Urban couple seeks pastoral life

chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2018-04-17 10:59
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Yoshitomi Haruki, from Japan, builds a cafeteria he designed, March 13, 2018. [Photo/VCG]

The Southern Life Community is their new experiment with a self-sustaining way of life.

In 2016, when they came to Guanzhong village in Minhou county, Fuzhou, to set up the Southern Life Community, the future village was only a piece of barren wasteland.

With the help of a local welfare foundation, they rented about 33 hectares of the village's land with 20-year lease. Now there are seven permanent members in the community.

Tang Guanhua’s self-made toilet was brought by the couple from their house on Laoshan Mountain and placed in the center of the domed cabin. “It doesn’t smell at all, so it won’t attract any flies or insects,” he said. [Photo/VCG]

Community members worked out a set of rules to guide the village's lifestyle such as not allowing fertilizers, pesticides or herbicides in farming. To promote group harmony, they forbid malicious competition among members, help each other and maintain the spirit of friendship with each other.

The members try to build close ties with nature by using natural or sustainable materials to make food, shelters, and daily necessities.

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