【4K】A 1,300-year-old village, the birthplace of the Tujia people, Shuangfeng Village.

【4K】A 1,300-year-old village, the birthplace of the Tujia people, Shuangfeng Village.

Shuangfeng Village was built in the Tang Dynasty, and has been passed down for more than 1,300 years, spanning more than 200 generations. Shuangfeng Village is located in the southwest of Yongshun County, Hunan Province, 15 kilometers away from the city, with an altitude of more than 700 meters. There are 96 households and more than 300 residents. It is not only the birthplace of the “Qizhaiban” people, but also the root of Chinese Tujia culture, and has the reputation of “China’s No. 1 Tujia Village”.

Shuangfeng Village is a natural Tujia village on the top of a mountain. The Baishou Hall is the best in China, with stilt houses arranged in a row, the village trails are like colorful streamers in the sky, and the welcoming gate is magnificent. Jiulong Temple, Meishan Temple, official pavilion, land hall, etc. are all available, showing the scale and longevity of tribal activities here.

The biggest feature of Shuangfeng Village is the original culture. Shuangfeng Village is the hometown of Maogus and Baishou Dance. Maogusi is known as the “living fossil of primitive drama” and “the furthest source of Chinese dance”. In 2006, it was announced by the State Council as a national intangible cultural heritage.

A series of ethnic songs and dances such as “single swing”, “double swing” and “small swing” in the waving hand dance were also excavated and sorted out from Shuangfeng Village. Tujia toast songs, welcoming songs, folk songs, etc. are all cultural classics of Tujia villages in China, and are also the merits of the perfect inheritance of Tujia culture. Therefore, Shuangfeng is not only a base for ethnic research, but also an important treasure house of ethnic cultural resources.

The inheritor of Tujia culture, the inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage Tujia waving hand dance-Yitian Renxin, the inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage Tujia Maogusi-Peng Yingwei, the inheritor of Tujia language Peng Jiaqi, and the folk song grandmother Peng Ruolan are all star national treasures admired by the villagers.

In 2006, Yongshun County established an ethnic cultural protection group for Shuangfeng Village and began to plan its protection. At the end of 2009, Shuangfeng Village was recognized as a “Hunan Province Ethnic Minority Characteristic Village” by the Hunan Provincial Ethnic Affairs Commission. In October 2013, Shuangfeng Village successfully applied to be a Hunan Provincial Historical and Cultural Village. In June 2014, Shuangfeng Village was included in the first batch of implementation lists of the “China Traditional Village Overall Protection and Utilization Project” organized and implemented by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage.

Chapters:
00:00 Opening
00:48 Introduction to Shuangfeng Village
01:24 Tujia Farmhouse
03:43 Visit with local villagers (residential houses and beehives)
08:25 Quotations from Chairman Mao
08:53 Ancient well
09:33 Ancient village houses
12:18 Wave hands Hall
12:59 Tuwang Temple
14:38 Tujia stilt houses
15:40 Tujia home visits
18:11 Visit to a 97-year-old grandmother
19:11 Stroll through the ancient village
20:28 Visit to an 88-year-old grandfather

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