Maying Village, located in the jurisdiction of Manyue Town in Northeast Chongqing, is surrounded by undulating mountains and lush greenery, and has the reputation of “full moon in the sky, healthy and blessed place”. Here, the traces of the Ba people can be traced back thousands of years, and there will be days on horseback every month. Listening to the folk songs of the full moon floating in the valley, one can feel the opening charm of this Chinese ecological cultural village slowly unfolding.
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Old Villages on the Qinba Ancient Road
The mountains are continuous, the white clouds are long, and the golden rapeseed flowers are swaying in the fields. Not far away, patches of wild cherry blossoms are in full bloom in the mountains. Looking around, flocks of sheep are wandering on the meadow, kneeling cattle under the old trees are wagging their tails, and the mountains are layered in the distance, like a picture. traditional Chinese painting. There is no traffic here, and the occasional chicken crowing and dog barking adds to the tranquility, as if falling into a thousand-year-old Taoyuan dream…
Such an extraterrestrial environment is the intuitive feeling brought to people by Maying Village, Manyue Town. Maying Village is located in the northeast of Manyue Town, Kaizhou District, with an altitude of 1,500 to 2,260 meters, a summer temperature of 22 to 26°C, and a forest coverage rate of over 50%. It not only has beautiful natural scenery, but also has a profound cultural history. In the old days, the location of Maying Village, Manyue Town, Kaizhou was separated by the Qinling Mountains and the Daba Mountains. The mountains overlapped and the peaks criss-crossed. As a hub on the Qinba Ancient Road, Maying Village, Manyue Town, Kaizhou overlooks Huguang in the east, Yuguizhou in the south, Sichuan in the west, and Sanqin in the north. reputation. Therefore, there are many intriguing legends and stories circulating on this ancient road, which is both a commercial route and an important military route.
In the last years of the Western Han Dynasty, wars broke out frequently due to the separation of powers. Wang Mang usurped the Han Dynasty, and Liu Xiu, Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty raised his troops. Due to bad luck, Wang Mang chased and killed him to a small town. Liu Xiu saw that there are thousands of peaks competing for beauty in this area, which is easy to defend but difficult to attack, and because his wife Yin Lihua is about to give birth, she decided to stay here. Later, one month after the child landed, the place was named Full Moon, and the current Full Moon Town came into being. So, where did Maying Village come from?
The story also tells that when Liu Xiubing retreated to Manyue Town, winter was approaching. Because of the heavy snow on the mountain and the cold wind, Liu Xiu had to arrange the army on the grass dam at the foot of the mountain to let him have a good rest. Therefore, he chose Dapingba in Manyue Town and named it Mazhaying, which is the origin of the name of Maying Village today.
In the past of Maying Village, there are still stories that can be told. According to the old secretary who has served in Maying Village for six years, in response to the call for rural revitalization, the current Maying Village was formed by the merger of Chuanzhu Village and Maying Village in the former Manyue Town. Before the merger, Chuanzhu Village was rich in Yunnan tea, but the price was low. Coupled with the impact of the market economy, although the villagers here had food and clothing, it was difficult for them to embark on the road to wealth. On the other hand, Maying Village has a unique geographical advantage, but has the disadvantage of insufficient water source. For this reason, in 2006, five provinces and cities including Shandong Province, Jiangsu Province, and Hubei Province became the first batch of pilot units for the merger of villages, and Maying Village and Chuanzhu Village followed closely and began to carry out the reform and development of new rural construction. Exploration has become a new village where you can “travel around Xuebao Mountain and camp with horses at night”.
Because of this, the brand-new Maying Village has a new look. The mountains in the village are verdant, the houses look like houses, there are flocks of cattle and sheep passing through the fields, and the magnolia trees on the roadside are still rustling. These cultural history and natural scenery have made Maying Village famous, and the horse culture that has lasted for thousands of years has added to the profound heritage of the village.
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The Immortal Living in Guanyingou
Kaizhou is called Kaizhou in Xianfeng’s “Kai County Chronicles”: “The border of the water is the place where the goods are cultivated. The face is adjacent to the greenery, the Pengxi River is on the right, the clear water is on the left, the majestic Ba Kingdom, and the crown of the Kui Wu.” Maying Village in the state area has a large area of natural forest and meadow vegetation, coupled with its vast area and large undulating terrain, it is extremely suitable for the growth of horses. Walking on the clean and tidy streets of the village, you can see that groups of horses in front of the village houses are panting slightly, while the horses on the grasslands of the village are galloping, forming a beautiful landscape where man and nature live in harmony.
Because Maying Village is located in a high mountain area, coupled with the humid and cool climate, the grass grows extraordinarily lush in spring and summer, and it has become an important fodder for raising horses. The horses on the pasture are mainly millet black, and there are occasional white horses that make people’s eyes shine. They are well-built, with big eyes, strong limbs, and a sense of heroism. In the midsummer season, tourists who come here ride horses and gallop on the pasture, enjoying a moment of joy. Interestingly, there is a magical legend about the various horses raised by the farmers in Maying Village.
