Gaozeng Township, Congjiang County, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province

Gaozengxiang

Gaozeng township is located in the east of Congjiang County, Guizhou Province, 8 kilometers away from the county. It is adjacent to Guandong town in the East, Bingmei town and Guping Township in the west, Meilin Township in Guangxi in the South and Shuangjiang Township in Liping in the north. The highest altitude is 1107 meters and the lowest is 235 meters. The annual average temperature is 18.4 ℃, the annual rainfall is 1190mm, and the frost free period is 326 days, which belongs to subtropical monsoon climate. With a total area of 148.78 square kilometers, the township governs 12 administrative villages, 35 natural villages and 89 villager groups, with a total population of 15325.

General situation of hometown

Dong population accounts for 98% of the total population. It is a minority Township dominated by Dong. The total area of cultivated land in the township is 10050 mu, 0.6 mu per capita. In 1998, it crossed the food and clothing line. In 2004, the total fiscal revenue was 480000 yuan, the gross national product was 43.4 million yuan, and the per capita net income was 1560 yuan.

natural resources

This is a rich resource, to be developed Dong inhabited area. Based on agriculture, the township vigorously develops tourism, and concurrently engages in forestry and other animal husbandry and sideline production. It mainly produces grain crops such as rice and potato, and economic crops such as rape, beans and cotton, with a forest coverage rate of 56.3%. The township has a citrus base of 3000 mu, with an annual output of 500 tons of oranges; a medicinal base of 1200 mu; and a vegetable base of 110 mu, with an annual output of 220 tons of various vegetables.

Infrastructure

The infrastructure construction is becoming more and more perfect, with telephone, highway, electricity and TV in all villages.

national culture

There are rich, simple, rich ethnic tourism resources, only 8 kilometers away from the county, convenient transportation. it is the core area of Dong folk customs and cultural heritage, and the birthplace of Dong folk songs. Pan Jingbai, the master of Dong folk songs, was born in Xiaohuang village, Gaozeng. Since the 1950s, Xiaohuang Dong folk songs have participated in national performances and performances for many times and won awards. Xiaohuang Dong's big song has already rushed out of the country to the world, and ascended the international art hall.

The first family planning village in China

There is "Zhanli village, the first family planning village in China". This Dong village, which has been locked in the mountains for hundreds of years, has created two amazing records since the founding of new China. One is that the population growth rate is zero; the other is that the incidence of criminal cases is zero. Since ancient times, Zhanli's practice of consciously controlling population growth and maintaining ecological balance has aroused great interest of experts and scholars at home and abroad. In August 2000, Xiao Shaobo, deputy director of the science and Technology Department of the State Family Planning Commission, made a special trip to Zhanli for investigation. Xinhua news agency, CCTV, Central People's radio, people's daily, China Youth Daily, China society daily, national pictorial and other domestic media and Taiwan's Han Sheng magazine have made special reports on this.

National Architecture

There are simple and unique Dong folk buildings here. Here, by the river, under the big banyan trees, there are many stilted buildings with dry columns, row upon row, which are very unique. The drum tower stands majestically beside the village, and the wind and rain bridges fly in the air, which is magnificent. The unique folk houses, Drum Tower, flower bridge, village gate and stage constitute a unique "national style painting", which makes Dong village full of poetic and picturesque.

National handicraft

The steamer, rice basket, basket and other handicrafts made of bamboo are unique here. There are pure natural handicrafts with different shapes root carving. The folk hand embroidery works are very beautiful and gorgeous. Gaozeng Dong clothing has become one of the representatives of Dong clothing.

Tourism planning

In today's reform and opening up, the Party committee and government of Gaozeng Township attach great importance to the development of tourism in Gaozeng Township, establish the strategic thinking of "culture based township", and always adhere to the principles of "strict protection, unified planning, reasonable development, sustainable utilization and supporting construction", strive to build Gaozeng into a tourism industry integrating Dong customs, national culture and natural scenery in 3-5 years And make tourism become a new economic growth point of the whole township.

