Honghe Mile Tourist Attractions

You need to know about the relevant scenic spots before you visit Honghe Maitreya, so what are the good scenic spots? Here are the top ten tourist attractions of Honghe Maitreya that I share with you. Welcome to read.

Red River Maitreya Tourist Attractions

1. Keyi Ethnic Culture Eco-tourism Village

Keyi Ethnic Culture Eco-tourism Village is located in the north of Maitreya County, Honghe Prefecture, Yunnan Province, 21km away from Maitreya County, 4km away from Shilin Scenic Area, with an area of 32km2 and an altitude of 1,93km, which is a typical karst landform. There are many strange peaks and rocks in the territory, with dense trees and overlapping mountains, and the forest coverage rate reaches 8%. Keyi Village is not only the birthplace of Axi's jumping on the moon, but also one of the most popular places of Axi's entrepreneurial epic Axi Xianji, which is a typical representative of Yi culture. Axi Jumping on the Moon, Axi Sacrificing Fire, Axi Bullfighting and Axi Wrestling are special tourism activities in Keyi Village. The ancient and simple Axi wedding customs, folk customs and natural and beautiful ecological environment can make tourists feel the harmony between man and nature.

Keyi Folk Culture Ecological Village means auspicious place. Located at the northern end of Maitreya County, Honghe Prefecture, in the southeast of Yunnan Province, it is located at 135 east longitude and 242 north latitude. Keyi Village is 132km away from the provincial capital, 5km away from Kunhe Highway, with an area of 32km 2 and an altitude of 1,78m. It belongs to a closed karst mountain area with typical karst landforms, where strange peaks and rocks coexist with various vegetation, with a forest area of 1,92mu and a forest coverage rate of 8%. The 1,564 mu of arable land in Keyi Village is divided into pieces by rugged rocks. People and animals rely on family water cellars for drinking water, and their main economic income mainly depends on growing cigarettes and walnuts. There are 188 families and 718 people living in the Axi branch of Yi people. In 211, the tourism income was 1.5 million yuan, and 25, tourists were received. In 211, the per capita income was 58 yuan.

Keyi is located on the slope to the west, south and north, hidden among walnuts and Chinese Toona trees, surrounded by green hills, with birds and flowers, fresh air and pleasant scenery. Keyi Village is one of the cradles of Axi song and dance "Axi jumps over the moon", one of the places where Axi's pioneering epic "Axi Xianji" prevails, the village with the most intact traditional folk culture, and one of the earliest bases in Yunnan Province to carry out the armed struggle against Chiang Kai-shek.

1. Keyi beacon tower

The beacon tower is used by the Asi people to transmit information. In ancient times, there were more Asi people than wars and bandits. In order to ensure the transmission of information, many beacon towers were built on the tops of villages and villages with excellent sight, and the smoke cleared away. The preserved beacon towers have become tourist attractions. There are three beacon towers in Keyi Village, and there is one every mile. There is a resurgence of wolf smoke and drums, but the beacon tower conveys the message of the arrival of distinguished guests, indicating that distinguished guests have arrived. Please kill chickens and sheep, prepare wine, sing and dance, and welcome guests from afar.

Second, the gates of Keyi Village

In ancient times, in order to prevent bandits, wild animals and plagues from invading, all villages and villages in Axi built city walls, and Keyi Village also built city walls. There are three gates, and now this one we all see today has been preserved as the welcome gate. Keyi Village held a grand ceremony here to warmly welcome guests from all over the world. There are three ceremonies to enter the village. One is to cross the "fire pond" lit with fragrant leaves (the Axi people think that fragrant leaves can ward off ghosts and evil spirits), which means to remove the filth from visitors; The second is to drink a mouthful of corn-brewed farmhouse corn wine, which means to remove the drowsiness of the guests; Third, singing and dancing to welcome the guests, indicating that the visitors have become a member of the Yi family and can enter the stockade cleanly.

