With the 240-hour visa-free transit policy, you can now journey into the heart of Guizhou's mountains to experience a different measure of time – the Dong New Year. Here, there are no grand narratives – only life itself, unfolding in all its vitality. The cooking smoke is its lingering prelude; glutinous rice, its tender memory; the lusheng and the Grand Song of the Dong, its enduring ballad, sung through the ages; the long-table feast, its eternal hearth; and this joyous gathering is the brilliant new voice of that flame, sparkling forth in the present moment.