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Today, we are going to Zhaoxing Dongzhai and Tang 'an Dongzhai. This is a privately-customized one-day tour route of Wenfan Bieyuan. Yesterday, we saw that the route was not bad. So today, let's start with the little brother who led the hotel!

Zhaoxing Dong Village is almost a strange word to us, a strange place, and we don't even know anything about the Dong people, so we are full of expectations and longings for this trip. Imagine that there are many beautiful Dong girls and handsome Dong boys in Dong Village, singing clear love songs and whispering sweet words under trees and lakes, all kinds of flowers and moons. This is really a beautiful scene.

Our handsome little brother who led the team told us that when we arrived in Dong Village, we might see a group of beautiful Dong girls singing welcome songs and holding roadblock drinks at the door to warmly welcome the guests.

As a result, when I arrived at Dong Village, I looked at the Drum Tower-shaped gatehouse and the unique wooden buildings in Dong Village, which led me to fly a small plane to have a bird's eye view, so I didn't participate in all these activities. I just took two photos of Dong girls at the end as a souvenir.

There are two wonders in Zhaoxing Dong Village. The first is the Drum Tower Group, which is unique among Dong Villages in China. It is also recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records and is also known as the "hometown of drum tower culture and art". Explain the meaning of the Drum Tower, which represents a symbol of good luck and prosperity. Moreover, the construction of the Drum Tower is all made of wood without a nail. It is a magical building and has to be impressed by the wisdom of the Dong people.

The Drum Tower mainly has these functions: first, it is a symbol of Dong village; second, it is a symbol of Dong surname; third, it is a place for Dong people to relax; fourth, it is a place for young people to socialize; fifth, it is a place to receive guests; sixth, it is an important place for assembly and discussion; seventh, it is a tool for transmitting information or giving an alarm; eighth, it is a place for offering sacrifices, and on the eighth day of the first month of each year, it is a place to worship pizza.

We walked around the Dong village and found the Drum Tower. Either a group of Dong people left their families behind here, or a group of young people embroidered and joked with each other, which played other roles in receiving guests and gatherings, as well as offering sacrifices. Because we arrived at the wrong time, we couldn't see it.

Almost every Drum Tower has several benches like this, sitting or lying down, chatting or sleeping, and every villager can find a comfortable place here, feeling that this is a good place for Dong people to relax in normal times.

The climate of Zhaoxing Dong Village is pleasant, with an average annual temperature of about 17 degrees. In addition, there is a stream passing through the village, which makes it rich in products and people's lives stable, and also attracts Dong people from all over the world to move here. Because everyone is surnamed Lu, in order to distinguish, the "internal surname" is determined among the family members. A person with a family name lives in a village, which is also called a "group". Zhaoxing has developed into five groups, named after the "five permanents" pursued by the people at that time, which are divided into benevolence group, righteousness group, ritual group, wisdom group and letter group. Each group, that is, each family, builds its own drum tower, which is why there are five drum towers in one village, which is often called Zhaoxing Drum Tower Group.

Let's talk about the Flower Bridge here, which is also called Fengyu Bridge by the Miao people. Also, there is no need to nail one? Only countless holes are cut on the pillars and connected with wooden tenons. Although these Drum Towers and Flower Bridges have experienced storms, they still stand here and have not collapsed. The wisdom of the ancients is indeed worthy of praise and learning. However, this kind of bridge needs to be renovated once every 3 years, so most of the flower bridges built in the later period are changed into mixed structures of cement and wood, which are more durable.

In summer, the local Dong elders prefer to sit on the flower bridge and chat, because it is cooler with the river wind blowing, which is really a good place to enjoy the cool.

In addition to the long and intriguing history of the Drum Tower and Flower House, Zhaoxing Dong Village also has ethnic customs such as special barbecue glutinous rice, grandmother fried camellia, tie-dyed batik and hammer cloth, and other customs of Dong Village are worth seeing.