Third, the dense branch forest

From primitive times to modern times, it is said that their ancestors were born to their grandmothers and dragons in ancient times, so there is an activity that dragon festival worships their ancestors. It is recognized that the dragon gods, that is, ancestors, in each village are concentrated in their own Mizhi mountain forest from the second day to the third day of the second lunar month. From the second day to the third day of each year, the village owner (village head) takes Bimo and the relevant personnel of the whole village to Mizhi Mountain, where Bimo presides over the sacrificial activities, and * * * prayed that the dragon gods (ancestors) would give the whole village good weather, abundant crops, prosperous livestock and peace in the four seasons.

Mi Zhi Festival is the trace of the Axi people to the survival and reproduction of all human beings, and it is an activity of worship of reproduction and reproduction.

Every year, before the festival of Mi Zhi, an elderly person with high prestige in the village should be chosen as the God Lord, and the selected person should be cleansed three days in advance (taking a bath, not sharing a bed with a woman). On the second day of the second lunar month, the men sent as representatives took goats from the village and carried sacrificial supplies such as grain and wine in containers into the dense branch forest. Under a tall tree, the God sat solemnly on the ground. Several elders respectfully placed their offerings in front of the God's Lord, and the sacrificial people stood solemnly in front of the sacred tree. Bimo sang sacrificial songs, and when Bimo finished singing, he slaughtered the pulled goats and took them out-and offered them under the sacred tree with other sacrifices. Everyone kowtowed to the sacred tree and the God.

After the sacrificial ceremony, a group of innocent and lovely little boy dolls emerged from the dense branches, dressed as lambs, singing: "Knives, strings, eating, quacking and digging, frogs running behind the pond, roaches on the kitchen stove in pairs, grasshoppers barking tail to tail in the field, and old cats barking in the middle of the night ..." While singing, they ran to the village, and when they got to the village, the lambs were on the edge. It means that under the protection of a kind of god, livestock flourish and people develop. Wait until all the ceremonies are over, and all the people make a fire to cook dinner in the open space beside the dense branch forest. In the dead of night, God mainly sends five kinds of grains from house to house in the village, and then the little dolls sing some nursery rhymes about reproduction.

Fourth, the origin of A Xi's jumping on the moon

There is a wonderful and moving legend. It is said that a long time ago, there was a great fire in the place where A Xi lived, and the mountains and plains were ablaze, and A Xi's home was about to be swallowed up by the fire. A Xi's young man resolutely led the crowd to fight the wildfire with branches. In order not to be scalded by Mars, people could not help shouting "Ah Tu, Ah Tu" while shouting. After three days and nights of fighting, the wildfire was finally put out. A Xi people were ecstatic. In order to celebrate the joy of fire fighting, men held branches on their chests, women clapped their hands, and men and women jumped up in two rows until the moon came out. After evolution, A Xi jumped into the moon. Nowadays, young men and women usually express their love for each other in the form of dancing on the moon.

After the founding of New China, the * * * production party attached great importance to, cared for and supported "A Xi Jump on the Moon", making it go out of the mountain gate, the provincial gate and the country, and perform in more than 1 countries and regions such as Poland, North Korea, Russia, Thailand, Malaysia, the United States, Japan, Austria, Hong Kong and Macao. In 1986, the American music scene listed "A Xi Tiao Yue" as one of the top ten famous music in the world, and played "A Xi Tiao Yue" during the White House break.

V. Scenes of Life

The production and life of the people in Axi are colorful and poetic. Here are some scenes related to daily life.

1. In Axi area, in May and June every year, a wild edible fungus, Chicken Fir, grows in the mountains and fields. The newly unearthed Chicken Fir is fresh, tender and delicious, and it is a delicious dish on the table of Axi people. The scene on the picture is that the Yi people are digging chicken Fir.

2. Asi people are a smart and intelligent people, and their household appliances are basically made from local materials. What is shown in the picture is that the Axi people use local water melon trees to make buckets for carrying water.

