China News Service, Beijing, September 24th (Xu Jing) "Open - sickle - myself!" On the morning of the 24th, a resounding sound of gongs kicked off the autumn harvest experience activity of Beijing Xiannongtan.

Citizens identify different grains in the fields of Ming and Qing Dynasties, and harvest the "first sickle new millet" in 2022 together.

The picture shows children and their parents harvesting millets together.

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  Beijing Xiannong Altar is one of the important ritual buildings with an axisymmetric pattern in the city center of Beijing, and it is a witness to the magnificent and magnificent Chinese farming civilization.

The cultural relics and landscapes of the rice fields in the Xiannong altar are the core embodiment of farming culture, and also the ceremonial activity area for the ancient Chinese emperor to personally cultivate the rice fields.

  The Beijing Ancient Architecture Museum located in Xiannongtan will hold the 2022 Xiannongtan one-acre farming experience season and autumn harvest activities on the 24th. Respect the humanistic spirit of nature and feel the traditional Chinese farming culture.

  It is understood that the mini-program "Yutian Daoxiang Enters My Home" was developed during the pre-warming of this event.

After the public has claimed a certain number of rice plants in the paddy field through the applet, they need to go to the Xiannongtan field to take a specified number of photos of the growth process of the rice claimed by the caregiver, and upload the photos to the applet to participate in the rice nursing and claiming activities; , the public can also participate in the calligraphy activity in the field, and through the selection of the calligraphy, they can get admission tickets to participate in the rice harvesting activity in late October.

  At the opening ceremony of the sickle on the 24th, the guests of the event, parents and families went down to the field to experience the harvest of crops one after another, and felt the joy of agricultural harvest.

"I hope that children can touch these grains with their own hands and see what they look like outside the dining table." Mr. Li and his lover signed up for the event online. They said that today not only provided their three-and-a-half-year-old daughter with the opportunity to contact the crops, but also Let the two learn more about ancient agriculture and better educate their children.

The picture shows children identifying grains in the field.

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  "I want to use it as a decoration in my room to make the environment at home more warm." Yan, a classmate of the first year of this year's first year, said with a freshly cut millet in hand, today is the first time he has seen millet in the ground, "Now Knowing that this is yellow rice, I feel that its particles are smaller than expected."

The picture shows the children watching the mature millet.

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  Xue Jian, curator of the Beijing Museum of Ancient Architecture, said that there are currently five crops of rice, millet, millet, soybean and sorghum grown in "one acre of land". The farming experience activity aims to guide the public to understand history, pay attention to agriculture and food .

In the future, Beijing Xiannongtan will continue to make good use of the vacated space, and at the same time innovate the form of communication, and contribute to the construction of Beijing National Cultural Center and the work of applying for the World Heritage List on the central axis.

The picture shows citizens taking pictures in a sorghum field.

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  It is reported that in 2018, the "one mu and three points of land" of Beijing Xiannong Tan was vacated and restored.

The Beijing Museum of Ancient Architecture has held a series of cultural activities on the Xiannongtan for three years.

This harvesting experience is mainly about harvesting millet. The event also invites experts from the China Agricultural Museum and the Beijing Museum of Ancient Architecture to tell the audience the traditional culture of the twenty-four solar terms and the historical stories of Xiannongtan online.

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