The Origin of February 8th Farm Tools Festival

The February 8th Farm Tools Festival in Guanyang County originated from the temple fair in the Tang Dynasty and has a history of 1300 years. This is a unique traditional folk festival in Guanyang, and now it has become the biggest market day in Guanyang.

The eighth day of the second lunar month is also the annual spring ploughing season in this county. On this day, "mountain products, a local product, narrows the streets and widens the alleys". Local farmers spontaneously participate in the trade of farm tools and agricultural and sideline products, and use festivals to buy and sell plows, laundry baskets, shed mats, dustpans, rice screens, hoes, sickles, tables and chairs. At present, most Yao people in the mountainous area of this county still use traditional farming methods and traditional farm tools in China for spring ploughing and sowing.

In recent years, Guanyang takes festivals as the carrier, attaches importance to culture and promotes tourism, and strives to transform traditional cultural advantages into economic advantages, industrial advantages and development advantages, and promotes the deep integration and development of agricultural tourism and cultural tourism, thus contributing to the implementation of rural revitalization strategy.

It is understood that Guanyang County is also a demonstration base for Academician Yuan Longping to tackle key problems of high-yield "super rice". The rice yield has set a high-yield record for super rice in Guangxi for eleven consecutive years, achieving the goal of "one ton and a half fields" and making important contributions to the implementation of food security projects in China.

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