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There are 46 ethnic groups such as Miao, Dong, Han, Buyi, Shui, Yao, Zhuang, and Tujia living in southeastern Guizhou. Antique buildings such as Miao villages, Dong villages, and ancient cities have been preserved to this day. Batik, embroidery, ancient papermaking, silver forging, Traditional cultural activities such as folk songs are still sung in the mountains. The colorful intangible cultural heritage has become a valuable resource for cultural tourism in Southeast Qiandongnan.
Lewan took the high-speed rail to travel in Guizhou, and went deep into Liping, Zhaoxing, Danzhai, Jianhe, Zhenyuan and Kaili for six days and five nights to experience the culture of the Miao and Dong peoples, and deeply appreciate the unique cultural customs of Southeast Guizhou.
Zhaoxing Dong Village
Every place has its own label. For the Dong Village in Zhaoxing, Guizhou, it has a lot of labels, which are:
The largest ethnographic museum in the world
The last home of the weary human mind
The Oldest Ballads Preserved by Mankind
The largest Dong village in the world
Zhaoxing, known as "Zhaodong" in ancient times, belongs to Liping County, Guizhou Province, and is located at the junction of Hunan, Guizhou, and Guangxi provinces; in ancient times, due to inconvenient transportation, there were not many exchanges between the cottage and the mainstream Central Plains culture. It has been well preserved and is the largest settlement of the Dong people in my country and even in the world. The Zhaoxing Dong Village consists of three natural villages.
Millennium Dong Village, dreamy Zhaoxing. According to records, as early as the Southern Song Dynasty more than 1,000 years ago, the ancestors of the Dong nationality lived here. The word "赵" in Zhaoxing means "the first, the beginning" in the local dialect. Translated into Chinese, the literal interpretation is that "Zhaoxing" means "beginning to prosper".
Since the opening of Jiangdong Station, Zhaoxing Dong Village has officially entered the golden age of tourism development. Starting from the Pearl River Delta, it is very convenient to come here to experience the customs of ethnic minorities.
We set off from Guangzhou South Railway Station, and we can reach Congjiang in 4 hours. After leaving the station, we will take a Didi car and arrive at the Dongzhai Visitor Center in 15 minutes.
The main purpose of coming to Zhaoxing Dongzhai is to experience the Dong culture here, which are Dong architecture, Dong customs, Dong language, and Dong cuisine, which will be discussed separately below.
The homestay we booked is in the Dongzhai Scenic Area. From the tourist center to the scenic area, you can walk or take a battery car. This is the first time I came here. I chose to walk and watch while dragging my suitcase and walking slowly on the street.
My first impression is that the buildings here have ethnic characteristics. The houses are densely distributed in the valley. There are forests on both sides of the village, and the village in the middle is full of gray tiles and yellow wooden buildings. There are some by the river. The dense and dense stilted buildings, the drum towers of the Dong nationality are interspersed in the middle, with different heights and styles, very beautiful.
After putting down the luggage at the hotel, he got up and ran away in the village.
There is a Drum Tower opposite the B&B. The weather is freezing, and many people sit inside to warm up.
Chatting with them, I learned that people here are called Lu. It is said that when the ancestors of the Dong nationality in Zhaoxing first arrived here, they were helped by people called Lu. In order to thank the people, they changed their surname to Lu. This is the surname Lu The origin of the Dong nationality.
The Drum Tower is the symbol of the Dong nationality, one of the three treasures of the Dong village, and there is no Dong without the Drum Tower, which means that it represents the importance of the Drum Tower. There are five drum towers in the Zhaoxing Dongzhai Scenic Area, which are called "Ren Tuan, Yi Tuan, Li Tuan, Zhi Tuan, Xin Tuan" drum towers.
The Drum Tower in Zhaoxing is a wooden structure building in the shape of a pagoda with multi-storey dense eaves.
Most of them are made of Chinese fir, and the floors and decorations of each building are different, with different styles.
On the corner of the eaves, there are also lions and stone statues of some Dong people's life scenes.
Under the eaves, the customs of the Dong nationality are full of paintings, such as blocking the way to drink wine, stepping on the karaoke hall, Dong nationality big songs, etc., which are very ethnic.
In 2001, "Zhaoxing Drum Tower Group" was listed as the most in the world by Guinness.
When we came, we happened to meet the Dong people who were holding Dong year activities. There are lights and festoons everywhere on the street, and red lanterns are hung all over the branches.
The Dong Year of the Dong Nationality is a national intangible cultural heritage. It is the same as the Lunar New Year of our Han people. The Dong Year is a traditional festival for the Dong people to kill chickens, worship ancestors, worship gods, and celebrate a good harvest.
During the Dong New Year's Day, the Dong people will go home on vacation to reunite with their families, and the clan members will get together to make a long table banquet together and use frozen vegetables to pay homage to their ancestors.
Feel the mysterious charm of the intangible cultural heritage of the Dong people, come to Zhaoxing to experience the Dong Year, and have a strong sense of tourism participation. It is mainly experienced by watching Dong opera, eating New Year's dinner, promoting officials, listening to Dong songs, listening to Lusheng competitions, moonlight and other folk customs.
The building at the top of the Drum Tower in the picture above looks like the mast of a sailing ship.
The Dong New Year Festival is the first day of the eleventh month of the lunar calendar every year. The Dong villagers are on vacation and go home. It is winter and the weather is relatively cold. Tourists and Dong compatriots sit together and roast the firepit. This kind of travel experience is more original.
During the Dong New Year Festival, every household holds ancestor worship activities.
During the Chinese New Year, we should use good fish, good meat, glutinous rice, good wine, etc. to offer sacrifices to our ancestors to express our respect and deep memory for our ancestors. The ancestors of the Dong people are also Luoyue people. Among them, I talked about the Rock Paintings of Huashan in Chongzuo and I also talked about the Luoyue people), and the cultural symbols of the Dong nationality, the five drum towers are also said to be laid out in the shape of a big ship, with a bow, a stern, a canopy and two masts. Zhaoxing people hope to use this boat to go back to the place where they lived before.
An old lady of the Dong ethnic group is preparing rice for the New Year's Eve dinner.
Other clansmen are also nervously preparing, and some men are in charge of cooking.
The legendary big pot of rice is like this.
Cutting peppers, everyone is involved and no one is idle.
The women gather around the river to clean carrots. The Dong people believe that after autumn, when the harvest is abundant and all farming tasks are completed, the year of work is over and the new year comes, which is also the origin of the Dong year.
I also went to the countryside to do as the Romans did, and sat with them to eat New Year's Eve dinner.
The main course of the long-table feast of the New Year’s Eve, beef flat hot pot, is a must-eat delicacy in Zhaoxing, and many people call it dark cuisine, but I think it is quite delicious.
This kind of beef hot pot is mainly made very special, because he uses the gastric juice that has not fully digested the forage in the stomach of the cow to make the bottom material of the hot pot.
It is said that the local people do not feed the cattle any food the day before slaughtering the cattle, let the cattle starve until night, and after the feces in the body are excreted, the cattle are fed with tender grass.
