Huzhou, March 3 (Zhongxin Net) -- Peach blossoms open first in spring, and no one looks bright. Recently, the "19D" flower sea in the Chengshan ravine of Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province has become popular again in the "circle of friends". Thousands of acres of peach blossoms bloom, like the sea like a tide, majestic from afar, beautiful and charming up close, like falling ten miles of rouge clouds. Early in the morning, tourists come to take the scene to "check in" and freeze the colors of spring in the camera lens.

On March 3, the gentle sun shone on the ravine, and in addition to the shocking "19D" three-dimensional flower sea composed of ten miles of peach blossoms, rape flowers and radish blossoms, there was also the bustling "Che Long". Hundreds of private cars and tourist buses that come to enjoy the flowers have long been parked in the parking lots of two large scenic spots in Chengshangou. However, at the entrance of the village, there are still many vehicles driving in one after another, and two "long dragons" are lined up on the road into the village.

Tourists on the isolated island of Aoba Coffee in Chengshan Village Photo by Chen Xiaoyu

"Around the Qingming Festival, the flower viewing tour enters the peak period, and the city mountain ravine receives more than 30,000 people every day. Especially on weekends, Heping Town needs to dispatch traffic police to divert traffic at various intersections in the village so as not to get stuck in traffic. Huang Qinghua, secretary of the general branch of the party in Chengshan Village, Heping Town, Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province, introduced.

Villager Mo Yingming directed tourists to park in the parking lot, while holding a walkie-talkie to ask the villagers to hurry up to help. He said: "Every year the peach blossom festival, peach picking festival, and autumn festival are really crowded and busy. But I am really happy that our village has become a 'star village', and our income has doubled several times! ”

How can a peach forest open up the road to common prosperity in the countryside? In the sea of flowers, it is a fast lane paved by the booming rural tourism for the common prosperity of the whole people.

Tourists feeding small animals in the cute pet park Photo by Xu Hong

In March 2009, the first Peach Blossom Festival was held in Chengshangou, and this year is the fifteenth year. The peach forest in the Chengshan ravine has increased from less than 3 acres to more than 4000,2 acres today. Every spring, rape flowers, radish flowers, peach blossoms, and mountain red bloom one after another, showing a three-dimensional flower scene of "one layer of flowers and one layer of color". Through the combination of various flower varieties, the flowering period of the castle ravine was extended by <> months.

In addition to spring flower viewing, in recent years, Chengshan Gou has successively launched a number of new formats such as Taojiawu Country Hotel, Cloud Rafting, Sky Screen BBQ, Sanhua Camp, Polar Scooter, Flying Magic Carpet, and Green Leaf Coffee, forming high-quality rural cultural tourism products for sports and leisure and mountain vacations.

Recently, the 1th Peach Blossom Festival in Huzhou City Gully opened as scheduled. On the same day, more than <>,<> citizens and tourists from the Yangtze River Delta poured into the city and ravine.

Lin Min, vice chairman of the CPPCC Changxing County of Huzhou and secretary of the Heping Town Party Committee, said that the Chengshan Gou Scenic Area uses "peach" as the medium, uses "embroidery" to make refined rural tourism products, and through the integration of agriculture and tourism, deeply cultivates peach culture, extends the peach industry, and strengthens the rural tourism industry with local characteristics. Self-media and short videos have let more netizens in the Yangtze River Delta region know about the city ravine, and also made countless tourists yearn for the spring in the ravine.

"This is my hometown, and I am so lucky to be able to put my career in the ravine." Chen Xiaoyan, the person in charge of the Chengshan Gully Scenic Area, sighed with emotion.

The new "polar scooter" experience project Photo by Chen Kangwei

In the early years, Chen Xiaoyu experienced several entrepreneurial failures, and finally began to lead the villagers to the road of rural tourism. Starting from a farmhouse by a reservoir, it ended up to Chengshangou winning the National Agricultural Tourism Demonstration Site. Chen Xiaoyu and the villagers did not expect that a peach forest could really open up a poor and ravine-rich rural road to prosperity.

The Chengshan Ravine Peach Blossom Festival and the Peach Picking Festival are often held and new, and the more they are held, the more popular they are. Cultural tourism festivals have gradually shown a "spillover effect", and Chengshan Gou has cultivated new forms of rural leisure tourism such as flower and sea travel photography, fresh fruit picking, summer escape, folk experience, gourmet health preservation, and parent-child study, realizing the gratifying trend of "beautiful scenery in all seasons and no off-season for tourism".

Twenty years have changed, and Chengshan Gully has changed from a laborer-exporting village to a labor-importing village. During the annual tea and peach picking period, Chengshangou absorbs more than 9000,3 laborers from surrounding townships such as Heping Town. Local farmers, relying on tourism services and agricultural product sales every year, can earn an annual income ranging from 10,<> yuan to <>,<> yuan.

In November 2022, Chen Xiaoji was awarded the title of "National Rural Culture and Tourism Leader" by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, which is also the seventh national honor won by Chengshangou.

With the development and maturity of rural tourism, tourism consumption has gradually shifted from "sightseeing" to "leisure", and from "scenic spots" to "countryside".

Li Jiabin, member of the Party Committee of Changxing County Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television, Tourism and Sports, said that for rural tourism, tourists want to see not only the sea of flowers, but also the pursuit of an ideal sense of life experience. After more than 20 years of polishing, the software and hardware are solid, and the old ones are updated every year, with changing themes and content. At the same time, the festival is open, so that tourists can look forward to participating and experiencing a new way of immersive rural vacation.

Today, with the influx of more than 50,130 tourists every year, more than <> villagers have joined the Chengshan Gully Scenic Area and eaten a stable "tourist meal" at their doorstep. Villagers who used to work outside have returned and opened homestays, restaurants, cafes, and camping camps, and business is booming.

Lin Minmin sighed: "During the holidays, although the flower-viewing tour in the city ravine is jammed, the faces of the people are red, the villagers' hearts are relaxed, their smiles are more, their pockets are bulging, and the road to common prosperity in the countryside is broader." (End)