3. There is a saying that "relying on mountains to eat mountains", and Axi mountain area is rich in resources. The picture shows that Axi people are eating wild wasps.

4. The picture shows the Axi women playing Axi folk songs with a musical instrument called "Xiangzi" in their spare time in the busy farming to express their feelings of happiness and nostalgia for their youth.

5. "Axi Xianji" is a creation epic handed down by the Axi people, which reflects the creation process, love, weddings and funerals of the Axi people. The picture shows two old people singing Axi Xianji. By singing, Ashchenko was handed down from generation to generation.

6. Because Axi mountain area is a typical karst landform, with lots of stones and small stones, it is not suitable for mechanized operation, so smart Axi people use cattle to plow the fields. The picture shows the Asi people sowing seeds in cultivated land with cows and self-made plows and rakes.

7. Bamboo can be seen everywhere in Axi area. Industrious Axi people use bamboo to make various production and living containers for carrying and holding food and other things. The picture shows that the Asi people are compiling the back reed.

8. In the past, the production and living standards in Axi area were low, and there was a lack of all kinds of daily necessities, so that people could only work with home-made things. The picture shows Asi people making their own sickles to get a haircut.

9. Axi women are intelligent, kind and ingenious. They are good at decorating themselves with colorful embroidery and expressing their love and longing for life. Their costumes are full of flowers and birds embroidered by hand and various symbolic patterns. The picture shows Asi women embroidering.

VI. Eaves patterns

On the walls of the eaves of Axi people, bats, tigers, big three-stringed instruments, horns and other patterns will be drawn according to the preferences of each family, indicating totem worship and wishing the whole family peace in the four seasons.

Seven, A Xi people worship tigers

A Xi people have always worshipped tigers, thinking that tigers are the king of beasts, so they regard tigers as the totem of their own nation and regard themselves as a nation of tigers, which means that they are as brave as tigers, and tigers can protect their own safety, so they call themselves "Luoluo" and "\"

Eight, Axi marriage customs

Axi young men and women are free to fall in love and choose marriage events at the age of seventeen or eighteen. The marriage between men and women in Afghanistan is monogamous. There is no matchmaker and no introduction is needed. Generally, there are four opportunities to get to know each other: they usually get to know each other when "A Xi jumps over the moon"; The second is to express their feelings and get to know each other when singing "Xianji"; The third is to know in production and life; The fourth is to get to know each other in wrestling, fairs and other fields.

The wedding procedure for young men and women in Axi is extremely simple. No bride price, no dowry, no banquet, and most of the wedding ceremony is carried out in labor. After both parties like it, they agree to get married. On the wedding day, the woman brought her own labor tools to wait at the junction of the two villages, and the man went to bring her back. When she got home, the man said, "Mom and Dad, I brought my daughter-in-law back." The woman said, "mom and dad, I'm here as a daughter-in-law." After a day's work, it can be tested whether the woman can bear hardships and be frugal, and if there is something wrong, the engagement will be revoked; I liked it. The next day, the man went back to the woman's house, and the first big thing when he entered the door was to carry water. If the woman's parents agree to this marriage, let the future son-in-law who carries water enter the house and pour the water into the water tank. If you don't agree, don't let it pour into the cylinder. From the day when the man returns home to the day when the woman returns home, no matter how far away from home, you must return home that night after dinner. On the way home, the new daughter-in-law carries the firewood she has found in advance, and the man carries an axe and firewood until the night falls. This is the connotation of the so-called "burning firewood on one back to show loyalty, and carrying clear water for life".

