Guizhou Travel Notes Part Three: The Mysterious Miao Nationality
The Miao people in my impression should be a very mysterious nation. For example, there are many Miao people in Xiangxi, southwestern Guizhou and other places where the Miao people live now. The most mysterious places that currently exist mainly include the following points:
The first is the mystery of poison. These are not rumors, but real existence, and they still exist in Qiandongnan, Guizhou.
For example, after a man and a woman get along well with each other, many girls secretly cast the "love poison". From then on, the two parties get along well and remain unchanged for a hundred years. But what is the poison, and how to lock the lover's fresh heart? It remains an unsolvable mystery to this day.
The second is the mystery of exorcism. Mr. Shen Congwen, a Miao writer, wrote this in his article: "Passing through Chenzhou (today's Yuanling), there is cinnabar, and there are people who drive corpses. If you have good eyesight, you will have the opportunity to see a group of corpses walking on the road. Cars When approaching people, they also know how to keep to the side of the road, just like a living person."
Corpse driving mainly originated from Xiangxi. It is said that the origin of corpse driving has not been verified yet.
The third is the mystery of the hanging coffin. Although there are hanging coffins in Longhu Mountain in Jiangxi, the Miao people are mainly in Xiangxi, and it is still an unsolved mystery.
People who have read "The Swordsman" should be deeply impressed by the Blue Phoenix in it. She is the leader of the Yunnan Five Poison Sect and a Miao nationality. She can not only command all kinds of poisonous snakes with a whistle, but can also make poison and cast poison. It seems that Jin Yong has a deep research on the Miao people.
Of course, the mystery of the Miao people goes beyond the above points.
As the fourth largest ethnic minority in Greater China, with a population of 10 million, the Miao people often live independently and do not like to interact with other ethnic groups.
They believe that their ancestor is Chi You, who is said to have launched a war in Zhuolu. Chi You first defeated Emperor Yan, and then Emperor Yan and Huang Emperor jointly defeated Chi You.
After Chi You's death, the world was in chaos. The Yellow Emperor and the Yan Emperor wanted to drive out the warlike Chi You's people. They were forced to migrate southward, such as Hunan and Guizhou. Therefore, there were mostly high mountains in these two places, making it extremely difficult to Searching and hunting, so they chose to settle here.
The above special reasons allow them to survive silently in a difficult environment, living alone in the mountains with inconvenient transportation and lack of supplies.
The Miao people have formed their own unique architectural style in the selection of building materials and construction of houses. Because the Miao people live in the mountains, it is easy to collect wood, so most of them choose wooden buildings, and most of them are stilted buildings built according to the mountains.
A stilted building is generally built with three floors. The first floor is generally used to solve the problem of uneven slope terrain, so it is usually a half house, where debris is piled or livestock is kept. The second floor is a living room, and the third floor is a living room. granary.
Of course, all this is the result of the Miao people adapting and harmonizing with the environment.