What are the traditional Miao villages in Guizhou?

Kara Bird Cage Kara Bird Cage is named after Kara Village, Danzhai County, Guizhou Province. Kala village is a Miao village, and the birdcage has been compiled for more than 400 years. Kalamiao Village is one of the few professional villages with ancient traditional hand-woven birdcages. Their birdcages are mainly made of bamboo and golden bamboo, which are beautifully made, durable and not deformed, and are deeply loved by people. In 2007, Kara Village was named "Hometown of Bird Cage Weaving Art" by Guizhou Provincial Department of Culture.

Hey? Watching Kara Bird Cage in Danzhai on the Cloud

"No three-mile flat land, no three sunny days" is the world's description of Guizhou. This trip to Guizhou is a personal experience. During the period of 65438+February, it was cloudy and rainy in Miaoling mountain area, and I felt like I had entered a fairyland. The destination of our trip is Kara Village, Danzhai County, the hometown of birdcages in China.

As a branch of Danzhai Miao nationality, the Miao nationality in Kala village worships bird totem and has a hobby of raising and shooting birds. The skill of knitting birdcages has been passed down from generation to generation. ? At the gate of a farmhouse full of birdcages in Kara Village, we were greeted by Wang Yuhe, a village party secretary and a skilled craftsman, who led the villagers out of poverty and became rich by virtue of birdcage skills.

Hey? Weave hope in the years of suffering

Danzhai County is a poverty-stricken county in Guizhou. Kala Village was originally the lowest relief village in Danzhai County. Wang Yuhe said in his own words, "I am the poorest person in our village". At that time, Wang Yuhe was really poor to the extreme.

Life forced him to find a way out, and he didn't have much choice. He made a batch of birdcages and ran to Duyun with a try. Unexpectedly, they are all sold out. After calculation, a birdcage can be exchanged for 10 Jin of rice, but he is only happy to feel full of energy. When he returned home, he began to make them on a large scale and helped him with his wife.

The couple sleep for three or four hours every day, and then they go on to make birdcages as soon as they open their eyes. Once, when he was doing it, he found that his wife was gone, and it took him a long time to find himself asleep in the toilet.

Under the great pressure of life, some people will choose to give in to reality. Some people choose to fight against fate. When there is a glimmer of hope, generate will show great energy.

This is the case with Wang Yuhe, who, with his shrewdness and terrible spirit of suffering, opened up a road to a happy life for himself and his family.

Hey? China Bird Cage First Village

As Wang Yuhe gradually opened other markets, he and his family began to get busy. He began to buy bamboo and distribute it to the surrounding villagers for free, and the birdcage industry in Kara village began to flourish again.

Later, Wang Yuhe was elected as the village party secretary, and it became his responsibility to lead all the villagers out of poverty. While exploring new markets, he also developed new birdcages, and at the same time, he also launched a farmhouse tourism project in Kara Village.

When visitors come to Kara Village, they can experience Miao folk activities, participate in birdcage making and taste authentic farmhouse meals. It can be said that with the birdcage, Wang Yuhe has revitalized the whole economy of Kara Village.

In today's Kara village, more than 80% of the families in the village are producing birdcages, which has become the well-known "first birdcage village in China". Wang Yuhe is very sure: "The fate of Kara Village depends on the birdcage."