As soon as you step into the Millennium Yao Village, you will feel kind and rare.
More than 800 ancient buildings are full of simple charm.
Let people unconsciously slow down and take a deep breath.
Millennium Yao Village needs no deliberate carving.
Still maintains the original simple appearance,
Waiting silently for the arrival of the right person.
After three and a half hours' drive, we finally came to the Millennium Yao Village like a paradise.
Nangang Yaozhai, which bears a thousand years of civilization, is located in Sanpai Town, Yao Autonomous County, Liannan County, Qingyuan. It can be called Millennium Yaozhai, because it was built in the Song Dynasty and has a history of 1000 years!
Although it has experienced thousands of years of wind and rain, there are still 398 ancient buildings built in the Ming and Qing Dynasties in the Millennium Yaozhai today. Time seems to be still, and the Millennium Yaozhai, which is not rich in commercial atmosphere, is still a quiet look.
According to experts' research, Nangang Millennium Yao Village is the largest, oldest and most distinctive Yao Village in China.
She was built on a hillside more than 800 meters high, and the height of each front room and back room is patchy, so every family can see the picturesque karst landform surrounded by mountains in front of the door.
Seen from a distance, Millennium Yao Village has the style of Greek santorini.
Rows of houses, straight streets, local materials, paving with stones, connect all households together, forming a building complex with Yao school characteristics, adding unique charm to the Millennium Yao Village.
I have always liked the poem Once Slow:
"In the past, the color of the sun changed slowly, and cars, horses and e-mails were slow. I have only loved one person in my life. "
Wandering in the Millennium Yaozhai, you can deeply feel the "once slow":
There is no elevator going up the mountain, only a step stone road paved with bluestone slabs. If you want to transport materials up the mountain, you can't use carts, you can only rely on manpower or horses.
Nowadays, horses that can only be seen once in the zoo are easy to meet in Millennium Yaozhai. They can not only take a group photo as a souvenir, but also be "masters" and sit on a "white" saddle to watch the scenery.
Ancient Zhaimen, Wang Pan Temple, Getangping, Dejishi, Dragon Culture Observation Platform, Ancient sarcophagus site, Yao Lao Shi, Yao Dance Square ... These preserved monuments are scattered in different corners of Yao Zhai, making the ancient Yao Zhai look deeper and heavier, all of which are the best testimony of the prosperity of Yao Zhai in the past Millennium.
If you want to appreciate the history and scenery of the Millennium Yao Village, you can choose to ask a tour guide to explain it, while listening to the introduction and sightseeing.
In addition, you can start from Guzhaimen and follow your heart. It doesn't have to be divided into southeast and northwest. Stepping on the smooth and round stone road trampled by years, you can feel the grand occasion of the Millennium Yao Village.
In order to have a deeper experience, I specially rented Yao costumes as "Sha Yaomei".
You can rent it in the tourist service center in the scenic spot, and 30 yuan can rent it for 3 hours, which is very cost-effective!
After renting clothes, Miss Yao Zhai will patiently guide you to dress up, from clothes to hairstyle.
In the standard Yao costume, the girl's hair is wrapped in an embroidered handkerchief with a white pearl thread wrapped around it.
In addition, it is also decorated with white soft feathers, silver hairpin, silver hairpin and mountain flowers, which is very beautiful and dignified.
Through headdress, we can also distinguish the marital status of Yao women: all women wearing headscarves are married women; Unmarried girls don't have handkerchiefs wrapped around their heads!
Wearing the costumes of the Yao nationality in the Millennium Yao Village, you don't need to look at the map and walk aimlessly in the alley. There is no sense of oppression, no artificial imitation, and no similarity of antique buildings.
You only need to shuttle through the rows of diaojiao buildings, and you can find different beauty.
Millennium Yaozhai is like a pot of good tea and a good book. You need to read her age carefully and slowly.
Walking along the rugged stone road, you can see some well-preserved historical sites along the road: for example, facilities that use water to grind rice, such as the fountain of youth, such as the Millennium ancient waterwheel, which have been preserved for hundreds of years and are very interesting.
During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Yao Zhai built four Zhai Men according to the four clans of Deng, Tang, Pan and Fang, which were used for the defense of major ethnic groups.
The blue brick at the gate of the ancient village deeply depicts the traces of years of baptism, and there is a lady in it. For 10,000 years, it has defended Yaozhai from bandits and officials with overwhelming momentum, which makes people feel awe.
