According to historical records, Mengshan County has been an inhabited area of ??Zhuang, Yao and Han people since ancient times. There is a saying that "the common people live in three places, and the Yao and Zhuang people live in seven." In the brutal struggle against the feudal rule of the Ming Dynasty and the chieftains, the Yao and Zhuang people were expelled in large numbers and fled to the mountains and wild mountains. Until the early Qing Dynasty, this place was still a land of "barren soil and poor people, few people and many rocks". During the Qianlong, Jiaqing and Daoguang years of the Qing Dynasty, a large number of immigrants from outside the country poured in. Among them, there are Han, Zhuang and Yao people. Over time, they integrated into the local Yao people and formed the Panyao, Minyao and Shanziyao branches of the Yao people. The Huang, Chen, Li, Deng and other Yao people all say that their ancestors came from Guangdong, Hunan and other provinces and Jinxiu Yao Autonomous County and other places, and have settled here for more than a hundred years. Mengshan vernacular and Guiliu dialect are the common languages ??spoken by people of all ethnic groups in Changping Yao Township. The Yao people have different languages ??due to different branches. Pan Yao speaks Mian language, while Min Yao speaks Biao Man language. In terms of economic life, the local Yao people mainly cultivate paddy fields and mountainous areas, and also engage in forestry. Rice is the staple food for three meals a day. In the past, due to the low yield of rice, corn and sweet potatoes were often substituted. Cabbage, mustard greens, and pork were used as side dishes; chicken, duck, fish, etc. were mainly used on festive and sacrificial days or to entertain guests. Religion is mainly based on nature worship, offering sacrifices to King Pan, ancestors, land gods, social gods, etc. The master who performs the ritual is a Taoist believer and belongs to the Maoshan and Xiaowang sects.
The 16th day of the eighth lunar month is the "Road Construction Festival". The "Road Construction Festival" is also a singing fair for the Yao people in Changping Yao Township. During every song fair festival, Panyao holds a grand celebration and commemoration event. Men and women dress up in costumes and rush to the song fair set up in the wilderness outside the village. There they sing "Panwang Song" to deeply remember the history of their ancestors. Young men and women They use the form of antiphonal songs to make friends with each other, talk about their love, ask questions about names, and when they are in love with each other, they give each other tokens to get engaged. Dances include "Pan Wang Dance", "Drum Dance", "Shigong Dance", "Recruiting Wo Dance", "Turtle Catching Dance", etc. People in Changping Yao Township are more accustomed to dancing "Shigong Dance" and singing "Mahalie".
August 15th is the traditional festival of Minyao. During the festival, the whole village collects enough money to buy live pigs, make rice dumplings, and go to the temple near the village to worship the gods and pray for their blessings so that the weather will be smooth and the grain will be abundant.
The beautiful mountains and lakes are one of the eight natural landscapes in Mengshan County. In 1975, a river dam was built at Chashanchongkou near Changping Yao Township, turning Chashan into a high gorge and flat lake with vast expanse of blue waves. The lake area has lush vegetation, birds are singing and flowers are fragrant, the lake is sparkling, fish are flying on the shallow bottom, and the mountains are The light, water and color complement each other and make it a good place to travel and escape the summer heat.
The legend of Sanmei Village is similar to the story of Liu Sanjie in Yishan. According to legend, in ancient times, there was a Yao girl named Liu Sanmei. She was smart and good at singing folk songs. She became famous because she beat three talented people, Tao, Li and Luo, in the song competition. Under her influence, the craze for mass singing was in full swing. At that time, the state official ordered a ban on singing on the grounds that it was offensive to morals. Liu Sanmei's brother was afraid that his sister's singing would offend the government and implicate the whole family, so he stopped her from singing. Seeing that she was unmoved, he set up a trick to trick her into falling off a cliff and a waterfall, intending to kill her. Liu Sanmei sang folk songs for seven days and seven nights under the cliff, and she escaped into a cave with a crack in the stone wall and became an immortal. From then on, people called the mountain where Liu Sanmei became a fairy Sanmei Mountain, and the village where she lived was also called Sanmei Mountain. Hence the name.