Wumeng Prairie, located in Liupanshui City, Panzhou City, Guizhou Province, Wumeng Township and Pingdi Yi Township territory, the scenic area covers a total area of 178 square kilometers.
Wumeng prairie scenic area for the elevation of 2000 meters to 2857 meters, an average elevation of 2500 meters, is the highest elevation in Guizhou, the area of the largest alpine meadow, the highest point of Niubing Liangzi 2857 meters, Guizhou's second highest peak, the lowest point of the Wanguankou 740 meters, the difference of more than 2100 meters.
Wumeng Prairie Scenic Area has 100,000 acres of grassland, 40,000 acres of short-footed rhododendron, and the unique natural and cultural landscapes, such as the Long Haizi, the Sea of Clouds and Buddha's Light, cliffs and cliffs, the Wu Wang Zaying Mountain, the Butler's Old Rock, the Silver Factory Kouzou, and the Yi Ethnic customs. Every year on June 24th of the lunar calendar, there is a unique Yi festival - Torch Festival, is the Yi family's grandest annual festival, commonly known as the "New Year".
As the most important day of the year for the Yi family, the Yi brothers and sisters will be dressed in costumes, singing and dancing to celebrate the arrival of the festival, full of folk flavor traditional sports fighting sheep, cockfighting, fighting birds, Gao Suoqiu four competitions for the festival to add a different kind of fun. 2017, Umeng Prairie was named the national 4A scenic spot.
Specialty food:
Wumeng Prairie has been circulating such a folk song, "one to the mountains to put the sheep son, two to the slopes to plant buckwheat, three to the beams to dig yams, four at home to raise pigs and chickens." Here, you can enjoy the beauty of the plateau, but also to taste the delicious countryside souvenirs, such as roasted whole sheep, black yam, black bone chicken, earth eggs, water mixed wine, buckwheat poop and other farmhouse souvenirs.
One of the buckwheat is one of the unique crops in the Wumeng Mountains, it is rare in nature, both medicinal and food crops. Yi family members use it to do "buckwheat cakes" "buckwheat lumps" "buckwheat soup", etc., has a high nutritional health value and therapeutic effects. "Three to the beam digging taro" refers to the Wumeng prairie specialties, "Wuyangyao".
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Wumeng Prairie