If the mystery and beauty of Xishuangbanna is the Creator's great gift to the last oasis on the Tropic of Cancer, then a large area of natural ecological villages in the Dai Garden in Xishuangbanna can be intact and preserved, thanks to the villagers here on the immense attachment to their own ethnic culture and persistence, thanks to their deep-rooted in the blood and soul of the ecological concept of living in harmony with nature. soul of the ecological concept of living in harmony with nature.
The five Dai villages in the Dai Garden scenic area, Manjung, Manchunman, Manjung, Manjung, Manjung, Manjung, and Manjunga, belonging to the Mengham Township (Olive Dam), Manjung Office, 28 kilometers from the state capital, Jinghong City. Five villages **** there are 309 households and 1487 people. For generations, the Dai villagers here have taken farming as their occupation, and created and enriched the splendid Baye culture with hard work and wisdom. The pole-and-rail bamboo buildings here are simple, elegant and spectacular; the villagers here are pure, simple and hospitable; the folk customs here are unique and strong; the tropical idyllic scenery here is charming and attractive; the villagers here live in harmony with nature and are perfectly integrated, as if it is a fairyland on earth and a paradise beyond the world. In the twenty-first century in today's China, well-preserved ancient villages, it is rare, the Dai Garden in Xishuangbanna called China's first natural ecological village, and not the slightest exaggeration.
The Dai Garden is surrounded by Lancang River in the south and Longde Lake in the north, which is quiet and beautiful. Since ancient times, the encircling rivers and lakes have nurtured the spectacular and extremely beautiful peacock's tail of the village in the park, while the Dai Garden is the most beautiful and eye-catching plume on the peacock's tail.
Xishuangbanna has 13 ethnic groups, the Dai as the main ethnic group, accounting for 35% of the state's total population. As the main scenic spot representing the Dai culture in Xishuangbanna, the Dai Garden, on the basis of preserving the original pole-and-post architectural style and natural scenery, demonstrates the original Dai culture to the tourists through the improvement of the service facilities and the development of national activities, and builds the Dai Garden into a garden of pole-and-post architectural paradigm; a garden of civilization of manners and customs; a garden of strong Buddhist atmosphere; a garden of warm Dai family life.
The Dai Garden is dibbling and dibbling, pure and simple and magnificent, a Dai bamboo buildings and Buddhist temples and pagodas hidden in a variety of tropical forests into the village, but see the banyan trees, trees and other trees cover the sky, lush, green grass on the ground, flowers. The branches and vines crawling on that fence can be used as medicine or become delicacies on the table.
The two natural villages in the park, Man Chunman and Man Listening, whose names mean Garden Walled City and Palace Garden Walled City respectively, have been used in the past as the attractions for the state and municipal governments to receive the inspections and visits of superior leaders and foreign dignitaries as well as for the scholars to study the cultural heritage of the ethnic groups. Premier Li Peng, Vice Premier Li Lanqing, Qian Qichen and Wu Bangguo, Vice Chairman Jiang Chunyun and Peng Peiyun, leaders of the Party and the State have visited the garden in person. The garden is also dotted with the footprints of literati. In the early 1960s, China's famous essayist Feng Mu heard in Manjia Manzha forest path, fortunate to meet the butterfly event, wrote the famous article "Butterfly Club by the Lancang River"; the forties writer Deng Zihua in the "Dianyun Scattered Memoirs," depicting the garden scenery; photographer Xu Xiaobing, Hou Bo and the famous American painters, such as Ding Shaoguang, with the theme of scenery in the garden have left an eternal masterpiece. These heavy and eternal works of literature and art, and the Dai Garden magical nature, from the landscape to print, complement each other.
Walking into the Dai Garden, the star-studded monuments and attractions make people respect the ancient Dai culture. Tabao tree, princess well, peacock grave Zhaixin, mother and child island and other accompanied by a beautiful legend, eye-opening and memorable. A spectacular, exquisite, ancient Buddhist temples, pagodas show the long history of Buddhism, but also show their extraordinary status in the hearts of the Dai people. Man Chunman Buddhist Temple, Man Listening Buddhist Temple has a history of more than a thousand years, has accumulated a rich, heavy culture of the southern Upper Throne Buddhism, the Buddhist Temple is preserved in the famous mural "RuDaMi Reincarnation" and "Sakyamuni's story".
Walking into the Daijia, as if to another time and space, visitors can not help but steep sense of separation. The Daijia bamboo buildings are beautifully shaped, simple and elegant, and characterized by warmth in winter and coolness in summer and moisture-proof and shock-proof. The spacious courtyard is clean and comfortable. The courtyard is full of various tropical fruit trees, and the beauty-loving Dai people also plant exotic flowers and herbs, and various kinds of flowers and grasses fight with each other to release their fragrance, and the flowers and fruits are fragrant throughout the year. As a guest in the Dai family's bamboo house, the Dai people's set of hospitality etiquette is sincerely touching and many thoughts. Daijia cuisine is rich in green food, eggs, mountain treasures, wild vegetables and other delicious and pure flavors. This may also be one of the reasons why Dai girls are slim and beautiful.
Coming to the Dai village, people naturally can't forget to watch the dance art of local Dai people. Famous Dai dancers knife Meilan, white dancers Yang Liping, from Xishuangbanna this piece of magical land to the country, to the world stage of literature and art, after the people of the Dai dance art charm is not for this fall. The Menghuala Naxi Song and Dance Theater in the Dai Garden is the largest open-air theater in Yunnan Province, displaying the dance art of all branches of the Dai ethnic group to tourists, and its representative programs include "The King of the Dai Recruiting" and "Catching the Swinging Road". In addition, Zanha dedication song, folk dance fist dance, knife dance, tattoo dance and so on are refreshing.
