Lewang Town, Wangmo County, Qianxinan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province

Lewang town

Lewang town of Wangmo county is located in the northeast corner of Wangmo County, between latitude 24053 ′ - 25037 ′, longitude 105050 ′ - 106032 ′, with a land area of 211.67 square kilometers, bordering Ziyun and Luodian in the East, Xintun in the west, Jiaona in the north, Mashan and Sanglang in the south. After village level integration, it has jurisdiction over 11 villages, 106 villager groups and 146 natural villages, distributed with Miao, Buyi and Han nationalities. The total population is 19852.

The topography of lewang town is characterized by high mountains and steep slopes, few flat lands, narrow gorge and deep valley, short illumination, with the highest altitude of 1650 meters and the lowest altitude of 650 meters. 99% of the mountains are between 700 and 1500 meters. The average annual rainfall of lewang town is 1449.7 mm, the average annual temperature is 18.5 ℃, the climate is cold in winter and cool in summer, and the frost free period is 355 days. It belongs to subtropical humid monsoon climate zone, and has the characteristics of North and middle subtropical climate. Due to the high altitude, deep canyon, low annual temperature and short illumination time, the agricultural production is directly affected, which is characterized by high input, low output and less economic crops.

Historical evolution

In 1935, Lewang township was established. In August 1951, the people's Government of Lewang township was established. In 1953, Yuewang, Yuekuan and Manjie townships were established. In March 1959, the township was withdrawn to build the lewang people's commune. In August 1962, three people's communes were established. In 1984, the people's governments of three townships, namely, Le Wang, Le Kuan and man Jie, were restored. In December 1991, the three townships of lewang, lekuan and Manjie were merged to form lewang town again, and the former village of Xuli was designated as redlai village. Rich in sugarcane, banana, yellow fruit, tung oil seeds. There are 17 primary and secondary schools. The town people's government is located in lewang, 27 kilometers northeast of Fuxing Town, on the Bank of Lewang river. The population is 660, all of them belong to Buyi Nationality. The altitude is 600 meters. The original names of Luowang, Luowang, and Luowang are translated into Buyi, which means the place with big dam and good water source, or because the two surnames of Luowang and Luowang mainly live there. There is a farmer's market. There is a highway connecting anwang highway.

natural condition

The town is characterized by high mountains and steep slopes, less flat land, narrow gorge, deep valley and short light. The highest altitude is 1650 meters, and the lowest altitude is 650 meters. 99% of the mountains are between 700 and 1500 meters. It is a typical mountainous terrain. The area of land difficult to use accounts for more than 10%, and most of them are bare rock.

Resource overview

The main rivers in the town are lewang River and lekuan River, which can irrigate a large area with large amount of water, but they are polluted, poor water quality and low open value. The main crops in lewang town are rice, corn, wheat, sweet potato, etc., the cash crops are tung oil tree, rape, peanut, etc., the main minerals are coal mine, gold mine, iron ore, limestone and marble, and the main rare plants are Cycas and Podocarpus. The natural disasters in lewang town are mainly flood, hail and drought, followed by wind and snow.

folk culture

Lewang town has both unique Miao customs and Buyi customs. Since ancient times, it has inherited unique marriage customs and national festivals such as "March 3" and "July half". The interesting festival activities make this town full of opportunities.

Special clothing

Buyi Nationality's clothing has its own characteristics. Most of the clothes are blue, blue and white. Men's clothing styles are basically the same all over the country, mostly including headkerchiefs, which are striped and pure blue; the clothes are short skirts, usually white inside and blue outside, and the trousers are long pants; the elderly usually wear long sleeve short clothes or green and blue long shirts, and cloth socks on their feet. The costumes of modern Buyi women vary from place to place. Women wear short skirts with large lapels, and some wear long skirts with pleats. In the area of Biandan mountain, where Buyi people live in compact communities, young girls like to wear short clothes with rolled edges, silk belts, brocade headkerchiefs, headdresses with coarse hair braids, brocade patterns and several circles of hair braids on their forehead, trousers and embroidered shoes. young women wear batik pleated skirt, slanted skirt, embroidered shoulder, embroidered into two rows of small square semicircular patterns along the shoulder with various threads, brocade on both sides of the collar, eye-catching color; brocade in the middle of the sleeve, batik on the upper and lower parts; brocade trim about one inch at the bottom of the clothes, embroidered or brocade long apron on the chest, light silk belt; brocade scarf on the head, There is a bunch of beard made of various colored thread hanging around the ear. The headdress worn by married people is "gengcao", which is made of bamboo shoot shell and cloth. It is shaped like a dustpan, round in the front and rectangular in the back. Every grand festival or banquet, women still like to wear a variety of earrings, rings, collars, hairpins and bracelets and other silver jewelry.

Administrative village

Lewang village, lekuan village, Potou village, Dawan village, Tuanjie village, Luyi village, Xinhua Village, Tongmu village, Maozhai village, Liuli village, Manjie Village