Time to have a taste of harvest in Shanghai
Green rice paddies in Shanghai's Fengxian District celebrate the 5th Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival.
It's harvest season in Shanghai!
All know the city is home to a lot of trendy restaurants that offer answers for food lovers seeking different tastes. But you can also find the most natural harvest scenery in Shanghai where some local specialty agricultural products grow.
Surrounded by shiny green rice crops, farmers in the city's suburban Fengxian District celebrated the 5th Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival with singing and dancing on Friday.
This year, Fengxian's celebration is the main venue in China.
Featuring piles of giant pumpkins, freshly ripened rice, and various kinds of agricultural products, the celebration ceremony was full of joy and happiness of harvest.
Local officials announce the opening of celebrations.
Local specialty products were the highlight, with yellow peaches and grapes on display at the farmers' market ceremony.
Yellow peaches in Fengxian are known for being very juicy and sweet. They're also made into a variety of food and beverages like cakes, egg tarts, beer and juice in Fengxian's Qingcun town, the largest base of such peaches.
Muscadine, the specially-bred grape, has a herbal flavor. It is very limited in quantity that makes it "Hermès' of the grape world," with each grape sold at more than10 yuan (US$1.5).
Muscadine, the specially-bred grape in Fengxian, has a herbal flavor. It is very limited in quantity that makes it "Hermès' of the grape world," with each grape sold at more than10 yuan (US$1.5).
A booth at the celebration showcases Fengxian yellow peach. It is said to be nutritious with rich antioxidants, dietary fiber, and calcium.
The harvest festival fell on this year's 16th solar term qiufen, or the Autumn Equinox. It's an indication of the harvest season with cool and sunny weather.
Initiated in 2018, the Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival is the first national festival created specifically for the country's farmers.
The festival was written into a law on the promotion of rural vitalization this April.
Coloful pumpkins at the ceremony, welcome the harvest season.
Ripened rice crops in the field, waiting to be harvested.