The culture and art of the Dai people and nature reflect each other heart to heart, from musical instruments to the carrier of the text of the shell leaves, all show a strong color of nature. The elephant foot drum of the Dai family is like a huge elephant's foot; the gourd silk of the Dai family is taken from the gourd on the gourd frame and the fine bamboo tube refined; the bamboo rice bowl, dining table and stool of the Dai family are carefully woven with scotch strips; the history of the Dai family, legends and Buddhist classics are engraved on a piece of shell leaf, which is the world-famous Shell Leaf Scripture.
What is inseparable from the life of the Dai people is the rich and colorful folk activities, which can be seen everywhere during major festivals or ordinary days. Even the folk activities can easily show the affinity between the Dai people and nature. The water splashing, wedding activities, bag throwing, bride snatching, Dai boxing, cock fighting, etc. in the Dai Garden are highly participatory, and visitors can deepen their understanding of the Dai culture easily and happily in the entertainment. If you have time to participate in Daijiale activities, eat in Daijiale, live in Daijiale, enjoy in Daijiale, experience the pure, natural and enthusiastic Daijiale life, and do a day of Daijiale, it would be more than good.
The Dai Garden is the epitome of the Dai nationality in Xishuangbanna, which concentrates the essence of the Dai culture and shows the typical tropical idyllic scenery. This branch of the peacock on the most brilliant and eye-catching plume, exudes a glittering luster. To Kunming to visit the Expo Park, to Banna tour Dai garden, as the poet said: a day guest olive dam, night dreams back to the Dai garden.
One of the permanent tourist activities:
1, Walled Gate Welcoming: 100 people of Dai family small whistle every day to participate in welcoming activities, give tourists a welcoming dance, sing the blessing, sprinkle water blessing, so that tourists can feel the enthusiasm of the Dai people, the simplicity of the simple folklore and folklore.
2. Visit to Dai Village: enjoy the subtropical Dai courtyard style, the varieties of tropical fruits and Dai dry-stand architecture.
3.Visit to Manchunman Ancient Buddhist Temple:In Manchunman Ancient Buddhist Temple, tourists can participate in Buddhist activities such as tethering, reciting sutra, burning wax strips of incense, drawing lots and so on.
4, Dai folk music demonstration area: here, tourists can enjoy watching the hulusi performance, Zanha performance, Bawu solo, bamboo floor love song and other life scenes.
5. Dai Handicraft Display: According to the characteristics of the five natural villages, each village focuses on the processing of national handicrafts such as brocade weaving, Dai jewelry making, sugar squeezing, pottery making, and the making of shell leaf scriptures.
6, Dai residence visit, Dai guest: show tourists the characteristics of Dai dry-fence architecture, experience Dai hospitality etiquette, understanding of the Dai living environment and the culture of bamboo buildings.
7, Catch the Pendulum: In the Catch the Pendulum field, tourists can enjoy the Dai flavor barbecue and fresh fruits in all seasons.
8, Song and Dance Performance: Mengbala Naxi Art Troupe focuses on the traditional history and culture of the Dai family and the beauty of the Dai girls with beautiful dances, reflecting the colorful national songs and dances of the Dai people.
9, Daily Water Splashing Festival: A large-scale water-splashing activity involving 100,200 people is carried out to make tourists feel the atmosphere of the Dai Water Splashing Festival.
10, Dai traditional festivals and folk activities: according to the characteristics of the season, hold activities such as dragon boat racing, putting on high, cockfighting, bag throwing, drum racing, burning gongfei, catching the pendulum, fine Buddha and so on.
Specialized tourism activities: Daijiale
Through a day of eating, living, traveling, traveling, shopping, and entertainment in Dai villages, with a strong participatory, let tourists experience Dai's history, art, religion, food, clothing, residential and folk customs, and let tourists fully understand Dai's unique traditional culture in a relaxing and pleasant mood through interesting activities, Through interesting activities, tourists can fully understand the unique traditional culture, production mode and ecological concepts of the Dai ethnic group.
The specific activities of Daijiale are: learning a Dai song, dancing a Dai dance, eating a Dai meal, staying in a Dai building, watching a Dai scene, doing a Dai work, splashing a happy water, and being a Dai person for a day.
Li Peng, Li Lanqing, Qian Qichen, Wu Bangguo, Jiang Chunyun, Tian Jiyun and other leaders of the Party and the country, as well as the President of Laos, the Princess of Thailand, the Speaker of the Thai House of Lords and the Speaker of the Thai House of Representatives, the Prince of Japan, and other foreign dignitaries have been to the scenic spot to visit. Mr. Feng Mu came here in the sixties and wrote the popular "Butterfly Meeting by the Lancang River", and in the forties, the writer Deng Zihua described the scenery in the garden in "Dianyun Scattered Memoirs", and the photographers Xu Xiaobing, Hou Bo and the famous American painter Ding Shaoguang left their everlasting masterpieces.
The second phase of the Dai Garden is expected to invest 60 million yuan, and will be built into a folkloric tourism resort and a large amusement park.
Garden scientists say that the Dai Garden is a model of courtyard garden; historians say that the Dai Garden is a living museum of national history; botanists say that the Dai Garden is the gene pool of the plant kingdom; literary scholars say that the Dai Garden is a paradise on earth, far away from the downtown area, and it is hard to find a paradise outside the world
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