Guantianshan Miao village is hidden behind the Woods, bypassing ponds and paddy fields, and still can't see the stockade. The self-taught tour guide in Miao village explained that the stockade was hidden behind the Woods. It is said that when the Miao uprising broke out in Xiangxi, it resisted the request of the Manchu government to pay the so-called local high-quality rice as a tribute. After the Qing army attacked, it had to give up because it could not find a village behind the forest. I think tour guides only beautify their ancestors. Later, the tour guide mentioned that Wu August was among the leaders of the uprising. It happened that I was learning something about the uprising. The uprising took place during the Qianlong period, and it was actually an uprising of Anbalism. But on the surface, it was under the slogan of "expelling guests and returning to their hometown", and then it expanded rapidly until the whole army was wiped out. Fu Kang 'an and He Lin, celebrities of the Qing Empire, all died in the process of suppressing the uprising.
The introduction of the local people may be romance, but what I am really interested in is how Wu August became the Miao king. I always thought that the so-called Miao king was a person with high prestige among Miao people, but according to local people, Wu Baba did not have this condition. According to the oral history of Miao people, it should be that Wu August and others agreed to attack in three ways, and whoever wins the scheduled goal first will be the king. In the following March, only Wu captured the ancient city of Ganzhou (near Jishou City) in August. This agreement is similar to Liu Bang's Xiang Yu, and it seems to me to have the color of Bailian and Jianghu. That is to say, I would rather believe this version, and Wu August and Wu Banshou, who are enshrined in the Tianwang Temple in the ancient city of Fenghuang, also prove that this legend has certain reliability.
The prince and the prince will be together. What kind of people would you rather have? You can think of it this way. Why can't Wu go to August? In addition, Comrade Wu also regards religious belief as a theoretical system. Liu Bang can succeed, so Liu Bang is great, but Wu Baba is unsuccessful, so Wu Baba is stupid? "History has proved that history has always been ravaged at will", which is reasonable behind this absurd assertion, not to mention the failure history of a minority leader. In this sense, success is really important, at the very least, it is a way for people to recognize you, and this kind of success is nothing more than meeting the requirements of the public that "men should have no power and no money for a day". For thousands of years, under the single value system, this standard seems to have not changed, but the forms of expression are inconsistent. Fortunately, we can see that there may be other value systems, and maybe we can choose. In this sense, history interprets Wu Auguste as a so-called national hero and anti-Qing hero, which does not prevent me from understanding it as the history of the rise of local ruffians.
The Miao village in Guantianshan is mainly rammed earth, and even the richest silversmith in the village mentioned by the tour guide is an earthen house. This difficult situation has not changed until the invasion of commercial society. In retrospect, perhaps the so-called hardworking Miao people have been accustomed to this life without information exchange since ancient times, until now.
People in Miao village live a leisurely life, perhaps because there are few tourists. They treat tourists as naturally and relaxed as people in neighboring villages. They have no purposeful commercial promotion, and they are not used to the so-called indifference in this world. They think you are just a visitor. Compared with other over-commercialized rural tours, the phrase "come and sit" by old smokers in Miao village makes people feel that the cultural background behind the commercial differences is completely different.
The farmhouse meal in Guantianshan Miao Village is also delicious. Because we didn't travel with us, there were only two people, and the reception place also provided us with food according to normal group travel. Our meals in 20 yuan (included in the tickets) are worth the tickets. We were given three meats, four vegetables and two soups, including rice, so-called firewood crispy rice porridge, fish, duck and meat.
The Miao people here are ingenious, good at singing and dancing, and inherit the fine traditions and ancient national culture of the Miao people. The Miao people with simple folk customs and warm hospitality welcome guests from all over the world.