【Overview of Qianhu Miao Village in Xijiang】
Overlooking the Xijiang Wind and Rain Bridge
Diaojiaolou
Xijiang Night
Welcome to Miao Village
In Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village, there are two welcoming activities at the gate every day.
10:30-12:00 in the morning, 3:00-4:30 in the afternoon.
At the north gate of the scenic spot, there are twelve generous tables with young girls covered with silver ornaments in the middle, holding horn wine glasses filled with glutinous rice wine;
On both sides are men holding awning tubes and reeds, and middle-aged and elderly women in costumes.
From the parking lot of the scenic spot, you can see a group of well-dressed Miao girls,
Line up in a "V" shape, and each person holds a small wine jug in their hands.
It turned out that this is the legendary "high mountains and flowing water".
The highest state of drinking for Miao people is this ceremony.
The first thing for tourists who come here is to personally experience a plate of Miao family's enthusiastic "high mountains and flowing water".
I also went up to try a plate.
Fortunately, rice wine is delicious, and the taste is not so exciting.
And I know that everyone has a play schedule later, so naturally I won't let you drink too much.
After the "high mountains and flowing water", there is another important welcoming ceremony of the Miao family, "Twelve Ways of Barrier Wine".
This is the most solemn etiquette for hospitality in the Miao family, implying blessings.
Standing neatly on both sides are the old Miao people here,
They waved their dance steps to welcome guests from afar.
Impression of Miao Village
After we enter from the gate of the north gate, we need to take a scenic sightseeing bus to reach the core scenic spot of Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village.
After entering, we continued to take the battery car to our hotel in Miao Village.
Our hotel is on the mountain, and you can see half of the Miao Village by opening the window, which is very spectacular.
Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village is a place where the "primitive ecology" culture of the Miao people is preserved intact. It is composed of more than 10 natural villages built on the mountain.
, is currently the largest Miao village in China and even in the world.
It is a place to appreciate and understand the long history and development of the Miao nationality in China.
Xijiang is famous all over the world for its annual Miao New Year Festival, Eating New Festival, and Guzang Festival once every thirteen years.
Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village is an open-air museum that exhibits an epic of the development of the Miao nationality.
It has become a grandstand for watching and studying the traditional culture of the Miao people.
There is a well-known silversmith village in Xijiang. Miao silver jewelry is all handmade, and its craftsmanship is of a very high level.
The buildings of the Miao nationality in Qianhu Miao Village in Xijiang are mainly wooden stilted buildings with a bucket-shaped roof structure.
Xijiang Miao stilted buildings originated from the southern stilt-style buildings of ancient residents, using a combination of multiple structures such as rectangles, triangles, and rhombuses.
The network system that constitutes the three-dimensional space is integrated with the surrounding green mountains, green waters and pastoral scenery, harmonious and unified, and complements each other. It is a living fossil of ancient Chinese residential buildings and has high aesthetic value in architecture and other aspects.
Shuttle on the streets of Xijiang Miao Village,
Sometimes I have a feeling of time travel.
The world is changing so fast, Xijiang seems to have pressed the pause button.
Although it is primitive and simple here.
But also keep pace with the times, the shops here can buy everything.
The food here is also good, you can eat everything.
This is the first time I have seen such a fruit,
It's a bit like dragon fruit, but different.
Gage Ancient Alley
On the main street, not far from the first Fengyu Bridge, there is a small alley full of colorful ancient umbrellas, which is the entrance of Gage Ancient Alley. Here is the oldest Miao embroidery, the most authentic silversmith's shop in Xijiang, and the ancient songs sung by wizards can be heard in the ancient song hall.
There are also many folk performances here every day, so don't miss it.
Miao old people who are singing "Ancient Songs".
There are also 2 Miao performances here every afternoon.
It tells the story of young men and women of Miao nationality falling in love.
For specific time, please refer to the performance schedule of the scenic spot
Attachment: Xijiang Qianhu Miao Nationality 2019 Scenic Activities List
For friends who like to drink, there is also a pub inside.
All the special wines sold are Miao nationality, and the packaging is also very beautiful.
On the official website of Qianhu Miao Nationality in Xijiang, you can book the intangible cultural heritage experience of the Miao Nationality.
68 yuan a piece, you can choose one of batik, papermaking, and Miao embroidery.
We chose batik.
Miao batik has a long history, and there is a record of "Zhiran Colored Embroidery" by the Southwest Yi in the "Book of the Later Han Dynasty", which shows that at least in the Han Dynasty, the southwestern minority had already mastered the skills of dyeing, weaving and embroidery.
Among the Miao people, there are two legends about the origin of batik:
One is the story of Chiyou, the ancestor of the Miao nationality, who fought with the Yellow Emperor, and Chiyou was captured and sentenced to death. From this, the dyeing method of "maple liquid as an anti-dyeing agent" came into being.
The second is that batik is popular among the Miao people, "the earliest is the imitation of the patterns on the bronze drum.
The method is to cover the bronze drum with cloth, rub the cloth back and forth with wax, and then dye it, and the pattern on the bronze drum is transferred to the cloth. This method is a bit like making rubbings. Later, they switched to hollowing out wooden boards to imitate the bronze drum pattern, then put the wooden boards on white cloth, pour wax liquid into the hollowed out patterns and then indigo dye them. This method is similar to printing on clothes.
Batik later changed to use wax knives made of copper sheets dipped in melted wax liquid to draw directly on the cloth.
This method changes batik from copying to creation, giving full play to the advantages of batik tools.
It reflects the beauty of the material of batik, so this production method has been used to this day."
This is a painting I chose
In about an hour or so, my own work is considered complete.
The work of dyeing and drying the cloth is the work of the staff.
After drying, it will be mailed to you.
