In August, the ancient town of Xizhou is surrounded by endless green rice fields, and there are fragrant rice in the air. Walking in the criss-crossing streets and lanes, surrounded by the Bai residential courtyard with blue tiles and white walls, there is an illusion of going back in time.
Xizhou Town, Dali City, with a history of more than 2,000 years, adheres to the development idea of "prospering the town through tourism" and vigorously develops sightseeing agriculture, tourism services, special catering and other industries, thus promoting the sustained and healthy development of rural tourism. In 2020, the town received about 2 million tourists.
Tie-dyeing makes thousands of families live a well-off life
There are 15 and 16 tie-dyeing workshops like Xu Lan in Dali, Zhoucheng Village, which drive 3,000 to 4,000 Bai women in Zhoucheng and surrounding villages to participate in the work of tying and tearing flowers every year. The products produced by these tie-dyeing workshops are sold by 50 or 60 shops scattered in Zhoucheng, Xizhou, Shuanglang, Dali Ancient City, Old Town of Lijiang and other places, and the annual output value of the whole industrial chain can reach more than 70 million yuan. "The tie-dyeing skills of the Bai people have been passed down for more than two thousand years. Bai women in Zhoucheng and surrounding villages can earn 1, 000 yuan to 1, 500 yuan. " Duan Shukun, president of Dali Bai Tie-dyeing Association and general manager of Dali Puzhen Bai Tie-dyeing Co., Ltd. said that the development of tie-dyeing industry has also led to the rise of more than 30 restaurants around, and Zhoucheng cuisine is now a household name.
Tourism and agricultural efficiency * * * win.
The fields around Xizhou ancient town are picturesque all year round. The golden ocean of rape blossoms in spring and wheat waves in rice fields in Huang Cancan in autumn are especially favored by tourists and become "punch points among network celebrities".
"Since 20 17, Dali Tourism Ancient Town Development Co., Ltd. has transferred more than 3,300 mu of land in Xizhou Town. According to the traditional farming mode, Koharu planted rape and rice in spring, which unexpectedly gained rural scenery. " Yang Zhaokui, a staff member of Xizhou Pastoral Branch of Dali Tourism Ancient Town Development Co., Ltd., introduced that the company planted 1000 mu of organic rice and 2,000 mu of green rice in more than 3,300 mu of farmland without applying pesticides and fertilizers. In spring, more than 2,700 mu of rape blossoms are planted, which are not only for tourists to watch, but also produce organic rapeseed oil "Hi oil".
"Villagers can earn 2000 yuan per mu of land, and it is increasing year by year at the rate of 15% per year. After the land is transferred, the villagers are hired to farm the land, and the daily salary is 100 yuan. " Yang Zhaokui said that Dali Tourism Ancient Town Development Company usually employs about 100 people every day, and it has increased to about 400 people during busy farming hours, and its annual employees are about 20,000 people, all middle-aged women in surrounding villages. In 2020, it will produce more than 0/000 tons of grain and oil, pay more than 2 million yuan to migrant workers, and the output value will be more than 3 million yuan. The development of green agriculture adds color to tourism. In the ancient town, cafes, experience stores and other foreign formats have been added, and residents in Tianbian have also opened small shops, and their lives are getting better and better.
"In recent years, Xizhou Town has vigorously implemented the adjustment, transformation and upgrading of agricultural industrial structure, successively transferred land10.3 million mu, introduced a number of new agricultural business entities focusing on the development of eco-circular agriculture and sightseeing agriculture, and formed a brand-new agricultural production pattern with government guidance, market-oriented operation, industrialized operation and socialized service, achieving a win-win situation for tourism in characteristic towns, agricultural efficiency improvement and rural labor transfer." Li Kaida, deputy mayor of Xizhou Town, said.
Protection and rational utilization of ancient buildings
"Into the town, as if in Cambridge, England, the streets are full of running water; You can wash vegetables and clothes as soon as you go out, and the pollution immediately goes with the flow. The streets are neat and there are many shops. There is a library, in front of which stands a marble archway with golden lettering! There are deep houses and courtyards like palaces, all carved with beams and painted buildings. There are many ancestral halls, all of which are magnificent. " This is the description of Xizhou ancient town by the famous writer Lao She in Yunnan Travel Notes.
In recent years, Xizhou Town has cultivated and developed a number of characteristic inns based on11well-preserved ancient residential buildings. Celebrities' punch-in points in the pastoral network represented by the region, the traditional courtyard activation and utilization mode represented by Xizhou Living Room, and the Bai farming culture exhibition hall represented by Jianongjia have become the scenic spots for people to recall their homesickness. A large number of representative inheritors of non-legacy projects, such as tie-dyeing, clay sculpture, wood carving and Ma Jia, have settled in Xizhou Ancient Town, which has opened a "convenient door" for tourists to experience non-legacy skills.
"It is Xizhou's cultural heritage and humanistic environment that attracts us." Su Longxiang, the inheritor of provincial intangible cultural heritage clay sculpture in Fengyi Town, Dali City, and his wife opened a Wamao clay sculpture experience store in Xizhou Ancient Town, and visitors came to experience it in an endless stream. "Living in Xizhou ancient town, you can find new inspiration every day. I went to the vegetable market to buy food in the morning and saw the old people playing chess. I made some giant pandas to show the old people playing chess. In the future, we will build a Wamao theme park in ancient town. " Su Longxiang said.
In the late 1930s, Cangyi Library, the first library in the history of Xizhou Ancient Town, was donated by Yan Zizhen, a member of the then Xizhou Town Education Committee. It is a well-known township folk library in Yunnan and even the whole country, and the original main building has been well preserved so far. In July this year, the library was reopened. A "modern version" of the Tibetan-Yi library was jointly created by Dali Tourism Ancient Town Development Co., Ltd. and Dafang Bookstore. Free of charge, it has become a good place for tourists to punch in and local people to study.
"Xizhou ancient town has a long history. In recent years, through the protection and maintenance of the ancient buildings of Bai folk houses, the style of the ancient town has been enhanced, the cultural connotation has been excavated, the purpose of protection and rational utilization has been achieved, and the sustainable development of the tourism industry has been promoted. " Zhang Shen, leader of the expert group on the upgrading and reconstruction of Xizhou ancient town, introduced.