The 2012 Chinese Spring festival Event in Tengtou village. ALL FREE-- ALL FUN see it here......
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- Published: Tuesday, 31 January 2012 11:26
The 2012 Chinese Spring festival Event in Tengtou village. ALL FREE-- see it here......
About a dozen foreign friends had free transport to and from Tengtou on Friday 20th January 12.30 pm and started at the parking lot behind the church at Tian Yi Square. (348 Disco)
The event, organized by the leaders and villagers of TengTou village included Free entrance to TengTou village, free Tour, Free Strawberry picking, Free traditional village Spring Festival dinner.
For those which did not participate here some pictures and facts of the special once in a year event "spring festival in Tengtou":
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There have been some cool interactive attractions and nature based programs aimed at natural sustainability. For example… in one part of the village they have a beautiful expansive greenhouse erected housing some rare plants and focusing on new hydroponic growing techniques. While on the other side of the village the visitors could monkeying around with hoists, buckets and a devise I can only describe as an enormous exercise bicycle contraption rigged to a rotating system of buckets. The area is meant to interactively show you how villagers in the past manually transported water using old methods. Definitely not the rice harvesting village life I would expect, but in Tengtou, it is a mixture of old and new. |
On top of the sites, which are fun and educational, there are the villagers themselves. Smiles abound and you can really see a connection with the people to the village.
Everywhere you see that people are proud of what they have accomplished, and they should be. Tengtou is an important landmark in Ningbo, and a window into a fading chapter of Chinese life.
Especially in the year of the dragon, it is to mention that Tengtou and Fenghua are considered as the home of the China Dragon Dance. More than 300 Active groups are performing dragon dances in the region. But only a few foreigner had the chance to be part of it.
The event had created great interest by the news media KanKanKan ( NingboTv) Zhejiang Tv, CCTV, and several representatives of the press media did attend and report about the event.
Each one attending had a happy day while learning more about the Chinese past and present.
If you like to know more about TengTou or organize your own trip with a group to TengTou, please contact Eckhard for more details. <Eckhard is the Tourist Ambassador of TengTou village.>
excerpts based on Text by Mathew AsiaEnglishOnline
