#Land Tour, Guizhou Qiandongnan #Xijiang Miao Village: Appreciate different ethnic customs
Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village is a place that preserves the integrity of the "original ecology" culture of the Miao people, and is connected by more than 10 natural villages built by the mountains, which is the largest Miao village at present, and is a place to appreciate and understand the long cultural and historical development of the Miao people in China. In particular, the annual Miao New Year Festival, the New Eating Festival, and the 13-year-old Tibetan Festival are all famous all over the world, and have become a grandstand for watching and studying the traditional culture of the Miao people.
Xijiang Miao Village is mainly inhabited by the "West" clan of the Miao people, with a profound Miao cultural heritage, Miao architecture, clothing, silver jewelry, language, food, traditional customs are well preserved. In the past, the Xijiang Miao people wore robes, headscarves and headkerchiefs, and the color was black, so they were called "black seedlings", also known as "long skirt seedlings". The language of Xijiang Miao belongs to the northern sub-dialect of the central dialect of the Miao branch of the Miao Yao language group of the Sino-Tibetan language family, and the text used here is the general Chinese language, although the Chinese language is an essential language tool for the Xijiang Miao people to communicate with the outside world, but the language communication between the Miao people still uses the traditional Miao language, which is also one of the important representatives of southeast Guizhou.
Miao village song and dance is a major feature of the Miao people. Every morning and afternoon, there is a national song and dance program performed by the local Miao compatriots, the Miao people themselves perform the song and dance program with local colors, gorgeous costumes, cheerful songs and dances and beautiful love stories can make you know more about the cultural customs of the Miao people.
The building of Xijiang Thousand Miao Village is mainly wooden stilted building, which is a bucket-type hilltop structure. There are two types of flat stilted buildings and sloped stilted buildings, which are generally three-storey four-room or five-room four-room structures. The ground floor is used to store production tools, keep poultry and livestock, store fertilizer or use as a toilet. The second floor is used as a living room, a hall, a bedroom and a kitchen, and the outside of the hall house is built with a unique "beauty leaning", which is called "step" in Miao language, which is mainly used for cooling, embroidery and rest, which is a major feature of Miao architecture. The third layer is mainly used to store grain, feed and other production and living materials. Xijiang Miao stilted building originated from the southern ganlan architecture of the ancient residents, using the combination of multiple structures such as rectangle, triangle and diamond to form a three-dimensional space network system, which is integrated with the surrounding green mountains and green waters and pastoral scenery, harmonious and unified, complementing each other, and is a living fossil of ancient Chinese residential buildings; It has high aesthetic value in architecture, etc. Shangliang's greetings and house songs have a strong Miao religious and cultural color, and are important bearers of Miao traditional culture.
In order to improve the feng shui conditions of the villages and facilitate the lives of residents, most Miao villages have built wind and rain bridges near the villages to store air and protect them from the wind and rain. There used to be wind and rain wooden bridges in Xijiang, mainly including the Pingzhai wind and rain bridge leading to Ouga from Pingzhai and the Nanshou wind and rain bridge that locked the feng shui of the entire Xijiang Dazhai in Nangui Village. Because it is a wooden structure, it has been repaired several times and then washed away by floods. In 2008, there are five wind and rain bridges built in Xijiang, which are the bow cement wind and rain bridge connecting Dazhai and Xijiang Middle School, the main road No. 1 bow cement wind and rain bridge, connecting the No. 2 and No. 4 bow cement wind and rain bridge opposite Dazhai, and connecting the Nangui bow cement wind and rain bridge, because the construction of the previous wind and rain bridge is an all-wood structure, it is easy to be washed away by the flood, and the wind and rain bridge built now adopts a mixed structure of cement and wood, which makes the solidity of the wind and rain bridge and the ability to resist floods greatly increased.
Leishan Miao costume is a wonderful garden of Miao costumes, its exquisite embroidery skills and dazzling silver jewelry, so that Chinese and foreign experts and scholars admired. The Miao people of different branches and regions in Leishan retain their different styles according to the different wearing customs, which is the so-called "ten miles of different winds, one hundred miles of different customs". Leishan Miao costumes are the most representative of Xijiang Town, Danjiang Town, Changpi Village, Yemeng Village, Gongtong Village and Fangxiang Village. Miao costumes with its unique art form to record and spread the Miao people's long-standing culture, it is the history of the nation, the inheritance of national culture, strengthen the national cohesion and the implementation of social education for future generations of the form of expression, become the expression of the various life content and historical process of the direct carrier, this is "a history book worn on the body", it is really worth people to taste and interpret.
Boiled fish is a famous dish of Miao family, that is, fresh carp is boiled in sour soup. Miao people like to use tender corn or bamboo shoot shells and rice soup in the jar to cover the sour soup into a sour soup, use the sour soup to cook fish umbrella meat, or with chili peppers, salt soaked rice to eat, appetizing and help digestion. It is said that the Miao family often measures the wealth of a family by the amount of swelling acid. The breast fish is cut and washed fresh fish, kneaded with salt and chili powder, baked until semi-dry, fermented in a sealed jar, and steamed when eating. Grilled fish with lemongrass is also very famous, the fresh fish with the size of the palm is cut and washed, mixed into a sauce with green onions, ginger, garlic, chili, pepper, oil, salt, etc., stuffed into the belly of the fish, wrapped in lemongrass, baked over a simmer, the skin is yellow and the bones are crispy, and it has a unique flavor. Most of the Miao people can make chili bones, which can be used as a meal or as a seasoning. It is made by fermenting pork bones, chili peppers, ginger, salt, rice wine, etc. Fresh and spicy, sweet and crispy, the fragrance tends to be depressed. The Miao family is also good at making bean drums, tofu, enema, noodle sauce, etc. Delicious hot pot, every time there is a good product, a small pot must be set up, put in vegetables, meat, tofu, etc., and dip it in chili brine while shabu-shabu to eat. #Land Trip Guizhou#
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