Time:2019year10month31dayLocation: Huoshan County, Guizhou ProvinceJingxiang Travel Notes 068丨"Travel to Guizhou and Guizhou" (5) Qianhu Miao VillageXijiang Qianhu Miao Village is a tourist business card of Qiandongnan Prefecture. When you come to Guizhou, in addition to Huangguoshu Waterfall, if you don’t go to Qianhu Miao Village, it means you have never visited Guizhou.I got off the train in Kaili, the capital of southeastern Guizhou Province, and there happened to be a carpool ready to leave. So, I only spent 40 yuan on 35 kilometers and went directly to Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village.
I originally thought I was getting an advantage, but I never thought that the taxi driver would take us to an agency to buy tickets. Of course, the price of buying tickets here is the same as buying it at the entrance of the scenic spot, but I forgot to show my ID card and buy tickets. I paid the full fare, but my ID card was able to get a half-price discount.
After purchasing the ticket, enter the scenic spot from the north gate of Miao Village. A woman in the carpool made an appointment with the landlord to pick her up. This allowed me to get some benefits by the way. I didn’t have to look for an apartment by myself. I just followed the landlord.
This is indeed a settlement of the Miao people, and the hillsides on the east and west sides are almost covered by houses.
But between the east and west mountains, there is a river that nourishes life. The total length of this river is 16.8 kilometers. It is called "Baishui River".
Did you think it was called "Xijiang"? Isn't this called "Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village"?
However, "Xijiang" is really not the name of a river."Xi" refers to the Xi clan of the Miao people, and "Jiang" means "discuss". 600 Many years ago, there were Miao people living here, but they were not the Xi clan, but the Shang clan. After the Xi clan came here, they asked the Shan clan for a place to stay, and the Shan clan gave this place to the Xi clan. Therefore, the place requested by the Xi clan was called "Xijiang".After 600 years of reproduction, the Xi clan has developed into thousands of households, forming the world's largest Miao inhabited village consisting of more than 10 natural villages built on the mountains connected together.How spectacular is this Qianhu Miao Village? We started from the hotel halfway up the mountain and walked up. When we reached the observation deck and looked down, we saw this scene:
The splendor on the surface can satisfy the visual enjoyment. However, how are these residential houses "stacked" together? This is the knot I want to untie.
To find the answer one must go to these houses.
You see a bunch of densely packed houses outside, but there are actually lanes between them, but these lanes are definitely not very flat.
The slope of this downhill slope is not small. I wonder if my feet will slip all the way down on a rainy day?
In general, the lane is still too narrow, which gives it the visual effect of being densely packed like building blocks from the outside.
Compared with the quiet villages on the mountain, the river sides below the mountain are much more lively. There is not only Fengyuqiao where people come and go, but also an indispensable commercial street.
This kind of environment with stillness in the movement and movement in the quietness makes me really want to live in it for a year and a half.
However, the prices here are a bit expensive. A steamed bun costs three yuan (the same price locals buy), which surprised me.
Someone said: "Can't you afford a steamed bun when you travel?" What you said is unprofessional: if you want to know the local prices, you can't ask how much the house prices are, because those things are not included in the price index. You should ask how much a bowl of noodles, a steamed bun, or a pound of vegetables cost?
A steamed bun costs three yuan, which is 3 to 6 times the price outside! In other words, the prices here may be 3 to 6 times higher than the prices outside!Sure enough, after paying 60 yuan to eat the so-called "long table banquet", the dish that was served looked like this:
The fish in sour soup costs a few yuan a piece. The most expensive thing is probably the pieces of bacon, and the rest of the whole dish only costs two yuan. Visually, the market price is less than 10 yuan, darling, 6 times!
At night, there are various Miao cultural performances here. Although the actors are all Miao, they perform on stage every day and lack the emotions expressed by the Miao people in their daily lives. However, in any commercialized scenic spot, what you will definitely not see is natural living customs. Therefore, there is nothing interesting about these, but the lights of thousands of houses at night are a bit interesting. Unfortunately, my mobile phone cannot take good photos, so I searched for a picture on the Internet to supplement the number.
