Upon entering the village, the antique entrance archways, street lamps, blue and white square columns, and red lanterns… a strong flavor of the She ethnic group came to you. Since the launch of the “micro transformation and fine upgrading” project, Dongyang Village, Lingxi Town, Cangnan County, a former revolutionary old area, has now turned into a beautiful rural boutique project that even the People’s Daily has praised.
Dongyang Village is located in Huayang Community, Lingxi Town, adjacent to Efeng Mountain in the rear, surrounded by mountains and surrounded by General Mountain in the front. Dongyang River runs through the territory, with unique landscapes and strange scenery. At the same time, Dongyang Village is also one of the three ethnic villages in Lingxi Town, with the She ethnic population accounting for over 60% of the total village population.
Dongyang Village takes the opportunity of building a beautiful rural area to create a farmyard with She ethnic characteristics. To this end, it has removed more than 100 small advertisements, 150 rural “three piles”, sorted out 700 meters of river courses, cleared more than 500 cubic meters of silt, and demolished 19 dangerous old and illegal houses.
At the same time, we have fully explored the unique She culture, adding auspicious clouds, phoenix, and other She ethnic elements with beautiful connotations to the village entrance archways, cultural squares, street lamps, river embankment fences, and the decoration of the exterior facades of residential buildings. We have also built platforms to display local distinctive culture, such as cultural squares, She ethnic cultural stages, and She ethnic cultural exhibition halls. In addition, four She song and dance teams have been established, and the “March 3rd” ethnic minority cultural exchange festival has been planned to showcase different She ethnic customs to the outside world.
Although the entire village is “dilapidated and welcoming the new”, some old houses have been fortunately preserved: the old houses that the old patriarch Li Xianjian once struggled with, and the courtyards of government buildings left over during the Red Revolution.
In addition, in response to the construction of a clean and honest town, the village has also built a new clean and honest corridor and a river embankment corridor, jointly creating a theme park that covers an area of nearly 800 square meters and casts a strong sense of Chinese national community.
As an old revolutionary base located at the border between Zhejiang and Fujian, Dongyang Village always reminds the villagers of their hard working family style, the heroic revolutionary years, and the red spirit of the martyrs.
After “shabby”, there is “welcoming the new”. Dongyang Village fully exploits its own advantages and develops characteristic rural tourism. To this end, it has renovated and upgraded the parking lot, built a hiking trail with a total length of over 6000 meters, and plans to build two camping bases at over 1000 meters of the trail in the future to attract more tourists for sightseeing.
At the same time, we vigorously develop the planting industry according to local conditions, not only possessing planting bases such as yellow gardenia, Ou citrus, and bayberry, but also vigorously developing the white tea industry base, mobilizing local women to learn tea making and tea art, striving to promote the integrated development of the tea industry and tourism industry, and striving to create local characteristic brands.
When I left, I saw the old house that had been through many vicissitudes, with wooden houses and tiles, dilapidated door walls, and mottled light and shadow wandering in it, as if telling of the past. Perhaps, they will still stand there, continuing to witness the glorious future of Dongyang Village
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