Late summer and early autumn are good seasons for traveling. The author walked into this place where the Miao's "primitive ecological" culture is the most intact, and visited the Taoyuan world like a dream.
Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village is located at the foot of Leigong Mountain in the northeast of Leishan County, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province. It is the largest Miao village in China and even in the world. The village is rich in ethnic customs and colorful Miao culture. It is known as the natural museum of Miao culture and art in China, and is a "living fossil" for studying Miao history and culture.
According to legend, the ancestors of Xijiang people dragged their children from the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River to the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River from the Chiyou era. After many migrations, they hid in this mountain far from right and wrong.
A long history has given birth to a unique humanistic landscape and national culture. The Miao architecture, costumes, silverware, language, diet and traditional customs here are not only typical, but also well preserved. The annual Miao New Year Festival, Eating New Year Festival and Thirteen-year Tibetan Festival have become grandstanding to watch and study Miao traditional culture.
Follow the zigzag Miaoling Mountain, cross the fence, enter the valley at the foot of Leigong Mountain, and arrive at Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village. Looking around, the hillside is strewn with wooden stilts, and the brown old houses are spread from the valley to the top of the mountain by Qingshan, dotted with thousands of Miao villages, which is spectacular.
In the morning, chickens crow and birds sing, and in the evening, smoke from kitchen chimneys curl up. Walking on the cobblestone country path, you can quietly feel the temperature of the whole Xijiang River, as well as terraced fields, green hills, a-mei, diaojiaolou ... the picture of Miao family life comes into view.
In the alley, there will be waves of singing from time to time. It was only when asked that the old people sang the ancient songs of the Miao nationality and sang the history of the Miao nationality. Although I don't understand, I'm not in the mood. Along the way, there are old Miao people making handmade fabrics to express their respect for the inheritance of national culture in the most traditional way.
Long table banquet is a must-see item when you come to Xijiang. Miao people have a saying that "no wine, no utensils", and the unique "high mountains and flowing water" is a must. Miao, dressed in costumes, arranged the wine vessels from high to low, poured the wine in turn, and the wine flowed down from top to bottom, forming mountains and running water to propose a toast to the guests who were dining.
Lighting at night is a tradition in Miao village. Lights piled up from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain. The whole village has completely turned into a sea of lights, and the flashing lights not far away seem to have turned into beautiful starlight, dressing up thousands of Miao villages in this mountain as the brightest galaxy in the starry sky.
If you want to systematically understand the history and culture of Miao nationality, the beautiful Xijiang large-scale party is the best way. The display of four songs and dances, Feng Cheng Butterfly, Migration, Xijiang Style and Miao Township Splendid, reproduces the whole process of Miao nationality from birth, migration, settlement to life.
Xijiang Miao Village is a dreamlike Taoyuan world. As Yu praised in "Answering Everything with Beauty", "Xijiang is beautiful beyond imagination." The hanging wood downstairs, the wind blowing next to the rice waves, in the elegant song and dance, at the welcoming ceremony, there are such flowing scenery everywhere.
"We must continue to protect and develop Xijiang Miao traditional culture." The person in charge of the scenic spot said that Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village will continue to dig deep into its cultural connotation, develop more special tourism projects, and show better brands of Qianhu Miao Village to tourists all over the world.