What kind of development process has the rise of farmhouse ecotourism in China experienced?

(1) The first stage: the budding stage. At this stage, the agricultural production structure began to change, from traditional agriculture to modern agriculture, and some farmers used their courtyards and responsible fields to engage in tourism reception activities. If we trace the history of agricultural tourism activities in China, we should say that it has existed since ancient times. The outing and pastoral leisure activities of ancient literati have a long history. Later, although urban residents were very active in hiking and vacationing in the suburbs, this traditional outing was a self-help leisure and sightseeing activity for individuals or families. Most of their outings are spontaneous and self-help. They chose their own tourist sites, chose or prepared their own means of transportation, and solved their own accommodation problems during the tour, that is, all activities were solved by themselves. On the other hand, their tourists are in a "pure natural" state, and there is no special tourism development. Therefore, their tourism activities generally have no clear theme, and they are just a leisure way for urban residents, not modern agricultural eco-tourism.

(2) The second stage: the development stage. The guiding ideology of this development stage is "development first, then standardization". The development of farmhouse eco-tourism has been greatly accelerated, and the number of farmers engaged in tourism reception has increased rapidly and the scale has been expanding.

The real farmhouse eco-tourism first emerged in the form of farmhouse music in Nongke Village, Youai Town, Pixian County, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province. In the late 1970s, a few young farmers in agricultural villages, represented by Zongzhulin, began to plant flowers and seedlings on their own plots. With the emergence of economic interests, people around them change from surprise to envy, and then to obedience. People in agricultural villages got rid of the shackles of ideas and gradually turned agricultural villages into well-known flower and seedling planting and sales bases on the western Sichuan plain. With the deepening of reform and opening up and the continuous liberation of ideas, more and more people buy flowers and seedlings in agricultural villages, and hospitable agricultural villagers always warmly entertain guests from far and near for free. Due to the reception of guests from all directions, the natural ecological scenery formed by authentic farm dishes and seedlings in Nongke Village gradually attracted some tourists, so in 1986, the first batch of farmhouse music in China appeared in Nongke Village. The emergence of farmhouse music, a new thing, has aroused social concern. 1April, 987, the word "farmhouse music" first appeared in Chengdu Daily. For a time, authentic rural dishes and original ecological agricultural sightseeing in Nongke Village spread all over Bashu. 1In May, 992, Feng, former deputy secretary of Sichuan Provincial Committee and chairman of the CPPCC, inspected Nongke Village and wrote "Nongjiale" for the courtyard, which was a new thing with a formal name. At this time, there are nearly 40 farmhouses in the entire agricultural village. The main form is to use the ecological advantages of villages and towns to organize some farmers to use their small yards to receive tourists. Tourists spend 10 yuan or 15 yuan one day and one night in farmers' homes, which is very popular. Agricultural tourism has gradually become a large-scale leisure farmhouse and sightseeing agricultural base, which has been affirmed by the central leadership.

(3) The third stage: the stage of "branding and standardization". After being accepted by the National Tourism Administration, it was awarded the title of the first batch of "National Agricultural Tourism Demonstration Sites", which marked the new stage of establishing the image and building the brand of farm eco-tourism.

With the adjustment of agricultural structure and the application of agricultural high technology, all localities, cities, suburbs and towns have built high-tech agricultural science and technology demonstration parks with a certain scale and area in combination with their own agricultural characteristics, natural resources and cultural heritage. In these parks, excellent varieties of fruit trees, rare vegetables and fashionable flowers and trees are mainly planted. Greening design and road planning conform to the principles and requirements of garden planning, and some have also set up some recreational service facilities such as garden art sketches. In addition to producing agricultural and sideline products, the whole park can also be visited by people, which is the embryonic form of the agricultural sightseeing park. Most of these projects are located in the suburbs, with good agricultural resources, obvious characteristics and convenient transportation. For example, Hua Mu Park in Shimen Farm, Jinhua, Zhejiang, comes from Fried Tea Garden, Snake Garden in Huangtuo Township, Jianyang County, Haishang New Village and Abalone Officialdom Village in Dongshan County, Tropical Rainforest in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, Dai People's Houses in Liuzhou, Guangxi Province, Phoenix Mountain Forest Park in Xiuning County, Huangshan, Anhui Province, Pomegranate Garden in Zaozhuang, Jingyuetan Artificial Forest Farm in Jilin Province, Olive Forest Park in Santai New Road, Sichuan Province, Yazhu Manor in Hainan Province, Pudong in Shanghai and "Small Farms" in the suburbs of Chengdu Agricultural Park in Fuyang County, Huaguo Grand View Garden in Zhangzhou, Fujian Province, Huaxia Shennong Grand View Garden in Xiamen, Fool Agricultural Park in Zhoukou City, Henan Province, and Green Carving Park in Suiyang County. Most of these agricultural sightseeing bases have unique projects and superior conditions, which can be used for sightseeing and holidays. Various agricultural festivals complement each other and gradually form a farm eco-tourism base with China characteristics.