It is neither mountainous nor dewy, hiding in a corner of the fields in eastern Zhejiang, soaked in the aura of Fenghua Feng Shui, and absorbing the energy of the East China Sea brought from Ningbo Port. When it completed its transformation from pupa to butterfly, it quietly peeled off the veil covering its head, and the world saw a beautiful bride from the south of the Yangtze River. It is Tengtou Village, Fenghua, Ningbo, Zhejiang.
Tengtou is said to be a "village," which is an institutional concept. In terms of its external image, it should be called a "garden"—the kind of emerging Chinese rural garden.
Tengtou is not a traditional water town in the south of the Yangtze River, but it does not lack water. A water channel called Qingshui River protects it at the head of the village, and the canal behind the village is called Houhe River. Small water channels and blood vessels drawn from these two rivers also line the streets of the village. The Qingshui River at the head of the village can be used for simple water transportation. On the bank is the highway from Ningbo to Fenghua. Water and land transportation complement each other here.
In recent years, many rural areas in Jiangsu and Zhejiang have become rich. When farmers become rich, they want to change their identity, so there are various kinds of nirvana. Driving on the highway in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, both sides of the road are lined with independent second-, third-, fourth- and even fifth-floor buildings built by wealthy farmers. There are rows and rows of small buildings of various shapes, including messy courtyards. The various vegetables growing in the limited open space in front of and behind the house still remind people of the owner's past at a glance. In order to change their identity, wealthy villages and towns strive to imitate the city in terms of architecture, industry and lifestyle. If they lose themselves, they lose the most precious simplicity. No matter how similar they are to the city, then It’s also someone else’s.
Tengtou is different, it has to live its own rural life. But it’s not the kind of rural life where you “face the loess with your back to the sky,” and “have your wife and children on the hot bed.” To use a fashionable saying, it’s called the new rural life. It has a concept called "one plow till the end," and as a result, an ecological village has been cultivated. The three words "ecological village" bring tourism revenue to Tengtou nearly 7 million yuan every year. Just this one item, Tengtou The per capita income of the village increased by 10,000 yuan. Almost all the villagers have become bosses. Think about it, in a village with less than 700 people, there are 7,000 migrant workers. To put it bluntly, one Tengtou man has ten migrant workers to "support" him.
The Tengtou man who became a boss still retains his true nature as a farmer. Nowadays, the well-off buildings that have become a symbol of farmers' prosperity also have vines, but they are different from other places. Every house has a small courtyard, which is neat and tidy. The vegetables in the yard are verdant, the fruits on the fruit trees have been stretched out along the branches to the roadside, the small canal in front of the door is flowing with clear water, and the clean streets are surrounded by green trees. Accompanied by each other, they are well-proportioned. This environment and life make rural people feel at ease and city people envious.
Many celebrities came to Tengtou. They turned around and looked at it, and the Tengtou people asked them to leave something behind. No ink marks or images were left behind. They were asked to leave their work behind and each of them had to plant a tree at the top of the cane. Thus, there was a "General's Forest," where the camphor trees were mighty and majestic; then, there was a "Academician's Forest," where no fewer than a hundred osmanthus trees were planted by academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. With the rich fragrance of osmanthus, there are all kinds of "forests" ranging from national leaders to celebrities from all walks of life. The people who planted the trees left, but they planted hope and left behind. Concerned, Tengtou Village has become forever in their hearts. And who can tell how many stories these "forests" will have left to the descendants of Tengtou after a few years.
Everyone who comes to Tengtou can become the master here. Quietly watch the citrus ornamental forest belt, auspicious melon and fruit corridor, zodiac bridge, and picking garden; you can also step on the waterwheel and solve the endgame of the national chess competition held here...
Tengtou Village Afraid of becoming rich and losing their background as farmers, they surrounded their homes with water, trees and care. They built a park called the Farmer Park and held cultural activities based on rural customs. But the more this happened, the more people looked at it and looked at it. , looking at it, I realized a truth: China's rural areas should be built like this, and Chinese farmers should live like this.