Guangxi Bama has become one of the world's top five "longevity towns", the only one where the number of centenarians is on the rise year by year. At present, there are five internationally recognized "world longevity townships". They are the Caucasus of the former Soviet Union, Pakistan's Hansa, Ecuador's Bilbamba, China's Xinjiang's southern border and China's Bama in Guangxi, China. 1991 November, the International Society of Natural Medicine World Longevity Hometowns Mission recognized Bama in Guangxi as the "world's fifth longevity township". Dr. Keiichi Morishita, president of the International Society for Natural Medicine and a professor of medicine in Japan, officially issued the certificate of "the fifth long-life township in the world" to the People's Government of Bama Yao Autonomous County in Guangxi on November 12, 2003, and Bama became the first of the world's top five long-life townships to receive this certificate.
The Bama Yao Autonomous County, with a population of 240,000, had 15 centenarians in 1956, 18 in 1958, 50 in 1979, 72 in 1990 and 76 in 2006, and is now the fifth longest-lived township in the world.
The International Society of Natural Medicine honorary member, director of the Bama Longevity Institute in Guangxi, Chen Jinchao, said the longevity survey mission for many years to investigate the statistical data show that the centenarians of the Bama longevity township in Guangxi has been on the rise, while at the same time, the United Nations named the other four "world longevity townships," centenarians were declining year by year, and some have even been difficult to find centenarians! The first is that the number of centenarians has been decreasing year by year, and in some cases it is even difficult to find centenarians anymore.
Bama is a famous tourist town in Guangxi. In addition to longevity resources, Bama's ecotourism resources are rich and unique, and there are the Hundred Devil's Cave, known as the "First Cave in the World", the "Longevity Palace" and the "Water Reedi Rock", represented by the Hundred Bird Rock, and the karst cave groups and sinkholes. The karst caves and sinkholes represented by "Longevity Palace" and "Water Reedi Rock", the winding and gorgeous scenery of Panyang River and the lakes and mountains of Thousand Island Lake, Shouxiang Mystery Tour has been listed as one of the top ten tourism boutiques in Guangxi. In addition, red tourism resources are extremely rich, is the national planning and implementation of the "Baise Wind and Thunder, the two rivers red flag" red tourism line an important part of the territory of the Red Seven Army 21 Division Department site, comrade Weibaqun sacrificed Xiangshabu Cave and a number of famous tourist attractions. Xiaoping's footsteps tour has become another focus and attraction of Bama's tourism development.
Bama is the "hometown of Chinese fragrant pig". Bama is the origin of the fragrant pig, fragrant pig small body round, skin thin meat fine, lean carcass, muscle red, muscle fiber tender, fat nutrient-rich, known as "a family of boiled meat four neighboring incense, seven miles away from the smell of its taste" of the beauty of the name. Bama pig has a long history of breeding, as early as the Song Dynasty has been as a tribute to the royal family. 1995 March, Bama was named by the National Economic Committee of the national product as "China's hometown of the fragrant pig".
Bama is a natural "oxygen bar". Bama air is rich in negative oxygen ions is very beneficial to the human body, the general local air in the negative oxygen ions per cubic centimeter of 5000 or so, the Pan Yang River Valley and some longevity villages up to 20,000 per cubic centimeter more than the domestic large and medium-sized cities dozens of times or even hundreds of times.
Bama is an area inhabited by ethnic minorities. There are Yao, Zhuang, Han, Mulao, Maonan and other 11 ethnic compatriots living in the territory, with simple folk customs and Yao culture and art very colorful, and there is a saying that "there are drums and dances everywhere". In Bama, there are Fan Yao Zhu Zhu Festival and Zhuang March 3 Song Festival. Zhuzhi Festival, every family kills pigs and goats, steams five-color glutinous rice, men, women and children dressed in costumes, gather to celebrate, sing and laugh at wine songs to pass on the love, jumping copper drum dance to celebrate the harvest, the flavor is strong. March 3 Song Festival, young men and women with five-color rice and red and green eggs, in pairs to catch the song dike. When you come to Bama, you can also see such quaint customs as throwing embroidered balls by indigo Yao, shooting crossbows and playing gyros by Tuyao.
We will arrive at Bama soon, so you can see the beauty of Bama with your own eyes.