When the cattle are slaughtered the next day, the forage gastric juice of the cattle will be taken out and boiled over fire. After the dregs are filtered out, the remaining juice is the base material of the beef hot pot.
When I tasted it, I felt ok, and it was quite delicious, including beef intestines, beef brisket, beef, beef liver, and tripe. It is really comfortable to eat with Dongjia rice wine.
Feel the unique customs of the Dong people's New Year. The month is a group visit to the village as a guest. This is a social custom in the Dong village. Men and women in a village of the Dong nationality put on festival costumes and go to another Dong village as a guest. During the period, they will sing, This is also a way for Dong men and women to find objects.
The women in the Dong village all dress themselves up beautifully.
At night, when the lanterns come on, the Dong village enters another kind of beauty.
People are all dancing under the Drum Tower, celebrating the festival, and the original ecological folk customs are the best display.
To watch Dong opera, the Dong opera stage is located next to the Drum Tower. It is a "Xieshan-style" stilted building. The lower floor is a fast food restaurant selling Zhaoxing's special beef noodles. The upper floor is a performance venue. Its three sides are covered with fir wood walls, which are empty to welcome the audience. On Xiangda Street, there are two actors in Dong costumes, speaking and singing in Dong language.
It began to drizzle, but the pedestrians on the street were still attracted, and stopped to watch. Although they could not understand the Dong language, they could feel the atmosphere and were very happy.
According to legend, Dong opera was invented by Dong singer Wu Wencai in the Qing Dynasty. He innovated and formed a new artistic expression on the basis of Dong pipa songs and Dong big songs, referring to the formulas and expressive techniques of Hunan and Gui operas. form.
Art is drawn from life, and the performance art of Dong opera is inspired by Dong dance or extracted from daily life and labor. Finally, it is
With the help of the performance program of foreign operas, although the whole Dong opera is incomprehensible, the music in it is still very fresh and pleasant, and there are two musical instruments playing the erhu to accompany it.
The lighting on the Drum Tower during the Dong New Year is very beautiful.
The reflection of the light from the Drum Tower in the pond adds a lot of night light to the Zhaoxing Dong Village.
Among the five groups of Dong village, each group has a wind and rain bridge. The reflection of Fengyu Bridge and Drum Tower on the river is extremely beautiful, and there are two statues of swimming dragons on the top of the bridge.
The Wind and Rain Bridge is the main thoroughfare for passing rivers and streams. There are benches on both sides of the bridge for the Dong people to relax and enjoy the cool air after work. The bridges are all made of fir, which is a true portrayal of the Dong people's love for romance.
The Drum Tower is the soul sanctuary of the Dong family. In the past, it was a place to hold meetings with the tribe. Now that mobile communications are developed, the function of the Drum Tower has been transformed into a place for the tribe and tourists to inhabit their bodies. In winter, they usually light a fire here to keep warm.
The nightlife in the Dong village is also very rich. In addition to bars, there are also dreamy Zhaoxing singing and dancing performances worth watching.
The performance has a storyline, which mainly tells the origin of the Zhaoxing Dong village, and how the ancestors of the Dong nationality experienced the story of how the ancestors fell into the village with thousands of sails.
Also added some Dong embroidery, etc., and some wedding customs.
The most exciting part of the performance was the big song of the Dong nationality, which has been selected into the list of representative works of "World Intangible Cultural Heritage". I heard it in Sanjiang, Liuzhou before, and thought it was very good. Now it is the second time I listen to it in Zhaoxing. The big song of the Dong nationality can be sung by two people, or hundreds of people can sing together. It is a folk singing form with many voices, no conductor, and natural harmony without accompaniment.
In the morning, climb up to the viewing platform opposite the Dong village, which is a good place to overlook the panorama of Zhaoxing Dong village. The temperature dropped below zero last night, and the plank road was frozen, so you have to be careful when you walk.
The rice field in front of the Zhaimen is also a good place to pose for a photo. You can use the stilted building behind as the background.
Dong culture: Welcoming guests at the village gate
Zhaoxing Dongzhai is the Guizhou branch venue of the 2018 CCTV Spring Festival Gala. In front of the gate of the village is the performance venue of the Spring Festival Gala at that time.
This Zhaimen is more distinctive. Like the Drum Tower and Huaqiao, the Zhaimen is also made of wood, with four pillars and three rooms, and two side doors arch the middle gate. The top of the mountain with double eaves is decorated like Ruyi brackets, which means three buckets and three liters, symbolizing happiness and prosperity.
Every night, the gate of the village is full of lights, and the changing lights are very beautiful.
The welcome wine, one of the activities of the Dong Year, is held here. Girls in Dong costumes sing folk songs together, and then tourists give welcome wine.
The welcome at the Zhaimen represents the highest hospitality etiquette of the Dong people. The mellow rice wine and melodious music represent the enthusiasm and friendliness of the Dong people.
During the festival of the Dong Year, there will be a reed competition. Men from the five major clans in the Dong village will participate in the competition. They all wear cloth scarves, hold reeds, and dance to the music of the reeds.
After the competition, every time they reached a drum tower, they would stop and play a piece again. The team in the picture won the runner-up in this Lusheng Competition.
Dong Culture: Carrying Officials
Come to the Dong village to experience the Dong culture. The Dong year is the most lively season in the winter in southeast Guizhou. The villages in the village will visit each other. The tribe will dress up the children beautifully and carry them to other villages to show off to each other. This Dong custom is called "carrying officials".
The team of officials carrying officials is dressed in weird ways. I can’t tell you the specifics. Just look at the picture above. There are beggars in ragged clothes and weird-looking conjoined twins. They all perform some funny moves to make people laugh.
In front of the line are some old men.
The child is holding a red paper umbrella and sitting on the bridge. The person carrying the bridge is wearing a turban and a mask.
On the right, there are also sunglasses guards holding toy submachine guns.
A little girl sits on the bridge behind, and the bridge bearer wears a mask made of coconut skin.
This is also a display of Dong costumes. Look at the hands and neck, which are all made of silver.
The people of the tribe carried it to the various stockades for display, and crowds gathered around the team, which was very lively.
When they arrive at the Drum Tower, the Dong girls in the village will come forward and sing to question the officials, while asking for red envelopes, and the officials will give them generously.
The weirdo in the ranks of officials.
Followed by a group of Dong girls
Ragged beggars lead the way
Every time the team of officials carrying officials reached a drum tower, these strangely dressed people would jump into the pond to "fish in troubled waters", catching fish meant a good harvest.
Intangible Cultural Heritage: Indigo Dyeing
The Indigo Dyeing Culture Museum of the Li Plain is a good place to experience the intangible cultural heritage of the Dong indigo dyeing process.
You can make it yourself here, and make a unique indigo-dyed cultural shirt by yourself.
In the Dong village, you can see the Dong cloth that the locals hang out to dry. Indigo dyeing seems to be a very common thing here. This kind of indigo dyeing technique is to use the herb plant (Indigo grass) as raw material, add shochu, earth alkali, lime and kraft glue as auxiliary materials, soak the blue juice with water to make indigo, then use it to dye cloth, and then boil it with cowhide. Put the finished kraft glue on the colored cloth, and roll it flat with a stone roller until it is bright, which is the finished indigo cloth.
