In recent years, the opening-of-the-season event has expanded beyond the traditional ritual to include farming culture exhibitions, ethnic costume parades and terraced field climbing contests, drawing visitors from across China.

This year's event featured demonstrations of traditional farming techniques, including ox plowing and boat-shaped plowing tools, as well as a display of the rice-fish-duck farming system, offering a glimpse into agricultural practices preserved here for centuries.

Visitors watched the ritual up close and joined rice transplanting and other hands-on farming experiences.

In the terraced field climbing race, visitors and villagers started at the foot of the mountain and raced to a finish line halfway up the slope. Other activities included fish catching, goose lassoing and blindfolded pig catching, with laughter echoing across the fields.