The 2023 Shanghai Liantang Jiaobai Festival is here! "Water Ginseng" invites you to appreciate the beauty of Liantang in the ancient water town
From September 22 to October 6, the 2023 Shanghai Liantang Jiaobai Festival, a series of activities of the Chinese Farmers Harvest Festival, was held in Liantang Town, Qingpu District. During this year's Jiaobai Festival, Liantang Town will launch characteristic agricultural products, boutique homestays, and tourist routes to attract citizens and tourists to fully experience the charm of the ancient water town of Liantang.
In the western part of Qingpu, on the banks of the Taipu River, there is an ecological conservation forest covering an area of about 20000 acres with winding paths, including ponds, forests, and 12 kilometers of hiking trails. This original ecological forest has a poetic name: Jiuzhou Wonderland. On the afternoon of September 22nd, the opening ceremony of the Jiaobai Festival was held at Jiuzhou Wonderland Square. Fresh Jiaobai, dried Jiaobai, Jiaobai leaf woven products, local dyed fabrics, rice cakes and other local specialty agricultural products from Liantang were showcased, attracting many citizens and tourists to stop and purchase.
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The event also set up 8 sub venues in Liantang Ancient Town, Dongzhuang Village, Xulian Village, Dongshe Village, Daxin Village, Maodian Village, Jinqian Village, and Taibei Village, each with unique highlights. For example, at the Dongzhuang Village branch venue, citizens and tourists can experience handcrafted rice cakes, woven straw hats, and mushroom picking, while watching the fluttering rice waves and savoring coffee in rural cafes. At the Jinqian Village branch venue, citizens and tourists can do pottery and watch exhibitions at the Ke · Art Museum, and also go to the "Qingxi Study" to read a good book; At the sub venues of Taibei Village, Maodian Village, and Xulian Village. Citizens and tourists can become farmers on a daily basis, picking water chestnuts, lotus roots, water chestnuts, and kiwifruit, enjoying the fun of agricultural activities. At the branch venues of Dongshe Village and Daxin Village, citizens and tourists can experience woodcraft and grassland parties, and taste the sweet and residue free Cuiguan pear.
Jiaobai is the pillar industry of Liantang, and Liantang Jiaobai is the first vegetable variety in Shanghai to receive national geographical indication product protection, known as "ginseng in water". Liantang Town is the first town of Jiaobai in East China, with a low-lying terrain and an alluvial plain formed by sediment deposition. The organic matter content is extremely rich, providing an excellent growth environment for Jiaobai. In 2022, Liantang Town will plant around 15000 acres of water bamboo, including Wuxi water bamboo, Hangzhou water bamboo, Dabai water bamboo, Beijing water bamboo, and other varieties.
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At the opening ceremony of the 2023 Shanghai Liantang Jiaobai Festival, Liantang Town signed a contract with Shanghai Jinqiu Nianhua Health Service Co., Ltd., Shanghai Huadian Liantang New Energy Co., Ltd., Shanghai Jiaoxiang Amusement Park Co., Ltd., and Shanghai Qingpu Lianjiao Aquatic Vegetable Research Institute. The parties will explore and cooperate around Jiaobai preservation, industrial chain expansion, resource utilization, and product structure optimization.
The ecological conservation forest in Liantang attracts citizens and tourists to take photos every autumn. In order to allow citizens and tourists to fully experience the green ecological beauty of Liantang Town, ecological hiking activities have become an important activity of previous Jiaobai Festival. This year, the "Love Liantang Ecological Hiking" activity will be launched on September 23. Hiking enthusiasts will set off from Jiuzhou Wonderland Square, walk 10 kilometers into the ecological conservation forest, and enjoy the unique "natural oxygen bar" of Liantang.
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