Although we don't like rainy days, we all have no ability to control the weather. Sometimes the rain comes unexpectedly. For example, when Yu Fan was traveling in Qianhu Miao Village in Guizhou some time ago, it rained for several days continuously, which once made us feel particularly depressed. As a self-media traveler, while enjoying the journey, I also hope to take pictures of what I have seen and heard, and then share them with you. It is necessary to take an umbrella when it rains, which undoubtedly brings a great burden to our shooting work.
In fact, this kind of thing often happens in our travels. We need to make a concrete analysis according to the actual situation of each tourist destination, and then make adjustments according to objective needs. For example, we added a lot of indoor play, experience and leisure projects to our trip, which made our trip equally wonderful and unforgettable. Let's take a look:
There is a Gage Gu Xiang in Qianhu Miao Village, where various intangible heritage workshops are gathered on both sides, and the ancient papermaking passed down by Miao people for thousands of years is one of them. Papermaking is one of China's "Four Great Inventions", which has a very long history and has made great contributions to human civilization. However, with the rise of modern industrial manufacturing, there are not many ancient papermaking arts preserved.
When we arrived at the ancient paper factory, a Miao sister was making paper, so we went forward and asked her some questions about the ancient paper-making of Miao people. She said that the ancient papermaking in Qianhu Miao Village has been passed down for thousands of years, and it has always been based on the bark of Broussonetia papyrifera on Leigong Mountain. According to the Biography of Cai Lun in the Later Han Dynasty, "bark, hemp head, cloth and fishing net are used as paper." The "bark" mentioned here is actually bark.
A-mei of Miao family said that Miao people must go through peeling, drying in the sun, cooking, retting, bleaching, rinsing, selecting materials, cleaning, beating, washing bags, mixing water, slotting, mixing materials, making paper, squeezing, drying paper, uncovering paper and bundling. After getting familiar with the Miao family, Yu Fan said that she wanted to experience this ancient paper-making art. Unexpectedly, she readily agreed and patiently explained to me the matters needing attention in the operation process.
Yu Fan tips:
1. The address is located in Gage Gu Xiang, Qianhu Miao Village.
2. Cost: Experience an ancient paper-making art painting 68 yuan, which you can take away after painting.
3. Game time: 1 hour
Some friends always want to go to many places when the weather is fine, so the trip is very compact and full. In fact, it is also a kind of tour, in a hurry. In fact, this is not the best state of travel. Rain can actually slow down our journey, just as time slows down. We can go to a teahouse to wash vegetables and listen to local friends introduce local historical stories, which will make our trip deeper.
So, we went to a teahouse in Gage Gu Xiang for tea. The tea here is a unique variety of Leigong Mountain-Gaoshan Yinqiu Tea. Silver ball tea is different from the tea we usually drink. It has a unique shape. It is a sphere with a diameter of 18-20mm, and its surface is silver-gray and dark green. In a cup, brew with 200ml boiling water, and after five minutes, brew with 50ml boiling water. At this time, it is fragrant, thick, cool, sweet, cool and energetic.
Sister Miao, who made tea for us, told us that Yinqiu tea was produced in Leigong Mountain, a famous nature reserve in Leishan County. The tea garden is located in Leigongshan National Nature Reserve, with an altitude of 1, 300- 1, 400 meters. The soil is loose and fertile, often foggy, with much diffused light, abundant rainfall, fresh air and good tea quality. Moreover, the selenium content of Yinqiu tea is as high as 2.00 μ g-2.02 μ g/g, which is 15 times of the average selenium content of ordinary tea. It is nutritious and healthy.
Yu Fan tips:
1. Address is located in Gage Gu Xiang.
2, cost: you can buy according to your own needs.
To go to the largest Miao village in the world, you must see an authentic Miao song and dance. The beautiful Xijiang River is the best choice. The stands can shelter from the rain, but the middle stage is open-air. If it doesn't rain too much, the performance will go on normally, and the actors will perform in the rain (the one we saw rained, and it rained harder and harder, but the dedicated Miao brothers and sisters just gave us a wonderful performance in the rain. If it rains heavily, the performance will be cancelled.
"Beautiful Xijiang River" is a Miao song and dance performance with "all colors and flavors". It is divided into four chapters with stories, culture and characteristics, and its style is simple, rough and primitive, which fully expresses the sincerity, simplicity and excitement of the family who came out of the seedlings, leaving people wanting more.
