Miao masquerade fortune telling

According to local legend, many Miao people belonging to Anshi fled and hid in the mountains at the junction of Zhijin and Langdai after Wu Sangui pacified Shuixi in the early Qing Dynasty and made An Kun as the ambassador. Since the beginning of this century, this part of "Vivi" has gradually lived nearly 100 kilometers away from the border of Suojia and Fiona Fang. In order to scare and confuse the wild animals in the forest, they wear strange headdresses on their heads. This headdress first ties horns on their hair. "Hair" weighs more than 2 kilograms, and the long hair in free fall is actually 3 meters. This headdress has become the symbol of today's Miao nationality.

Walking into Longjia Miao Village along the paved road, the paved hemp stalks are dried under the eaves of the roadside, and the shredded hemp is woven into thick linen by the ancient spinning wheel. After a pair of skillful hands of Miao women and batik fine white cloth, they can be sewn into unique Miao costumes. Girls in Longjia Miao Village will learn embroidery at the age of five or six and batik at the age of eight or nine. First of all, they will dip a flat wax knife into the wax liquid, draw a good pattern on the fine white cloth, then put the painted cloth into a dyeing vat for dyeing, and then boil it with water to remove the wax, and a good "flower cloth" will appear. In front of and behind Longjiafang, there is still a chance to see the stunts of Miao women today.

Long Camus' three-eye strategy is a heartbreaking sob. If it is a silent night under the bright moon, and the melancholy melody is like crying, penetrating time and space, an ancient nation can turn back to history thousands of times! Three-eye flute, oral string, konoha, suona, lusheng, horn, etc. Together, this peculiar emotional catharsis system of Miao people has been constructed.

The story of carving bamboo and knotting knots seems to be lost, but it is the daily memory of the Long family. When the old man died, he used "thorn bamboo" to record the gifts and gifts of each village. After the wedding, the person in charge and the host family reported the accounts in public, and the bamboo was burned and the rope was destroyed without objection. Longjia's wedding burial is a peculiar folk picture with a long history.

Longjia Miao Village is naturally headed by village elders, village owners, ghost owners and other leaders. Internal and external disputes, weddings and funerals, medical practice and fortune-telling ... all perform their duties and are organized in an orderly manner. The distinctive features of Longjia national festivals are jumping flowers and putting slopes, tree festivals, mountain festivals and rat festivals. Blowing reeds, dancing around flowers and trees, and singing on the slope. Tree Festival is to find a dense forest near Zhaizhai in the Year of the Loong on the first day of the second lunar month, and find the oldest and tallest tree as the sacrificial object. The whole village collects pigs, chickens and food. After the ghost master or the family master casts a spell, dig a hole under the ancient tree, bury 4-5 crocks filled with water, and cover the crocks with slate. At this moment, outsiders are not allowed to peep. Sacrifice under the tree first, kill the red-haired rooster for the ancestors to enjoy and pray for their blessing. Afterwards, all the men in the village drank a lot of wine, and the tree festival was over. On the first dragon day in March, the festival of offering sacrifices to mountains is held in early March of the lunar calendar. The procedure is the same as the Festival of Sacrificing Trees, except that the ghost teacher or the family teacher should open the buried water altar and observe the surplus and contraction of the water, so as to predict the harvest and good or bad luck of that year. According to legend, there were a lot of mice in ancient times, and the crops were damaged in four places. The elderly spontaneously organized rodent control to ensure a bumper harvest in agriculture. Since then, every November in the lunar calendar, local people will celebrate Rat Festival, organize people to shoot rats, and sacrifice their ancestors with rich meals.

Because it is not in contact with the outside world, it retains the original national culture so far, so it is favored by the cultural and cultural circles. 1998, China's first ecological museum (jointly built by China and Norway) settled in Suojia. The museum consists of the information center built at the foot of Suojiayuanzhou 12 village and Longjia village. The stone door of the information center has two solid angular ornaments, which are extraordinary in momentum; When you enter the gate and look up, you will find a group of ethnic buildings with simple folk customs. The house with Chinese fir structure is embedded with lattice windows, which is a "replica" of the local house. The thatched roof is thick and piled high, which is a kind of flavor ... An information center integrating information collection, information display and reception functions will not only introduce the basic situation of the specific culture to be visited to the audience and tourists, but also tell people the behavioral requirements as spectators or tourists. And what they will see and experience, and then enter Longjia Miao village along the mountain road. The reality is that, except this 12 village, which is 50 kilometers away from Fiona Fang, the architectural pattern of other villages has changed by more than 50%, while the residential architectural pattern of Longjia Village Reserve has changed by less than 15%. In the surrounding villages, it is difficult to see people wearing national costumes. In Longjia, you can see not only people wearing national costumes, but also women wearing traditional huge headdresses. Perhaps what we see today should be attributed to the decisions made by several bold, firm and far-sighted museum scientists 12 years ago. Thanks to the persistence and persistence of Longjia villagers, Miao people still live a mysterious and ancient tribal life, with little contact with the outside world. Up to now, they still quite completely preserve and continue an ancient and unique Miao cultural tradition, whose symbol is the long-horned headdress. It is unique in that women wear large wooden combs shaped like long horns on their heads, with two horns higher than the side of their heads and thick hair wrapped around them. Tie a wooden horn of 1.5 to 2 feet to your head, and tie a 3 kg-6 kg black wool cover and white wool into a huge herringbone headdress. This culture is simple: there is a very equal primitive democracy; There are very rich marriage, funeral and sacrificial ceremonies; There are unique music and dance and exquisite embroidery batik art here. They live a natural and economic life of farming and weaving, as if they were in a paradise, isolated from the world, and even their marriage was still concluded within their own nation. This marriage relationship has become a powerful bond, closely linking these 12 long-horned Miao villages.

Among the national festivals in history, there are flower jumping slopes, tree festivals, mountain festivals and rat festivals. During the festival, the three-eyed flute, oral string, konoha, suona, lusheng and horn of Longjia Miao nationality jointly constructed a musical art system to show foreign Miao nationality. Every year, the 10th day of the first month is a grand flower-jumping slope day, and a flower tree is planted in the center of the flower-jumping slope field. Young men and women play lusheng, dance around the flower trees, and sing and dance on the slopes to express their love. Longjia Miao Village is naturally under the control of village elders, village owners, ghost owners and other leaders, dealing with internal and external disputes, weddings, funerals, medical practice and fortune telling. , carry out their duties, organized and orderly.

Longjiazhai has the clearest sky in the world. At night, on the extremely quiet mountain, hundreds of millions of stars in the sky seem within reach. Many people say that only here can we see the brightest stars in the world, and there is no artificial light source to pollute our sight.

In order to eliminate the extreme poverty of Longjiazhai residents, the Guizhou Provincial People's Government built new houses for the villagers outside the village protection area, so that most residents moved into the new houses.