CCTV News (News Network): During the Qingming Festival holiday, people go out for a walk to enjoy flowers, experience folk customs, and experience the good times of spring.
The Qingming Festival is full of spring and scenery. The flowers are blooming in the Dongping National Forest Park in Shanghai. People wander around, enjoy the flowers and go outings, and feel the breath of spring. A folk market is also held here, allowing tourists to taste local fancy pastries, cabbage and other delicacies and experience traditional folk customs. The crabapple flowers in Tianjin Wudao Cultural Tourism Zone are blooming like clouds and clouds. Visitors can stroll through the sea of flowers to take photos and check in, or visit the market and watch performances to enjoy the holidays. In Dafeng, Yancheng, Jiangsu, millions of tulips bloom in competition, decorating the land into a gorgeous color palette. The scenic area holds float parades and folk performances, allowing tourists to immerse in cultural and tourism activities.
The flower viewing season broadens the channels for rural farmers to increase their income. At present, pear blossoms have entered the best viewing period. Jinzhou, Hebei Province has promoted the integration of agriculture, culture and tourism, and held a series of activities such as walking in the pear garden, cycling in healthy cycling, and opera entering the pear garden, so that the "flower-viewing economy" can continue to heat up. Guan County, Shandong Province has set up flower viewing plank roads, observation decks, etc. in the 10,000 mu of pear garden, allowing tourists to enjoy the beautiful scenery of the pear garden from the sky. In Datong Xikou Village, Jiande, Zhejiang, thousands of acres of rapeseed flowers bloom as scheduled. The local area has innovatively launched new consumption scenarios such as flower field hot pot and flower field coffee to increase villagers' income.
During the Qingming Festival, the food and folk activities in various places also have their own characteristics. Anhui Yi County has the custom of making traditional seasonal delicacies - yamy rice cakes to express their longing for old friends. Neighbors will also give each other freshly cooked yamy rice cakes to convey warmth. In Longli County, Qiannan Prefecture, Guizhou, Buyi women use Qingming cakes that they have just picked up from the mountain to make Qingming cakes, praying for good weather and happiness. In Hua'an, Zhangzhou, Fujian, residents of the Tulou will form a square of intangible cultural heritage performances and patrol the village. The angels and dances, tea-baked drums and hundreds of vegetarian banquets here will let people feel the strong local customs and people. In Chongzhou, Sichuan, the intangible cultural heritage event "Qingming Spring Taiwan Conference" is held every year around Qingming Festival. Local people light up the long dragon that is more than 300 meters long and start a parade of the ancient town, praying for a bumper harvest and good luck. During the Qingming Festival, intangible cultural heritage performances such as Taurus Praying for Spring and Change of Faces in Sichuan Opera will also be held here, which is expected to attract about 100,000 tourists to participate in the experience.