Wenchang Coconut Kingdom: Little Coconut Promote Large Industry

Wenchang Coconut Kingdom is located in Longlou Town, Wenchang City, Hainan Province. It opened the park on September 9, 2018. It is the first domestic tourist and sightseeing factory with the theme of coconuts. It is also a national AAA -level scenic spot. The park covers a total area of ​​60 acres, with coconut palaces, coconut arts, coconut spring and other scenic spots. Through the visual production workshop and R & D inspection room, tourists can see a magical process of changing coconuts into various casual foods such as coconut sugar and coconut biscuits.

Coconut Kingdom Coconut Sculpture Exhibition Area. Photo by Li Haorong

When you come to the popular science exhibition hall, tourists will understand all aspects of the lives of the people of Hainan. For example, on the festive days and various traditional festivals such as entering the house and marriage, the people of Hainan will use coconut meat to make it. Sweet and beautiful, happy and happy. When the people build a new house, they like to use the century -old coconut tree as the main beam of the house, which means auspicious and prosperous. In addition, the coconut shell that has been eaten can be used as the raw material for coconut carvings. It is carved into various daily necessities or artworks. Coconut carvings are mainly circulated in Haikou, Wenchang and other places in Hainan. In 2008, they were selected into the second batch of national intangible culture Heritage list.

Coconut Kingdom visual production workshop. Photo by Li Haorong

It is reported that the kingdom of coconut can also carry out a variety of research classrooms. In the study class, through the vivid teaching of the teacher and the carefully prepared teaching props, in addition to learning the history of coconut and the growth habits of coconut, you can also understand the coconut in all aspects What are the uses for the creation? Truely understand the fun of the coconut world, and feel the impact of the development of the coconut industry on people's lives. It can also have an update and further understanding of Hainan's coconut culture.

He Qiwang, director of Chunguang Food, introduced that, as a "tourism+" complex, Coconut Kingdom has the functions of R & D, production, popularization of popularization, tourism and tourism. Realized the integration of tourism, industry and agriculture, relying on the "Hainan coconut culture" line, integrating deep processing of the coconut industry and cultural tourism. While supplementing enterprise production capacity, it can also integrate with regional foods into tourism, comprehensive aspects To spread coconut culture. (Li Haorong, intern Wu Qidi)

Source: People's Daily -Hainan Channel

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