At the entrance of the village, we were greeted by women in Dai Long skirts. The village is a typical Dai village, and the building is a "dry fence"-style diaojiao building.
After entering the village, a village woman named Yu 'er took us to her home. She lived at No.31. She told us that her family is an excellent reception model household in the village and a 9-star household.
Before entering the village, the tour guide told us to respect national customs. According to the custom of the Dai family, we are not allowed to take photos, record or check the rooms in the house casually. That's what she said before she came in. At the same time, she cordially greeted each of us and invited us to her living room. When everyone sat down, she explained many folk customs here in a slow voice.
? First of all, she told us that she was the most educated person in the village. After graduating from normal school, she could speak Chinese, so she was chosen as the propagandist to receive tourists in the village. She said that people in the stockade believed in Hinayana Buddhism for generations and paid attention to honesty. Everyone didn't pick up anything, and they didn't avoid their home at night. A man married a woman and lived a matriarchal life. He called the boys in the village money-losing goods-because the boys need to send 30 mattresses, 30 pieces of cloth, silver bowls, silver belts, etc. to the girls' homes. Here, the woman is in charge and the village director is in charge. The boys here must go to the temple to practice, and the youngest will go at the age of 4. Her child is 7 years old and is in primary school. She plans to practice in the temple for three years at the age of nine.
Then Yuer told the village that there were many elderly people in their nineties who were healthy, flexible and happy, because they used silverware made by the village silversmith all the year round. The silver here is of high purity, all of which are snowflake silver. Silver bowls, silver combs and silver belts all have good therapeutic effects.
? Everyone believed it and followed her to see the handmade silverware workshop. We also visited Dai language, Dai brocade, Dai pottery and Ye Beijing, and went to the silverware market: some people bought combs and some jade bracelets. Comrade Zhou Jinyun, who went with me, bought eight silver bracelets and a silver comb and spent 5444 yuan as souvenirs for his daughter and granddaughter. The whole group bought tens of thousands of RMB silverware.