"For you, this ancient city has been waiting for thousands of years!" To wait for a thousand years, we will go to Phoenix to look for specimens that have lived for a thousand years and died for a thousand years. Phoenix is located in the border town of Xiangxi. It was built in Jiajing period of Ming Dynasty. It has been a military city and shopping center since ancient times. Walking into the Phoenix, every window has a beautiful eye, and every slate has a beautiful picture of a couple. Every river has a Miao girl's clothesline hammering on the slate with rhythmic reverberation and melodious singing.
When it comes to phoenix, you can't help but say Miao. Miao nationality can be said to be the most frequently migrated nationality in China, and numerous migrations have left a miserable history. Although it was the first nation to invent rice planting technology, the clever Miao people failed to change the fate of defeated migration. They write history with life and blood, and inherit civilization with wisdom and tenacity. I guess everyone has heard of the battle between the two deer. This is the story that the emperor contacted Yandi to turn defeat into victory after being defeated by the Miao nationality for countless times, and forced our leader Chiyou to take us to the depths of this mountain. In order to survive, we collect wild fruits and weeds, such as wormwood Baba, which is still food on our table. In order to conform to nature, it thrives in the depths of this humid mountain. We eat ginger to drive away the cold, so ginger candy has become our favorite candy. In order to conquer nature, we show our strength. Every year, at the Cone Bull Festival, people will kill the strongest bull. Women knock off the horns to make combs and pin them on their heads. Show off men's trophies to the world. In order to fill our stomachs, we tasted all kinds of fruits and made silver into tableware. To identify what is toxic.
Do you know what materials were used for the earliest identity cards of Miao people? Have you ever seen bloody Xiangxi? I tell you: it is not made of paper, let alone plastic. But made of silver. Since ancient times, the Miao nationality has been the bravest nation, although the war with the imperial court is endless. However, every time faced with national dignity and national justice, the Miao people are bloody and bloody. From a distance, the most able to fight hard in the Xiang army is the shoulder pole army, which refers to the Tujia and Miao nationalities in western Hunan. So Phoenix used to be called Zheng 'an Town. Then, when the Japanese army occupied Changsha and Changde, it was the poles of Xiangxi who built the Great Wall of Steel with soil guns, soil cannons and flesh and blood, defending their homes and defending the tiny place of Xiangxi. The victory of every war is a bloody battle. Xiangxi people have an attachment to their homeland that ordinary people cannot understand. Just like Shen Congwen's inscription: A soldier will either die in the battlefield or return to his hometown. Heroes who die in other places can't go home, and they can't go home. Some don't even recognize their faces. They can't even bring back a few words. Those who come back alive can't face the expectant eyes of the elderly, the vigilant eyes of their wives, and give the children a reasonable explanation. They can only take off the earrings that symbolize their status. Bags of earrings are a vivid life. Relatives hold earrings and put them on the memorial tablets of their ancestors. Tell their descendants that their ancestors were not cowards.
Do you know why we wear auspicious drums? Is it just luck? No, everything exists for a reason. The earliest Miao people invented drums in order to survive and drive away wild animals. It's hard to survive in this savage land. War came unexpectedly. Let's migrate again and again. From the Yellow River valley to the bank of Dongting Lake, and then to this border land. Countless times of wandering, countless times people took them home. Drums became the horn of war. When the drums sound, no matter how much you give up. We can't stop moving forward. Drums also mean that no one can pull it down. Therefore, Miao people are used to casting everything into silverware and wearing it on their bodies, ready to migrate at any time.
Do you know why our brother gave Mei a bracelet with a fish pattern? This is not only a test of a woman's health, but also the trust of a family and the commitment of a nation. He wants to tell the woman he loves. One day, I will take you and our children back to the Yellow River valley, back to the place where there are fish and rice.
Until today, we are once again confused by the expensive drinking fountains and washing machines in the shopping malls. Just now, the salesman told us that it was because they all used silver ions to kill viruses. Only at this time do we know the wisdom of our ancestors. Today, the progress of science and technology allows me to accurately measure the composition and function of silver, knowing that it can kill more than 650 kinds of bacteria. In the 1990s, with the spring breeze of reform, the tableware used by our ancestors for a lifetime was put aside by us. Those ingenious processing techniques were replaced by machine copying. The brushed jewelry once sought after by Miao people was once ignored. Do you know what wire drawing technology is? As the name implies, wire drawing is to draw silver into silk, which is very thin, even thinner than hair. Let's just say that one gram of silver can be pulled to about one meter. Then make beautiful jewelry. Do you know why there are paintings? Miao people use silver to show their personality and make up beautiful spots. How the poor Miao people make bigger and more gorgeous ornaments with limited money, cheap labor and clever craftsmen, and create wire drawing technology to satisfy the Miao people's preference for silver ornaments. Today, we appreciate painting again and see the painting process, which is really our luck and the happiness of the Miao people. Why do you say that? The inheritance of culture is not only sought after by the nation, but also supported by the government, which is connected with the market and linked with interests. Otherwise it will become cannon fodder for the market economy. Just like those century-old wooden houses in Shanxi, even many landmark ancient buildings with heavy historical civilization were destroyed, demolished and collapsed because of the lack of government maintenance funds. The Miao nationality's silverware forging technology has also been replaced by machines. In 20 years, after Phoenix opened to the outside world. Many people have seen business opportunities, and the government has also given strong support to attract investment. Explore Miao cultural treasures, such as silverware forging, batik and Miao Xiu. Among them, the forging technology of silver is listed in the world intangible cultural heritage list. Since then, Phoenix's economy has developed rapidly. Those skilled craftsmen are back in the Jianghu again. Some even won the title of inheritors of the world intangible cultural heritage. Countless silverware shops have sprung up like mushrooms after rain. Good and bad.
To outsiders, Xiangxi is poor and backward, and a bandit. Xiangxi people are barbaric and rude. That's because you don't know Xiangxi and can't understand Xiangxi people. Women in western Hunan are passionate and dare to love and hate. Xiangxi men are bold, wild, simple and kind. Shen Congwen, the famous father of local literature, Huang Yongyu, a talented painter, and Xiong Xiling, the Prime Minister of the Cabinet, were born here. Shen Congwen's Border Town and Long River are household names. Especially Border Town: a clear river, a beautiful girl, several touching folk songs, two spoony boys, an old yellow dog and an old man. Sketched a nearly perfect picture. Reading his book, you can almost smell the fragrance of the soil between the lines. The love story between Shen Congwen and Zhang Zhaohe has also become a popular story. In order to win the favor of Zhang Zhaohe, Shen Congwen wrote hundreds of love letters. Just then, Zhang Zhaohe was ungrateful and threw the love letter on President Hu Shi's desk. President Hu Shi said with a smile, I think Miss Shen is stubbornly in love with you. Zhang Zhaohe said: But I don't love him stubbornly. Shen Congwen is not discouraged. And more active and enthusiastic pursuit. Finally got the beauty back. Phoenix people are like this: pure, persistent and persistent.