Yugeng Yueyun Park
★★★Xiqiao Town (opposite to Xiqiao Mountain National Arts Film and Television City)
Description
Fishing and Farming Yueyun, located at the foot of Xiqiao Mountain, a national 5A Attraction, has preserved the natural ecological landscape of "thousands of hectares of fish ponds and tens of thousands of acres of farmland". It has been listed as a protected unit by UNESCO and is known as the "rare beauty in the world and a model of virtuous cycle" of Sangji Fish Pond. Sangji Fish Pond covers an area of about 125 acres. The fish pond mainly breeds four major carps and plants about 10,000 mulberry trees. In March and April, when the grass is green and the mulberry fruits are red, tourists can pick mulberry fruits or mulberry buds. Tourists can also watch and feed fish at the fish viewing platform. Sun-drying Xiangyunsha Xiangyunsha is an expensive silk product made by dyeing mulberry silk fabric with yam juice, then covering it with a coating of mineral-containing river pond mud, and drying it. It is one of the second batch of China's intangible cultural heritage. Workers are making and drying Xiangyunsha in good weather. Peacocks compete for beauty, and their beauty is unparalleled. There is a peacock ecological viewing area on the island in the central lake, where you can learn about the growth process of peacocks and enjoy the spectacular scenes of peacocks spreading their tails, flying in groups, and foraging. Dynamic entertainment, fishing boats singing in the evening, and enjoying the scenery and picking fruits. Visitors can take a special farmhouse grass boat to tour the waterway of about 2 kilometers around the central island. Experience-based entertainment such as boating in the Cruise, bumper boats in the lake, swan lake, and water expansion can not only experience the joy of boating, fishing boats singing in the evening, but also cross the river and mulberry pond, enjoy the scenery and pick fruits, and have endless fun. There is a large lawn in the center of the lawn recreation area for expansion, game interaction, and activities such as kite festivals and camping festivals. Agricultural Culture Museum The museum exhibits agricultural tools for farming, harvesting, storage, processing, and life, which has high historical and cultural value. The mulberry silkworm exhibition center introduces the long history of sericulture in Nanhai, the specific process of planting mulberry and raising silkworms, and the development of silk reeling and silk weaving production technology through pictures, real objects and text materials. In the cultural park, you can visit the Sericulture Museum to see how silkworms grow up; you can pick mulberry leaves and feed silkworms. From March to May every year, the "Silkworm Culture Festival" promotes silkworm culture. There are 10,000 mulberry trees in the park for picking; they are planted in primitive ways, which is both environmentally friendly and meaningful, allowing visitors to taste the deliciousness of nature.