Dazhai Miao Township, Gulin County, Luzhou City, Sichuan Province

Dazhai Miao Township

Dazhai Miao township is located in the northwest of Gulin, 45 kilometers away from the county seat and 19 kilometers away from Guxu highway.

The township covers an area of 42.1 square kilometers, governs three administrative villages, and houses 4712 Han and Miao people (2017).

natural resources

The township has beautiful natural scenery, rich folk customs, profound national culture, rich tourism resources and forest resources. The infrastructure of the township is perfect. Closed circuit television and social broadcasting have been realized in every village. More than 90% of the farmers have used tap water. Rural power has connected the southern Sichuan power grid, opened more than 200 program-controlled telephones, and established mobile phone base stations.

The township has 45000 mu of natural and artificial forests, with a log stock of 360000 cubic meters and a forest coverage rate of 40%. In the forest, there are sheep, wild boar, thorn, Swertia, badger and other mammals; all kinds of wild birds and pheasants inhabit them; there are wild ginseng, Gastrodia elata, Polygonum multiflorum, Eucommia ulmoides and other precious Chinese medicinal materials and fresh wild fruits such as kiwifruit; there are wild mushrooms such as Dictyophora, Daba fungus, Ta fungus, cave fungus and exotic flowers such as orchid. Abundant green grass resources also provide good conditions for the development of herbivorous livestock.

The township is rich in high-quality rice, corn, high-quality flue-cured tobacco, high-quality green tea and dried fruits such as chestnut and walnut, as well as high-quality Chinese herbal medicines such as yellow grass, Phellodendron amurense, Atractylodes macrocephala, Eucommia ulmoides and Coptis chinensis, which are especially suitable for industrial development and management. Now 2000 mu of high quality tobacco raw material base of Shandong Qingzhou tobacco factory has been built. Dazhai Miao nationality township has a long history of "stepping on mountains Festival", which gathers tens of thousands of Miao and Han compatriots in Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou provinces every year. It plays a beautiful and moving love story and shows the mysterious national culture of ancient Miao village. Natural lakes, dense forests, huge karst caves and various peculiar natural landscapes make Dazhai a town on the tourism ecological line from Dazhai to Huangjing built by Gulin county.

In the next three years, Dazhai township will build a ten thousand mu planting base of traditional Chinese medicine, a ten thousand mu livestock breeding base and a ten thousand mu township of returning farmland to forest. At the same time, it will vigorously develop tourism, making it a bright pearl in the booming ecological tourism of Gulin.

evolution

Dazhai commune was established in 1962, and Dazhai Miao township was established in 1987. In 1997, it covers an area of 43 square kilometers and has a population of 6000. It governs 10 administrative villages including Fuyu, Minjin, Shuanghe, Longqiao, yangbang, Haitang, Xiangyang, Yanhe, Fuhua and dianzi. In 2006, it merged the administrative areas of groups 3, 4 and 5 of Qianfeng village, the former Wulong Miao Township, into Dazhai Miao township. Dazhai Miao township government, township party committee and villagers are stationed in fengqingyuan.

Stepping on mountains

Festival introduction

Every year on the 13th, 14th and 15th day of the first lunar month, there is a flood of people on the baowa mountain in Xiangyang Village, Dazhai Miao Township, Gulin County, Sichuan Province. Nearly 10000 Miao children gather here to celebrate the annual "mountain stepping Festival".

"Stepping on mountains Festival" is a traditional festival of the Miao family. According to historical records, it has been popular since Chiyou, the ancestor of the Miao nationality. It was originally a good day for girls and boys to sing songs and exchange keepsake, but now it has evolved into a grand meeting for the Miao family to exchange feelings.

On the 14th of the first month, it was the climax of the mountain stepping Festival. Miao compatriots from the neighboring areas of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan all came. Men, women, young and old dressed in their national festival costumes, were very dazzling. Girls and young men danced happily in Lusheng dance. Vendors from all over the world also gathered here. There were all kinds of tents set up on baowa mountain. They had everything to eat, wear and use. Miao compatriots gathered in front of the stalls and carefully selected the goods. It was a lively scene.

