Aoyama stretching, high-day blue. Carrying a thousand years of history, China's most yaozhai "Even South Post yaozhai" The first time the mysterious Hills from the inside out, wearing the people's eyes. Drove 3 hours from Guangzhou by the Guang-Qing high-speed, 107 State Road, we walked into this, under siege in the Chinese culture has so far retained the largest residential buildings Yao, Yao management system of social organization and distinctive folk customs of the Yao Jia Gu Zhai.
Nangang yaozhai leisurely days
Yao in Guangdong province's oldest and one of the largest number of ethnic minorities. The assertion that Yao was first settled in Guangdong in the pre-Qin period. NATIVE Guangdong before the founding of the Yao people, to have become the largest minority in Guangdong 8, one of the last century, 80 years after after several changes in administrative areas, Yao became one of the largest minority in Guangdong 5. The 2000 census data show that: Guangdong Province Yao population of 15 million, only slightly lower than the Zhuang ethnic group, mainly in the company and South Hill, Ruyuan areas.
Nangang yaozhai built in the Song Dynasty, has trodden a leisurely millennium years. Her specific location in the Southwest with the South County, from the outside world for many years has been the "three-row yaozhai" scenic area not far. Tourism Resources Development prevalence of age, Nangang yaozhai turbulence can be delayed from outside one of the reasons is that it ranks at an altitude of more than 800 meters above the hills. This year has just been connected to yaozhai mountain highway, yaozhai residents have come to an end of things down the mountain on foot more than 1 hours, go to the market to be two to three hours mountain trek in history. Shan has also brought the wheels of the mountain and the pace of outsiders.
Ride across the Nangang yaozhai after the first gate, in the second mountain road disappeared in front of cars. We Climb the stairs and mosaic "Nangang" plaque in sight of the gate was hanging his head. Dozens of stairs backward too yaozhai, yaozhai large, across such Yao scattered mountain home building arranged Mimizaza. Scan Yao Ju, are materials, brick and gray tiles, hue quiet and uniform, housing and general high-Yi Zhang Yi Zhang three feet to six feet, four corners fly Alice. Kiln between the home and the home is adjacent to the kiln, often in front of the house roof and the ground behind the house, a high level, in the middle is only a stone road corridor folder. Yaozhai in the way and step by irregularly shaped stone-paved, stone path through the stone steps of the series, Zhaizhong every household to more than 300 blocks of buildings interlinked, forming yaozhai integrity and pattern. Locals Introduction: The stone is from local materials, but the kiln home's architectural style, but from a designer's handwriting in the Song Dynasty Hunan. No wonder that a single piece cornices Qiaojiao, square steeple schungite wall screen, it is the misty rain Xiangxi breath smell.
Yaozhai mountain people living
Yaozhai in many houses have been uninhabited, the main one either to move down the mountain or go to work for many years. Now in order to meet the visitors, a number of houses started to re-repair. Workers squatted on the roof, and we would like to explore Tantoutannao to leave traces of life have been the masters of. Most of the room is very simple, land stone walls have been able to distinguish a specific color. These walls have been immersed in all kinds of eolian dirt gourd products, ask before knows that it is catching frog, pick up snail, with food, all kinds of junk loaded containers. Although the people to room air, but the rich yaozhai's traditional mountain farm life, vivid.
Still living in yaozhai mostly in the elderly and children. Old people dressed in authentic colors of the Yao slightly mainly black clothes, in the stone steps for peace on the ground drying corn, millet, played as a child close by, they are no longer used to wear full-Yao service leaders, while the popular short-sleeved dress T shirt. Dianbu old people looked up from time to time in the sun rolling grain shift, up some dust in the sun, and the top of the extension of spring along the eaves spill water interface at each other against the background of glittering spray, children are often billed to see live. At this moment is a bit puzzled: about to give this millennium has brought wealth and convenience yaozhai mountains outside the culture, will take away that this is a calm and peaceful?