Poetic and picturesque, beautiful as a fairyland, Zhaoxing Dong Village in Liping, Guizhou
Zhaoxing Dong Village in Liping is located in the southeast of Liping County, Guizhou Province. The terrain is in the valley between two mountains. This village is boat-shaped. It is 4 10/0m above sea level, 68km from Liping County in the northwest, 52km from congjiang county in the west and102km from Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County in the southeast of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The highway runs along the village, which is the fastest land passage from Liping County to Guangdong and Guangxi.
As far as southern Dong nationality is concerned, there are only a handful of Dong villages in Zhaoxing, which has the reputation of "thousands of Zhao caves" and "the first village in Dong township". Zhaoxing Dong Village is surrounded by mountains. The village is built in a mountain basin with a small river running through it. The houses in the village are all on stilts, row upon row, strewn at random, all made of Chinese fir, and the hard top is covered with small blue tiles, which is simple and practical.
Dong nationality township is known as "700 caves, 1000 caves". Seven hundred through holes refer to congjiang county through holes; A thousand holes refer to Zhao Xing. If you want to feel the prosperity of Dong Shi family and the deep-rooted Dong culture in the southern area of Li Congrong, you must come to Zhaoxing. On the scale, Miao people have Xijiang Dazhai, Dong people have Chejiang Dazhai and Zhaoxing Dazhai. Compared with Chejiang Dazhai, Zhaoxing Dazhai is superior in momentum, because the five villages are inseparable and United with each other. If nothing else, the scenery created by five drum towers, five stages and five wind and rain bridges is not only beautiful, but also magnificent. Coupled with the rows of hanging mulou, Songping, drying grain, storing grain and gravel roads, walking in the stockade surrounded by streams will even feel at a loss and endless.
Main attraction
Wudatuan Gulou
Although the stockade is an organic whole, according to the rule that every Dong family has a drum tower, all five groups in Zhaoxing Dazhai have their own drum towers, namely "benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and faith", which is called "Zhaoxing Drum Tower Group". The tallest building is very spectacular. Zhaoxing Dongzhai also built five small and simple flower bridges on the river that passed through the village to match the Drum Tower. Its flower bridge, drum tower and theater are unique. Zhaoxing Dong Village is all Dong people named Lu, divided into five households and divided into five natural areas, which are called "Tuan" locally. Divided into five groups: benevolence group, righteousness group, courtesy group, wisdom group and faith group. Zhaoxing is most famous for its Drum Tower Group, which is unique among Dong villages in China and is known as the "hometown of Drum Tower". Five regiments in the village built five drum towers, five flower bridges and five stages. The appearance, height, size and style of the five drum towers are different, which is a grand view.
Rentuan Drum Tower: a pyramid-shaped roof with seven eaves and eight octagons, with a height of 2 1.7m and an area of 60m2.
A drum tower: pyramid-shaped roof, eleven double eaves, eight octagons, 25.8 meters high, with an area of 8 1.6 square meters.
Ritual Drum Tower: a pyramid-shaped roof with thirteen double eaves and eight octagons, with a height of 23. 1 m, accounting for 70.3 square meters.
Zhituan Drum Tower: Nine-eaves octagonal rest peak, with a height of 14.9 meters, accounting for 77.3 square meters.
TuanGulou: pyramid-shaped roof, eleven double eaves, eight octagons, 25.9 meters high, accounting for 78.3 square meters. Drum tower has a couplet: "the sound of drum music, the vibration of the capital, proves the prosperity of today;" The pavilions and villages cheered and sang the praises of world peace. "
Drum Tower: The Drum Tower in Dong village is a unique public building in Dong area and a symbol of Dong village. In the southern dialect area of Dong nationality, almost all villages have Drum Tower, which is a major feature of Dong village scenery.