The village covers a total land area of 18.5 square kilometers and a cultivated area of more than 1,400 mu (about 0.93 square kilometers), with 1,222 people in 286 households. It’s 35.7 kilometers away from Guzhang County and 44 kilometers away from Jishou City. Zhongzhai Village is a typical Miao village.
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The residential buildings in Zhongzhai Village are built with typical Miao characteristics, all of which are wooden structure, boasting distinctive characteristics of Xiangxi residential buildings like stilted buildings, corner buildings and swallow houses. A large number of residential buildings are concentrated and well preserved.
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The Ganqiu Festival in Zhongzhai Village falls on Start of Autumn every year. The Miao people in the surrounding areas dress up to sing Miao songs and play Miao drums to celebrate the harvest.
In particular, young men and women gather from all directions to find true love of their life and give each other keepsakes, so as to get married.
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It has played a positive role in carrying forward China’s long traditional culture and enhancing national cohesion. Its natural scenery and humanistic culture are well preserved. It’s a settlement cultural landscape with perfect combination of human spirit and natural environment. It has strong reference value for the study of modern architectural environment and settlement layout, and has strong ornamental value as well as development and utilization value.