Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village is located in the northeast of Leishan County, Guizhou Province. It is a place that preserves the "primitive ecology" culture of the Miao nationality. It is composed of more than 10 natural villages built on the mountain. It is currently the largest in China and even in the world. The Miao people live in concentrated villages. The tourist bus can only be parked in the parking lot outside the village, and we walked into the village.
This is the earliest preserved Miao village archway, and the six golden characters of "Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village" are engraved on the forehead. "Thousands of Miao Village" means a large number of households, and "Xijiang" is a place name, but it is not a concept of geographical location in the usual sense. This starts with the history of the Miao nationality.
More than 5,000 years ago, the Jiuli tribe had a long battle with the Yandi and Huangdi tribes that were advancing eastward and southward. The Jiuli tribe headed by Chi You was defeated in the Zhuolu area. In the end, Chi You was captured and killed by Huang Di. During the Warring States Period, when Qin destroyed Chu, some Miao people left their hometowns and traveled westward to enter the Wuxi area of Wuling Mountain, forming the famous "Wuling Barbarians" in history. During the Western Han Dynasty, this part of the ancestors of the Miao nationality developed rapidly here, forming a force that competed with the Han Dynasty.
The Miao nationality has a long history. In the long history, the ancestors of the Miao nationality have had several major migrations, from the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River to the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and were forced to migrate to the southwest and northwest. During several great migrations, the Miao people split into different branches, and the "Xi Clan" is one of them. Before the Xi Clan arrived in Xijiang, the "Shang Clan" of the Miao people already lived here. After discussion, the Xi Clan settled down in Xijiang. "Xi" in Xijiang refers to the Xi clan, and "Jiang" in the Miao language means "discussion", that is, Xijiang is the place where the "Xi" clan begged from the "Shang" clan.
Walking into the beautiful Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village, it is surrounded by mountains on all sides, and there are many mountains and hills, with terraced fields directly reaching the sky. The three sides are slightly curved. Diaojiaolou is a traditional building of Miao nationality. Layers of Diaojiaolou are built on the mountain, stretching into pieces, and a river passes through the village.
The terrain of Qianhu Miao Village in Xijiang is a typical river valley, and the clear Baishui River passes through the village. The main body of the Miao Village is located on the slope of the valley on the northeast side of the river. For thousands of years, the compatriots of the Miao nationality in Xijiang have been farming here at sunrise and resting at sunset. They have opened up a large area of terraced fields in the upper reaches of Miao Village, forming a farming culture and pastoral scenery.
The Baishui River ring passes through the middle of the Miao village, dividing the village into two halves.
In the center of the Qianhu Miao Village in Xijiang, there is a Dong drum performance field, which is the place where traditional songs and dances of the Miao people are performed. There is a performance at 11:30 am and 5 pm every day.
The costumes of the Miao nationality are diverse and colorful, known as "history books without words" and "history embroidered on clothes". When traveling to Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village, beautiful girls and aunts rushed to choose their favorite costumes and borrow a set. Hey, once they put on Miao girl costumes and crowns, they are really beautiful.
Ladies and gentlemen, please take a picture with a set of Miao costumes. When you come to Xijiang Miao Village in Guizhou, no matter men, women or children, you must wear a set of Miao costumes to take pictures and feel the national culture.
The Miao buildings in Qianhu Miao Village in Xijiang are mainly wooden stilted buildings with a bucket-shaped roof structure. There are two types of stilted buildings on flat ground and sloping stilted buildings, which are generally three-story four-story three-room or five-story four-room structures. The bottom layer is used to store production tools, keep poultry and livestock, store fertilizer or use it as a toilet. The second floor is used as the living room, main room, bedroom and kitchen. On the outside of the main room, there is a unique "beauty leaning", which is called "step breath" in Miao language. It is mainly used for enjoying the shade, embroidery and rest, which is a major feature of Miao architecture. The third layer is mainly used to store production and living materials such as grain and feed.
