Everyone who likes to travel hopes to meet good weather during the journey. Some people like sunny days and clear skies, some people like blue sky and white clouds, some people like colorful sunsets, and some people like rainbows after rain. Maybe Everyone's needs are different, but it is estimated that few people would like to encounter rain during the journey, because rain will bring a lot of inconvenience to our journey, and it will be accompanied by cooling, wet body, and even affect us. Travel mood and health.
Although we don't like rainy days, none of us have the ability to control the weather. Sometimes the rain will encounter our journey unexpectedly. For example, when Yufan was traveling in Qianhu Miao Village in Guizhou, he encountered it It rained continuously for several days, which once made us feel very depressed. As a travel self-media, while enjoying the travel process, we also hope to take pictures of what we see and hear, and then share them with everyone. You must carry an umbrella when it rains, no doubt It has brought a lot of burden to our shooting work, and the weather is not good, many scenes and exterior scenes are not easy to shoot, or the drones can’t fly, so what should we do?
In fact, such things often happen during our travels. We need to conduct specific analysis according to the actual situation of each tourist destination, and then make adjustments to meet objective needs. , making our journey equally exciting and unforgettable, let’s take a look below:
Experience the ancient papermaking method of the Miao people
There is an ancient Gage alley in Qianhu Miao Village, and various intangible heritage workshops are gathered on both sides. The ancient papermaking method passed down by the Miao people for thousands of years is one of them. Papermaking is one of my country's "Four Great Inventions". It has a very long history and has made great contributions to human civilization. However, with the rise of modern industrial manufacturing, there are not many preserved ancient papermaking art.
When we came to the ancient paper-making workshop, a sister from the Miao family was making paper, so we asked her some questions about the ancient paper-making methods of the Miao people. She said that the ancient paper-making methods of Qianhu Miao Village have been passed down for thousands of years. It has always used the bark of the bark on Leigong Mountain as raw material. According to the "Book of the Later Han Dynasty Cai Lun Biography": "Use tree skin, hemp heads, cloth, and fishing nets as paper." The "tree skin" mentioned here is actually tree bark.
A sister of the Miao family said that the Miao family uses "constructed skin" to make paper, which must be cut, dried, steamed, river retting, bleached, rinsed, selected materials, cleared, beaten, bagged, watered, grooved, There are nearly 20 processes such as blending, papermaking, squeezing, drying, peeling, and bundling. Each process seems not difficult, but it is not easy to actually operate it. After getting acquainted with Miao's sister, Yu Fan expressed that she wanted to experience this ancient art of papermaking. Unexpectedly, she readily agreed and patiently explained to me the precautions during the operation.
Yufan Tips:
1. The address is located in Gage Ancient Lane, Qianhu Miao Village
2. Fee: 68 yuan to experience an ancient papermaking art painting, which can be taken away after the painting is completed
Drinking Tea in the Ancient Alley—Silver Ball Tea
Some friends always want to go to many places when the weather is good and sunny, so that the journey is very compact and fulfilling. In fact, it is also a kind of rushing and rushing. In fact, this is not the best state of travel. On the contrary, the rain can slow down our journey, as if time slowed down in an instant. We can go to a teahouse for a drink, listen to local friends introduce local historical stories, and make our travel more in-depth.
So, we came to a tea house in Gage Ancient Alley to taste tea. The tea here is a unique variety from Leigong Mountain-Alpine Silver Ball Tea. Silver ball tea is different from the tea we usually drink. It has a unique shape, a sphere with a diameter of 18-20 mm, and the surface is silver gray and dark green. Use one cup per cup, brew with 200ml of boiling water, and after five minutes, brew with 50ml of boiling water. Drink it at this time, it will be fragrant, strong, refreshing, sweet, refreshing, brain-strengthening, and energetic.
The Miao sister who made tea for us told us that Yinqiu tea is produced in Leigong Mountain, a famous nature reserve in Leishan County. The tea gardens are distributed in the Leigong Mountain National Nature Reserve at an altitude of 1300-1400 meters. The soil is loose and fertile, often surrounded by clouds and mist, with a lot of diffuse light, abundant rainfall, fresh air, and good tea quality. Moreover, the selenium content of silver ball tea leaves is as high as 2.00 micrograms to 2.02 micrograms per gram, which is 15 times the average selenium content of ordinary tea, and is rich in nutrition and healthy.
Yufan Tips:
1. The address is located in Gage Ancient Alley
2. Cost: You can purchase according to your needs
Watch a Miao theme performance - "Beautiful Xijiang"
When you go to the largest Miao village in the world, you must watch an original Miao song and dance, and "Beautiful Xijiang" is the best choice. The stands can be sheltered from the rain, but the middle stage is open-air. Not too big, the performance will be held normally, and the actors will perform in the rain (the one we watched was raining, and it was getting bigger and bigger, but the dedicated elder brothers and younger sisters of the Miao family insisted on giving us a performance in the rain Wonderful show); if it rains heavily, the show will be cancelled.
