Travel Notes and Guizhou Tour 20 19 The sixth stop of Guizhou Tour-Yaoshang Village and Lengshuihe Waterfall

20 19 September 18, Shiqian County, Guizhou Province.

I spent a morning in Shiqian County, and the next stop was Fodingshan National Forest Park.

Driving to the gate of Foding Mountain Forest Park, the security guard said that the car could only be parked here. You can take a sightseeing bus or walk. Walk for 40 minutes to Lengshuihe Waterfall, which is also the end point. Forty minutes. It's nothing. Let's leave now.

Not far away, I saw the sign of Yaoshang Village. I didn't expect to bump into Yaoshang Village by mistake.

Yaoshang village is a village where the Gelao people live in compact communities. Gelao nationality is an indigenous people in Guizhou, with only language but no writing.

The Hulu Eagle sculpture tells the legend of the origin of the Gelao people. In the famine year, the flood flooded the earth, and a condor rescued the crying boys and girls floating in the huge gourd on the ocean, thus the Gelao nationality was born. Later, due to the war, the ancestors of the Gelao people were on the verge of extinction. Fortunately, on the first day of February in the ancient calendar, a woman rescued the Gelao baby floating in a bamboo tube on a river west of Shiqian, and the ancestor of the Gelao people, the bamboo king Yelang Wang, was born.

As early as the Tang Dynasty, the ancestors of the Gelao nationality held a sacrificial ceremony for a pair of condors and their ancestors at the beginning of February in the ancient calendar every year to bless them and express their commemoration and worship. This day is also the most solemn festival of the Gelao people-Bird Worship Festival.

According to legend, more than 600 years ago, the three brothers named Deng were good at ceramic crafts, and after farming, they used ancestral crafts to burn kilns to make daily necessities for sale. Anyone who buys porcelain goes to the kiln to find Master Deng, forming a customary title. "Kiln" and "kiln" are homophonic, thus forming the place name "on kiln". Now most villagers in the village are surnamed Deng.

The ancient well in the village. The bowl by the well is for passers-by to drink water. Very thoughtful.

Do you know what this flower is? It's beautiful. This is the first time I have seen it. The pond in Yaoshang Village is green like a water hyacinth, which is unique!

Through Yaoshang Village, I took a road. Flowers and plants were planted and pavilions were built in the front section of the highway, which looked like a park.

Yaoshang Village has become a cultural village of Gelao people. Suzhou contributed160,000 yuan to help the poor, the local government contributed140,000 yuan, and the tourism development company contributed more than 70 million yuan to build this scenic spot. Now that the road has been repaired, the villagers have built new houses. The whole village is clean and beautiful.

Go on, the road extends along an intermittent river to Foding Mountain Scenic Area. This section is still under repair, and there is no scenery. It is said that there will be a scenic bus to take tourists to the gate of Foding Mountain Scenic Area in the future. Now you can rent a small battery car from the villagers to drive there.

Seeing a large parking lot and service area, we arrived at the entrance of Foding Mountain.

Foding Mountain is very big. At present, only one small ravine has been developed. Walking up the stream, there is a cold water river waterfall. Because it hasn't been developed yet, I met two groups of locals walking back along the way.

There were only two of us on the way forward, and there was no signal in the big forest, so I was still a little scared. But the scenery is really good, the water is really clear and the air is really sweet.

After walking for half an hour, I climbed an unpaved plank road and finally reached Lengshuihe Waterfall. Moon-shaped waterfalls have a large amount of water, especially stones, blood-red stones!

At present, the part of the development of Foding Mountain Scenic Area is here. I hope there will be more scenic spots to visit next time!