Wudangba Cherry Picking Festival Time and Location-Event Contents

It’s cherry-eating season recently. Cherries are famous in many parts of China. In addition to Shandong, Dalian, and Sichuan, the cherries here in Guiyang are also very good. Wudanba in Guiyang is famous for its cherries. Recently, Wudang Dam also held a cherry picking festival. If you like cherries, come here now!

2021 Wudangba Cherry Picking Festival

The 2021 Cherry Picking Festival in Xiaba Town, Wudang District is scheduled to open on April 17.

Opening address: Guding Village Cultural Square, Xiaba Town, Wudang District

The cherry picking period is short, about 7-10 days from ripening to picking.

Xiaba Town in Wudang District is the town with the largest number of contiguous cherry plantings around Guiyang, and is also an area around Guiyang where cherries mature earlier.

The red cherry planting area exceeds 30,000 acres. Xiaba, a small town with beautiful environment, simple folk customs and rich products, is known as the "Hometown of Cherry". Its cherry quality is more popular among people because of its crystal clear, attractive color, sweet and sour taste, and rich nutrition.

Introduction to Dangxiaba Cherry Picking Festival

(1) Stick Dance

Bangbang Dance is a traditional folk dance of Kabao Miao Village in Gujin Village, Xiaba Town.

The Kabao Miao stick dance can be performed by as few as a few people, as many as a dozen people, as many as dozens or hundreds of people, and there is no limit to the number of performers. Its characteristics are: flexible waist, flexible wrists, fast legs and dexterous hands. The movements combine hardness and softness, the rhythm is lively and full of changes.

Kabaomiao's Bangbang Dance has received distinguished guests from the Netherlands, Japan, South Korea, the United States, Germany and other countries. It has been highly praised by foreign friends and is known as "Oriental Disco". And it has appeared in the elegant halls of provincial, municipal and national folk entertainment performances, and is well-known throughout the country and overseas. It was included in the "Guizhou Volume of Chinese National Folk Dances" and became the second batch of intangible cultural heritage in Guizhou Province.

(2) Rural Market

During the Cherry Blossom Festival, Xiaba Town also integrated the town’s special agricultural products and set up a village market next to the activity square to display agricultural products. For tourists to choose at will. Original ecological agricultural products with rich categories, excellent prices and good quality are also an indispensable choice for this event. The following introduction is only a preview of some agricultural products. There are more than 20 kinds of agricultural products on site.

1. Matsutake

Gugeng Village, Xiaba Town has a beautiful natural environment, no pollution and good soil conditions. It is the best place to grow matsutake mushrooms. Planted in pure natural mountains, the meat is white, tender, thick, delicate in texture, and rich in special aroma. Matsutake is rich in protein, fat, various amino acids, unsaturated fatty acids, nucleic acid derivatives, vitamins B1, B2. and other elements beneficial to the human body. Eating matsutake chicken stew can effectively improve immunity.

2. Kabao Tofu

Kabao Tofu is a unique handmade bean product in Gujin Village, Xiaba Town. It is very famous around Guiyang and is in short supply. The characteristics of ancient and modern Babao tofu are delicious taste and rich varieties, including dried tofu, blood tofu, soft tofu, etc. At present, tofu workshop equipment has been introduced to vigorously produce fresh tofu and specialty soy products, allowing Kabao Tofu to go out of the mountains and into the market.

3. Green-shell eggs

The ecological chicken breeding project base in Gugeng Village, Xiaba Town has the advantages of natural environment and provides natural nutrients for breeding. Chickens raised using pure corn farming are rich in nutrients and have delicious meat. The green-shell egg base produces more than 2,000 eggs per day, and the supply exceeds demand every day.

4. Cherry chicken

The free-range chickens in Xiaba are named "cherry chickens" because they grow in cherry forests, feed freely, and grow freely in mountain woodlands. Rich in nutrients, the meat is firm and tender.

Xiaba’s free-range chickens are slaughtered on the same day. After careful processing, the vacuum packaging ensures that the chicken is as fresh as ever.

5. Native Honey

Xintao Village Guihuachong Natural Original Ecological Honey is located in deep mountains and old forests, with a beautiful environment and fresh air. It is a good place to produce honey, with an annual output of 100 kilograms. Honey has the effects of nourishing the body, moistening dryness, relieving pain, and detoxifying. This is a medicine with a strong sweet taste. Although it has a general effect on spleen and stomach qi deficiency,

Xiaba Dendrobium officinale base of Wumen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. in Wudang District is located in the Dashan Group of Xiaba Village, Xiaba Town, with an area of ??more than 500 acres. The company produces R&D products such as Weimen dendrobium water and Gastrodia elata powder. Dendrobium officinale efficacy: sweet, slightly cold. Jinsheng nourishes the stomach; nourishes yin and clears heat; moistens the lungs and kidneys; bright eyes, strong waist, etc.