IX. Fire Demon

The Axi people have always said that in ancient times, there was no fire in the world, people were shivering with cold, and their hands and feet were numb, so they had to huddle together to keep warm; There was a man named "Mu Deng", but he rode on a rotten wood and kept drilling on it with a wooden stick for three days and nights. His body was warm and the rotten wood also got out of Mars, so there was a fire in the world. Fire brings warmth, light and hope to people. However, there are still some fire demons in the fire, which will burn down houses and forest resources and bring many disasters to people. Therefore, it is necessary to drive them away. Every year, from February to March, a more suitable day is decided according to the climate in the village. The village head takes Bimo and the relevant personnel in the village to drive away the fire demon, that is, Bimo recites scriptures and drills wood to make a fire, and the sparks taken out are "new fire", and the fire demon is carried away by two people. The young men and women in the village paint tattoos with various pigments, dress up as various monsters, cover their lower bodies with palm leaves, palm slices and leaves, and some people grab cow dung.

X. Axi offering sacrifices to fire

Axi offering sacrifices to fire is a unique primitive religious culture of the Axi people in Maitreya. According to legend, in that ancient era, the "fire" caused by lightning was extinguished by wind and rain, and the ancestors of Axi drilled wood for fire, and Mars was drilled on the third day of the second lunar month to bring joy and warmth again. For this reason, the Axi people of Yi people worship "fire" as the divine power of all things, and set the third day of the second lunar month as the life day of "fire", holding grand sacrificial carnival activities such as "jumping the fire god and welcoming the new fire".

On the eve of the activity, every household, inside and outside the house, and outside the village, should be cleaned and prepared to welcome guests from all directions. Married girls should go back to their parents' homes to carry water and firewood for the festival. At night, each family invited guests to gather around the fireplace, and the host entertained them with melon seeds, peanuts and corn sweet white wine, chatting about friendship, talking about the future, and sparking and laughing constantly. The matter of offering fire was agreed in this joyful atmosphere.

the dragon is the "monarch" of the Asi people. "Dragon" came first and then "fire", "dragon" and "fire" all brought a lot of benefits to the Asi people. "Dragon" governs the sky, and dragon festival must seek good weather. The day before the fire sacrifice (the second day of February) is the day of dragon festival. In the early morning, the village head Zhang Luo villagers carried sacrifices and live pigs to Mizhi Mountain, where pine wool covered the feet of dragon trees, set up offerings, slaughtered pigs to chant Buddhist scriptures, burned incense and bowed down to pray. After the sacrifice, we had an ancestor's meal on Mizhi Mountain, and the banquet culminated. Everyone shouted and cheered, drank with Huan * *, and raised a glass to wish the good weather, abundant crops and peace in the four seasons in the coming year.

the third day of February is the day of "offering sacrifices to fire". When dawn comes, housewives get up early and dress up, and entertain guests with boiled sugar eggs and silk cakes. Young guys and girls are dressed up, ready for fire offerings, and put out the old fire at home. The whole village hosted a sumptuous Chinese meal to entertain guests from afar. Songmaopu street, set up a long banquet, regardless of primary and secondary * * * drink with joy, happy and auspicious day.

At about three o'clock in the afternoon, under the leadership of Bimo's master, lean men carried the "Vulcan" already prepared to the foot of the dragon tree, used wooden poles as pestles, and kept grinding and drilling in the hole of the dried chestnut tree that had been cut in advance until Mars was drilled and put into the basin. The fire-offering team shouted loudly while boasting the horn, "Vulcan is coming! , two strong men carrying kindling, knives and sticks (sticks) escorting the way into the village, crossing the street and walking around the village with shouts, driving all the "evil spirits" around the village house out of the door, putting the new fire in the fire pit that has already been extinguished, and the salary increase will never go out.

At about five o'clock in the afternoon, the men in the village gathered in a place to avoid people's eyes and ears, dressed up in disguise, painted tattoos with five-color paint, some dressed as women, some dressed as ferocious monsters and demons, and most of them covered their lower bodies with brown leather, leaves and floor vines, while the little boy was naked-painted "penis". After the decoration, the fire procession, led by Bimo, carried the fire and used the "exorcism symbol" to clear the way, and the monster demon king held the colored knife wood blade.