Xinjiang Hami opens the "Sweet Tour"

On July 16th, the Hami Gourd Garden in Kairi Village, Huizhou District, Yizhou District, Xinjiang, was lively and extraordinary. 256 kinds of cantaloupe collectively "appeared", setting off a sweet wave of gourd, Sai Gua, and melon.

The crowded cantaloupe garden (Photo by Wang Xiaojun)

On the same day, China · Hami "Sweet Journey", which is the theme of "Meeting Hami Sharing Sweet", opened.

256 kinds of cantaloupe collective "appearance" (Photo by Chayan Rong)

This year's Hamuloustra has set up two venues in Yizhou District and Iwogian County in Hami City. In one and a half months, 16 colorful events have been launched to show the cantaloupe culture and simple folk customs for tourists from all directions.

The opening ceremony scene (Photo by Wang Xiajun)

At the opening ceremony, "The Song of Gua Township", "My Hami", "Hami Girl", "Please taste the cantaloupe" and other national characteristics of song and dance literary performances, expressing the local "Gourd in the name of the land and the land" Joy and joy.

Visitors take pictures in front of cantaloupe (Photo by Zha Yanrong)

The tourist Gong Yifan from Henan Province came to Xinjiang on the first day to catch up with the Hamuloura Festival. Gong Yifan said: "Taste the cantaloupe is really sweet, and the people here are also enthusiastic. Xinjiang is the hometown of Guogu, and it is a beautiful place. I am looking forward to the next schedule full of surprises and 'sweet'. "

Melon carving display (Photo by Zha Yanrong)

In a street in the garden in the east of Hami Gonggua Garden, it integrates national -style buildings, catering culture, and shopping tourism. Tourists feel here to feel the strong Hami style and taste the pure "campaign". Entering this street with nearly 800 meters, the fragrance of all kinds of foods such as roasted whole lamb, grilled lamb skewers, roasted buns, sheep mixed and grabbing rice caught made tourists unable to stop to taste.

Visitors can also explore the history of cantaloupe in the Historical Culture and Cultural Exhibition Hall of Cantonese, listen to the beautiful legend of cantaloupe in the fourteen generation of cantaloupe planting skills, drink Ganquan in the millennium pagoda of Xuanzang west, and experience picking in cantaloupe farmland. Fun, feel the infinite charm of cantaloupe culture.

Since the first China Hami "Sweet Tour" Hammer Festival in Hami District in Hami City in 1993, the Cantalouf Festival has become a cultural business card that attracts guests in the world to tourism, tourism, investment, and industry in Hami.

Hami, as the birthplace of cantaloupe cultivation, has a history of planting for more than 2,000 years. Since being named by the Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty in 1698 and as the royal Gonggua, relying on the unique ecological environment and rich light and heat resources, the sweet potato farmers carefully cultivated and cultivated a new cantaloupe, which created a wealth of cantaloupe culture. Today, Hami has become a national cantaloupe production base and distribution center, and is known as the "sweet capital of China".

Huang Hao, a member of the Party Group and Deputy Director of the Hami Agricultural and Rural Bureau: "In recent years, we have aimed at promoting the continuous increase of farmers' income to increase the management technology of cantaloupe cultivation and promoting the quality and efficiency of the cantaloupe industry. Focusing on the three key links of cantaloupe planting, processing, and circulation, continuously cultivate and improve the entire industry chain of the cantaloupe, strengthen the cantaloupe base, process deep processing, and promote the development of the cantaloupe industry. "(Reporter Zha Yanrong)

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