The food tour will tempt visitors’ taste buds with regional dishes and farmhouse dishes, and dishes made from the Xi family recipes.

Those wishing to take advantage of the harvest season can join in picking oranges, persimmons and wildlife gooseberries.

Special trips with discounts are also available to give people the chance to bond during this festival.

With family group tours, a family of three would only need to buy two adult tickets during the National Day celebrations. They are also entitled to favorable prices if they buy set lunches.

On friendship tours with teachers and students, participants can claim discounts of twenty percent by showing their teacher cards or student cards to the ticket clerk.

The Xi family first moved to in Baishui Valley district under the lead of their ancestor named Xi Baiyi, who once worked for the government as a doctor and took to traveling later in life.

Mesmerised by the beautiful scenery of Baishui Gully, he moved here with his family. There are currently over 400 residents in the village, with 95 percent of them surnamed Xi. A diagram showing the Xi family lineage, compiled during the Republic of China era, is still well preserved.

Baishui Gully, located in Lin’an in the west suburb of Hangzhou is a biological tourist zone, 98 per cent of which is covered by forests.

The only air observatory in East China is here, established by the United Nations.

Waterfalls, ponds, bamboo woods, strange rocks and ancient bridges make the place deserving of its nicknames - "Shangri-La of dreams" and "fairyland on earth." Tourists often come to visit local farmers, houses, enjoy fresh tea, delicious food and the works of very famous local folk artists.

By Xie Fang