Tourist attractions and large-scale activities in Shenyang Wolong Lake

Kangping Daliao Culture Winter Fishing Festival

Sponsored by the Kangping County Party Committee and County Government, and hosted by the Wolong Lake Management Committee, the first "Kangping Wolong Lake Daliao Festival" highlights the culture of the Liao Dynasty in Khitan "Cultural Winter Fishing Festival" officially kicked off on January 18, 2013. This winter fishing festival will last for one week until January 25, 2013.

In order to protect the ecological environment and fishery resources of the Wolong Lake area, fishing has been banned in Wolong Lake since 2002. It is understood that the Winter Fishing Festival is the first time Wolong Lake has started fishing after ten years of fishing moratorium, and it is also the first time Liaoning has held such a large-scale winter fishing event.

In order to protect the local ecology, this winter fishing festival will adopt the traditional fishing method of "horse-drawn thousand-meter fishing net", and set up a Guinness World Record-breaking net with a diameter of 4.6 meters and a volume of 17 tons on site. It is the "first pot of fish soup in Daliao" that can serve ten thousand people. The first fish caught on the opening day of the Winter Fishing Festival will be directly made into fish soup for the public to taste for free.

“After years of management and protection of Wolong Lake, Wolong Lake already has a large storage of wild fish, and the fish reserves in the lake are expected to exceed 10 million kilograms. We hope that through the winter fishing festival, Wolong Lake will be excavated The value of the lake's winter tourism resources can be realized through the "festival" to promote the "famous", create a tourism business card for Kangping and even Shenyang, and enhance the soft power of the Kangping brand."

Another highlight of the 2013 Wolong Lake Winter Fishing Festival is that on the opening ceremony, there will be a large pot engraved with Daliao culture. This pot has a diameter of 4.6 meters and a bottom diameter of 3.8 meters. With a body of 1.5 meters and a pot height of 2.4 meters, this large pot can cook up to 17 tons of fish soup. On the day of the opening ceremony, visitors can taste Wolong Lake fish soup for free. And by then, this "first pot in Daliao" will hit the Guinness Book of Records.

At 10:00 on January 18, 2013, the ceremony of worshiping the lake god and waking up the net kicked off the winter fishing in Wolong Lake. As the royal ritual music played, the ancient "Liao Emperor" led the civil and military officials to the stage, and dozens of Khitan girls performed dances. The winter hunt has begun. Dozens of fishermen wearing sheepskin coats and dog-skin hats, some drove four tall horses to pull the winch, and some arranged the fishing nets slowly coming out of the 2-meter-square ice hole that had been dug. The "fishing leader" repairman told reporters: "The fishing net in the ice cave is more than 1,000 meters long. It was lowered on the ice about 2.5 kilometers away from here the night before."

January 18 The Daliao Culture Winter Fishing Festival in Rikangping, Wolong Lake opened. On the afternoon of the opening ceremony, the first net caught more than 10,000 catties of fish, and the first fish was auctioned on the spot for a sky-high price of 162,800 yuan. On the third day of the Winter Fishing Festival, 260,000 kilograms of fish were caught in one net, which shocked the whole country and became another major winter fishing event in Northeast China. The Winter Fishing Festival inherits the Khitan culture of the Liao Dynasty that dates back thousands of years. The opening ceremony included a performance with the theme of the Liao Dynasty Nabo sacrifice, a spectacular scene rarely seen in the Northeast. To the north of the lake is the former site of Yuanzhou during the Liao and Jin Dynasties, to the south is the Longbei Mountain Han Tomb Group, to the east is the bronze site of Pearl Mountain, to the west is the Mausoleum of Prince Chengshen Narsu of Qingbo Banner, and to the southeast is the ruins of the ancient Qizhou City of the Liao Dynasty.

Wolong Lake Nature Reserve in Kangping County is located on the banks of the Liaohe River. "Wolong Lake Winter Fishing" originated from prehistory and was known as a wonder as early as the Liao and Jin Dynasties. In 1978, the "Wolong Lake Winter Fishing" caused a nationwide sensation with a catch of 200,000 kilograms in one net.

Due to environmental damage from 2002 to 2004, Wolong Lake almost dried up. After years of management, Wolong Lake now has an average water depth of 2.5 meters, a storage capacity of 100 million cubic meters, and a water area of ??127 square kilometers. It has reached its best period in history. It is estimated that the total fish stock in the lake will reach 10 million kilograms, and there are also strontium-containing fish that are rare in the country. kind.

Wolong Lake Summer Large-scale Literary Gala

One of the ten major theme activities of the 2012 China International Seed Industry Expo and China Shenyang International Agricultural Expo - the Kangping County theme activity was held in June 2012 It kicked off on the evening of March 26th. Wolong Lake holds an annual tourism festival every summer, during which the Kangping Mutton Soup Festival will also be held. Kangping Mutton Soup is famous in northern Liaoning. You can taste the mutton soup, taste fresh fish, and enjoy the lake landscape performances. Kangping's local folklore and song and dance performances, as well as well-known performing artists. The entire tourism festival will run from June to September.

Wolong Lake is picturesque and pleasant all year round. In spring, there are clear waters and sky, with waves of cattails swaying in the glow; in summer, there are cicadas chirping and birds chirping, thousands of rivers and sky, thousands of red lotuses, dotted with white sails; in autumn, there are bursts of fishermen's songs, fat crabs and fish, cattails and reed flowers flying all over the sky. ; In winter, the ice reflects the sun and is wrapped in silver, making it especially enchanting. Echoing the vast golden beach, it is a rare natural virgin land in the north! Wolong Lake Bird Watching Festival

Wolong Lake has a water area of ??64 square kilometers and a beach area of ??48 square kilometers. With an annual water storage of about 70 million cubic meters, it is the largest plain freshwater lake in Liaoning Province and a typical inland natural wetland with a relatively complete ecosystem. Wolong Lake is an important resting place and breeding place for migratory birds in eastern Asia. Among them, there are 5 species of national first-level protected birds, including white cranes, red-crowned cranes, white storks, black storks, and bald cranes, and 19 species of second-level protected birds. Wolong Lake in Kangping County, Shenyang City is a large-scale bird paradise. Many people go to Wolong Lake for bird watching. Tens of thousands of birds stop and breed here every year. According to the Kangping County Tourism Bureau, the theme of the Bird Watching Festival and Bird Photography Competition is to prosper ecological culture and build an ecological Kangping. In addition to bird watching and photography, a number of eco-tourism activities are also arranged. The Bird Watching Festival has been held annually since 2010 and this year will be the fourth. It is a highlight of this year’s Kangping Four Seasons Tourism Event.