China News Service, Shaoyang, March 9 (Chen Kefan, Mao Xuejun, Yang Yuanzhi) As night fell on March 8, Taolin Village, Dankou Town, Chengbu Miao Autonomous County, Hunan Province was ablaze with lights and the streets were full of tourists.
In the Taolin Cultural Park, a bonfire was lit. In the music of "Miao Family's Guest Song", tourists in the venue danced the guest dance around the bonfire. Everyone showed a happy smile and wanted to make this beautiful A moment left deep in memory.
The thousand-year-old Miao village Taolin Village staged the Dankou Diaolong Dance, a national intangible cultural heritage.
Photo by Chen Kefan
In the past few days, Chengbu County held the "Meet the Peach Forest, Encounter Spring" Peach Blossom Festival in Taolin Village, Millennium Miaozhai Village, using peach blossoms as matchmakers, coupled with intangible cultural heritage performances and other cultural and tourism integration methods to promote the development of rural tourism.
Peach blossoms like rosy clouds and fire are all over the branches and blooming in spring, blooming into a sea of flowers, making people feel like they are in a "Peachland Wonderland".
During the day, tourists come in small groups to stroll around and admire the flowers, put on gorgeous Miao costumes and stop to take photos, enjoy the pastoral scenery, taste Miao cuisine, and experience folk activities such as making glutinous rice cakes, squeezing oil sticks, and bamboo pole dancing.
At the bonfire party at night, inheritors of intangible cultural heritage perform mysterious Wu Nuo cultural stunts for tourists, such as climbing up a mountain of knives and descending into a sea of fire, and dancing like a hanging dragon or a grass dragon in the city.
The entire Taolin Miao Village becomes a sea of joy and a grand spring scene.
Tourists dance bamboo pole dance in Taolin Village.
Photo by Mao Xuejun
Tourists are coming in droves, and the business of farmhouses and B&Bs in the village is also booming.
Chen Yanhua, the intangible cultural heritage inheritor of Chengbu folk songs, rents her handmade Miao costumes to tourists for photography at low prices to meet the needs of tourists, and the business is extremely booming.
Chen Yanhua said, "Every year the peach blossoms bloom in the peach grove, which attracts many tourists. Tourists from other places who come here like to wear beautiful Miao costumes, take photos and check in, participate in various folk activities, and have a lot of fun."
Chengbu Taolin Village is located in the core area of Nanshan National Park. In the village, there are ancient buildings such as stilted buildings, wind and rain bridges, stages, pavilions, bell towers, archways, trough gates, wooden buildings, and Wangyuan Towers from the Republic of China. There is also the "Qishan Village" The ecological landscape of "strange scenery, towering ancient trees, and a sea of azaleas" includes the Miao traditional Nuo opera, Shenlong culture, and Meishan culture, which are known as the living fossils of Qingyi Miao culture.
Peach blossoms are in full bloom in Taolin Village, and tourists participate in making glutinous rice cakes in the village.
Photo by Mao Xuejun
Taolin Village is not only rich in tourism resources and rich in ethnic culture, it is also one of the first batch of "Ethnic Minority Characteristic Villages" and "Traditional Chinese Villages" in the country. In recent years, it has been awarded "China's Beautiful Leisure Village", "Hunan Province 4-star Rural Tourism Area" and "Hunan Province It has won honors such as "Famous Tourism Village with Characteristics" and "Hunan Province Leisure Agriculture Agglomeration Development Demonstration Village". It is also known as Chengbu's "No. 1 Peach Blossom Village".
In 2018, Taolin Village successfully held the Hunan Chengbu "June 6th" Folk Song Festival Taolin branch event based on its antique traditional culture. Last year, it successfully held Chengbu's first "Drunken" Peach Blossom Festival.
Every March in Yangchun, peach blossoms bloom in Shili, complementing the blue sky, white clouds and quaint folk houses, becoming a unique landscape in Miao Township, attracting many tourists from inside and outside the province to come to enjoy the flowers, view the scenery, and experience the Miao customs, intangible cultural heritage, and folk culture.
In recent years, Chengbu Miao Autonomous County has relied on traditional villages, cultural monuments, intangible cultural heritage and other Miao culture, and made full use of rural landscape, history and culture, red tourism, ethnic minority culture and other characteristic resources to develop rich rural tourism experiences. activities, continue to improve and strengthen rural tourism, and make rural tourism the "golden key" to help rural revitalization and villagers continue to increase their income.
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