Nanyang City, Xixia County: Another Year of Spring's Bounty – Flowers in Full Bloom Welcoming Guests
Spring blooms, everything revives. Recently, purple thorn blossoms, azaleas, peach blossoms, plum blossoms, and mountain ash flowers… compete to show off their beauty, transforming the city of Nanyang’s Xixia County into a brand new painting scroll, just like a beautiful painting unfolding slowly.
The old scenic area in Xixia County, located in Erlongping Town, is distributed with 180,000 acres of wild purple thorn. Every spring when the flowers bloom, 180,000 acres of purple thorn blossoms bloom in turn, covering the mountains and valleys with a sea of red, interspersed with pink wild peach blossoms, forming a magnificent and colorful scroll, which is spectacular. The purple thorn blossoms in Old have characteristics of dense plants, long flowering period, good shape and large area, which are extremely rare in the Central Plains region. Affected by high-altitude climate, purple thorn blossoms open in stages, forming a long flowering period and colorful unique landscape.
The 40,000 acres of plum blossoms in Sunghou Village, Taitai Town, bloom in the spring breeze. ‘The sky is clear and the flowers are like snow,’ white plum blossoms spread from the mountains to the mountains, extending into the distance… Taitai Town is a Henan Province ‘hundred villages and ten thousand households’ tourism rich farmer’s project tourism characteristic village. The village follows a ‘farm and tourism integration’ development model, and has built a high-standard base with American peach and plum, black plum and gold sun peach as main products, with a flowering period from March to mid-April. The annual plum blossom festival has become a good place for people to travel, enjoy flowers and greening. ‘Plum blossoms bloom in one tree, white as snow,’ walking through the plum blossom forest, the spring breeze gently blows, smelling the faint fragrance of flowers, listening to the pleasing birdsong, and watching the bees and butterflies dance, you will forget all worries and sorrows!
‘In the rapeseed flower forest, sweet memories glide gently through the bottom of your heart, touching your strings.’ The rapeseed flowers in Xixia’s Shimen Lake scenic area stretch for several kilometers. Every flowering season, nearly a thousand acres of rapeseed flowers bloom in riversides, ravines and fields, golden all over, breathtakingly beautiful. Standing in the rapeseed flower spring scene, a world of golden flower sea, ten thousand acres of rapeseed flowers in sight, flocks of bees and butterflies draw a beautiful painting!
Xixia is a national main production area of mountain ash, enjoying the reputation of ‘China’s hometown of mountain ash’. The Tai Ping Town has formed a large-scale mountain ash forest, mountain ash blooms in the countryside, in front of and behind houses, blooming brilliantly, covering the mountains and valleys with a sea of yellow, looking into the distance, you will be shocked by this golden ocean. In spring, ten thousand acres of mountain ash blossoms bloom in turn, a lively and intoxicating scene. One by one, clustered together, one after another… adding vitality to this mountain city, showcasing the most simple and rustic beauty of Xixia rural areas.
Correspondent Fan Xiaorui
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