72 Dong Village

72 Dong Village

72 Dong village is located in Leli Town, 40 kilometers north of Rongjiang County, Guizhou Province. Close to the stockade, you can see the thick green all over the mountains. Because the local Dong people cherish the gift of nature, the original vegetation here is well preserved.

Wooden structure dwellings

Seventy two Dong villages stand, and every village is covered with dark green vegetation. According to the guide, the warm, rainy subtropical climate and fertile, moist, alkaline and moderate soil have bred a large number of ancient banyan trees in Rongjiang county. There are countless ancient banyan trees over a hundred years old. From a distance, they look like unique and beautiful scenery.

Dong village is the hometown of songs, and the drum tower is the main formal place for Dong people to sing.

I went to the drum tower in Zaidang Dong village. The building was built in Qianlong period of Qing Dynasty. It is a wooden tile structure with single eaves. The building is 12 meters high, with 4 warp columns and 8 eaves columns. There is a round fire pool in the center of the bottom floor of the drum tower, and there are benches all around. The top of the building is octagonal, with a unique cormorant carved on the top of the gourd. The wind cornice is painted with colorful patterns such as Double Dragons robbing treasure, character stories, cattle, horses, insects and fish. The eaves of the whole drum tower fly angle, eight exquisite, vicissitudes of life. According to the local people, the Dong people of 72 village, who are skilled in craftsmen, are willing to do good deeds, donating money to build schools, song halls and wind rain bridges The dwellings here are of two or three storey wooden structure. They are close to mountains and rivers, row upon row, and do not need to be nailed and riveted. The standing boards are inlaid with square wooden lattices, and all kinds of exquisitely carved patterns are preserved on the window lattice. The dwellings have various forms such as stilted buildings, barracks buildings and courtyard buildings.

Architecture

The village maintains the original customs of the Dong people, especially the carving houses of the Dong people. The carving room is carved with figures, flowers, birds and animals, etc., with mature technology and strong decoration. There is a well preserved carving house in the 72 stockade. It is a three story stilted building with a herringbone roof, covered with green tiles, hexagonal eaves and double eaves. All the designs of this carving room are decorated with red, green, white and other colors. The six corners of the tile eaves are carved with dragon pictures, and the Dragon tongue stretches; the four corners of the house are carved with exquisite patterns such as dragon and Phoenix, crane and bird, lion, mouse, crab, etc., and the front of the house is also carved with a pair of horses, with people sitting on the horseback and four mice beside. The rice in each mouse's mouth is clearly painted.

Courtesy to welcome guests

When you come to the gate of the village along the mountain road paved with bluestone and gravel, the people of Dong Village guard the gate and sing the songs of blocking the way and welcoming the guests. They invite you to drink a mouthful of homemade rice wine, eat a piece of salty fat meat, and taste a piece of delicious salted fish. Then, in the laughter of the crowd, the singer or other Dong girls will put on a flower belt with red eggs and exquisite insoles for you, so that you can enjoy it I'm in the village. This is a pleasant and friendly greeting ceremony in Dong village.

common people

The people of Dong village are hospitable. If they want to enter the Dong village, they will greet them with the sound of three firecrackers and a burst of firecrackers. They will guard the gate of the village and sing the song of "blocking the way". If the guests can sing to each other, they can enter the village with three or five songs. If they can't sing to each other, it doesn't matter. After listening to the "welcome song" of Dong girls, you should drink a mouthful of rice wine made by Dong people, or eat a small piece of fat meat or a small piece of salted fish. Then after the crowd makes bursts of laughter, the singer or other Dong girls will put on a string of red eggs and exquisite shoes for you Then you can enter the village. In the past, Dong youth often used this way to find their own happy objects outside the village. Over time, it became a etiquette to welcome guests.

folk custom

Seventy two village has a simple folk custom, no theft, no gambling, harmonious neighborhood, and good order, which makes the villagers proud. The villagers vividly said, "here, I only hear the loud voice of shouting cattle." It seems that Fang Shuitu is especially in love with Dong girls. The girls of 16 or 17 years old come out one by one with delicate and red skin. There is a local folk song about the local customs and specialties of the 72 village. There is a saying: the beautiful girl in the 72 village It means there are beauties in the village from generation to generation. A man's heart is beautiful, but his heart is more skillful. Dong women's clothes and silver ornaments on the dragon, snake, exotic animals, flowers, birds, insects, fish, sun, moon, stars and other patterns are all lifelike, exquisite, often amazing.

Beauty nest

The girls of the 72 village are very smart. Their skin is delicate and red, and their bodies are black. There is a local folk song that says "beautiful girl in 72 village", which says that 72 village is a beautiful nest.

