Today is the Spring Festival.In the early morning,we left Simao for Jiangcheng County.The traffic was quite sparse.However,sometimes we could see one or two pack horse groups on the road.I remember,not long ago,a TV
documentary called "The Last Pack Horses" declares that the pack horses are disappearing on the Dulong River.I have to conclude now that this idea is not very true.
Miao Nationality village
Buy pu'er tea now
We drove on the belt—like road and came to amountain village surrounded by tea gardens.It is a Miao Nationality village.Since it was the Spring Festival,everyone was dressed in holiday costumes.The village leader told us the villagers were immigrated here from Zhaotong area.
The villagers were very glad to see us .They presented us with cups of rice wine and bowls of new tea to welcome guests from far away places, Then they invited us to join in their lusheng(a reed—pipe wind instrument)Dance Lusheng Dance is a unique folk dance that Miao people are very fond of.They showed us solo dance,double dance and collective dance.They sometimes danced in a squatting manner,sometimes even turned somersaults.It was a real carnival.
In the afternoon,we left the Miao village and went to visit a Yao Nationality natural village in Kangping Township,Jiangcheng County.Yang Hui told me that only ten years ago,there was no road to the place.At that time,they once
walked a whole day through the mountain paths before they could finally get to the village.
Now we can drive to it although the road is not so good.
There are about two million Yao people living in our country,of whom about one hundred thousand living in our province. No sooner had.we got into the village than the children surrounded us.We immediately noticed that the Yao
people’s costumes were quite characteristic.Men were dressed in blue clothes and fat trousers,while the women all wore silver decorators The cluster of red tassel on those girls'head was especially eye—catching,it is their typical style.
The village consists of forty—four households The people in the village mainly live oo sugar cane growing.An average household can harvest sixty to seventy tons of sugar cane each year.They sell the cane to the sugar producing
factory dozens of kilometers away.For every ton of sugar cane,they can get one hundred and thirty yuan.Yao women are both clever and deft.The beautiful blossom patterns on their costumes are a11 de signed and embroidered by themselves.