Gejia Village, Matang

Gejia is a unique minority, they claim to be the posterity of the posterior. In addition to clothing, Matang is most attractive, with bright colors and exquisite patterns of wax dyes, from the body dress, straps, waistbands to the curtains, quilts, tablecloths all decorated with wax.

After seeing several different Miao Villages in southeast Fujian, I wanted to go to some different places, so on the morning of the last day of the trip, I set off from Kaili to Matang. Gezhai's Ge is actually next to a single person, but the word is not in the Chinese dictionary. The people of Gezhai are said to be a branch of the Miao people, and their history is also very long. The people of Gezhai are proficient in batik technology, so there is a display point for batik crafts not far from the entrance of the stockade. The style of the residential houses in Gezhai is completely different from the hanging foot building in Miao Village. It is a simple wooden tile house on the first to second floors. Many newly built houses will be repaired with a step tens of centimeters high. They are built on the mountain, and some are up along the mountain. The patchwork is dotted on the farmland in the mountains. The costumes of the Gezhai people are very ordinary for men, and the women are very complicated, especially their headwear and waistbands. It is said that the decorations on the head are the symbols of the "post-glaze day" and "arrow and day", which represents the descendants of the Ge family. In the Gezhai swayed for more than an hour, just want to leave, the people in the stockade told me that because the Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, there will be a bullfighting competition here in the afternoon, and then the villages in all directions will bring bullfighting to participate in the competition, so of course I will stay. Sure enough, after noon, the people in the stockade arranged the venue in a field that had been harvested, and there were also surrounding villages with bullfighting. When people sprayed the names of the stockades represented on the cattle, the original quiet stockade suddenly became loud and loud. A fierce bullfighting game began. The bullfights participating in the competition are gray-black buffaloes, which have been trained for many years. When the two cattle are pulled to the center of the venue, they do not need any instructions or command language and action. As soon as the horns caught are released, the two cattle can't wait to rush to the other party. The loud noises that came from the horns struck me, so I looked at the costumes of the women who came to watch the bullfights as I looked at the style of the bullfights.

Gejia is a relatively unique minority, they claim to be the posterity of the hindsight, in addition to clothing, Matang is the most attractive, is a wax dye with bright colors and exquisite patterns, from the body's skirt, belt, waist to the curtains, quilt, All the tablecloths are decorated with wax.

Matang is a good attraction. When I went there that day, I just met He Jie, and then I saw them shooting the show. I was too excited. I saw it on TV later.

From Miaodu Bus Station near Ximen Street, Huancheng North Road, take the Zhongba in Longchang or Yudong. Get on the bus and buy a ticket for 5 yuan. Please remember to call at the intersection of Matang. After getting off the bus, walk along a small road for 20 minutes to Gejiazhai. It rained when we went, and there was almost no one along the way. After entering the village, I went to the reed field and saw some buildings. I met an old woman and asked my wife to take a photo with her. Then when I came down, I met several farmhouses and wanted to sell batik cloth. We went to the office of the Kailijia Cultural Research Association at the entrance of the village. No one opened the door and saw some photos introducing the costumes of the Kaili family. Just came out and stopped the road across the road to the car to return to Kaili.