CCTV英语贵州旅游.doc

Welcome to Travelogue and welcome back to Guizhou! This week, join me for a whirlwind tour down to southern Guizhou to explore the pizzazz of different ethnic groups down there. Specifically, there are Danzhai Miao, Sandu Shui. If youve been watching our show lately, there should be no excuse of not knowing anything about this hidden treasure from the traveling perspective. Being one of the most diversified places in China, Guizhou never stops attract and amaze visitors with its gorgeous landscape and kaleidoscopic culture. Today we will follow an unbeaten path down to south Guizhou, meet the extremely hospitable Miao people in Danzhai County, admire their dazzling handmade color paper and wx printing cloth; then visit the largest Shui ethnic community in Sandu County, dance to the beat of bronze drum and learn about the mysterious Shuishu. Its going to be a true journey of discovery. Danzhai, the crimson fort, is a place as beautiful and passionate as its name suggests. Just look at how the Danzhai people greet their visitors - an all-out party floating with songs, dances, and, the guarantee of a great party-self-brewed rice wine! Miao is the dominant group in Danzhai County making up three fourth of the total population. The small village we are visiting today is called Shiqiao with couple hundred households nestled in a mountain valley. The greeting ceremony of Danzhai Miao people is the most elaborate one that I never seen, and most original-now I know how to make the best use of wooden stools. Wooden Stool Dance is popular in Miao inhabited southwest Guizhou. Its usually performed after couple rounds of rice wine; and there is no limits to the dancing venue, in house, out in the open air, by the river side, on the mountain slope... Then again, there is also the swaying Lusheng dance, something you are bound to encounter time and again in a Guizhou trip. The houses of Miao people in this area are all built of wooden logs on the foundation of huge rocks -