Approaching the Dong Countryside Essay

The peaks are layered, and the highway is winding. A few hours of circling, the bus finally arrived at the destination - the southwest border of Hunan Province, Huaihua pass Dong Huangdu Dong Village, but also Xiang, Gui, Guizhou border area a dazzling new star of tourism - pass "100 miles of Dong cultural corridor "Center. At this time is April 29th 5:30 pm, the bright spring sun has been close to the west of the mountains, glittering haze let the embroidered mountains and rivers more and more colorful.

I have heard of the "South Chu Polar", "Hundred Yue Lapel Throat" known as the channel, is the original version of today's harmonious society, naturally more excitement, more expectations.

Can't wait to jump out of the car, raise your eyes and look far away, live a typical paradise into the eyes. Under the clear sky, the green hills are hidden and around, the river meanders and flows, wind and rain bridge is majestic, the village is covered with green trees, footstools are scattered. Tranquility! Mysterious! Peaceful!

According to legend, the ancient king of Yelang passed by this place, was attracted by the rich local folklore, and was not happy to go home, promising to build a capital here, the name "Huangdu" has been passed down to this day. Huangdu Dong Village by the head of the village, Panzhai, tail village, and the new village is composed of a collection of ethnic characteristics, residential architecture in one, the integration of ethnic culture, ethnic customs in a Dong cultural tourism area. 500 more than the footstools composed of footstools group magnificent.

A wind and rain bridge called "Puxiu Bridge" spans between the highway and the new village. Bridge, stone lions silent guard sentry; bridge, the river trickling; bridge bottom, stone piers tripod; bridge body, the whole timber construction; bridge top, four dragons protect treasure guard village. Three shrines are set up on the bridge, dedicated to the ancestors of the Dong people; the bridge promenade, multi-level octagonal pavilions dotted between; pavilion walls, the carved mythological stories, legends of the Dong people, the form of realistic, lifelike. Flying eaves and corners, black and white decorations, full of exotic flavor. The structure of the whole bridge is rigorous, exquisite and perfect, which is breathtaking. Strolling on the bridge, through the exquisite window panes on both sides, you can see the scenery of "four green mountains and three rings of water, a building of the moon and ten thousand flowers village". This bridge was built in the Qing Dynasty during the Jiaqing period, the Department of provincial cultural relics, known as the wind and rain bridge of the best, is the real Dongxiang "blessed bridge".

Walking through the Dong village, the elegant and chic hammock buildings are lined up, making people think of a long time; a simple and heavy stone road connects the hammock buildings, and also connects the Dong family members of the thousand years of unchanging simplicity and true love. In front of the first village, two drum towers built in the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty stand majestically. Drum tower is also a wooden structure, four columns through the roof, multiple columns bracket, octagonal eaves tower structure, firm and rigorous, after hundreds of years of wind and rain and immortal. Drum tower built-in with a "drum", in case of emergency that is the drum set the crowd. Inside the building, there are sculptures or paintings of dragons, phoenixes, birds and animals, landscapes and flowers, or mythological figures. The drum tower records the vicissitudes of the Dong family, but also witnesses the happiness of the Dong family today. In front of the Drum Tower is an open and spacious large ping, which is usually a place for the Dong people to gather and discuss, and becomes a stage for people to play the Lusheng, step on the song hall and sing and dance on New Year's festivals. The people of the Dong village have not changed their habits for hundreds of years, as if the time back, the Dong village is full of mysterious charm.

One hour Dong village "DuoGaDuoYe" song and dance party, gathered the essence of Dong traditional culture. Dong song, welcome song, flute song, Lusheng dance, DuoGaDuoYe dance ...... and other full of Dong characteristics, lively, interesting song and dance performances, it is the most image of the life and culture of the Dong people in the Huangdu, the most real reproduction. Since childhood in the song and dance cultivation of the Dong brothers and sisters can sing and dance, beautiful singing, gentle pipa, vivid image of the Lusheng dance, and tourists interact with the Duo also dance ...... refreshing. Before the song and dance began, the executive vice mayor of that a passionate speech, the politics, economy, life in the Dong village, the Dong village of the past, present and future, like a splendid picture, one by one, in front of people's eyes. "The first is that the first time the two of them were together, the first time they were together, the second time they were together, the third time they were together, the third time they were together.

In the darkness of the night, the rows of the "combined feast" in the ping are astonishing and delightful! It must be the world's most unique banquet! The colorless transparent lacquer-coated cedar wood tables, which are only as high as a coffee table, are placed one after another, with a row of long benches on each side of the table, and guests are seated across from each other on both sides of the table. The table is covered with a variety of Dong specialties, pickled fish, black glutinous rice cake, fragrant Dong bacon, sour vinegar pickled wild fern ...... accompanied by sweet and pure intoxicating glutinous rice wine, mouth-watering. This long "together feast" stems from the Dong family's virtue of hospitality. Once, whenever the cottage came to the guests, the simple Dong family invited guests to dinner, and guests can not be eaten at home, so we all bring the best dishes from their own home together to treat the guests, not only the hosts do their best, and the atmosphere of hospitality is more enthusiastic. The custom of "combined feast" was thus preserved. Since then, the Dong family or red and white celebrations, or the arrival of honored guests, are to do "together feast". During the banquet, the pure and beautiful Dong girls, handsome and naive Dong boys, singing the "Dong toasting song" to the guests to toast, the endless singing, the passion from the bottom of the heart, so that the "guests" can not resist the temptation of a bowl of sweet rice wine, drunk! Drunk! Even if the wine is not intoxicated, this simple countryside can not let all the guests intoxicated!