According to the local people, women often wash their hair with the oil extracted from wild tea seeds in the mountains, so their hair is smooth and elegant; they often eat leeks in the mountains to "nourish beauty", so their skin is white and red. When you look at the Dong village women in exquisite and elegant costumes, they are as elegant as the ladies in the Tang Dynasty palace. The local cloth clothes dyed with indigo juice are exquisitely and elegantly decorated. The broad and collarless women's clothes are S-shaped with dragon, Phoenix and butterfly embroidered on the chest. The rolling dragon sleeves on the cuffs are embroidered with flowers, birds, insects, fish and pomegranates. The upper left and right corners of the waistband and the end of the tie are embroidered with flowers and colored silk ribbons. The embroidered place is equipped with small tin pieces with colorful round holes, showing the brilliance and elegance of pearls. The bottom of women's clothing is a pleated skirt, which is knee long. The legs are wrapped with leg covers with flower belts, and the feet are covered with thick soled embroidered shoes. The silver ornaments of Dong nationality are exquisite, including headdress, neck ornament, chest ornament, back ornament, hand ornament and foot ornament. She comes here in full dress, just like a warrior in ancient times. It is said that it will take several years to make such a charming dress.

The hairstyle and hair accessories of women in 72 Dong village are different from those of other branches. The hairstyle of women in 72 Dong village needs to be connected with the long hair that was cut off before, fixed with a wooden comb as a hairpin, and wrapped the hair around the wooden comb. The style is simple but not simple. In the festival, the hairstyle remains the same when you wear the full dress. The silver hairpin with exquisite workmanship and pendant is inserted into the hairstyle, and the elegant clothing is the beauty of luxury. Daily dress is mainly blue in spring, summer and autumn, white in summer and black in winter. This is the early life knowledge of our ancestors, which is not only warm, but also aesthetic.

Clothes & Accessories

The Dong women's dress is rich in color, exquisite in workmanship, beautiful, colorful and dazzling. Women's dress generally consists of round collar, wide sleeve, chest, apron, cuff, pleated skirt, leg cloth cover, dragon boat shaped embroidered shoes, etc. Its production method is generally divided into block picking, embroidery, and then a complete set of stitching, or sewing the parts of various patterns in various parts. It usually takes several years to make a set of women's dress, especially cross stitch and embroidery. Women's costumes are usually worn during Dong New Year's festival, eating New Year's day, watching bullfighting or stepping on Lusheng, visiting relatives and friends, and changing clothes after going home. Each young woman has at least three to five dresses, and more than a dozen. Women's dress is also equipped with a variety of silver ornaments, including headdress, neck ornament, ear ornament, Sheng ornament, children's hat, etc. There are silver flowers and combs in the headdress, collars and necklaces in the neck, bracelets and jade bracelets in the hand, silver earrings and gold earrings in the earrings, and silver clasps in the Sheng decoration. Dong girls' costumes are also equipped with silver bells, which are locked on the embroidered clothes. The process of Dong women's costumes is very complex. For example, the pleated skirt for women's costumes is knee long and all blue. The cloth woven for the skirt is different from the cloth woven for clothes. The skirt cloth is very thin, like mosquito net cloth. It takes about two months to make a skirt after making rice paste, dyeing, washing, beating, drying and steaming The cloth is about 5-6m. Another example is the girl's cat's cap, which is usually cyan and blue. It looks like a cat's head. There is no brim and only two copper cat ears are cocked up. The ears are sewn with wool, and the cat ears are pasted with silver and bronze figures, jade heads and other decorations. There are various patterns such as the head of a Heshang, the head of a tiger, and the head of a lion. Behind the hat are copper bells and various patterns of silver hooks. Children wear hats to visit relatives and friends and jingle along the way It is said that it can also avoid evil.

Young courtship

In the Dong village, listening to Dong love songs in the moonlight is unique and funny. Dong youth's way of courtship is to climb the window. In the dead of night, the young man, with a self-made corbel and a single wooden ladder, comes to the window of Zhongyi girl's bedroom and then climbs up. On the window lattice of the stilted building, he sings "chanting girl song". If the girl is interested, she will open the window and sing "sing to each other" with the young man. If the two sides agree, they will continue to sing "swear song" and "disperse song" when they break up. In the future, if their relationship is opposed by the family, they will sing "runaway song". The young man can ask the matchmaker to propose to the girl only after the two sides gradually understand each other and have feelings. Sometimes when the night falls, the girls often get together to spin and sing. The boys will come to the girls and play the corbel and embroidered shoes. The sound of spinning wheel will complement the beautiful Dong songs accompanied by the piano. It's a beautiful and charming night rhyme of Dong village!

There are two kinds of love songs in Dong village, one is accompanied by Pipa in the song hall, the other is unaccompanied at night. In history, unaccompanied love songs under the moon in front of the window are not allowed to enter the elegant hall, and they are considered to be affectionate and indecent. In recent years, such love songs have been added occasionally in the gap of the song hall or on the grand dinner, such as the taste and fun of mountain game in luxury.

The Dong people in 72 village also sing wine songs, open road songs and Pipa songs. Every Dragon Boat Festival, new festival and Dong year

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