Indigo dyeing can produce a lot of works, such as cloth, clothes, paintings, umbrellas, handbags, etc. can be personalized, the most difficult thing is the design sketch.
Here I experienced painting, dyeing cloth, etc. Before the experience, I will let us understand the history and process of Dong dyeing.
The process of Dong dyeing is to draw the pattern first, and then wax the pattern. After that, it is sent to the dye vat for soaking and drying. During this period, tie-dyeing and other processes are added.
After waxing, put the T-shirt into the dye vat.
This one in my hand is a finished product made with tie-dye and indigo dye, isn’t it beautiful?
Experience dyed cloth of various colors drying in the workshop.
Once the dyed cloth is finished, it must be hung up to dry naturally. It looks a bit like the picture in the TV series "Daranfang".
Zhaoxing Travel Guide
From the aerial photography, the entire Zhaoxing Dong Village is distributed in a long and narrow valley facing east to west.
The commercial flavor here is not strong, and you can see many material cultural heritages of the original ethnic groups when you walk casually in the stockade. It is a natural museum to experience the Dong culture.
A tourist map of the main check-in points of Zhaoxing Dong Village is attached for your convenience.
Zhaoxing Dongzhai tourist route recommendation:
Viewing platform--Zhaimen--Dong Culture Exhibition Center (Indigo Intangible Cultural Heritage Experience)--Xintuan Drum Tower--Zhituan Drum Tower--Lituan Drum Tower and Fengyu Bridge--Rentuan Drum Tower and Huaqiao-Yituan Drum Tower Hehua Bridge--Zhituan Drum Tower and Huaqiao
The accommodation in the Dong village is all homestays, which are unified into three-story stilted buildings. The rooms are relatively narrow and the conditions are relatively simple. The air conditioner is warm enough at night. When you go out for a trip, everything will be fine. Then the price of the homestay from the gate of the village to the parking lot is the cheapest. Yi, the B&B near Rentuan Drum Tower is the most convenient for visiting.
Traffic, there is a unified parking lot for self-driving cars. After parking, you can take a battery car or go to the village by yourself.
Danzhai
Danzhai County is the "Hometown of Batik Art in Yangwu Township", "Hometown of Kara Birdcage Art in Longquan Township", and "Hometown of Shiqiao Ancient Papermaking in Nangao Township".
Its ethnic culture is very rich, and it has seven national intangible cultural heritages, namely: Miao Batik, Ancient Papermaking, Miao Golden Pheasant Dance, Jia, Miao Nian, Miao Costumes, Miao Mangtong Lusheng Sacrificial Music and Dance.
If you want to fully understand the Miao culture, you can go to Danzhai Intangible Cultural Heritage Town. The intangible cultural heritage town is based on the traditional architectural styles of the Miao and Dong ethnic groups, with the intangible cultural heritage and the culture of the Miao and Dong ethnic minorities as its core.
Danzhai is the most famous hometown of batik art in China. The women in Miao Village learn batik skills, dress exquisitely, and are embroidered with antique Miao embroidery patterns, which are extremely dazzling. Entering these Miao villages in Danzhai, you will experience a strong Miao style.
Miao batik is a traditional hand-dyed technique of spinning and dyeing with wax.
Batik art first appeared in China and has a long history.
Batik has been recorded in the Qin and Han Dynasties, and it became popular in the Six Dynasties. It has gradually declined since the Song Dynasty.
Because the Danzhai area in Guizhou is the main settlement of the Miao people, it has been isolated from the outside world for a long time, so the batik technique has obtained a natural ecological environment and has been preserved.
In the Miao language of Danzhai, batik clothes are called "wutu". Its products are mainly daily necessities, such as women's clothing, bed sheets, handbags, headscarves and so on.
The patterns all carry the meaning of totem or the special cultural language of social awareness.
Lewanjun is experiencing the batik skills of the Miao nationality. Waxing a pattern on a dyed cloth.
There are also many colorful Hmong batik works to watch.
What I hold in my hand is the material used by the Hmong spinning machine - cotton.
Danzhai Miao people have superb batik techniques and unique styles. All of these exhibits are their treasured batik art masterpieces.
In Danzhai batik, it is regarded as the first dyeing in the East by overseas. Artists who are in charge of batik mainly live in Yangwu Town and Paidiao Town.
Watch the ancient papermaking craft, and appreciate the labor wisdom of the Miao ancestors adapting measures to local conditions and using local materials.
Danzhai Shiqiao Village's skin paper making skills are also one of the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage catalogues, especially the colored handmade paper here, which is unique in the country, and it is also a relatively well-preserved living fossil of papermaking in papermaking skills.
At the inheritance base of leather paper making in Danzhai, the hall is full of various types of paper.
Flower papyrus is the most popular among tourists.
colored grass paper
Experience the non-heritage project of making flower and papyrus paper, put the plants in the frame, add paper pulp, and after drying, it is a work.
Papermaking technology is one of the four great inventions in China. It has a history of thousands of years. Now Danzhai is trying to make paper by itself, so that the inheritance of intangible cultural heritage cannot just be locked in a museum. Bringing intangible cultural heritage close to life and alive is the best way to inherit intangible cultural heritage.
A group photo of Lewanjun and the finished grass flower paper works.
The Miao compatriots in Kara Village have a long history of weaving birdcages, with a history of 400 years.
Bird cages are mainly made of bamboo, golden bamboo, thunder bamboo, etc., which are durable. When I was young, my mother also bought this kind of birdcage for me. At that time, I raised thrushes.
Inheritors of birdcage non-heritage are showing how to make birdcages with bamboo. Now that wild animals are being protected, there are fewer birds to be raised, and birdcages are more of a collection.
I am holding a fine birdcage, which is not big in appearance, but it can be called an exquisite art treasure.
In Danzhai World Heritage Town, there are still many places where you can check in. If you are tired from walking, you can sit in the bookstore and play what you like.
Sitting in front of the window, holding a cup of coffee and looking at the lake, is also quite beautiful.
Miaojiang Holy Water-Jianhe Hot Spring
Winter is here, and it’s a good time to soak in hot springs. There are three famous springs in Guizhou, and Jianhe Hot Spring is one of them. It has rare radon and sulfur hot springs in China, and it is also the only Miao and Dong culture-themed hot spring in China. The scenic spot integrates Miao and Dong characteristics, and various Miao and Dong culture-themed hot springs are very special.
Jianhe Hot Spring Scenic Spot is a national AAAA-level tourist attraction, located in Wenquan Village, Censong Town, northeast of Jianhe County, 7 kilometers away from the county seat, with many detours in the mountains, and it takes 15 minutes to drive.
Its physical and chemical indicators are similar to those of the famous Vichy Hot Springs in France, as tested by the Hydrological Environment Laboratory of the University of Bordeaux in France. It has good disinfection, disease-removing, and skin-healthy effects. Inflammation, gynecological diseases also have certain curative effect.
