Homespun intangible cultural heritage and wild rice leaf weaving let people appreciate the combination of nature and craftsmanship, and new Chinese tea drinks allow tourists to taste the blend of tradition and modernity… During the Dragon Boat Festival holiday, the three-day Banshan Market was held in Jintan, Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province The Shanxia Bed and Breakfast Village in Maoshan Tourist Resort has been opened. At the event site, villagers and tourists drank tea, read poetry, sang and danced, and enjoyed the slow life at the foot of Maoshan Mountain. Walking into Banbianshan B&B Village, you will see green mountains surrounded by gurgling water. The fragrance of flowers, books and tea are intertwined. It is full of natural beauty, humanistic charm and interest in life. The poetic rural life is right before your eyes.
Infused with the fragrance of books
Banbianshanxia B&B Village is a unique B&B cluster in Jintan Maoshan Tourist Resort. Since the opening of the first B&B, it has gathered more than 50 B&Bs and more than 300 guest rooms. Using the scent of books to attract visitors is something the resort has been trying to do in recent years, including cooperation with the Jintan District National Reading Promotion Association. Scholarly B&B, scholarly tea house, scholarly cafe… Under the careful management of the B&B owners, the scholarly atmosphere of the B&B Village at the foot of the mountain has become increasingly strong.
Qian Yu, the director of Maoshan Tea Academy, once worked as a reporter in Xinjiang for 20 years. After walking through the plateau, glaciers and deserts, he chose to return to his hometown and returned to his hometown as a tea artist and florist. In the Tea Academy, Qian Yu’s homemade handmade tea is displayed in the tea tasting area. More than 1,000 books in the reading area are selected and displayed by Xinhua Bookstore for tourists to read for free. Qian Yu also often holds cultural salon activities such as solar terms tea parties and reading clubs, or shares handmade tea, or invites writers to share readings. “We want to create a new aesthetic space that has the aroma of books, tea, flowers, and agarwood to create a fragrant and pleasant reading space so that every guest who walks in will have the idea of sitting down to read and feel the beauty of traditional life. “Qian Yu said.
A single tree cannot make a forest, but a hundred flowers can make a spring. This year, Floral·Yunyu B&B also launched its own reading space, featuring parent-child reading. Children’s bookshelves and adult bookshelves are distributed in the public area. “My two children and I have the habit of reading together. The books on the bookshelf are what we love to read and want to read. Over time, we have so many books.” Xiaoyu, the manager of the B&B, introduced that Huazhu·Yunyu is in The rooms are basically full on weekends. There are many parent-child families, and each child will choose a few books to read.
