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About Aoqi Farm
The Aoqi Farm of Xilingol League Inner Mongolia, is the first comprehensive enterprise of folkloric cultural tourism in the grassland. Opening in the summer of 2000, it has been warmly welcomed by people.
The Aoqi Farm is located at 25 km north-west of Xilinhot City, at the north side of Xisai Highway.. It is 19 km away from Xilinhot airport. Here the grassland is wide opening with flocks and herds sprinkling on the green land and folk songs on air. To feel the real grassland, you can come here. Tourists can lodge in the farm and the hotels of Xilinhot City is also in your option.
The purpose of establishing Aoqi Farm, is to make friends, develop the grassland culture, and to improve the grassland cultural tourism. The Aoqi Farm is just forming its featured operational pattern. It is endeavouring to develop the cultural economy, sentimental economy and spiritual economy of the grassland. It insists the conformity of living, production and tourism service, to show the charm of grassland culture wholly, wide-angledly with multiple strata. It has organized more than 100 families of farmers in the area of 445 square km to participate many kinds of folkloric cultural activities, so the entertaining of tourists can be done concentrately by the farm itself or individually by the farmers' families. It upholds the four words of reality, thickness, honesty and friendship, which means to show the real lives, production, folkloric custom, cultural activities and the natural scenery of the grassland, to emphasize the thickness of regional ethnic cultural charm, to receive people honestly, to make more and more good friends, to exchange ideas and discuss the ways of developing grassland culture. It bases on the Aoqi Comprehensive Research Institute, to develop new products of grassland culture to fulfil the demands of tourists for multiple and high quality tourism products. It keeps on expanding its cooperation with research institutes, universities and artistic circle, to promote the grassland culture to a new stage. It starts to propaganda grassland culture via internet, to provide new service items and products to develop internet grassland cultural economy. It organizes local farmers to go to many places to hold folkloric culture shows. It holds Aoqi Forum regularly or irregularly to do the culture exchanging. It expands cooperation actively, to have more contents and bigger impact, establishes agencies both at domestic and abroad, to make the grassland cultural tourism thriving all year round.
At present, the tourist service of Aoqi Farm consists of eight contents, as learning, review, participation, entertainment, holiday enjoyment, shopping, interview and consultation.
A. Learning: holding folkloric culture fora with titles like grassland songs, Mongolian customs, milk culture, art, equestrian culture, Xilingol mutton, Boke(wrestling), Aobao culture and garment culture. We can also make some special guidelines for tourists, for example horse riding, milking and cooking milk tea. The tourists can learn systematically or selectively of some special topic. It is the ABC of grassland culture, and something you must learn as you have once been to the grassland. Though some people had come to the grassland many times, they had learned very little of the folkloric culture. With the few things they learnt, they only know what it is and nothing about why. Furthermore, there have been so many things being wrongly interpreted by someones because of lacking of knowledge which has caused many misunderstandings, so it is needed to be corrected.
B. Review: to study the changing and development of grassland culture, to review the folklore and local custom.
C. Participation: to participate the so many kinds of folkloric and cultural activities, sports competition and herding lives.
D. Entertainment: It 's the most special flavour of grassland culture. You can enjoy the Nadamu, Aobao sacrificing, feasts with the farmers exhilaratingly, camp fire parties, dancing & singing and garment shows.
E. Holiday enjoyment: to spend holidays in the farm, you can enjoy the green land with strong smelling of grass, azure sky and soft breezing, drinking horse milk and Talage(koumise), eating milk curd, finger mutton and Mongol foods, riding on the grassland, being drunk with grassland liquor, listening the local music and chatting with farmers, what a carefree and joyous fairyland. After the holidays spending here, you can feel wholly relaxed in high spirits just like to have a new body.
F. Shopping: to buy special products from the farm as souvenirs or presents to friends. There are products provided by the farm of dairy, milk wine and cultural products like drawings, tapes, CDs and artwares.
G. Interview: to visit famous singer, poet, painter, dancer and ordinary family.
H. Consultation: consultative service for tourist to Xilingol grassland, including local custom, tour sites and routes, meal, lodgement, shopping and travelling. The consultation can also be done via internet, telephone or fax.
The eight service items are arranged in advance according to the request of tourists, so the scheduled tour groups and individual tourist will be entertained preferentially. Tour groups should contact and sign for the travel 20 days in advance. Mr. Zhaona, director of the Aoqi Farm and all the villagers welcome every friend coming to enjoy the charm of grassland in Aoqi Farm.
