyin in Guanshe Village to smoothly open up sales channels. Soon, the area of tea gardens in the village developed to more than 1630 mu, with an annual output value of more than 8 million yuan.
This is a view of Guanshe Village, Xinxu Town, Hua'an County, Zhangzhou City, Fujian Province (taken on September 13). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Wu Jianfeng
In 2015, the gradually improving Guanshe Village once again encountered a bottleneck in development, due to the decline in the tea market year after year, "rich tea" became "subsistence tea", "industrial transformation" is imminent.
Lan Gengyuan set his sights on the dense forest surrounded by clouds, "Guanshe Village has a rule that lasts for more than 300 years, it is forbidden to enter the forest to cut down or even pick up dead branches, so the village has retained the real original natural scenery and developed tourism." In 2016, the village began the exploration of "tourism rejuvenation village" - the construction of the mountain trail, the introduction of the "ladybug house" homestay, the introduction of the state-owned enterprise Zhangzhou Tourism Investment Group to develop the "Colorful Guanshe" scenic spot... As a result, colorful buildings dot the mountains, giant walls cover the villagers' houses, and the ancient villages are full of wonderful fairy tale colors.
The reporter saw that the outer wall of the villager Lan Lixing's home was painted with the painting of the She's girl singing mountain songs, which echoed the wall painting of the "She's Boy" on the opposite side, which was interesting.
In Guanshe Village, Zhangzhou, Fujian Province, the exterior wall of villager Lan Lixing's homestay is painted with paintings of She girls singing mountain songs, and now every household has such ethnic special colors (photographed on September 13). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Wu Jianfeng
Tourism has changed the village and also the people. Lan Lixing is the "first crab-eating" homestay person in the village, in 2017, he renovated the house and opened a homestay, the National Day holiday was full of guests that year, and at the end of the year, a reconciliation account, more than 100,000 yuan of income is more cost-effective than planting tea.
One pass ten, ten pass a hundred, more and more villagers in Guanshe Village take up the tourist rice bowl. Open a homestay, become a chef, sell souvenirs... Under the guidance of the government, 90% of the villagers in Guanshe Village are now engaged in tourism-related work, and more than 60 people work in scenic spots. Through cooperation with scenic spots, the annual fixed income of the village collective has increased to more than 500,000 yuan, and the villagers can also receive dividends every year.
At the same time, the vanished national memories quietly returned. After the establishment of the scenic spot, the traditional folk tales of the She ethnic group were choreographed into dance performances and displayed to tourists from all over the world. In recent years, travel investment group has designed the cartoon image of the She, carried out the study of she culture for primary and secondary school students, and prepared to transform the traditional residential Wufeng Building into a she culture center, and the she culture that has been sealed in history will be known by more people.
This is the cartoon image of the She ethnic group designed by Guanshe Village and Zhangzhou Travel Investment Group (photographed on September 13). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Wu Jianfeng
In Fujian, the fate of more and more ethnic minority villages has been rewritten. During the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" period, 116 ethnic minority lika poor villages and 11581 ethnic minority lika poor people in Fujian Province were all lifted out of poverty, and 68 ethnic villages were named "Villages with Chinese Ethnic Minority Characteristics" by the State Nationalities Commission.
The former Shemin people called themselves "Shanha", which means "guest in the mountain". Nowadays, the "fairy tale in the clouds" dream of the shemin people shines into reality and becomes the master of a better life.
Text reporters: Xiang Kailai, Wu Jianfeng
Video reporters: Guo Xi, Wu Jianfeng
Editors: Liao Yi, Chen Dongshu, Wei Hai, Zhang Jiajin
Video footage support: Zhangzhou Travel Investment Group