Humanities and customs of Jinxiu Panwang Valley Tourism and Health Resort

Panwang Valley is located in the center of the Yao Autonomous County. It is soaked in the humanistic customs and folk customs of the Yao people. The hospitable Yao, the simple Yao, and the trustworthy Yao still maintain the ancient heritage that has been passed down for thousands of years, making the world I saw a beautiful Panwang Valley, a Panwang Valley with simple folk customs, and a Panwang Valley with strong Yao ethnic characteristics.

Jinxiu Yao Autonomous County is located in the Dayao Mountain District in the east-central part of Guangxi. It was established on May 28, 1952 and is the earliest Yao autonomous county in the country. The Yao compatriots living in Jinxiu Dayao Mountain are divided into five branches: Panyao, Chashan Yao, Hualan Yao, Shanziyao and Aoyao due to differences in language, clothing and customs. It is the county with the most Yao branches in the world and the Yao ethnic group. One of the main settlement counties. The Yao compatriots are industrious, brave, hospitable, and good at singing and dancing. Their folk culture has a long history, is rich and colorful, has elegant and unique customs, and still retains its ancient heritage. Mr. Fei Xiaotong, an anthropological sociologist, once said that "the world's Yao research center is in China, and the Chinese Yao research center is in Jinxiu" and wrote the inscription "the capital of the Yao".

The unique ethnic and cultural customs of the Yao people include fishing dance, light-paced bamboo pole dance, long drum dance, wedding ceremony of the Yao people, etc. It is worth mentioning that they are going up the knife mountain, going down to the sea of ????fire, and bathing in fire ash. The stunts passed down from generation to generation, such as climbing over the cloud platform and stepping on the iron plow, are all part of the Yao people's "precepts" ceremony. Young people who have undergone the "precepts" ceremony will become more confident and braver, which is equivalent to the "timely" when young men and women of the Han people reach adulthood in ancient times. Crown" and "hairpin" rituals. The "Dujie" ceremony is very grand. Before each stunt is performed, a mage is required to cast a spell to ask the gods to give the performer strength and bless the performer's safety.

In addition, Panwang Valley’s ancestors have passed down the mysterious millennium culture of Yaochi, and its Yao medicine and medicinal baths have attracted world attention. The classic medicines "Five Tigers, Nine Niu, Eighteen Diamonds, and Seventy-Two Winds" used clinically by Jinxiu County Yao Medicine Hospital are mainly collected from the original mountains and forests of Jinxiu. Panwang Valley plans to transform nearly 500,000 acres of Laoshan Forest Farm in the valley area to grow Chinese herbal medicine to prepare for the sustainable development of Yao medicine and provide more employment opportunities for local people.