Presentation of the Director
Aoqi Farm of Xilingol League, is a folkloric cultural tourist farm belonging to Xilingol League Aoqi Comprehensive Research Institute. There are strong-smelled Mongolian custom and culture show and service provided by organized farmers here. Aoqi Comprehensive Research Institute is a nongovernmental research enterprise majoring in the development of Xilingol grassland culture that is Mongolian ethnic culture, to improve the grassland cultural tourism. The duty of it is to yield wholly new theories, ideas, concepts, strategies, measures and propositions, create new products and special brands of grassland culture, to launch meaningful social cultural and academic exchange activities, to start the new epoch of grassland culture with friends of every field.
Earnestly, we welcome enlightened persons, experts, specialists, institutes, universities and enterprises all over the world to participate, invest, cooperate, exchange ideas and make friends. We would like to be with all the friends to establish cultural economy, sentimental economy, spiritual economy, trusting economy, to promote and make prosper of grassland culture, to develop grassland cultural tourism.
Speech at the Opening Ceremony of Aoqi Farm
Zhaona
Dear peoples of Baiyinnor, comrades and friends:
Today, the first tourist village with farmers as its main body in Inner Mongolia grassland, Xilingol Aoqi Farm, is celebrating its opening by the traditional ethnic ceremony. Representing the villagers, my family and my own, I would like to express my endless happiness and thankness to you.
The purpose of this farm, is to adjust and improve the animal husbandry industry, utilizing the potential resources of labour and intelligence of the grassland, to create new major industry. What is the reason that can make us alive and developing in the competitive market of today, are creation and research, organization and plan, contact, exchange and cooperation with other people. Our fundamental force is the farmers. The main feature of a nationality is its culture and the spirit developing due to the cultural concepts. Culture is an ethnic treasure. The Mongolian grassland is spacious with rich natural resources, but what can not be depleted is grassland culture. It is an important part of human cultural treasure-house with great impact to all the world. To inherit and enhance the grassland culture, is a great aim of modernization and an important duty of spiritual civilization. We shall strive in common, to meet the coming of the new epoch of grassland culture. The cause we are undertaking together, had multiple meanings of economy, politics, ideology, ecology and culture. It is a prospecting sunrising industry. By our endless endeavourment, we will make the farm to be a propaganda centre of grassland culture, farmer's entertainment site, happy palace of tourists, gathering place of experts and scholars, intelligent hall of spiritual world, village of making friends, birthplace of creation and development, station of information transmitting, new field of exchange and communication, beautiful world of profoundness and magnificence.
Wish our grassland thriving and prosperous!
Hope the farm shining with the sun!
8th July 2000
The 10 distinguishing features of Aoqi Farm
1. Developing the grassland cultural tourism with farmers as its main body
2. Insisting to perform production, living and tourism in coordination, insisting the unity of humanistic scenery and natural scenery, to show the charm of grassland culture wide-angledly, multi-strataly in omnibearing.
3. Basing on the Aoqi Comprehensive Research Institute to develop new products of grassland culture.
4. Developing emphatically of cultural economy, sentimental economy, spiritual economy and trusting economy.
5. Four words of managing concept: reality, thickness, honesty and friendship, which means to show the real lives, production, folkloric custom, cultural activities and the natural scenery of the grassland, to emphasize the thickness of regional ethnic cultural charm, to receive people honestly, to make more and more good friends, to exchange ideas and discuss the ways of developing grassland culture.
6. To have new ideas and theories, to hold fora and exhibitions for developing grassland culture.
7. Launching many kinds of impressive folkloric activities with special flavour.
8. What we promised is what we can provide of folkloric culture exhibition and service.
9. Via the bulletin and website named Aoqi Farm, to report to the world with activities and plans of the farm, to serve people with knowledges of grassland cultural tourism.
10. Four functions of the farm: centre of grassland culture transmission, gathering place of experts and scholars, village for making friends, birthplace of development and creation.
Contact us:
Address: No. 10 First Building Qinggele St. Xilinhot City Inner Mongolia P. R. China
Post Code: 026000
Director: Zhaona
Tel: +86-479-8214835
Fax: +86-479-8218809
M. P.: 13034704235
Website: http//www.cn-aoqi.com
Email: xlaoqi@public.hh.nm.cn
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