Gubeikou Town, Miyun District, Beijing, is located at the pass of the Great Wall of Gubeikou, which is the only way for the northern region to enter the Central Plains since ancient times, and is also a strategic throat artery, known as the "gateway to Yanjing" and "the key to Beijing".
The important pass town during the war and the trade pass in the peacetime years have left rich historical relics for this thousand-year-old town and formed a unique cultural and tourism resource. Relying on the Great Wall, ancient towns, folk customs, and food, today's Gubeikou Town has become a cultural and tourism business card of Beijing.
This is Hexi Village, Gubeikou Town, at the foot of the Wohu Mountain section of the Gubeikou Great Wall, which was rated as a "Chinese Traditional Village" (drone**) on November 14, taken by Xinhua News Agency reporter Chen Zhonghao.
Every year on the 14th day of September of the lunar calendar, Gubeikou Village, Gubeikou Town, will usher in the most lively time of the year - the Gubeikou Great Wall Temple Fair. On the day of the temple fair, the folk households and B&B clusters with local historical and cultural characteristics next to the ancient royal road in the village were dressed up in a new way, and the villagers of each village in the town spontaneously organized a folk flower party team such as dry boats, overlord whips, dragon dances, and lion dances, and toured along the ancient royal roads, attracting tourists from surrounding towns, Beijing urban areas, Hebei and other places to watch.
Lion dance performance at the Gubeikou Great Wall temple fair. On October 28, Xinhua News Agency reporter Xia Zilin photographed.
Chen Ru, deputy mayor of Gubeikou Town, said: "Gubeikou Town deeply excavates cultural relics resources, tourism resources, ancient village resources, agricultural and sideline product resources and customs along the Great Wall, and shows the rich cultural and tourism resources and development vitality of the thousand-year-old Great Wall Ancient Town in an all-round and multi-angle manner during important time nodes and important activities." Not only has the participation and experience of tourists been improved, but the cultural life of local villagers has also become richer. ”
Chen Ru introduced that the most attractive thing for tourists in Gubeikou Town is the historical and cultural resources and traditional folk culture represented by the Great Wall and ancient towns. To this end, at the end of 2022, Gubeikou Town will encourage the masses to restore and build traditional houses by formulating guidance measures for the residential style, traditional culture, special cuisine, and country houses of the Great Wall Village in Gubeikou Town, so as to improve the quality of tourism development and explore a new path for the integration of culture and tourism while protecting the traditional features of the ancient town.
Walking into the Alum Root B&B next to the ancient royal road, you will see blue bricks and gray tiles. This representative homestay built by revitalizing idle resources receives more than 2,000 tourists every year and can achieve tourism income of more than 230 yuan. Mr. Chi, 74, and his wife, both from Dalian, have been visiting Gubeikou for two days. Mr. Chi said: "I didn't expect that a small Gubeikou would hide so many treasures, with the Great Wall, an ancient town, a traditional and tidy homestay, and a special snack to eat, which really made us linger." ”
Tourists climb to the 24-eyed tower of the Panlong Mountain section of the Great Wall of Gubeikou (drone**) on October 24, taken by Xinhua News Agency reporter Xia Zilin.
Although it is deep winter, the Gubei Water Town Scenic Area, located at the foot of the Simatai Great Wall, is still densely populated. Lantern Night Tour, ** Dance Party ......Visiting the Great Wall has more "ways to open" here. Xiao Jiakun, deputy director of the Gubei Water Town Brand Communication Center, said that driven by the "Great Wall Tour", the Gubei Water Town project directly created more than 3,000 jobs, and more than 6,000 people in the surrounding villages and towns were employed in upstream and downstream industries.
Located at the foot of the Simatai section of the Great Wall at Gubeikou, the Gubei Water Town Scenic Area (drone**) was taken by Xinhua News Agency reporter Chen Zhonghao on November 15.
Gubei Water Town, which opened in 2014, has now become a tourism pillar project and a golden signboard of Gubeikou Town, and the spillover effect of the water town has also provided development conditions for the surrounding towns and villages. Wang Yongfu, mayor of Gubeikou Town, introduced that around the leading role of Gubei Water Town Scenic Area, in recent years, Gubeikou Town has implemented environmental improvement and improvement for Simatai Village, Gubeikou Village, Hexi Village and Chaoguan Village, and gradually improved the capacity and quality of tourist reception. "Relying on the existing resources, we have successively built 7 boutique homestays, forming a demonstration and driving effect, and continuing to promote the upgrading of surrounding folk households, so that tourists who come to the ancient town can stay and have a good time. Wang Yongfu said.
Focusing on the construction of the Great Wall Cultural Belt in Beijing, Gubeikou Town has also created new forms such as the Great Wall Night Tour, the Great Wall Study, the Great Wall Temple Fair, and the Great Wall People's Home, continuously enriching the cultural and tourism formats of the ancient town and giving this ancient Great Wall town new vitality. Wang Yongfu said: "In the next step, on the basis of protecting the Great Wall, Gubeikou Town will dig deep into the culture of the Great Wall, improve the infrastructure, and make every effort to build a unique ancient town of the Great Wall." (Reporter Xia Zilin).