Wang Libo Gulou Hotel

Basha Miao Village, located in a ravine 550 meters above sea level in congjiang county, Guizhou, has more than 300 families. Because of its remote location, it retains ancient customs. Its clothing is a relic of the Qin and Han Dynasties. Bazaar wears a bun on his head, and wears his own textile collarless right-cardigan bright cloth and straight pants with bright cloth legs. Wearing a broadsword and carrying a powder gun on his shoulder for many years, he looks like an ancient warrior. Women wear their own bright cloth and silver ornaments.

If guests come, the mighty man in Basha plays lusheng and mang tube in front of the village, and the girl in Basha drinks rice wine with a horn cup. After a blow, three shovels rang, muskets rang in the air, and the village door was wide open to welcome guests in. Then walk into the stockade along the stone plank road in the forest and perform ethnic customs.

Basha Festival has a new festival to eat. On the 13th or 14th day of the seventh lunar month, every family will go to the fields to pick the ears of grain, peel them into rice, cook them into porridge or dry rice, and worship their ancestors with ducks and fish. Then the whole family eats. There are also festivals such as Lusheng Festival and Ghost Festival. There are customs such as bullfighting, lovesickness, swinging, herding pigs in groups, and shaving adults, especially with sickles. Ethnic handicrafts include bamboo lunch boxes, copper needle boxes, embroidery hunting bags, horn powder boxes and so on.

Dong Jia San Bao

There is a Dong song that goes like this: "There should be a fish nest in the field and a drum tower in the village."

When entering the Dong township in the "Southern Dong" area, regardless of the size of the stockade, the first thing that comes into view is the Drum Tower standing in the middle of the stockade like a pagoda. Rows of wooden buildings in Dongjiaganlan surround it. In Dong township, there is a drum tower in every village. Some Dazhai, but also a family to build one. Zhaoxing Dazhai in Liping County is the largest Dong village in the world, with "five gates" (five houses). Among the five Drum Towers, it is very magnificent. Congjiang county Zengchong Drum Tower is the oldest existing drum tower in China. Founded in the 11th year of Kangxi in Qing Dynasty (AD 1692), it is a national key cultural relic protection unit.

From a distance, the Drum Tower looks like a big fir tree. According to legend, the ancestors of the Dong nationality in ancient times rested in the shade of a big fir tree during their long-distance migration, and the Drum Tower was built like a big fir tree, showing great vitality. Dong sings: "Golden pheasant wings and phoenix tails are not as beautiful as Dong Gulou." Approaching the Drum Tower, what you see is an exquisite architectural handicraft.

Drum tower is a wooden multi-storey tower-shaped pavilion structure. The modeling plane is even, with eight sides, six sides and four sides pouring water; The facade is all odd-numbered double eaves, with three, five, seven and more than ten floors. The top pavilion of the drum tower is surrounded by mountains, hanging mountains and many corners; The tile eaves of Drum Tower have dense eaves and sparse eaves. The pillars of the building are heavy and strong; The eaves of the building are uneven and dense, and the eaves are slightly tilted; Carving a gourd or a thousand-year-old crane on the roof is intended to be auspicious; The lower part of the drum tower is like a pavilion, and the upper part is like a tower. The decoration is meticulous and the color is simple. Various changes and strong local flavor have enriched the artistic charm of the drum tower appearance.

Dong Zhai Drum Tower, with such a tall and complicated structure, has never been nailed or riveted. The whole building is composed of Chinese fir columns and tenons, which are staggered and staggered, and the structure is rigorous and firm. When craftsmen in Dong Shi built the Drum Tower, there were no unified charts or drawings. Only by using some symbols as scales can they build an amazing drum tower naturally and magically.

Outside the Drum Tower, there must be a Little Square called "Drum Tower Ping". Whenever guests from other stockaded villages visit collectively, the host will set up a long table and bench on Gulou Ping, and set up "wax leaves" (meaning a partnership treat). All the people in the stockade will be carrying baskets and hundreds of meals, warmly entertaining guests, and laughing and laughing one after another for a while.

You may be surprised when you walk into the Drum Tower. It's actually a big empty house. There is nothing in it except a fire pit, a bench and a big wooden drum. Usually very idle, people can come in and out at will. However, once an important event or special moment came, after a certain ritual procedure, the Drum Tower immediately intervened in Dong's daily life and became the supreme authority with a sacred power.

In Dong Village, Drum Tower is the most cohesive public space in Dong Village, and there are many important national customs activities, such as stepping on karaoke bars, singing drum tower songs, "promotion", "patrolling the village", "dancing lusheng", singing Dong Opera, and even bullfighting, people's meetings and deliberations in Dong Village, villagers' meetings, offering sacrifices to "Grandma Sama", and village elders handling and managing village affairs. Dong people say that the Drum Tower is the center of a stockade, just as the fireplace is the center of a family. The terrain where the Drum Tower is located, either in the middle of the stockade or in the place where "the mountains are coming towards the DPRK and the potential is like a star arch", is in the focus and prominent position of the cottage's vision. Therefore, the Drum Tower has truly become the materialized carrier of the Dong national spirit. Facing the Drum Tower, you have to marvel at the extraordinary wisdom, creativity and imagination of the Dong people, and find the image of the Drum Tower, so as to unify all the elements of their own culture in a highly harmonious and poetic way.