Travel Notes | A garbage-free island, a 400-year-old ancient village, where you can find natural innocence and tranquility

To get to the island, you need to build a boat. The roaring diesel engine drives the ferry and carries dozens of us people cheering towards the island. The Dongjiang River below our feet is majestic and rushes towards the South China Sea with clumps of reeds. The surface of the river is shining with silver, and the weather is very good today.

The first thing you see when you go to the island is a Dazhai Gate that looks like the Miao people. The entire Dazhai Gate is made of bamboo, using the traditional mortise and tenon technique without a single nail. There are 7 classified trash cans at the entrance of the village. Each trash can recycles one type of items: glass, plastic bottles, peels, wood, aluminum cans, waste paper, and general garbage. I looked carefully at the 7 trash cans. Except for the plastic bottle trash cans, which contained a few mineral water bottles, the other barrels were very clean. I heard from Teacher Deng that the owner of this island is a Taiwanese and has been promoting it. Today we need to thoroughly study the concept of ecological and environmental protection.

In the morning, we visited the island on our own. In the Family Garden, a group of parent-child families were engaged in farming and rice transplanting activities. There were two rice fields and two rice fields. Many children saw the rice seedlings for the first time. Some were very curious and actively followed their parents. While working in the farmland, some children did not dare to step in the mud and cried and refused to go into the water... which caused a burst of laughter from the adults on the shore.

Children living in cities are so happy that they have never seen rice, let alone how the rice we eat comes from. Through this kind of rice transplanting class, experienced farmer uncles tell the story of a grain of rice in the field, which can help children understand the hard work of hard work and cherish every grain of grain.

After lunch, Teacher Xiao Duan, the senior nature teacher on the island, led us to visit the projects on the island and introduced ecological concepts.

In the herb garden, we got to know lemongrass, which is used to make lemon fish, which has a lemon-like fragrance; there is green mint, which people use to make chewing gum or eye drops for improving eyesight; and there is stevia, which is very sweet. , the leaves of this plant are sugar-free but very sweet and can be eaten by diabetics: and rosemary, which we often use in making pizza... The small garden of dozens of square meters is full of various different edible spices. plant.

What interests us the most is the sandalwood tree. It is said that there are 100,000 sandalwood trees on this island, so it is named Sandalwood Island.

The sandalwood tree is an ancient, mysterious and rare tree species, a semi-parasitic evergreen tree. What is unique about it is that there are thousands of "suckers" growing on its fibrous roots. These "suckers" are tightly attached to the host plant. Robbing them of water, inorganic salts and other nutrients.

Plants like Guri incense are planted everywhere on the island. After Teacher Duan’s introduction, we learned that the symbiotic plants in Sandalwood Village are Huanghuali trees and Guri incense. Sandalwood survives mainly by sucking the nutrients from the symbiotic plants through the suckers at the roots. This is the plant. The principle of symbiosis is also a breeding technology commonly used in ecological agriculture.

There are some plastic bottles hanging on many trees in the orchard. The bottles contain sex-inducing hormones that can kill pests. This ecological operation method does not require the spraying of pesticides, ensuring an organic ecological and fully green production method.

There are three large earthen kilns for baking pizza on the island. They are very interesting and shaped like a yurt. The earth kiln is built with a layer of soil, a layer of glass, and another layer of soil. The top layer is a layer of bricks. The outermost layer of the kiln roof is a layer of mud and crushed grass. Every time it is used, a handful is burned in the kiln. The fire is turned off when the outer wall of the kiln is also hot. The temperature in the kiln can reach 400 degrees. At this time, the pizza is put in and baked. The most environmentally friendly and primitive pizza baking is completed. This kind of baked food is believed to have the most mellow and fragrant taste, but it is a pity that the oven cannot be turned on in summer and cannot be tasted.

According to Teacher Xiao Duan’s explanation, in order to reduce energy waste, the island tries to reduce the mileage of various ingredients: it is very intuitive to allow a crop to be transported from sowing to harvesting to food or even to being excreted without long-distance transportation. felt. This small island already has a complete set of recycling and green recycling systems. I really hope that this concept can have great benefits and be promoted across the country.

After learning the ecological concept, everyone started a kayaking battle in the lake. From free play to the water splashing battle, everyone had a great time.