The Tangxi Village./棠溪村。[Photo by Tang Yan]唐嚴攝
By Xu Zhuowei
Tangxi Village is located at the west end of Simingshan Town, Yuyao. Its name comes from the Chinese word for begonia (haitang), because when seen from above, the shape of the village resembles the flower. Tangxi Village is surrounded by mountains. When spring comes, the mountains are full of flowers; the ancient trees become verdant once more with budding leaves.
棠溪村位于余姚市四明山鎮西端，因村內形貌如“海棠一朵”而得名。棠溪村四面群山懷抱，春天到來，漫山繁花盛開，上百棵古樹又見新綠。
Villagers make a living from the mountains' natural resources. They have always relied on traditional mountain agriculture and horticulture as their main sources of income. In recent years, Tangxi Village is accelerating the transformation from horticulture to tourism. Some villagers have opened fun farms and B&Bs.
靠山吃山，一直以來棠溪村民以傳統高山農業、花木經濟作為主要收入來源。近幾年，棠溪村加快從“賣花木”到“賣風景”的轉變，鄉賢們帶頭發展特色農家樂，建起了民宿。
Tangxi Village is also actively developing the "under-forest economy", which involves reaping profits from forest by-products. The villagers are planting torreya nut trees, begonias, yew and other economic crops. There is a 3-km begonia landscape belt and a 0.16 acre begonia garden in the village, which attract many tourists to this thousand-year-old village and support its agriculture and tourism industries.
棠溪村還積極發展林下經濟，種植香榧、海棠、紅豆杉等經濟作物，打造了一個3公里長的海棠景觀帶和1畝的海棠觀賞園，吸引更多的游客走進這個千年古村，助力村莊農旅產業發展。