Explore the thousand-year-old Yao village, hidden in the mountains of Qingyuan, beautiful scenery, with tips

After seeing too many skyscrapers and man-made landscapes in the city,

once you step into the thousand-year-old Yao Village, you will feel more intimate and rare.

More than 800 ancient buildings permeate the plain and simple flavor,

let people unconsciously slow down their feet to enjoy a deep breath.

The thousand-year-old Yaozhai does not need to be deliberately carved,

still retains its original simple and simple appearance,

silently waiting for the arrival of the person who has the destiny.

After three and a half hours of driving, we finally arrived at the thousand-year-old Yao Village, which is like a paradise in the world.

The Nangang Yao Village, which carries a thousand years of civilization, is located in Sanpai Town, Yao Autonomous County, Liannan County, Qingyuan, and can be called the Millennium Yao Village because it was built in the Song Dynasty, and has a history of more than 1,000 years since then!

Although it has been through a thousand years of wind and rain, today's Millennium Yaozhai still retains 398 ancient buildings built in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, time seems to have stood still, the commercial atmosphere of the Millennium Yaozhai is still a look of the good old days.

According to experts, Nangang Millennium Yao Village is the largest, oldest and most unique Yao Village in China.

She, built on the mountain stacked in more than 800 meters high on the hillside, each front room and back room height staggered, so each family can see the door in front of the picturesque landscape, surrounded by mountains of karst landscape scenery.

From a distance, the millennium Yaozhai looks quite like the style of Santorini in Greece.

The houses are organized in rows, with horizontal streets and straight alleys, using local materials and paving with stones to connect each house, forming a complex of buildings characterized by street to street and house to house, adding unique charm to the millennium Yao Village.

Always loved the poem "Once Upon a Time":

"Once upon a time, the day became slow, the car, the horse, the mail is slow, a lifetime is only enough to love a person".

Wandering in the Millennium Yao Village, you can y feel some of the "Once Upon a Time":

There is no elevator up the mountain, only the stepped stone road paved with lapis lazuli slabs, and if you want to carry the supplies up the mountain, you can't use a cart, you can only rely on manpower or horses.

Nowadays, only in the zoo to see a side of the horse, in the millennium Yao Village is very easy to encounter the "small fortune", not only a photo, but also as a "master", sitting on the "White Dragon Horse" saddle to see the "White Dragon Horse". The first thing you need to do is to take a picture of yourself and sit on the saddle of the "White Dragon Horse" and watch the scenery.

Ancient Walled City, Panwang Temple, Songtangping, Getting Kingstone, Dragon Cultural Observation Deck, Ancient Sarcophagus Ruins, Yao Old Council Chamber, Yao Dance Plaza ...... These monuments that remain are scattered in different corners of the Yao Village, which makes the ancient Yao Village seem more deep and heavy, and is the best witness to the past prosperity of the millennium Yao Village. The old Yao village is the best witness to the past prosperity of the millennium Yao village.

If you want to enjoy the history and scenery of the millennium Yao Village, you can choose to hire a tour guide to explain it, and listen to the introduction while sightseeing.

In addition, you can also start from the ancient gate of the fortress and walk around as you wish, without having to distinguish between south-east and north-west, and step on the smooth and rounded stone road stepped on by the years, you can feel the former grandeur of the millennium Yao village.

In order to have a deeper experience, I rented a Yao costume as a "sandy young lady".

In the scenic area of the visitor service center can be rented, 30 yuan can be rented for three hours, the cost is very good!

After renting a costume, the Yaozhai lady will patiently guide you to dress up, from clothing to hair are meticulous!

The standard Yao costume is a girl's hair wrapped in an embroidered bandana with a string of white pearls.

In addition to this, there are white soft feathers, silver hairpins, silver hairpins, mountain flowers and other decorations, which make them look very beautiful and dignified.

Through the headdress can also distinguish the Yao women's marital status: all the women who are wearing a dupatta are married; unmarried girls, the head is not wrapped wrapped dupatta!

Wearing the Yao costume in the millennium Yao village, do not need to look at the map, walking aimlessly in the middle of the alley, there is no sense of oppression, there is no artificial imitation of artifice, there is no imitation of the antique building of the same.

Just by walking through the rows and rows of footstools, you can find a different kind of beauty.

The thousand-year-old Yaozhai is like a pot of tea, a good book, you need to slowly taste, carefully read out her years of quiet.

Walking along the uneven stone road, you can see some well-preserved monuments along the road: for example, the facility of using water power to pound rice, for example, the Fountain of Youth, for example, the thousand-year-old waterwheel, which are all preserved from over hundreds of years and are very interesting.

