This town, there is no Jiangnan rain and smoke, but with the northern rustic elegance, can let people touch the history of the heart, smell the depth of the life of the aroma.
This town, there is no small river, but the cleverly constructed drainage nullahs around the village streets, the gurgling water can play a pleasant music.
The town has no bare land, but the dilapidated and dangerous houses demolished along the streets are planted with green fields, which are exquisite and dynamic.
This town, there is no urban prosperity, but a strong artistic flavor, deep historical precipitation and deep cultural charm, cultivated a number of grain painting art masters.
Grain painting town - Tantao County Shoudong Village is located in the western part of the county, south of National Highway 309, 3 kilometers from the county. This was once an obscure small, poor village in the plains county of eastern Handan, with no industrial base and no resource advantage, and is a provincial-level poverty-stricken village that has not been lifted out of poverty for many years.
Today, walking into this small town in Ji'nan, brick alleys, curved and straight interlaced, farmhouse, staggered, farming culture, natural simplicity, a rich ecological atmosphere comes to the surface. Stroll through the streets, the village walls dotted with different shapes of grain paintings, homes filled with a different kind of farmhouse style, a light artistic mood jumping in every corner of the street.
Shoudong Village is famous for its "grain paintings", commonly known as "grain painting town". Founder Zhang Hazen, available 50 or 60 kinds of grain raw materials to produce different styles of grain paintings, and now he has a production team of nearly 100 people. Not far from the entrance to the village, the reporter saw in full swing construction of grain painting production base, built grain painting exhibition hall, processing workshop, grain painting experience hall, grain restaurant and other one-stop production, packaging, experience facilities. After the completion of the project, will absorb the village and the surrounding villages more than 200 rural "left-behind women" in this employment, to realize the farmers can get rich at home.
In the grain painting production base near the villagers leisure fitness plaza, fitness equipment, a variety of leisure time, a lot of villagers to here, like the city people like square dancing, exercise. On the right is the bamboo pool sports field, in the green bamboo forest surrounded by, this often becomes the main basketball game.
In the villagers' leisure and fitness plaza, a display board is particularly eye-catching. The reporter saw, on the display board shows the Shoudong village before and after the construction of the "old and new" comparison chart, after watching it, I think everyone will be surprised at the gorgeous transformation of this anonymous town.
Before the construction of the new countryside, Shoudong Village is both broken and dirty, the village sewage flow, mosquitoes and flies; now, this is both clean and neat, the road into a concrete road, a garbage transfer station, built a sewage treatment project, farmers use a new type of toilet.
In the western part of the square is the village's new standardized kindergarten, garden-style environment, spacious and bright activity sites, comfortable and warm bedrooms, health and safety of the kitchen and sanitation facilities, able to radiate the village and the surrounding villages of young children close to the nursery needs.
While the villagers here live a rural life, they enjoy the quality of the city, isn't it very cozy?
Walking into the depths of the town, every hutong in the village has a street sign. For example, the seven-colored that is covered with colorful felt, the Xiangyang Hutong that is full of gourds, and the Reed Hutong that is plastered with grain paintings. In order to create a unique grain painting town,
The village in accordance with the "unified style, each with its own characteristics" concept of design and landscaping, "a street with a characteristic, a landscape", each detail highlights a certain cultural theme.
Look at that old well in the village, said to have more than 100 years of history, do not look at the well is not deep, but there is an inexhaustible supply of fresh water, it is the old well to nurture several generations of Shoudong people, the old well water is fresh and refreshing, made of tofu is soft and tasty, the people of the three miles of the countryside all love to eat. However, today's old well, it has been in its hundred years of wear and tear gradually weathered, dried up. You see that the well wall green moss mottled, telling the old well of the deep ancient, time passes.
Then look at this century-old adobe-built house, was built at the beginning of the last century, through the great flood of 1963, read the wind and rain, through the vicissitudes of life. This fine workmanship of the bar table, with the latch window, go heating the kang, and evoke some people faint nostalgia.
Has been 15 years Shoudong village party branch secretary Zhang Furen, is with nostalgia, leading the village two committees and villagers little by little Shoudong village into a beautiful boutique.
Perhaps nostalgia is sadness and warmth. There are their feelings for the countryside, there is a trace of warmth that can not be erased from the heart.
"Let the countryside into nature, so that residents can see the mountains, see the water, remember the nostalgia." These poetic words touch the deepest tenderness of every visitor to Shoudong Village.
Sitting in the town's coffee house, lighting red candles, playing elegant and soothing background music, feeling the emotions that are hard to trace as time passes. In this idyllic world, there can be such a quiet place, sipping fragrant coffee, so that you can let fly the dream of love.
It is the town's unusual, attracting tourists from all over the world to linger, even the United States and Canadians are willing to come to Shoutong, Shoutong publicity. At the time of this reporter's interview, they were starring in a movie called "Grain Painting Girl," which was made by the Shoudong Village Film Studio.
Zhang Furen said to reporters, Shoudong Village in the village as far as possible to maintain the overall framework and the overall external appearance of the principle of unchanged, no big demolition and construction, the residential interior renovation upgrading and upgrading of the completion of the village roads, drainage, landscaping, and other infrastructure, reception centers, cultural plazas, garbage and sewage treatment and other ancillary facilities are readily available.
In accordance with the planning of the new rural construction, Shoudong Village on the streetscape pavement, such as the overall planning and design, and to "a door a scene, a household a product, reflecting the spirit, each with its own characteristics" as the characteristics of the village of all the residential compounds for the single-unit planning and design, there are vivid feelings of experience museum, red brick buildings, alleys, street lamps, lined up, exuding a light and bright, and the village of the village. The street lamps are lined up, emitting a faint halo of light.
Now, Shoudong Village has become a specialty tourist attraction with the theme of grain painting, integrating creation, appreciation, exhibition, experience, residence, dining, shopping and other multifunctional functions.
By the end of 2014, the office of the village committee of Shoudong Village had two more plaques, "the fourth national civilized village" and "beautiful countryside in Hebei Province".
This year, Tantao County, in accordance with the goal of "rural style, urban quality", the county launched the construction of 30 Shoudong mode of beautiful villages, including 13 provincial key villages, county-level key villages 17. Focused on creating a cucumber town Zhaizhuang, magpie town Tianhe, miscellaneous grain town Guo Xinzhuang, bearing town Malan factory and other towns with distinctive features and different tastes.
Today, beautiful villages like Shoudong Village are springing up with vigor and vitality.