Hengxi Watermelon Festival will be held from May/KLOC-0 to June 30th.

Jiangning Hengxi Watermelon Festival has been opened during May Day, and the watermelon festival here will last for two months. During this year's Watermelon Festival, Hengxi will launch the 16 activity. Watermelon Festival will bring you a bumper harvest. Let's learn more about the Watermelon Festival.

Hengxi Watermelon Festival

Time: 0: 00 on May 65438 to June 30.

Theme: "Weaving Happiness in Jiangning _ Tasting Sweetness in Hengxi"

Brief introduction of hengxi watermelon

During the Watermelon Festival, activities such as "Inheriting the Revolutionary Spirit, Painting and Calligraphy Photographers Going to Guajia Hometown" will be held 16, and 50 provincial and municipal painters and photographers will be organized to walk into Hengxi to record the development achievements of reform and opening up and the old revolutionary areas with ink pens and lenses;

It is reported that the total planting area of watermelons in Hengxi this year is about 40,000 mu, and the protected cultivation is 3 1 10,000 mu, including steel-framed greenhouse10.7 million mu, more than 30 new and excellent varieties, and 25,000 mu of high-quality gift melons, including 20,000 mu of Xiaolan watermelon, 5,000 mu of Sumi No.8, 60 million grafted seedlings and a total output of 60 million plants.

This year's Watermelon Festival will be held from May/KLOC-0 to June 30 for two months. With melon as the medium, a series of 16 activities will be launched locally. 18 Hengxi Watermelon Festival not only made the citizens in the city eat the sweetness, but also made the local melon farmers rich.

Jiangning Hengxi is a well-known hometown of watermelon. Since 2002, Hengxi Watermelon Festival has been held for 18 sessions. The theme of this year's Watermelon Festival is "Come to Jiangning to weave happiness and taste sweet in Hengxi".

In addition, in recent years, Hengxi Xiaolan watermelon has appeared in the counters of Golden Eagle Supermarket in Hexi, Jiangning and Xianlin, all of which have become "explosive products". Last year, "Hengxi Taste" also participated in the Nanjing International Holiday and Leisure Exhibition in Stuttgart and the "Belt and Road" International Food Exhibition in Hong Kong, and assumed the glorious mission of "cultural communication ambassador".

Timetable of Hengxi Watermelon Festival

On May 15, the activity of "Inheriting Revolutionary Spirit, Painting and Calligraphy Photographers Going to Melody Hometown Together" was held. Fifty painters and photographers from provinces and cities will walk into Hengxi to record the development achievements of reform and opening up and the old revolutionary base areas with ink pens and lenses.

During May1June-20, special activities such as "Happy Sending" will be held in Dafu Village, Shitang Renjia and Longxiang Shuangfan in Qixian County, and intangible cultural heritage performances such as Pihu will be performed live, and interesting activities such as watermelon eating competitions will be held.

There will be two wonderful activities on May 18. First, the "Hengxi Watermelon" Industry High-quality Development Forum will invite famous experts and scholars in the domestic watermelon industry to exchange and discuss on topics such as "the present situation and development trend of watermelon industry", "the operation and maintenance of agricultural brands" and "suggestions for the development of Hengxi Watermelon", and input new knowledge, new technologies, new models and new equipment to local watermelon industry practitioners. The other is to hold a watermelon "fate" networking event. Through the networking activities of single young men and women, each activity link will be closely combined with the watermelon theme;

May 19 "Run! The Watermelon Fun Games organized citizens to enter Gua Tian and participate in interesting games with watermelon as the theme, such as "Understanding Watermelon with Eyes", "Moving Watermelon Together", "Watermelon in Yoga", "Smart Glove Melon" and "Running Xiaolan".

On May 22nd, Guaxiang, the writer of "Celebrating the 70th Anniversary of the Founding of New China and the 70th Anniversary of the Liberation of Nanjing", will hold the first series of activities of Nanjing Culture and Art Festival, and invite literary lovers from all over Nanjing to participate.

On May 24th, combined with China _ Nanjing International Children's Fashion Week Competition, Hengxi Watermelon Cartoon Image Show was held.

On May 26th, the awarding ceremony of "Hengxi Watermelon" national agricultural geographical indications was held. At the same time, the 19th "Jiangning Spring" mass culture and art festival was held with a special performance of Hengxi.

From May 3/KLOC-0 to June 2, with the help of China branch exhibition of Stuttgart Holiday Tourism and RV Exhibition-Nanjing International Holiday Leisure and Auto Show, Hengxi Tourism and "Hengxi Taste" exhibition was held.

On June 1 day, the creative design competition of "Hengxi Watermelon Cup" Taichuang Garden was held, and the works of floral artists were auctioned on the spot, and the proceeds were donated to local poor families by the Red Cross Society of Taichuang Garden in Jiangning;

On June 2nd, a large-scale recitation activity of "Our Festival _ Dragon Boat Festival Love _ Home Country Dream" was held.

On June 2nd, 8th and 20th, the activities of "Hengxi Taste Cup" Gua Wang Contest, "Hengxi Watermelon" popular science class, watermelon eating contest and "Playing the New Era and Showing Melon Fragrance" were held respectively, which greatly promoted the prosperity and development of rural cultural undertakings in Hengxi through rich festival activities.