According to legend, there is a Guanyin Valley in the northeast of Maying Village, with green vegetation, gurgling streams, and clouds and mist swimming in the mountain stream, it seems to be a place where immortals live. It is known from word of mouth of the villagers that the immortal living in Guanyingou is named Sumu Niangniang. Su’s mother was originally a mortal who died of no illness after living for more than a hundred years, so she was buried at the location of Guanyingou by her neighbors in the village. Because of the worship of the villagers, Su’s mother lost her body and turned into a fairy queen, so she settled here and practiced.
One day, the sea of clouds surged and rain fell from the sky. After practicing and leaving the customs, Mother Su rode sideways on the love ride, wandering around in Maying Village. I saw a shepherd boy by the stream in Maying Village, sitting upside down on horseback, walking slowly by the stream, often accompanied by the sound of piccolos floating in the fields. Mother Su has lived in Guanyingou for a long time, and she has long been unable to understand the changes in the world. She landed by the stream on her love horse, bowed her head and asked the shepherd boy what age it is now. As soon as the shepherd boy raised his head suddenly, he was frightened by a hairless white horse, and was so frightened that he was about to fall off the back of the bull. Seeing this, Mother Su acted at random, riding a white horse, and rescued the shepherd boy who was about to fall into the stream. After the shepherd boy was frightened, he told the truth, and then spread the word of this adventure, which made horse breeding popular in Maying Village.
Later, days of intense heat made the place dry and drier. Villagers found the captive horses to be lethargic, with swollen noses and difficulty standing. It was really helpless, everyone had no choice but to invite each other to Guanyingou to seek mother Su. Mother Su, who heard the news, deeply felt the suffering of the people, so she rode a white horse to introduce Tianbian Water, passed through Guanyingou, and flowed to the southwest. The villagers found that the Tianbian water not only solved the drought problem here, but also refreshed the horses that drank the water from the stream. Therefore, the villagers thanked Mother Su for saving her life in unison, and the horse became a symbol of Mother Su in their hearts.
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Draw a beautiful picture of Kaizhou
Today, in Maying Village, looking at the natural landscapes such as Suokou Gorge, Full Moon Groove, and Shizibao distributed in Xingluo, watching the sunrise in the sea of clouds, and the red clouds in the sky, you have a concrete understanding of the new appearance of the new rural construction. cognition. At present, Manyue Town, where Maying Village is located, is not only an important border trade town at the junction of Chongqing, Sichuan and Shaanxi, but also one of the top ten most beautiful summer resort towns in Chongqing, one of the 100 best viewing spots and a famous tourist town. In order to revitalize the tourism industry in Maying Village and help the villagers get rich, the village has created Xuebaoshanju·Music Camp Bar based on local natural materials and cultural history to receive overnight tourists and allow them to stay for an average of 10 days. No less than 2.5 days; add houses to solve the problem of vacant accommodation reception beds; expand roads three times to allow visitors to travel unimpeded; improve drinking water for people and animals, repair dams, and let Maying Village no longer worry about water shortage . At the same time, in order to be more interesting, the village also planted sunflowers and blueberries in a large area, so that tourists can not only experience the natural scenery, but also have the fun of clocking in and picking.
With something to watch, it is natural to have an economic foundation to support it. In order to build a good “engine”, Maying Village also vigorously supports the development of 70 mu of Gastrodia elata industry, so that its annual income is expected to reach 2.7 million yuan. At the same time, integrate Maying Village, Dingxing Village, and Shuangping Village’s central financial support funds of 1.5 million yuan and Maying Village’s collective economy of 200,000 yuan to build an outdoor youth development center to form a good place for play and study. In addition, the village is constantly improving convenience supermarkets, public toilets and other service facilities to meet the needs of tourists for food, accommodation, travel, shopping and entertainment. This series of measures has enabled every family to eat “tourism meals”, and has allowed the village to receive more than 60,000 tourists a year, generating nearly 18 million yuan in tourism revenue. At the same time, the village is also striving to build the Mazhaying Ecological Resort, making it a national agricultural green development pioneer area and an international tourist resort at the junction of the Great Three Gorges, Daqin and Pakistan, embarking on its own road to rural prosperity.
It is worth mentioning that Maying Village has also improved the quality and efficiency of grassroots party building work. In the work system of Manyue Town and the grassroots care for the next generation working committee, it is emphasized that in addition to the improvement of the work system and meeting system, it also emphasizes that relevant cadres go deep into the masses and carry out work research in the jurisdiction every month. Of course, the village is still organizing and mobilizing more “five elders” (veteran cadres, veteran soldiers, veteran experts, veteran teachers, and veteran models) to give full play to their experience and advantages and do a good job of caring for the next generation. Because of this, Maying Village combined the local reality and did a good job in mass work, so that 50 poor households in Maying Village with 153 people were lifted out of poverty in 2020 and embarked on the road of urban-rural integration development. In 2016, it was selected as “China’s Beautiful Leisure Countryside”, painted a picture scroll of Kaizhou with beautiful thousands of miles of rivers and mountains.
Standing in Maying Village, Full Moon Town, Kaizhou, looking at the rising smoke, feeling the evening wind blowing from the mountains through the woods, and looking at the stars and rivers in the distance, you can realize that “the full moon in the sky is a place of health and well-being” meaning.
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