Sweet Picking Route

Route overview

The Sweet Picking Route is one of the seven boutique holiday routes of beautiful countryside listed by the Lishui District Culture and Tourism Bureau in a work reply, built around Fujiabian and Shitouzhai (People's Government of Lishui District, 1 December 2025). The wording of the reply is "gradually explored out"; that is the working position of the district culture and tourism bureau, not a formally issued list of routes.

The reply gives only the name of the route and what it is built around, with no start or finish, distance, intermediate points or mode of travel. This entry therefore leaves the route length, the route points and the route mode fields empty, filling them neither from that document nor by working them out from other material.

This entry does not fill the basin field: the two core features lie in different subdistricts and towns, and the sources available give no basin for either, so none is inferred from the core features.

The affiliation of the two core features, from the district government's administrative divisions page: Fujiabian is one of the community residents' committees under Honglan Subdistrict; Shitouzhai is one of the villagers' committees under Baima Town. Neither has an entry in this library yet, and this entry records only the name and the affiliation given officially, adding no information about the places themselves.

Related entries in this library:

• Wuxiang Mountain (ls:place:wuxiang-shan): it lies, like one of the core features, Fujiabian, in Honglan Subdistrict, and is this library's entry for the mountain and scenic area of that subdistrict. This entry notes only that the two share one subdistrict and does not on that account make Wuxiang Mountain part of the route.
• Lishui Strawberry Festival (ls:article:lishui-strawberry-festival): this route takes strawberry picking as its main experience and relates to that festival; the two have entries of their own and do not transcribe each other.

Along the way

• Fujiabian: one of the two core features named in the official reply, a community under Honglan Subdistrict (district government, administrative divisions page). The 2023 reply of the district culture and tourism bureau records that the Fujiabian plum garden in Lishui was selected as a spring flower-viewing resort of Jiangsu, and that the spring flower-viewing and berry-picking ecological tour was selected for the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs' list of fine routes for leisure tourism in China's beautiful countryside; the 2025 reply of the district bureau of agriculture and rural affairs repeats that the Lishui spring plum-viewing and berry-picking tour was selected for the ministry's 2023 spring list of fine scenic routes. This entry records those identities only; the orchards, grounds and visiting information for Fujiabian are to be taken from the official notices of the subdistrict and of the operators. This library has no Fujiabian entry yet.
• Shitouzhai: the other core feature named in the official reply, a village under Baima Town (district government, administrative divisions page). The district government's district profile page records that Lixiang Village is a national key village for rural tourism and lies in Shitouzhai community, Baima Town. This entry records that affiliation only; the material on Red Lixiang belongs to the history site and is not set out here. This library has no Shitouzhai entry yet.

This entry does not copy the text of the related entries; the scale, the designations and the open questions of each place are as given in its own source and entry.

Practical information

• Mode, start and finish, distance and intermediate points: not given in the official reply, left empty here and not guessed at.
• Total number of routes: the reply says only that this is one of seven gradually explored out, so this site does not on that basis assert the district's total number of routes, nor deny that there are routes beyond the seven.
• Season: strawberry picking and flower viewing are the main experiences along the way. According to the 2023 reply of the district culture and tourism bureau, the spring flower-viewing and berry-picking ecological tour has been selected for the ministry's fine routes; the 2025 reply of the district bureau of agriculture and rural affairs repeats that it was selected for the ministry's 2023 spring list. Picking seasons and flowering times shift from year to year; before travelling, readers should go to the official notices of the district culture and tourism department, the district agriculture and rural affairs department and the local subdistricts and towns.
• Information date: this entry was checked to September 2026.