Lusheng Festivals and Tiaohua Festival

Lusheng is so prevailed in Miao community in many aspects that they spend Lusheng festival across the province. Having busied with farming over the last year, villagers, temporarily escaped from burdens, wholly dedicate to the celebration for this festival. Stunning costumes with layers of silver lead quiet villages to be vivid and colorful through history seems stopped for them for years. People dance in circle all day long trying to show their vivid life and to be focused on.

There are many activities between autumn and next spring. Similarly to Han people, it covers offering sacrifice to ancestor, celebrating good harvest, having social party and courtship and bull fight.

There are many names for such festival, such as Tiaohua(Dance Flower).

Miao in the west and middle of Guizhou, calling themselves Hmong, name it Tiaohua. In some other place, it is called Tiaoyue. During the Dance Flower festival, courtship is particularly stressed on in that Tiaohua means to make friends through dancing and singing.

Called Lusheng Meeting in the southeast by Miao calling themselves Mu, this festival is fashion the areas: Leigong, Yueliang mountains and basins of Qingshui river.

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With boundless mountains and innumerous valleys, southeast Guizhou is like a refugee for minorities, the Dong, Miao, Shui etc. are living in the traditional life and keep their immemorial unsophisticated custom and culture in the modern world.
Miao and Dong Explore, 9 day’s trip.

Day 1 Guiyang-Shuitouzhai

Arrive Guiyang, then drive to Shuitouzhai, the buyi village in central Guizhou. Visit buyi village in valley with very beautiful scenery of River and terraced field. Visit tea plantation, taste the best quality tea. Stay at Indigo hotel, a nice little hotel with good situation.
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A unique life experience in minority family in southwest China

Day 1 Liping-zhaoxing (first contact with a Dong family
Plane to Liping, the capital of Dong ethnic. Then go to Zhaoxing village, like a gem in the mountain. The village is filled by the beautiful Dong ethnic style wood house, roofed bridge and drum tower and looks like in the fairytale. Find a family and meet the family member, then stay in the family and have the first dinner. Read the rest of this entry »

Despite their spectacular scenery, large parts of Guizhou are still very poor and are very difficult to reach. This relative isolation has enabled many minority groups in the area to retain their rich cultural heritage and preserve ethnic distinctiveness. In the more remote parts traditional textiles are still very much a part of daily life, in other areas they are used extensively at festival times. The Miao’s elaborate festival costumes are not only their most important possessions, but can be considered the major living visual art form of their culture.

On this trip, you will study embroidery, weaving and dyeing with the Miao and other ethnic groups. Enjoy the wide variety of elaborate costumes - batik, woven, silk, and embroidered jackets; pleated skirts; and hand-worked silver headdresses. At the same time, celebrate festivals, learn the myths, visit the markets, see the museums, and experience the rhythm of local village life

Day 1 Arrival in Guiyang.
If enough time we can visit a tea house.
Stay at a 5-star hotel

Day 2 Guiyang-Libo
Discover Little flower Miao, they are expert about batik and indigo dye, they make also cross stitch embroidery
Stay in 3-star hotel at Libo.

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Lost at the world’s corner, a place where the history stops—-countries of Miao and Dong peoples, the antiquity of China.(Trekking tour)

11 days, From Guiyang to Guilin.

Day 1 Arrive in Guiyang

Day 2 Guiyang-Kaili
Guiyang–Kaili by bus
Bus to kaili, discovery little flower Miao and their villages, find their cross stitch embroidery and appreciate their colorful embroidery costume and batik pleated skirt.

Day 3 Kaili-Xijiang
4 hour’s trek pass, pass by the Miao village of Wuli, Xiaozhai and Zhongzhai villages. We will trek in beautiful valley. Stay in a miao village–xijiang, the biggest miao village in Guizhou and with thousand household.

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