In late October this year, my friends and I traveled by car to the colorful and beautiful southeast of Guizhou.


Guizhou in the northern part of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau has surging mountains and ravines, but it is the first province in western my country where highways are connected to counties and asphalt roads are connected to every village. The sharp roar of the siren cut through the mystery and closure of the deep mountains and old forests, and blew into the wind along the eastern coast. The high-speed rail and high-speed oil roads have made countless natural moats open, and the flow of people and goods flows in the mountains, breaking the ignorance and obscurity of the mountain villages, and opening the eyes of the people in the mountains, with a new vision.


The wind and clouds are flying, Lin Tao is roaring, the mountains and villages are surging with the elements of the times, and they are changing the poverty and backwardness of "the land is not three feet flat, and the people are not three cents silver".

On October 27, 2020, Xiaohuang Dong Village in Congjiang County. A little girl looking around curiously.

On October 27, 2020, Zhanli Dong Village in Congjiang County. Zhanli is located in the deep mountains and dense forests. Diaojiaolou, Drum Towers, rows of sun-drying racks, and the beautiful legend that each family has only one boy and one girl for hundreds of years, and "changing flowers and plants" to control the natural population growth to zero constitute a beautiful place. The beauty of natural ecology and human ecology here.


On October 28, 2020, Fuzhong Village, Congjiang County. The back of a nest-keeper old man.


On October 27, 2020, Zhanli Dong Village in Congjiang County. Old man smoking.


On October 26, 2020, Dengcen Village, Liping County. An old man with a child on his back.

On October 28, 2020, Fuzhong Village, Congjiang County. Two small children in the attic.


On October 26, 2020, Fuzhong Village, Congjiang County. Three elderly women are watching TV in the arbor.


On October 26, 2020, Fuzhong Village, Congjiang County. Elderly man watching TV in the pergola.


On October 26, 2020, the Dimen Dong Village in Liping County. After the rain, the grain drying field by the stream reflects rows of century-old grain warehouses.


On October 25, 2020, the Dimen Dong Village in Liping County. Poverty alleviation slogans on the walls of village alleys.


On October 27, 2020, Bapa Village, Congjiang County. An old man harvesting rice in a rice field.

On October 24, 2020, the Dimen Dong Village in Liping County. An old man drying rice on the stage of the village cultural building.

On October 24, 2020, the Dimen Dong Village in Liping County. On the terraced village lanes, a group of old people, young wives and children breaking soybeans.


On October 28, 2020, Fuzhong Village, Congjiang County. There are young people returning home to start businesses in the village.


On October 27, 2020, Zhanli Dong Village in Congjiang County. A late-night snack stall in the village.


On October 27, 2020, Xiaohuang Village, Congjiang County. Craftsmen in Xiaohuang Dong Village make traditional indigo homemade cloth.


On October 27, 2020, Xiaohuang Village, Congjiang County. A small scene by the stream in Xiaohuang Dong village covered with earthen cloth.

On October 25, 2020, the Dimen Dong Village in Liping County. Elderly women and women rehearsing square dance.


On October 25, 2020, the Dimen Dong Village in Liping County. Elderly people in the village took to the stage to sing folk songs to celebrate the Double Ninth Festival.


On October 25, 2020, the Dimen Dong Village in Liping County. Women watching the show.


On October 25, 2020, the Dimen Dong Village in Liping County. The cultural activity center in Zhaizi holds cultural performances every festival.


On October 25, 2020, the Dimen Dong Village in Liping County. The women who separated from the "Thousan Dong Village" and lived in Ladong Village returned to the Dimen Zongzhai in full dress to participate in the celebration of the "Double Ninth Festival".


On October 27, 2020, Zhanli Dong Village in Congjiang County. Villagers resting on the Wind and Rain Bridge.


On October 25, 2020, the Dimen Dong Village in Liping County. A farmer by the stream owns three agricultural tricycle trailers.

On October 27, 2020, Zhanli Dong Village in Congjiang County. There is an incomparably magical "two-child system" of one man and one woman. In order to avoid overcrowding, since the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the ancestors of Zhanli set up village regulations, a couple is only allowed to have two children, and those who exceed the birth will be punished. Surprisingly, the first birth is a girl, the second birth must be a boy, and the first birth is a boy, the second birth must be a girl, which has balanced the gender of the village population for hundreds of years. Legend has it that this is achieved by the "flower changing" herbal medicine that can adjust the sex of the fetus passed down from generation to generation.

On October 28, 2020, Zhanli Dong Village in Congjiang County. In the early morning, the aunt took her granddaughter to the terraced fields to harvest rice, and cultivated the habit of loving labor and the concept of frugality of "every grain is hard work" since childhood.


Jinmen.com author Hong Guochun