7. Mulberry wine and beverages

600 acres of mulberry trees are planted in Yanshan Village, Xiaba Town. According to scientific identification, fresh fruits contain a large amount of free acids and 16 kinds of amino acids, in addition to zinc, iron, calcium, manganese, carotene, fructose, glucose, pectin succinate, cellulose and other minerals and trace elements. These are all lacking in the human body. Therefore, it is called the "third generation fruit" together with sea buckthorn and raspberry. It is listed by the Ministry of Health as one of the "food and medicine" agricultural products that are both food and medicine.

Recommended cherry picking locations in Guiyang: Wudang, Huaxi, Kaiyang, Qingzhen, Baihua Lake...

(1) Ali Village, Wudang District

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Cherry in April and bayberry in May, Ali Village is full of flowers and fruits all year round.

1. Picking time: starting from mid to late April.

2. Route reference:

Bus - take bus 251 or 252 to Xintianzhai, then transfer to Ali Village, Yongle Township.

Self-driving - starting from the city, take the North Second Ring Road, and you can reach it via the eastern section of Middle Ring Road, Beijing East Road, X128 and other routes.

(2) Sanjiang Farm in Wudang District

Cherry picking can also be done at Sanjiang Farm in Wudang District, but the scale is smaller than that in Yanshan Village, Xiaba.

1. Picking time: starting from mid to late April.

2. Route reference:

03-Turn right to Luowan-Luowan-Sanjiang

(3) New Town, Wudang District

The new town of Wudang District takes the three villages of Matou, Longshang and Wanggang as radiating points, forming characteristic rural tourism.

Currently, more than 100 households have grown pears, strawberries, cherries and other fruits.

1. Picking time: starting from mid to late April.

2. Route reference:

Guiyang-Guikai Avenue-New Castle

(4) Tao Qian Township, Huaxi

Previously Huaxi Cherry picking in the area is mainly in Banqiao, Mengguan. Later, the cherries here were transplanted to Tao Qian, and there were also some in Madong Village.

The cherries here are mainly agate red, with oval-shaped fruits, thick flesh, good taste, bright red fruit surface, and good quality.

1. Picking time: starting from mid to late April.

2. Route reference:

Driving from Guiyang City, you can reach it via Jinyang Interchange, Shanghai-Kunming Expressway, Baiyin Expressway and other routes.

(5) Nanjiang Township, Kaiyang County

Kaixian County has unique climate and soil conditions and is known as the "hometown of selenium-rich agricultural products in China".

There are more than 1,000 acres of cherries along the Qinglong River. The point is that the scenery here is beautiful!

The cherry varieties in Nanjiang Township are mainly "black pearl", which is dark red in color, exquisitely carved, delicious and charming, shaped like pearls, round and plump.

1. Picking time: starting from mid to late April.

2. Route reference:

By bus from downtown Guiyang, you can reach it via Hangzhou Road, Yunkai Second Road, X172 and other routes.

(6) Xindian Town, Qingzhen City

Xindian Town, Qingzhen City, is located on the bank of the beautiful Yachi River. It has a unique low-heat valley climate advantage and is known as the "fruit and vegetable Hometown".

The cherry planting area here is more than 500 acres, covering Dongfeng Lake, Yadian River, Yachi River, Fangjiazhai, Ma'an and other administrative villages.

The fruit has a delicious color, juicy pulp, sweet taste, no pesticide residue, and can be eaten directly.

1. Picking time: from late April.

2. Route reference:

By bus from Guiyang City, you can reach it via Huanyun Road, Guizhou-Guizhou Expressway, and X004.

(7) Baihua Lake

Baihua Lake is located in the northwest suburb of Guiyang, 22 kilometers away from Guiyang. It has beautiful scenery and elegant environment.

In recent years, many local farmhouses have begun to grow cherries. Although it has not yet reached a large scale, it is still very pleasant to enjoy the beautiful scenery and think about picking authentic cherries!

1. Picking time: May is the ripe season for Baihua Lake cherries.

2. Route reference:

Beijing West Road-Guizun Expressway-Guanshan East Road-Guanshan West Road-Yuntan North Road-Zhujin West Road-Y103-Baihua Lake

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