In the summer of 2021, the epidemic subsided slightly, and Xiaopi and I could no longer bear the suffering of not being able to travel, so we decided to go out for a walk during the summer vacation. --Go to a place with few people, where are there few people? There are few people in the mountains, but where are the mountains? Of course it is the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau. I ruled out the places that need to be reached by plane, drew a circle around the area along the high-speed rail line for about 3 hours, and found Zhaoxing Dong Village, which is located in Liping County, Qiandongnan Prefecture, Guizhou Province, the largest Dong village in Qiandongnan Dong nationality area. Starting from the Qianhu Miao Village in Xijiang, the various tourism facilities here have not been fully developed, and there are relatively few tourists. In addition, there are fewer people going out due to the epidemic, so it has become our best choice.

Zhaoxing Dongzhai has a favorable geographical location. After getting off the high-speed rail, there is 10 yuan of public transportation, and you can enter the Dongzhai scenic spot in less than 20 minutes. The small Dong village is still very noisy. We stayed in the inn along the street for one night. We couldn’t stand the noise on the street, so we continued to go deeper and found a stilted building in the corner by the rice field in the deepest part of the village. After the stilted balcony where you can see the creek and terraced fields, you will not go any further.

During the period of living in the stilted building, we wandered around and visited the villages within a few kilometers of the surrounding area. Later, I chose a country trail route from Tang'anzhai to Zhaoxing. The trail connected several ancient villages. I walked in the rice fields under the sun for more than 2 hours, and the scenery was very beautiful. But this kind of hiking is not the way ordinary tourists like. Most people don’t really have the courage to feel the gift of nature. Therefore, apart from occasionally meeting a family of three, or one or two villagers on the way , the only ones who accompany us all the way are butterflies, insects and birds.


When I went back to the scenic spot for a stroll and drinking coffee that day, I came across an unremarkable promotional photo of "Little Horse Crossing the River". In the photo, there are two four-wheel drive motorcycles on the top of the mountain before sunset. The next day, we found the slovenly brother Ma with shaved crew-cut hair and a vest through the phone on the promotional poster. That afternoon, wearing a pair of slippers, he drove the two of us out of the stockade in the scenic spot on a four-wheel drive motorcycle and into Lubei Mountain.


The more the car drove up the mountain, the more I felt that I had gone to the Alps on the edge of France and Switzerland. The pine forest was densely covered with green and sparsely populated. I passed 1-2 natural villages hidden in the forest along the road. Some wooden houses in the village seemed to be in disrepair all year round, but The original look is well preserved. The road up the mountain was twists and turns, and part of the road was crushed and difficult to walk. The small belt of the four-wheel drive motorcycle for the first time led me to stagger and fall behind. Brother Xiao Ma did not go all the way to the top of the mountain, but turned into a wooden house built on the side of the mountain when he was about to reach the top of the mountain. Brother Xiao Ma said to go in and have a cup of tea, so we got out of the car and walked into the house. The house is built against the mountain and has 3 floors, surrounded by terraced fields. The first thing you enter is a large wine cellar, and next to it is the spacious living room of the owner's house. The owner of the house is a small, gentle-looking Miao girl surnamed Yang. She smiled and showed her white teeth. She didn’t talk much. She cooked us a bowl of oil tea and showed us her home, the second floor and the third floor of the house. There are several guest rooms in each building. The rooms are small but tidy and tidy. There is no separate bathroom in the room, and some rooms look as if no one has ever lived in them. However, what shocked us was the view outside the window of the room: Since the house was built on the terraced fields on the top of the mountain, you can directly look out the window to a place far away from the mountain. Baiyun, below is a piece of green terraced fields, and you can vaguely see the smoke from the village on the mountainside. The owner didn't make too much publicity about this "inn", but told us a little shyly that this house has just been built and can accommodate tourists, but the accommodation conditions are very average. Yet between conversations, I could sense her pride in the fact that her house had the best view on the hilltop. This sudden wooden house deeply attracted Xiaopi and me.

After drinking tea, I followed Xiao Ma to the top of the mountain. This is the first time I have seen a large windmill for wind power generation at such a close distance. The towering white concrete pillars of tens of meters rise to the sky, and the huge blades rotate with the wind. There was a whirring sound, and when I looked up at the sky, I felt oppressed by the leaves of the windmill waving to the top of my head. There are 10 large white windmills erected on the top of the continuous mountain, under the blue sky and white clouds, it is very sci-fi. At that time, apart from the three of us, there were seven or eight local girls and boys in colorful clothes, standing on the top of the mountain on a motorcycle to take pictures. They were particularly interested in seeing our four-wheel drive motorcycle, so we went up to say hello to them. A laugh. Not far away, a woman in a blue Hmong dress sits in the grass, next to her herd of cattle grazing. There is a gentle breeze on the top of the mountain, and the setting sun shines on the face warmly. At this moment, all the modern and primitive elements are mixed together, which makes people have a sense of chaos and unreality. It reminds me of the novel "Three-Body Problem" scene in . (Unfinished, to be continued... )

Overview of the itinerary:


-Guangzhou – Congjiang (high-speed rail 3 hours 45 minutes, ticket 214 yuan / person)

- After arriving at Congjiang High-speed Railway Station, take a public transport bus to Zhaoxing Dong Village, a 20-minute drive, and the fare is 10 yuan.

-Most inns/hotels in Zhaoxing Scenic Area provide pick-up service from Jiangxi high-speed railway station to the hotel.

- The ticket price of Zhaoxing Dongzhai Scenic Spot is 80 yuan, and there are discounts during the epidemic.

-The hotels in Zhaoxing Dongzhai Scenic Area range from 100-800 yuan per room, and the frugality depends on the person.

- Note that some hotels do not have a license to receive foreign guests. If there are foreign guests coming, please consult with the hotel in advance.

- There are many original ecological Dong villages around Zhaoxing, most of which can be visited in a day. The best day trip is to take a car from Zhaoxing to Tang’an Dong village, after visiting Tang’an, and then walk back along the trail It takes 2-3 hours to walk to Zhaoxing, and it is very pleasant to walk in the mountains and rice fields. Pay attention to sunstroke prevention and sun protection in summer. Tang'anzhai also has accommodation, but the conditions are slightly worse than those in Zhaoxing.


Lubei Mountain (locally known as Lubei Mountain, Lubei Mountain, etc.) --- For the travel notes of Liping Lubei Mountain, please pay attention to my "Fireworks in the World - Part 2"