TangAn Dong Ethnic Eco-Museum
The Sino-Norway cooperative 'TangAn Dong Ethnic Eco-museumhas no particular building but extends the focus to the whole village and the surrounding environment.
The eco-museum displays for visitors the terraced fields, the village gates, the local style houses, the drum tower, the roofed bridge, the theatre stage, the ancient graves, the well, the Sasui altor, and the lifestyle of the villagers.
The information center
The information center of the 'TangAn Dong Ethnic Eco-museum' at the top of the village holds the most comprehensive collection of Dong cultural information in the community.
Highly recommend you to go the information center for a visit, they have the best text introduction of the Dong Ethnic Culture in this area. The house is closed with a huge lock, you can find the mobile phone number on the door, telephone a young man to open the door for you. He might be working in the rice paddies nearby, you might walk around the village while you are waiting.
Why is the Dong Ethnic Eco-Museum in TangAn?
For establishing a Dong ethnic eco-museum, cultural experts from China and Norway chose the village Tang’ an after their detailed analysis and research among a series of Dong villages.
As a representative region, TangAn's ethnic culture factors can be found at Luoxiang, Longtu, Guandong of Congjiang County, GaoAn of Sanjiang County, Guangxi autonomous region, Bayang of Tongdao, Hunan Province, and other Dong people's territory, covering over an area of 100 square km, and a population of 180,000. To be a community, her neighboring villages including Zhaoxing, Xiage, Chengge, Jilun, Jitang, Denggang, Dengjiang and Upper Diping, with an area of more than 100 square km and a population of 10,000, to 10,000 possess a same style of ethic culture.
It's obvious that TangAn is the epitome of all Dong villages around the south dialect region of Dong nationality. It is clear that the eco-museum at TangAn should gain a special Signification of entirely protecting Dong ethnic culture and developing the local social economy.
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