About Qiandongnan --- the much sought-after China's last blog --- Basha
By peng nian
2 Nov 2009
Congjiang County BIA sable ( "BIA" In the dictionary, read ba, but here the locals read bia sand), where the villagers still maintain the original style of life.
Basha is a martial nation, known as "China's last gunmen tribe." They are not bad shoulder guns, knives not bad waist. According to them, said to himself when fighting in the Chi You and Huangdi, Basha was the advance party of combat troops; was the Yellow Emperor defeated, as the open-jun, they split along Mountain Road, came to settle here, we can see brave. Basha people think they are the most authentic of the Hmong.
The village currently has 300 households, nearly 1,900 people. All the Miao. Diaojiaolou blocks of the village built on mountains, high and low scattered, quiet charm. Below Quanzhai Zhaizi granary, granaries and separate living area in order to fire. Once the fire burned the house can also preserve the food, to restore production and living. Miao and other branches of the biggest difference is that the village men's hair style: men giving her a pigtail head and pull hair, waist do with machetes, leaving for shoulder gun powder. Wearing self-made non-woven from dyed the right to open ren copper buckle collar blue commoner, straight green Buku, his pants and large, seem reminiscent of ancient warriors. This mountain has long since animals and birds do not play, but when the men still prefer to go out with shotguns, guns have become objects of their players.
Basha's clothing are also unique. Whether young and old, wore a blue-purple suffused with light clothing, a bit like many years ago the popular nylon silk. This fabric is a plant called indigo woven cloth on their own dyed, and in the dyeing system for egg are also added, so that both gloss dyed cloth, but also water-resistant. In the village, often can be seen in the stone mortars on the Tsuishine the elderly, sat before the spinning wheel spinning line of women ... ...
Speaking of adults, Basha adults who have their own unique rituals. When the boys reached the age of 15 years of age that day, the parents kill two chickens, a duck, must also end in the river fishing for the fish to dinner a few village people, before a meal, the children should be led by the adults a week in the village bypass can be considered to be the village's approval.
Basha According to legend, the tree worship since ancient times, the villagers after the death of burial should plant a tree, from the meticulous care of future generations, so that the village to maintain and ancient trees. Chairman Mao Memorial Hall had been built, the China's top big Xiangzhang Mu is presented Miao Basha's.
Miaojia primitive sickle barber, blow Lusheng, playing Mans tube, sang songs Fei Miao ... ... is to show visitors the traditional program. They said: "Performing an income of more than 600 yuan can be, in addition to pay 10% of the management fee, the remaining players from the show equally distributed."
Basha are now decorated with the east of Japan's ancient dress is very similar to, and he has attracted many big and friends to seek a master, to identify cases.
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