Yu Fan tips:
1, performed in Xijiang Town, Leishan County, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture.
2. Daytime performance time:11:30-12: 25; Evening performance: 20: 30-21:40; On holidays, there will be extra games in the evening;
Strolling through the streets of Qianhu Miao Village in Xijiang River, you can see many shops selling batik clothes and handicrafts at any time, which shows that batik is very popular among Miao people. In Gage Gu Xiang Tourist Street, there is a batik shop for tourists to experience, and two ladies in the same trade decided to experience it. After consulting, I learned that batik body dyeing has several prices. Experience 68 yuan with a small batik kerchief, 98 yuan with a batik T-shirt (88 yuan for children) and 98 yuan with a batik scarf. After batik, headscarves, bulletproof vests and scarves can be taken away or sent back.
The two ladies in the same trade decided to experience the small square towel, and then Mei in the shop introduced us to the history of Miao batik. She said: Miao batik has a long history, which can be traced back to ancient times. In ancient times, people called it batik wax. Simply put, it is to draw patterns on linen, silk, cotton, wool and other fabrics with wax, and then dip them in the dye vat. If there is wax, it can't be dyed, so remove it. The state attaches great importance to the protection of intangible cultural heritage. On May 20th, 2006, batik was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.
Miao batik uses a special wax knife to spot wax, and uses beeswax to melt juice and draw it on white cloth. When you take it out after dyeing, flowers will appear when the wax is gone (the same is true of Indonesian Badik, I wonder if it was handed down from China). The manufacturing method is to lay a piece of white cloth flat on the table, and then put beeswax into a small pot. When the temperature rises to 60 70C, the wax melts into a liquid state, that is, copper wax dipped in wax juice is coated on the cloth. In fact, this is also a kind of painting art, painting on white cloth with a wax knife as a pen. Where wax is applied, it will not be colored when dyeing, and eventually it will retain its original white color, while the part not coated with wax oil by wax knife will be colored when dyeing.
According to Guizhou Tongzhi, this batik cloth was once called "Kubabu", and it was also called "Canbabu" because it was mainly produced in Miao and Yao areas. Batik printed cloth dyed with indigo, with white flowers on a green background, has strong national customs and local flavor, and is a unique flower of national art in China. So it is very good to travel to Miao village and experience this ancient folk art here.
Yu Fan tips:
1, the experience location is Gage Gu Xiang in Qianhu Miao Village;
2. Experience price: Batik small square towel experience 68 yuan, Batik T 98 yuan (88 yuan for children), Batik scarf 98 yuan. Batik-printed square towels, body towels and scarves can be taken away or mailed back.
3. Experience time: 1 hour or so;
Miao nationality has a language but no writing, and their cultural heritage is usually passed down by singing ballads and recording embroidery. Therefore, Miao Xiu is a long-standing handicraft art of Miao people, the main decorative means of Miao costumes and the representative of Miao women's culture. Miao costumes can be divided into casual clothes and formal clothes. They wear casual clothes on weekdays, and girls wear formal clothes when they get married, regardless of clothing or headdress. Complex technology and fine workmanship.
In Youfang Street, Miao Village, Qianhu, we can see many embroideries on Miao costumes for sale. In Gage Gu Xiang, we can also experience Miao embroidery. Aunt Miao teaches you how to embroider, which is naturally of great significance for understanding Miao culture and feeling their historical heritage, and can make our journey more unforgettable.
Miao embroidery has the function of inheriting history and culture, which is mainly manifested in embroidery patterns. Almost every embroidery pattern has its origin or legend, which contains national culture, is an expression of national feelings, and is a display of Miao history and life. Butterflies, dragons, birds, fish, polka-dot flowers and duckweed flowers are all sung in Miao ancient songs, with bright colors, clear composition and simplicity.
Yu Fan tips:
1, the experience place is in Gage Gu Xiang.
2. Experience fee 68 yuan. You can embroider a small square towel and take it with you.
Rainy days affect outdoor travel, so you can visit the local museum. Xijiang Miao Museum is located in Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village Scenic Area, and the tickets have also been included in the tickets for the big scenic spots. It is composed of a single two-story building with typical Miao architectural style, with a brick-concrete structure and a wooden structure on the second floor, and the appearance is a diaojiao building unique to Miao nationality. There are 1 1 exhibition halls in the museum, which are lobby, history hall, production hall, festival hall, song and dance hall, architectural skill hall, clothing and silverware hall, sports seedling yiguang, witch culture and religious belief hall, living hall and multimedia multi-function hall. It vividly shows the precipitation of Miao traditional culture and the concept of Miao culture in Xijiang area.
