Autumn sunlight falls across the fields as Shijiazhuang's villages unfold a vibrant tapestry. In Luquan's ancient kiln courtyards, visitors smile with joy holding freshly baked bread from wood-fired ovens. At the art village walls in Jingxing Mining District, students with easels capture brilliant colors in their paintings. In Yuanshi's orchards, tourists' picking baskets overflow with fresh fruit... These surprises hidden in the countryside are quietly transforming rural landscapes.

It's not just the scenery that has changed - daily life takes on new flavors. Ancient villages preserve nostalgia while attracting crowds. Old courtyards embrace art while filling villagers' pockets. Croplands grow "golden fruits" while cultivating hope for the future. From mountain foothills to riverbanks, from courtyards to fields, Shijiazhuang's villages are planting "poetry and distant dreams" into the soil, growing a distinctive landscape of rural revitalization.

**"New Experiences" in the Art Village**

"Zhengfeng Left Bank Art Village has an amazing artistic atmosphere - perfect for photography," visitor Xu Yang enthusiastically shows off her photos. Walking into Zhengfeng Left Bank Art Village in Jingxing Mining District, one encounters art studios of renowned artists displaying colorful artworks, corner coffee shops filled with aromatic coffee, vibrant artistic wall galleries, and lively band courtyards... This summer, numerous tourists chose to visit here, experiencing the unique charm of this village that integrates ancient architecture, intangible cultural heritage, contemporary art, cultural creative parks, and recreational activities.

Here, studios specializing in calligraphy, painting, sculpture, ceramics, music, and other arts are strategically arranged. Century-old courtyards seem to transform into "museums without walls," with artistic atmosphere within reach. In the village's core area, Ming and Qing dynasty courtyards have been carefully renovated into red education bases accommodating hundreds of people. Every weekend and holiday, groups of students carrying easels and brushes concentrate on creating art in front of ancient buildings.

Jia Tongfang, Party Secretary of Zhongfengshan Village in Jingxing Mining District and director of Zhengfeng Left Bank Art Village, explains that the village deeply integrates academic resources from multiple renowned art institutions with artists' creative forces. Through a "master residence + academy training" model, it builds a collaborative system where academic mentors lead projects and resident artists pass on skills. Currently, the art village has signed long-term residence contracts with 33 renowned artists.

Art beautifies the village while industry accelerates revitalization. Zhengfeng Left Bank Art Village follows the principle of "art empowerment with moderate operation," abandoning purely commercial or touristic development paths to focus on developing educational plein air industry. Through scientific planning of supporting services like dining and homestays, it precisely serves artists and educational groups. Most importantly, the village innovatively adopts a "cooperative+" operation mechanism, with revenues proportionally allocated to ancient building restoration and villager dividends. This "art supporting culture" approach nurtures cultural roots while "culture benefiting people" drives livelihood improvements, effectively solving the balance between ancient building protection and utilization, achieving win-win outcomes in cultural protection, industrial upgrading, and villager income increase.

**"Slow Living" in Ancient Villages with New Charm**

Walking into Anxia Village in Shijing Township, Luquan District, ancient stone cave dwellings and exquisite small courtyards offer unique recreational experiences. Anxia Village's charm lies not only in its external beauty but also in the "poetic dwelling" atmosphere it creates. Projects like "1314 Digital Love Most Beautiful Highway," "Dear Courtyard," "Mountain Restaurant," and "Kiln-baked Bread" make Anxia Village an ideal destination for tourists to escape city life and relax, while experiencing rural culture and pastoral scenery.

In recent years, Luquan District has focused on infrastructure, cultural tourism services, and industrial development, enriching rural tourism offerings and deeply promoting agricultural-cultural-tourism integration, allowing visitors to better experience "slow living" in rural leisure tourism.

Preserving beautiful rural characteristics while maximizing retention of villages' original appearance, keeping valuable historical elements while avoiding homogenization, preserving nostalgia and highlighting uniqueness. Through targeted renovation and improvement, achieving individual village beauty and distinct characteristics, creating beautiful rural areas with local flavor and distinctive features like Anxia Village, Dongtu Gate Village, and Gujiayu Village.

Enhancing cultural tourism depth in beautiful villages, supporting and cultivating boutique rural homestays based on beautiful village construction, effectively connecting homestays with rural landscapes, customs, traditions, and emotions, focusing on creating boutique rural tourism villages like Anxia, Helianyyu, Shuiyu, and Duanzhuang. Supporting development of local specialty quality agricultural products, with significant benefits from sightseeing and picking models for products like Gujiayu Chinese toon, Luquan sweet potatoes, and Luquan apples. Hosting characteristic festival activities to enhance rural supply-side attractiveness for tourism and leisure experiences, improving Luquan rural tourism brand recognition, and retaining visitors through deep cultural tourism experiences.

**"Wealth Creation Methods" in Peach Groves**

With 2-3 meter spacing and plump, red fruit shapes, peach trees in Hongqi Village's orchard in Yincun Township, Yuanshi County are arranged in orderly rows. Varieties like "Early Dew Pan" and "Frost Reflection Red" honey peaches hang heavy on branches as tourists carry fruit baskets through the grove picking fruit, with peach fragrance mixing with laughter and joy filling the air.

"Adhering to the model of Party branch leadership, villager participation, and profit sharing, we established Yuanshi County Fuyong Professional Planting Cooperative. The village's main industry is specialty planting, with contiguous cultivation of peaches, grapes, and other specialty fruits," explains Li Yongtao, Party Secretary of Hongqi Village.

Hongqi Village is located in shallow mountain and hilly areas with loose, fertile soil and abundant sunlight. To transform "peach groves" into "money groves," scale and business models are key. In recent years, Hongqi Village has promoted standardized, diversified, and experiential transformation of peach cultivation, creating boutique peach orchards in contiguous areas south and north of the village while developing a full-season picking industry chain of "spring cherry picking, summer peach picking, autumn grape picking." Led by the Party branch establishing planting cooperatives, it formed a "base-driven farmers, picking-connected market" production and sales model with unified technical guidance, unified packaging and branding, and unified online and offline sales.

According to Dong Xiaoxin, Deputy Mayor of Yincun Township: "Currently Hongqi Village collectively contracts 15 Guofu vegetable greenhouses, has built 10 acres of high-standard grape greenhouses and a beef cattle breeding base, transferred 600 acres of land, all operating with villagers through profit-sharing partnerships. Using immigrant support funds, they built one cold storage facility ensuring fresh fruit sales year-round."

Li Siyuan, the village liaison officer for Hongqi Village, also stated: "Now people's lives have improved, and Hongqi Village has become a model village for rural revitalization in Yincun Township."

Hongqi Village's peach trees and picking industry represent a vivid example of Yuanshi County's integrated development of specialty agriculture. Moving forward, Hongqi Village will continue strengthening the "Hongqi Peach" brand, expanding and strengthening orchards while developing online sales channels to spread the reputation of Hongqi peaches, deeply converting orchard "attractiveness" into economic "output value," making the fragrant peach groves truly become villagers' "green treasure troves."