These are the first time I've ever seen a woman in the world who has been in the world for a long time.
I don't remember when, bumped into the TV ads about Guizhou Xijiang Thousand Households Miaozhai, and rejoiced in the hillside of a sliver of dense green tiled houses.
Although I have not been thinking about it, but, since then, there is a complex on the Miaozhai. People are like this, once in our hearts planted some kind of knot, always eager to have the opportunity to unravel.
At the beginning of April, it is "grass green willow color yellow, peach blossom calendar messy plum blossom fragrance", it is a good season to travel.
A ticket, I went to a faraway place.
Not close to the scenic area door, far away, melodious reed-song floated over, like a cool wind, whisked away the body full of fatigue. At this time, it is the afternoon, the scenic area outside the door of the tourists weaving, from all sides of the tourists, carrying a bag, hanging a camera, wearing a variety of colors of clothing, convergence.
In the spacious dam, the Miao village of the grandpa and grandma, standing on both sides, dressed in full costume, wearing head ornaments, blowing a long reed-sheng, singing and dancing, welcome guests from afar. In the middle of the beautiful graceful Miao women, smiling like the moon, a silver jewelry, glittering, ring pendant clanking, standing in front of a table with rice wine, from time to time with the rhythm of the reed-sheng swaying like a flower. Later learned that this is the most prevalent and most characteristic of the Miao village a method of welcoming guests, commonly known as the door wine. Interested, will go up, drink a cup of this sweet and sticky barrage of wine, throat instantly have a cool stream slipped through. More people, looking for various angles, photographed this celebratory scene, framing the beauty of the Miao village different flavor.
"Xijiang Thousand Houses Miao Village" several big words, set in the village of the first rustic atmosphere of the lintel, eye-catching. When you see these words, it's like a friend's date, and you feel like you're here for the appointment.
Through this lintel, take the battery car forward nearly 2 kilometers, is really arrived in the Miao village.
The Xijiang Thousand Houses Miao Village is located in the southeast of Kaili, Guizhou. It consists of more than ten natural villages built on the mountains, and is the largest Miao settlement in China and even in the world, with more than 1,000 families, so it is called "Thousand Houses Miao Village".
The Miao village is surrounded by mountains and peaks, and the village is connected to the clouds by the mountains, and the Baishui River passes through the village, dividing the Xijiang Miao village into two. The side of the river is mainly commercial pedestrian street, the other side of the river is mainly overlooking the village of the observation deck, the foot of the commercial pedestrian street and the hillside cascading footstools into one. An old house according to the turquoise mountains, households are connected to each other, the green-gray roof in the sunlight flooded with light, very eye-catching.
Put down your luggage and hike to the observation deck. Covered in the mountains of the thousands of Miao village wooden footstools, such as waterfalls pouring down from the mountains, spectacular, from a distance is a huge "cow" type. The relationship between the Miao people and the cow originated from a legend: in the fishing and hunting era, the Miao people began to worship Panzou, but from the farming era onwards, they worshiped the buffalo religiously. The Hmong regard the buffalo and the dragon as the same mythical animal, and believe that the dragon and the cow can change into each other. Therefore, they regard the ox as their "breadwinner" and as an equal being with flesh and blood. No wonder, cow head culture, in the Miao village everywhere.
Looking at the Miao village, bamboo yellow houses, green-gray herringbone rows of roofs, curls of smoke rising, high and low scattered green trees set in between, surrounded by high and low scattered terraces in the mountains, idyllic pastoral style leisure overlooking is. Tile houses are commonly seen, is the countryside, is simple, is low-key. However, this low-key, is the city lined with high-rise buildings can not be compared. This low-profile, is long lived in the hearts of people looking forward to a touch of soft concrete.
In the crowd, some people cheered, some people marveled. Miao people's wisdom, national cohesion, so that the village through the years several changes, still intact in front of the world, what kind of emotions at this time can not use a language to express.
Many people's impression of Xijiang Miaozhai is under the lens. The beauty of the lens is flat, and the beauty of the Miaozhai, is three-dimensional. This beauty, only personally arrived, only zero distance touch, is complete, profound.
Standing on the observation deck can overlook the panoramic view of Xijiang Miao Village. At the entrance of the observation deck stands a huge stone, "the world of Xijiang" four red words are very eye-catching. People come from far and wide to take pictures here. Ten dollars a set of Miao dress, from head to foot decoration, so you instantly transformed into a beautiful Miao women, and such a spectacular, unique footstools into one, but also worthy of the millions of miles to climb the mountains and wade through the water to come.
Twilight, a lamp gradually lit. Soon, the entire cottage is brightly lit, like stars dotting the night sky, countless lights outline the entire outline of the Miao cottage, incomparably beautiful. The Miao village in the night, like a huge night pearl, inlaid in the mountains, extraordinarily brilliant, extraordinarily beautiful, and extraordinarily gentle. At this time, the Miao village, mysterious, simple, heavy, natural and quiet.
Thousands of lamps, lit up the Xijiang Miao Village. Thousands of lamps, like the stars in the sky, you can try to feel the wonderful mood: looking for him a thousand times, and then suddenly looking back, that person is in the end of the lights.
Miao village, open sky, open ground, open arms. With songs, with dance, with food, with true love, accepting people from the south to the north. The Miao people are known as "the song. World of Song, Ocean of Dance". Since ancient times, the Miao people can sing when they can talk and dance when they can walk. In a lamp, in front of a store, the Miao people, set up a long table feast, jumped up the cheerful Miao dance, Lusheng resounded through the Zhai head and Zhai tail, mountain songs around the village.
