Thinking of the border line, most people's minds think of solemn and solemn scenes, not far away, soldiers from the two countries holding guns patrol the border line, they all have solemn expressions, and the slightest movement needs to be carefully investigated.
The border has always been a serious and tense topic, after all, this involves the territory of the country, and for a country, the territory is the most important issue, and there is no room for mistakes.
However, there is such a village on the border between China and Myanmar, which is located on the border between China and Myanmar, half belongs to China and half belongs to Myanmar, and the villagers in the village, although they belong to two countries, have lived together for generations.
A strange sight of two villages
This village with one village and two countries is called Yinjing Zhai, located in Ruili City, Yunnan, on the mainland.
Yinjing Village Chinese name is Yinjing, Myanmar name is Mangxiu, in this village where Chinese and Burmese people live together, villagers have lived mixed for generations, and because of the existence of the border line, there is a strange and interesting scene of people's livelihood.
Boundary Pillar No. 71, which represents the border between China and Myanmar, is located in the center of the village in Yinjing Village, and across Boundary Pillar No. 71, there is a yellow cordon drawn on the ground in the middle of the village, which is the border line between China and Myanmar.
In addition to the yellow cordon, most of the border lines in the village are separated by small rivers and iron fences.
Visitors to Yinjingzhai are not allowed to cross this border unless they have a visa, and they face fines if they do not have one.
In the center of the village, there is also a majestic national gate standing there, and the border armed police on duty are constantly patrolling to prevent criminals from trying to cross the border.
Although this border separates the two peoples, the villagers of Yinjingzhai are treated with special treatment by the two countries.
Both China and Myanmar give villagers the right to cross the border freely, and for villagers in their own villages, they may cross the border once in a neighbor's house, and may cross the border several times a day in daily life.
Here, there may be Chinese melon vines that snake into the boundaries of Myanmar, there are hens who cross the yellow line and run to another country to lay eggs, and even the big yellow dog in the village will walk back and forth from the border line throughout the day when walking around.
And the two people in the village have no concern for this, if the melon fruit grows to the side of the border, it will be sent, and if the egg is laid in another country, it will be given away as a gift.
The villagers on both sides have an understanding and tolerant attitude towards these things, and do not have any concern for each other because of the existence of the border, and the relaxed life and attitude make this border so special.
Because the mainland has paid attention to and developed education in recent years, the mainland's basic education facilities are more comprehensive and powerful than Myanmar, so most of the residents in Myanmar near Yinjing Village will choose to let their children cross the border to go to school on the Chinese side of Yinjing Village.
These small international students have been issued priority waiting entry cards, can cross the China-Myanmar border multiple times a day, and they are kindly escorted by the uncle of the armed police when they pass the border.
The school in Yinjing Village not only provides educational conditions for local students, but also provides good educational conditions for neighboring areas of Myanmar, helping some children in Myanmar to get a good education.
The village environment of Yinjing Village has a typical Dai style, full of green trees and flowers, and there are many "one village, two countries" buildings unique to this village.
One tower to the two countries, there is a Buddhist temple called Shwedagon Pagoda in Yinjing Village, this Buddhist temple is modeled on the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar, and is located in Yinjing Village, representing the integration of Chinese and Myanmar cultures in the village.
One bridge and two countries, there is a lover's bridge above the babbling water, and there is a lover's embankment next to the lover's bridge, and the quiet atmosphere is the easiest to feel the reaction of the people around you, which is an excellent place for couples to date.
One well and two countries, this well is on the border, and the pavilion of the well is also inscribed, "Infinite love, drink the water of one well together." "The people of China and Myanmar can live in friendship like brothers and sisters."
One autumn swing two countries, sitting on the border swing, one side facing China, the other side towards Myanmar, sitting on the swing, you can cross the border in a second, and you can also jump back and forth on the border line.
There is also a transnational bridge in Yinjing Village, made of 7,777 pieces of jadeite, of which 7 are the most noble number in Myanmar, and jadeite jade has a different meaning in China since ancient times, and the bridge is worth 7.77 million.
This cross-border bridge is a symbol of China-Myanmar friendship, standing across borders and telling the friendship between the two countries at all times.
The village is composed of villagers
Most of the villagers living in Yinjing Village are Dai people, mixed with a small number of Han and Longneck people.
In Yinjing Village, many of the architectural landscapes have Dai customs, and Dai aunts will walk the streets and alleys to sell some small things with Dai characteristics.