The spring water is rich in more than 40 elements such as sulfur, iron, potassium, calcium and radon, among which the radon content of trace radioactive elements is 1.99 mg/L, which has reached the standard of high-quality radon-sulfur hot springs archived in the national "Mineral Spring Classification Law", so it is called It is radon spring, and the reputation of "Holy Water of Miaojiang" comes from it.
Dong village architectural style
indoor hot spring pool
The wooden barrel hot spring pool is a bit like a Japanese hot spring.
Among the many hot spring pools, Miao Yao Pool is a must experience. The Miao compatriots who live deep in the mountains know how to bathe in the hot water with the fragrance of Miao medicine. Miao medicine can prevent and cure all kinds of diseases.
The Miao medicine hot spring inherits the wisdom of the Miao people's thousand years of reproduction and carries forward the thousands of years of Miao medicine culture. Many herbs are boiled into potions, including Gastrodia elata, Ganoderma lucidum and Eucommia ulmoides, all of which represent different therapeutic effects.
Through the combination of high-heat radon-sulfur hot springs + Miao medicine, the concept of replacing medicine with nourishment and treatment with prevention is created, and the self-healing instinct of the human body is rejuvenated.
The process of distributing the Miao medicine is very interesting. A Miao villager wearing a turban beats a gong in front to open the way, followed by a master who picks up a medicine bucket, and two young girls in Miao costumes shouting "Xiao Miao medicine".
After trying it, after soaking, it can relieve the fatigue of the journey.
The environment of the entire Jianhe Hot Spring City is quite good, surrounded by mountains and winding green hills.
The open-air hot spring and the forest vegetation set off each other, forming a secluded oasis and a blue sea hot spring;
Under the sunshine and breeze blowing in the gully mist, the mountains are full of green waves, the peaks and valleys are intoxicated with hot springs, and the cultural landscape and natural landscape are integrated. When you soak in the pool, you can see the mountains like daisy from a distance, and the trees are verdant. The verdant green is about to drip, forming a colorful picture scroll.
Jianhe Hot Spring can meet various needs such as food, accommodation, entertainment, enjoyment, and recuperation in one stop. There is also a super five-star high-end soup house and soup house; the master bedroom is decorated in Chinese style.
There is also a mahjong room in the living room. The facilities are quite good.
Zhenyuan Ancient City
I have always wanted to come to Zhenyuan, and this time I finally put my dream into action.
We arrived in Zhenyuan in the evening. When the Wuyang River and the ancient city came into view, all the friends in the car cheered loudly and expressed their admiration for the beautiful scenery.
Wuyang River is the mother river of Zhenyuan. It passes through the ancient town of Zhenyuan with a total length of about 400 kilometers.
Lin Ze, a national hero in the Qing Dynasty, was intoxicated by the scenery along the Wuyang River when he passed by Zhenyuan.
The rivers and streams between the two mountains are evil, and the foot of the mountain is chiseled by autumn smoke;
Pedestrians are in the shadow of the mountain and in the stream, and their courage has fallen before they fall.
Psalms of praise!
The ancient city of Zhenyuan has a history of 2,300 years. Its geographical location is special. It is the main traffic route from the Northwest China to Southeast Asia in ancient China. Many local products from the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau are packed at the wharf in Zhenyuan and shipped out of the country.
Therefore, Zhenyuan's commerce was very developed at that time, which also left many characteristic residential buildings in the ancient city that integrated the architectural styles of various places.
The ancient city of Zhenyuan extends along the Wuyang River and is built on the hillside with beautiful natural scenery. From ancient dwellings, ancient piers, ancient wells, and ancient lanes, there is an ancient atmosphere everywhere.
These ancient buildings that integrate the cultural styles of various regions and the rippling Wuyang River complement each other, making Zhenyuan one of the most beautiful ancient cities in China.
The ancient dwellings in Zhenyuan moved the prototype of the northern courtyard to the mountain and transformed it into mountain houses, stilted buildings, corridors and other forms of villa-style courtyards.
The B&B we stayed in has a simple and antique Chinese-style decoration in the courtyard, which not only reproduces the style of the Jiangnan courtyard, but also reflects the layout of the mountain buildings;
These buildings are a perfect combination of wood and stone structures. Carved wooden windows can be seen at any time, and there are clumps of bamboo and green plants in the courtyards.
The bat-patterned wall, which symbolizes prosperity,
The He family residence was first built in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, and it is the private residence of the descendants of the Zhenyuan Chieftain He.
Stone carvings on the pillars.
The perfect combination of the south of the Yangtze River and the mountains makes the folk houses in Zhenyuan a spectacle in the history of Chinese architecture.
The architectural style of Zhenyuan's residential buildings is called "crooked ways". It means that the wealth of the merchant’s house is not exposed, and the gates of all the doors beside the alleys will never be parallel or perpendicular to the alleys, and the alleys will never face the hall. Facing the street obliquely is the so-called "evil" (oblique) road.
The ancient lanes in Zhenyuan County are narrow, long and deep, with intricate structures, including Sifangjing Lane, Fuxing Lane, Renshou Lane, and Jiangyuanchang Lane. These intersecting alleys constitute the unique ancient city experience of Zhenyuan Ancient City.
Walking in the alleys, you will experience the hustle and bustle of the city, as if you have returned to the previous era, and the life scenes of the Ming and Qing Dynasties are constantly being presented through the brass statues on the street.
After visiting Zhenyuan Ancient City, we went to Shuiguan Wharf to see Zhusheng Bridge.
Zhusheng Bridge has a history of more than 600 years. It was first built in the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty. It was originally called "Xiqiao".
The Zhusheng Bridge is 135 meters long. It is a seven-hole bluestone arch bridge. The bridge is from the Ming Dynasty, and the buildings on the bridge are from the Qing Dynasty.
The attic on the deck of Zhusheng Bridge is called Kuixing Pavilion
Across the Wuyang River, opposite to Shuiguan Wharf is Zhenyuan Qinglong Cave.
The Qinglong Cave ancient building complex was built in the 21st year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty and has a history of more than 600 years.
Because it was too late, the staff came to the door, so I didn't go in. The ancient building complex looks a bit like the Hanging Temple in Shanxi, standing against the mountain and volleying against the wall.
This is a complex of buildings ingeniously combining the unique architectural form of the Central Plains in the country and the hanging-foot stilt-style buildings of Miao and Dong in Guizhou.
In the evening, taste the delicacies of Zhenyuan ancient town at Yuejiang Tower.
The ancient town food recommends old dishes, fish in sour soup, and fried cakes.
The first dish is Zhenyuan aged dish, which has a history of more than 500 years.
According to legend, it was created by Taoist priests in Qinglong Cave, so it is called "Dao Cai".
The name "old dish" is because the longer the dish is stored, the better the quality and the better the taste, and every family in Zhenyuan cooks it. .
There are a lot of fish in sour soup in Guizhou, and the fish in sour soup in Zhenyuan is one of Lewan Jun’s favorites. I don’t know what kind of money is used in it. Anyway, the fish is very tender and quite delicious.
