At the invitation of the Huanxian County Culture and Tourism Bureau, our group went to "China Yanggu, Shanmei Huanzhou" to participate in the 2023 Gansu Huanxian Daoqing Shadow Puppet Folk Culture Festival. After feeling the atmosphere and shock of the strong intangible cultural heritage, we visited the business card of Huanxian eco-tourism--- Zhuangziyuan Ecological Farm.
It is a common geographical form in the northwest of China. People call the loess hilly land with a round top and a steep slope called a ridge. Zhuangziyuan is located in Gengyuanpan Village, Hongde Town, Huanxian County, Qingyang City, Gansu Province, which is an ecological farm developed in recent years. Struggle can be said to be the natural standard of life for the people of northern Shaanxi, and if you want to survive in the harsh natural environment, you have to fight the heavens and the earth. My father was born in northern Shaanxi on the Loess Plateau, when he was a child, he followed his father back to his hometown, the car drove on the plateau, it took a long time to go from one to another, and it always felt that the car was going back and forth in the mountains, and it took several days to walk more than 200 kilometers. In the autumn harvest season, all the transportation is carried on the shoulder, which is the most worrying thing for me when I was a child. My grandmother lived in an earthen cave halfway up the mountain, and the draft had to go to the cave at the bottom of the ditch to fetch water, and the mountain road was winding and winding, and it took half a day to pick it up.
Huanxian people take advantage of the unique topography and unique culture of the Loess Plateau to develop into a major advantage of tourism. They use the land on the hill to bring water up from the bottom of the ditch, or use the rain to store water and grow special agriculture such as cereals and cereals to meet the needs of urban citizens. The water of Zhuangzi Pass is lifted from the bottom of the ditch through several stages, and the water is irrigatedOn the other hand, it has retained rainwater, drilled many water cellars, solved irrigation water problems, and developed water-saving agriculture, which has played a very good role.
Farming and raising sheep is a tradition on the plateau, but now the people of Huanxian County have a new practice, in order to develop eco-tourism, Huanxian mutton has derived eighteen kinds of food. Many of the objects in the museums in Huanxian County are related to sheep, and the white stubble leather jacket and white sheep belly hand towel are particularly local. In 2020, Hongde Town issued a document to approve the establishment of the Zhuangziyuan Ecological Farm Management Committee, and the people of Huanxian County approved the implementation of the overall planning and design plan of the farm in that year.
Walking into Zhuangziyuan, a middle-aged woman with a medium-sized, tall figure and neatly dressed walked towards us with a microphone in her hand, she introduced us to the past and present life of Zhuangziyuan, and introduced the "treasure" of Zhuangziyuan to us. Later, we learned from others that Zhuangziyi's "warm-hearted sister" had done a lot of work. "Sister Warm Heart" is her screen name, her real surname is Yang, and after marrying into Zhuangzi, she fought with the surname Yang on Zhuangzi. Zhuangzi is a small village, with more than 20 households, more than 100 people, the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled, about 600 acres of cultivated land, and hundreds of acres of wasteland. Zhuangzimao's change is inseparable from her aggressiveness, tenacity, diligence, and ruthlessness, she borrowed money to build roads, wear out her mouth to do work, relocate, and unify her thoughts, none of which is as easy. "Sister Warm Heart" went bankrupt to do business, and wanted a way out, and it was the land where his ancestors surnamed Yang had lived for generations, so that they could develop and get rich, just like her mission. "It's been a long time since I've eaten the oil cakes made by the nine gods, and the ones I ate today are too fragrant;Grandma Seven's kitchen received more than 60 guests today, and the kitchen was so lively"...They do their part and do what they can. Fortunately, in order to survive, the people of the Loess Gaopo have passed down a lot of skills from generation to generation, this one can weave baskets, and that one can keep bees;This one can make oil cakes, the other can spread cold powder, and even more can use grain to make wine and tofu, which are all things that city people like to craft or green food on the table.
In accordance with the development idea of "one household, one product, independent operation, everyone's participation, and classified guidance", Zhuangziyuan Ecological Farm has explored a rural revitalization model in backward mountainous areas that integrates eco-tourism, green picking, characteristic industries, and leisure and health care. At present, it has built six small workshops of honey manor, Longdong sheep breeding center, farmer's handmade sauce vinegar, stone milled flour and stone milled spicy, millet rice wine, and hand-woven basket, commercial lily, rare flowers and trees botanical garden, walnut, morning, middle and late ripening peach picking garden, pollution-free vegetable garden and freshly harvested base. At the same time, the farm also has a farming folk culture exhibition hall, characteristic farmhouses and homestay caves.
Based on traditional culture, Zhuangziyuan Ecological Farm inherits the skills left by the ancestors, and explores the road of rural revitalization on the Loess Plateau in the new era and new journey