Tunbao Cultural Village

Tunbao Village is situated in Anshun city, and the people lived here are the Han nationality. Their language, clothes and houses and entertainment style are all following the culture custom from Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). Such a special Han culture phenomenon is called as “Tunbao Culture”.

History

Tunbao Culture is originated from early Ming Dynasty. In 1380, the first emperor of Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, gathered his army to crush the rebel army in the south, and he won the war three months later. After this war, Zhu Yuanzhang was aware of the importance of the southwest, so he ordered the army of 300 thousand soldiers to station here. With years passed, the army and their family brought different cultures and emerged with local culture. With the development of six hundred years, Tunbao Culture was formed from this.

Tunbao Culture Village was recognized as the largest and the most complete culture village, and was listed in “Guinness World Record” in 2002.

The language

With the development of hundred years, the language of Tunbao is not assimilated by surrounding environment. Their language is more retroflex and they pronounce quickly. It is masculine mostly and is the mandarin of Ming Dynasty.

The clothes

The feature of clothes is mainly to woman. The clothes have a feature followed from clothes of Han nationality of the south in Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty (1646-1911). They are always in loose-bodied dress with the wide sleeves, and there are decorative design embroidered on the neckline, cuff and front part of a Chinese robe. And there is riband tied around the waist with string hanging down above knees. And their ornaments are like earrings, bracelet, ring, and long and round skirt and high-layer cloth shoes, which only can be found in the drama.

Folk house features

Tunbao Culture Village has a strong military color because of its military existence in history. So there also are misshapen crenels and forts left in the village. One of important features in Tunbao Culture is stone used extensively. Each house is like a stone castle, and a village is like a city. In the wartime, the houses can be linked as a whole, but also can be separated independently to fight. Looking out in the high from afar, a large white piece is in your eyes, stone house, stone wall, stone roller, stone grind, and stone crock. Tunbao folk house is like a stone world.

Folk house is built as courtyard dwellings, which has a building feature combined with the south and the east of China, but has an outstanding feature of totally closed layout by itself.

Local opera

Local opera is commonly referred to as “Tiaoshen”, an ancient opera integrated performance, sacrifice and amusement, which is popular in Tunbao Culture Village. This opera is called as “living fossil” in China opera history. It has been played in many countries like France, Spain, Japan etc.

Tunbao Culture is a rare regional cultural phenomenon in China, and it has an important position and influence on the formation and development of integration of multi-cultural pattern.