"Beautiful Xijiang" is a Miao song and dance performance with "full color, fragrance and fragrance". It is divided into four chapters, with stories, culture and characteristics, simple, rough and authentic style, expressing the sincerity of the Miao family , Simple, brilliant, and it's unsatisfactory to watch.
Yufan Tips:
1. The venue of the performance is at the performance field in Xijiang Town, Leishan County, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture
Experience Hmong Batik
Walking in the streets and alleys of Qianhu Miao Village in Xijiang, you can see many shops selling batik clothes and handicrafts at any time, which shows that batik is very popular in Miao people. In the Gage Ancient Lane on the side of Youfang Street, there is a batik workshop for tourists to experience. The two young ladies who were traveling together decided to experience it. After consulting, I learned that there are several prices for batik body dyeing. Batik small square scarf experience is 68 yuan, batik T-shirt is 98 yuan (children's bodywear is 88 yuan), batik scarf is 98 yuan, after batik is completed, square scarf, body skirt, scarf Can be taken away or mailed back.
The two young ladies in the same company decided to experience a small square scarf each, and then the Miao sister in the store introduced the history of Miao batik to us. She said: Miao batik has a long history, which can be traced back to ancient times. People call batik wax wax. Simply speaking, it is to use wax to paint patterns on hemp, silk, cotton, wool and other fabrics, and then put them into dye vats for dip dyeing. The places with wax will not be dyed. Show beautiful patterns, this is batik. The country attaches great importance to the protection of intangible cultural heritage. On May 20, 2006, the batik technique was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.
Hmong batik is to use a special wax knife to spot wax, draw on white cloth with beeswax melt, take it out after dyeing, and the wax will appear when the wax is removed (the same is true for Batik in Indonesia, I don’t know if it was passed on from China). The production method is to spread the white cloth on the table first, then put the beeswax in a small pot, and when the temperature rises to 60-70C, the wax will melt into a liquid state, that is, draw on the cloth with copper wax moon dipped in wax juice. This is actually a kind of painting art, using a wax knife as a pen to draw on white cloth, where the waxed parts will not be dyed when dyed, and will eventually retain the original white color without being waxed by the wax knife The oil part will be dyed in the dyeing process.
According to the "Guizhou Tongzhi": "Use wax to paint flowers on the cloth and dye it. After removing the wax, the pattern will be like painting." Yao area, so it is also called "Qibanbu". Batik cloth dyed with indigo, with blue background and white flowers, has a strong ethnic and local flavor, and is a unique flower of national art in my country. So it is very good to travel to Miao Village and experience this ancient folk art here.
Yufan Tips:
1. The experience location is in the ancient alley of Gage in Qianhu Miao Village;
2. Experience price: 68 yuan for a small batik scarf experience, 98 yuan for a batik T-shirt (88 yuan for children's bodywear), and 98 yuan for a batik scarf. After the batik is completed, the square scarf, bodywear, and scarf can be taken away or mailed back.
Experience Miao Embroidery
The Miao nationality is a nation with a language but no written language. Their cultural inheritance is often passed down through the singing of songs and embroidery records. Therefore, Miao embroidery is a handicraft art with a long history of the Miao nationality. It is the main decoration method of the Miao nationality clothing. representative of culture. The costumes of the Miao people can be divided into casual clothes and full dresses. They wear casual clothes on weekdays, and dress up when they are on shows or when girls get married. No matter the clothes or headgear, the craftsmanship is complicated and the workmanship is fine.
On Youfang Street in Qianhu Miao Village, we can see a lot of embroidery on a lot of Miao costumes for sale. In Gage Ancient Alley, you can also experience Miao embroidery. There are Miao aunts who will teach you how to embroider , This is of great significance for understanding the Miao culture and feeling their historical heritage, which can make your journey more memorable.
Miao embroidery has the function of inheriting history and culture, which is mainly manifested in embroidery patterns. Almost every embroidery pattern has an origin or legend, all of which are deeply embedded in the national culture, are the expression of national emotion, and the display of the history and life of the Miao nationality. Butterflies, dragons, birds, fish, polka-dot flowers, duckweed flowers and other patterns are all the content sung in "Ancient Miao Songs", with bright colors, clear composition, simple and generous.
Yufan Tips:
1. The experience location is in Gage Ancient Alley
2. The experience fee is 68 yuan per person. You can embroider a small square scarf. If you embroider it, you can take it away with you.
Xijiang Miao Nationality Museum
Rainy days affect outdoor travel, just to visit the local museum. The Xijiang Miao Nationality Museum is located in the Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village Scenic Area. Tickets have also been included in the tickets for the large scenic spot. It is composed of a single two-story building complex with a typical Miao architectural style. The first floor is a brick-concrete structure, and the second floor is a The wooden structure looks like a unique stilted building of the Miao nationality. There are 11 exhibition halls in the museum, which are the front hall, the history hall, the production hall, the festival hall, the song and dance hall, the architectural skill hall, the clothing silver jewelry hall, the sports seedling medicine hall, the witch culture and religious belief hall, the living hall, and the multi-media multi-functional hall. hall. It vividly shows the precipitation of traditional Miao culture and the concept of Miao culture in Xijiang area.
