Weekend Getaway to Yuanfu Rice Paddy Fields—Poetry and Distance Near Wuhan!

🗺Address: Yuanfu Rice Paddy Fields, located in Yongan Village, Dahe Town, Huangmei County, Hubei Province. 🏎Driving time: About 3 hours from downtown Wuhan. 🌈Highlights: ⭐️Pastoral scenery: Featuring vast, boundless rice paddies, the fields are lush green in spring and summer; in autumn, the ripe rice forms golden waves that roll with the wind, creating a picturesque rural landscape with the surrounding green mountains, clear waters, and blue sky. ⭐️Green train: Inside the scenic area is a green train from the 1960s and 1970s, which has been converted into a train restaurant and homestay. 🉑Dine on the train and enjoy the unique atmosphere. 🉑Stay in the train carriage homestay for a unique accommodation experience. This time, we stayed in the train room, a boy's favorite. 🎡Entertainment: 🈶Features themed spaces such as forest cabins, rice paddy stations, a lonely cafe, a sleepless garden, a dream space, a sky mirror, Deer Hidden Island, and Mumu Park, offering a rich and diverse range of leisure experiences. 🈶Farming practice: Participate in traditional farming experiences, learn about the life cycle of rice, and engage in harvesting, threshing, milling, and bagging, experiencing the hard work and joy of being a farmer. 🈶Agricultural product picking: Pick fresh, organic fruits and vegetables grown in the scenic area, savor nature's gifts, and purchase organic produce to take home. 🏨Unique accommodations: 18 uniquely designed homestays, including Hejian Courtyard, forest cabins, the Future Train, Sky Mirror, and triangular wooden houses. 🈶Triangular house homestay: The two-story triangular house features a living room and bathroom on the first floor. The living room is equipped with a fireplace, sofa, and TV, and the bathroom has a separate shower and bathtub. Upstairs is a tatami-style bed with beautiful views of the rice paddies. 🍲Food and beverage: The two-carriage train restaurant offers specialties such as rice paddy duck hot pot, secret spicy crab, beef stew with radish, and roasted chicken with chestnuts, all made with fresh rice and ecological ingredients from the rice paddies. ❤️Cultural activities: Spring plowing festival in spring, autumn harvest festival in autumn, as well as colorful nature education, handicraft experiences, and occasional farmers' markets and music festivals to promote the sale of local agricultural products.