Kapu Maonan Township, Pingtang County, Qiannan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province

Kapu Maonan Township

Kapu Maonan township is located in Pingtang County, Qiannan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province. Founded and merged in 1991, it is the only Maonan Township in China. It is adjacent to Yangfeng township of Dushan County in the East, shazhai township of Duyun City in the north, Zemi town of Pingtang County in the south, 17.5km away from the county seat, and 18km away from Guixin and duping expressways.

The "tiger head cap" made by women in Kapu Maonan Township, Pingtang County, Guizhou Province, is 3.89 meters high and 9.95 meters long at the bottom. It passed the Guinness world record certification on June 9, 2016, becoming the "largest tiger head cap" in the world.

Basic introduction

The township governs 6 administrative villages: Baika village, Changhe village, Liangzhai village, Jiaba village, Xinguan village and Hezhong village; 52 villager groups and 125 natural villages. Maonan's ethnic customs are full of charm, and its ethnic culture is rich and colorful. The national intangible cultural heritage, such as "monkey dance dance", Torch Festival, Maonan embroidery and other ethnic songs and dances, folk customs, and ethnic crafts, are well-known. In recent years, it has won the reputation of "villages with Chinese minority characteristics", "Chinese traditional protected villages", "the most charming ethnic villages", "Guizhou tourism town", "provincial demonstration town", "monkey inspired art town", etc., and has been awarded the national and provincial "model collective of national unity and progress" by the State Council and the provincial government respectively. In 2015, Kapu Maonan Township ranked the 31st among 142 demonstration towns in Guizhou Province. It was selected into Guizhou new media center, recommended as one of the 15 small towns in Guizhou Province, and successfully established "National Health township".

Economics

The economy of the township is dominated by agriculture. The main agricultural products are rice, corn, wheat, soybean, sweet potato, sorghum, potato, peanut, sunflower seed, pepper, etc.; the forest products are tung oil seed, walnut, bamboo shoot, gallnut, palm slice, chestnut, wood, charcoal, etc.; the aquatic products are fish. The main minerals are coal, and the raw coal is sold to Dushan and Guangxi. The township is one of the main producing areas of charcoal in the county. The main projects carried out by rural non-agricultural industries include coal mining, charcoal, lime, brick and tile, wood processing, etc. From 1998 to 2002, the total output value of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery was more than 34.52 million yuan (90 prices, the same below), including 19.3868 million yuan of agricultural output value, accounting for 56.16%; 2.6515 million yuan of forestry output value, accounting for 7.68%; 11.6038 million yuan of animal husbandry output value, accounting for 33.61%; and 26200 yuan of fishery output value, accounting for 0.08%. In 2002, the total output value of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery was 6.213 million yuan, a decrease of 710000 yuan compared with the previous year. The total grain output reached 19900 tons.

Folklore and Tourism

Maonan folk customs are simple, rich and pure. It has a unique cultural background. It is an important part of Pingtang county's national culture and has great potential and value. The people of the township are hospitable, and the folk arts are rich and colorful. The "monkey dance", "Torch Festival", "welcome new year festival" and "hanging gate song" with unique national characteristics are well-known. They have been awarded "monkey dance" by the State Cultural Bureau. We should grasp the opportunity of the western development and the state's preferential assistance to ethnic minorities with a population of less than 100000, start with the development of ethnic customs, ethnic culture, natural scenery and ethnic village tourism, increase the efforts of poverty alleviation and development, vigorously promote the conversion of farmland to forests and the construction of economic and fruit forests, actively promote the adjustment of industrial structure, increase the efforts to support the typical, demonstration and drive the overall situation, and increase the development of rural practical technology train.

Famous, special and new

Maonan wine

the mountains here are clear and beautiful, the folk customs are charming and have a long history, and the national culture is rich and colorful. Among them, the monkey drum, which is listed in the national intangible cultural heritage, has the reputation of "living fossil". The torch festival, Spring Festival, fire dragon dance, daughter's day, Maonan folk song, Yingbin lanmen song, Batan dance, diguniu, embroidery, architecture, sculpture and other folk customs, national songs and dances, and national crafts are well-known. Monkey drum dance, Torch Festival and welcome gate blocking song are folk activities with feint of good wine. Fein fine wine is a fine wine handed down from generation to generation by Fein people, the original ethnic group in Guizhou. More than 1400 years ago, feints had their own brewing technology. For a long time, feints had formed the custom of "no wine, no ceremony. Regardless of the dishes, wine is ceremony". Since ancient times, there have been folk proverbs such as "treat guests with wine in a basin big face" and "three cups lead to the road". During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, it was the most prosperous period for feints in Guizhou. Every family could make wine, and every family could pick music. Every year, during the Dragon Boat Festival, men, women, old and young invite each other to pick wine and medicine. In July, the old man made a koji out of the collected medicinal materials after washing and drying. In March of next year, when the peach blossoms opened, the old man used rice, glutinous rice, sorghum and other grains as raw materials The Baijiu is soaked in January, and the ingredients are cooked and cooled. After adding a suitable amount of local medicine, the mixture is fermented into small pits. After a month, the raw materials are precipitated, and the distilled liquor is distilled into wine. The distilled liquor is thick, transparent, pure and fragrant, with unique style, no head, no mouth dry and long aftertaste. It has the functions of Invigorating Qi, activating blood circulation and resisting fatigue. We have developed more than 10 series of products in three categories: high, medium and low-grade. Local residents call it "Maonan alcohol", "Maonan Yulu", "Fein Cola" and "Baicao fresh soup". The liquors, such as Chenopodium album, Camellia catechu, chicken hook and Fein Meijiu, which are made from wild Chenopodium album, Camellia catechu, chicken hook liquor and are stored in the cellar for a certain period of time, have become the necessary first-class products for welcoming guests and valuable gifts for relatives and friends.

Maonan local tobacco

Maonan local tobacco (also known as laomianyan) is a kind of local Maonan people's own tobacco. After the tobacco leaves are picked, they are usually woven into strings with local wild red vines and dried in front of and behind the house. after drying, it is soft but not crisp. It is made of rolled leaves and has a long aftertaste after smoking. Generally, it is only planted in elderly people, so it is called laomianyan.

Maonan homespun bed sheet

Maonan native cotton bed sheet has the functions of sweat absorption, air permeability and heat preservation. It uses green cotton as raw material. It is made from spinning, printing and dyeing, weaving and processing. The process is completely made by Maonan traditional handicraft, and is 100% natural green health care products. The homespun bed sheet comes from the only Kapu Maonan Nationality Township in Guizhou Province, which is located in the east of Pingtang County in the south of Guizhou Province. The whole township is green and lush, and the natural ecology such as vegetation and water and soil are well preserved. The beautiful mountains and rivers, pleasant scenery, warm in winter and cool in summer make it the best choice for tourism and summer leisure. It is rich in resources and a geomantic treasure land invested and developed by people of insight. Maonan people are hospitable, have unique national customs and profound national culture. Maonan people respect and worship cattle and take fire as their totem. Folk art is rich and colorful. National festivals include "welcome new year festival", "Fire Dragon Festival", "daughter Festival" and "gate blocking song". Monkey drum dance, which has the reputation of "living fossil", is well-known. It is known as the hometown of monkey drum dance art and has been listed in the national intangible cultural heritage protection catalogue.

Chinese PinYin : Gui Zhou Sheng Qian Nan Bu Yi Zu Miao Zu Zi Zhi Zhou Ping Tang Xian Ka Pu Mao Nan Zu Xiang