 | Great Wall of China Southern
Great Wall of China Southern is built in AC1554, Located southern part of Hunan Province; it is one of the few sections of the wall to retain the original features of the Ming dynasty Great Wall. |
 | Fenghuang Ancient City
Feng Huang is Chinese for 'phoenix', the mythical bird which is a good omen and symbolizes longevity. When consumed by fire, Feng Huang will be reborn from the flames. Feng Huang Cheng gets its name from a legend that two of these fantastic birds flew over the town and found the town so beautiful that they hovered it, reluctant to leave.
Fenghuang Town is located on the western edge of Hunan Province and next to Guizhou. Claimed to be one of the two most beautiful towns in China, Feng Huang Cheng sets an example of what villages were like before the start of modernization. In the town dozens of lanes are paved with stones that run between the wooden houses built on stilts. Generations of local people have stepped on the lanes and worn them down bit by bit. Mist envelopes the town in the early morning or after a rain, creating a charming picturesque scene of Southwest China.
But Feng Huang Cheng's charm goes beyond the natural beauty. This ancient town has a history of 1,300 years and it has a number of old gardens as well as distinctive residential buildings, elegant bridges and mysterious towers and pagodas. In Feng Huang Cheng, tourists can also have a glimpse of the Great Wall. This section of the Great Wall was built in the Ming Dynasty (1573-1620) to defend against the local Miao minority ethnic group, which defied the central government at that time.
But today the Miao people live with local Han people. Visitors will find a large array of handmade items in the local shops, including silver accessories, homemade textiles, and batik fabric. Food here also has local flavor and pickled red peppers are a local delicacy.
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 | Dehang Miao Village
The scenic spot is a region where Miao people inhabit together. Our Miao fellows communicate with each other in Miao language in daily life. The song serves as their matchmaker. They love freely. Girls like wearing silver ornamental articles and collarless clothes with embroidery. Men like wearing leg wrappings and Duijinyi( a kind of Chinese-style jacket with bottons down the front ), and blowing Muye ( a kind of tree ). They plant mulberry and rear silkworm, do spinning and weaving. Their handmade fabric are of superb craftsmanship. They extract oil, make paper, and mill rice with ancient methods, and irrigate the field with scoop waterwheel. When spring comes, on the bank of sprinlet, there are strings of scoop waterwheel. There are more than 30 folklore travel items of Tongcaobai Festival, being guest in Miao family, singing in antiphonal style at the doorway, proposing toast, dancing with song evening party of Miao people, corroboree, drum dance of Miao people, seeing off the guest with torches and so on. Traveling at Dehang, you may fully experience the ancient folklore and the beauty of the nature by extracting oil, making paper, weaving, and milling rice yourself. You will feel that you have stepped into a beautiful and old fairy world. |