Pick Strawberries, Enjoy Scenery, Eat Cured Meat... This Spring Festival, Come to Shiyan's 'Hometown' for All You Need~
Spend the New Year in Shiyan and savor the taste of hometown
The roads of life lead in all directions, but only one path haunts your dreams—that is the road home. No matter how far you go, day and night alternate, stars shift, but what you yearn for is always that taste of home. No matter how far you travel, because you have a hometown, there is a direction to look back. So come back to "hometown" for the New Year. This Spring Festival, come to Shiyan's "hometown" to enjoy the idyllic countryside scenery, experience traditional folk customs, feel sincere nostalgia, and taste local flavors...
Follow the editor quickly to experience more new ways to celebrate the Spring Festival in Shiyan's "hometown"
|| Spend the New Year in Shiyan, starting with a sweet strawberry
What is the most anticipated fruit in winter? It must be strawberries! Round, red strawberries make your mouth water. Let's go, in the new year, start with sweet strawberries~
In the strawberry greenhouses, your imagination of strawberries will surely be satisfied. Bright red, plump strawberries peek out from green leaves, shimmering with an irresistible gloss. Picking strawberries yourself in the greenhouse is a rare pleasure in winter.
Excellent strawberries are not only found in one place in our "hometown." In the picking garden of Yingzi Village, Saiwudang Nature Reserve Management Bureau, Maojian District, the strawberries are thriving and growing well. The whole greenhouse is filled with the sweet aroma of strawberries. One bite, and you can't stop eating them.
While enjoying strawberries to your heart's content, you can also see curling smoke from chimneys, stroll through forests and fields, and breathe in the fresh air freely.
Oh, and by the way, you must not miss the aromatic strawberries from Taihe Village, Wenfeng Township, Zhushan County. The aromatic strawberries in 30 greenhouses are growing vigorously, red and half-hidden among green leaves, like shy little girls. Each strawberry is large and plump.
There are many more strawberry picking gardens in our "hometown" waiting for you to discover. How sweet this new year will be—leave a comment and tell me!
|| Spend the New Year in Shiyan, enjoy the idyllic scenery of family reunion
Reunion is the greatest expectation of every Chinese for the New Year, and it carries the deepest emotions and attachment in our hearts. So let's gather together, no matter where, home is where the family is.
Taihe Village, Wenfeng Township, Zhushan County:
The famous Taihe Meihua Valley scenic spot, located in Taihe Village, Wenfeng Township, Zhushan County, is well-known in Shiyan. As the Spring Festival approaches, over 8,000 wintersweet trees are blooming. This new spring, let us watch the plum blossoms braving the frost and snow, admire their fragrance floating beyond the clouds, and dive into the Qinba Wintersweet Culture Festival to experience farming culture, taste countryside cuisine, enjoy the mountain and countryside, and pray for the new year together.
Taozhi Village, Huaguo Subdistrict, Zhangwan District:
Everyone knows Jiuzhaigou in Sichuan, but do you know that our "hometown" Shiyan also has a "Jiuzhaigou"? It is the Bailongtan Scenic Area in Taozhi Village, Huaguo Subdistrict, Zhangwan District. The winding stream flows along, and as you walk along the winding plank road at the bottom of Bailongtan, your view is shaded by ancient trees, and mountain wind and mist hit your face.
After staying in the city for a long time, this Spring Festival, strolling here with your family will surely make you feel immensely satisfied.
Longjing Village, Baofeng Town, Zhushan County:
The newly popular scenic spot Wufu Longjing Industrial Park is located in Longjing Village, Baofeng Town, Zhushan County. Here, take deep breaths of fresh air. Watch children run and play freely, and enjoy the Spring Festival light show, dragon and lion dances, starting a pleasant countryside time. Smart agriculture, educational study tours, folk heritage, leisure sightseeing, dining and entertainment—all in one place, allowing you to enjoy the cozy feeling of family gathering and celebrating the festival.
|| Spend the New Year in Shiyan, you must taste authentic local food
Bailin Village, Bailin Town, Zhangwan District:
This "hometown" is not far from the city center. It is Bailin Village, Bailin Town, Zhangwan District. At Zhixuan Manor Garden Complex, experience the ancient flavor of the New Year. As you step through the door, you will be amazed by another world: rockeries, gardens, fish ponds, stone tables, waterfalls, moss... stunning! While in the midst of the bustling city during Spring Festival, your heart is already in a summer countryside.