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Yaozhai built four fortress gates based on the four clans of Deng, Tang, Pan and Fang, which were used for the defense of the major ethnic groups.

The traces of the baptism of the ages are y engraved in the ancient fortress door on top of the bricks, vaguely, there is a husband to pass, the momentum of the ten thousand enemies had defended the millennium Yao village from bandits and officials violated the disaster, people feel fear.

Nowadays, the ancient fortress door is bustling with activity, in order to let tourists better experience the Yao culture and feel the hospitality of the Yao locals, there is a special barricade wine here, dressed in the Yao costume of Sha Missy will be a bowl of home-brewed rice wine for each guest.

Located in the mountains of the millennium Yaozhai temperature will be lower than the bottom of the county 6-8, thanks to the bowl of wine, after drinking a powerful feeling of warmth in the body all over the viscera and bowels, the whole person is warmed up, so I have the cheek to ask for a bowl of wine!

Walking to the stone, I have been questioning why this is called the stone?

It is said that more than 1400 years ago, there was a medicine picker in Yaozhai who saved a blind immortal. In order to thank the herbalist, the immortal told him that there were a lot of gold bricks in the gutter under the big stone slab behind the house.

The medicine picker and the Yao people really found a large number of gold bricks in the location said by the immortal, and used them to build the wall of the Yao village, the village gate and other public **** facilities.

Nowadays, the golden stone is a must-hit point in the Millennium Yao Village, because there are tea stores, century-old tofu workshops and bean curd stores, and when you are tired and thirsty, you can rest your feet here to taste the Yao Village's specialty tofu flowers.

Secondly, the name of Dejinshi has a good meaning, and everyone hopes to get gold in the future and have better days.

In the same position with the gold stone, there is also the Yao village songtangping.

The Yao people are good at singing and dancing, and this 9-meter-wide, 9-meter-long Songtangping has been the center of activity of the Yao village people for thousands of years, and every major festival in the village will be held here.

In the 50s, the world's classic piece of music, "Yao Dance", was also created in the Songtang Ping, and when it comes to Yao festivals to come here, you will be able to enjoy the visual feast of playing gongs, blowing cow horns, singing Yao songs, and jumping on the long drums.

Personally, I particularly like the location of the song Tongping, looking back at the staggering layers of houses, but also look out to enjoy the scenery of the Panwang Peak. At this moment, time seems to be flowing backward and standing still, leading us to travel back to a thousand years ago.

Walking up from Ge Tang Ping, you will reach the Pan Wang Temple at the top of the mountain.

Looking down from the Panwang Temple, you will have the feeling of having a panoramic view of the mountains.

The Panwang Temple is dedicated to King Pan Gu and Queen Pan Gu, and it is said to be blessed when you burn incense, so there has been a constant flow of incense here for thousands of years.

While we prayed piously, we quietly watched how the locals burned incense and bowed to feel the traditional Yao culture for once.

It is said that burning incense and praying for blessings is an inherent process that must be followed, during which they perform various rituals before it is completed.

Arriving at the ancient sarcophagus tomb will not feel eerie, it is very open, there is no tombstone and so on, you can relax to understand the history and culture of the Yao people.

Sarcophagus tomb burial, is the Nangang millennium Yao village unique funeral, sarcophagus tomb is a symbol of identity and power, only the Yao King is qualified to use the sarcophagus tomb burial.

After the founding of New China, the Yao King thought of progress, voluntarily do not use the sarcophagus burial, so the sarcophagus in the cottage preserved.

Yao Wang is the supreme leader of Nangang Pai Yao Village, responsible for all the affairs of the village, dealing with various disputes, maintaining order, etc.

Therefore, the Yao Wang is the highest leader of Nangang Pai Yao Village.

Therefore, the Yao King has a high prestige in Yao people, if there is a contradiction or dispute, everyone has to follow the ruling of the Yao King.

In the Millennium Yao Village, the Yao King's House and the Yao Old Council Hall are worth a walk. As you walk down from the green stone street, take another stone staircase on the left and you will come across a few of the most important places in the Yao Village: the Yao King's House, the Yao Old Council Hall, the Hong Xiuquan Mission Church, and so on.

The Yao King's House, located in the middle of the mid-level fortress, has a spacious platform in front of the house, with the most open view, and you can see the mountains in the distance.

Continuing on, you will come to the Yao Lao Council Hall.

Inside the hall, there are life-size figures that simulate the meetings of the Yao Laos.

Next to the Yaolao Council Hall is the "Hong Xiuquan Mission Church". Inside the house, there are several paintings and paraphernalia that recreate the scenes of those days.

After walking out of the Yaolao Council Chamber, we kept walking to the right and finally stopped at the Dragon Culture Observation Deck.

