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
岜沙苗寨坐落在贵州从江县都柳江畔,是一个具有浓郁风情的苗族村寨,距从江县城仅7.5千米,全村500多户2000多人。岜沙是个崇尚自然,以树为神的枪手部落,他们刀不离腰,枪不离手,头留发髻,是一个在现代文明中坚守传统的苗寨。“岜沙”系民族语言,又叫“分送”,翻译成汉语是“草木茂盛和繁多的地方”。自古岜沙就是一个农业资源丰富的村寨,主产香糯米、红米、黑米、蔬菜、茶叶、茶油、杨梅等。在这里你可以领略到悠久的历史积淀,感受到原始神秘的民俗文化,还能亲眼见证失落千年的古代遗风。
岜沙被誉为苗族文化的“活化石”和“博物馆”。2003年,上海《旅游时报》将其列入“中国单身者十大旅游胜地”,排名仅在丽江、大理、阳朔之后,位居第四,2007年被《中国国家地理》推荐为“人一生必到的55个旅游目的地”之一。
