Thursday, October 29, 2009

Miao Ethnic Minority Villages and Dong



Guizhou Province is known as the province of many ethnic minorities, particularly ethnic minorities Dong and Miao. Kaili city is one city that has a dense population of ethnic minorities, and even more numerous than Han in the ratio of approximately 80% - 20%.

Kaili is the capital of Qiandongnan Autonomous Prefecture (Qian dong nan zhou), a region endowed with the status of 'special areas' because of its uniqueness. Miao and Dong coexist in harmony. Among them were also carrying out inter-ethnic marriages, also with Han. But the Miao and Dong ethnic have different cultures.

Kaili city government is actively promoting tourism, Kaili is so well rely minority ethnic cultural diversity. They yearn one day they can become like Lijiang in Yunnan the tourism boom in domestic and abroad in a few years.

To reach the city of Kaili, the tourists have to fly first to the city the provincial capital Guiyang Guizhou and continued with the roads along approximately 195 km for two hours through the winding mountain roads.

Kaili is a city that is clean, developed, and of course unique in that its population in which ethnic minorities become the majority there. In every corner of the city of Kaili, can be found in the women Dong or Miao tribe still wear traditional clothes and their hair is traditionally also the way a flower tucked in their hair.

Their jobs everyday are mostly farmed by the majority of agricultural produce rice, corn, peppers, squash and so on. Miao tribe who still live in traditional houses in the habit of hanging their produce in front of the house to symbolize fertility and prosperity.

On feast days, the women dressed in ethnic Miao very luxurious special. They wear jewelry made of silver all original and made by their own hands. Headwear they often resemble buffalo horns, symbolizing their worship of buffalo. It is said that a complete outfit can be worth the price more than 100,000 yuan. It's a fantastic figure.

But Where did that kind of money, especially their income as farmers are very poor? It is said that much silver is silver is given to countries that Miao tribe because they believed a silver craftsmen of the most reliable. Men's clothing Dong and Miao tribe much simpler. Silver only be found on their belts. On feast days, the men blew the traditional musical instrument called Lusheng (??) Are made of bamboo, in which the women sing and dance with a distinctive rhythm and a great voice.

Traditional Miao groups living in the mountains. Miao tribe reportedly still divided into several smaller sections of the mountain depending on where they live. This can be distinguished from their clothing model slightly different from each other.

Most are still living in the mountains lived the old people, because the younger generation to leave their homes to work in the more developed regions such as Guangzhou and Shenzhen in Guangdong Province.

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