1. Brief introduction of the route:
This route mainly connects Luohong Village, Yuecheng Longmu Ancestral Temple, Deqing Xue Palace, Jinlin Village, the birthplace of the glorious tradition of “Yueshan Afforestation”, Blue Bell Hot Spring and other tour experience points, including rural ancient buildings, cultural experience, shopping villages, hot springs and other elements, connecting the surrounding scenic spots, agricultural and cultural tourism projects, and rural markets, with rich cultural connotation, diversified tourism experience, obvious seasonal characteristics, and a strong New Year’s atmosphere.
Location: Deqing County, Huaiji County, Zhaoqing City, Guangdong Province
Itinerary:
Day 1: Luohong Village – Yuecheng Dragon Mother Ancestral Temple – Sowing Pigeon Cultural Park – Xijiang Blue Bank B&B
Day 2: Deqing Xue Palace – Citrus Gallery – Blue Bell Forest Hot Spring Resort
Day 3: Blue Bell Red Cone King Ancient Tree Park – Sanyue Nature Reserve Science Popularization and Research Base
Access:
Self-driving: Deqing County is 90 kilometers away from Zhaoqing City, 1 hour by car; It is 30 kilometers away from Wuzhou City, 30 minutes by car. Huaiji County is 150 kilometers away from Zhaoqing City, 2 hours by car; It is 170 kilometers away from Guangzhou, 2 hours and 20 minutes by car.
2. Highlights of the route:
“Dragon Mother’s Day” Temple Fair: Yuecheng Dragon Mother Ancestral Temple was built in the Qin and Han dynasties, with a history of more than 2,000 years, and is famous at home and abroad for its beautiful feng shui environment and unique “Dragon Mother Culture”. The “Dragon Mother’s Day” temple fair is a national intangible cultural heritage, which is divided into the birthday (the first day of the fifth lunar month to the eighth day of the lunar calendar) and the birthday of the Tao (the first day of the eighth lunar month to the eighth day of the eighth lunar month). During the temple fair, there are folk activities such as dragon and lion dances, acting to entertain the gods, grabbing flower cannons, touching the dragon bed and eating dragon boat cakes. Yuecheng Dragon Mother’s Day inherits the spirit of “Mother Yi Longde, Ze and Tongren”, and is the embodiment of the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation, such as filial piety and respect for the elderly, helping the poor and benefiting the masses. Every year in the New Year (the first month of the lunar calendar) is the month of praying for the Dragon Mother, and Deqing County holds folk activities such as the Dragon Mother’s Parade on the 15th day of the first lunar month (Lantern Festival), and the cannonball battle against the lion.

Dragon Mother Festival temple fair
Citrus Gallery: Located in the main production area of Deqing Gong Mandarin – Guanwei Town, Mawei Town Provincial New Rural Demonstration Piece, with the rural greenway as the link, connecting the five main villages under the jurisdiction of the two towns, passing through the Country Garden Rural Revitalization Complex, the Supply and Marketing Cooperatives Agricultural Exhibition and Sales Center, the Deqing Gong Mandarin Standardized Planting Base, and the Deqing Gong Mandarin Provincial Agricultural Industrial Park, along the way are distributed rural markets, farmhouses, and homestays, integrating pastoral picking, rural food, rural shopping, greenway cycling, agricultural leisure, and ecological health care. Here, there are not only mandarin oranges, but also Shou Wu, Buddha’s hand, Zihuai Mountain, Morinda officinalis, grapes, blueberries and other excellent products for tourists to buy.

Guided tour of the Citrus Gallery
3. Peripheral product recommendation:
Deqing Xue Palace: also known as Deqing Confucian Temple, was built in the fourth year of Xiangfu in the Song Dynasty (1011), rebuilt in the first year of Yuan Dade (1297), is the oldest Confucian temple in the south of China, the largest scale, the unique Confucian temple, but also the important base for the spread of Confucian culture in the south of China.

Deqing School Palace’s traditional hole worship activities
Blue Bell Hot Spring: Blue Bell Town, Huaiji County, is a forest town in Guangdong Province, with a forest coverage rate of 84.48%, rich hot spring resources in the town, Shuangxing Hot Spring has a total of 5 springs, the surface spring water temperature is 60 °C – 89 °C, of which the temperature of “Spring Thunder Spring” can reach about 89 °C, rich in calcium, potassium, sodium and other minerals, with beauty and skin care, health care, balance metabolism and other auxiliary effects.

Yueshan Hot Spring Tourist Resort
Sanyue Nature Reserve Science Popularization and Research Base: Located in Lanzhong Town, Huaiji, Zhaoqing, at the junction of Guangdong and Guizhou provinces, the forest is vast, the trees are verdant, the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant, and the biodiversity is extremely rich, with a total of 1,239 species of plants and 236 species of animals, including 15 species of nationally protected plants and 22 species of nationally protected animals.

Huaiji Sanyue Provincial Nature Reserve
4. Specialty food and creative products:
Specialty food: Dragon Mother Souvenir, Shou Wu, Morinda Morinda, Huaiji Sixty Days Yellow Cabbage, Shidong Landscape Yuba, Gangping Cut Powder, Deqing Penny Powder.
Native products: Deqing Gong Mandarin, Yue Mountain Tea, Blue Bell Shuangxing Duck Foot Wood Honey, Huang Qing Bamboo Shoots, Qiaotou Stone Goat.