On the morning of July 28, the 3rd Parent-Child Lotus Festival of 2024 in Xingang Town, Fanchang District, kicked off with the sonorous drum beat of Tiechong's opening waist drum in Xindong Village, attracting nearly 300 villagers to participate.
In the new East Village in midsummer, the lotus fields are connected, the lotus leaves are stacked on top of each other, the blue color is even the sky, the white lotus is swaying in the wind, and the refreshing lotus fragrance is blowing in the face. The villagers walked in the lotus sea, admired the lotus flowers, smelled the lotus fragrance, and enjoyed the comfortable pastoral scenery in summer. The lotus festival takes lotus as the medium, integrates lotus and ecology, lotus and incorruptible and other elements, and takes the beauty of lotus, the rhyme of lotus viewing, the fragrance of lotus, and the incorruptibility of lotus as the main line of activities, and arranges 8 special activities such as parent-child amusement park, dance "New Song of Spring Valley", cheongsam catwalk "Scholarly Woman", dance "Happy Childhood", and musical allegro "Urban and Rural Ecology is Picturesque".
By holding the Lotus Festival, with the help of the important platform of the Lotus Festival for three consecutive years, the "Lianlian" culture has been inherited, the industrial development has been promoted, and the rural eco-tourism brand of small lotus blooming industry has been deduced, and it has become a veritable leisure garden in Xingang Town. It also shows the excellent culture of Xingang Town and the construction achievements of Binjiang Ancient Town, further cohesion, accelerate the rise of green, and strive to find a beautiful new path of ecological priority and green development. (Hu Anbiao)