Farming does not require chemical fertilizer, and harvesting does not require sickles ... The ancient village has maintained its "old appearance" for thousands of years, attracting nearly 2 billion yu

Farming does not require chemical fertilizer, and harvesting does not require sickles ... The ancient village has maintained its "old appearance" for thousands of years, attracting nearly 2 billion yuan in gold in half a year. Huanggang Village, located in Liping County, Qiandongnan Prefecture, Guizhou Province, is an ancient Dong village with a history of nearly 1,000 years, where Dong songs originated.

20 12 Huanggang village was selected as the first batch of "China traditional villages". In recent years, the development of tourism has brought great changes to this small village.

Dong villages retain their traditions.

Farming requires no chemical fertilizer, no sickle and no machinery.

At present, five batches of 68 19 villages in China * * * have been selected as "Chinese Traditional Villages List". So many traditional villages in China have formed the largest and most valuable farming villages in the world.

Among them, there are 724 villages in Guizhou Province, ranking first in the country.

Huanggang Village, Liping County, Guizhou Province

Overlooking Huanggang village from the air, there are rows of diaojiao buildings, and houses are scattered in the mountains. A stream passes through the village, and the clear stream flows slowly, and people live along it. Against the background of blue sky and white clouds, green mountains and green waters, it has become a landscape painting of Xanadu.

Luo Deyin, Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University: It was particularly shocking to come to Huanggang Village for the first time. In China, it is difficult to find a traditional village without impurities.

Associate Professor Luo Deyin has been devoted to the research and utilization of traditional villages for a long time. He is very familiar with Huanggang village and has been there many times.

Diaojiaolou in Huanggang Village

The most iconic buildings in Huanggang Village are five drum towers. The big and small things in the village will be discussed in the Drum Tower. When the villagers have nothing to do, they all gather in the Drum Tower to chat and meet friends. Every major festival, villagers gather here to sing and dance. It can be said that the Drum Tower has a supreme position in the hearts of Dong villagers.

The five drum towers in Huanggang Village represent five housing families. This drum tower is both a temple and Dong's home.

Huanggang village drum tower

The Dong village in Huanggang has a history of more than 800 years, which can be traced back to the end of the Song Dynasty. Because the Dong people have no written language of their own, some of their history can only be sung through songs, while others are written into the traditional life of the local people.

The three stone tablets standing at the entrance of Huanggang Village Primary School can be traced back to the third year of Xuantong in Qing Dynasty. Most of the inscriptions are engraved with rural rules and regulations, etiquette, etc., which is the only written historical proof preserved in Huanggang Village.

Huanggang village stele

Huanggang Village is a Dong village with a history of nearly a thousand years. Up to now, it still retains many unique local cultural traditions, which are deeply reflected in their living habits.

This pure Dong village of 1500 people maintains the traditional farming method, with no chemical fertilizer for farming, no sickle for harvesting and no machinery for rice milling. Most villagers wear traditional Dong costumes every day, which is impossible in most traditional villages.

Ducks in the village

Wu Xianzhong, a 34-year-old villager, is a Dong native. He introduced that Dong people like ducks. When they work in the fields early in the morning, they will pick them up and put them in the mountains, and then pick them up when the sun goes down. They will spend all day with ducks and treat them as "children".

Every drum tower needs a buffalo king, which proves the prosperity of this drum tower family. The treatment of Niu Wang is more nourishing than that of people. Not only is there a special animal trainer to take care of him, but the villagers in this drum tower have to take turns cutting fresh grass on the mountain to feed him and feed him a catty of glutinous rice wine every day. If it is hot summer, take a bath at least three times a day.

Shuiniuwang

There are five surnames in Huanggang Village, and 95% of them are surnamed Wu. Wu Xianjin, born in 1990, was elected as the youngest director of Huanggang Village in the villagers' vote of 20 17. Young as he is, he knows Huanggang like the back of his hand.

The villagers are cooking.

Wu Xianjin said that although the villagers are self-sufficient, their economy is very backward and they are notoriously poor villages. What makes them happy is to get together and sing Dong songs.

Dong folk songs are a natural chorus form with multi-voices, no command and no accompaniment in Dong areas of China, which originated in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period and has a history of more than 2,500 years. In 2009, Dong folk songs were included in the world representative list of human intangible cultural heritage. There is a local proverb, "people will grow old if they don't sing, and flowers can't bloom if they don't sing."

Wu Chenglong, the inheritor of Dong folk songs in Huanggang Village, Liping County, Guizhou Province: If you can't sing, you will have no friends and no status in the village. Then you want to find a girlfriend and talk to someone. Many girls won't like you.

The villagers sang big Dong songs.

Beautiful natural environment, simple and rich Dong culture, beautiful tunes and magnificent Dong songs attract tourists from all directions.

foreign tourists

A room in the B&B Inn is hard to find.

Holding the village from generation to generation has become the bottom line for villagers.

With the promotion of rural revitalization planning, tourism development has become the general trend of Huanggang Village. Huanggang Village, a millennium Dong village, has not only profound traditional Dong culture, but also the cultural inheritance of Dong songs, attracting more and more tourists. However, catering, accommodation and other supporting facilities are not perfect, and the tourist experience is not good. Wu Lianxing, a 22-year-old villager, was the first person to eat crabs in the renovation of old houses in the village. His inn has been expanded twice, from 20 rooms to 35 rooms, and it is still hard to find a room. Now he can earn more than 200 thousand a year by opening an inn. He never dreamed of making so much money as a janitor.

Su Min, the home of Wulian.

While Wu Lianxing is planning the next development plan, the Maker Center invested and built by China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation is also in full swing. The first-phase Maker Center and the second-phase B&B project under construction are tourism poverty alleviation demonstration projects in response to the national poverty alleviation task. It is expected to be completed by the end of 20 19 and 10.

Maker center construction site

The villagers have two opinions about development. Young people advocate development, while old people hold objections. Without the support of the elderly, it is difficult for the village to engage in large-scale development.

Under the coordination of Wu Xianjin, director of the village committee, and Professor Luo Deyin, the villagers finally reached a consensus, that is, to maintain the appearance of the existing primitive villages and not to over-exploit them. First, the traditional factors of wood are irreplaceable by red brick houses. This generation has held the village, and the next generation must also hold it.

The developing homestay in Huanggang village

There are 98 traditional villages in China in Liping County, which is the county with the largest number of traditional villages in Guizhou Province, including 70 villages inhabited by Dong people. In recent years, the tourism industry in Liping County has developed vigorously, and the county has coordinated the series of "Baili Dong Village" to form a "Baili Dong Village" tourism belt.

According to the data, in the first half of 20 19, Liping county received 2132,600 tourists, up by 3 1.9% year-on-year, and realized comprehensive tourism income of19.54 million yuan, up by 34.55% year-on-year.

Liping county

Half an hour observation:

Traditional villages have multiple values such as history, folklore, aesthetics and literature. They are the bearing of history and culture, the sustenance of homesickness, and the concentrated expression of the long history and national spirit of the nation. Traditional villages need to be well protected. At the same time, many traditional villages belong to underdeveloped areas and urgently need to get rid of poverty and become rich.

Protection needs money, and getting rich needs money. Driven by two demands, many people want to develop tourism. Some traditional villages have brought wealth and changes to their villages by developing tourism. However, it should be noted that the development of tourism must be based on the protection of traditional villages, and a long-term plan needs to be constructed through top-level design to coordinate the development of tourism and original ecological protection. Only in this way can the beauty of homesickness be preserved forever.