[Qianhu Miao Village in Xijiang, Guizhou] It’s really the first time I’ve admired a famous name here to experience the Miao culture at close range. Things that are lively, aura and unique are always very popular.
Since the opening of the high-speed rail from Chongqing to Kaili, the distance has been greatly reduced, so this time I chose the high-speed rail to visit Miao Village instead of driving by myself. This is very easy, because after all, it is only a weekend to go to Qianhu Miao Village in Xijiang, Guizhou For leisure and vacation, if you don’t take long-distance travel in Guizhou, it will be too tiring to drive back and forth for more than 6 hours on one side.
Based on my 2-day experience in Miao Village, I summed up 10 things to do when you come to Qianhu Miao Village in Xijiang, Guizhou, and give you a travel reference.
About transportation and itinerary
Guizhou Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village is located in Leishan County, Guizhou Province. The shortest way to get here from Chongqing is to take the high-speed train to Kaili South Station. Within 3 hours of one-way, the fare is about 200 yuan. Depart from Chongqing in the morning and return to Kaili South Station in the afternoon.
At Kaili South Station, you can take the through train to the scenic spot of Xijiang Miao Village in Guizhou from the passenger station of the tourist distribution center: 35 yuan/person.
There are 6 shifts every day at 09:20 10:30 12:30 14:00 15:10 17:30. According to this shift, it is the most suitable time to go back and buy train tickets. "Good Travel Scenic Spot Through Train" can be purchased online in advance.
Arriving at the entrance of the scenic spot, I was lucky enough to catch up with the welcome ceremony at the village gate in the afternoon.
The welcome at the gate of the village is twelve bars of wine, which is the most solemn etiquette for hospitality in the Miao family, implying blessings. 10:30-12:00 in the morning, 3:00-4:30 in the afternoon. At the north gate of the scenic spot, there are 12 generous tables with young girls covered with silver ornaments in the middle, holding ox horn wine glasses filled with glutinous rice wine; on both sides are men holding awn tubes and reeds, and middle-aged and elderly women in costumes.
When I went there, I caught up with the last time in July 2020 that tickets for scenic spots will not be accepted. From August 1, 2020, the ticket price will return to normal. Private cars are not allowed to enter the Qianhu Miao Village in Xijiang, Guizhou. A single purchase is 5 yuan per time. You can also directly buy tickets + 4-way sightseeing bus = 65 yuan / person pass.
In fact, there are a lot of Miao villages in Guizhou. Qianhu Miao Village in Xijiang, Guizhou is the largest gathering place of Miao people in the whole country and even in the world. The whole village is composed of ten villages connected together. I stayed in Qianhu Miao Village in Xijiang, Guizhou for two nights, and I will tell you from my personal experience what to do in Qianhu Miao Village in Xijiang, Guizhou for two days and two nights.
First things first: get a room with a view
First of all, in Qianhu Miao Village in Xijiang, Guizhou, you need to find a room with a view to sleep, especially at night, the floor-to-ceiling windows are scattered high and low, and the beauty of the prosperous Miao Village with thousands of lights is the capital that Miao Village is famous for.
Therefore, when you come to Qianhu Miao Village in Xijiang, Guizhou, you should try to sleep "higher". Layered, large floor-to-ceiling windows, you can see the spectacular scene of Qianhu Miao Village in the mountains.
The price is cheap, about 200 yuan/night, and you can sleep 2 adults and 1 child.
Basically, all the hotels in Qianhu Miao Village are wooden houses, so they are a little bit humid. The main reason is to choose the ones on the hillside. The ones that can see the whole Miao Village panorama are the most suitable, so you don’t have to choose my hotel, there are many The choice depends on the consumption ability. If you want to choose a better hotel with large French windows on the observation deck where Michelle Yeoh lived, it is also excellent.
The panoramic view of the Miao Village from the floor-to-ceiling windows on the first floor. I actually went to the viewing platform to see the panorama that day, and found that there were so many people, it would be better to look at it comfortably in the room, so how important it is to choose a room with a view.
A fruit platter is delivered to each room every day.
Hotel name: Leishan Xijiang Jiajia Holiday Hotel
Address: On Xijiang Street, Xijiang Town, Leishan
Price: 200-400 yuan/night
The unique stilted buildings are built in the middle of the mountain. Thousands of stilted buildings follow the ups and downs of the terrain.
