The "Millennium iron soul of Hunan people" scenic spot in Daolin Ancient Town will open on September 28, and a molten iron firework show will be performed by over 200 farmers every night after 5-year creation.
Datiehua, meaning creating “fireworks” by sparks from molten iron, is an ancient folk stunt. It originated from the Song Dynasty, flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties with a history of one thousand years. In the show, the temperature of molten iron reaches 1600-1700 degrees centigrade. When performers hurl molten iron, it explodes in a shower of gorgeous sparks in the air, shining like stars.

Daolin Ancient Town Scenic Area has created a performance cluster, which showcases the Chinese iron smelting culture of 3,000 years and the local traditional culture through a variety of theater forms such as night immersive drama, stage drama, indoor micro drama, outdoor parade, water performance and so on.
The theme play, Millennium iron soul of Hunan people, is a nationally renowned intangible cultural heritage performance of "Datiehua", whose creation took five years, and is directed and performed by local farmers.

The performance vividly expresses passionate life, good hopes, the declaration of victory and the cry of Hunan people by dialogues across time and space and passionate Datiehua.

In addition, there are colorful performances during the daytime. Station Platform, Station Hall, Chen Family’s Traditions and other plays have connected plots with the Millennium iron soul of Hunan people, which perform patriotism, pioneering spirit and pragmatism of Hunan people through characters.

At the same time, various irregular performances will be staged, such as martial arts performance, wedding custom parade, Flower Drum Opera, etc.

Daolin Ancient Town Scenic Area is only a 30-minute drive from Changsha city, 40 kilometers away from Orange Isle. After the opening, it will inject new vitality into cultural tourism and further enrich the cultural tourism products of Ningxiang.
In recent years, Ningxiang has promoted all-for-one tourism and improved cultural tourism integration by excavating connotations of red culture, traditional culture, rural culture and ecological culture, and made every effort to create a demonstration area of cultural tourism integration, boosting development of cultural tourism. 

It has been awarded the honors of "China's Most Competitive Tourism City", "China's Most Attractive Cultural Tourism City", "2018 Hot Tourism Destination", "National Beautiful Rural Tourism Destination", "China's Best All-for-one Tourism and Leisure Destination", "2020 National Top 100 Tourism Counties" and so on.