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Matang Villages
Each village need you half day for these two villages. For organized tourist, a special welcoming ceremony and performance can be arranged to you. Matang is an interesting Gejia village that produces traditional batik customs, Gejia women will begin to learn wax printing at age of 8-9, are skilled at batik, petit point and embroidery, in this village (19km to Kaili), you will fall in an art world of batik.
Langde Miao village
Langde Miao village(include 2 parts: upper and lower), known as the Miao's Ethnic Village Museum, with different Miao's style houses (Diaojiaolou), is recommended for its silver ornaments, embroidered cusumes and local lusheng music and dance performance. You can see some large kiln complexes where bricks and tiles are made by hand with water buffaloes pudding the muddy clay nearby on the road to above 2 villages. Along this river, wooden water wheels are spreading and still work there.
Tonggu Miao village
30km from Kaili, located in Majiang county. decades years ago, it was a small Miao village unknown to the outside, all people are all good at cross-stitch needle work and embroidery. With the help of some professional artists, the villagers began learning painting and it became more and more popular in this ancient Miao village. There is a bold and primitive sense in the pictures.
Now, Tonggu village is well known for its painting full of local color, satisfying aesthetic tastes of modern people. That is the reason why these paintings became sensational when exhibited in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, as well as in Japan and Syria. The village fame as "Home to Modern Folk Painting in China" from the Ministry of Culture, and entitled as "a tourist spot of the Miao people's customs" in 1988 by Guizhou Provincial Government.Tonggu mean "Bronze Drum" in Chinese, Tonggu Dance keeps alive in most of Miao villages now.
Xijiang Miao village
The biggest Miao village in China, a 1000-households village, in Leishan county, 75km from Kaili, surrounded by green hills and blue waters, rows upon rows of pile dwellings stand in the bamboo forests on the mountain slope. Famous for its New Rice Tasting Festival and Miao New Year celebration! Also it is famous for its Silversmith craftsmanship and Harvest Celebration. The local silversmiths have unique craftsmanship for silver ornament making. All the silver ornaments that a Miao girl puts on weight about 9 kg. Harvest celebration is a kind of activity in memory of villagers' ancestors and in celebrating their autumn harvest. The most important thing for the celebration is to hold a memorial ceremony for their ancestry and the happiest thing is to play the Lusheng-pipe and dance. |
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