The second thing: eat a long table banquet and drink a mountain water
Some people say that if you come to Qianhu Miao Village in Xijiang, Guizhou, if you don’t get drunk once, it’s all in vain, so I got drunk to pieces, because of the high mountains and flowing water of the long table banquet.
Food is the most important thing for the people, and the first dinner after settling in Qianhu Miao Village in Xijiang, Guizhou is a characteristic long table banquet + standard "serving" with high mountains and flowing water.
Qianhu Miao Village is now very commercialized, so the dazzling array of shops is the same as that of all ancient towns across the country, selling similar things, so when you come to Qianhu Miao Village in Xijiang, Guizhou, you must experience unique , The high mountains and rivers of the long table banquet are one, so let's get drunk once.
The shore here is one of the main gathering places for the team to experience the long table banquet. The singing and dancing are also extremely lively.
A must-have for long table banquets—fish in sour soup. Experienced people told me that the secret to hangover is to drink two bowls of sour soup after drinking too much, and it will make you feel better. I usually don’t tell others about this. The person who writes travel notes.
The Miaojiagu Tibetan meat with Guizhou characteristics is really fat but not greasy, especially the seasoning in Guizhou is really first-class, and it tastes terrible.
The specialty of Guizhou is hot and sour, which is deeply loved by women in Chongqing. I have never heard of a Chongqing woman who doesn’t like Guizhou food.
Three flavors of Miao family: fragrant
This is really a super meal.
Here comes the terrible Guizhou rice wine, the culprit that made me break.
Here's an episode: After I went back to the room and lay down, my friend went out to the bar for a drink or two. The next day she told me that she saw at least 4 puddles of vomit on the way back. Thinking about my feat of getting drunk that night, Qianhu Miao Village in Xijiang, Guizhou is really a place where people have to get drunk.
The Miao girls know how to interact with tourists, especially the male tourists. They will also feed the tourists meat, tofu and other dishes between toasts, but they will not let the tourists eat the tofu/meat easily. Once they are fed for 3 If you don't eat it for the first time, you will continue to drink as a fine.
In the folk song of the Miao girls "drink it whether you like it or not", I have no experience, I drink as much as they pour, gulp for 1 minute +, they all say that you should not open your mouth and swallow too quickly, If you can't drink and shut up, the wine will overflow the bowl and fall all over your neck, and the Miao girl will be able to judge that you can't drink, so she will pour less and more slowly. I don't sprinkle a drop, I just drink it.
I really love the sour soup series. The next day I came to Impression Miaojia Restaurant to continue eating the secret sour soup fish.
Apart from fish in sour soup, the most famous dish of this restaurant is honey garlic pork ribs. Eat it while it is hot, it is tender, crispy, and very fragrant. It is really delicious.
Guizhou rice tofu is also worth eating.
Miaojia Sanwei
Stir-fried Bacon with Folded Ear Roots
Crispy Minced Meat
This is a fried bug, high in protein, do you dare to eat it! ?
When you come to Guizhou for dinner, there is a red egg in front of everyone, which is a good sign of good luck.
This is also the characteristic sour soup of Miao Village in Guizhou. A large pot of vegetarian dishes is boiled together, which is very appetizing.
Restaurant: Impression Miaojia Restaurant
Address: Ancient Street, Qianhu Miao Village Scenic Area, Xijiang (opposite to the gate of Gage Ancient Lane)
Consumption: 100 yuan / person
The third thing: wear Miao costumes once
I really like Miao costumes, they look good, and they jingle and make a pleasant sound when walking. When you come here, you must wear Miao women's clothing once to be perfect.
The Miao nationality is a nation without writing, so clothes have become their unique history books.
Miao costumes are mainly women's clothing. There are more than 130 kinds of Miao costumes in Southeast Guizhou, which is the area with the most types and best preservation of Miao costumes in my country and the world, and is known as the "Miao Costume Museum".
In Yu Qiuyu's words: "Answer everything with beauty", the moment I put on the Miao costume, I thought so!
In Qianhu Miao Village in Xijiang, Guizhou, there are a lot of merchants who can rent clothes, so I won’t go into details here. But since I came, I chose the most solemn and heaviest outfit.
Leishan Miao costumes are colorful and silver ornaments, which are one of the most beautiful and beautiful costumes in the world today. It can be said that there are sayings from the ones worn on the head to the ones worn on the hands. Heavy is heavy, beauty is really beautiful.
