Revealed: why rural tourism is getting hotter and hotter?

Why is rural tourism getting hotter and hotter?

In recent years, the city's desire for rural scenery is increasing day by day, "Nongjiale" topic of concern, the green fields, fresh farm food, old farm equipment to reawaken people for the local customs of a certain kind of attachment.

"'Up the hill like a tiger, crossing the river floating on water,' which is said to be a unicycle; 'wooden dragon, wooden dragon, the more you shake the more red, for food for wear, to ensure peace.' This refers to the spinning wheel." Li Shusen, 72, of Lintong District, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, plays with a wooden model of farming tools he made while reciting the children's songs his father taught him.

Starting in 2010, Li Shusen, who has been a carpenter all his life, and his partner Wang Yueqin, who has experience in rural life, began to make "miniature versions" of old farm tools out of mahogany, which are not only replicated in proportion, but also the wheels of the cart and the handles of the bellows are able to be moved and retracted. "Doing farm tools is too much work, not profitable, but I just want to leave something for the future generations, so they know what life in the countryside is like for generations of ancestors." Wang Yueqin said.

Now Li Shusen's craft has been named "Liyang woodcut", selected in the list of intangible cultural heritage of Xi'an City, a room in his home is full of colorful models of agricultural tools. The old couple's biggest wish is to let young people understand the traditional farming culture.

Li Shusen is not the only one who has such a dream. Tang Qian, a 70-year-old retired doctor who lives in Xingshi Street in Lintong District, describes himself as a "collector of agricultural tools". His collection is full of dusty, dirt-covered old farm tools.

His family has a compound dedicated to storing "treasures" collected from all over Shaanxi. "This is a plains plow, this is a mountain plow," said Tang, who can tell the difference in farming tools just by their subtle curvature. Small sacks, large to use the horse-drawn hard wheeled carts, as well as each other in the yard of a variety of mills, mills, these are a lot of rural people casually discarded old objects, are hand-carrying, car pulling one by one back to the yard.

"Previously, a person with a sickle a day to collect a few acres of wheat, and now combine harvesters in the past dozens of acres of wheat a sweep. Now the tools are really advanced, but people later to recall the previous rural life, no I collect things rely on what memories?" Tang Qian said, after retirement, he completed the ride in Xinjiang and Tibet, and build up the Shaanxi Farming Culture Museum, is now his another dream.

"The more I walk on concrete roads all day long, the more I miss the dirt or even mud roads in the mountains that I used to step on every day when I went to school." Bai Xiangji, 59, is an outdoor sports enthusiast in Xi'an, and coming from the countryside, he has a special affection for the smell of the countryside. "As long as I see farm tools, wells and old yellow cows when I go hiking, I recall the simple satisfaction and happiness I used to have. The popularity of countryside tours is good for young people to feel the life of their grandparents and fathers."

"Urban disease has given rise to the red-hot rural tours, and is the reason why people are increasingly yearning for the countryside." Professor Zhang Lingyun, deputy dean of the School of Tourism at Beijing Union University, said that the noise and air pollution in the city, which is still difficult to see in the countryside, and rural facilities, environment, and eating dishes, so that many people have a sense of freshness.

Folk culture display, interactive experience of farming culture, and tasting of special folk cuisine are the unique features of rural tourism that are favored and attract tourists. The deeper reason is the lingering love of the countryside in people's hearts.