The 9th Peach Blossom Culture & Art Festival was held in Wanghangou Village, Daxinzhai Town, Funing District, Qinhuangdao City on April 16. The peach blossoms in full bloom cover the whole mountain. Tourists and villagers came to the country fair, and enjoyed traditional song and dance and other performances.
The festival will end on May 8, aiming to further promote the integrated development of leisure agriculture and rural cultural tourism, and create a brand of leisure tourism featured the majestic Great Wall, and beautiful countryside.
The rosy-cloud peach blossoms are in full bloom all over the mountains, like girls’ flushing faces. Wanghangou Village has successfully held 8 Peach Blossom Festivals with flowers as the medium, attracting a large number of tourists, an average of 50,000 to 60,000 tourists per year. Villagers sell their agricultural products on the “Wedding Square”, such as edible wild vegetables, walnuts, apples, pears, dried sweet potatoes. These products are pollution-free and favored by tourists. Villager Wang Diangui laughed from ear to ear and said, “Our yellow peaches are the most famous, which are ripe in June, and more tourists will come then.”
Villager Yu Mo sells fried meat and vegetables every Peach Blossom Festival. “I use fresh materials and it is cheap. Try it out, and enjoy the beautiful peach blossoms!”
The festival contains activities such as viewing peach blossoms, spring outings, agricultural research, agricultural products exhibitions and sales, tasting snacks, blind dates organized by the trade union, and theatrical performances, showing the beauty of the peach blossoms in the Wanghangou area, and demonstrating the livable Wanghangou, its brilliant landscapes, polychrome culture and virtuous people.
In recent years, Wanghangou Village has made full use of the pastoral resources such as flowers, fruits and landscapes, building a yellow peach industry brand, striving for rural revitalization, and highlighting rural tourism and construction of beautiful villages, to promote the development of rural tourism and revitalization of Wanghangou Village.
The village has successively established village collective asset cooperatives, professional yellow peach planting cooperatives, transportation operation cooperatives, homestay management cooperatives, and Guoshiyuan Investment Co., Ltd. to turn resources into assets and farmers into shareholders. 103 household have joined the cooperatives, and the collective assets of the village in 2020 was approximately 13 million yuan.
In addition, there are other activities such as the exhibition and sales of peach wood crafts and cultural and creative products of Yanxuegu, calligraphy works and folk art exhibition, online photography contest, spring plowing folklore experience, worshiping rituals, internet influencer tumblers, and Badawan (Eight Bowls of food) food tasting.
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