This small town has no misty rain in the south of the Yangtze River, but it is simple and elegant in the north, which can make people touch the hidden worries of history and smell the fragrance in the depths of life.
In this small town, there is no small river flowing, but there is a cleverly built drainage channel around the village street, and the running water can play sweet music.
There is no bare land in this town, but the dilapidated and dangerous houses demolished on the street are full of green fields, which are exquisite and smart.
This small town is not as prosperous as the city, but it has a strong artistic atmosphere, profound historical precipitation and profound cultural charm, and has trained a batch of grain painting artists.
Shoudong Village, Guantao County, a grain painting town, is located in the west of the county, on the south side of National Highway 309, and 3 kilometers away from the county. It used to be an obscure small village and poor village in Pingyuan County, eastern Handan. Without industrial base and resource advantages, it is a provincial poverty-stricken village that has not been lifted out of poverty for many years.
Nowadays, entering this small town in the south of Hebei Province, there are blue brick alleys, criss-crossing twists and turns, small farmhouses, patchwork, farming culture, natural simplicity and strong original ecological atmosphere. Strolling through the streets, the walls of the village are dotted with food paintings of different shapes, each courtyard is filled with different peasant customs, and a faint artistic sentiment jumps in every corner of the street.
Shoudong Village is famous for its "grain painting", commonly known as "grain painting town". Zhang Haizeng, the founder, can make different styles of food paintings with 50 or 60 kinds of food raw materials. Now he has a production team of nearly 100 people. Not far from the village entrance, the reporter saw the grain painting production base under construction, with one-stop production, packaging and experience facilities such as grain painting exhibition hall, processing workshop, grain painting experience hall and grain restaurant. After the project is completed, it will attract more than 200 rural "left-behind women" from the village and surrounding villages to work here, so that farmers can get rich at home.
Near the grain painting production base is the villagers' leisure fitness square, with all kinds of fitness equipment. During the slack season, many villagers will come here to dance square dance and exercise like city people. On the right is the bamboo pool sports ground, surrounded by green bamboo forests, which often becomes the main venue for basketball games.
In the villagers' leisure fitness square, a display board is particularly eye-catching. The reporter saw that the exhibition board showed the "old and new" comparison map before and after the construction of Shoudong Village. After reading it, everyone will be surprised by the gorgeous butterfly change in this nameless town.
Before the new rural construction, Shoudong Village was broken and dirty, with sewage flowing all over the street and mosquitoes flying everywhere. Now clean and tidy, roads have become cement roads, garbage transfer stations have been established, domestic sewage treatment projects have been built, and farmers have used new toilets.
On the west side of the square is a newly-built standardized kindergarten in the village, with a garden-like environment, spacious and bright activity venues, comfortable and warm bedrooms and sanitary and safe kitchen and bathroom facilities, which can radiate the needs of children in the village and surrounding villages to start nursery nearby.
Although the villagers here live a rural life, they enjoy the quality of the city. Isn't it pleasant?
Into the depths of the town, every alley in the village has a street sign. For example, colorful carpets, Xiangyang Hutong planted with gourds, and Reed Hutong covered with five grain paintings. In order to create a unique grain painting town,