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Sculptor of Mountain-Miao Yao people two thousand years ago-Ancient terraces in Feng Jia Town, Xinhua.

So, who created such a great earth art in Hunan? Who are the sculptors of these mountains?

Among the materials of Ziquejie's application for World Heritage in Beijing, there is a textual research article by Zheng Hong, a member of the national leading group for the collation and publication of ancient books and a counselor of the provincial government-"Textual research on Ziquejie terraces before Qin and Han Dynasties". He used abundant historical data to prove that the Ziquejie terraced fields were reclaimed by Miao Yao people two thousand years ago, which is longer than Hani terraced fields and Longsheng terraced fields!

At first, the southern minorities, known as Miao Yao in ancient times, went deep into the mountains to escape the bullying of powerful ethnic groups, and one of them lived in the Ziquejie area of Xinhua and the surrounding Fengjiashan area. Surrounded by mountains, more than 30 peaks with an altitude of 1000 meters are natural barriers, which block the footsteps of foreign invaders. What makes Miao Yao people happy is that the bedrock fissure water in Chongshan Mountain is very rich. Where there are fissures, there will be water flowing out. As a result, they turned Sheshan into a field, plowed a small terrace, planted rice, and harvested it once a season to fill their stomachs. In the drought year, the harvest is even higher than that in the plain.

However, the people of Miao Yao who cultivated this terraced field did not live a longer peaceful life. They were still discriminated against by the mountain people and were constantly conquered by the government. Most of them fled all the way, heading west and south. A Longsheng team fled to Guangxi, where the earliest world-famous Longsheng terraced fields were cultivated. The magpie world in central Hunan has only left many historical place names such as Yao Renchong, Yao Rendong and Yao Renwu Chang, which witnessed the history of blood and tears of the Yao people.

But the scale of terraces continues to expand. In the Song and Yuan Dynasties, because "there is chaos in the world, there is no worry here, there is drought here, and there is harvest here", a large number of foreign Han people moved in to open up wasteland together. In the Song Dynasty, officials sent by the imperial court wrote the song "Kaimei Mountain", which sang: "People saw the wooden houses in full swing, and many fields were indeed burned ..." Tea kiosks were everywhere for resting at work, and even tea kiosks were built at the top of the windmill lane at an altitude of 1600 meters, showing the prosperity of the terraced fields in Ziquejie at that time.

In this way, Miao, Yao and Han people have completed this rare human landscape-the magical Ziquejie terraced fields after more than one thousand years. Guardians of Terraces-People in Ziquejie today

Standing on the top of Ziquejie Mountain, staring at the golden layers, I thought: How do people in Ziquejie protect the wealth left by their ancestors with a feeling of carving time? A strange specimen guarding Hunan's 10,000-year history of rice cultivation?

In the spring of March, they began to cultivate terraces, weed and repair the ridges, and renovated the ridges as delicate as meticulous painting and as elegant as Chinese painting. Terraces are too narrow for cows and plows. They turn the ground with a board hoe, and then level the mud with a wooden rake, so that birds can see their beautiful images. Green seedlings are planted in the ground by hand. After a careful field management in summer, cicadas sing to make love, and in autumn, rice is ripe.

In September, when I arrived at Ziquejie, a small number of early-maturing terraces were already being harvested. They don't need a thresher. They carry the square grain bucket back to the ground. They pick up a big bundle of rice with their hands and beat the grain hard. The threshed grain is filled with laundry baskets, carried by people, rocked around one ridge after another, and transported back to the door halfway up the mountain or at the foot of the mountain.

The city people outside the mountain look like a painting, and the farmers in the mountain know the workload and labor intensity of rice this season. However, people in Ziquejie don't seem to feel bitter. When harvesting rice, they will sing folk songs left by the Yao people, as if they were dancing happily. I didn't see a deserted terrace on the highest and farthest hillside, Ziquejie.

Thousands of years have passed outside the mountain, but the time in the mountain seems to have stagnated.

The ancient Meishan culture is best passed down here. No matter men, women and children, standing on the ridge, folk songs come with their mouths open. To celebrate the harvest, we have to sing Nuo opera. Dragon dancing is also more exquisite than other places, such as the vanilla dragon that worships heaven and earth, the night Youlong that prays for a bumper harvest, the earthworm that children play with, and Wang Long that is used for festive occasions. The tedious dance methods and procedures of various dragons make me confused. I only know how our ancestors played thousands of years ago, and they are well preserved.

