“Huzhou Deqing is a magical place! There are ancient towns living here, vast and beautiful countryside, and modern industries. The ecological environment is good, and the cultural heritage is profound. I will come again in the future.”< /span>
On July 26th, in the geographic information town of Deqing County, Su Chunxi, an international student from Zhejiang University of Technology from Mozambique, kept fiddling with his mobile phone, “freezing” the beautiful scenery in front of him at this moment .
From July 24th to 26th, the International College of Zhejiang University of Technology organized international students to visit Deqing County to carry out the social practice and cultural experience activity of “Perceiving China, Knowing and Doing Deqing”. 10 international students from six countries including Morocco, Tanzania, Turkmenistan, Nepal, Kenya and Mozambique entered Xinshi Town, Fuxi Street, Kanggan Street, Moganshan Town and Geographic Information Town. Pastoral fields, enterprises, field visits, experience Deqing’s history and current situation, technology and humanities, people’s livelihood and economy, etc., and perceive Chinese culture through social practice.
Night tour of the ancient town to enjoy the ancient charm< /p>
On the evening of July 24th, when the lanterns first came on, the melodious cicadas and the warm evening wind could not dispel the lingering charm of the water village. A “Xiantan Old Dream” event, which integrates cultural tourism performances and intangible cultural heritage markets, was staged wonderfully in the ancient town of Xinshi. International students from Zhejiang University of Technology travel between water and sky, light and shadow, feel the infinite charm of “three pools and nine wells, eighteen blocks, thirty-six alleys, and seventy-two bridges”, and listen to the fairy from old times. Tan Fanghua.
In the splendid lights, two cruise ships slowly swim in the water system of the ancient town. “People walk in the water, it’s cool, it’s really comfortable!” On the cruise ship, the international students were enjoying the ancient town under the light and shadow. They saw residents who went out to enjoy the cool everywhere in the quaint buildings. commend.
After abandoning the ship, a group of people came to the central square of the new town. The art of light and shadow opened the curtain of joy, and the Haining Art Troupe was invited to perform a shadow puppet show here. Shadow puppetry is an important traditional folk art in my country, with a history of nearly a thousand years. In 2006, shadow play was included in the national intangible cultural heritage, and in 2011, it was successfully selected into the world’s “Representative List of Human Intangible Cultural Heritage”.
In the evening, “Three Little Red Army”, “The New Yugong Moves the Mountain”, “Mushroom Picking” and “Red Boy”, a shadow play was staged in the central square of the new town. In the crowded square, cheers and exclamations continued one after another. Under the guidance of shadow puppet artists, the foreign students also experienced the intangible cultural heritage of shadow puppetry with relish.
“The story is interesting and the way of performance is very novel. I am very happy to experience this authentic traditional culture.” Jiaoli from Morocco carefully operates “New Yugong Moves the Mountains” The shadow puppet paintings of small and medium heroes shared the mood at the moment with a smile.
Rural Scenery Experience Farming p>
In the early morning of July 25, the group of international students walked into Lianhe Village, Kanggan Sub-district, and experienced traditional farming at the Xiadaijia Group Early Rice Base. Facing the loess and back to the sky”, the old base rural life, experience the hard work and the satisfaction of the harvest of the grass-roots rural farmers.
Afterwards, the international students came to Xintian Farm to visit and learn modern digital agriculture and experience the Picking on the spot in the greenhouse, follow the farmers to investigate the modern agricultural technology, and understand the one-day planting and maintenance workflow of the modern fruit farmers.
One by one intelligent planting technology shows the characteristics of agricultural digitalization incisively and vividly, and the international students are amazed by it. The fresh grapes also aroused the enthusiasm of the international students. With the help of the fruit farmers, the international students picked fresh grapes in good condition with bright smiles on their faces.
In the greenhouse, the international students also started live broadcast sales to promote local fresh fruits , to help increase the sales of agricultural products. At the scene, the International College of Zhejiang University of Technology also awarded the “Zhejiang University of Technology International Students Perception of China Practice Base” at Xintian Farm. Through on-the-spot research, participation in labor, and live broadcasts to help farmers, it promotes international students’ understanding of the grassroots in China, and injects the youthful vitality of international students into promoting common prosperity.
In the afternoon, the international students came to the Shuimu Moganshan Urban Agricultural Park in Longsheng Village, Fuxi Street, walked into the smart greenhouse of the Shuimu Vegetable Factory, and experienced a harvest. The wildness of tomato. Afterwards, the group “moved to” the Xiaoshanyang Freshwater Pearl Ecological Breeding Base, witnessed pearl farming and on-site dissection of pearls by boating, and learned about the cultivation process of freshwater pearls. After the on-site observation, everyone went to the Oushiman Pearl Museum to enjoy the pearl series products and displayed the beautiful Deqing.
Mogan Mountain is happy to see development
< span>On July 26th, the international students came to the foot of Mogan Mountain, a summer resort early in the morning, and experienced a series of local intangible cultural heritage in Yucun Square.
melodious The melodious singing lingered in the ears, it was a Yue Opera troupe performing, local residents, tourists, and international students stopped to listen to the wonderful music quietly. “This is Yue Opera, I have heard it, I heard that it is a local drama in Zhejiang Province. ? “The question was affirmed, and Maosam, an international student from Nepal, was so excited that he couldn’t help but dance and learn.
On the Yucun Square, the dance hobby from Xiantan Village The participants and the students of the Moganshan Town Central School are happily dancing the bamboo pole dance. “This is our local characteristic dance. Relying on bamboo resources, it can not only promote the local culture, but also strengthen the body, and it is very popular in the local area. “With the atmosphere of the scene, the international students also danced the bamboo pole dance with everyone.
The city-level intangible inheritors of bamboo weaving skills, father and son Xuan Guowei and Xuan Hongfeng, also displayed the charm of bamboo weaving in the square. After a while, they used ordinary bamboo strips to weave them to life. “Wow, that’s amazing, it’s an amazing craft! “The foreign students were in love with the bamboo handicrafts they made, which attracted Xuan Guowei to generously send everyone a lot of gadgets.
Experienced the prevalence of traditional culture in Deqing, the international students went to Dixin Town again to see Deqing Through visiting the Dixin Science and Technology Museum, the site of the United Nations World Geographic Information Conference – Deqing International Conference Center, etc., the international students learned that this is an industry developed from “nothing” in the past ten years in Deqing, and they are all amazed.
“I want to take pictures of these beautiful scenery and show my classmates, friends and family after I go back, what a beautiful country China is and what a wonderful place Deqing is! “Ode, an international student from Kenya, controlled the drone and took a lot of beautiful photos. He admitted that this is the most valuable harvest of this social practice.
Reporter: Xie Shangguo, Liao Ying, Wang Shucheng