The land of Miaojiang has always been a mysterious place for China since ancient times. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The place refers to the southwest of China, including Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Hunan, Chongqing, Guangxi and other provinces and cities.

This magical place has long been known and talked about for its mysteries and legends.

This area is also called Xiangxi, and the so-called Miao Jiang in ancient times is included in the current Xiangxi, Miao is the meaning of the Miao people, and Miao Jiang also refers to the place where the Miao and other ethnic minorities live.

In ancient times, Miao Jiang in China was in today's Guizhou, where it was famous for its many mountains, so it was also called "Mountain Country", it was a mysterious place in ancient times, because the people there were barbaric and few people went, more hilly and less flat, the mountains were undulating, the terrain was dangerous, and it was an important frontier fortress since ancient times.

From a very early age, it has been associated with many ancient legends, whether it is the ancient Miao Jiang witch Gu or the Qing Dynasty's Xiangxi corpse, you can fully feel its mystery and antiquity over time.

Miaojiang is hilly, the terrain is dangerous, there are many forests, the Three Kingdoms is also known as the land of the Southern Barbarians, Zhuge Liang's seven captures of Meng Shu are based on this place, the Southern Barbarians are full of miasma, so they are sparsely populated, and the number of people is never too much, but with its strange and dangerous terrain, it is also daunting, but because of this, it is full of mystery and weirdness.

In this ancient and mysterious area, there are many mountains and forests, and many of them are very well-preserved primeval forests, which are full of many animals, including pheasants, hares, snakes, centipedes, scorpions, wild boars, wild deer, roe deer, pangolins, and so on.

Since it is a mountainous forest and hilly land, then naturally the caves here are also very many, since ancient times, there are 100,000 mountains, you can also guess how many mountains here, and in the cave there are a lot of stone stalactites made of magma dripping, what shape there are, some like snakes, some like dragons, some like Arhats, etc., there are everything, too many to mention, so people are fascinated, often people go to travel to watch.

It's just that few people know that in this ancient land, deep in the dense primeval forest, there has always been a small village located in the 100,000 mountains, isolated from the world, working at sunrise and resting at sunset, silently sticking to this place.

It's just that just a few days ago, there seemed to be a slight change here.

Although it is located in the middle of a hundred thousand mountains, the village does not seem to be very large, the population seems to be extremely sparse, and what is even more surprising is that there is almost nothing to be done with modernity here.

Here, everyone is just silently doing their own thing, and the architecture in this village is also very strange, there are no buildings that can be seen in other mountain villages in China, and they are not all the stilted buildings that the Miao people have lived in since ancient times.

Miao nationality because most of them live in the mountainous area, has always been by the mountains and rivers, so the mountain is high and steep, and it is not easy to excavate the foundation, coupled with the weather in the mountains and forests, the weather is changeable, damp and foggy, the ground atmosphere at the bottom of the brick house is very heavy, not suitable for living, and it is also adapted to local conditions, and a dry wooden building with good ventilation performance is constructed, called "stilted building".

Hmong stilted buildings are usually built on slopes and are divided into two or three floors.

The top floor is very low, and only food is not used for people, and the downstairs is stacked with sundries or used as a livestock pen.

If it is two floors, the top floor is not covered, and the wall is generally made of bamboo paste and mud, and then the top is covered with grass.

Of course, this kind of architecture is not only because of its topography and other factors, but also reflects the memory and religious beliefs of the Miao people for their ancestors.

And the reason why the building here is strange is not only because of this reason, but also because there are strange ancient bamboo buildings here, woven layer by layer, similar to the bamboo building of the Dai people, but there are many differences.

Here, most of them are stilted buildings in Xiangxi, which surrounds this village with an extremely complicated terrain, and in the middle of these stilted buildings, it is the strange Dai bamboo building-like building, which is said to be a bamboo building, but it is extremely high, from bottom to top, layer by layer, in the top layer is an abrupt flat layer, and at the edge of it is a delicate form, there are many bells with complicated ancient patterns hanging on it, from top to bottom, like antelope hanging horns, densely packed.

When a wind blows from time to time, it will rise with the wind, and it will flutter under the action of the wind, but there is no sound coming from it.

It's just that it still looks like it's still a little broken, a little mutilated, and it doesn't seem to be complete.

Viewed from above, it looks like an ancient tower hanging upside down into the ground, deep into the ground.

Directly opposite it, if you look closely, you can faintly see that there is a mottled stone door covered in dust underneath, and it looks like it hasn't been opened for a long time.

And what makes people feel strange is that in this small village, although there are all kinds of houses dotted around, but they are all unified, without exception, there are no people living in them, and if you look up, you can find that the top of your head is actually covered by a huge shadow, which perfectly covers this place, in this weather that makes people almost dry mouth, people feel that the cool air gushes from the soles of their feet, and only makes people feel refreshed.

At this time, under this strange tower, two people were standing in silence.

One of the two was on crutches, his face was extremely old, his forehead was wrinkled, his eyes were almost invisible, and he was wearing an extremely ancient, gorgeous and noble Miao costume, and his back was deeply pressed, as if he was carrying a mountain behind his back, and its weight was about to bend it to the ground.

And the person standing next to him was a middle-aged man with a rather strong figure, his appearance was extremely ordinary, and even the clothes were also very ordinary, just the clothes of ordinary Miao people, extremely simple and light, I saw him carefully supporting the old man, and his eyes revealed a kind of sincere awe.

The old man looked at the ancient tower, which seemed to be plunged upside down into the ground, and his eyes were a little cloudy.

He slowly walked towards the stone gate that had been closed for an unknown number of years with the support of the middle-aged man, and just as he was about to approach, he stopped and waved his hand, but the middle-aged man who was holding him did not hesitate at all, and immediately stopped decisively, standing in place and not moving, allowing the old man to tremble and stagger towards the stone door.

In the end, when the old man trembled and touched the stone door that could barely see its original face, he suddenly stopped in place, slowly closed his eyes, hung down weakly with his hands, and slowly lay down against the stone door, and a tear gradually crossed the corner of his eye......