The stilted buildings of the Miao people in Xijiang originated from the southern stilt-style buildings of the ancient residents. The combination of multiple structures such as rectangles, triangles, and rhombuses forms a three-dimensional space network system, which is integrated with the surrounding green mountains, green waters, and pastoral scenery. , is a living fossil of ancient Chinese residential buildings; it has high aesthetic value in architecture and other aspects.
The village is full of small roads paved with bluestone slabs, with some shops on both sides, selling some snacks and souvenirs of the Miao nationality. Wherever you see, there are mostly old people, with traces of time on their faces, and slightly vicissitudes of life. The story of time.
In the Xijiang Quanyang Restaurant on the old street, a wedding banquet is being held, and the guests are drinking wedding wine around a square table.
When the relatives who came to the wedding banquet leave, the host will give them a piece of meat and a jar of wine.
It feels more commercial, and the people who come and go are young tourists wearing Miaojia silver clothes and busy taking pictures.
Walking along the Miao Village market, there are restaurants, shops and inns on both sides of the stone road.
No. 1 Wind and Rain Bridge is built with blue stone arches, and a long corridor-shaped bridge pavilion is built on the bridge. Railing benches are set up on both sides of the bridge, as well as architectural components such as "beauty leaning". Fengyu Bridge is also a place where Miao men and women "youfang" sing in duet. Youfang is Miao language, which means that young men and women communicate with each other in the form of love songs and express their love for each other. There are still many local youths here at night. Men and women "travel" here! Witnessed a lot of beautiful love. Today's Xijiang Fengyu Bridge has become a "check-in place" in the hearts of many tourists. Rent a set of Miao costumes, sit on the "beauty leaning" of Fengyu Bridge, and leave the best memory of the trip to Xijiang in the intoxicating scenery. .
Dinner is a table banquet for Miao parents at a farm restaurant west of the Dong drum performance venue. The so-called long table banquet is to drink and eat on long tables arranged in a row. Compared with eating at a round table or a square table, the long table is a feature. The Miao long table feast for thousands of people is the highest form and grand etiquette of Miao banquets, with a history of thousands of years. It is usually used for weddings, full moon wine, and village social feasts. On the left is the host seat and on the right is the guest seat. The host and the guest faced each other, toasted and persuaded to drink and sang to the wine.
Several Miao girls in costumes, accompanied by Lusheng, holding wine sets and wine bowls, singing beautiful Miao songs, came to the target tourists gracefully, and made a toast with three wine pots from top to bottom. After pouring it into a bowl, the person to be respected only needs to sit and open his mouth to drink, and he is not allowed to hold the bowl with his hands, nor can he stand up, otherwise he will be fined.
After finishing a large bowl of good wine, the beautiful Miao girl, in order to "thank" the tourists for their cooperation, took the initiative to pick up a piece of fragrant meat for the tourists who had drunk the wine, and "gentlely" fed them to the tourists' mouths. The tourists were flattered and opened their mouths Just eat, but the Miao girl's movements are so fast, seeing the sliced meat slipping out of her mouth again, another beautiful woman who cooperates with this, picks up the wine bowl, pinches the tourist's nose and pours a big mouthful of wine, Repeated so many times, the festive atmosphere of the banquet is constantly pushed to a new climax.
The girls sang together like flowing water, "Guests from afar invite you to drink", "Drink if you like it, drink it if you don't like it, drink it whether you like it or not", "Guests from afar please stay" Waiting for the Miao family's gentle and melodious persuasion song to come to the tourists at close range, the tourists seem to have lost their ability to resist at this time, happily accepting the persuasion from the Miao girl, and drinking freely and continuously. "Guests from afar, my rice wine may not taste good, but my heart is sincere, please drink this bowl of wine, our friendship will last like a river..."
This sculpture is the highest level of high mountains and flowing water (five people)