Durante la permanenza a 肇兴 (Zhàoxīng) andammo a fare una gita in un altro villaggio 侗 (Dòng) ancora più sperduto, di nome 堂安 (Táng’ān); altitudine circa 1000 metri.
All’ingresso del villaggio c’è un albero con davanti una lapide di pietra la quale riporta la seguente iscrizione:
约翰.杰斯特龙树
约翰.杰斯特龙树简介
约翰.杰斯特龙是世界著名的生态博物馆学家。1952出生于挪威王国的图顿。他是中挪文化合作项目贵州生态博物馆群的科学顾问。为堂安生态博物馆的建设，他不远万里，曾于1995年、2000年两次到堂安进行科学考察，倾注了心血。约翰.杰斯特龙先生尊重侗族人民的风俗习惯，热爱侗族文化，受到了侗族人民的衷心爱戴和诚挚欢迎。2001年4月6日，他在俄罗斯西伯利亚从事研究工作时心脏病突发，猝然去世。他的逝世,是中挪文化合作项目的重大损失。
为了纪念达位国际有人,堂安侗族人民于2002年植下了这棵杉树并称之为”约翰.杰斯特龙树”。The tree of Joan Jest
“A Brief introduction of Joan Jest”
Mr. Joan jest was born in 1952 at Tulin Norway and grown to a famous eco-museologist. As the scientific consultant of the Sino-Norwegian cooperative eco-museum in Guizhou province, he twice made light of traveling of thousand miles to Tang’An for the research and construction of the Eco-museum in the years of 1995 and 2000. On April 6 2001, as the heavy loss of the Sino-Norwegian cooperative projects, he unexpectedly died from cardiovascular disease when he was researching in Siberia of Russia.
Being esteemed with Dong ethnic custom and lifestyle, joan Jest had a deep love of Dong ethnic culture, and was enthusiastically welcomed to Dong villages.
He had devoted his energy for the construction of Tang’an eco-museum.
To commemorate the international friend Mr. Joan Jest the Dong people of Tang’an planted this Chinese fir in 2002 and named it as “The Tree of Joan Jest”.
Ho anche scovato su internet delle foto del signor Jest:
La seconda foto però ritrae Joan in compagnia di una ragazza non 侗 ma 长角发苗 (cháng jiǎo fā miáo) “Long horned Miao” (link).
Questa minoranza vive sempre nella provincia del 贵州 (Guìzhōu), a nord-ovest, ma non so esattamente dove.