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Folk Custom of Yao Nationality

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    Jianghua is located in Yao Municipalism County, with 270,000 populations. It is the county with the largest Yao nationality population and remaining most folk custom of Yao Nationality.
  Yao nationality is divided into Gaoshan Yao, Pingdi Yao, Guoshan Yao, Goutou Yao branch, etc. They like the colorful and gorgeous cloth. However, different branches vary slightly.
  They have many handicraft articles such as silver ornament, hand-stitching work embroidery and weaving. Yao nationalities don’t have their own characters, but they do have unique language, and they usually speak Mian Language.
  The festivals include Panshan Festival, Renwu Festive; Ganliao Festival, and the dances like Long Drum Dance and Flag Dance; Eighteen Brewing is the most special food in Yao Nationality; Son-in-law living at wife's parent's house is their major Marriage form; When the girls in Yao nationality get married, there is special ethnic rituals among which the most interesting are “sitting in singing hall” and “Seeing the bridegroom off”. The religion of Yao Nationality is polytheism, and King Pan is the ancestor, and they especially worship the Pan Hu.


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Qingren Village

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    Located in Taohuayuan Scenic Spot, Qingren Village occupies a land of 2.5 Sq.km. Following the trace of fish man of Wuling, the Fairland on earth would come into sight, presented is an imaginary, ideal world in which visitor can see beautiful moonshine as if in Qing Dynasty, excellent field and beautiful pool, plus the morning bell and the evening drum, and mill wheel and flute sound, all these forms a charming pastoral scene.


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Climbing Knife Ladder

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    Climbing knife ladder is a traditional custom in Miao nationality. On annual market gathering or important festivals such as “the eighth day of April” and “swing festival”, there are always warriors performing the game of climbing knife ladder.
  Knife ladder equipment is a more than 10m high wooden pole that is chiseled with 36 eyelets and inserted with 36 steel blades, which are 45cm long, 0.5~1cm thick at the back of knife blade and with sharp knife edge.
  Make the cutting edge of knife upward to form the knife ladder, and fasten the knife to avoid the sway. The distance between the adjacent ladders is 33cm, with 33 ladders in total. The span wire around the stake is tightened; meanwhile, the top of ladder is tied with small colorful flags which symbolize the hope and victory.
  The people who climb the knife ladder should have great courage and insight, technique and gest, and they climb from the first knife blade to the last one on the top while the knife becomes more and more sharp. Upon reaching the top, they place hairs on the knife and immediately their hairs are cut into two parts.
  The climbers on the knife ladder also need to perform games such as hanging Upside Down, roc spreading wings, Kwan-Yin Sitting in Lotus Palm Form and ancient tree twisting roots etc., use all their skills. Climbing knife ladder is soul stirring performance and a striving action as well as self-sacrificed spirits, and is made by hero, showing the past life style of Miao people. The knife ladder is also full of blood, sweat; however, the people climbing it feel the sweet and enjoy the beauty of the action.


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