The Call of Liangshan

Author: Yang Xiaomin
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Publish Date: 2002-11-01
Features: The Greater Liangshan and Jin Shaogang have nurtured the ancient history of the Yi people in Liangshan, also locking away the magical culture of a nation. But what was once considered a forbidden travel zone has now become a culturally pristine area people yearn for. For thousands of years, on this black land, the ancestors of the Yi people have engaged in struggles for survival and extinction against nature and society, and it is through these struggles that their ways of life and characteristics have been accumulated. Slavery had long existed on this land, an unfortunate reality, and the enclosed state surrounded by "rivers and large rivers as a wall, mountains and dense forests as a second wall, and the jiazhi system as a third wall" was also unfortunate. Yet the masters of this land, who call themselves "Nuo Su" (Black People), have left a "living fossil" and "living specimen" for the study of human social development history. The natural barriers of the natural geography, the self-integration of the social system, and the relatively slow economic development have allowed the ancient traditional culture of the Yi people to be preserved intact here, continuing and developing in their own way. Walking in Liangshan, watching the Yi people who always smile despite their hardships, seems to prove the reason for the existence, development, and progress of a nation. The Greater Liangshan and Jin Shaogang have nurtured the ancient history of the Yi people in Liangshan, also locking away the magical culture of a nation. But what was once considered a forbidden travel zone has now become a culturally pristine area people yearn for. For thousands of years, on this black land, the ancestors of the Yi people have engaged in struggles for survival and extinction against nature and society, and it is through these struggles that their ways of life and characteristics have been accumulated. Slavery had long existed on this land, an unfortunate reality, and the enclosed state surrounded by "rivers and large rivers as a wall, mountains and dense forests as a second wall, and the jiazhi system as a third wall" was also unfortunate. Yet the masters of this land, who call themselves "Nuo Su" (Black People), have left a "living fossil" and "living specimen" for the study of human social development history. The natural barriers of the natural geography, the self-integration of the social system, and the relatively slow economic development have allowed the ancient traditional culture of the Yi people to be preserved intact here, continuing and developing in their own way. Walking in Liangshan, watching the Yi people who always smile despite their hardships, seems to prove the reason for the existence, development, and progress of a nation.