Along the winding mountain road, over a few hills of the Moon Mountain, you will arrive at the Miao people live in the village of Dangjiao, just into the rainy season, Guizhou is about to start spring ploughing, the fog after the rain has not dissipated, a few days ago the terraced fields filled with water turned into a piece of water silver.
The Miao people began to cultivate terraced fields when they settled here, and raised fish and ducks in the paddy fields according to the season, forming a unique local rice, fish and duck ecosystem.
In the party twist village where there are more men and fewer women, boys who have not yet started a family after the age of 25 may be singles for the rest of their lives. Wang Zhishu's nephew (Wang Hongjun) is one of the few college students in the village, and he returned home after graduating from university, and now there are only a single uncle in his 60s and a grandmother in his 80s, and taking care of them has become the focus of Wang Hongjun's life. Wang Hongjun said that he had a relationship in college, but the two families were too far away, and the other party's parents did not agree, or it may be that his family was too poor and the other party was unwilling, so they finally broke up.
Miao people since ancient times advocating free love, a farmer's leisure, the boys usually gather in groups of three or five to the girl's house, sing love songs to each other to express their heartfelt feelings, once they like each other, the girl will go home directly with the guy, choose a day to prepare a banquet, that is, the marriage. This simple and direct way of falling in love is known as "fishing girl" in Dang Twist Village. Before the spring ploughing, the young people in the village usually stay at home to help their families with the farming chores, and after the harvest in the fall, they go out to work in groups.
In the past, Miao Village was isolated from the world, and the villagers had a headache and brain fever to rely on the older "ghost master" in the village, but now the information is developed, but when the villagers encounter difficulties, they will still come to ask the "ghost master" for their opinions.
In the past, everyone in the village knew Miao songs, and it was also a tradition of expressing love when fishing for grain, but it was about to be lost among young people, and Wang Zhishu found the last "singer" in the village, hoping to continue this tradition. In the past, men walked dozens of miles of mountain roads to catch girls, and now, the young men of the party will set off in groups on motorcycles. In the end, the young people did not learn to sing Miao songs, and they still used the way they were most accustomed to drinking some wine and fighting to shorten the distance between each other.
The highway leads to the party, and the terraced fields attract tourists, but the life of the villagers has not changed, even if most of them will spend their lives silently in farming, they are always optimistic and hard working, looking forward to having a simple love. The terraced fields of water and silver are gradually covered with green seedlings, reflecting the industrious, casual and simple life of the Miao people.
According to the excerpt of the documentary "The Great Village", for reference only, invaded and deleted.
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