I was in the tip of the tongue of China, see the long table feast. I know that the real long table feast is open air, dozens of tables connected to the old long long, from the head are not necessarily see the end, in important festivals and important tours to visit, will be set up this kind of authentic long table feast. Since you have traveled a long way, how can you not eat a long table feast? Ordinary tourists usually a dozen people together a table, three or five tables together, all kinds of delicious one by one to present up. The Miao family can sing and dance a brother and sister, one by one to each table, with a clear voice sang the Miao song, jumped up and down the dance, to help the guests enjoy the Miao family delicious.
The dawn, once again lit up the Miao village. Mist shrouded the cottage, the sunlight will be wooden house ferry into gold, chickens singing and dogs barking, daylight Miao cottage is another beautiful ink painting scroll, lively, natural and pure.
Along the walled village up the hill, you can clearly see those footstools, rolling piece, in front of the house behind the green bamboo dotted, red flowers and green leaves breathe peacefully. The child through this house, through that house. The old man according to the lintel, quietly drinking tea in the hands, looking at the tourists coming and going.
The footstools are made of wood, said to be maple. Wooden cradles through the mountains to both sides of the unfolding, with the undulating changes in the terrain, households next to each other, dark red maple board walls in the sunlight a golden. Most of the wooden buildings are three-story, with livestock on the first floor, people on the second floor, and granaries on the third floor. Residence level has a long corridor, surrounded by wooden fences, with benches, the Miao girls are here to pick flowers embroidery, people call the corridor wooden benches for the "beauty leaning", who has a woman look at whose house in front of the embroidery building there is no such thing. Not far from the front and back of the houses, there are drying racks and barns. The road between the house and the house is connected by green stone paving, and there is a drainage ditch, and some people also use small cobblestones in front of and behind the house. Here, the smell of fireworks permeates everywhere. A hanging footstool, flowing with the happiness and joy of the Miao people.
Commercial pedestrian street, is the most prosperous and lively place in the Miao village. The street is built in accordance with the style of the old town, and is also paved with green stone slabs. One after another, the stores are decorated with beautiful Miao characteristic goods, Miao silver jewelry, Miao drums, Miao embroidery, and, of course, flavorful snacks. The most interesting when it comes to Miao silver jewelry, I heard that the men here have mastered the silver jewelry production technology, and everyone Miao silver craftsmanship is exquisite, their new bride's jewelry, are their own hand-designed and built, which is how deep and heavy love ah.
Miao silver jewelry, covering almost all of the Miao people's lives, Kerry Museum of Ethnic Minorities with a whole floor to show the Miao silver. A wide range of silver jewelry, dazzled and dazzled. These silver jewelry, delicate and small to a small toothpick, a beautifully chic earrings, rich atmosphere to the whole piece of sterling silver clothes. Of course, the most beautiful and most exquisite when it comes to the Miao women wearing silver jewelry.
Miao silver jewelry can be called the world's best. After understanding, their silver jewelry is divided into head ornaments, chest and neck ornaments, hand ornaments, clothing ornaments, back ornaments, waist pendant ornaments, foot ornaments. Each part of the jewelry is divided into a number of various kinds, ten million styles. Silver jewelry on a variety of patterns: flying in the sky, walking on the ground, swimming in the water, everything. There is nothing that can not be done, only unexpected. "Everything has a spirit" is the most simple traditional world view of the Miao people, so the landscape, flowers and trees, birds, insects and animals, all have to show in their silver jewelry.
Embroidery, batik and silver jewelry are the three best things about Miao clothing, which is also the basic element of Miao clothing. I watched with interest the Miao women in the store, meticulously weaving, only to see the colorful cotton threads, through their dexterous fingers through the lead, a pattern jumped out. I think, Miao women are all have seven exquisite heart.
Miao clothing, especially the dress, the craft is complicated, embroidery, colorful. A set of clothes often need to spend several years, perhaps a woman's best years. In the hearts of the Miao people, a woman with a good craft is a symbol of dexterity, and will even be the standard for young men to choose their spouses, becoming as important as the Miao people singing and dancing.
The love of beauty is human nature, not age, not race. The Hmong are a people who love beauty more than anything else. The beauty of the Miao people is reflected in their complicated silver jewelry and their carefully embroidered clothes.
The Miao clothing style of the many, the exquisite workmanship, the exquisite shape, in the world can be distinguished. Every detail of the Miao people's life is displaying the ethnic elements, interpreting the far-reaching charm of the ethnic culture, and highlighting the profound heritage of the ethnic culture.
The Miao people, who have lost their words in the constant conquest and migration, have created colorful and rich and colorful folk crafts. Their costumes carry on the migratory culture of their people, and they use needles as pens and colorful threads as ink to embroider the embroidered pieces in a variety of household items and hangings. It is believed that each embroidery pattern pattern has an origin or legend, are y embedded in the culture of the nation, are the expression of national emotions, is the display of the history and life of the Miao people.
Miao clothing, deservedly worn on the body of the history book; Miao silver jewelry, deservedly worn on the body of the robe.
Xijiang Miao Village, a volume of ink scrolls such as fantasy, dream and poetry, a sacred place of national aging for thousands of years, a quiet and simple ancient village. Xijiang Miaozhai, Miao family generations, the home of the heart drawn. Regardless of whether it is rude or delicate, lifting the hand and holding the wrist is not permeated with the ancient civilization and vicissitudes, as if a magnificent flower, set in the depths of the mountains.
See, that a wooden building, through the years of crystal light, soaked in the amber fragrance of time. In this place where the mountains are covered, feeding generations of Miao people, they are the soul of the Miao people, is the root of the Miao people.
The flashing light is the fire that jumps on the hearts of the Miao people, which is cohesion, strength, warmth, light and hope. Thousands of lights, thousands of stories, each one is fascinating, she illuminates the immortal legends of the millennium Miao Village, carrying the history of the millennium Miao Village.