The Longneck is a magical and rare people, and there are only more than two hundred Longnecks left in the world.
There is a custom among the long-necked people that all girls wear a copper ring around their neck and an additional collar around their neck when they are one year older.
As they get older, the girls in the long-necked tribe will have an unusually slender neck, which is beautiful for the aesthetics of this nation, but fatal for these girls.
Because these girls have hung heavy collars around their necks since childhood, for a long time, their necks are actually standing up by collars, and once their own necks are off the collar, they can easily cause neck fractures, causing life danger.
The collar around the neck is actually the same as the ancient Chinese wrapping of small feet, which is a bad habit to damage a woman's body for the sake of extreme aesthetics.
Under the scientific understanding and the popularization of medical common sense, the long-necked people have gradually realized that wearing collars is a bad habit, and are constantly reducing the occurrence of this bad habit.
Because Yinjing Village is a village where China and Myanmar blend, in the village, there are often cases of Sino-Myanmar love and marriage, and all the villagers in Yinjing Village are actually Chinese-Burmese mixed blood.
They grew up in Yinjing Village, and although they were mixed-blood, they were able to travel freely between the two countries that gave birth to and raised them, and did not have to worry about leaving problems.
Yinjing Village promotes exchanges between China and Myanmar
Due to the peculiar scene of "one village, two villages" in Yinjing Village, it has attracted a large number of tourists, and it has gradually become a tourist attraction, which has greatly promoted the local economic development.
Not only Chinese villagers will set up stalls in the village to do some small business, but some Burmese villagers will also come here to set up some stalls.
The unique blend of Chinese and Burmese cultures here combines cultural souvenirs unique to this place, and tourists do not even need to go out to buy Myanmar products.
Because of the prosperity of tourism, the villagers on both sides of Yinjing Village have increased their living income a lot and their lives have become much more comfortable.
At the same time, the boom in tourism has also stimulated the continuous development of the profession of local tour guides.
Because Yinjing Village is designed in China and Myanmar, there are also many architectural fonts in the village that are introduced by two scripts, so if the tour guide is bilingual in Chinese and Burmese, it can also bring tourists a more in-depth explanation of the local culture when introducing Yinjing Village.
This phenomenon has also promoted the learning of Chinese and Burmese dialect Chinese s by local villagers.
In terms of education, the Yinjing Border Primary School, specially built by China, is well-known throughout the country, bringing better basic education to children on both sides of the China-Myanmar border.
In Yinjing Primary School, in order to take care of the students from Myanmar, the school not only learns Chinese, but also teaches Burmese and Dai, and children can communicate with each other in Dai.
At the same time, children from Myanmar enjoy the same treatment, the same teachers, the same advanced teaching equipment, and the same free nutritious meals.
In the process of learning, these children have gradually gained a correct and in-depth understanding of China, and also indirectly promoted the people of Myanmar to come to China for economic and trade activities and promote exchanges between the two countries.
Since the border is in the middle of the village, there is a high probability that the cattle of Chinese villagers will run into the cropfields of Myanmar, which is not a big deal, but it does involve crossing the issue.
In order to solve such things, the village has set up a border dispute mediation team to promote mutual understanding and tolerance, which makes the people of Yinjing Village very harmonious and friendly.
The coexistence between Chinese and Myanmar villagers in Yinjing Village has also promoted the long-term friendly coexistence between China and Myanmar to a large extent.
People from both China and Myanmar can reach the closest contact here, see the most real foreign situation, and feel the most real Sino-Myanmar customs, which greatly promotes the exchanges between China and Myanmar.
The history of the formation of Ginai Village
Gini Village is actually a spectacle in the world, because it is difficult for two countries in the world to trust and accommodate the next village of Gini Village.
The village of Yinjing has been a village for many years, and the villagers have been related to each other for many years, and most of the generations have been related by blood.
According to the practice of most countries, a country that sits on the border such as Yinjing Village will be divided into two, half belonging to China and half to Myanmar, and the two countries will be divided on both sides.
If this is the way to separate the village of Yinjing, then if the villagers want to visit their relatives, walking through the streets will become a very troublesome thing.
Considering the unity of Yinjing Village itself, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, China specially approached Myanmar to negotiate the planning of Yinjing Village. In the end, both sides agreed to maintain the integrity of Gini Village, but a boundary marker was erected in the middle of Gini Village, where the border line was originally located.
The existence of Yinjing Village is the result of the joint efforts of China and Myanmar, and also opens a natural door for friendly cooperation and mutual exchanges between the two countries.