According to legend, the ancestors of Miao nationality were one of the earliest nationalities to develop the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and Yellow River, and Nuwa, Tai Hao, Shao Hao and Jiuli tribes were the main sources of Miao nationality. After the Zhuolu tribe's annexation war at the beginning of civilization, Jiuli moved to the west for a thousand years, and most of them were integrated into the Huaxia nationality in China, some of them were integrated into the northwest and southwest ethnic minorities, and the trunk developed into Miao, Yao and She nationalities. Miao people in Xijiang River also crossed the river and crossed the mountains to the foot of Leigong Mountain in southeastern Guizhou, and settled down in Xijiang River by intermarriage with the permission of the pioneer Liang Ling Miao people.
According to the staff, there are more than 350 cultural relics in Xijiang Miao Museum, which are rich and diverse, recording the progress of Miao civilization and cherishing the achievements of Miao civilization. As the accumulation of history and culture, Xijiang Miao Museum is not only an important symbol of the progress of modern social civilization, but also a valuable base for inheriting national culture and an important carrier for carrying forward history and culture and accelerating the construction of advanced culture. In my opinion, it is an encyclopedia to understand Miao culture.
1. Opening hours: 9- 17:00 every day.
2. Tickets are included in the big tickets of the scenic spot. At present, tickets for thousands of Miao villages are at half price, only in 45 yuan;
Miao people have language but no writing, and many Miao cultures are passed down through ballads. Miao ancient songs are oral epics created by Miao ancestors in their long-term production and life practice, magnificent pictures of ancient Miao people's lives, and an encyclopedia of Miao history and culture integrating history, ethics, folk customs, costumes and architecture. In 2006, Miao ancient songs were included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.
Yu Fan listened to the staff and said: Miao ancient songs are very rich in content, involving almost all aspects of Miao life and full of myths. From the creation of the world, the casting of the sun and the moon, the growth of everything, the devastating flood, the migration of ancestors, the social system, and why clothes are dyed like that, why the bun is pulled like that, every custom, everything, and even the origin of a small firefly, there is a song to describe in detail. The ancient songs of Miao nationality show the philosophical thoughts of Miao people's animism, sanctity of life, equality of all beings and unity of heaven and man.
The singers of ancient songs are mostly old people, wizards and priests. They sang for days and nights or ten and a half months. Miao people always sing Miao ancient songs during Chinese New Year holidays, weddings, funerals and gatherings of relatives and friends. Today, Miao tourist village receives tourists and sings Miao ancient songs. The tunes of Miao ancient songs vary from place to place and have their own characteristics. In Qianhu Miao Village of Xijiang River, the ancient songs of Miao people sung by the old people are unique in style, rich in sound, solemn and profound in content, like the sound of nature, endless and long in meaning, which can be called a must of Miao ancient songs.
1. Gage Gu Xiang has ancient karaoke bars, which can be enjoyed for free;
2. Miao ancient songs are taboo, and not everyone can sing them on any occasion. For example, "The Flood" can't be sung generally. When you have to sing, you can only sing outdoors, not at home, but after killing chickens and ducks, which means to commemorate the suffering of human ancestors. The marriage of brothers and sisters, because it involves the marriage of brothers and sisters, is taboo by future generations, so Miao people think that singing at home is suspected of desecrating modern ancestors.
Tickets: 90 yuan (now half price in 45 yuan), four trips to 20 yuan and sightseeing bus (North Service Area-Old North Gate, Observation Deck-Yufeng No.1 Bridge);
Transportation: There are shuttle buses to Qianhu Miao Village at Kaili Bus Station and Leishan County Bus Station, and the prices are 20 yuan and 12 yuan respectively. If you take the high-speed train, you can take it at Kaili South Station, and then go to Qianhu Miao Village through the scenic through train or carpool. The cost is around 40 yuan; You can also take the bus to Kaili bus station, and then transfer to the shuttle bus to Qianhu Miao Village, which can go directly to the north gate of the scenic spot.
When we go out, it will be sunny and sunny, and there will definitely be wind, frost, rain and snow. Every weather has its own customs. It's sunny, sunny, rainy and sunny. So when we go out, don't be affected by the weather. We should adjust our plan according to the situation. No matter what the weather is like, we can play our own wonderful games. what do you think?