The cascading terraced fields are surrounded by green mountains, like a slowly unfolding picture scroll, magnificent and colorful;

Jiabang Terraced Fields/Wang Jianshe

In the depths of Miao Village, singing is flying, drink a bowl of sweet rice wine, and feel the simple fireworks and human feelings;

Miao Nian/Yang Long

The wind of the Wuyang River blows, with a little damp local flavor;

Wuyang River

Yuntai Mountain protrudes between the mountains, surrounded by clouds and mist, like a fairyland……

Yuntai Mountain

Here is the Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture located in the southeast of Guizhou Province. If you are planning to travel to Guizhou, Mr. Mountain recommends that you must not miss Qiandongnan.

Xiao Huang Qianren Dong Nationality Song/Zou Xuejun

Qiandongnan is located in the transition zone between the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau and the Hunan-Guangxi hilly basin. There are various landscapes, colorful cave landscapes, and rich and colorful ethnic customs in the territory. These may be the reasons for you to go to Qiandongnan.

Pastoral scenery stand vividly revealed on the painting

Jiabang Terraced Fields is located in the northeast of Jiabang Township, in the hinterland of Moon Mountain in the west of Congjiang County, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province. Every April and May is the season for watering the terraced fields. After watering, the Jiabang terraced fields flashed a silver light against the background of the sun, just like a slowly unfolding picture scroll, magnificent and colorful.

Jiabang Terrace/Qiao Qiming

After the rain, the terraced fields are surrounded by clouds and mist like a fairyland. Together with the surrounding Miaojia stilted buildings, they form beautiful Chinese landscape paintings, which are very popular among tourists and photography enthusiasts.

Jiabang Terraced Fields/Zhang Chengwu

The Tang'an terraced fields have a different view. The rice fields with scattered layers are intertwined with meandering green curves, which are as beautiful as a picture scroll.

The brown wooden house carries the traces of time, and the wind passes through the ancient village with the fragrance of rice;

The stone steps are covered with moss, there are old people sitting and resting under the wind and rain bridge, where the clouds and mists are hovering, and the leisurely figures of the villagers who are farming are hidden and visible;

Tang'an Dong Village

It is far away from the hustle and bustle of cars and the distracting thoughts of the world. It is accompanied by the singing of birds and insects all day long, and sleeps under the stars of the Milky Way. I don’t know who is yearning for the life.

Miao Village and Dong Township with melodious rhythm

In Qiandongnan, there are many unknown primitive landscapes, civilizations hidden in the mountains and undisturbed. Zhaoxing Dong Village is hidden in the mountains. The simple and mysterious Dong Village scenery and the winding terraced fields complement each other. The village is built on the mountain, orderly, quiet and harmonious, and every corner contains profound Dong culture.

Zhaoxing Dong Village/Zhong Yonghe

Under the Drum Tower, someone sits and pulls home, or sings a Kam Grand Choirsa (song of the Dong nationality). The pure and ethereal singing, the undisguised emotional expression, is moving. At night, the scattered drum towers are connected into a brilliant light, which is reflected in the terraced fields, illuminating the surrounding green waters and green mountains.

Zhaoxing Dong Village/Zhou Wenzhe

Xijiang Thousand Households Miao Village, the only Thousand Households Miao Village in China and unparalleled in the world, is known as the "Miao Capital". It is surrounded by mountains on all sides, with mountains and peaks, and the terraced fields are directly clouded by the mountains. In the Miao Village, the stilted floors are stacked on top of each other, built along the mountain, and they are continuous.

Panorama of Xijiang Village/Yuan Renlin

When night falls, every household lights up the lights, and the Miao Village is illuminated by the lights, and it is brilliant. Climbing high and looking at the lights of Qianhu Miao Village in Xijiang, it is like crossing into the city of stars in the animation in a trance.

Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village/Ye Mingyuan

Listening to a song of high mountains and flowing water, drinking a bowl of sweet rice wine, singing and dancing in the lights, the rich ethnic customs will make people intoxicated.

