The Tourist Town Xiayang In Northern Fujian Tourism Value And Development Strategy Study

Based on thoroughly on spot investigation and interviews with large number of insiders, the author has made a quite detailed picture of the history, natural resources, climatic conditions, land and water transportation, street construction, and cultural folk of the ancient town Xiayang, has gathered extensively first-hand material including human culture, local legends and data, has reviewed local ancient private school buildings, ancient temples, representative of ancient residential buildings, and the ancient bridges, has sorted out Xiayang ancient surname origins, and has in chronological order carefully documented Xiayang ancient and unique customs and other distingushing features, such as "BaiDaWan", "CaiJie", "XuShi", "TaiGe" and the ancient ceremony of weddings and funerals. The author also made full and accurate introduction and records on the manufacture methods and workmanship of the local specialties represented by sweet-scented osmanthus cake, and has accumulated a certain amount of basic information for follow-up local tourism development.Despite the rich folk cultural resources of this historical town, for some reason it still has not been well-developed. The tourism should based on the principle of preserving the ancient town scenery, folk activities, local cuisine for the attraction and the strength of the various parties concerned to jointly develop and strengthen the publicity. The construction of a Hercynian regional folk customs of the original eco-resort Gourmet tourism will become an emerging tourist attraction with huge potential by satisfying the local's demand while benefiting the farmers.