And mine is red sour soup, which is marinated with local wild tomatoes. After eating the fish, you must drink several large bowls of sour soup to enjoy it. The sour soup tastes very delicious.
The dining environment in Yuejiang Building is very good. After the meal, we went to the pier outside to experience the upstream of Zhenyuan Water.
The water travel time is about 35 minutes, sailing in the waters between Zhusheng Bridge and Panlong Bridge, which will pass Zhenjiang Tower, and the night view is super beautiful.
Precautions
· The ancient town of Zhenyuan is a water town. Pay attention to water safety during play to prevent drowning accidents.
· The boat is an antique cruise ship. It is windy and cold at night, so you need to wear more clothes.
· There are many interesting places to visit in the ancient town of Zhenyuan, and the ancient city is free
langde shangzhai
Langde Shangzhai will only know how fun it is if you have experienced it first-hand. It is an open-air Miao museum, which exhibits a piece of Miao customs and culture, and has become a grand stand for viewing and studying traditional Miao culture.
The Diaojiaolou and Fengyu Bridge in Langde Shangzhai are set against each other and integrated with the surrounding landscape and countryside.
Langde Miao Village is located on the Bala River at the foot of Leigong Mountain, the main peak of Miaoling Mountain, 17 kilometers away from Leishan County. The whole village belongs to the Miao people. It was built at the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, with a history of more than 670 years.
Langde Miao Village was selected into the first batch of "Chinese Traditional Material List" in China. It is the hometown of Chinese folk art, a Chinese landscape village, and the place where the Olympic torch passed.
Walking into the Langde Miao Village, you can experience the hospitable folk etiquette and the charming Miao singing and dancing. You can see the old ladies wearing gorgeous Miao costumes sitting on wooden chairs basking in the sun, which is unique to the Miao people.
Langde Shangzhai has a very strong Miao style, which can be experienced as soon as you enter the village.
We were greeted with 12 bars of wine.
Miao girls are warm and hospitable, wearing traditional Miao costumes, welcoming us.
Twelve gate wine is the etiquette of hospitality in Miao Village.
The twelve gate-blocking wines are: 1. Congratulations wine; 2. Kindness wine; 3. Hardworking wine; 4. Bravery wine; 5. Smart wine; 6. Beautiful wine; 7. Reasonable wine; 8. Honest wine; 9. magnanimous wine; 10. longevity wine; 11. rich wine; 12. happy wine.
All the original singing and dancing performances, the actors are the aborigines living in the Miao Village.
A group photo of Lewanjun and Chief Murakami. Wearing silver jewelry, very beautiful.
One photo is not enough, take three photos together.
The square is surrounded by unique wooden buildings on hanging feet and antique brick and stone roads. These are good places to experience Miao culture.
Play Tips:
The time of the original ecological song and dance performance is:
10:30 in the morning and 16:30 in the afternoon, two games a day.
Traffic Guide:
From Kaili High-speed Railway South Station, take bus No. 21 to Kaili Bus Station, and then take the bus from Kaili to Langde. 1 class every hour.
Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village
Do you know where the largest Miao village in the world is? The answer is Qianhu Miao Village in Xijiang at the northern foot of Leigong Mountain in Guizhou Province. The "Qianhu Miao Village" is named after more than a thousand Miao compatriots living in the village. The Hmong are distributed in the United States and Thailand, but Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village is the largest Miao settlement in the world.
Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village is surrounded by mountains on all sides. The stilted floors in the village are densely packed and built along the mountains, forming a continuous piece. It looks like a three-dimensional giant painting from a distance, with strong visual impact and appreciation.
Under the aerial photography, the terraced fields and the stilted buildings are very beautiful. The stockade is distributed on the hills on both sides, and the Xijiang River in the middle passes through the stockade.
There is a wind and rain bridge connecting the two villages.
The ancient Miao villages without exception were located on the banks of rivers, rivers, streams and streams. With the increase of the population and the expansion of the ethnic groups, they are gradually divided to the creeks and rivers.
The ancestor of the Miao people in Xijiang was Chiyou who fought against the emperor and Emperor Yan in Zhuolu 5,000 years ago. They consider themselves descendants of Chiyou.
After the defeat of the Chiyou tribe, they migrated southward, and some of them reached Xijiang.
The hanging-foot wooden buildings in Xijiang Miao Village are built on the hillside, in a well-arranged pattern.
The countryside of Xijiang Miao Village and the residential area complement each other, forming a super beautiful Miao Village landscape.
Panorama of Qianhu Miao Village in Xijiang
Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village is a living museum of Miao nationality. Here you can experience a lot of Miao culture. The "high mountains and flowing water" Miao people have a very special way of drinking, which is also a concrete manifestation of the local Miao people's hospitality.
21 girls in costumes of the Miao nationality hold 20 wine jugs and a tile bowl. The 20 girls hold the wine jugs to form a certain height difference. One after another, they pour wine into the wine jug of the next person. I sit in the middle sit on the chair, and do not touch the wine bowl with both hands until the rice wine on the bowl is drunk.
Bowl after bowl of good wine, just like the enthusiasm of the Miao people, continues.
For the Miao family, it is possible to live without meat, but not without wine. Since ancient times, there is a saying that "no feast without wine". The wine of the Miao family is like the mountains of the Miao family and the water of the Miao family. The water is as long as the mountain is high, and the wine jar is as deep as the water is!
Mr. Lewan listened to the toast of the Miao sister at the long-table banquet of the Miao nationality. Just after drinking a round, she was fed local pork again by the sister. This is the performance of the Miao family's hospitality.
The sisters of Qianhu Miao Village in Xijiang are quite professional, and the toast songs they sing are very nice.
Hmong Long Table Banquet
Poached Chicken
This Guzang meat is more delicious. It is made of black haired pork. It looks fat, but it tastes delicious.
Miao's Chinese New Year, a must-have dish for Guzang Festival.
On the long table banquet are some cuisines with strong ethnic and regional customs.
The next morning, continue to experience 12 bar wines. This is the highest etiquette for the Miao family to welcome distinguished guests. Before entering the gate of the village, all tourists must first pass through this pass.
Each fine wine represents a different vision of blessing. When drinking, the Miao family holds the horns and delivers them to the mouths of the guests, and they can't leave until they finish drinking. The rice wine is sweeter and is brewed by the villagers themselves.
The time spent in Qianhu Miao Village in Xijiang is relatively short, let’s briefly talk about it. The night view taken from the viewing platform at night shows that the whole village is shrouded in a sea of gorgeous lights.
At night, I live in a stilted building on the mountainside, which is a duplex with two floors. The air conditioner is powerful, it is a cabinet air conditioner.
The house is well landscaped with a wide view.
This is the bedroom on the second floor, and there is a skylight to watch the starry sky, but unfortunately there are no stars that night.
There are wooden ladders connecting the two floors. The bathroom is on the first floor.
Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village is the most complete place to preserve the "primitive ecology" culture of the Miao nationality. Come here to appreciate and understand the development history of the Miao nationality in China.
