Ulan Tuga Village, Deshun Township, is the only provincial-level ethnic minority characteristic village in Taobei District, Baicheng City, Jilin Province, where more than 99% of the residents are Mongolian. At present, it has 4 municipal-level intangible cultural heritage protection projects: Flower Arrangement Bao Ao Bao Sacrifice, Chagan Suled Sacrifice, Mongolian Birthday Ceremony and Mongolian Pie. In recent years, Ulan Tuga Village has dug deep into the economic value of intangible cultural heritage, empowered the revitalization of rural culture and industry, and embarked on a development path with local characteristics.
My pie is thin and filling, and the heat is also particular. The person who spoke in front of her was Wang Jingyun, and she was the inheritor of Mongolian pies in Ulan Tuga Village. She cut the kneaded dough into agents, took one agent and patted it flat, scooped a large spoonful of the mixed beef filling and put it in the middle, quickly wrapped it into a dough, and then put it on the board sprinkled with thin noodles and patted it again, spreading it into shape. While speaking, the iron pot of the pancakes was already hot, Wang Jingyun put the pie into the pot, and quickly patted the cake surface with his bare hands to make the pie even and neat. The pie is brushed with oil on both sides, and it can be cooked until the cake surface is golden and bulging, and the fragrance is overflowing. Wang Jingyun told reporters while putting the baked pies on the plate, "The Mongolian pie making skills in Ulan Tuga Village are inherited by the Mongolian people surnamed Xie who migrated from the Karaqin Banner in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, and are a unique food making technique formed by merging with the local Mongolian residents, which has a history of 130 years. ”
Wang Jingyun learned the art of making Mongolian pies from his mother at the age of 10 and has been doing so for 50 years. In 2019, with the help and support of the construction fund of ethnic minority characteristic villages, Ulan Tuga Village upgraded the Wuliangha Mongolian Catering and Cultural Center, built a 400-square-meter rural tourism reception facility with Mongolian cultural characteristics, and established the Wuliangha Folk Tourism Professional Cooperative. Wang Jingyun has become the person in charge of the cooperative, and she uses the cooperative as a platform to recruit apprentices, continuing to pass on the art of Mongolian pie making, so that more villagers can master the skill and increase their income. Wang Jingyun said that the original intention of the establishment of the cooperative is to carry forward and inherit the characteristics of Mongolian food culture, and at the same time drive more sisters around him to increase their income while farming. This year, she wants to learn and improve so that more people can taste the special food here.
Surrounded by corn and rice fields, the Mongolian dwellings and beautiful scenery reflect each other, showing a picture of harmony between man and nature. In order to inherit and make good use of the characteristic cultural resources of the Mongolian nationality, with the help of the party committees at all levels and the village-based work team, Ulan Tuga Village adheres to the policy of "agriculture-oriented, combination of agriculture and tourism", and continuously moves forward to the transformation of characteristic villages with integrated development of agriculture, leisure, entertainment and other industries around the resource advantages of ethnic minorities.
In recent years, Ulan Tuga Village has promoted the construction of beautiful villages under the leadership of "striving for provincial-level minority characteristic villages and creating the most livable villages", and the renovation of dilapidated houses and the improvement of rural living environment have greatly changed the living and living environment of the masses. Ulan Tuga Village has been included in the ranks of "Thousand Villages Demonstration" in Jilin Province, and has successively won the honors of "Provincial Beautiful Leisure Village" and "Characteristic Village of Ethnic Minorities in Jilin Province".
This year, Ulan Tuga Village has formulated a rural tourism development plan, focusing on the tourism elements of 'eating, living and traveling', relying on projects such as Mongolian cultural experience, farmhouse homestay and parent-child entertainment activities, and building Ulan Tuga Village into a leisure and entertainment resort for residents of surrounding cities to experience Mongolian culture, taste special catering and taste nostalgic memories, so as to achieve industrial prosperity and farmers' income. "We in Ulan Tuga Village plan to focus on the development of the tourism industry in 2024, focusing on building a folk experience park that will be completed soon, including the museum of our Ulan Tuga Village, so that the villagers can devote themselves to the industry and improve the happiness index of the villagers to a new level. Tong Guobo, Secretary of the Party Branch of Ulan Tuga Village, Deshun Township, Taobei District, said.
Author: Jilin **Quan**Reporter Wang Chunsheng.