First photography festival of fish culture was held in Huangcao town, Zixing city

Overview of Jinniu Island of Huangcao town, Zixing city

Dock of Huangcao town

Visitors were traveling around Huangcao town in holidays

One of the activities for the festival: one-hundred-people feast

Launching ceremony of first photography festival of fish culture

Promotion site for some special foods of the tourism area

It was reported that a music and food festival with the theme of singing in Dongjiang lake- visiting Huangcao town (Dragon Boat Day) was held in Jinniu Island, Huangcao town, Zixing city on May 31, 2014. It was one of the parts of China Huangcao first photography festival of fish culture which was entitled of“enjoying beauty of Dongjiang lake in Huangcao town”.
There were six different topics for this festival, such as one-hundred-people feast, two-dragon dance, folk custom party, sea-maid of Dongjiang lake and fireworks performance, bonfire dancing and singing, and carnival of beer and barbecue. All the activities granted the visitors with a taste and visual feast. The most attractive part was for sea-maid of Dongjiang lake and fireworks performance that sea-maid’s shadow reflected on the middle of Dongjiang lake along with the shining fireworks performance, which showed an exquisite Chinese painting for the audience.

Famous as “town of south Yangtze River, flower of Dongjiang lake”, Huangcao town was one of the most important tourism destinations of south Hunan province and was the core scenic area of Dongjiang lake-national 4A scenic area. Dongjiang drifting which is popularized as the first drifting of China, mysterious gorge, “three fairies and four islands” and some other natural landscapes were available there.

Tourism is one of the leading industries of Huangcao town, so the local Party Committee and Government placed great attention to improve its tourism industry with specified development strategy and advanced concepts on its practical condition of ecological advantage, location feature, special food, Yao minority culture, and etc. Over 180,000 visitors traveled to Huangcao town in 2013, contributing 18million yuan tourism income to the town.

Along with years transformation development of tourism industry, Huangcao town’s tourism culture and products were greatly developed and promoted, which helped to upgrade its tourism products and service to a higher level. It was introduced that a high grade inn with over 3million yuan investment was settled down in Huangcao town, which indicated that the town proceeded to further improvement of tourism service.

It was purposely to popularize the fame of Huangcao town of Dongjiang lake tourism area, promote the inter-amalgamation between culture and tourism, improve the tourism development with better communication of tourism agents and media, and generalize Huangcao town’s culture and brand nationwide by handling this festival.