(Walking to the grassroots level in the Spring Festival) Badou Village, Dongtai, Jiangsu: The small fishing village that eats "Badou Rice" serves the "Ecological Golden Rice Bowl"
China News Service, Yancheng, February 14th: Badou Village, Dongtai, Jiangsu: The small fishing village that eats "Badou Rice" serves the "Ecological Golden Rice Bowl"
Author Yu Congwen Guhua Gu name screen
In the early morning of February 14, Wang Panhua, a villager in Badou Village, Zhanggang Town, Dongtai City, Jiangsu Province, was busy cleaning up the 200-mu aquaculture pond he contracted to prepare for the spring seedlings.
The 38-year-old Wang Panhua, whose ancestors all made a living from the marine fishing industry in Badou Village, came to his generation to cut off the "craft" of eating.
At the beginning of the 21st century, Badou Village responded to the country's call to reduce boats and switch to production, guiding fishermen to "wash their feet and go ashore", and transform from relying on the sea to eat the sea to raising the sea and protecting the sea.
Badou fishing village scenery.
Data map courtesy of Zhanggang Town, Dongtai City
"It used to be that going out to sea fishing depends on the sky for food, and you can earn more than 100,000 yuan a year. Now you can earn more than 500,000 yuan a year by farming small white shrimp and blue crabs in sea water." Wang Panhua said that he relied on the "circle of friends", and also Local seafood is sold all over the country.
Dongtai on the coast of the Yellow Sea is a magical land. Under the action of ocean currents, alluvial sediments from the Yangtze River and Yellow River are deposited into land here and extend to the sea at a speed of 150 meters per year.
More than 200 years ago, the location of Badou Village was still a shallow beach, with ebb and flow. Eating on Badou is called "Badou Rice", hence the name of the village.
"Red Sail Inn" B&B.
Data map courtesy of Zhanggang Town, Dongtai City
Ye Yong, Secretary of the Party Branch of Badou Village, said that Badou Village is a small fishing village with more than 200 households and a population of more than 600. The ancestors have made a living by going out to sea for fishing. There are more than 110 fishing boats in the village. Promote fishermen to "wash their feet ashore" and use the surrounding tens of thousands of mu of flats to develop characteristic marine aquaculture. Nearly 60% of the villagers in the village are engaged in aquaculture.
Now, there are only more than 20 fishing boats going out to sea.
Badou Village exudes a strong fishing village style everywhere.
Photo by Gu Hua
In 2019, the Yellow (Bo) Sea Migratory Bird Habitat (Phase 1) was successfully included in the World Heritage List. As a core area of the World Natural Heritage, Badou Village ushered in new opportunities for ecological development.
Taking advantage of the convenient location near Tiaozini Bird Watching Land and the Yellow Sea National Forest Park, the village develops rural tourism, continuously upgrades and transforms tourist attractions, takes the road of integrated development of fishing and tourism, and invests more than 40 million yuan to develop the Sanshuitan leisure tourism resort project , and also newly built tourist centers, fishermen's homes, Chuxin Square, Badouquan Station and other attractions, integrating the ancient fishing villages with modern life elements and meeting the conditions of rural tourism "eating, living, traveling, having fun, and shopping". The whole village consists of characteristic fishing culture, red culture and original seaside scenic spots, which are connected into a 3-kilometer-long tourist line.
In the early spring, the reporter was walking on a rural road in Badou Village. Small buildings with unique shapes were distributed on both sides of the road. The exterior walls of the houses were painted with sailboats, seabirds, shells and other patterns. On the roadside stood fishermen carrying fish baskets, etc. There are sketch sculptures working at sea, and the road signs are also inlaid with fish, shrimp, crabs and other shapes. There is a strong fishing village style everywhere.
Changgang fishermen's chant performance.
Photo by Gu Hua
"Hey, come on, come on! Come on, come on, hey..." In the fishermen's house in Badou Village, a high-pitched horn suddenly came from the ears. More than 10 middle-aged and elderly people dressed as fishermen were on the way. The performance of the fishermen's chants of Zhanggang, an intangible cultural heritage project of Jiangsu Province, attracted many tourists to come and watch.
More and more tourists come to Badou Village, and opening restaurants and homestays has become a new project for villagers to get rich, and many local villagers choose to return to their hometowns to start businesses.
Qi Lanfang, who left his hometown a long time ago, has now returned to the village to open the "Badou Yuniang" restaurant and launched the distinctive "Badou Sanxian Bao", which is made of shellfish, shrimp, crab meat, etc., and is juicy and stuffed Delicious, unique taste and rave reviews.
Sanshuitan Leisure Tourism Resort.
Photo by Gu Hua
"I hope that through my own efforts, more people will like the food in my hometown." Qi Lanfang said that she now broadcasts live broadcasts in the restaurant kitchen every morning, sharing the taste of her hometown with more than 10,000 netizens.
In order to allow tourists to have zero-distance contact with the fishermen and to experience the fishermen's culture better, Badou Village also uses the fishermen's idle houses to develop homestays.
In 2021, Wang Panhua began to try cross-border development. He renovated his house and opened a "Red Sail Inn" homestay. The 6 rooms are full every day, and holidays must be booked one week in advance.
Qi Lanfang is live.
Photo by Gu Hua
The successful application of the Yellow Sea Wetland to the World Heritage List has completely changed the situation of Badou Village's "reclamation of tidal flats to develop economy".
At present, Badou Village has reduced boats and changed production, retired and returned to wet, accelerated the integration of culture and tourism, and developed into a diversified business such as tidal flat farming, land contracting, and tourism development. It has become the characteristic and brand of Badou rural tourism.
"The village now receives 300,000 tourists a year. Through the 'tourism +' and 'ecological +' model, we will take the road of integrated development of the fishing and tourism industry, so that the villagers' pockets will be puffed up." Ye Yong said that in 2021, the village's collective accumulation of funds will break through. 10 million yuan, the per capita disposable income of villagers has exceeded 50,000 yuan, and each villager can receive more than 50,000 yuan in dividends every year.
Aerial photography of Badou Village's characteristic marine aquaculture.
Data map courtesy of Zhanggang Town, Dongtai City
In the past, we relied on eating "Badou Rice", but today we serve "Eco-Golden Rice Bowl".
Today's Badou Village is surrounded by world heritage sites and is full of ecology. The small fishing village has been transformed into a "Beautiful Village in Jiangsu Province", "Jiangsu Province Socialist New Rural Construction Demonstration Village", "National Rural Tourism Key Village" and "Jiangsu Province Leisure Village". Tourism Agricultural Demonstration Village".
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