The Gaza River, the source of the Red River, flows from northwest to east for thousands of miles, and the two sides are typical tropical ecological pastoral scenery. Huayao Dai cultural ecological village in front of Hongshui River and behind Ailao Mountain, the combination of mountains and dams constitutes a beautiful natural picture. According to statistics, the total population of Huayao Dai in China is more than 60,000, and Xinping Yi and Dai Autonomous County in Yunnan accounts for more than 40,000. These Huayao Dai people living in Mosha and Gasa areas of Xinping are the largest settlements of Huayao Dai people in China and the most concentrated places of Huayao Dai culture in China.
Huayao Dai culture is a kind of clothing culture at first. The Dai people at the foot of Ailao Mountain are commonly known as Huayao Dai, because their women's clothing is made of special colored brocade more than a foot long and wrapped into a flower belt about a foot and a half wide to tie the clothes. In Huayao Dai culture, its symbolic element is Huayao Dai costume, which is an important symbol that distinguishes Huayao Dai from other local ethnic groups and represents Huayao Dai culture. The origin of the title "Huayao Dai" is an extension of its clothing cultural image.
Ailao Mountain has a long stream of water, bright sunshine and unbeaten flowers. Huayao Dai costumes also reflect the natural beauty of the Dai people. They use self-woven and dyed navy blue fabrics, embellished with insightful silver ornaments and colorful tapestries, and organically combine the three colors, which is not only in harmony with nature, but also reflects a deep, enthusiastic and straightforward national character.
Xinping Huayao Dai costumes are also the medium of marriage. There is a traditional national costume festival here, called Flower Street. Unmarried girls walk from street to street in groups of three and five, showing their beautiful clothes back and forth. The boys watching choose their own objects through the girls' clothes. When the bustle in the street is over, the girl takes off her dress and puts it on her family's back, while she puts on casual clothes and goes to a secluded place to date the lover selected by Huajie. The girl took out a set of clothes as a token of love and gave them to each other, and a relationship was born.
Li Yingde, director of Xinping County Tourism Bureau, told the reporter that the tourism resources of Dayushu Yao Dai cultural eco-tourism village are very rich. First of all, the big bath is where Huayao Dai lives in the world, and you can appreciate the original and unique customs of Huayao Dai. Secondly, the bells of the ancient palace were unearthed at the ancient ferry, which provided valuable archaeological proof for exploring the mysterious historical origin of Huayao Dai. Li Yingde said that the construction of eco-village should follow the principles of "protection, characteristics, participation, culture, diversity and integration", develop the excellent national cultural customs and agricultural natural eco-tourism resources of Dai people, and transform historical tourism resources into catalysts for the growth of real economy, thus promoting the development of county economy.
At present, returning to nature and returning to nature for leisure and vacation has become the fashion and hot spot of people's consumption. Natural eco-tourism, ethnic customs tourism, cultural eco-tourism, three-dimensional natural landscape tourism, eco-agricultural sightseeing tourism, minority cultural leisure tourism and scientific research tourism have great development potential. The reporter made a rough investigation: at present, the total number of tourists in Xinping is 14 to150,000, including about 80,000 tourists in Yunnan Province and more than 70,000 tourists outside the province. However, with the appearance of the brand of Huayaodai in Xinping, Xinping suddenly became very lively: from June to March 2003, more than 35,600 tourists visited Huayaodai Village in Dayu. Xinping is located in the hinterland of Yunnan Province, the southwest frontier of China, and Kunming Highway makes it in the middle of the two regional tourism markets of southwest China and southeast Asia. Huayao Dai, a nation with a long history, will surely attract many folk delegations at home and abroad.