China-Myanmar border
Before its liberation, China's borders with neighboring countries had been problematic due to the deep war and the strong intervention of European and American powers.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, China freed up its hands to negotiate border issues with neighboring countries.
In 1960, China and Myanmar signed a border agreement on the border, which came into force in 1961.
In fact, on this border of more than 2,000 kilometers, there is not only Yinjing Village, a magical place, but also three boundaries on the China-Myanmar border that cannot be defined as belonging to due to various historical problems.
Yinjing Village became a special existence because of the reluctance of this village, which was both a whole village and belonging to two countries, while the other three border issues between China and Myanmar were temporarily shelved due to the inability to agree on the division of ownership.
The three border issues cover three areas, parts of the Wa Mountains, the Southern Bowl Triangle and the area north of the Tsim Gao Mountains.
In 1894, the Wa Mountains were forcibly designated by the British into the Burmese colonial area, and later China took care of itself and had no one to control the area, leaving the Wa Mountains unsupervised and unclaimed for a long time.
Later, the British took the opportunity to send troops to capture this place, but unfortunately, the people at that time resisted fiercely, and the British scheme did not succeed.
After the failure of the British troops, they did not abandon this place, and in 1941, the British took advantage of China's busy resistance to Japanese aggression and cooperated with the Kuomintang to forcibly draw a border in the Wa Mountains, but the two sides did not leave boundary markers here.
It is also because there are no boundary markers left, and it is impossible to determine whether this area belongs to China or Myanmar.
After the conversation, both sides withdrew their troops from the Wa Mountain District, which became a place without jurisdiction for the time being.
The South Bowl Triangle area involves the long-term lease problem during the Republic of China.
Since 1879, the British have forcefully leased the South Bowl Triangle, and it is a permanent lease, but at that time the British did not obtain the ownership of this area, and now Myanmar is no longer under British jurisdiction, but due to the perpetual lease, Myanmar and this area are entangled and need to be sorted out carefully.
At the same time, the issue of perpetual lease in those years also needs to be clearly divided between China and Myanmar.
Around 1911, the British wanted to send troops to occupy a section of the area north of the Jiangao Mountains, but this time the dispatch caused fierce resistance in China.
Due to the fierce resistance of the people this time, Britain had to verbally agree that this area belonged to China, but in fact Britain still forcibly occupied this area for no reason.
After Myanmar's independence, this border area also belongs to the area that needs to be redrawn, but the two sides have not yet decided where the border will be drawn, and can only agree that both sides will withdraw their troops from this area first.
These three disputed territorial divisions between China and Myanmar are all related to Britain, and in China's weak period, Myanmar happens to be a British colony, and shameless powers use various reasons to forcibly occupy Chinese territory, which makes many historical problems difficult to solve when China and Myanmar divide the border in the later period.
It has to be said that Gini Village is fortunate, although this village also involves the demarcation of the border between the two countries, but the countries on both sides have an inclusive attitude towards its wholeness.
The existence of Yinjing Village provides a natural place for close exchanges between China and Myanmar, where the villagers living in it are already a family, and do not deliberately distinguish the nationalities of the two countries in their daily lives.
At the same time, Yinjing Village has also formed a unique cultural landscape because of its unique geographical conditions, and while building a large capacity tourism trade area, the local people can also get the opportunity to obtain a good living condition.
Today, Yinjing Village is already a pillar industry of local tourism, and during the holidays, the daily flow of people in Yinjing Village can reach more than 50,000.
In order to cope with this huge flow of people, the local government has even set up information desks and special passages for tour groups on that border line.
After the outbreak of the epidemic, in order to prevent people from smuggling through Yinjing Village, a large number of iron nets were erected in the center of Yinjing Village, and the iron net was also filled with blades and gill nets.
Since the isolation net was placed, Yinjing Village has returned to its former quietness, and the flow of people on the streets has plummeted, and even the big yellow dogs who often come to visit the door on the other side cannot be seen.
Until 2021, due to the peculiarity of Gini Village, in March, the tourist area of Gini Village was completely closed.
Recently, the domestic epidemic has been basically contained, and after entering the state of opening, the "one village, two countries" tourist attractions have been able to reopen.
The exchanges between the Chinese and Myanmar people in Yinjing Village have once again become lively.
Ginjing Village is special and unlikely to reappear in the world, and its very existence is a friendly symbol of mutual trust between China and Myanmar.
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Author: Li Li
Editor: Monon