If the Huangdu Dong Village allows us to truly appreciate the strong folk culture and flavor of the Dong village, then the Diyan Folk Customs Park and Wanfo Mountain tour, but we y appreciate the unique and beautiful natural scenery of the channel. God is really enough to favor us, a whole night after the gurgling incessant spring rain, and give us a clear and bright sunny day. When we wandered in the beautiful scenery of the "Diyan Folk Customs Park", it was April 30th morning.

Through the solemn and majestic, exquisite craftsmanship and very Dong characteristics of the architectural style, on the book "Diyan Folk Customs Park" of the park's main door, which is known as the national 2A level tourist attractions, a multi-functional city park will be presented in front of us. The park is only 1 kilometer away from the county, covering an area of 2.5 square kilometers, within the tourist resort area, cultural entertainment area, water recreation area, natural scenery tour area for tourists to visit sightseeing, leisure and vacation. The main attractions such as Doklam, Qingyun Temple, Qishi Villa, 21-story Century Drum Tower, Century Court, Songyue Bridge, Water Paradise, Doklam Climbing, Welcome Building, and Lusheng Song and Dance Performance Ground attract a large number of citizens and tourists. We take advantage of the little time, walking Songyue Bridge, canoeing water park, forgetting to sing "sister you sit at the head of the boat, brother walk on the shore ......", really enjoyable, forget to go back. I would like to go to climb a single rock, I would like to go to listen to the Qingyun Temple of the wooden fish Brahma ...... However, time does not allow, all of this for the time being as the most beautiful regrets set aside in the bottom of the heart it!

The Wanfoshan trip is the last and most beautiful enjoyment in the channel. 168 square kilometers of the national 3A scenic area, with the country and the world's rare, nearly 100 square kilometers of large Danxia landforms. Here, not only "10,000 peaks embracing Cuihuan", and the integration of peaks, forests, caves, water in one, set of male, dangerous, precipitous, show in one, Danxia Red Cliffs and the green shade of the blue water, like a ruby has not been carved inlaid in the quiet, the original ancient vast sea of forests. Wandering in the middle of it, as if wandering in a landscape full of poetic ink painting scrolls, people dust thoughts pass away, relaxed and happy. Along a leading to the top of the mountain, winding tour road, we appreciate the tour, only to see the red rocks and green trees, reflecting each other; Danxia Peak Forest, rising from the ground; the peaks stacked, back to the wrong columns; the waist of the exposed stone wall, nature's ingenuity, with thousands of years of wind and rain erosion, created a number of orderly arrangement of the stone Buddha. Standing in the lofty peak of Wanfo Mountain, let the wind howl, truly experience "a glimpse of the mountains" feeling, "want to try with the sky than the high" of the spirit of the steep and born. The four walls of the main peak are knife-sharpened, majestic and awe-inspiring. Look around and see, ten million Danfeng, or array, magnificent momentum; or as a battleship, riding the wind and waves; or as a steed, galloping forward; South China Sea Turtle, Tianshu Rock, Thousand Buddhas Wall, Bridge Rock, Moon Bay, Immortal Residence and other attractions featured a variety of peculiar shapes, but also fantastic ......

Dong Township in the channel, not only has a splendid Dong ethnic minority, but also the Dong people. With the splendid Dong cultural heritage and ancient elegant and simple folk customs, is also a natural scenic area with clear water and beautiful scenery, full of wonders and scenic spots, or a piece of the Chinese Revolution's red shrine, with a large number of cultural relics and relics of the Red Army. Especially in December 1934 in the County Creek Gongcheng Academy held a "Passage to the army" meeting, for the "Zunyi Conference" laid a solid foundation for the victory, for the victory of the Chinese Revolution with a colorful stroke.

The beauty of the road is not enough to enjoy, just because the time is not enough to use. April 30 after lunch, with a deep attachment, we sang the tour guide taught the Dong village welcome song, to the beautiful Dong village waved goodbye. Although, the beauty of the Dong village we only a cursory glance, but in the heart of the eternal ripples; Dong culture only a shallow taste, but in the mind left an endless flavor. Passage, is Hunan's Shangri-La; Dongxiang, is the real "paradise". I really hope that one day, I can put down all the mundane matters, enjoy the beauty of the Dong village, the pure Dong village, the harmony of the Dong village, the joy of the Dong village!