Expats have fun in harvesting rice in Zhonganqiao village. [Photo by Xu Wenjin/ chinadaily.com.cn]

Expats got the opportunity to participate in interesting experience activities, such as harvesting rice with farmers and making silk handicrafts in the village.

"This village is very unique in a sense that it has a very good balance," said Tan Hung Heng, an Australian photographer who loves traveling and nature photography. "Human, nature, fish, planting on the farm, the rice fields and the birds – it is a very good balance and I'd like to come back again, so I can have more time to photograph and to capture the beauty of the scenery."