A few years ago, the "Stone Village", named after stones everywhere, now relies on tourism resources to build a characteristic homestay, which not only helps villagers get rid of poverty and become rich, but also becomes a different tourist card in Jimunai County.
"Stone Village" statue.
B&B highlights stone culture.
"Stone Village", whose real name is Tast Village, is only 7-8 kilometers away from the grassland Shicheng scenic spot in Jimunai County. It was named "Stone Village" because it was poor and there were stones everywhere. In recent years, Jimunai County has promoted the development of tourism industry, and "Stone Village" has seized the opportunity to build a characteristic homestay by relying on the tourism resources of Shicheng Scenic Area on the grassland, becoming a well-known characteristic homestay village.
Walking into the "Stone Village", houses decorated with stones and small yards paved with stones can be seen everywhere. Stone statues and cultural propaganda stones made of stone have different shapes and verve.
The vision of Tast village
According to Wang Jun, the first secretary of Tast Village, Tast Village is a new village planned and constructed on 20 16 in Jimunai County. Four years ago, when Altay proposed to develop global tourism, the location advantage of Li Qian Gallery in Altay was highlighted, so the village leaders began to wonder if they could get a ride on the "tourism" and let the "Stone Village" have a "tourist meal".
Grassland Shicheng Scenic Area is located in winter pasture of Suote Township, Jimunai County. Since it is a pasture, it must be ten thousand mu of grassland. But the difference is that there is a plain in Ma Pingchuan and a deep and long canyon in the scenic spot. There are huge independent stone statues and contiguous stone groups here. Step by step, one stone and one scene, the "stone" is picturesque, just like the strange stone museum on earth, which is amazing.
B&B focuses on "stone culture".
"Relying on the tourism resources of the grassland Shicheng Scenic Area, characteristic hotel will be built, with' stone culture' as the main factor, and local natural scenery, history and culture will be integrated." Wang Jun said that in order to guide the villagers to develop characteristic hotel, the village also invited people to plan and design tourism and cultural facilities, and successively set up hotel cooperatives and Shi Cun Cultural Tourism Co., Ltd. to manage and operate characteristic hotel in a unified way. "Villagers who open hotels can enjoy traveling at home.
Peng Jintao, 50, used to be a welder. 1 Many years ago, under the guidance of village leaders, he started to run a homestay. In order to highlight the characteristics of his homestay, he paved a gravel road in front of his house, and the words "Stone Village" were marked with reddish-brown stones in the middle. Unlike Peng Jintao's homestay style, the herdsman Addari Buick Hunavya runs a Kazakh-style homestay. Walking into his homestay, handicrafts can be seen everywhere on the walls and kang, and special foods such as Balsack and ghee are also placed on the dining table.
Tast village organizes villagers who run homestays to learn how to make handicrafts.
Dig deep into the characteristic folk culture
Characteristic tourism industry needs characteristic endorsement products. Tast village organizes villagers who run homestays to learn the craft of hand-made gourds. Invite the producers of gourd paintings and sculptures in Jimunai County to the village, teach them by hand and speak face to face, so that the villagers can learn well and thoroughly. On the one hand, it inherits the craft of gourd painting and carving, on the other hand, it also makes handicrafts a characteristic tourism product in Jimunai County, which makes villagers increase their income and get rich.
According to Wang Jun, "Stone Village" vigorously develops characteristic homestays, and at the same time, it also introduces characteristic rural food and folk traditional art performances. "We encourage villagers to open farmhouses and provide special meals, such as Xinjiang specialties or rural local dishes with different tastes." Wang Jun said that special catering can also promote the consumption of local handicrafts, dairy products, beef and mutton, organic wheat and other related products.
Tast village has wide roads and clean houses.
"Stone Village" has also set up a cultural performance team, inviting folk artists to perform traditional folk arts for tourists: Aken playing, bear dancing and swan dancing. Among them, Akon plays and sings mostly traditional narrative poems and folk songs; Two-person turn, two-person turn, many two-person turn. Errenzhuan is characterized by improvisation, with the nature of singing, combining eloquence with singing poetry, and its life is rich and lively.
Bear dance, also known as "Ayoubi", is accompanied by cheerful music, and the performers vividly interpret the innocence of bears. "Swan Dance" is a dance arranged according to the scenes and actions of swans foraging and frolicking. The movements are head, neck, shoulders, arms, hips and eyes. Dance movements are humorous and flexible, with distinctive style. It is reported that Akon's singing and bear dance have been included in the intangible cultural heritage of the national and autonomous regions respectively.
Data map of Tongtiandong site.
Tourists experience archaeological culture
In 20 18, the grassland Shicheng scenic spot near "Stone Village" was rated as a national geological park, and the Tongtiandong site in the scenic spot was selected as "Top Ten New Archaeological Discoveries in China in 20 17", which is the first Paleolithic cave site discovered in Xinjiang.
Many ancient relics in different periods have been found around the Tongtian Cave site, such as the Salkuola Tomb in Qizil, the TuYou Ke Tomb, the Sentas Stone Tomb, the Songshugou Kukuola Crasa Tomb, the Kugesala Peak Tomb and the Kukukuola Rock Painting in Qizil.
The surrounding area of Tongtiandong site is open in the name of "Grassland Shicheng". Visitors can visit the Shicheng Scenic Area on the grassland, not only to enjoy the scenery, but also to visit the periphery of the archaeological excavation site.
Nowadays, with the help of the tourism logo of Tongtiandong site, "Stone Village" specially introduced many historical and cultural aspects of Tongtiandong site in the newly launched bonfire party. "In the future, we plan to introduce stone knives, stone plates and other instruments made of stone to tourists in the stone barbecue garden." Wang Jun said.
The newly-built "Domi House" characteristic homestay in Tast village.