What are the interesting places in Kaili, Guizhou?
Si Xia Ancient Town 1
Si Xia Ancient Town is located in the southwest of Kaili City, adjacent to Qingshui River, about 6 kilometers away from Kaili City. It is an important post station of the ancient tea-horse road, once known as "little shanghai" and "Pearl of Qingshui River". It is a traffic fortress for Guizhou and Sichuan and Yunnan to move from south to east, and also a gateway for eco-tourism and ethnic cultural tourism in Qiandongnan Prefecture.
Historically, Si Xia inherited Sichuan and Yunnan, followed by Hunan and Guangdong. Since the establishment of a long lawsuit against the barbarians in the middle Yuan Dynasty, Si Xia was officially turned into a commercial port in Jiaqing (1808) in the Qing Dynasty, and developed into a prosperous city in the Republic of China. People sailing along the river will inevitably stay in Hutto, cultural diversity will collide and businessmen will gather. So this mountain city hidden in southeastern Guizhou was born.
2. Nanhua Miao Village
Nanhua Miao Village is located in Nanhua Village, Sanshu Town, Kaili City, on the Bala River in the southeast of Kaili City. Lurong Highway bypasses the river at the foot of the village, which is 3 kilometers away from the center of Kaili/KLOC-0. It is the nearest Miao village to Kaili city, and it is also one of the famous Miao customs tourist attractions and rural tourism demonstration sites in Guizhou Province.
With simple folk customs, beautiful scenery and unique folk customs, it is a typical natural museum of Miao farming culture in Bala River. The stockade is small and quiet. This is a very primitive Miao stockade. The houses in the stockade are all wooden diaojiao buildings, lined up in the green trees halfway up the mountain. The doors and windows are beautifully carved. The village is completely where the local people live, and the villagers enjoy the afternoon leisurely.
3. Xianglushan
Luxiang is located in Longchang Town, Kaili City, about 15km away from downtown Kaili. Because the cliff is steep, it looks like a censer, and only one path spirals up. The mountains are surrounded here, like swords and halberds stabbing the sky. There are many flowers and trees on the mountain, and the trees are thickly pruned and misty. There are fertile fields and deep wells; There are ancient Yingpan, temples and Nantianmen ruins; There are relics reflecting uprising stories and folklore.
Every year on June 19 of the lunar calendar, Miao people from 20 to 30 miles around gather here to hold the traditional "Mountain Climbing Festival". Old people often go to the top of the mountain for sightseeing and praying for God. Young men and women dressed up, or accompanied by lusheng, dancing, or face to face, chanting legends and stories, singing friendship and love.
4. Miao Village in Dao Ji
Miao Village in Dao Ji is located in Sanshu Town, Kaili City, on the Bala River, about 25 kilometers away from Kaili City. It is a well-preserved Miao village with rich ethnic customs. There are more than 100 families in the village, which have followed the ancient Miao songs for hundreds of years and formed a unique style. Miao Village in Dao Ji is divided into two villages. Dao Ji faces the river in front of the village and the mountain behind it, which is a bit like the Miao Village in South China.
The village as a whole is not very big. It lives by the mountains and waters, with towering old trees, pleasant scenery and simple, moving and rich ethnic customs. The main attractions are Centennial Granary, Shenxian Cave, Buried tan shan, Cattle and Horse Pickled Footprints, Drum Hiding Field, Fengshui Tree, etc.
5. Qiandongnan National Museum
Qiandongnan National Museum is located in Guangchang Road, Kaili City. Built in 1988, it is a comprehensive museum. The whole museum consists of Qiandongnan General Survey Museum, Folk Museum, National Costume Museum, Dragon Boat Museum and Modern Folk Craft Museum. The third and fourth floors are the main open exhibition areas.
Because the main population of Qiandongnan Prefecture is Miao and Dong, the most important Miao and Dong pavilions in the museum are "National Customs Pavilion" and "National Costume Pavilion". These two museums are classified according to history, different branches, and classified according to pictures, tables and objects, and display a variety of daily or rare Miao and Dong objects, which has done a good job in showing Miao and Dong culture, tradition and history.
Refer to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Si Xia Ancient Town