Sowing seeds of fun at a harvest festival
Print Edition
The fifth Guangfulin Harvest Festival was held in the farming culture exhibition area of Guangfulin Relics Park, drawing in around 100 households from Yangtze River Region.
About one third of the participants came from Songjiang District and downtown Shanghai. Equipped with straw hats, raincoats, overshoes and reaping tools, enthusiasts fully experienced the joy of harvest.
The activity reminded locals of the old times when they helped parents cut the rice in golden paddy fields filled with the fragrance of ripe crops.
Some of these families took part in the rice transplanting activity held in June. For the children, harvesting the crops was an activity to show off to their friends.
Traditional games including hopscotch, take-copter (also named bamboo dragonflies), and paper airplanes were held to offer fun and nostalgic experiences. Some families posed with rice straws and took photos, while the organizer prepared 500 to 1,500 grams of rice as a prize for the rice cutting and bundling competition.
Rice in Guangfulin is usually transplanted in June, ripe in August and harvested in September. The rice production takes the most primitive and ecological planting method which is free from chemical fertilizer and pesticide. The whole process, including transplanting, weeding and harvesting, is all done by human work.
After 21 procedures, the grains broken during dehulling process will be eliminated and the rest of them shall meet the length-width ratio of 1:3. After the picking process, the total amount of rice will reduce by 6 to 12 percent.
- About Us
- |
- Terms of Use
- |
-
RSS - |
- Privacy Policy
- |
- Contact Us
- |
- Shanghai Call Center: 962288
- |
- Tip-off hotline: 52920043
- 沪ICP证：沪ICP备05050403号-1
- |
- 互联网新闻信息服务许可证：31120180004
- |
- 网络视听许可证：0909346
- |
- 广播电视节目制作许可证：沪字第354号
- |
- 增值电信业务经营许可证：沪B2-20120012
Copyright © 1999- Shanghai Daily. All rights reserved.Preferably viewed with Internet Explorer 8 or newer browsers.
