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Wengding Primitive Tribe Opening Hours: 09:00~17:00 (1/1-12/31, Monday to Sunday, 4:30 pm)
Wengding Primitive Tribe Location: Nanli Line, Mengjiao Township, Cangyuan Va Autonomous County, Lincang City, Yunnan Province
Wengding Primitive Tribe Group Purchase Price: Starting from 38 yuan
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Cangyuan County - Wengding
From the county town to Wengding, you can take a special line in front of Guangyun Road Rural Credit Cooperative, passing through Gengcang Second Class Road, 314 Provincial Road, and Nanli Line, which takes 1 hour to arrive along the way. Weng Ding Village
Wa Mountain Airport - Weng Ding
Cangyuan Wa Mountain Airport is 66 kilometers away from Weng Ding and can be reached in 1.5 hours. You can take the airport bus from the airport to Menggan, and then transfer to Cangyuan County - Weng Ding Bus to reach Weng Ding Village
Introduction to Scenic Spots
Weng Ding Village is a natural village under the jurisdiction of Mengjiao Dai, Yi, and Lahu ethnic groups in Cangyuan Va Autonomous County, Lincang City, Yunnan Province. It is a traditional Chinese village located in the southwest of Cangyuan Va Autonomous County, with a village area of 6.3 square kilometers
Wengding Village is the most well preserved original ecological village of the Wa ethnic group in China in terms of historical culture and traditional architecture. "Wengding" in Wa language means a place shrouded in clouds and mist, and also has the meaning of the beauty of high mountains, white clouds, and lakes. Wengding Dazhai faces north and south, with the entire village resembling a large chair and surrounded by continuous mountains. The architectural style of the village is unified, consisting of all wooden thatched houses, divided into two types: dry railing style and floor standing style. Residential floor standing houses, dry railing style houses, and attached buildings such as grain storage houses, wooden drum houses, Sala houses, Meiyiji * * houses, and village gates constitute the complete housing system of the Wa ethnic group. Weng Ding Village has a total of 120 cultural relics, including 105 traditional residential buildings and 15 historical environmental elements Image source: Baidu Baike In the early days, the villagers of Weng Ding moved from Shaopa, Shaoxing and other places in the Wa State of Myanmar to Manghui in Cangyuan. With the increasing number of people and insufficient land for cultivation, Yang led 9 households to move to present-day Weng Ding Village. In the Wa ethnic customs, the first person to build a village is the village leader, so the position of village leader is inherited by the Yang clan. After more than 400 years of development, Wengding Village has formed an ecological village where the four major surnames of Yang, Xiao, Zhao, and Tian live in contiguous units of clans Weng Ding Village Nanmang Section, Cangyuan Va Autonomous County, Lincang City, Yunnan Province Wengdingwa Village Wengding Village is similar to most Wa villages in that it was built along the mountain. Unlike other villages, it was built along the trees. Before building the village, the ancestors would choose a suitable location to plant a banyan tree. If the banyan tree grows lush, the village will be built here. Otherwise, they can choose another location. The site of Wengding Dazhai is located on a small mountain ridge in the southeast, which is full of mountains and rivers. Looking down, it is in harmony with the landscape pattern, like a fortress in the sky. Weng Ding Village is backed by green mountains and faces the Xinya River to the north. The vegetation is dense, the scenery is beautiful, and the resources are abundant. The village is perfectly integrated with the natural ecological environment, forming a beautiful mountain ecological landscape of harmony between people and land. The good natural ecological environment has become the environmental foundation for Weng Ding Wa people to believe in primitive religion. The villagers worship nature and have a reverence for mountains, rivers, plants, and trees. Longtan is located on the southwest side of the village, with an area of about 300 square meters, and has practical significance for water storage and fire prevention The architectural layout of Wengding Village is built along the mountain, with the entrance of the building staircase facing the center of the village. The most important feature of residential distribution is the formation of a terrace pattern based on the terrain and landforms. Dazhai faces north and south, with the entire village resembling a large chair and surrounded by continuous mountains. There is a village center distributed within the village, which is a place for holding * * activities and festivals; Bull head stakes are mostly concentrated on both sides of the village entrance road and folk squares in front of the village gate; The goddess totem pole is erected on the southwest side of the folk square Weng Ding Village Weng Ding Village has a unified architectural style, consisting of all wooden thatched houses, divided into two types: dry railing style and floor standing style. Residential floor standing houses, dry railing style houses, and attached buildings such as grain storage houses, wooden drum houses, Sala houses, Meiyiji * * houses, and village gates constitute the complete housing and architectural system of the Wa ethnic group, with strong ethnic characteristics The traditional dry railing style buildings of the Wa ethnic group are mainly made of grass, bamboo, and wood as the main building materials. They are locally sourced, structurally simple, easy to construct, and cost-effective. The houses have good ventilation and heat dissipation, warm in winter and cool in summer, and good drainage performance, making them suitable for hot and rainy areas. The biggest difference between the Wa ethnic group's ganlan style architecture and other ethnic groups' ganlan style architecture lies in the forked roofs on both sides, so the Wa ethnic group's ganlan style residential buildings are also called "forked houses". The building is built with wooden columns, bamboo or wooden boards woven into bundles as walls, and thatched roofs. The roof is mostly equipped with forked wind boards, and stairs are made of whole wood. The top of the wooden pillar retains tree branches to support the beam, and then some fine bamboo is placed on the crossbeam, covered with thatch, to build an elevated "bamboo tower". The house is divided into two floors, with people living on the upper floor and livestock and poultry activities on the lower floor. Some blacksmith households also have bellows and a set of blacksmith tools on the lower floorVillage history
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