In Guizhou, southwest of China, among karst cone-shape hills, Jiaodingshan village holds about 20 families of big flower Hmong people. In this village almost all villagers are christians, pious Christians. They are no difference with

any earnst christians inside. They worship Jesus, prayer befor dinner, attend sermon in church, celebrate same

festival in christianity. But their bibles are in hmong language, sermon in hmong dialect.

The suit for important occasion are in big flower hmong’s costume with big piece of wool embroidery. What is a amazing when you see full costume oriental minorities in a simple church for choir, priest, attendance of sermon. You will realize there are so many common place with you inside and so much different with you in appearance.

The village is situated on the half way of mountain, just like most Miao villages in Guizhou. All villager are peasent and grow the corn. There is no any economic plant and income in the village. As on the half way the water for drinking is always problem of the village. All the houses in village are clay, grassed roofed or cement tiles roofed. Even they are very poor they still insist to offer their best to their god and to their friends from out.

Maybe there are few people who can image that there is a group in the remote region have same religion with western world especially in Guizhou, the minority area of China, a socialism country. But it really exist!

The village has their own chior. They can sing anthem very good even without any instrument. They hope get a accordion for the christmas celebration and hope get help from outside.

From Guiyang to Kaili, via Kaiyang county.
This route makes a possible to discover curiosities of kaiyang, in north Guiyang.In this region Buyi people inhabit. Little flower miao live in this county with colorful costume, traditional wood-stone grass roofed or tiles roofed house which are sign of ineterated inveterated culture. At the end of march, rape flower cover mountains with brilliant yellow. Read the rest of this entry »

The Yi ethnic group, with a population of 7,762,286, is mainly distributed over the provinces of Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou, and the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

There are more than one million Yis in Sichuan Province, and most of them live in an area south of the Dadu River and along the Anning River.

Most Yis are scattered in mountain areas, some in frigid mountain areas at high altitudes, and a small number live on flat land or in valleys. The altitudinal differences of the Yi areas directly affect their climate and precipitation. Their striking differences have given rise to the old saying that “the weather is different a few miles away” in the Yi area. This is the primary reason why the Yis in various areas are so different from one another in the ways they make a living.

A place in deep mountains of Guizhou,
Graceful karst hills surrounds a small basin,
On the basin, there is a Buyi village, Buyi people is a minority in south of China, of Thai group.
Homestay there is available.
Still karst caves in the hills there.

Bamboo rafting in Dajing

A small but crystal river flows out from a karst cave, and cut this small basin into two halfs.
Both shores of the river are dotted with bunches of bamboo, taking bamboo raft on the river.