Dehang Village

Dehang Village

Dehang is 20 kilometers away from the western suburb of Jishou City, the capital of Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture. It is a provincial scenic spot. There are many cliffs, stone walls, waterfalls and primeval forests. The area is crisscross with streams and rivers. The four seasons are like spring. The climate is pleasant. There are rich animal and plant resources. The natural scenery is beautiful and charming. From Aizhai Town, it is 4 kilometers up the river to Dezhen Miao village. Along the river, there are bobbins, shuijuan, gudu, Xiaozhou, accompanied by Miao stilts, which are a school of pastoral poetry. Jiulong River passes through the village, surrounded by quiet mountains and cliffs. Through the stone arch bridge, you can climb Pangu peak, which is more than 400 meters high. On the top of the mountain, there are two peaks, big and small, with a width of more than 5 hectares. It is a tangled primeval forest, surrounded by cliffs and standing on the top of the peak, you can have a panoramic view.

Main customs

Dehang village. There are a group of Miao people living here. The folk customs are old and simple. They take songs as their medium and fall in love freely. Women like to wear silver ornaments and embroidered clothes without collar; men like to tie leggings and blow wood leaves. They grow their own mulberry, raise silkworms, spin and weave, and hand-made fabrics are superb. People here continue to use the ancient methods of oil extraction, paper making, rice milling, weaving, and water pumping by bobbin cars to irrigate the fields. By the side of the stream, thousands of bobbins, big and small, creak and turn, creating a beautiful pastoral scenery.

There are more than 80 families living in Dehang village. Their festival activities mainly include March 3, April 8, June 6, the year of Miao, bullfight, sister Festival and so on, especially the year of Miao. Miao people's cultural activities include Miao song, Miao dance, lion snatching, ladder climbing, bullfighting and Bull Racing, which are bold and lively. The rich and colorful folk activities include more than 30 kinds of programs, such as Miao family's visiting, door-to-door singing, toasting, Miao dance party, song and dance party, Miao nationality's encouragement, and light seeing off. You can also squeeze oil, make paper, weave cloth, mill rice, etc. to fully experience the ancient folk customs and enjoy the beauty of nature.

Climate type

Dehang has a subtropical monsoon climate with four distinct seasons. The annual average temperature is 16 ° C – 18 ° C. The average temperature of the coldest (January) is 3.1 ° C – 6.9 ° C, and the average temperature of the hottest (July) is 26.1 ° C – 29.1 ° C. The annual rainfall is 1440.5 mm, with heavy rain in spring. The annual sunshine hours are 1382.5 hours. The frost free period is 285.8 days. The Donghe river crossing the scenic spot is a tributary of Wushui, with an average flow of 23.4m3/s. Other streams flow into the Donghe river.

The animal and plant resources in Dehang village are very rich. There are 197 families, 727 genera and 1649 species of tree species. The forest rate is 90%. There are 112 kinds of wild animals, including 32 kinds of birds and beasts, 41 kinds of birds, 11 kinds of reptiles and 5 kinds of amphibians. The second class protected animals include giant salamander, yellow haired grey monkey, monkey faced eagle and pangolin.

traditional festival

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Miao Drum Festival

Miao Drum Festival is a traditional sacred festival of Miao nationality. Every year on September 9 of the lunar calendar, Miao people in the four townships invite them to celebrate the Miao drum and make a drum Carnival all night. Dehang is known as the first village of Miao culture in China. During the 2002 China Hunan Tourism Festival, the purpose is to show the Miao culture, folk customs and customs to the tourists from home and abroad in Hunan, enhance the popularity of tourism in Western Hunan, and add a scenery to the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the founding of Jishou City. This Miao Drum Festival is jointly sponsored by the Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture Government and the provincial people's Committee, which is quite different from previous years. For the first time, it invited Miao drum teams from seven provinces and autonomous regions to perform and participate in the competition. At the same time, traditional folk activities with national characteristics, such as Miao drum vertebral cattle, hundred lion climbing, Miao song plate singing, eight people autumn, etc., have been joined in, and Xiangxi style art exhibition and photography exhibition have been held to add color to the Miao Drum Festival.

