Bird's eye view of Zhuji Ma Jian (Courtesy of Ma Jian Town Government)
Lingshan Sword Water, Humanistic Horse Sword.
Majian Town is located at the westernmost point of Zhuji City, Zhejiang Province. The Longmen Mountains are located in between, with several peaks of more than 1,000 meters, peaks facing each other and connected by seats; the tributaries of the Fuchun River are crystal clear and meandering through. It is a typical Jiangnan township, surrounded by mountains and flowing streams. The ecological environment is excellent.
How to make good use of this landscape to create employment opportunities for the people? Vigorously developing rural ecological leisure tourism is an important development strategy of Majian Town. At present, Ma Jian has compiled an overall plan for tourism development: in order to highlight the connotation of ecological pastoral characteristics, Ma Jian plans to promote rural revitalization from the three aspects of ancient rhyme, leisure and ecology, with landscape and pastoral ecology as the base, to build a leisure town dominated by health resorts, with functions such as sports and recreation, rural leisure, forest recreation, and poetic retreat; transform historical and cultural landscapes such as ancient streets and historical relics, control the scale of urban construction, reasonably control the intensity of development, and embody the image of a small town of "small and beautiful, small and fine".
There are flowers to see in all seasons, and there are landscapes everywhere. After living in the city for a long time, I especially yearn for the idyllic life of Ma Jian. The surrounding area is stained with this green like a dream, and it is extremely idyllic.
"This year, we will continue to focus on the concept of 'green water and green mountains are golden mountains and silver mountains', build a bridgehead for the development of Ronghang and the western part of Zhuji, rely on the 'three beauty' of Majian (food, beauty, beauty industry), with clean and tidy environmental sanitation, smooth and orderly road traffic, landscape improvement along the street and river, retro transformation of old streets and other construction priorities." With the excavation and integration of cultural heritage, the creation of a characteristic small year atmosphere, the inheritance and protection of traditional folk customs, and the overall improvement of the quality of the masses as the core of promotion, we will activate the great improvement of beautiful economic development. The relevant person in charge of Majian Town said.
Ancestral halls, squares, auditoriums... In Majian, cultural symbols with historical background can be seen everywhere, in various forms. Unlike other places that are keen to build "town parlors", Ma Jian insists on retaining the original taste, adapting to local conditions, and building these cultural symbols into "golden business cards" for showing style to the outside world.
Here the mountains are surrounded, the trees are layered, the farmland is patchy, the old houses with white walls and black tiles are lined up at the foot of the mountain, and the chickens and dogs smell each other. Walking on the foot side of the mountain, the path twists and turns, in all directions, after the new rain, the eaves of the water drop down on the yard, the pebbles are covered with moss, and it is still a little slippery to step on.
Shude Hall, a provincial-level cultural relics protection unit in Zhejiang, was built during the Qianlong period, covering an area of 2026 square meters, consisting of a wall, a doorway, a middle hall, a rear hall, a left and right side compartment, a left and right hugging box, and an auxiliary room in the rear hall. The door platform is a wall, with a bluestone stone warehouse door in the center, brick carvings and small green tiles on the top of the wall, ox legs on the front eaves, ox legs on the eaves to add eaves, and ox legs carved with dragon-shaped patterns; Jingyi Hall, a provincial cultural relics protection unit in Zhejiang, was completed in Qianlong in 36 years. It is composed of a doorway, a middle hall, a rear hall and a left and right side compartment, with an ancient seal of "can be large and long" in the inner door, and the ox leg is carved with a lion-shaped pattern; Yongmu Hall, which was built in the Song Chunyou period. After being destroyed by fire, it was rebuilt in the Qing Dynasty, and the ox leg was built with a cornice to add an eaves, and the ox leg was carved with a dragon-shaped flower pattern... There are also Yuanyuan Hall, Junde Hall, Zengde Hall, etc., which are so dense that if you don't pay attention, you will miss it.