In order to resist the attack of wild animals or strong enemies, ancestors protected their hard-cultivated terraces and attacked them with tables, stools, rakes and sticks. Today's Zique people, through their own efforts, still do not forget to carry forward Meishan Wushu. The sun is shining, and on an empty lawn, 82-year-old Uncle Luo is waving a iron ruler in the wind. A newly established women's Wushu team, a 10-year-old female doll, performed stool boxing, table boxing and Meishan boxing decently.

One by one, satellite TV receivers brought wonderful worlds beyond the mountain, but the Zique people still loved their days.

They have long been integrated with this terrace, and no one can live without anyone. This land has nurtured them. The green tea, bacon, tofu balls, frozen fish, Ciba, sweet wine, konjac, dried bamboo shoots, bracken, coix seed and gastrodia elata are all good things that are not available in the city. Their hard work has given life to the terraced fields. Planting rice, beans, sweet potatoes and corn on this land has made the terraced fields full of vitality and youth for more than 2,000 years.

It is said that people in the frozen fish city here seldom eat it, but it is impossible to make water without the world of purple magpie. People in the purple magpie world asked me: Fish can't live without the water here. Can we leave the mountain here?

Yes, this beautiful water, beautiful mountains and beautiful fields are unique to purple finches and precious wealth left by our ancestors. Guard it, we guard the quiet rural life. Fengjiashan people even call the small basin where they live the Peach Blossom Garden.

Everyone yearns for the Peach Blossom Garden. They live in Taohuayuan. Enjoy it. What else do you want?

The related pictures of this theme are as follows:-Author: Pacific Commander-Release date: 2005-1-23 21:03:16-Talking about Meishan culture-Comprehensive excerpt.

By the 1990s, Xinhua folk literature and art had collected 19597 works, including 50 scripts, 4 folk songs, 5,468 folk stories, 5,200 folk songs, 2 dances/kloc-0, 725 musical works, and 8 fine arts/kloc-0. The distinctive feature of folk literature and art is that Meishan is rich in flavor and unique in artistic style. Xinhua is the hometown of folk songs. After work, Meishan people often express their feelings with songs during festive festivals, weddings, funerals and weddings, and often use ballads to help relieve fatigue at work, which has long formed a unique new folk song. Its characteristics are: wild, wild, funny and spicy. From the content, it can be divided into historical songs, labor songs, ritual songs, life songs, legend songs, children's songs and so on. Historical songs include cave songs, folk songs and master songs. Song Ben Ge records the origin of Meishan ballads, and Scold Ge expresses Meishan people's condemnation of Song Jiangtian's cruelty to the people. Labor songs include logging songs, hunting songs, Tian Ge, yangko, tea songs, folk songs, stone songs and various labor songs. The Song of Zishuitan is more than 600 lines long, which vividly describes many obstacles of Zishuitan, coastal mountains and rivers, native mountain products, local customs and customs, and boatmen's life. Ritual songs include wedding songs, funeral songs, temple fair songs, tea songs, wine songs, prayers and various ritual songs. Political songs are implicit and humorous, witty and ironic. For example, a folk song in the late Qing Dynasty said, "God helps the public thunder, and the leopard on the ground bites the old worm (that is, the tiger); Ghosts play tricks in the city god temple, and the dead eat the living. " Through metaphor, it vividly and profoundly attacked the rampant evil forces to express anger and resentment against the sick world. Among them, the love song "Tao Love Song" is the most numerous and widely circulated. For example, "it is difficult to guess the immortal coming down to earth", its meaning is close to life, and its tone is bright and smooth, which still echoes in the Singapore dollar night. The lyrics are as follows: Lang is playing with birds on the highland (pronounced sea-in in dialect), and his sister is washing leeks by the river (pronounced Cui). Brother, you should take some leeks (read eng), climb the flower night (read ya) and come (read Li). Don't wear white clothes, pants and slippers, and make a small hoe as a card. If someone watches a cow touch you, you just say (read just) watch Qian Shan flowing water (read Xu). You have to buy a pair of sandals on the cross street and wear them backwards. The top row of footprints is down and the bottom row of footprints is up. I don't want to tell two rows of jokes. If you sit together, don't get together. It's hard to guess whether you have the heart.