Nowadays, Guzhai Gate is very lively. In order to let tourists better experience Yao culture and feel the hospitality of Yao locals, there is a special gate wine here. Shamaomei, dressed in Yao costumes, will send each guest a bowl of rice wine brewed by herself.
The temperature of Millennium Yaozhai on the mountain will be 6-8 degrees higher than that at the bottom of the county. Thanks to this bowl of wine, I feel a strong warm current in my body after drinking it, and the whole person is warm, so I have the cheek to ask for another bowl!
When I got to that stone, I always wondered why it was called a stone.
It turns out that more than 400 years ago, a herbalist in Yaozhai saved a blind fairy. In order to thank the pharmacist, the fairy told him that there were many gold bricks in the ditch under the big stone slab behind the house.
As expected, pharmacists and Yao people found a large number of gold bricks in the places mentioned by the immortals, and used them to build public facilities such as the walls and gates of Yao Village.
Today, Deshishi is a must-see point in Millennium Yaozhai, because there are tea shops, century-old tofu shops and yuba shops. When you are tired and thirsty, you can rest here and taste the special tofu flower in Yaozhai.
Secondly, the name of the stone has a beautiful meaning. Everyone hopes to get gold in the future, and life will get better and better.
In the same position as the stone statue, there is Getangping in Yaozhai.
Yao people are good at singing and dancing. This 9-meter-wide and 9-meter-long Getangping has been the activity center of the Yao people for thousands of years, and every major festival in Zhaili will be held here.
In 1950s, the world classic music Yao Dance Music was also created in Getangping. When the Yao Festival comes here, you can enjoy the visual feast of playing gongs, playing horns, singing Yao songs and dancing long drums.
Personally, I especially like the location of Getangping. Looking back, I can look forward to the patchwork houses and enjoy the scenery of the peaks. At this moment, time seems to be going backwards and standing still, leading us back to thousands of years ago.
Go straight up from Getangping, and you will reach the Wang Pan Temple at the top of the mountain.
Looking down at Wang Pan Temple, you will feel that other mountains look very short under the sky. ..
Wang Pan Temple enshrines Pangu King and Pangu Wang Po. It is said that burning incense and praying for blessings is effective, so incense has been burning here for thousands of years.
While praying devoutly, we quietly watched how the local people burned incense and bowed down and experienced the traditional culture of Yao nationality.
According to reports, it is necessary to burn incense and pray in accordance with the inherent procedures, during which they will perform various ceremonies to complete it.
When you reach the ancient sarcophagus tomb, you won't feel gloomy. It's very open here, and there are no tombstones. You can relax and learn about the history and culture of Yao nationality.
The sarcophagus tomb is a unique funeral in Nangang Yao village for thousands of years. The sarcophagus tomb is a symbol of status rights, and only Yao Wang is qualified to be buried in the sarcophagus tomb.
After the founding of New China, Yao was bent on making progress and volunteered not to bury the sarcophagus, which was kept in the cottage.
Yao Wang is the top leader of Nangangpai Yao Village, responsible for all affairs in the village, handling all kinds of disputes and maintaining order.
Therefore, Yao Wang has a high prestige among the Yao people. In case of contradiction and dispute, everyone must abide by Yao Wang's ruling.
In Millennium Yaozhai, Wang Yao's former residence and Yaolao home are all worth visiting. When you come down from Qingshiban Street, when you come down from another slate step on the left, you will meet the most important places in Yaozhai: Yaowangwu, Yaolao Guild Hall, Hongxiu Quanchuan Church and so on.
Yaowangwu is located in the middle of a semi-bungalow with a spacious platform in front, which has the widest view and overlooks the mountains.
Keep walking, and you will come to the old medicine room.
In the old conference hall of Yao nationality, there is a vivid portrait simulating the meeting scene of the old Yao nationality.
Next to Yao Lao's tomb is the "Hong Xiuquan Chuantang". Several paintings and appliances were displayed in the room, which reminded people of the scene of that year.
After walking out of the old medicine room, we walked all the way to the right and finally stopped at the Dragon Culture Observation Deck.
The landscape atmosphere here is simple and quiet, and the scenery of Yaozhai and Baili Yaoshan is panoramic, which is refreshing.
Yao Dance Square in Millennium Yao Village performs Song Yao and dance performances for tourists at a fixed time every day.
In terms of dance, a series of wonderful performances such as Yaoshan love story, Yaoshan big black umbrella dance, and original ecological long drum dance were presented.