Gage Ancient Alley is the exhibition street of Miao intangible cultural heritage in Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village. It is also the place where Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village originated. It is a place to explore the mysterious culture and traditional skills of the Miao people.
Here, you can participate in the experience of intangible cultural heritage projects such as silver jewelry making, Miao wine making, Miao batik, Miao embroidery, and Miao papermaking.
Miao weaving
Hmong embroidery.
Embroidery is an indispensable accessory for Miao women. During the flying needle and thread, the flowers and plants in life and the totems of the nation are embroidered on this small seedling cloth, which is called "the history book worn by the body" by scholars. Miao embroidery It is also a wonderful flower in the embroidery art of the Chinese nation.
Xiasi Ancient Town
Kaili City is located in the southeast of Guizhou Province, at the foot of the Miaoling Mountains and beside the Qingshui River. It is the seat of the Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture in Southeast Guizhou.
When traveling to Kaili, one of the must-see treasure spots is Xiasi Ancient Town, which is the most important town at the west entrance of eco-tourism and cultural tourism in Southeast Guizhou.
"Humanistic Xiasi, heaven makes mountains and rivers", the ancient town of Xiasi is located beside the Qingshui River. It has a history of more than 600 years. Since the establishment of Wengpao barbarian chief justice, Xiasi was officially opened as a commercial port in the 13th year of Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty (1808). , developed into a bustling city in the early years of the Republic of China, known as "Little Shanghai".
The streets and alleys of Xiasi Ancient Town are adjacent to the river, and the scenery is pleasant. The picture shows the Wind and Rain Bridge connecting the two sides of the Qingshui River.
The ancient town is located in the upper reaches of the Qingshui River, which is the main line area of the east line of the "Miaojiang Ancient Road". The Xiasi people seized the opportunity at that time and built a wharf, making Xiasi the nearest water and land wharf in the Yuanjiang River system to central Guizhou, and later developed into an important material in southeastern Guizhou. Distributing center and transfer station, business prosperity.
With thousands of sails passing and the sound of sculls, merchants gather in the town, caravans gather in groups, shops, warehouses, guild halls, and restaurants are all over the streets and alleys. The century-old prosperity of the town has left many courtyards in the south of the Yangtze River, Weipai buildings, and southern Fujian. Architecture, Western architecture, these buildings also blend with the culture of Xiasi ethnic minorities, forming a diversified architectural feature and culture.
Today, the cross-strait streets still retain the 30-meter-long stone-level large pier and small pier built in the Qing Dynasty, as well as ancient temples, ancient temple sites, ancient residents, and ancient lanes such as Yuwang Palace and Guanyin Pavilion. Walking on the street, I feel the old charm.
Although the ancient stage has gone through vicissitudes, it is basically kept intact. The stage is a wooden structure built on the mountain gate.
The attics on both sides are used for actors to change clothes.
There is a picture of "Guo Ziyi Blessing Birthday" engraved on the forehead of the stage. Guo Ziyi and his wife are sitting in the middle, and the seven sons and eight sons-in-law are wearing official robes and come to celebrate the birthdays of the two elders.
This picture implies a peaceful scene of making contributions to the country, being loved by the people, and being virtuous, capable, and filial to the father.
Yangming Academy exudes a simple and rich traditional cultural atmosphere.
The academy was built in the late Ming Dynasty and has a history of more than 600 years. During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, Sun Yingao, a disciple of Wang Yangming, went to Xiasi to spread Yangming's philosophy of mind.
On the former site where Sun Yingao gave lectures, Yangming Academy was built to continue Yangming culture.
There are many exquisite woodcarvings in the academy, all left over from the past.
The Wind and Rain Bridge is an ancient one. There are stone sculptures of water-resisting beasts beside the bridge. This one is called Papi, one of the nine sons of the dragon. In the era when productivity was backward, people would pin their desire to control floods on these beasts. When the water level of the Qingshui River reaches below the paw's claw, it means that it is a safe water level. When the water level exceeds the paw's claw, it is necessary to prepare for flood control at any time.
To experience Xiasi Ancient Town, the most important thing is to stop, stay still, and slowly savor its calm attitude towards life and colorful art and culture.
You can see many stilted buildings in the ancient town. This kind of stilted buildings can prevent moisture, absorb wind, and avoid insects.
The hanging feet are generally two or three stories high. The walls of the upper floors are installed with fir boards, and the outer walls are painted with paulownia paint.
The "dry stilt" structure of the stilted building is suitable for living in mountainous areas.
Diaojiaolou is characterized by saving land to the greatest extent, and being built according to local conditions. Building stilted buildings in relatively steep places often "occupies the sky but not the land", and adopts suspension and overhead treatment. Sometimes layer-dropping is also adopted to form a pattern of "unbalanced balance".
Sometimes, stacking and staggering are used to deal with it, showing the trend of "the world is uneven".
Yuwang Palace is the Lianghu Guild Hall, which was funded and built by wealthy businessmen from Hunan and Hubei provinces.
Playing in these ancient buildings full of historical charm requires a calm heart.
Yuwang Palace is also a museum of "reminiscence and living history display", which contains some history of Xiasi, which started from water, prospered because of business, and caravan culture and other 600-year history of Xiasi.
It reproduces the appearance of the Zhejiang Guild Hall in the Qing Dynasty.
The ancient town of Xiasi is known as the “Hometown of Famous Dogs in the World”. Xiasi dog is a kind of hound with a white body.
The West Bank Ancient Street still retains the stone-level large wharf and small wharf built in the 44th year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty (AD 1779).
In addition to its unique cultural landscape, Xiasi Ancient Town can't be ignored, of course, is the food here.
Xiasi Miaojia Sour Soup is a major feature of Xiasi cuisine. It has a long history of eating and unique preparation method. More importantly, its effects of appetizing and strengthening spleen, clearing heat and relieving summer heat are widely spread.
Famous dishes come from the folks and come from life practice. Salt was very difficult in ancient Miao, so the Miao people came up with the idea of using acid instead of salt. Make up for the lack of salt. The folk proverb says: "If you don't eat sour for one day, you will yawn and dry your mouth; if you don't eat sour for two days, your food won't stick; if you don't eat sour for three days, you will walk and fight." This shows the importance of acid to the Miao family.
Authentic Xiasi sour soup fish, with white sour as the main ingredient and red sour as the auxiliary material. White sour soup, also called rice sour, is naturally fermented with fresh mountain spring water and rice.
The red sour soup is made of wild tomato, pepper, ginger, and wild wood ginger as raw materials and natural fermentation. The fish is mostly local rice carp and horned fish, catfish, and grass carp from the Qingshui River Basin. .
The fish made in sour soup is the embodiment of the food wisdom of the Miao family. The fish is delicious, clear and delicious, and has the eating effect of appetizing, diuresis and swelling.
Basha Miao Village
Basha Miao Village is more interesting. It preserves the ancient heritage of the Miao nationality, and is called the only surviving Miao nationality preserver and "living fossil of Miao culture" by folklorists and ethnologists.
