On May 22, 2023, Chixi Village, Fenxi Town, Fuding City, the "China's No. 1 Poverty Alleviation Village" with verdant mountains and fragrant white tea, ushered in the annual "April 4th" Phoenix Festival.
The beautiful She songs sang the happiness and beauty of the people of Chixi; compatriots of all ethnic groups gathered together to watch performances, taste white tea, taste food, appreciate folk customs, and enjoy themselves happily.
In recent years, Fuding City has attached great importance to ethnic work. It has made great efforts and practical measures in the protection and inheritance of ethnic culture, the development of ethnic undertakings, and the creation of villages with ethnic characteristics. It has also carried out in-depth cross-strait cultural exchanges and cooperation, and achieved good results. The "April 4th" festival in Chixi Village has become a stage to showcase the development achievements of ethnic minorities and the traditional culture of the She ethnic group.
"'China's No. 1 Poverty Alleviation Village' is the starting point. Our goal is to build Chixi into a 'National Rural Revitalization Strategy Demonstration Village' and lead the masses to become rich and well-off!" said Wu Yiguo, Secretary of the General Party Branch of Chixi Village.
From "blood transfusion" to poverty alleviation, "blood exchange" to seek change, and then to "blood-making" to seek wealth, Chixi Village has completed a magnificent "butterfly transformation" in more than 30 years, and has embarked on a road of becoming rich and well-off with "tourism rich village, agricultural strong village, culturally established village, and ecologically beautiful village". In 2022, the collective income of Chixi Village will be nearly 2.6 million yuan, and the per capita disposable income of villagers will be 34,815 yuan.
Poor also landscape, rich also landscape. After years of development, Chixi Village has a strong foundation and is very popular, attracting more and more Chixi Villagers who are away from home to join the "homecoming wave" and dig a "beautiful economy" at their doorstep.
The "April 4th" Phoenix Festival She Song Festival held every year, set up a She song team in Chixi Village, and recruited young children to join the She song team to train successors of She songs, inherit the traditional culture of the She people, and strengthen villagers' recognition and pride in the culture of the She people;
The event came to an end in the song and dance "Leading the New Era". This event was organized by the Propaganda Department of the Fuding Municipal Party Committee of the Communist Party of China, the United Front Work Department of the Fuding Municipal Party Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Fuding Municipal Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau, the Fuding Municipal Ethnic and Religious Affairs Bureau, and the People's Government of Fenxi Town, Fuding City.