Mysterious stone house on the cliff | Rural life of villagers in China’s cliff village

There is a special village in Daliang Mountain, Sichuan Province, China. The village is surrounded by precipitous cliffs. This village can enter and exit the road is only a ladder made of rattan. And this rattan ladder is more than eight hundred meters long. Every year, people in the village are injured or even die because of climbing the ladder. The local government is ready to set aside a piece of land for the villagers of the cliff village to live. Let them move away from that dangerous place. However, some people in the village refused. Because their ancestors have been living here for generations. For them, this place is the root. They did not want to abandon their roots. Since the villagers did not want to move out. The government had to find another way. In the end, 630 million yuan was spent to improve the lives of the villagers. The ladders made of rattan were replaced with stronger iron ladders.
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