Located on the banks of the Yuanshui River, Danzhou Township, Wuling District, Changde City, less than 30 minutes' drive from the city. In recent years, many villagers have moved to the city to work and settle down, and the old houses have become vacant houses. Since 2019, a group of "new villagers" with a literary and artistic atmosphere have come here one after another, renting the idle houses of the villagers, transforming the old houses into a unique "literary tribe", so that the background of the beautiful countryside is colorful, and the color of poverty alleviation and prosperity is becoming more and more sufficient.
Calligraphy lovers: write diagonally to the right and up, this "one" character, what you want is left low and right high, both ends are thick, the middle is thin, everyone write one.
Every weekend, Yao Jin, a "new villager" from the 10th group of Yidu Village in Danzhou Township, would invite calligraphy-loving friends to come to this "Rural Encounter" courtyard renovated by himself to teach the village children to write brush characters for free and sow the seeds of art. In Dansha Village, not far away, a small folk song sharing meeting was also going on at the same time, folk music enthusiast Wu Xiaoping and the children in the village sat together, playing guitar, singing homesickness, and the melodious song carried the children's artistic dreams into the distance.
Student Yang Kexin: I can come here with my classmates to learn calligraphy and singing, which makes me feel very happy and intoxicated, and at the same time we have gained knowledge.
Since 2020, this group of "new villagers" have renovated and decorated the old vacant houses into new pastoral style wooden houses and red brick houses, and flowers and plants have been planted around the houses, and pavilions for rest have been designed, surrounded by fences. They not only decorated the unique art courtyard, but also brought the neighbors to carry out various cultural activities.
Villager Xu Xianzhi: When we get together in our neighborhoods, we can chat, we can learn crafts, our lives become colorful, and our elderly people are getting younger and younger.
Pottery enthusiast Li Long is the first "new villager" to come to Danzhou Township, and a collection in 2019 made him like the quiet beauty of Danzhou Township. Especially after seeing a lot of unattended vacant houses, he and a group of literature and art lovers came up with the idea of renting old houses and building a "literary tribe".
Pottery lover Li Long: Here we can do some creations at full capacity, not disturbed by the environment, not by the surrounding environment, it is the best place to create, and it is also suitable for enjoying the countryside here.
Li Long and his friends named this "literary tribe" "Yi Danyuan", and today, Danzhou Township has attracted a group of 55 literary and art lovers such as root carving, tie-dyeing, and hemp painting.
Landlord Li Guizhi: This boss rented our house, renovated the roof, made the wall beautiful, and made the yard beautiful, and the rent of the house was 2,000 yuan a year, which added a little income to us.
In addition to attracting "new villagers" and tourists, the "Yidanyuan Literary and Art Tribe" has also led to the return of the aborigines. Yang Yong, who lives in Dansha Village, has been working outside for many years, and after seeing the changes in his hometown, he invested 20 million yuan to transform his old house into a boutique homestay "Dansha Impression", and the chefs and waiters in the store are all surrounding villagers.
B&B employee Li Dengshan: It is also very convenient to work here, and the income in the city is similar, and three or four thousand a month is also quite good, and you can take care of your family.
In the past two years, the Danzhou Township Government has promoted the construction of "literary and artistic tribes" due to the situation, done a good job in "cultural rejuvenation of villages", adopted the model of "cooperative + house owner + new villager", and distributed the operating income to house owners, tenants and village collectives in proportion. Villagers not only receive rent for vacant houses, but also receive additional dividends. Nowadays, cultural activities such as "Wangxiang Wuling" and "Xingxiang Wuling" are becoming a new business card of Danzhou Township, attracting parent-child entertainment, wild camping, outdoor team building, ecological tourism, village concerts, rural carnivals and other projects, and small villages have released the great dividends of the integrated development of "agricultural cultural tourism".
Zhang Jing, deputy township chief of Danzhou Township, Wuling District, Changde City: The rebirth of old houses is not only reflected in the renewal of the rural appearance, but also to find a new way suitable for rural development, we according to the current spatial layout, with the development of "Yidanyuan" area to drive the cultural tourism economy of the whole township, integrate Dansha thousand-year-old camphor, Danzhou grassland and other natural scenery elements, to create a holiday cultural tourism experience boutique route, for rural revitalization continues to empower.