February 19 underworld rain Anshun
From Anshun, Guiyang rushed to an early, and our aim is to insights self-styled "old man" and the tunbao dwellers. They live in the depths of the mountain heartland in central Guizhou, to shun the center, radius of 150 square kilometers of land, six more than a century, tunbao who stubbornly stick to the large ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty. Tunbao people are the descendants of Ming Tun Army, and their ancestors, the early Ming Zheng Qian south into the response to the court call, "Mita frontiers." Tunbao people in language, dress, architecture, religion, etc., retain the stick to the tradition of six centuries ago.
Drove to the Dragon Castle, we have obviously found a different place: street flying an ancient Battle Flag, a letter to an official script characters "Ming." Women are still wearing a large Ming Dynasty costumes, navy blue long-sleeve clothing large, delicate lace embroidery embodies southern charm, a pair of pointed embroidered shoes, elegant and noble, but they are not bound feet. Because when the original ancestors were here in the fields of military training and farming as the main living, it is not conducive to binding women's feet at the time of the environment.
No local leadership, and we went straight into the vicissitudes of the tunbao village. It turned out that in this world there could be such a culture exists. No one can have such a deep understanding of the stone, tunbao really a rock world. At the foot of tread, and reaching touched, and the eyes see is stones, large bunkers surrounding the tunbao walls and small-to-door in barrels and salt cans, all stone.
Tunbao building process really played into the stone to the extreme, stone bunker patchwork, every household head and the door Shihmen carved door-post, stone-paved courtyard, sculpture of "old money" of water leakage. All this, without exception, amazing tunbao indeed right in a stone building with a deep understanding. We also note that every household is very low doors, windows, both small and few, and all built very high, can only be called the window eyes. Dragon Castle is a fully functional military defense building a model, all are designed to easily defensible. Understandable because the tunbao from the Ming dynasty, is to live in the military stationed here for the purpose. Next we went to a Yanwu Hall, it is reported that it had 200 years of history, the main hall of the Jiangnan style and carved wooden doors are no different from a corner stood a 18-like weapon attracted to our heart and big hair, everybody will perform household of the the combatants spar in the same school together, but only just play to our level of pure blasphemy of this majestic Yanwu Church.
Tunbao person is a "warrior" of the Han population. Best embodies this point is to play, "to show" As the name suggests is to ground the drama for the stage performances paddock. Here we learned to play from the Ming Dynasty military Nuo, which is imposed by the army into the south of Guizhou. Tunbao were the ancestors of the military Nuo dancing is not entertaining people, and more entertainment content is a God, use it as a set off a kind of Nuo ritual ceremonies, boost military prestige, threatening the enemy. Jun Nuo originated in the Song Dynasty, but the history can be traced back to ancient Nuo the Shang period. Along with the historical changes in a military special forces exorcise this Division ritual evolved into today's man and God were both entertaining tunbao ground play.
Our guide led down to the three religions Temple, which means Buddhist, Taoist, and Confucian temples dedicated to Qi. The right side of the penthouse was originally the town's old association, we are curious to get in.. Orderly room filled with white-haired old lady dressed in blue shirt dress, see we have come to us immediately give up a seat. They are Buddha songs, tour guides to introduce them to our party, the old people are kind enough to welcome us, an old man singing a self-compiled for our song, listen, he found that singing is the Dragon Castle and cultural practice well, under the leadership of the party's good health and happiness of a Class content.
Just before leaving, the elderly people to retain Qi, must we Zhuyi Ye walk, declined their invitation, we teach the three posed for pictures before the temple hall.
Out of town, tour guides told us that not far from the nine streams of this tomorrow, there is a large non-governmental activities is a birthday for the Jade Emperor, vulgar called "carry Guanyin", will perform and to play this ancient folk opera. We want to come in would not they want the science, then immediately transfer to the Jiuxi. Only a few dozen minutes, the car had moved into jiuxi it was just a narrow tolerance into a Palestinian car in the street in Taichung. At this point happens to be 17:30.
Next was their cars, we immediately feel the passion and honest villagers Jiuxi, than the Dragon Town of going too far. We go directly to the elderly associations, it is also filled with Father which is Weizhehuolu pumping Han Yan. Walls plastered with old people from writing poetry, calligraphy show a strong side, content to live most of the performance of a pleasant old age, only that the consequences to come to a very high cultural quality of the people here. I can not help but wonder why in the city, we rarely find such a practical content of older Society any more? ! Made a self-introduction, a Father immediately took to the street we went to a family arranged accommodation for us. To lay down their backpacks, Father took us to dinner again. Or the street, we found that a flag printed on the "Five Tigers Pingnan" words, Father said that this is a way theatrical troupe's name, which a total of three to nine streams do theatrical troupe. We entered a small temple, Aunt who hastened to greet us to sit down, and gave us Duancaishengfan. There are a lot of people together to eat, they are tomorrow's activities staff.
Under the ox hair days has been rain, and we asked incredulously if it rains tomorrow, how should I do? Father not agree to say: "No, Jade Emperor tube to tube days, his own birthday, he would not know?!"
Back to the old associations, we had three students, respectively, and Anshun, Guizhou University, Teachers College, and in doing here "China's 100 Village Survey" of the research work. From their mouth to know: jiuxi is one of the largest tunbao Anshun cultural village, sub-Davao, the small fort, Backstreet, it is best to protect the most primitive. The village has a rich cultural heritage, they have been doing here for over a year of investigation, just remember the more than 80 folk songs on the page. The village by a Master of college students are just countless.
Night, all right, we'll follow them to go to a family visit, who was allegedly known for singing folk songs. Unfortunately, he was invited to sing folk songs of other villages, and we had to be disappointment.
Back to the lodging office, and chatting up his daughter, and we found out she was studying economics in Dalian Master, who can not help this new look at the village, then a few students said is true ah. Looking at her still wearing a blue robe giving her the mother of the buns ear cover, we are really difficult to put together two generations of people to contact.
Tunbao shock to me also this: it is old, but yet is a dynamic, it stick to the ancestors of all tradition, it dissolved in a civilized modern society. It is still far from harmonious, simple and sincere, enlightenment advanced.
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