Ancient Songs of Miao Village
In ancient times, the Miao people suffered from wars, and in order to avoid wars, they migrated many times.
Worried that all kinds of information would be obliterated by history, the wise ancestors of the Miao nationality hid their history deeply in the elegant, ethereal and forceful ancient songs, and kept them in the memory of the nation.
The content of the ancient songs of the Miao nationality is all-encompassing, from the birth of the universe, the origin of human beings and species, the creation of the world, the monstrous flood in the period of the early people,
It covers everything from the great migration of the Miao people, the ancient social system of the Miao people and daily production and life, and has become a collection of ancient myths of the Miao people.
"Ancient Songs of the Miao Nationality" is gradually developed on the basis of primitive myths and legends. It is an epic created by the ancient ancestors of the Miao Nationality in the long-term productive labor.
wind and rain bridge
There are five wind and rain bridges in the stockade, and each bridge is a scenic line.
【哿嗡僦】风雨桥 Read from left to right, pronounced "ge weng jiu".
Because "Om" in Miao language is "dragon", it has the meaning of "head bridge", which means the first bridge.
The local people are used to calling it No. 1 Fengyu Bridge, and the Chinese translation is "Longtan Bridge", which is said to be related to the legend of the dragon in the pool 50 meters upstream of the bridge.
【Ga铥僦】The wind and rain bridge is read from left to right, and the pronunciation is "ga diu jiu"; in Miao language, "Ga铥" means "crab", which means "crab bridge". The local people are used to calling it No. 2 Fengyu bridge , It is said to be related to a god crab that can enrich water in the well across the bridge.
[僦妹妃] Wind and Rain Bridge is pronounced from left to right, and the pronunciation is "jiu yo fei", which is an inverted word; in Miao language, "尤妃" (or "You Fang") has the meaning of love, love or lover, and the local people are used to It is called No. 3 Wind and Rain Bridge, and its Chinese translation is "Youfang Bridge" or "Lover Bridge".
【僦岽乧】Fengyu Bridge is read from left to right, and the pronunciation is "jiu dong dou", which is an inverted word; "岽乧" in Miao language means "reading", and the local people are used to calling it No. 4 Fengyu Bridge, because It is closely related to the well-known Xijiang Nationality Middle School (relocated) on the opposite side of the bridge, so some people call the bridge "Xuezi Bridge".
Xijiang night scene
When you come to Xijiang, the most unmissable thing is the night view of Qianhu Miao Village.
The beauty of Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village lies in the night scene of thousands of lights,
Every evening, thousands of households light up their lights.
From Bridge No. 1, there is a battery car that goes directly to the viewing platform. If you don't want to walk, you can take the car directly.
The sky was getting dark, looking from a distance, the entire Miao Village on the hillside was dotted with lights, dimly lit,
It seems that the stars in the sky have fallen on the earth.
The Wind and Rain Bridge on the Baishui River is surrounded by bright lights and reflected in the gurgling river water.
The sparkling light adds a bit of charm and enchantment.
I think the Wind and Rain Bridge at night is more enchanting than during the day.
Miao Village Cuisine
Come to Guizhou, come to Xijiang,
I think the most unmissable delicacy is "fish in sour soup".
I also stayed in Guizhou for many days before and after, and I have eaten many fish in sour soup.
The only one that I think is good is this "Anong Miao's".
This shop is diagonally opposite our hotel.
It takes about 5 minutes to walk from No. 1 Fengyu Bridge.
This store is still a well-known old store in the local area.
It has been 10 years now.
Almost all the stars who come to Xijiangdian Miao Village will come here to check in.
After eating so many fish in sour soup, theirs is the most authentic.
And I personally saw the whole process of making fish in sour soup.
There are many types of sour soup in Guizhou. The traditional white sour soup is made by fermenting rice soup, while the red sour soup is made by adding wild tomatoes, ginger, garlic and red pepper.
They also have many other Miao specialties worth recommending.
For example, the Hmong chicken porridge.
Chicken porridge, used to be a daughter who went home to visit her parents after she got married. She was worried that her parents would be old, so she stewed chicken and rice together for her parents to eat, which is nutritious and easy to digest.
And there is a saying that the heart and liver of the chicken must be given to the parents.
sticky rice:
Miao's glutinous rice is also highly recommended, very delicious.
Ancient Tibetan Meat:
Fat but not greasy, the best thing is its dipping sauce.
It is said that the ancient Tibetan meat used to be made from the meat on the nipples of pigs, but now it has been improved a lot to cater to the taste of the public.
Beautiful Xijiang
There is a fee for the large-scale song and dance performance of "Beautiful Xijiang" in the evening
. Every day from 20:00 to 21:10, it is also at the performance venue.
There are two types of ticket prices, 160 yuan per person for zone A directly opposite the stage, and 140 yuan per person for zone B on both sides of the stage.
This show is more professional than during the day, and the lighting at night is very dazzling and the effect is better.
The beautiful Miao girls are even more dazzling under the lighting effect of the stage.
Traffic Guide
Public transportation: Take the bullet train from Guiyang North to Kaili South, and leave the Kaili South FIT Center to carpool or charter a car to Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village. The general price is 40 yuan per person. If the whole trip goes well, you can reach Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village in 2 hours.
Self-driving: Enter from the west exit of Kaili Expressway Company, go east through Kaili City, and go straight ahead. West Exit—Administrative Center—Jinquanhu Park—Sankeshu Town—Guading Town—Langli Intersection. Generally, it only takes about 30 minutes to 40 minutes from Kaili to Xijiang, and the whole journey takes about 3 hours.
D1 Chengdu -- Chongqing -- Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village (830km, 11 hours by car)
D2 Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village
D3 Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village -- Chongqing -- Chengdu
Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village ticket + 4-way sightseeing car experience adult ticket: 110 yuan