Tongcheng Yaogu mountain

Tongcheng Yaogu mountain is known as Longjiao mountain in ancient times. Located in Daping Township, Tongcheng County, Hubei Province, the main peak is 1261.1 meters above sea level, with a total area of nearly 200 square kilometers. It is located between Tongcheng, Chongyang, Chibi and Linxiang, 25 kilometers northwest of the county. Longjiao mountain is a natural medicine storehouse in the south of the Yangtze River. Li Shizhen, an outstanding pharmacist in the Ming Dynasty, went to Longjiao mountain many times to collect medicine samples. It is said that Lu Dongbin, the immortal, has been infatuated with the beautiful scenery in the mountains for many times. In 2001, nearly 100 experts and scholars from the Yao society of China (Guangxi) gathered in Longjiao mountain to hold a special research conference on the Yao nationality. Through several years of on-the-spot investigation, investigation and analysis, it is confirmed that Longjiao mountain is a thousand cave in the early history of the Yao nationality, the spiritual home of 3 million Yao people in the world, and an extremely rare cultural heritage of the Yao nationality. 　

Tongcheng Yaogu mountain

Tongcheng Yaogu mountain is located in Daping Township, Tongcheng County, Hubei Province. It is the afterblood of Mufu mountain. Its main peak is 1261.1 meters above sea level, with a total area of nearly 200 square kilometers. It is located between Tongcheng, Chongyang, Chibi and Linxiang, 25 kilometers northwest of the county. Longjiao mountain is a natural medicine storehouse in the south of the Yangtze River. Li Shizhen, an outstanding pharmacist in the Ming Dynasty, went to Longjiao mountain many times to collect medicine samples.

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In 2001, nearly 100 experts and scholars from China (Guangxi) Yao society gathered in Longjiao mountain to hold a special research conference on Yao nationality. Through several years of field investigation and investigation, it was confirmed that Longjiao mountain was the Qianjiadong cave in the early Yao history, the spiritual home of 3 million Yao people in the world, and an extremely rare Yao cultural heritage.

National characteristics

For a long time, the Yao nationality was the most oppressed by the feudal rule and was forced to move constantly. They "moved after eating a mountain". Since the late Yuan Dynasty, the Yao people in Longjiao mountain have been migrating from north to south into Hunan, Guizhou, Guangdong and Guangxi, and even across the Pacific Ocean, becoming a transnational nation. Although most of the Yao people have moved away, they have left behind in Longjiao mountain physical landscape, historical sites, residential buildings and typical Yao stone culture, as well as institutionalized religious rituals, Yao customs, conceptual singing, dancing, rap, etiquette taboos, etc., which are closely related to the natural environment of Tongcheng and Han culture, leaving a relatively complete Yao cultural area Domain, forming a unique cultural brand.

ethnic flavor

Tongcheng County invited experts from higher levels to organize a special working group to collect and sort out the intangible cultural heritage of the Yao nationality and investigate the relevant folk artists. The Yao dance "Tongcheng paida dance" won the gold medal of Hubei folk song and dance Grand Prix and performed in Germany. It was listed in the intangible cultural heritage list of the whole province in 2007. In September 2010, "Tongcheng paida dance" was listed in Hubei Province The only program in Shanxi Province was invited to perform in the 8th China Folk Art Festival and 9th Shanxi Datong Yungang culture and Art Festival, and won a gold medal. Panwang dance, folk dance huacuan dance, folk dance cailianchuan and folk song Qianjiadong song are listed in the county intangible cultural heritage protection list. It plays an important role in inheriting and carrying forward the excellent Yao culture, strengthening national unity and highlighting the regional cultural characteristics of Tongcheng. In July 2014, Yao nationality site in yaogushan of Tongcheng county was listed as the Sixth Batch of cultural relics protection units by Hubei Provincial People's government.

Address: Daping Township, Tongcheng County, Hubei Province

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