Miao Aboriginal Village of Phoenix Town
Phoenix Town is located in the connected part of Guizhou, Hunan and Sichuan provinces. Due to poor traffic conditions, people seldom come here. But because a famous Chinese writer, Shen Congwen, wrote several novels in which beautiful and clever characters live in Phoenix Town, many people are acquainted with the natural conditions and social customs of the area. These customs express a very harmonious relationship between humans and nature and between humans.
In April 2003 I visited the area, almost one century after the novels were published and found that the people hadn’t been influenced by the changing of the times. The children there were not only beautiful and clever but also inherited the mysterious sense of their own culture.
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