The atmosphere of the landscape here is simple and peaceful, with a large Yao village and a hundred miles of Yao mountains in full view, which is refreshing.

The Yao Dance Square in the Millennium Yao Village puts on Yao songs and dances for tourists at regular times every day.

A series of wonderful performances such as Yao Mountain Love Story, Yao Mountain Big Black Umbrella Dance, Original Long Drum Dance and so on are presented with dances.

There is also an interactive session during the 40-minute show, the audience was very enjoyable to watch, completely integrated into the Yao culture.

It is divided into "Single Dance", "Double Dance", "Group Dance" and other types of dance, a total of **** 72 sets of performance programs, and each set is divided into There are 72 sets of performance programs in total, and each set is divided into a number of animal details such as "starting hall", "moving hall", and so on.

Whether it is jumping, leaping, squatting, thwarting or rotating, flipping, big jumping, Yangteng and other dynamics, all show the passionate, strong and brave character traits of the Yao people.

Walking in the millennium Yao village, you can still see Yao aunts embroidering diligently, always with exquisite Yao embroidery technology and unique embroidery style, also become a living fossil of Yao culture change.

Most of the Yao girls began to learn embroidery at the age of eleven or two, and the use of embroidery is mainly to accessorize the clothing, men's and women's clothes, headscarves, belts, aprons, children's hats, satchels, umbrella bags and other objects.

Liannan Yao silver jewelry production technology has a long history, Yao silver jewelry forging technology is unique to the Yao folk technology, all the ornaments are made by hand. The style and structure of the silver ornaments are carefully designed by the craftsmen, and there are more than 30 procedures from drawing to carving and production, with a very high level of craftsmanship.

When you come to the Millennium Yao Village, it is a good choice to buy a piece of Yao silver jewelry, which is said to bring good luck and keep you safe!

The Panwang Festival is the biggest traditional festival of the Yao people. During the festival, the Yao people will put on their traditional festival costumes, and then use songs and dances, sounding the ceremonial gun, blowing the bullhorn, parading around the Yao village, eating the long-table feast, and playing the bonfire party, etc., to worship their ancestors, pray for good luck, and to pass down the traditional culture of the Yao people and carry forward the Yao culture. p> 9:30-10:00 Drums and gongs at Panwang Temple

10:00-10:30 Parade from Panwang Temple to Yao Dance Square

10:30-12:00 Yao songs and dances at the Yao Dance Square

14:00-15:00 Yao Wedding Show at the Yao Dance Square

17:00 19:00-19:00 Long Table Banquet in Yao Dance Square

19:00-20:00 Bonfire Party in Yao Dance Square

Self-driving: navigate to "Liannan Millennium Yao Village"

By car: Bus station in different cities Liannan (Lianzhou) Bus Terminal Tourism line or bus Millennium Yaozhai

(It is recommended that tourists in the county transfer friends can take a bus or cab to the "Millennium Yaozhai")

When you first see the millennium Yaozhai accommodation may not be ecstatic:

There are no chain hotels, and even more so, there are no five-star hotels, all of them are made by local people, and all of them have been built by local people.

There are no chain hotels here, and no five-star hotels.

But as long as you live down, you will be infected by the warmth of the locals, the kind of sincerity and enthusiasm from the bottom of their hearts, so that people feel as if they are living in the home of an old friend, living very warm.

The conditions of the rooms are not luxurious, but very much the flavor of the Yao family, Yao characteristics of the bed linen and decoration style full of features.

If you meet a clear day, you can also look at the starry sky and watch the sunrise and sunset!

We stayed at the Sky View Inn this time, overlooking a mountainous landscape and idyllic garden right out of our room, which was very cozy!

In Yaozhai, there are a lot of food worth tasting:

The Millennium Yaozhai is at a high altitude, and when the wind blows in the fall, it is especially suitable for sun-dried meat.

Walking in the Yao village, you can see that almost every family is drying preserved sausages and ducks, and the aroma is tempting.

Yaojia Tofu Workshop Bean Curd Factory, where the pure natural bean curd is filled with the aroma of soybeans, is certainly not to be missed.

The walk-in chickens, which can be found everywhere, are athletic and each one is a tasty treat with firm meat and crispy skin.

There are also cow hooves, local pork, and raw pit fish, which do not require complicated or high-flying cooking methods, but only simple steaming, but you can eat the most essential and original freshness of the ingredients.

There are several Lianzhou-style restaurants near Xiangniu Tan in Yaozhai, with affordable prices and good produce.

Four Brothers Handmade Lemon Tea is a store I quite like, not only can you drink lemon tea while enjoying a first-class view of the landscape, it also serves intestinal noodles, soup noodles, fried noodles and other breakfasts, and it opens its doors from 6 am onwards.