Before the 1990s, Basha (岜沙) was a small village almost unknown
to the rest of the world. Perched on a hill about 7 km away from
the central town of Congjiang County, in Southwest China's Guizhou
Province, the village is home to around 470 households and 2,200
Miao ethnic people, who had been leading a life that was virtually
untouched by modernization.
Below are some photos published on September 14, 2007 at
sxxw.net?from?Chen Jingjie, a photographer?working
for the Three Gorges Evening Post.
They grew rice in the mountains and fed poultry at home. They
lived in wooden stilted houses and built rafts to dry un-husked
rice. In their spare time, men hunted, and women stayed at home
weaving cloth and making shoes.
They wore traditional attire and grew their hair long. Even men,
with the brims of their heads shaved with a sickle, grew their hair
long enough in the center to be coiled atop of their heads.
They worshipped trees in a way that most others would worship
their ancestors. They married people from the same village or those
in close vicinity, and most of them had never even been to the
central town of Congjiang County, even though it was only 7 km
away. read more....
(China.org.cn November 27, 2007)