Happy Childhood/Qiao Qiming

Of course, there are more than Zhaoxing Dong Village and Xijiang Miao Village in southeastern Guizhou. Shiqiao Miao Village is known as "the hometown of ancient Chinese papermaking". Local people produced a unique and innovative floral paper, they packaging flowers and plants in two layers of pulp, resulting in the unique floral paper.

Basha Miao Village in the dazed forests at the foot of Moon Mountain still retains ancient customs such as wearing muskets, shaving heads with sickles, and worshiping ancient trees. It is also known as "the last gunman tribe under the sun".

Basha gunmen shoot at the tree/Wang Shunhong

Qiandongnan also has the original Dali Dong Village, Xiaohuang Dong Village, Tang'an Dong Village……Indulge in the colorful ethnic customs and enjoy a national cultural feast.

Miao Township Cai Road/Yang Xinhua

The state of a hundred festivals has a profound heritage

Qiandongnan is home to 47 ethnic groups, including Miao, Dong, Han, Buyi, Shui, Yao, Zhuang, and Tujia nationalities, with diverse folk customs. In addition to the well-known Miao and Dong nationality Spring Festival, bar door wine, Miao wedding customs, etc., there are many ethnic festivals here.

The Miao family sings and dances to celebrate the housewarming/Qiao Qiming

In Huanggang Dong Village, Shuangjiang Town, Liping County, there is a traditional festival called "Tai Guan Ren", which is mainly to eliminate disasters and avoid disasters. People carry "Guan Ren" dressed as guests or children, walk through the streets and alleys, and finally start the carnival of the whole village in Gulouping.

Putting on the Ancient Legacy/Yan Yun

The "Sama Festival" or "Ji Sa" is a traditional festival of the Dong people. The Dong people choose auspicious days from the first month to the second month of the lunar calendar to celebrate the "Sama Festival". On the festival day, Zhai leaders led all men, women and children to the "Sa altar" to perform "Ji Sa" and make offerings. Afterwards, they will carry out activities such as blowing and dancing, bullfighting, doye, singing pipa and stepping on the song hall, etc., looking forward to the gods of Sa Sui to exorcise evil spirits, to ensure that people's various production activities are not hindered and that the crops will be abundant and people and animals will thrive in the coming year.

Zhouxi Gannangxiang Miao Lusheng Festival is one of the largest Miao Lusheng events in Qiandongnan. It is a representative of Zhouxi-style Miao costumes and reed dance culture. Every year, starting from the third day of the first month of the lunar calendar, each Miao village first holds a small-scale reed festival, and finally holds a reed general meeting. During the festival, there will be reed dance, Miao love song duet, bullfighting, horse racing, bird fighting, cockfighting and other activities, the scene is spectacular.

Zhouxi Gannangxiang Miao Lusheng Festival / Lu Xianyi

In addition, there are traditional festivals such as Bridge Festival, Drum Turning Festival, Maoren Festival, Sowing Festival, Wrestling Festival and Sisters Festival in southeastern Guizhou. If you can visit Qiandongnan during the festival, you can feel the profound ethnic heritage of Qiandongnan and participate in the grand festival carnival.

The mountains and rivers are suitable, the ultimate beauty

Leigong Mountain, the main peak of the Miaoling Mountains, has a towering terrain, clear mountain context, and ten thousand mountains guarding it, towering and tall. On Leigong Mountain, the forest is green, the stream is translucent, the waterfall is cascading vertically, and the fragrance of birds and flowers is everywhere. At the foot of Leigong Mountain, Banpo Miao Villages are scattered everywhere, and the ethnic customs and the beautiful mountains complement each other.

The Wuyang River runs through the mountainous area of &4u:200b&4u:200beastern Guizhou and flows into the Yuanjiang River in western Hunan. It integrates natural scenery, human landscape and ethnic customs. It is the center of ecological tourism and customs tourism in the east of Guizhou. The most beautiful scenery is concentrated in Zhenyuan.

Yuntai Mountain Scenic Area is the main part of the Wuyang River National Scenic Spot. The main peak, Tuanlunyan, is 1066 meters above sea level. Protruding between the mountains, shrouded in clouds, so called Yuntai Mountain.

Standing in the mountains, looking far into the distance, the sky is wide and the earth is wide, the clouds are steaming and the clouds are blue.