Beside us, there is an ancient and mysterious Miao village. It only takes 3 hours to take the high-speed rail from Chongqing, 6 hours to Guangzhou, and 4 hours to Wuhan. The transportation is very convenient. Several provinces and cities use it as a short-term tour This place is Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village in Leishan, Guizhou. It is the largest Miao village in the world and retains the most "primitive ecological" Miao culture.
Ten years ago, Xiaolan crossed the mountains and entered Qianhu Miao Village in Xijiang. At that time, she took a quick glance and stayed for less than 2 hours. She didn’t leave a special impression. She only felt that the stilted buildings were densely packed, so she drew a picture of the stilted buildings. oil painting. Last week, taking advantage of the new year of Miao, Xiaolan went there again for an in-depth tour with a few friends, and suddenly found that the Qianhu Miao Village in Xijiang is really beautiful, too like a peaceful paradise.
Therefore, travel must be lived and felt slowly, and you will discover its beauty. Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village is not only a scenic spot, but also a lovely homeland where the Miao people have lived for several lifetimes and still live on. The houses here are all wooden stilted buildings, built layer by layer from the edge of the Baishui River to the top of the mountain. The Baishui River flows quietly, and there are 5 antique Fengyu Bridges across the river.
The main street is a circular stone road, and there are battery buses going there every day. Tourists can take a ride for 5 yuan or walk around.
The ancient alleys are deep and beautiful, and there are many interesting small shops, especially the experience shops of intangible cultural heritage. You can find a Miao silver shop and make a Miao silver bracelet by yourself.
You can also learn Miaoxiu from the kind grandmothers of the Miao family. Their decades of craftsmanship are extremely exquisite, and the color matching is very eye-catching. The accessories used as clothes must be very fashionable.
Batik is the intangible cultural heritage of Qianhu Miao Village in Xijiang, Leishan. The style is simple and delicate, and the patterns are mostly butterflies, flowers, birds, fish and insects. We spent an afternoon in the batik experience store to experience this ethnic group that has been passed down for thousands of years. The technique is to first compose the picture on the white cloth, and then use the wax knife to draw the heated wax in detail. It looks simple, but it is very difficult.
There are many small roads in the ancient town, but don’t worry about getting lost, because almost every road is alive. If you climb up the mountain along the gravel steps, then you will feel the ancient breath of Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village.
The houses on the mountain are even older, and the small green tiles are piled up one after another, from high to low layer by layer, and a small section of stone steps are exposed between the eaves. Occasionally, a lady from the Miao family wearing a red flower in a bun passes by, the alley In the evening, when the smoke rose from the tiled house, the food made by grandma appeared in my mind.
When we came to Miao Village, it happened to be their biggest festival of the year: Miao Nian, so it was very lively. The Miao people are a farming nation. They choose to celebrate the New Year in the first and middle ten days of October of the lunar calendar after the farming is over every year. The whole village wears full costumes and silver ornaments to celebrate the harvest, worship their ancestors, and give thanks to the world.
During the Miao Nian, you will see the customs of the Miao people that have been passed down for thousands of years. Every family here makes glutinous rice cakes. They soak the glutinous rice they grow in water, steam it, put it in a wooden tank, and beat it with a thick wooden mallet until it is sticky and sticky. I like the glutinous rice cakes made by old grandmas, and I feel that the glutinous rice cakes grabbed from their hands are even sweeter!
Eating long table banquets is very interesting to me. The Miao family loves to be lively. During the Chinese New Year, the whole village eats together. On the dam, in the alley in front of the door, long tables are set up, with plates of sour soup fish, Chicken soup, chicken, and glutinous rice wine are placed neatly, steaming hot and fragrant.
In order to welcome distinguished guests, "high mountains and flowing water" is inevitable. The Miao girls swarmed up, surrounded the guests, connected the wine pots in their hands one by one, poured wine from the highest point, and the wine flowed into the guests' mouths along the connected bowls. , the girls sang toast songs, the singing continued and the wine continued.
During the Miao years, walking in the streets and alleys, you can always hear the beautiful reeds, and you can always see the graceful dancing postures of the girls. The Miao family, who are enthusiastic and unrestrained by nature, must play the reeds and dance the Miao dance during the New Year. I love to see girls wearing colorful Miao clothes, wearing the most solemn silver ornaments, and dancing pheasant dances, bench dances, and bronze drum dances around the drum floor. The dresses rotate with the body, blooming like colorful flowers, and the headwear , The collar glistens in the sunlight and emits fine silver bells.
At the opening ceremony of the Leishan Miao Nian, we saw the Miao culture that competes for splendor and beauty, and deeply felt the wisdom, wisdom, diligence and simplicity of this nation. Thousands of men, women and children formed 12 phalanxes and appeared on the street, vividly displaying the living customs, national costumes, singing and dancing, and intangible cultural heritage of the Miao people. I squeezed into the crowd, submerged in their colorful clothing and silver ornaments, and indulged in the reeds.
The most spectacular and most contagious is when the Miao family dances the unity dance. This is also the grandest unity dance I have ever seen. The scattered crowd gathers in an orderly manner, with the totem pillar as the center, encircling the city in a circle. Inside is the man playing the reed, and the outer circle is the Miao family's sisters. Under the call of the reed, they swing their hands, twist their waists, and circle around the totem pole. This dance represents the unity of the Miao family.
If you want to experience the most authentic Miao culture, you might as well go to Leishan, Guizhou to celebrate the Miao New Year, making glutinous rice cakes, making batik, eating long-table banquets, drinking high mountain water, listening to Miaoshan flying songs, dancing copper drums, and being authentic once. Taoist Miao family.