According to legend, the ancestors of the Miao nationality were one of the first ethnic groups to develop the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the Yellow River. The Nuwa, Taihao, Shaohao, and Jiuli tribes are the main sources of the Miao nationality. After the annexation of the Zhuolu tribe at the beginning of civilization, after the Jiuli empress moved southward and difficultly for thousands of years, most of them were integrated into the Chinese Xia nationality, and some were integrated into the northwest and southwest ethnic minorities. The mainstay developed into Miao and Yao. and shes. The Xijiang Miao people also came from the mouth of the great river, crossed the river, crossed the mountains and came to the foot of the Leigong Mountain in southeast Guizhou, and adopted the method of marriage, and settled down in Xijiang with the permission of the Lingliang Miao people who moved first.
According to the staff, the Xijiang Miao Museum has a collection of more than 350 cultural relics of various types, which record the progress of the Miao civilization and treasure the achievements of the Miao civilization. As the accumulation of history and culture, Xijiang Miao Museum is not only an important symbol of the progress of civilization in modern society, but also protects and utilizes cultural relics resources, is a valuable base for inheriting national culture, and an important carrier for promoting history and culture and accelerating the construction of advanced culture. In my opinion, it is more an encyclopedia for understanding Miao culture.
Yufan Tips:
2. The ticket is included in the big ticket of the scenic spot. Now the ticket for Qianhu Miao Village is half price, only 45 yuan;
Listen to an ancient song of the Miao nationality - Gugetang
The Miao nationality has a language but no written language, and much of the Miao nationality culture is inherited by songs. The ancient songs of the Miao nationality are oral epics created by the ancestors of the Miao nationality in the long-term production and life practice. They are a magnificent picture scroll of the life of the ancient Miao people. An encyclopedia of Miao history and culture integrating ethics, folk customs, clothing, architecture, etc. In 2006, the ancient songs of the Miao nationality were listed in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.
Yufan listened to the staff and said: the ancient songs of the Miao nationality are very rich in content, involving almost every aspect of the life of the Miao people, full of mythology, from the creation of the world, the creation of the sun and the moon, the growth of all things, the flood, the migration of ancestors, the social system, and so on. Why the clothes are dyed in that way, why the hair is pulled in that way, every custom, every thing, even the origin of a little firefly, has a song to describe in detail. The ancient songs of the Miao nationality express the philosophical thoughts of the Miao nationality that all things are animistic, life is sacred, all living beings are equal, and man and nature coexist and prosper.
Most of the singers of ancient songs are old people, wizards, priests, etc., and they sing for a few days and nights or ten days and a half months. Miao people sing ancient songs during Chinese New Year and festivals, weddings and funerals, and gatherings of relatives and friends. Nowadays, Miao tourist villages also sing ancient Miao songs when receiving tourists. The ancient songs of the Miao nationality in different places have different tunes and have their own characteristics. In Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village, the ancient Miao songs sung by the old people are unique in style, rich in sound, solemn and solemn, and profound in content, just like the sounds of nature.
Yufan Tips:
1. There is an ancient song hall in Gage Ancient Alley, which can be enjoyed for free;
2. There are taboos in the ancient songs of the Miao nationality, and not everyone can sing them on any occasion or by anyone. For example, "The Great Flood" is generally not sung. When it must be sung, it can only be sung outdoors, not at home. It can only be sung after killing chickens or ducks. It is meant to commemorate the suffering of human ancestors. "Brothers and Sisters Marriage" is taboo by later generations because it involves the marriage of brothers and sisters, so the Miao people think that singing it at home is suspected of desecrating their recent ancestors.
Information about Qianhu Miao Village:
Tickets: 90 yuan (now half-price 45 yuan), 20 yuan for four-way sightseeing bus (North Service Area-Old North Gate round-trip, viewing platform-No. 1 Fengyu Bridge round-trip);
Transportation: Both Kaili Bus Station and Leishan County Bus Station have shuttle buses to Qianhu Miao Village, the prices are 20 yuan and 12 yuan respectively; if you take the high-speed rail, you can take the high-speed rail to Kaili South Station, and then go to the scenic spot through the train or carpool Qianhu Miao Village, the cost is about 40 yuan; you can also take a bus to Kaili Bus Station, and then transfer to the shuttle bus to Qianhu Miao Village, which can go directly to the north gate of the scenic spot.
postscript
When we go out, there will be sunny days and windy, frosty, rainy and snowy days. Every weather has its own style. When the weather is sunny, there will be beautiful scenery, and when it is rainy, there will be rainy and rainy days, so go out Don't let the weather affect your mood when you are outside, and adjust your plan accordingly. No matter what the weather is, you can play your own excitement. What do you think?