Staying in the MIAO ETHNIC MINORITY village of LANGDE, GUIZHOU PROVINCE, CHINA
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- čas přidán 23. 09. 2021
- My next stop in Guizhou province was in the Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous prefecture - specifically the small village of Langde.
This is a Miao ethnic minority village. Millions of Miao people live in China, and around half of the total live in Guizhou province.
In this video i will show you around the village, some local dance and music and the place i spent the night!
Hope you enjoy!
This is such a unique documentary of one of the cultures of China. Very enjoyable and educational.
Thanks so much! I hope more people will see it :)
Very informative video! Thanks.
Wonderful place!
Looks very clean.
It really was, no big piles of plastic which was a very pleasant surprise
Love to visit my Hmong aka Miao people someday. Nice video.
great video, great channel, respect and thank you for sharing your experiences with us.
Great how you can see in the video the instruments in traditional use, I think these are Qeej/Lusheng 蘆笙 and a very big Mangtong pipe 芒筒, these instruments are played with a free reed technique, similar to the Sheng. unique and very beautiful
Thanks for the comment and glad you like the channel! Good knowledge, i admit my own knowledge of these instruments is limited
I'm American. I know it's touristy, but thank you for the video. These are my ancestral lands, which I've never visited. Respect for for mentioning the history at 07:16, heard it from the older folks as a child. Thank you, Nick.
Oh i hope you the chance to visit sometime in the future. Glad you enjoyed the video!
Appreciate yr video. Keep it up yr good work.
Thanks!! more on the way!
Yes, miss you channel Nick. It is always so difficult for impoverish rural areas to balance not being too touristy either in the setup or performance. At normal times one would not have the chance to see them in their traditional costume and hence missed the chance of the experience. On the other hand, with the put on performance it can be seen as being stagey, you know what I mean. Perhaps one has to bear in mind that as long as it is not harming anyone in the performance, they have to earn an honest day's living to survive. Good on you for eschewing the blatant effort to cash in on the tourism of their culture. But nevertheless it would still be nice to see the place you did not want to visit.
You're right, it is that balance between the real and the show. I think Langde village does that pretty well to be honest. Yeh, the only reason i didn't go to Xijiang is because i know quite a few people who have been and the feedback was not great...
Fascinating! Very much enjoyed this video. Great work!
Thanks a lot! certainly a part of China i hadn't experienced before. Lovely place.
Amazing! What is the name of the guesthouse and how to book it, please?
I checked my old bookings and couldn't find it. I'm pretty sure i booked it through Trip.com though. There are only a couple of places to stay in the village
As always , interesting with good comments. You are right Enjoy while you can as in 5 years places like this may be very different . I always like the sound of bird life and roosters .
Thanks Peter, such a great place and a bit of an adventure. The bus i tried to catch didn't exist....so i had to hitchhike back to the main town for the first time in China. Always new experiences!
@@nickinchina2552 hope you got some footage of that ?
The only way such old villages can survive is to operate B&B and with government funding. Maintenance of the old wood buildings can be expensive as young people all left for big cities. Natural elements such as fire and storm can easily wipe out a village. To promote tourism more work is required. (3:58) the traditional skirts worn by the Miao women are seen in older Cantonese operas, typically in the skirt of a female militia. As they dance in the opera, the strips of colourful fabric look exactly like the dancers on the village square. Check some Cantonese opera movies from the 50's with heroine such as Fan Lihua (樊梨花) or The Young family women generals (楊門女將). Even the head-gears worn by women generals might be a modification of the silver head-wear of Miao women. Not sure where the connection came from. Perhaps Cantonese opera buffs might know.
Such an amazing documentary! Thanks for posting!. Quick question, how would you get there from Beijing? Or what's the biggest city around that we can reach by train from Beijing? Thanks and hi from Galway Ireland 🇮🇪☘️🙂.
From Beijing you would probably first go through the province capital of Guizhou, a city called Guiyang (very nice laid-back city) Then onward to a place called Kaili. This can act as a good base for exploring the smaller villages
@@nickinchina2552 Many thanks for your kind reply!. 😃
Very tranquil and exotic place, I gonna return to China after my pension to visit these places.
I do hope they get to stop the microphones too. You're not the only one who dislikes them.
Lovely lovely wooden houses with that amazing dining room, the chirping birds and roosters. I love the ancient feel and the rural vibes of these villages. Always a sad reminder that such places would soon be rare, soon to be overtaken by commercial progress.
I used to travel widely in Thailand and chance accidently upon a miao village in the mountainous north. In Thailand these Chinese looking miao people are denied citizenship by the Thai authority, they are not allowed to travel out of certain perimeter from where they live hence they remain in poverty. With no support from the local government, I remain in awe by their resilience and creativity.
Thats pretty sad, i need to read more about miao people in south east asia - my knowledge is a bit limited i think
Awesome video, great drone shots. I really learned a lot. 😊😊😊
Cheers Alex! Starting to get a little braver with the drone ha!
Great drone shots. Good job.👍👍👍.
Thanks! The next couple of vids will have a lot more drone action
Imagine the miao folks having to put up with the bloody loud-speakers day in day out because they happened to lived there. Ahh...well hopefully as china's tourism becomes more mature these things fade away to the past:)
Yeh, no one else really seemed that bothered by it...maybe it's just my problem haha
The town certainly looks genuinely authentic (tautology?). Aside from necessary refurbishment and run of the mill maintenance plus retrofitment of modern plumbing and electrics it looks like the town hasn't undergone any major facelift or reconstruction. In this sense it probably still resembles what it was in the Qing or even Ming period.
Absolutely agree about the megaphone thingy. I think they will learn to enjoy the silence down the road though since I tend to think of it as a generational thing.
I think you are probably right, John. I hope so anyway!
Did you use the squatting toilet, Nick?
hahah, of course. No other option!
Lang de seems to have few tourists. I hope there will not be too many people during the national day.
Yeh it was quite quiet, i had a lovely night there. Xijiang is really close by so most tourists go there.
Hi dear your doing good VDO, but need improvement in sound lil louder 👍
I once turned off a guy’s audio equipment in a park. But I would recommend against it especially if you have a foreign face.😂
hahahah! Yeh, i don't think i would try that 😂😂😂