Basha Miao Village is located in Congjiang County, Guizhou Province. It is an ancient village hidden deep in the mountains.
At the entrance of the village, you will see labels such as "National Ecological Cultural Village", "National Agricultural Tourism Demonstration Site", "21 Most Mysterious Original Ecological Tribes on Earth", and 55 Tourist Destinations You Must Visit in Your Lifetime.
All the men in the village are dressed in black and have their hair in a bun. The most special thing is that each of them holds a gun.
It is said that Basha men have always "keep their guns on their bodies and their knives on their waists".
In the Miao Village, every boy at the age of 15 will have a coming-of-age ceremony, shaved his head and combed into a "household stick", and will be distributed with a gun, which represents the symbol of his independent life.
The horns contained gunpowder.
Now that wild animals are protected, villagers are not allowed to hunt. Now it is only used for performances, and there are no bullets.
It contained flint and gunpowder.
Basha Village is a purely Miao village inhabited by five natural villages: Dazhai, Zaige Xinzhai, Wangjiazhai, Darongpo Xinzhai and Zaizhuang. There are about 2,500 people in the village.
A group photo of Lewanjun and the Miao residents.
Basha people worship trees. They have been neighbors with trees for generations and regard trees as gods. From birth to death, they consciously dissolve their beliefs and souls into nature. They have a mysterious custom of tree burial. Plant a tree in the place of burial, and it's not the Ching Ming Festival.
As soon as you enter the gate of the village, there are many trees, such as disaster relief trees, life trees, etc. Because there are many trees, the natural ecological environment here is also very good.
Commemorative camphor wood memorial pavilion: It is a pavilion-style building with an octagonal spire, the top is covered with small green tiles, the corners of the eaves are high, and the pavilion is solid with eight pillars. For guardrail.
The pavilion was built in 1977 and is a key cultural relic protection unit in Congjiang County.
Camphor Tree God
Basha Miao Village has a unique original ethnic culture. The villagers' living customs and clothing accessories still retain a strong original color. Up to now, the ancient "adult ceremony" ceremony and the peculiar "hugun" hair accessories have been passed down. The "living fossil" and "museum" of traditional culture.
In the stockade, all the people call it "roll", which is really a very strange place.
Hehang and Hecang Groups: Every family in Basha has Hehang and Hecang built in front of the house and behind the house. The recovered grain is first dried on the special Hehang outside the house, and then placed in the Hecang outside the house. .
The folk customs are very good. It is said that "the house is not closed at night", so you don't have to worry about someone stealing things.
Diaojiaolou of the Miao nationality: The traditional Miao dwellings in Basha are all wooden structures, and most of them are stilted buildings built against the mountains. It uses wooden pillars to support the building, the lower floor is suspended, the front part of the floor is the building, and the back half is on the ground or supported by wooden pillars.
The first floor is the living space, while the ground floor is used for storing sundries, tools, and feeding livestock. This unique stilt-style building has special effects in preventing moisture and avoiding beasts. The large-scale Basha Miao Diaojiaolou Village is very imposing.
Ancient Lusheng Hall: In the dense forest of Basha, there is a flat land of about 700 square meters among towering ancient trees such as fir, Schima superba, camphor, maple, etc., where Basha people welcome guests, play reeds, The place where ancestors are worshipped has a beautiful environment, profound artistic conception, full of antiquity and natural ecology. The picture shows tourists experiencing Miao wedding customs and snatching brides.
The newlyweds stand together holding hands.
Drink a cup of wine.
The elders in the village toast the newcomers.
The newlyweds send gifts to everyone to celebrate the wedding.
"Basha Man", a documentary dance of Miao culture and customs, shows the daily production methods of Basha people, including drinking, bullfighting, wrestling and other life scenes, all of which reflect the masculine and sturdy image of Basha men.
Basha men singing Miao songs
The custom of the Miao nationality is displayed, the adult ceremony is performed, and the head is shaved and combed into a "household stick.
Pay attention to the tool in his hand, which is used for harvesting - a sickle.
Bar mitzvah
The performance will be accompanied by firing guns, singing and dancing, allowing guests to experience the strong Miao style.
Lusheng steps on the hall and dances together to express the joy of the Basha men.
The weather is relatively cold, and the people in the village gather together to warm themselves by the fire.
Look at the bottom of the mountain, the smoke is floating, and the scenery is beautiful.
The taste of Basha on the tip of the tongue
Dinner at the restaurant in Basha Miao Village. They are all authentic Miao dishes.
The salted fish is carp raised in the rice fields of the Miao nationality. After removing the internal organs of the fish, add salt and cooking wine to marinate, use fennel as auxiliary materials, let it dry until half-dried, and then shake the glutinous rice soaked in salt water, add chili powder, pepper, etc. to make marinated fish.
Three treasures of cured meat is an indispensable delicacy for Kaili citizens to celebrate the Spring Festival, that is, bacon, sausage, blood tofu, steamed and cooked, sliced and served on a platter for guests. It has Kaili's unique and typical local flavor. You need to sandwich one of each of the three types. It is called Kaili's "sandwich" by domestic and foreign tourists. It is rich in nutritional value, beautiful in combination, excellent in taste, and full of New Year's flavor.
Plasma Duck is a famous traditional dish with local characteristics. It is fragrant, crispy and delicious. It is made by marinating and frying the fresh duck meat with fresh duck blood. Due to the effect of vinegar blood, not only the duck bones are crispy but also crispy. Even the ginger and chili become less spicy and sweeter, and it tastes spicy, tender and delicious when eaten while cooking.
Basha rice-cut white-cut duck is made with the rice duck raised by the Basha farmhouse and a variety of local unique spices. The meat is firm and delicious, and the aftertaste is endless.
Rice ducks are conditioned by the environment and the ecosystem where the ducks grow, and are raised in a natural environment without pesticides and chemical fertilizers.
The Dong family salted fish has a long history and is unique in its production method. It is a dish for the ethnic minorities in southeast Guizhou to entertain guests. The method is exquisite, and after more than one month of sealing and marinating, it can be eaten, fried, grilled or eaten raw. Bacon is done in a similar way.
Glutinous rice fish, an ancient rice that grows in the southeast of Guizhou. The yield per mu is only half of that of ordinary rice. The fish grown in the glutinous rice fields eat insects in the rice fields. The rice fields do not use pesticides, and the fish meat is delicious; it grows in the plateau climate of Guizhou Green peppers and red peppers are slender in shape and pure in spiciness. They are hot and sour after being made into bad peppers, and the soup is sour and spicy when cooked with field fish. The fish is tender, red in color, hot and sour and delicious.
Cold Zhe Er Gen
Zheergen is Houttuynia cordata, which has the functions of clearing heat and detoxifying, diuresis and dehumidification, invigorating stomach and eliminating food. It used to be ranked first among the nine most unpalatable vegetables, because the taste is so strange, and its taste is known as the dividing line between hell and heaven, but the people in Kaili fully explored its unique taste combination and made it crisp and delicious. A unique food and medicine with local specialties.
