On the 19th, Yang Yonghua stood on a tricycle and carved words on pumpkins growing high up.
Since 2012, vegetable farmer Yang Yonghua has carved characters on pumpkins to explore their economic value. Today, the "personally customized" pumpkins with his engravings are not only becoming more and more popular, but their value has also increased from 5 yuan to 50 yuan or even 100 yuan. "Pumpkins with characters not only have edible and ornamental value, but also have special significance, so they have high economic value."
The Jiufeng Modern Efficient Agricultural Park located on the outskirts of Ruijin City, Jiangxi Province is a rural tourist spot. In the planting base of this agricultural park, the "privately customized" pumpkins engraved with the words "Lucky and Prosperous", "Blessed as the East China Sea", "Gong Xi Fa Cai" and other words have become local "Internet celebrities" and are favored by many tourists. .
“These are the fruits of my hard work.” At the pumpkin planting base, 58-year-old Yang Yonghua stood on a tricycle and carved words on a pumpkin growing high up. He selects some pumpkins of suitable size every day and engraves the pumpkins according to the tourists' ideas, providing tourists with a "personalized" pumpkin.
Yang Yonghua is an ordinary farmer who began growing greenhouse vegetables in his hometown of Shouguang County, Shandong Province in the 1980s. In his spare time, he likes calligraphy and will buy some copybooks to copy. Over time, Yang Yonghua, who was not well educated, became good at writing.
In 2012, Yang Yonghua was hired by a modern agricultural development company in Shandong to be responsible for the cultivation of vegetables and fruits. Encouraged by his colleagues, Yang Yonghua began to try to engrave words on the fruits he planted.
At first, in order to explore the feeling of carving words on fruits, he chose radish as a test product. After a period of training, Yang Yonghua carved words on the pumpkin. Recalling the training scenes at that time, Yang Yonghua said, "At that time, half of the radish would be damaged if the carving was done. Every day, I had to think about the size of the font and the strength of the carving."
Now, Yang Yonghua has become a "master of melon and fruit carving" "People", the words he carved on the pumpkin were neat and beautiful. In the past four years, Yang Yonghua has worked in the company's planting bases in Guizhou and Jiangxi, and he has hand-engraved tens of thousands of "personally customized" pumpkins.
The picture shows the words Yang Yonghua carved on the pumpkin earlier.
Seeing the popularity of his engraved pumpkin, Yang Yonghua smiled from ear to ear. He said that more and more people now regard pumpkins with words as works of art, and some customers have designated pumpkins with words engraved on them as gifts for family members, relatives and friends, or as gifts for lovers. “There were tourists who drove here from other places specifically to let him in on the pumpkins,” he said. Pumpkins are engraved with words, and they think the pumpkins with words on them have more meaning."