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China's "last cave dwellers" |
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posted by Genevi
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Friday, 16 February 2007 |
Article by Ben Blanchard
'Wang's village of Zhongdong -- which literally means "middle cave" -- is built in a huge, aircraft hanger-sized natural cave, carved inside a mountain over thousands of years by wind, water and seismic shifts.'
'In other parts of China people live in houses tunneled out of hillsides, but Zhongdong is, the local government believes, the last place in the country where people live year-round in a naturally occurring cave.
The villagers are all ethnic Miao people, supposedly related to Southeast Asia's Hmong, and one of several minority groups who live in Guizhou.' (full article on Reuters | also on China Daily)
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last updated ( Friday, 04 January 2008 )
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