Vegetable Dumplings
Niu Niu, also known as "Baicao Soup", is regarded as "the best delicacy in Southeast Guizhou", and it is the top-grade hospitality for ethnic minorities in Southeast Guizhou.
"Dried" also has a famous name "Baicao Jingjing", which refers to taking out the incompletely digested liquid from the sheep's stomach, filtering out the pure liquid, cooking it with fire, adding ginger, small pot of rice wine, medicinal materials, etc. to achieve the purpose of removing fishy smell . It has the effects of invigorating the stomach, dispelling heat and helping digestion.
Liping Ancient City
Lipingqiao Street is located in Defeng Town, the seat of Liping County, Guizhou Province. Defeng Town, where Qiaojie is located, was the administrative seat of Chengzhou in the Tang, Five Dynasties, and Song Dynasties, and it was the Wukaidong chief court in the Yuan Dynasty. In April of the eighteenth year of Hongwu (1385), the Ming court set up Wukaiwei in Jinliping. In the nineteenth year of Hongwu (1386), Zhou Ji, the general who conquered captives, led his troops to build Wukaiwei Tucheng, which was the beginning of the opening of Qiaojie.
Lipingqiao Street has a history of more than 600 years and is a "famous historical and cultural street in China". It is high at both ends and low in the middle, because it is shaped like a raised wooden pole, also known as "Biandan Street".
Qiao Street starts from the east gate of the city wall in the east and ends at the lotus pond in the south, with a total length of one kilometer. It is the main road in the ancient city of Liping.
Qiao Street is paved with blue and white stones and bordered with stacked stones. The well-preserved Ming and Qing imitation Hui-style ancient buildings (residential houses, shops, guild halls, ancestral halls, etc.) are row upon row, and there are many ancient alleys in the shape of "D" on both sides. There are many ancient wells, ancient ponds, and ancient ditches that are well preserved.
Looking from a distance, Qiaojie is lined with wind and fire walls, and courtyards, row upon row, in a well-arranged pattern. The wing corners on the Fenghuo wall are flying up, the paintings on the wall are exquisite and delicate, and the doors and windows of the houses are decorated with simple and simple patterns.
There are countless small streets and alleys in Qiaojie, the famous ones are Majia Lane, Yaojia Lane, Zhangjia Lane, Shuangjing Street, Zuosuopo, etc. These alleyways are connected by pebble streets and stone ladders.
Antique, with strong local characteristics. Known as "the Qingming Shanghe Tu during the Ming and Qing Dynasties".
The Gospel Hall was first built in the Qing Dynasty. It is a building with three rooms and four entrances. It is surrounded by blue brick fire walls, with a wooden hard top inside, a gate, and two side doors. There are three patios inside, one of which is a closed patio for drinking water. It is a small courtyard with a spring well and a washing pool dug inside.
The Lianghu Guild Hall was funded by merchants from Hunan and Hubei, and it was first built in the second year of Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty. Surrounded by fire walls, sitting west to east, including gate towers, theater towers, Yuwang Palace, Wuliangshou Buddha Hall, waterside pavilions, attics, halls of enjoyment and other buildings. The main hall is dedicated to "King Yu", the patron saint of Hunan people.
Osmanthus Terrace Ten Thousand Mu Tea Farm
The tea produced by Guihuatai Tea Farm has excellent texture, strong aroma, mellow taste, and is resistant to brewing after brewing.
Shaozhai Rural Scenery
Villagers wash Zheergen by the river.
The Bazhou River Scenic Spot is located in Gaotun Town, north of Liping City, on the upper reaches of the Liangjiang River, named after it flows through Bazhou Village. Bazhou River Scenic Area is a low and medium mountain hilly basin, with limestone karst landform landscape, rivers, streams, lakes and island waters landscape, subtropical karst forest landscape, underground karst cave landscape, hilly pasture landscape, village pastoral scenery and Dong and Miao customs. It is a subtropical humid broad-leaved landscape. The forest area is an important part of the Liping Dong Township National Scenic Area.
The Bazhou River runs through the karst landforms, with cliffs on both sides, and the forests on the cliffs exposed in a belt shape. The green mountains line the clear water in spring and summer, and the red leaves reflect the colorful clouds in autumn and winter. The scenery is very beautiful.
Tiansheng Bridge is the natural stone arch bridge with the largest span in Liping. It is located on the south side of Wanzhai, Gaotun Town, 14 kilometers northeast of the county seat. The widest part of the bridge deck is 138 meters, the narrowest part is 98 meters, the largest arch span is 119 meters, and the smallest part is 89 meters; The arch surface is 39 meters above the water surface and 34 meters above the water surface. The river under the bridge is clear and green, and there are groups of fish and shrimp.
The bridge is surrounded by strange peaks and steep rocks, and the forests are lush; the mountains and waters on both sides of the river are picturesque and charming.
"Liping Mansion Chronicle" records: "Tiansheng Bridge Chongyan crosses the two banks directly, and there is a hole in the middle. The waters of the Shuangjiang Estuary reach Gaotun through this, and boats can be sailed, but the ground is still flat. It is very convenient to come and go. Name.” During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, Hong Huiyou, the instructor of the Liping Mansion, wrote a poem on the Tiansheng Bridge: “It is difficult for a man to chisel a ghost and axe, but the heart of heaven is exquisite. The beam frame on the wall of the West Mountain is ingeniously passed on to create a chemical industry.”
Walking into the Bazhou River Scenic Area, you can not only appreciate the magnificence and stalwart of the karst landform, but also enjoy the clarity and beauty of the natural landscape. It is a natural health garden that modern urbanites dream of rejuvenating, nourishing the mind and nature.
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schedule
DAY1
Morning: Guangzhou---Congjiang County
Afternoon: From Jiang to Basha Miao Village, Basha Miao Village (the last gunmen tribe)
Evening: From Jiang to Liping
Residence: Liping County
DAY2
Morning: Alice Street
Afternoon: Zhaoxing Dongzhai Dong Year, dreamy Zhaoxing song and dance drama
Residence: Zhaoxing Dong Village
DAY3
All day: Zhaoxing Dong village Dong cultural experience, carrying officials, Yue Ye,
Residence: Zhaoxing Dong Village
DAY 4
Morning: Go to Jianhe, soak in the hot spring of "Miaojiang holy water" in Jianhe
Afternoon: Go to Zhenyuan and visit the ancient city of Zhenyuan at night
Residence: Zhenyuan Ancient City
DAY 5
Morning: Go to Danzhai Intangible Cultural Heritage Town to experience the ancient papermaking intangible cultural heritage project.
Afternoon: Go to Langde Miao Village, a national key cultural relic protection unit, where the Olympic torch passed by, to experience Miao Village culture;
Go to Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village, the world's largest Miao nationality gathering place, to experience the unique high mountains and flowing water of Miao Village.
Residence: Xijiang Miao Village
DAY 6 [December 18]
Morning: Go to Kaili City and visit Xiasi Ancient Town, known as "Little Shanghai" in the Republic of China.
Afternoon: Return to Guangzhou by bullet train from Duyun.