Basha Miao Village
Located by the Duliu River in Congjiang County, Guizhou Province, Basha Miao Village is a village with distinctive ethnic features, only 7.5 kilometers away from the county seat of Congjiang. There are more than 500 households and more than 2,000 people in the village. Basha is a nature-worshiping tribe that treats trees as gods. Members of the tribe carry knives and guns all the time and would wrap their hair into buns. Their village is an upholder of traditions in the tide of modern civilization. Basha means "a place with lush and diverse vegetation" in the Miao people's language. Since ancient times, the village has been rich in agricultural resources. It mainly produces glutinous rice, red rice, black rice, vegetables, tea, tea tree oil, and waxberry. Here you would be exposed to charm of history, primitive and mysterious folk culture, and the ancient heritage that had been lost for a thousand years.
Basha is known as the "living fossil" and "museum" of the Miao's culture. In 2003, the Shanghai-based Travel Times listed Basha as one of the top ten tourist destinations for singles in China, ranking it fourth only after Lijiang, Dali and Yangshuo. In 2007, Basha was recommended by Chinese National Geographic as one of the 55 tourist destinations that people must visit in their lifetime.
岜沙苗寨
岜沙苗寨坐落在貴州從江縣都柳江畔,是一個具有濃郁風情的苗族村寨,距從江縣城僅7.5千米,全村500多戶2000多人。岜沙是個崇尚自然,以樹為神的槍手部落,他們刀不離腰,槍不離手,頭留發髻,是一個在現代文明中堅守傳統的苗寨。“岜沙”系民族語言,又叫“分送”,翻譯成漢語是“草木茂盛和繁多的地方”。自古岜沙就是一個農業資源豐富的村寨,主產香糯米、紅米、黑米、蔬菜、茶葉、茶油、楊梅等。在這里你可以領略到悠久的歷史積淀,感受到原始神秘的民俗文化,還能親眼見證失落千年的古代遺風。
岜沙被譽為苗族文化的“活化石”和“博物館”。2003年,上海《旅游時報》將其列入“中國單身者十大旅游勝地”,排名僅在麗江、大理、陽朔之后,位居第四,2007年被《中國國家地理》推薦為“人一生必到的55個旅游目的地”之一。
