Hello, in the past, I had a theory about the Miao Village, if the action was supposed to take place in the south of China, it might not be the Great Wall of the North, but the Great Wall of the South , which would serve the story, where we can see Ryo in the middle and another character in the shadow of another higher building. If there were remains of ruined walled fortifications on one side of the Miao Village, could this corroborate a part of this foundings, please ?
Towards the end of the reign of the MING Dynasty in the early 17th century (1573-1619) Emperor WANLI distributed 40000 pieces of silver to the governors of the provinces of HUNAN and GUIZHOU (pronounced KUEÏ-CHOU which means Noble Prefecture) so that be built by the local HAN people... the Great Southern Wall (not as important as the Great Wall of the North) on the site of ancient forests where Tigers and Leopards roamed...
This 125-mile long wall punctuated with 800 observation towers guarded by nearly 7,000 soldiers crossed these 2 Provinces, half of which between the hills and valleys of FENG-HUANG County meant to protect the local populations from the MIAO ethnic uprisings fulfilling the role assigned to...
On one side were the MIAOS who had suffered and accepted the Yoke of HAN assimilation in general and on the other hand, those who had struggled to keep their Minority Status using primitive Weapons that had become the symbol of their insubordinate face to the oppression of which they were always the Victims...
The remains of these Fortifications have practically disappeared following the many wars...
Today, only half of these towers remain in various states of dilapidation... following their uses, just like the Fortress as places of squats, commerce, games, and more recently shooting movies, destroying these supposed Relics from a bygone Nationalist era...
The last forests were destroyed and burned between 1958 and 1960 and did not grow again...
During the decade of 1966/1976, the Cultural Revolution wreaked havoc on the City Architecture of this picturesque District where everything that was synonymous with Ancient Heritage such as Temples, Sculptures, Ancestral Sanctuaries, stalls, Medicine Books were destroyed by the Red Guards terrifying Residents committed to destroy all traces of family property, burning furniture, anticipating by these facts the arrival of the Communist Youth filled with Popular Fanatics, to make "Clean slate ... of the past"!
As time went by, HAN soldiers dispatched to defend the area married MIAO Women, from whom some of these MIAO farmers came who, through generations, had worked to dismantle the fortifications by using stones to make their Houses and Wood. for the Barriers of their fields as much as they finally made efforts sometimes to strengthen it around the Fortifications of former Military Camps to create Villages with martial-like, even after the War...!?!