The scorching sun of July is the season of prickly pepper harvest. Walking into Zhenping Township, Songpan County, Aba Prefecture, a tree of pepper is lush, full of fruits adorned with branches, the mountain wind blows, and the pepper fragrance is fragrant. From July 25th to 26th, the 2024 Special Agricultural Products Promotion of Songpan County and the 2nd Pepper Picking (Harvest) Festival of Zhenping Township were held in Maiji Village, Zhenping Township.
The opening ceremony first cut the ribbon for the opening of the McGee 3A scenic spot and the opening of the B&B such as McGee on the cloud. The event site, crowded, lively, located next to the stage of the special agricultural products exhibition and sales platform, is displaying a series of agricultural products such as saffron pepper, Qiang native eggs, pepper teething sticks, etc., variety, in addition, by the Songpan County ethnic cultural performance team brought by the program staged in turn, colorful, novel form, melodious Qiang song "Yashe Maggie", dance steps cheerful group dance "Qing Mo's Yiyo", colorful national cultural programs make people overwhelmed, endless aftertaste. Under the stage, the audience applauded continuously, pushing the lively atmosphere of the festival to one climax after another.
It is reported that the event lasted for two days, including a food competition, a roundtable seminar on the development of rural homestays · · find the future, photography activities, pepper picking competitions, pot party and other colorful activities.
As the south gate of Songpan County, Zhenping Township of Songpan County has a superior geographical location, sufficient sunshine time, suitable temperature, and has unique climatic advantages in planting crops such as pepper, walnut and plum, and enjoys the reputation of "the hometown of Madu and the town of Jiaoxiang". At the same time, Zhenping Township is also a rare Qiang township in Songpan County, with a unique ancient Qiang culture village and a long history of Qiang culture, and it is the origin of Qiang red culture.
"The Book of Poetry· National Style· Chen Feng · the East Gate" contains "see the er as a wattle, I hold the pepper", the ancients not only used the pepper as a condiment, but also gave it the spiritual value of sacrificing to the gods and loving tokens. The holding of the pepper picking festival is not only a demonstration of the phased achievements of the pepper industry in Zhenping Township, Songpan County, but also a good opportunity to promote and display the characteristic agricultural products and pastoral scenery of Songpan County in an all-round and diversified way.
In recent years, Songpan County has also taken "high standards, high efficiency and high levels" as the starting point to solidly promote the construction of modern agricultural parks and help rural revitalization. Through the efforts of many parties, the pepper planting base in Zhenping Township, Songpan County has been built into a modern agricultural industrial park of saffron pepper in Songpan County, and it is also a provincial agricultural demonstration park. It is understood that the park has driven 23 villages in 4 townships and towns in Songpan County to carry out large-scale planting of saffron pepper, and the pockets of the people of all ethnic groups have swelled, and the happiness index has also risen.
Southwest Business Daily reporter Gao Mingshan, Zhang Junhua, correspondent Zhang Lan, Dan Zhen won the foundation, and Fang Runze
Editor丨Wang Linxin Editor丨Tao Lan Feng Dan
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