Miao's visit

When the banquet for the Miao girls in Dehang village was ready, the waiter (the girl from the management office, who is also the host of the program) came to invite the guests in. At this time, the host family stood in front of the door waiting, while playing a firecracker, while singing. This song is called "gate blocking song". It's sung in Miao language. I can't understand it. It probably means welcome to the guests. When you enter the room and sit down, the host will introduce the procedures and rules of "Miao's visit" one by one, and hope you will follow them. So it was immediately lively. In the face of a full table of dishes, it is not allowed to randomly clip and eat at the beginning. The oldest person in the table must be recommended to use chopsticks first. The elderly can only eat the same dish until they finish eating it. They are not allowed to point to other dishes at will. Of course, the banquet of "Miao family as a guest" is not exquisite, exquisite and delicious, but it has its own characteristics. Bowl is blue flower bowl, chopsticks is long bamboo chopsticks, big bowl sieve wine, large pieces of cut meat, meat is big and thick, that means the Miao hospitality generous and affectionate. The dishes on the mat are mostly sour and spicy. Miao family is acidophilic, including sour pepper, sour eggplant, sour turnip, sour bamboo shoot, sour fern, sour garlic, sour onion A wide variety of green, red, yellow and white, as you eat with Tim. The most delicious is sour fish. It is said that the production of sour fish is quite laborious. Select about a kilo of grass carp, clean it, put on fine salt, hang it in a well ventilated place and dry it. Then fill the fish's belly with glutinous rice flour, chili powder, star anise and other seasonings, stack them one by one in the jar, cover them with several layers of Tung leaves, tie the jar mouth tightly with a thin cloth, cover it well, and pour water into the tank around the jar mouth. In this way, the fish in the jar will be isolated from the outside air and slowly ferment and change. After a period of time, it can be taken out and eaten directly without further processing and cooking. As expected, sour fish is delicious, sweet in acid and fragrant; fish bones are crisp and soft, and fish meat is fat but not greasy. Sour fish is the first-class delicacy of the Miao family. Tourists are sure to taste it at the banquet of "Miao family as a guest". Dehang village Dehang Village

Catching up with autumn is on the day of the beginning of autumn in the lunar calendar (July 14 in the lunar calendar and August 22 in the solar calendar) Or one or two days later. At this time of year, the fields are golden, the autumn crops are maturing, and the harvest is in sight. The annual income is basically certain, and the harvest scene is exciting. For this reason, the people hold a rally called "catch up with autumn" to celebrate the annual festival of the Miao family, which will bring about a bumper harvest. On this day, Miao men and women, old and young, dressed in festival costumes, some hand danced dragon, some played lion, some played Yuanbao and steel fork, some played Luohao, suona, teams, lines, gongs and drums, and colorful flags flew into the autumn market from all directions. In the flat dam of the autumn fair, on the hills, dragons and lions are flying, swords and forks are flying, folk literature and art, swings are flying, Miao songs are reverberating, crowds are swarming and smiling faces are opening. In a moment, the Autumn Fair becomes a sea of joy.

Main attractions

Guanyin cave

Three sisters peak stands on the ridge behind the new village, with three gray stone peaks, known as "three sisters peak". Each peak is more than 100 meters high, small at the top and big at the bottom. It looks like three Miao girls in floral skirts. They stand on the ridge of the mountain, graceful and thoughtful. They have both spirit and form. It is said that these three Miao girls stand on the ridge of the mountain and sing love songs with their lovers. They are sincere and have sung Miao songs for three days and three nights. Then there were seven suns in the sky, which cracked the earth, dried up the trees, dried up the river, and burned the three of them to stone.

Behind the back of the three sisters peak, there is a stone crack like a hole. In the hole, there is a skillful stone shaped like Guanyin, known as "Guanyin cave". Whenever the clouds and fog pass through the cave, the cave becomes more mysterious. At this time, visitors can see the Guanyin in the cave. It seems that they are holding a jade bottle and are about to leave the cave.

Yuquan gate

Yuquan gate is a natural stone gate not far from the two sides of vertebral cow style, which is more than 350 meters high. People call it "Yuquan gate". There are thousands of cliffs on the left and right sides of Yuquan gate. There are many green pines and shrubs on the cliffs. The stone gate is composed of huge rocks 500-600 million years ago. The cliff is as steep as a cliff. The two stone gates are like half open and half closed doors. The fresh mountain wind blows straight out of the stone gate, bringing a chill to people. If anyone shouts in the quiet valley, the open valley will have a long echo. Looking up, it is frightening to see the huge wall between the sky and the rocks. It's really "the peak is connected with the sky, people walk in the kiln"! Yuquan gate is a strange gorge of the abyss. The valley is very narrow, only more than ten meters, just like an ancient pass. The crystal clear Yuquan stream comes out of the rock gate of the pass and slides down the stone level. The sound of Ding Dong is like plucking strings. There is a pool hidden in the Yuquan gate. On the edge of the pool, the rocks are covered with fluffy silk moss. After being soaked by water, it is crystal green, like a peacock green feather. The pool water is also green, like a green pearl and a piece of jade. Enter the Yuquan gate, but clear, there is another cave. Tracing up the Yuquan River, there are all kinds of exquisite stone flowers on both sides of the river.

Located on the opposite bank of Leigong cave, the peak is more than 300 meters high. It is composed of a camel head, a camel body and a hump connected by several huge peaks. From a distance, it looks like a giant Lei camel with its head held high and long cry. It is said that in ancient times, more than 5000 years ago, the ancestors of the Miao people were "Jiuli", especially their leader, who lived in the middle reaches of the Yellow River. Later, the Jiuli tribe was defeated by the Yellow Emperor tribe and retreated to the south to the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Later, Jiuli developed into "Miao". The three Miao people were led by Guandou, and the three Miao people were many and powerful, including Dongting, Poyang lakes, Wenshan and Hengshan Li's superiority once fought against the tribes headed by Yao and shun. But in the end, they were defeated. One branch of Sanmiao migrated to the southwest, and the other migrated to the border of Chu, Shu and Qian provinces, forming the Miao Nationality in Western Hunan. Since the Miao people migrated from the north, they took the northern part of the country

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