Recently, the much-anticipated Wanzhou-Dazhou-Kaizhou "Grand Three Gorges • Daba Mountain" International Culture and Tourism Festival & Three Gorges Culture and Tourism Industry Expo 2021 opened grandly at the Chongqing Three Gorges Migrants Memorial in Wanzhou District, Chongqing. Hundreds of exquisite tourism products, cultural and creative products, and intangible cultural heritage products from Wanzhou, Dazhou, Kaizhou, Liangjiang New Area, and the other nine districts and counties in northeast Chongqing are gathered here, providing a valuable shopping opportunity for guests from Chongqing's paired assistance provinces and cities, tourists and residents.
Wanzhou-Dazhou-Kaizhou "Grand Three Gorges • Daba Mountain" International Culture and Tourism Festival opened on October 14. (Photo/ Chongqing Morning Post)
With the theme of "promoting the culture and tourism integration in Bayu and paving the way for a better life," the activity is expected to build a centralized platform to showcase the development achievements of the culture and tourism in northeast Chongqing and northeast Sichuan, fuel the high-quality development of the regional culture and tourism, and upgrade the integrated development of culture and tourism of "Grand Three Gorges • Daba Mountain."
During this activity, Chongqing's culture and tourism departments went all out to launch their most popular products. For example, Wanzhou has released cultural and creative products like Carpenter Tan's wooden comb, Three Gorges embroidery, and Three Gorges stone, gourmet like Wanzhou noodles, Wanzhou Gege, and Wanzhou grilled fish, agricultural specialty products like Three Gorges Tiancong Tea, Three Gorges citrus, and Fendai Plum, and recommended gifts like Shixian Taibai Liquor, Yuquan pickled mustard tuber, and beef jerky, as well as Three Gorges fruit liquor, Three Gorges root-carving art, straw weaving and other intangible cultural heritage products.
Cultural and creative product New Orange Era NFC juice from Zhongxian, Chongqing has won the golden prize of Creative Product Design Competition. (Photo/ Chongqing Morning Post)
The exhibits from other 12 districts and counties like Dazhou, Kaizhou, Liangjiang New Area, Liangping, and Chengkou include dozens of tourism products, cultural and creative products, and intangible cultural heritage products, such as bamboo liquor, Tang's Duck Sichuan-flavored shredded duck, brown sugar, Han embroidery, tea, Ba-style tiger-shaped handle cup, Ba Kingdom willow-leaf-alike-sword-shaped gel pen, lovebird-pattern mountain city silk scarf, bamboo curtain, bamboo woven products, woodcut New Year pictures, walnut crafts, Changpo red-skin and white-pulp dried radish, ox horn comb, cane, fermented bean curd, canned bamboo shoots, navel orange liquor, white tea, and embroidery crafts.
In addition, in order to showcase the cultural and artistic charm of the Three Gorges, the first Tianxian Lake Antiques and Artworks Fair was held in the Yuhe Craft Lane of Taibai Sub-district. More than 100 collectors of antiques, artworks, collectibles, calligraphy and painting works, and intangible cultural heritage inheritors from the Three Gorges and other parts of the country gathered here to display and trade products.