The Laiyang Pear Blossom Festival is held on April 20 every year.
Laiyang City is rich in pears and is world-famous. It is known as the "Pear Town of China". Laiyang pears are not only delicious, but the spectacular scenery of the pear orchard that stretches for dozens of miles is also well-known. It is said that in April in Pear Township, the pear blossoms in the endless rows are like white snow and misty smoke. Walking among the pear blossoms and lingering under the pear trees makes people feel like a fairy. Since 1991, every year on April 20, the Laiyang Municipal Government invites Chinese and foreign tourists to hold the Pear Blossom Festival here to enjoy the scenery of "thousands of pear blossoms, thousands of snow, a stream of willows and a stream of smoke", and appreciate the farmland of Laiyang. scenery.
The first Laiyang Pear Blossom Festival was held in 1991. Led by the Laiyang Municipal People's Government, it aims to use flowers as matchmakers and festivals for marriage, and through the festival to widely expand contacts with the outside world, attract business, and attract investment. The content of the Pear Blossom Festival includes flower appreciation in the pear garden, sightseeing and shopping, and involves many activities such as finance, culture, and foreign affairs.
Attractions of Laiyang Pear Blossom Festival
Xitaozhang Archway. The Xitaozhang Archway is carefully designed by experts and professors from the Central Academy of Fine Arts. On the front of the archway, Comrade Hua Guofeng personally inscribed the name of the village "Xitaozhang", and on both sides of the archway were inscribed "Qixue" and "Hanjin" by famous calligraphers as the symbol of the village.
Shuanghe Pond. Located at the entrance of the scenic spot, white lotus, red lotus, reed and weeping willow are widely planted. There are two cranes on the stone. The pool is named "Double Crane Pool" after "the twin cranes stand in the small pool, and the lotus hides behind the green lotus". It can accommodate 200 tourists. Others are fishing here.
Lianlimen. It is formed by the intertwining branches of two huge pear trees. The design concept is taken from the poem of Bai Juyi, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, "I wish to be a winged bird in the sky, and a connecting branch on the ground."
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