Healthful Stay
1 min readFlapjacks are very common, but many urban dwellers would rather drive for nearlythree hours to the suburbs to have a taste of the genuine flavor.
Lying in a secluded mountainvalley surrounded by dense forests is a compound featuring gray-briek houses blended in anatural way with the ancient Great Wall just a five—minute-walk away.
This is the home ofShah Shuzhi, who was the first in the village and even among all the villages in the suburbsof Beijing to start the business of folk—custom tourism.Shan’s home fully represents the tremendous changes of the Village. The houses arearranged in a rational order, the apple tree in front of the main house grows luxuriantly.Entering the living room, one will be impressed by the honorary certifications, photos, andinscriptions hung on the wall. Whenever talking about the renovation of the old village andthe changes of her won family, Shan Shuzhi w0uld naturally reveal excitement and pride.“My original stage of starting this business was tough, full of pain and sweat.
So I hope myfellow villagers would not repeat my detour, but rather be able to soon make fortune andeven surpass me. On the other hand, I’m not afraid of competition. I believe that, withknowledge and wisdom, I can work well as the No.1 in folk—custom tourism as honored bythe municipal government,” she said.