Festival development

Dazhai township is one of the Miao inhabited areas in Gulin county. According to Tao Wencai, the head of Dazhai Township, the previous mountain stepping Festival has been in a spontaneous state. Since 1999, the local government has made it a national cultural festival with strong ethnic characteristics, business and tourism values, which has promoted the opening up of ethnic minorities and the development of regional economy. The author noticed that the performances at the opening ceremony of the festival included propaganda of family planning policy, praise of reform and opening up, praise of new people and new things, and encouragement of science and technology to get rich With their own wisdom, the Miao people have given new content to traditional programs.

In the twinkling of an eye, winter is gone, and spring is coming quietly. Spring is a beautiful season full of poetry, and it also means a vigorous start. In spring, everything revives, and not far away comes Lusheng. The young man and the little girl in Miao's clothes are answering each other's songs. Playing Lusheng, dancing, playing bamboo flute and singing, we can see whose singing is sweet and whose dancing is beautiful. Unmarried young men and women, but also take the opportunity to find a sweetheart, exchange Keepsake expression.

Festival process

The annual grand festival of Miao people "stepping on mountains Festival" begins in baowa mountain, Xiangyang Village, Dazhai Township, Gulin county. From the 13th to the 15th of the first month of each year, it is a gathering of Miao people and a grand meeting to show their own national customs.

Baowa mountain in Xiangyang Village of Dazhai township is more than 20 kilometers away from the county seat, with an altitude of more than 1200 meters. The mountain is gentle, surrounded by dense forests and numerous villages. Miao compatriots, old and young, who come to all villages and towns in the county, get up early, put on colorful and gorgeous Miao costumes and set out. From WULIBA township to baowa mountain. The whole mountain is full of people and bustling. Small vendors shouting back and forth are shuttling through the crowd. Smiling faces are coming. The primitive folk customs of the Miao family are vividly displayed here. The colorful Miao girls have become the most beautiful scenery on baowa mountain. At the scene of the "trample on mountains Festival" in baowa mountain, a lady Xiong told reporters that the 13th to 15th of the first month of each year is the traditional festival of their Miao compatriots, "trample on mountains Festival". Today, most of the women who come to trample on mountains wear Miao costumes. Miao people are clever and skillful. The beautiful Miao costumes can be regarded as one of the unique costumes culture. A suit of clothing should go through the process of planting hemp, twisting, weaving, batik, embroidery, sewing, beading, etc.

Only one suit of women's clothing includes the parts of the kerchief, coat, collar, Draper, apron, belt, skirt, leggings, etc. it is made by hand, and it takes one to two years to complete, and the cost is also very high. Therefore, it has become a luxury for the Miao family who work away from home and have no time to make clothes. On the first day of "stepping on mountains Festival", the ceremony of setting up a flower pole will be held. "Lihuagan" refers to a flower pole with pine and cypress branches and colorful flowers in the middle of the hillside, which is presided over by the elderly, as a symbol of the flower picking mountain. After the setting of the flower pole, the elder toasts and wishes to the people, and then the sound of gongs and drums, firecrackers, Lusheng long. In the laughter of the people, the activity of stepping on the mountain began.

In the melodious Lusheng music, men and women, old and young, dance with their feet and play with lion lights, which is a joyful scene. Some of those who play Lusheng dance while blowing, some dance in pairs, or dance with a flower pole while blowing, or do half squat like blowing and dancing, and at the same time stretch out a foot to rotate, and change the left and right feet alternately.

The most difficult one is the one who stands upside down in the ground, with the player's head on the ground and his feet on the ground. Most Miao men can play Lusheng, but few can squat or stand upside down. After the dance, the old people drink together, talk about farm work, and the young men and women walk to the woods or hillside in pairs. Or songs to promote mutual understanding.

In the activities of trampling on mountains, young men and women also have feelings through communication. After reporting to their parents, they can form lifelong partners.

Honors

On February 19, 2021, it was selected into the list of "advanced villages and towns for Rural Revitalization in Sichuan Province in 2020".

Chinese PinYin : Si Chuan Sheng Lu Zhou Shi Gu Lin Xian Da Zhai Miao Zu Xiang