During the period, an interactive session was held. During the 40-minute performance, the audience enjoyed themselves and fully integrated into the Yao culture.
Divided into "single dance", "double dance" and "group dance", there are 72 sets of performance programs, and each set of programs is divided into several animal details such as "getting up" and "moving the hall".
Whether it is jumping, jumping, squatting, falling or rotating, tumbling, jumping and lifting, it shows the warm, strong and brave personality characteristics of the Yao people.
Walking in the Millennium Yao Village, you can still see Aunt Yao's diligent embroidery, which has always been a living fossil of Yao cultural changes with its exquisite embroidery technology and unique embroidery style.
Most Yao girls began to learn embroidery at the age of eleven or twelve. This embroidery is mainly used as accessories for clothes, men's and women's clothes, headscarves, belts, aprons, children's hats, satchels, umbrellas and other objects.
Liannan Yao nationality has a long history in making silver ornaments. The forging skill of Yao silver ornaments is unique to Yao people, and all ornaments are handmade. The style and structure of silver ornaments have been carefully designed by craftsmen, and there are more than 30 processes from drawing to carving and production, with a very high level of technology.
When you come to Millennium Yaozhai, it is a good choice to buy a Yao silver ornament. It is said that it can bring good luck and keep peace!
Wang Pan Festival is the biggest traditional festival of Yao nationality. During the activity, the Yao people will put on traditional holiday costumes, and then worship their ancestors, pray for blessings, and inherit and carry forward the traditional culture of Yao people by singing and dancing, firing salutes, blowing horns, cruising in Yao villages, eating long table banquets, and playing bonfire parties.
Activity time:
2020165438+1October 29th to165438+1October 30th.
Highlights of the event:
From 9: 00 to 9: 30, Wang Pan Temple held sacrificial ceremonies and dance performances.
At 9: 30- 10: 00, Wang Pan Temple will hold gongs and drums.
10:00- 10:30 March from Wang Pan Temple to Yaowu Square.
10:30- 12:00, Yao songs and dances were staged in Yao Dance Square.
14:00- 15:00, the performance of Yao marriage customs was staged in Yao Dance Square.
17:00- 19:00 held a long table banquet in Yaowu Square.
/kloc-hold a bonfire party at Yaowu Square from 0/9: 00 to 20: 00.
Self-driving: navigate to "Liannan Millennium Yaozhai"
Bus route: Bus stations in all cities have buses connecting to Nan (Lianzhou) Bus Station or Millennium Yaozhai.
(It is suggested that tourists who change trains in the county can go to Millennium Yaozhai by bus or taxi.)
When you first see the accommodation environment of Millennium Yaozhai, you may not be ecstatic:
There are no chain hotels or five-star hotels here. They are all small hotels transformed by local people. The scale is not large, and the guest room area is not large.
But as long as you stay, you will be infected by the enthusiasm and mellow of the local people. Your sincerity and enthusiasm from the bottom of your heart make people feel as if you are living in an old friend's house, which is very pleasant.
The condition of the guest room is not luxurious, but it has the flavor of Yao family, and the sheets and decoration style with Yao characteristics are full of characteristics.
If it is sunny, you can also watch the stars and watch the sunrise and sunset!
We stayed at Tianjing Inn this time. When we walked out of the gate, we could overlook a landscape and countryside, which was very pleasant!
There are many delicious foods worth tasting in Yaozhai:
Millennium Yaozhai is located at high altitude. When the autumn wind blows, it is especially suitable for drying raw bacon.
Walking in Yaozhai, I saw that almost every household was drying sausages and preserved ducks, and the aroma was attractive.
Yao Jia Tofu Square yuba Factory, the pure natural yuba is full of the fragrance of soybeans, so it is certainly not to be missed.
Walking chickens can be seen everywhere, full of exercise. Every chicken is delicious, the meat is firm and the skin is crisp.
There are also beef hooves, local pork, raw pit fish and so on. There is no complicated or tall cooking method, just simple cooking, but you can eat the most essential and original taste of the ingredients.
There are many Lianzhou-style restaurants near Xiangniutan in Yaozhai. The price is approachable and the product is good.
Brother Si's handmade lemon tea is my favorite shop. Not only can you enjoy the first-class scenery while drinking lemon tea, but it also provides breakfast such as rice rolls, soup powder and fried powder. It will be open from 6 am.