Villagers perform a traditional battle scene for visitors in Danxi village of Tong'an district, Xiamen, Fujian province, on Dec 11, 2021. [Photo by Zhu Xingxin/China Daily]

Several remote villages on the hills of Xiamen city, East China's Fujian province, have changed from backwater rural areas to thriving countryside thanks to the development of rural tourism and tea planting in recent years.