"Poya" is a poetic place name in Zhuang language. It is located in the mountains of Peai Town in the upper reaches of Youjiang River at the junction of Yunnan and Guangxi. It belongs to Funing County in Wenshan, Yunnan. Peai Town on the banks of the Tuoniang River is not only the gateway from Yunnan to Guangdong and Guangxi, but also a "rich mining area" for Zhuang culture. In Zhuang language, "po" means hillside, and "bud" is a shrub with small yellow flowers, commonly known as "yellow rice flower", also known as "yang mimi flower". Picking yellow flowers and boiling them in boiling water can make Zhuang people make five-color flowers. The yellow dye needed for glutinous rice, "Poya" means "the place where the mountain flowers are blooming", and the village got its name because it is located in "Poya".
The Gewei culture has flourished here for a long time. There are more than 20 kinds of Zhuang folk songs that have been passed down from generation to generation. Similar folk song cultural phenomena are rare even in Guangxi, where the Zhuang people live together. And Poya Village deep in the mountains is one of the best, exuding the glory of ancient civilization.
The mountains and rivers here are beautiful, the climate is mild, the rainfall is abundant, the trees are lush, the flowers and leaves are luxuriant, and the four seasons are like spring. The ancestors of the Zhuang nationality were the earliest developers of this land, and this was one of the earliest areas where the Zhuang nationality nurtured rice farming culture. Long-term rice farming has honed the national character of the Zhuang people here, who are gentle and introverted, hard-working, brave and tenacious, united and helpful, and creative, and created a rich and colorful national culture.
The ethnic customs here are rich. When I went there, it happened to be the 15th day of the eighth lunar month. The villagers brought out homemade moon cakes to entertain me, a guest from afar... It is such a profound cultural soil, The Poe Ya Song Book was born.
Funing County belongs to Wenshan Prefecture in southeastern Yunnan. It is located in the Youjiang Basin of the upper reaches of the Pearl River at the junction of Yunnan and Guangxi, and is adjacent to Vietnam. The mountains and waters here were once the former residence of the ancestors of the Zhuang nationality, and also the red detour area of ??the Youjiang Uprising. Peiai, where Poya Village belongs, has been an important town on the southwest border since ancient times (Li Fanggui published survey reports on the local language in 1944 and 1957). It can be reached by boat directly to Nanning, and it is an important trade port between Guangdong, Guangxi and Yunnan. Now the most eye-catching slogan on the streets of Funing County is: "Yunnan goes from here to the sea." The Zhuang culture in the Youjiang River Basin is the most concentrated and has the most distinctive characteristics, forming a self-contained national language and a national cultural system centered on "Na" (the Zhuang language meaning rice field, paddy field) culture. The Funing Zhuang people are therefore known as the "living fossils of the Baiyue nation". "Poya Songshu" grew up in such cultural soil, and the recorded Zhuang language is the same northern dialect of Zhuang language as in Baise area.