Customs and Folklore of the Yao Ethnic Groups

BiBei, originally called "BieBei", is a town of Yao nationality in Liyuan Yao Autonomous County, located in the hinterland of Dayao Mountain, 54 kilometers northeast of Liyuan County. Bibi Yao is a branch of the Yao ethnic group, which migrated from Hunan Province during the Sui and Tang dynasties. After the Ming Dynasty, because of the disaster and war, must back Yao compatriots and a large number of Guangxi, Yunnan and other places, and then dispersed to Southeast Asia, and moved to Europe and the U.S. In 1984, the U.S. Yao overseas Chinese, Chinese delegation has made a special trip back to search for the roots of the ancestor, and to the Gui Keng pilgrimage to pay homage to the ancestral tomb of the "Pan Anshang Gong". For this reason, in June 1986 in Hong Kong opened the first international Yao symposium, the closing ceremony was held in the must back. According to reports, the current Yao compatriots living abroad about eighty thousand people.

In the town of Bibi, there is a reception building with strong Yao characteristics, where tourists can taste the flavor of Yao, drink the Yao compatriots homemade Bitter Mulberry Wine, but also to enjoy the Yao boys and girls perform for you Yao Bamboo Kung Dance, the top of the kung fu, the Harvest Dance and the Yao wedding and other national programs. On the front wall of the meeting room in the Yao reception building, there hangs a huge painting of Yao folk customs, and the main specialties of Yao customs are basically reflected on this painting.

In the emerald green pine and fir forests, layer upon layer of terraced fields halfway up the mountainside, covered with a patchwork of Yao villages built on the mountain, the scale of the Yao people are relatively small, a small number of single-family or three or several households in a village, more than ten or eight, dozens of households in a village is uncommon. The houses of the Yao people are mostly built with cedar bark and cedar wood, and some are built with earth bricks and green tiles. Some villages are more than one flat column, there are also "on the residence of the next pastoral" double house structure, the upper layer of people living, the lower layer of the cattle pen or pig pen.

Bibei is a quartz sandstone landscape. Along the back of the river and walking, both sides of the peaks such as knife chopping axe cutting, majestic and steep, the landscape and Zhangjiajie have a different flavor of the wonderful. Among them, Huanglongzhai Scenic Area peaks dripping emerald green, distinct levels, scenic area of the two mountains sandwiched, must be back of the river from the bottom of the valley large and small stones flowed, sometimes splashing waves, where the anchovies in the Tang Dynasty when the tribute. The mountains on both sides of the Bibi River are forested, high into the clouds, and the tops of the mountains are always covered with clouds and mists. The most peculiar attractions include "Huanglong Jade", "Seven Steps to Cloud Rock", "Tiger's Mouth Peak", "Fairy Asking for Golden Turtle" and "Wine Turtle". The most peculiar attractions include "Huanglong Jade", "Seven Steps to Cloud Rock", "Tiger's Mouth Peak", "Fairy Asking for Golden Turtle", "Wine Pot Rock", etc.