Nestled in the mountains, it naturally offers wild game and delicacies. Healthy, local ingredients are a hallmark here. Freshly caught fish cooked on the spot, freshly pressed local rapeseed oil, homemade cured meat and fish, delicious handmade rice wine... I can't stop drooling. Let you fill your stomach in the "hometown" all at once, soothing the toil and hardship of the past year.
Xihe Village, Leigu Town, Zhushan County:
Now Xihe Village, Leigu Town, Zhushan County, has become so beautiful that people hardly recognize it. Walking into the village, every household has prepared cured meat, which is mouthwatering. Every New Year, the most unforgettable must be that farmhouse meal. At Xihe Scenic Area, you can not only relax and sightsee, stroll through the fields, but also taste the unique warm sweet soups, special stir-fries, steamed dishes, and delicate cold dishes from Zhushan's farmhouse restaurants. These most authentic farmhouse dishes will surely evoke the deepest flavors of your rural memories.
Pork shank and lotus root soup, firewood-fired tofu, green pepper with shredded pork, eight-treasure rice, pumpkin steamed ribs, sautéed pickled beans with pork—just one look makes you crave, just one taste leaves an endless aftertaste.
Old friend, come quickly! The "hometown" dishes are all served, waiting for you.
Zhongcun Village, Jundian Town, Fang County:
Have you eaten in a restaurant, in a pavilion, but have you ever eaten in a tree? Why not this new spring, go to Zhongcun Village, Jundian Town, Fang County, and try a tree restaurant? Gather around a charcoal fire stove, watch the countryside snow scenery, taste fresh vegetables and delicious mushrooms, to escape the city and find the warmth of "hometown."
|| Spend the New Year in Shiyan, better to stay and find memories of the countryside
How long has it been since you heard dogs barking and roosters crowing in the countryside? How long has it been since you sat at the village entrance chatting? This new spring, go back to stay in "hometown" and find a memory of the countryside.
Longwanggou Village, Taiji Lake Office, Wudang Mountain Special Zone:
This new spring, the snow scenery of Wudang Mountain is at its most beautiful. With heaven and earth as companions, enjoy leisurely time. Invite close friends and family, go to Longwanggou Village, Taiji Lake Office, Wudang Mountain Special Zone, and stay at the ShifuShan Homestay. Go to the mountains, drink a cup of tea, burn a stick of incense, have a dream. Forget the fatigue of the noisy city, enjoy the freedom and comfort here.
You can laugh and play in the sunny afternoon, you can chat by the fire in the quiet late night, seek inner peace, or follow the master to practice Tai Chi, and spend a few leisurely days.
✦+ Donggou Village, Mata Township, Maojian District:
In Donggou Village, Mata Township, Maojian District, you can not only enjoy the unique tranquility and warmth of winter but also experience a strong Spring Festival atmosphere. This new spring, stay with your family at Taoyuan Renjia, learn tie-dyeing together, have a New Year's Eve dinner together, go to the mountains to gather wild plants, and chat until late at night.
In the afternoon, go to the red tourism base in Donggou to experience a spiritual baptism of red education, and you may also encounter lovely macaques.
Every village in Shiyan carries our deep, unbreakable nostalgia.
Enjoy the mountains and beautiful scenery, stroll through fields and ridges, watch starry nights and snow scenery, and head to rivers and mountains...
In the cold winter, a vast expanse of white—so stay in Shiyan for the New Year.
Shiyan "Hometown"
Contributed by | Luo Yuxun, Wang Juan
Written and edited | Yuan Xinrui
Preliminary review | He Lei
Final review | Zhang Wenjing