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Bamei is a village located in the northern part of
Guangnan County Guangnan County (; Zhuang languages, Zhuang: ) is located in Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan province, China. The seat of Guangnan, known today as Liancheng (), was the heart of the Gouding Kingdom () that lasted approximat ...
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Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture is an autonomous prefecture in southeastern Yunnan Province, People's Republic of China, and is the easternmost prefecture-level division of the province. It borders Baise, Guangxi, to the east, Vie ...
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Yunnan Yunnan; is an inland Provinces of China, province in Southwestern China. The province spans approximately and has a population of 47.2 million (as of 2020). The capital of the province is Kunming. The province borders the Chinese provinces ...
province, China. The name Bamei is from the language of Zhuang nationality, which means “cave in the forest” . It is said that the ancestors of the villagers escaped to this isolated place because of war. The village is surrounded by mountains so the traffic is inconvenient. There are two natural limestone karst tunnel out of the village, the villagers have to go inside or outside through a few kilometers by boat. Due to its remoteness position so it is difficult to contact with the outside world,. Bamei is isolated with the outside world, which is known as” the land of idyllic beauty”. Because of its isolation, the villagers still used ancient farming tools just as wooden plow harrow and homemade water tankers. They produce clothes from own cotton, make fire to cook, live a self-sufficiency life. The population of Bamei is very small. In the 1950s, there were only more than 30 households. Over the past few decades, now the village population is only 600 people, but every year the village attracts 200 thousand visitors come to travel. Not only for the village all around the unique Karst landforms but also because the village maintained their original way of life.Chen C. Xanadu——Bamei, an unexpected legend ''Chinese Photographer'', 2013, (10): 167.ISSN:1003-7233


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