Don't Waste This Spring! This Lush Small City is Perfect for Off-the-Beaten-Path Cherry Blossom Viewing
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The spring light in the green willows and red roses is already so thick and heady that it makes you feel tipsy, and not many people are unwilling to waste this spring day.
Ningbo people's spring inevitably drives by car eastward,
Look, the flowers and grasses are flourishing like a Chinese ink painting, slowly spreading out. The spring of Dongting Lake is unstoppable fresh air and an unshakeable sentiment.
Continuous tea mountains embrace Dongting Lake, and we seem to flow through this smoke and old dream, a bend is a landscape, and every place we want to preserve and not be.
It is the years that give this lake mountain a gift. Vast and boundless, like a million golden scales.
Clouds and mist dyed half the sky, the lake and mountain awakened, in the rosy veil.
Clouds and mist dyed half the sky, the lake and mountain awakened, in the rosy veil. Occasionally tourists ride bicycles leisurely passing by, full of laughter and joy scattered along the way.
Rain is a road with no end, it is the scenery in the rearview mirror, it is the encounter of peach blossoms and trees, it is the sparkling raindrops, it is the lake water splashing against the opposite bank, rippling with reeds, it is a clear and difficult-to-approach lighthouse.
Spring's Fuquan tea sea ripples with emerald green, it is the earth's outpouring of a magnificent chapter.
Dongting Lake has China's rare tea seas, more than 3600 acres of 'Tea Ridge Ripples' is spectacular.
Spring's bustling is the tea farmers picking tea, from afar, twinkling and quiet.
Here is Dongting Lake's most famous tea – 'Donghai Long Gui'
In ancient times, the area of Dongting Lake belonging to the ancient Feizhou county was an important tea producing area.
Peaks winding back, Fuquan Mountain, relying on the advantage of 'one mountain and lake sea, ten thousand emeralds embrace Fuquan's unique geographical advantage, gave 'Donghai Long Gui' ancient Feizhou tea excellent quality.
The tea is flat, shiny, dragon-shaped, narrow and graceful, not inferior to West Lake Longjing.
Brewing a cup of fresh green tea doesn't seem to be wasted.
Look at the tea color's transition, and savor the moment, the spring scenery outside the window, pleasing to the eye and refreshing the mind.
The tea's aroma blends with the spirit of heaven and earth, creating a wonderful feeling that is hard to describe.
If you happen to be on Hanling Ridge in spring, you must buy a few bags of sweet rice cakes.
Picking mugwort to make sweet rice cakes is a traditional custom of Dongting Lake residents.
Previously, sweet rice cakes were simply a seasonal snack, everyone would make some for themselves to enjoy.
As more and more tourists came, gradually, Hanling sweet rice cakes due to its unique taste, sweet and elegant, gained popularity and spread far and wide.
Mugwort grows on the hillside, picking fresh and eating, the scent of mugwort brings the taste of spring.
Hanling sweet rice cakes are made to order. In front of the house is a small stream, behind is a stove, and the custom of making sweet rice cakes during the Qingming Festival also has a poetic and ritualistic atmosphere.
After folding, the sweet rice cakes are like a 'sweet rice cake blanket' in green, using scissors to cut the sweet rice cakes into uniform small pieces, jade-like green and fragrant.
Year after year, customs and traditions, as if born naturally, with a magical power, a plate of emerald sweet rice cakes, the sweetness of glutinous rice, the fragrance of mugwort and pine nuts, a familiar and nostalgic taste of spring is gradually spreading in the mind.
Let time become warm and intimate.
Nowadays, the commercial tricks in Dongting Lake area are also eroding the original ecology of the town, but after several street tours,
Emerald ripples and white walls and gray tiles still have surprises.
Hanling Ridge: Ningbo Dongting Lake Tourist Resort Han Tian Line
Hanling Village: Ningbo Dongting Lake Tourist Resort Hanling Village