There are 7 wind and rain bridges in the entire Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village, which has also become the best place for dressing up and shooting.
The only male companion also changed into Miao costumes under our 'threat'. Male Miao costumes are much simpler than women's costumes
The fourth thing: visit the home of King Miao
In the past, people with more status lived higher in Miao villages. Therefore, King Miao lives in Guzangtang, the peak of the mountain in Qianhu Miao Village in Xijiang.
What we call "Miao Wang" is actually "Gu Zangtou".
When I went there, Gu Zangtou was dressed in casual clothes. He was in charge of the sacrifices of the Miao people and took care of the bronze-patterned holy drum. He was not only a living history of the Miao people, but also a primary school teacher. .
On the upper floor of the Miao Caotang is Mr. Tang's own private museum, which contains many artifacts and historical origins of the Miao nationality.
Miao Wang is generally the honorific title of the leader of the Miao tribe in history. The so-called Miao Wang is the monarch and the ruler. In the clan, the tribe is the leader. The so-called King Miao is the leader of the Miao people.
Guzangtou is hereditary. In Xijiang Miao Village, all generations of Guzangtou were produced in the Tang family and passed down to the youngest son.
Then walk down from the top of the mountain along the way, the ancient history of Miao Village and the fusion traces of fresh blood along the way.
The fifth thing: Watching a performance in Miao Village
When you come to Qianhu Miao Village in Xijiang, Guizhou, you can watch the original ecological singing and dancing performance "Beautiful Xijiang" in the village. There are 2 performances a day, and the time is about 1 hour. —One game at 22:00. The Miao nationality is known as "the world of song, the ocean of dance".
The Miao people really love to drink, and they started the official performance with a domineering high mountain and flowing water!
Ticket price: 100 yuan/person, 80 yuan/person. There are mainly folk songs and dances and instrumental music performances, which are very local. The original ecological "Beautiful Xijiang" song and dance party at night is from 20:30 to 22:00, and the ticket price is more expensive than during the day.
My favorite part is the group walk at the end of the show. Gathered all the authentic aborigines in the entire Qianhu Miao Village. These mothers-in-law and grandpas are small in size, wearing Miao costumes and walking around. After the performance, each person will receive a ticket, which represents how many performances they have participated in this month, and the bill will be settled according to the number of votes at the end of the month. Then there is no need to go to the backstage to change clothes, just wear the beautiful Miao family costumes and walk out of the performance field with our tourists. The feeling of going back to each house is really very lifelike.
Venue: "Beautiful Xijiang" performance venue
Duration: Day session: 1 hour; Night session: 1.5 hours
Ticket price: matinee: A: 80 yuan / person B: 100 yuan / person
Night show: VIP: 160 A: 130 yuan / person B: 110 yuan / person
Sixth thing: learn batik once
In this impetuous era, it is so rare to have such a short time, throwing away the mobile phone and doing one thing wholeheartedly. In Qianhu Miao Village, Xijiang, Guizhou, I am very grateful that I gave myself a short time within 2 hours to experience an intangible cultural heritage. The charm of the project - handmade batik.
Batik is an ancient folk traditional textile printing and dyeing handicraft in my country. Batik, known as wax in ancient times, is known as the three major printing techniques in ancient my country together with twisting (tie-dyeing) and clipping (hollow printing). Batik is to use a wax knife dipped in melted wax to paint flowers on the cloth and then dip them in indigo. After dyeing and removing the wax, the cloth surface shows various patterns of white flowers on a blue background or blue flowers on a white background.
Pay attention: Miao women of different ages wear different hair accessories on their heads.
I also never expected that I actually chose the most difficult painting in batik. Painting is not difficult for me, but the waxing behind it is miserable...
The pattern I chose really surprised me at first sight, it was so beautiful, so I prepared to challenge it without hesitation.
First trace the pattern on the cloth with a pencil.
The second step is to apply wax. Put the white cloth flat on the table, the beeswax is boiling hot in the metal pot, be careful not to burn yourself, dip the wax with a copper knife, and the white part of the painting I got is where I need to apply wax.
Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village paints here, 68 yuan per person, and the finished product will be mailed home. What a great feeling to sit at home with a DIY product!
