The original Dong village in the mountains of Guizhou, once the favorite place for European tourists to go

Guizhou tourism in recent years is very hot, but most tourists come to Qiandongnan, most of them will go to Xijiang Miao Village, Zhaoxing Dong Village, or with the "last gunman tribes called" Long Horn Miao Village, as well as festivals to see thousands of people Dong song Xiaohuangzhai. Few people will go to Huanggang Dong village in the mountains.

I remember about eight or nine years ago, when I first went to Qiandongnan, Guizhou, I found a lot of private vans waiting at the station to pull foreigners, and a lot of blonde foreigners with all kinds of luggage waiting for the car, looking for the car. At that time, foreigners especially liked to come to Guizhou to see these original cottages. Later, as the foreign economy is not good, as well as Guizhou tourism infrastructure is getting better and better, the domestic tourists increased, the foreigners are therefore reduced. I also realized later that Huanggang Dongzhai is the place where European foreigners especially like to go.

Huanggang Dongzhai is not much to look at, the momentum is not as good as the Xijiang Miaozhai, but this place is more and more taste, because of the original life here, still well-preserved. Unlike those famous ancient towns and villages, which are full of stores, the commercialization of Huanggang Dong Village is very low, and only in recent years have started to have some kiosks and restaurants. The biggest change in the village is that China Travel Service has invested in a very beautiful bed and breakfast here. Some people may think that such a change has disturbed the original ecology of the village, but I think that everything always needs to be changed. Huanggang Dong Village is one of the poorest villages because of its remote location, inconvenient transportation and long-term backwardness. In recent years, with the increase in poverty alleviation policies, the village has begun to gradually get rid of poverty, and the people who live there also need to change and need better living conditions. There is nothing set in stone, the real Shangri-La only exists in the novel.

Nowadays, the women of Huanggang Dong village still wear traditional national costumes, and the men may be more sinicized. But for that, it's much better than many commercialized villages. In addition to the costumes, the people and the life here have retained their traditions and originality intact. People are very friendly to tourists, eyes are very pure, no interest in the kind of gaze, smiles are from the bottom of the heart.

The buildings in the village look a bit shabby, and the living conditions of the locals seem quite poor, but I feel that they are all very capable, and the women can do the heavy work of the men. My companion joked that her two deepest impressions of the Huanggang Dong village were: one was watching the children and the other was watching the ducks.

Most of the women, and a few of the men, were walking around with their children on their backs, and of course we saw a lot of little kids, after school, who were surprised to see us with our cameras. I rushed to a small child reached over, he actually took the initiative to pull my hand, especially relieved to let me hold him walk. In addition to children see a lot of other than, another more is ducks. Listen to the tour guide said, Huanggang Dong village people have a unique emotion to the ducks, this emotion is no reason, if you steal their family's pig, their family's cattle, perhaps not as big as you stole their family's duck reaction, if you messed with the ducks, the ducks family's women may run out and you fight for their lives.

And the women will not drive the ducks up the mountain, but will instead put the ducks in the cage and carry them up the mountain, almost like carrying a child, taking care of everything. Even if you are a native of the Dong ethnic group, you don't know why people here like ducks so much. Of course, people here also eat duck, we had a meal of duck at noon.

In addition, according to the tour guide, the men here are more carefree, eat cigarettes and drink wine, a high sense of well-being, but the women here, but to be very hard, do all the work. I came this time, did not feel so deep, but it is true that in the village, everywhere you can see women work, some work looks very tired, men's work, they are also doing. Of course, a number of men were also seen working.

Regarding "happiness", I remember a short story about a rich man and a poor fisherman, lying on the shore. The fisherman asked the rich man why he worked so hard, and the rich man said he did it so that he could lie here quietly and comfortably, and the fisherman sneered at him, "I don't have to work all my life. This statement may seem like a useless endeavor, but in fact, there are high and low levels of happiness, and a low level of happiness cannot understand a high level of happiness. At least the rich man has no worries, but the fisherman's days of having a roof over his head have to go on. Therefore, I never encourage people to travel around without working hard to "realize themselves".

For Huanggang Dongzhai is the same, for the so-called high happiness index of Bhutan is the same, low-level happiness, is not an excuse to block the progress. It's a bit of a digression. Even though I only spent one day in Huanggang Dong Village, I still loved the place, with its small bridges and rivers, forested wooden houses, hard-working people, and many, many cute ducks. It is said that the atmosphere of festivals and folklore here is one of the best in Congjiang, so maybe I'll have to come back and see it again sometime, preferably during a festival.

With the use of high-speed rail station from Jiang, only one hour away from the high-speed rail station Huanggang Dong Village, the future will usher in more and more tourists, if there is really a large number of tourists influx, this primitive village, but also by the impact of the huge commercialization, perhaps the future of a lot of things will not see, but the future of the future, who has to know how it will change. So far, here is what I have been to, the most original traditional village.