Correspondence: 300-year old village iteration breaks the circle and turns into a new landmark for travel check-in
Chinanews.com, Hohhot, October 7th, title: 300-year old village iteration broke the circle and turned into a new landmark for tourism
China News Service reporter Zhang Wei
"In the minds of tourists, blue sky, white clouds, and green grass have always been the'standard equipment' in Inner Mongolia. When they walked into Matouqin town, they discovered that the original configuration for traveling to Inner Mongolia can be increased to the plus version." The 7th is the last day of the National Day holiday. Even if he had to hurry back, Xu Zehao, a tourist from Xi'an, got stuck in the highly recommended new tourist landmark-Matouqin Town.
The so-called Matouqin Town is the Jialanban Village in the outskirts of Hohhot, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
The village was first formed during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty and has a history of more than 300 years.
It borders Daqing Mountain to the north and 10,000 mu of prairie in Chilechuan. The whole village is like a landscape painting.
The picture shows the Cultural and Creative Museum in the small town of Matouqin.
Photo by Zhang Wei
However, this ancient village was once dilapidated. The dry toilets, swaying houses, and muddy roads all told of the decline of the small village in the changing times.
In recent years, with the in-depth implementation of China’s rural revitalization strategy, the village has changed its former appearance, the dry toilets have become history, the houses are just like, the street lights are bright...Moreover, Jialanban Village has also been approved as a beautiful rural construction and ecological culture. A pilot village for integrated tourism development.
Matouqin Town, led by the Matouqin culture and art industry, has built Jialanban Village into an online celebrity art and music town integrating accommodation, leisure and entertainment, art exchanges, and folklore experience, as well as a cultural heritage and innovation base, and Matouqin characteristic themed cultural leisure tourism. destination.
The picture shows the graffiti wall in the north of Jialanban Village.
Photo by Zhang Wei
In the heart of Han Wenjun, secretary of the Party branch of Jialanban Village and director of the village committee, the creation of Matouqin Town is like a firework across the sky, illuminating the village.
"The quiet village becomes lively."
Walking into the small town of Matouqin, among the textures of the alleys in the gregarious villages, graffiti, flower fields, and horse head pianos...step by step, the villagers live a leisurely life, and tourists take pictures and check in between appreciation of art and strolling.
The picture shows the Matouqin culture embodied in the streets of Jialanban Village today.
Photo by Zhang Wei
Villager Zhao Dayong’s house finally drank tap water. “In the past, the village had difficult drafts. Since the construction of the Matouqin town, the village has been drilling wells and renovating pipelines. Now the problem of drafts is not only solved, but the water quality is also good.”
Today, more than 70 vacant houses in the village have been recycled and reused for exhibition halls, shops, workshops... the villagers’ house rental income totals more than 4 million yuan (RMB, the same below).
The picture shows that Jialanban Village has built cultural activities venues for villagers and tourists to organize activities.
Photo by Zhang Wei
The homestays in the small town are the villagers who repainted their own red gates and white walls, and decorated them with modern art and ethnic elements, making them the first high-end homestay products in Hohhot that focus on pastoral experience and leisure vacations.
"Years ago, the village was dilapidated, and most of the young people were lost. Now the young people in the village have also returned to their hometowns to start their own businesses." The "post-95" girl from Mogan University majored in design. , She quit her job in a big city design company and reorganized her courtyard into a "lazy style" bed and breakfast.
"The breeze here is very pleasant in summer. It is open from May to October every year. On weekends, tourists from Beijing, Shanxi, Hebei and other places often organize'party parties.' Scheduled every week.” Mo Gen conservatively estimates that his homestay can earn more than 200,000 yuan per year.
There is a "Flower Dance Field" in the westernmost part of the town. The music stage and cafe set in the wheat field reveal romance.
In summer, listen to matouqin concerts in the wind and wheat waves; in autumn, villagers are busy harvesting, and tourists often "hand in hand" to experience the fun of farmland.
"This is about the fond memories of poetry and the distant place." Zhao Limin, a tourist from Shenzhen who is over sixty years old, is busy in the fields.
The picture shows the Matouqin town, full of music and art, attracting tourists to check in and take pictures.
Photo by Zhang Wei
Nowadays, the Matouqin International Concert Hall, Art Square, Dadi Art Hotel, Rye Music Stage, Matouqin Workshop...not only become the new IP that artists and tourists love, but also provide local villagers with a cultural and artistic living environment.
"Finally achieve the effect of community sharing." Han Wenjun said.
The heat of midsummer faded, and the autumn wind in October wrinkled 10,000 mu of grassland in Chilechuan.
From the century-old primitive village-style buildings in Jialanban Village at the foot of Daqing Mountain to a new landmark of online celebrity check-in.
Han Wenjun said that Matouqin Town will also build a Matouqin cultural exhibition and promotion base, a grassland culture and art exhibition and exchange platform, and will carry out research courses, study tours and other projects, to create an industrial cluster with "art + countryside" and talk about Yinshan Xia Chile The story of a well-off society in Sichuan Grassland... (End)