The dyeing and waxing part is done by the clerk for us, time is limited, we are going to watch the night show, you have worked hard,,,
Gage means small alley in Miao language. This "unremarkable" alley is located in the ancient street near No. 1 Fengyu Bridge. There are hidden Miao embroidery, wine making, batik, handmade paper, Xijiang Laoyinzhuang, Leigong camellia, ancient song hall and other intangible cultural heritage and characteristic crafts, etc.
Address: Inside Gage Ancient Alley
Seventh thing: Watch "Xijiang Grand Ceremony"
The "Xijiang Grand Ceremony", which only started in 2019, is actually not in the Qianhu Miao Village in Xijiang, Guizhou. It takes about 40 minutes by car to the Datang Scenic Spot in Leishan County, so you have to leave early in the afternoon. "Xijiang Grand Ceremony" is the first large-scale real-scene performance of the Miao nationality in the country.
It was the first performance after catching up with the epidemic, and the scene was really packed, and the tourism craze is back!
The whole play consists of five acts: "Prologue·Ode", "Ancestor·Hero", "Soul·Trek", "Dream·Homeland" and "End·Song". It tells the history of the Miao family's persistent pursuit of a happy homeland. It is said that the total investment is 360 million. I am really curious about the effect of the performance that spent so much money. The circular ground screen of 5,000 square meters and the super large circular screen composed of eight scenery pieces are really expensive.
The main myths and legends of the Miao nationality come from "Ancient Songs of the Miao Nationality", which is an oral literature about the Miao people's daily life, which is sung by wizards or singers during marriages, funerals and sacrifices. "Xijiang Grand Ceremony" is exactly this mythical stage play about the suffering history of the Miao ancestors from the creation of the world to migration, war, and fighting against flood demons, and finally to prosperity.
On the whole, the visual effect is great, and the content is almost empathetic. When the large-scale installation "Bull's Head" came out, it was still very visually impactful.
In addition, when the circular curtain was opened and the real Miao village on the mountain behind was illuminated by the huge lotus lamp, I had goosebumps.
All the stories are displayed visually, including "Bronze Drum Show", "Miao Standing Pan", "Yilang", "Golden Light and Silver Falling" and other Miao customs. The visuals are definitely done well!
There are also mechanical iron flowers ⬇️ What you burn is money
"Xijiang Grand Ceremony" shows the three major dances of the Miao nationality: copper drums, wood drums, and Lusheng dance; New Festival, Guzang (Miao Nian) Festival; three major competitions: bullfighting, cockfighting, and birdfighting; three traditional handicrafts: silver ornaments, batik, embroidery, etc.
In the end, it was still a big walk for all actors + aborigines. I also saw these lovely aborigines mothers-in-law and grandpas walking around in circles. In the end, they didn’t need to change clothes, they just walked out in costumes, and they also walked out of the performance venue and went back to their homes with all our audience.
If you are traveling by car, you can find a restaurant called "Liu Fu Yaweixuan" in Leishan County where "Xijiang Festival" is located, and have a wild duck soup pot. Before entering the door, you can smell the spicy and spicy roast duck.
There are also small fish caught in the river that are really soft enough to be eaten directly after being deep-fried, which is very good. It's nice to have a quick lunch here before seeing a show.
Store name: Liufu Duck Restaurant
Address: 50 meters west of the intersection of Leigongshan Avenue and Majiatun Road
Eighth thing: eat a night barbecue
Qianhu Miao Village in Xijiang, Guizhou is a small city that never sleeps. When we returned to Qianhu Miao Village after watching "Xijiang Grand Ceremony", it was already 23:30. The dark mountain road along the way makes people drowsy, but once you enter the Qianhu Miao Village in Xijiang, Guizhou, it is a completely different look. Restaurants, small shops, and bars are all open, and the bustling crowds in the ancient town are still shopping and eating, without any sign of falling asleep. I can't imagine that this time is near the early morning, just like the lights at seven or eight o'clock in the evening after dinner Bright and lively.
You can choose to listen to the soulful singing of the resident singer in the bar, or you can choose to have a supper at the barbecue street in Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village.
When I came to this food stall called "Xijiang No. 1 Roast", there are a variety of varieties, really everything, such as pig's trotters, scallops, rice noodles, crayfish, screws...
Meat dishes are 6 yuan, vegetarian dishes are 3 yuan, and special types are charged separately.
