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Chengyang Millennium Dong Village

Chengyang Millennium Dong Village is located on the bank of Linxi River in Linxi Town, Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County, Liuzhou City, Guangxi, 19 kilometers away from Sanjiang County. It is the largest tourist attraction in Sanjiang County. It has the reputation of being one of the ten most beautiful villages in China, a thousand-year-old Dong village, and a place of pure Chengyang!

Chengyang Scenic Area *** has eight Dong villages connected together: Ma'an Village, Yanzhai, Pingzhai, Dangzhai, Dazhai, Pingfu Village, Jichang Village and Pingping Village. 12.55 square kilometers. It is divided into south and north service area tourist service centers to receive tourists who come for sightseeing.

The north service area provides the ticket office, Dage Welcome Plaza, commercial street, Dong folk inn, parking lot, etc. It is the main service area of ??Chengyang. The South Service Area also provides a ticket office, Dage Welcome Plaza, parking lot, etc.

Among them, Ma'an Village is close to the tourist center of the South Service Area. Take a sightseeing bus for about 1.5 kilometers and get off at the Dong Painting Museum Station. After a short walk to Chengyangyongji Bridge, you will arrive at Ma'an Village. On the steps of Chengyang Yongji Bridge, there will be Dong girls standing on both sides of the steps wearing traditional Dong costumes and various silver ornaments, holding bright red oil-paper umbrellas, and a Dong girl standing in the front. Holding the wine brewed by the Dong family, they toast to the tourists who come for sightseeing. Only after drinking their Dong wine can they cross the bridge and enter the village.

The Dong girls who welcomed the guests all looked simple and enthusiastic, but they were very well dressed from head to toe, reflecting the traditional beauty of Dong costumes.

Tourists entering the village must visit Chengyang Yongji Bridge. It is a landmark building in the scenic spot and the most famous Chengyang Wind and Rain Bridge. It is also the capital of many wind and rain bridges such as Helong Bridge, Puji Bridge and Wanshou Bridge in the village. It is a national key cultural relic protection unit.

The Chengyang Yongji Bridge spans the Linxi River. There are several ancient waterwheels beside the river. These ancient waterwheels are still in use to divert water from the riverbed to the rice on the river bank. At this time, in July The seedlings in the rice fields are lush and green and growing gratifyingly.

After passing the Yongji Bridge in Chengyang, you will enter Ma'an Village of the Dong family. Not far from the village, you can see a sign indicating "Up and Down the Well" on the roadside. The well is divided into two springs, the upper well and the lower well. The upper well is located on the left side of the road, and the lower well is located under the steps on the right side of the road. It is convenient to get water from the upper well, which is where villagers wash and wash rice. The water from the lower well is sweet, and it is where villagers get water for drinking water.

We followed the steps to the well. There are many water ladles provided at the wellhead for tourists to drink. Every year on the first day of the Spring Festival, villagers will wash the coins and throw them into the well to pray for the safety, health and happiness of their families in the new year. There is a warm reminder at the mouth of the well. Do not throw coins. The main reason is to consider the water quality and hygiene. It is clean!

After that, continue to enter Ma'an Village. There are rows of Diaojiaolou shops on both sides, filled with all kinds of Yao specialties and Dong costumes. There is a Dong shop near the rice field, starring the famous movie star Jackie Chan. It is one of the main filming locations for movies such as "Escape" and "Nightingale" starring Li Baotian.

Ma'an Drum Tower and Ma'an Theater are located in the middle of the village, separated by a small square. They are the main places for the Dong people in Ma'an Village to hold ethnic and social cultural activities.

Ma'an Drum Tower is the activity center of Ma'an Village and a public place for villagers' meetings, ceremonies and other public gatherings. The stage is a performance stage for Dong people to sing operas and songs. The Ma'an Drum Tower, the stage and the Dong's Wind and Rain Bridge are all wooden structures built using traditional mortise and tenon joint techniques.

Ma'an Drum Tower Ma'an Dong Village is the most prosperous Dong village in Chengyang Bazhai Scenic Area, with B&Bs, inns, bars and restaurants.

The North Service Area Tourist Service Center is located between Pingpu Village and Dazhai, with Pingpu Village across a river.

The villages in Chengyang Bazhai are divided into villages by rivers, and the villages are connected by wind and rain bridges of different sizes. The beautiful scenery of Chengyang Bazhai has become one of the ten most beautiful villages in China. The stilted houses of the Dong family, the wind and rain bridges connecting the villages, and the towering Dong drum towers built in each village seem to be standard features of the Dong villages and are also traditional features of the Dong people's living environment.

According to the Dong Folk Customs Exhibition Hall, Dong people living on stilts in mountainous areas such as Guangxi, Guizhou, and Hunan mostly build "ganlan-style" buildings. Most stilted buildings have two or three floors and two or three rooms.

On one side of the downstairs, there are pens for keeping livestock. On the other side, pile firewood and sundries, or place "rice buckets". Take the ladder up from the "side building" on the side. The front half of the building is a corridor, which is about ten feet wide and bright. It is a place for the family to rest or engage in manual labor.

The second half is a room with a "fire pit" and an iron "bracket" where the smoke never stops all year round. This is not only the place of "ancestors", but also a place for heating, cooking, dining and receiving guests. Next to the wall, buckets, cooking utensils, etc. are placed. There are bedrooms on both sides.

Drum Tower of the Dong Nationality: Where there is a Dong village, there is a Drum Tower (also known as an ancient tower). Generally, one drum tower is built for each clan name. Therefore, a large village has four or five drum towers. The Dong Drum Tower is a tower-shaped building with a fir structure, with a square base and a polygonal top. There are different types such as four eaves and four corners, six eaves and six corners, eight eaves and eight corners, etc. The number of floors varies from odd to three, five, seven and nine, and some are as high as more than ten floors.

The Drum Tower is abrupt and tall. The top is a roof with different shapes, including spires, resting tops, hanging tops, etc. There are also carved ornaments such as treasure gourds and thousand-year-old cranes symbolizing auspiciousness on the tops. The beams, columns, tiles and eaves of the Drum Tower are all decorated with colorful paintings, which is exquisite and gorgeous. The entire building does not require a single nail or rivet, but is all connected by tongue and groove. It has survived hundreds of years of wind and rain and its "herringbone" shaped bracket structure is unique. The Drum Tower is a place for Dong people to gather and discuss affairs, as well as a place for people to rest, have fun and fall in love with young people.

Wind and Rain Bridge: The Wind and Rain Bridge of the Dong people is also called the Flower Bridge. It is divided into two types: pavilion style and drum tower style. The pavilion-style wind and rain bridge has elegant and exquisite pavilions on the bridge. The Drum Tower-style Wind and Rain Bridge is built on a wider river. Several drum-tower-style buildings are built on the bridge corridor, which is very beautiful and spectacular.

Dong Village Wind and Rain Bridge, the bridge body is entirely made of fir wood with straight sleeves across the bridge, and the holes are connected. The structure is precise and does not require iron nails to connect, which is unique. There are benches in the bridge corridor for people to rest and look out. Some also have tea for passers-by to quench their thirst. Fengyu Bridge is not only convenient for travel, but also a playground for the Dong people to sing, dance, play the sheng and the piano, and entertain guests.

Each village is surrounded by streams. The stilt towers, drum towers, and wind and rain bridges in the village, together with the surrounding mountains, rivers, and fields, form a unique and unique pastoral rural scene.