Editor's note: Gansu's topography is like "Jade Ruyi", stretching more than 1,600 kilometers from east to west, with diverse landforms, colorful cultures, and diverse industries... What is Gansu like?
Gansu's unique ethnic young people were invited to go to various places and launched a series of reports on "Yugur Girls Take You to Gansu".
In the 10th issue, special hosts Bai Donghua and Zhao Yan will show you Qingyang.
When I first went to Qingyang Loess Plateau, I heard from the local staff that the land under my feet was one of the birthplaces of farming civilization, and there were human activities as early as the late Paleolithic Age.
For a long time, the local area has been dominated by agriculture, and Huanxian County in Qingyang is also known as "China's Sheep Valley". We are no strangers to sheep from the Sunan grassland. With a curious attitude, let's go to see the ring together. County's "Pleasant Goat".
In the evening, the branch to the county seat is full of sheep elements. There are mutton restaurants everywhere, sheep sculptures on the square and various promotional materials related to "sheep", which make people from other places eager to taste the local mutton.
As night falls, the lights are on.
The ancient city of Huanzhou is brightly lit and interlaced with lights and shadows. Tourists walk through the alleys, which complement each other with the antique scenery and are very beautiful.
The melodrama on the gatehouse, the singing of Qin Opera on the stage, the hawkers on the street, and the young ladies in ancient costumes on the roadside give people a feeling that they have traveled to the Song Dynasty. Bai Donghua, who also wears national costumes, dances with them.
Sun Hongqi, a local scholar in Huanxian County, said that the ancient city of Huanzhou relies on the newly built tourist attractions of the Qin Dynasty Great Wall, Xiaoguan Ancient Road, Lingwu Ancient Terrace, Song Dynasty Brick Pagoda, Ming Dynasty Old City and other historical sites within the environment. The sheep industry is deeply integrated.
In the Huanzhou Gucheng Theater, the intangible inheritor of Huanxian shadow puppets and sister Donghua, the intangible inheritor of Yugur folk songs, staged a scene of "intangible cultural heritage encounter".
The shadow puppet teacher taught us how to learn shadow puppets. Listening to the high-pitched Taoism in Huanxian County and dancing the shadow puppets in our hands, we learned an authentic Qingyang dialect: "It's very beautiful!"
In the scenic food street, there are various kinds of snacks on both sides, and there is an endless stream of diners. We chose an antique steamed mutton restaurant for tasting.
The shop owner said that, just like on our grasslands, "eating mutton" is the highest courtesy in Huanxian.
The cooking method of Huanxian mutton is different from that of our hometown. The mutton that comes out of the pot is softer and rotten. What is eye-opening is Huanxian's "Eighteen Mutton Eats", steamed large pieces, steamed bowls of mutton, stewed mutton, and dried mutton. , let's feast.
According to local people, Huanxian sheep "eat Chinese herbal medicine and drink mineral water", although it is a joke, its nutritional value is self-evident.
It is understood that "Huanxian Lamb" has won the first place among the top ten mutton brands in the country.
In June 2021, it was included in the "National Team Athlete Preparation Guarantee Product" by the Training Bureau of the General Administration of Sports of the People's Republic of China.
An expert from Huanxian Animal Husbandry Bureau said that Huanxian has concentrated the world's cutting-edge sheep raising technology and seed production technology, and has developed new breeds of mutton sheep.
There are more than 10 top domestic doctors in the laboratory of Huanxian Mutton Sheep Germplasm Innovation Center who are working on sheep breeding and genetic selection, creating technological "chips" for the development of Huanxian sheep industry.
After investigation by experts from the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, they believe that Huanxian County has industrial and technological advantages and is called "China's Sheep Valley, good and beautiful Huanzhou".
In the exchange, we also found an interesting thing. In order to develop the sheep industry, Huanxian also launched the "Three Thousand People Program" for college students to raise sheep, unified training in scientific breeding methods, and let college students become the legal person of the breeding cooperative.
In the past, under social prejudice, people thought that college students were useless to go home and raise sheep.
In Huan County, college students earn high wages and scientifically manage tens of thousands of sheep farms to become "new sheep people".
Huanxian Jiangyang industry has made a "science and technology model", which is refreshing to us.
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Responsible editor: [Ji Xiang]