Donggewo Xiaohuang Village

Xiaohuang village, Gaozeng Township, Congjiang County, is located in the north of Gaozeng Township, 17 kilometers away from the township government and 24 kilometers away from the county seat. There are five natural villages in the village, 718 households and 3340 people, all of whom are Dong nationality. It is a magical and poetic Dong Village. A stream passes through the village, surrounded by green hills, wooden buildings with hanging feet are close to mountains and rivers, drum towers and flower bridges echo each other from afar, like a fresh and quiet pastoral landscape painting. Xiao Huang Dong song has a long history and a large number of talents. In the past 100 years alone, nearly 100 famous singers and dramatists have emerged. Xiaohuang village is a well-known "Dong song nest", known as "hometown of songs" and "ocean of songs". The motto passed down from generation to generation is "food nourishes the body, song nourishes the heart". Here, no matter men and women, old and young, everyone has a full stomach of songs, endless songs. As they said, "the Han family has endless books to read and the Dong family has endless songs to sing." Xiaohuang Dong song is known as "gaxiwang" (Dong language "Xiaohuang song"). In addition to the famous songs, there are more than 10 kinds of love songs, Pipa songs, cicada songs, Caitang songs, road blocking songs, toast songs, ancestor worship songs, labor songs and narrative songs. There are 52 singing teams and groups for young, middle-aged and old people in the village, with more than 2000 members. There is a good atmosphere for old people to teach songs, young people to sing and young people to learn songs. In Xiaohuang village, everyone can sing, there are songs everywhere, everything with songs, singing every night. Men and women, young and old, take singing as their joy and honor. Not only do they celebrate festivals with songs, but also young men and women love each other with songs. Even when the guests come, they welcome and send them off with songs. In a village, it is rare that so many people spontaneously participate in singing activities and persist for a long time. Xiaohuang village's "Dong People's song" is a kind of multi voice chorus without musical instrument accompaniment and without conductor. It integrates high, middle and low voice. It is famous for its perfect harmony, soft and euphemistic style and elegant melody. The singing team is led by one person and sung by all. The voice is sometimes loud and broad, sometimes deep and melodious, bringing the audience to the beautiful and harmonious nature. The children's voices of the children's team are simple, loud and clear, innocent and lively; the singing of the girl arhat team is pure as water; the voice of the old team is rich and deep, sometimes floating like fairy music, sometimes deep as a mountain, slowly pouring into everyone's heart, giving people a magical enjoyment. Many experts and scholars who came to Xiaohuang for investigation, after listening to the song of the Dong nationality, applauded for its perfect natural harmony. They thought that this kind of chorus handed down from the ancestors of the Dong nationality for thousands of years was the crystallization of the collective wisdom of the Dong people, and could not be created and practiced by any musician or chorus actor for a while. the ethnic customs of Xiaohuang village are the most simple, especially "singing at night" and "Valentine's Day". When night falls, couples in front of the drum tower, flower bridge or fire hall at home, in the pine and bamboo forest beside the village and the moonlight by the stream, nestle up to each other, send each other's eyes, and have a deep affection. The corbel and Pipa gently play and sing, pour out their bad feelings, and stay up all night until the early morning to say goodbye. The girls' parents, brothers and sisters took the initiative to avoid this activity and never intervened. "Valentine's Day" is the fifth and sixth day of the sixth lunar month (also known as "May and sixth day"). Married men and women over 40 years old dress up as young people, and pack glutinous rice and salted fish. They join hands in pairs. They go up the hillside to play, have a tryst, talk about love, remember the past, sing love songs, and complain about love, from morning to the next day and night. Therefore, Xiaohuang village has long been praised as "Little Hong Kong" and "no night village" by Chinese and foreign experts, distinguished guests, tourists and people near and far villages. Xiaohuang people do not sing for the sake of singing. Their love for Dong songs comes from their heart and is unconscious. Xiaohuang people's love for Dong songs comes from their deep love for life and yearning for a better life. It is this kind of deep love for singing that makes Xiaohuang Dong songs brilliant. In 1956, Xiaohuang singers pan fenggao, pan Jingren, Shi Songhua, Shi maidservant cicada and other eight people participated in the province's performance, and "Xiaohuang male song of Dong nationality" won the provincial excellent program Award; in 1957, Xiaohuang singers Wu Da'an, pan Shicai and others went to Yunnan to participate in the national art performance, and "zhulang niangmei" won the national excellent program Award; in August 1964, Xiaohuang singers Wu Da'an and others went to Guiyang to participate in the national art performance In 1985, Xiao Huang's Singers Wu Weidong, Wu Xiufang and others came to Beijing to perform in the exhibition of architectural customs of Dong Nationality in Guizhou, and returned home with great reputation. In the autumn of 1988, according to the local national characteristics and local conditions, Xiao Huang began to introduce national culture into the classroom, adding Dong songs, Dong opera, embroidery and other courses, bringing new vitality to Xiao Huang. Xiao Huang has organized Xiao Huang's children's Dong song team to perform in the provincial capital and capital for five times, which has been highly praised by people from all walks of life. In September 1994, pan Meihao of Xiaohuang primary school and other five girls aged 9-12 participated in the "94 Beijing International Children's Art Festival" on behalf of the Dong nationality and returned home with high reputation; in 1995, the five Dong girls were invited to Beijing to participate in the live broadcast of CCTV's "6.1" evening party, singing a multi part unaccompanied song of the Dong nationality, which made a sensation all over the country; in 1996, Xiaohuang primary school made a breakthrough Wu Peijian and four other Dong girls formed a Dong chorus team to perform in France with the Chinese folk art troupe. They performed 13 times in Paris, which made Paris known as the "city of art" a sensation. They were received by the French Foreign Minister's wife. In 2003, Zhang Yimou art school in Guilin was attracted to xiaohuangzhao

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