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The Frontier People Sing New Songs: Wa People

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Wa girls

The Wa people live in the mountains of the Nu Shan mountains between Lancang River and sal Wenjiang.

Wa people, claiming to be "awa", are one of "Pu Pu" during the Zhou and Qin Dynasties.

In Qing Dynasty, there were different names such as "gall thorn", "Ha WA" and "Ka WA".

After the founding of new China, it was collectively called the Wa nationality, meaning "people living in the mountains".

Because of the isolation and cutting of mountains and valleys, the "living in the mountains" has been living almost isolated from the world for thousands of years.

In their eyes, everything in the world, even a stone, a tree, a cloud and a gust of wind, has its own soul.

As a mountain burning nation with a strong dependence on rice, the Wa people almost devoted their strong desire to race to the sacrificial activities that prayed for rice yield.

Every year, along with the new land reclamation, seed landing, Inatani Ho and new rice entering the family, all the tribes will hold numerous and numerous sacrificial activities.

Among them, the most solemn is the wooden drum.

The wooden drum is a universal artifact of the Wa nationality. It is usually longer than the body of a strong man. It looks like a canoe. The heart is chiseled into a highly publicized female genital shape.

The AWA people firmly believe that in the spring and earth revival season, a vigorous wooden drum can be held, and the new wooden drum can be passed on to the rice as a result of their vigorous reproductive capacity as they expected, in return for another golden autumn.

The Wa nationality has long used woodcuts and physical records because of its lack of words in history.

The Millennium migration history and culture of the tribe was passed down from generation to generation in the way of the narrative poem "Si Gang Li" through the genius memory of the Wa ethnic priest.

Therefore, for the Wa people, Demba is their cultural heritage and the closest person to the gods.

Almost all the cultural phenomena of the Wa nationality can be found in the source of "Gang Gang Li".

What is "Gang Gang"?

The interpretation of some ethnic scholars is that the cave, gourd, and the matrixes of human origin, and for some of the Wa people, are more widely explained.

It is the teachings of "all the nationalities of the people", "originally all of them are bamboo sticks, from the Si Gang Li". No matter what era they are in, the Wa people always believe that the Wa nationality and the Han nationality are a family with a blood connection that can not be cut off.

Therefore, when the Cangyuan cliff paintings, which had been sleeping in the small black river area of the tributaries of the Lancang river for 3000 years, were awakened suddenly by archaeologists. When the archaeological achievements of the stone Buddha cave further proved that 3000 years ago, when the Chinese nation created the most advanced culture of the Neolithic Age in the southwest area of the Lancang River tributary of the Central Plains Civilization, the Wa people inherited the legend of "Sang Gang Li" for thousands of years, and naturally linked them with the achievements of civilization.

During the long-term observation of the natural phenomena, the Wa people have accumulated rich experience in astronomy, geography, meteorology and agricultural cultivation, and used them to arrange life and farm activities.

Today, the Arab people of the Wa nationality have bid farewell to the centuries old slash and burn production mode, introduce tea and rubber planting and processing technology, learn sugar squeezing technology, and obtain wide range of productive forces by popularizing all kinds of scientific knowledge and advanced technology.

Great improvement.

In the past, even in the wa area, where a nail was to be imported from outside, food processing factories, sugar factories, power plants and mineral processing plants were set up.

Millions of kilowatts of power stations have been erected in the valley, which is deep, vertically and horizontally stretched over 3000 meters, with a height difference of more than two meters in height. Most of the wa compatriots have always said goodbye to thatched cottages. The only two counties in Cangyuan and Ximeng have been changing rapidly under the impetus of the construction of small towns.

Especially after entering the twenty-first Century, the cultural tourism boom broke through the barrier of the mountains, and the unique culture of the Wa people has been successfully separated from the millennia of time and space. It has become a forerunner and beneficiary of the integration of culture and economy, so that the Wa people can see a golden future.

Yuan Zhizhong (Wa nationality) / author Zhu Yunkuan / photography, Yuan Zhizhong is a wa woman writer and director of Yunnan Lincang daily.

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The Wa nationality is mainly distributed in three counties of Ximeng, Cangyuan and Meng Lian in Yunnan province. Gengma, Lancang, Shuang Jiang, Zhenkang, Yongde, Changning, Menghai and other counties are also distributed.

According to the fifth national census conducted in 2000, the wa population was 396610.

Wa people use wa language. They belong to the wa language branch of the mon Khmer language of the austral language family.

Traditional sacrificial activities -- "La Mu drum"