Qiandongnan — southeast Guizhou — is the densest patch of living Miao and Dong culture in China: thousand-household villages under terraced hills, drum towers and wind-and-rain bridges over rice paddies, and a festival calendar that follows the lunar year. This is slow country. Distances are short on the map and long on the road, and the reward for going gently is genuine contact, not performance.
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