In Xijiang's barbecue, eating meat is not the focus, but drinking is the key.
Even the dog couldn't help but fell asleep at my feet, and the people in Xijiang still haven't stopped...
Shop Name: Xijiang First Burn
Address: Barbecue Street next to Fengyu Bridge, No. 2, Xijiang Town
Ninth thing: Beef powder for breakfast
The breakfast of Qianhu Miao Village in Xijiang, Guizhou is of course a bowl of Guizhou beef rice noodles to start a full day. In the scenic area, if you choose a rice noodle shop at random, there is not much difference between delicious and bad.
People in the south cannot do without a bowl of noodles all year round, and Guizhou is even more "a big province of noodles". Although I, as a native of Chongqing, love Chongqing noodles very much, Guizhou rice noodles are really god-like. I dare say that there is no city in China that does not have "Guizhou mutton noodles" shops! ?
Buy another 10 yuan/piece fire ginseng fruit, perfect morning.
The tenth thing: choose a silver jewelry
There is a well-known silversmith village in Xijiang, where the Miao people’s silver ornaments are all handmade, so if there is a woman who doesn’t like beauty, choose a silver ornament for yourself.
Different Langde Miao Village
Before going back home, I came to another Miao Village in Kaili - Langde Miao Village. This ancient village is really a Miao village full of aboriginal people. It is very original. It is a Miao village with a hundred families, 27 kilometers away from Kaili City.
At 10:30 in the morning, the whole village, old and young, greets guests with twelve bars of wine at the door, which is the highest etiquette of Miao people's welcome etiquette. Twelve means a large number in the Miao nationality, 12 months in a year, in 12 base. The typical twelve zodiac signs were first used as the name of the month. It is the relic of twelve powerful totem clans in ancient times who formulated a calendar for the needs of farming and rice cultivation, and took turns observing the astrology on the moon.
Even the children in the village learned how to play, play, and sing early on, and they came out to greet the tourists.
Compared with the Qiangu Miao Village in Xijiang, Guizhou, this place is indeed much more primitive and simple. Basically, there are no merchants moving in, and all are self-reliant portal operations of the aborigines. Therefore, it is very quiet here, very quiet, and people who like quietness should like it more.
Villagers performing in the performance field will sit on stone benches to rest when it is not their turn.
Every villager has his own job. After the performance, he has to go back to work, cook and live. I saw with my own eyes a mother-in-law who took the key to open the door of the family planning office after the performance, went in and continued to work, it was very cute.
The host is also an aboriginal villager.
Langde Miao Village is divided into Shanglangde and Xialangde. Shanglangde Miao Village is the one we visit the most, and it is also the representative of Langde Miao Village. Langde Miao Village is the only place where the Olympic flame passed.
After the performance, I wanted to eat ice powder. I saw a shop selling it. I went in and saw that the owner was an aborigine who had just danced. It was noon after the performance. He rushed back to make food for the two children and us. Ice powder, every villager is a slash villager.
Some children who were too young performed and danced to coax them. After the end, the mother will hand her child a bottle of Wahaha as a reward, hahaha
Every aborigine here is very suitable for shooting blockbuster portraits.
Langde Miao Village has a history of more than 640 years. There are Fengyu Bridge, Tongguping performance venue, Miao Village Museum, and Yang Daliu’s former residence. However, half of these attractions are worth seeing, and the most distinctive ones are still the aborigines themselves.
Because of the small flow of people here, wearing brightly colored clothes is very suitable for shooting large characters with small bridges and flowing water:
Lusheng performance, Miao traditional musical instruments and traditional music.
I also ran down to participate in the last lap tradition. I like the tranquility and original ecology here.
People who prefer to be quiet can also choose to live with the authentic aboriginal people in Langde Miao Village for two or three days to experience their most simple life.
I ate a super authentic fish in sour soup here, and the seasoning is in the middle of the sour soup pot. The small fish was caught in the river the night before. It is very fresh. I have never eaten such a tender small fish.
Attractions: Langde Miao Village
Price: 60 yuan/person, sightseeing car 5 yuan/person
Address: Langde Town
Transportation: Buy tickets at Kaili Bus Station to Langde Town, 60min/10 yuan
After my weekend tour back to Chongqing, I also want to use Yu Qiuyu's words to describe my trip - Miao Village style is really "answer everything with beauty", I like it very much.