The old house, one of the most precious treasures in the hearts of Majian people, is dotted between the 118 square kilometers of mountains and rivers, becoming the crystalline green stone on the map of Majian tourism. "This is our sword's memory, and it's also our baby. Growing up here as a child, it was our home. The relevant person in charge of Majian Town said. It is understood that as early as the government decided to fund the restoration and protection of these ancient houses, majian people spontaneously crowdfunded two or three times of repair funds, all of which were more than 10,000 yuan, and asked special personnel to strengthen the walls and beams, renovate tiles, and so on. Now, there are still many elderly people gathering here to chat.
Located at the junction of Pujiang, Fuyang and Tonglu, Majian Town inherits a unique custom and habit - to celebrate the New Year. It is said that after hard work every year, the harvest of grain is imminent, and the Majian people use this time to gather with relatives and friends, and over time there is a saying of "too small year". In order to allow relatives and friends to have the opportunity to move around, neighboring villages deliberately stagger the date of the small year - almost every month has a "year".
Taking advantage of the beautiful geographical conditions of the mountains and rivers and the humanistic feelings of "ten thousand people celebrating the small year", Majian Town vigorously develops the "small year culture" characteristic tourism.
Often on the day of the "little year", who has more guests than others, and this family will have great luck in the next year. Therefore, every household is a doorway. In addition to eating and drinking, the village will also set up a lively "venue" with everything to eat, and guests can also buy some gifts for their families and friends when they go back. A large number of pure handicraft foods such as horse sword steamed buns, groupers, tofu buns, native pork, gray soup dumplings, longevity noodles, tofu skins, etc., have attracted everyone to salivate, quite a "sword on the tip of the tongue" momentum, the conventional "small year package", commonly known as "eight bowls".
Here a longevity noodle, the longest can be a circle in the village square, become a unique food scenery; tofu bun from the selection of raw materials, to go through immersion, grinding, filtering, boiling, nourishing, wrapping, squeezing and other more than 10 processes, the key is that the tofu is tender and tough, tofu bun can become "strong"; there is also a sword steamed bun with local pork, the steamed bun is soft, the wheat flavor in the mouth is one of the most memorable noodles by the author so far. And the local pork served on it is mouth-watering in color. Pick up the squarely sliced meat and take a bite of the pork skin, which is not only crispy, but also a little elastic. And the fat part, put in the mouth sweet but not greasy. The soft bun is sandwiched with native pork in the middle, and the oil in the pork is soaked in the fermented cracks of the bun, and placed in the mouth is the essence of the fusion of two different foods.
Relying on green waters and green mountains and beautiful scenery, in recent years, Majian Town has adhered to the concept of "tourism +" and is committed to building a rural boutique tourism destination, and has now formed a number of rural tourism network red attractions such as QinhuangDao Horse Farm "Horse Riding Tour Ancient Road" and Kaiyuan Fangcaodi Village Hotel. To this end, Majian Town has vigorously created a cultural tourism characteristic type, leveraged beautiful towns, further effectively activated tourism functions such as culture, agriculture, and health care, and improved the overall tourism reception capacity.
This year, Majian Town plans to develop a "smart tourism platform" to provide tourists with one-stop services that integrate catering, accommodation, scenic spots, transportation and other functions. At the same time, we will promote the construction of the second phase of the Kaiyuan Fangcaodi Rural Hotel project, and promote the tourism development of surrounding scenic spots with leading enterprises. Supporting the construction of tourist distribution centers and parking lots, to further enhance the landscape along the trails, greenways and other routes.
"The first is to string together the ancient building complex through the ancestral hall culture, open up the overall route of the Qinhuang Ancient Road in the town, systematically integrate the regional tour trails, accelerate the construction of electronic navigation maps, and create a walking road to roam the majian; the second is to create a line tourism map based on the Shimen Red Tour, the Majian Ancient Town Tour, the Pingyang Food Tour, the Zhuangyuan Study Tour, the Jianhui Folk Customs Tour and the Longmen Natural Tour; the third is to rely on the Jinxiao Detachment National Defense Education Demonstration Site, the Dai Ancestral Hall Patriotism Education Base, the Huyuan River Ecological River, Red, cultural and natural resources such as the Three Frontiers Provincial Forest Park have created a 'party building + tourism' boutique route. The relevant person in charge of Majian Town said that in the future, Majian will strive to achieve a new breakthrough in "global scenic spots" and "global beauty".
Author: Zhao Zhengnan
Edited by David Shao