A glimpse of the scenery of Qianhu Miao Village in Xijiang
Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village is an important natural and cultural tourist area in colorful Guizhou, with beautiful mountains and green waters and rich traditional ethnic customs and culture. Ten years ago, I visited this place with my friend Xing, and took rare photos of the scenery. Because it was raining, foggy, and the photography skills at that time were bad, the pictures taken were not satisfactory. However, it is finally a souvenir.
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Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village is located at the foothills of Leigong Mountain in the northeast of Leishan County, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province. It is 36 kilometers away from the county seat and 36 kilometers away from the capital of Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture. It is 35 kilometers away from Kaili and about 200 kilometers away from Guiyang, the provincial capital.
Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village is a place that preserves the integrity of the Miao's "original ecology" culture. It is composed of more than 10 natural villages built on the mountain and is connected into a patchwork. It is the largest Miao settlement village in China and even the world. . It is a place to appreciate and understand the long history and development of the Miao people in China. Xijiang's annual Miao New Year Festival, Tasting New Year Festival, and Guzang Festival held every 13 years are famous all over the world. Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village is an open-air museum that displays an epic of Miao development and has become a good place to appreciate and study the traditional culture of the Miao people. Grandstand.
The Miao architecture in Qianhu Miao Village in Xijiang is mainly wooden stilted buildings, with a bucket-style roof structure. There are two types of stilted buildings on flat ground and stilted buildings on slopes. They are generally three-story structures with four bunks and three bays or five bunkers and four bays. The bottom floor is used to store production tools, house poultry and livestock, store fertilizer, or serve as a toilet. The second floor is used for the living room, main room, bedroom and kitchen. There is a unique "beauty leaning" on the outside of the main room, which is called "step rest" in Miao language. It is mainly used for enjoying the shade, embroidery and resting. It is a major feature of Miao architecture. The third floor is mainly used to store grain, feed and other production and living materials. The Xijiang Miao Diaojiao Building originated from the southern stilt-style buildings of ancient residents. It uses a combination of multiple structures such as rectangles, triangles, and rhombuses to form a three-dimensional network system. It is integrated with the surrounding mountains, green waters, and pastoral scenery, harmoniously, and complementing each other. , is a living fossil of ancient Chinese residential buildings; it has high aesthetic value in architecture and other aspects. It reflects the national psychology of Miao residents to cherish land and save land, and has positive educational significance in the current situation of my country with more people and less land. The congratulatory speech and the house-building song of the Liang Dynasty have a strong religious and cultural flavor of the Miao people. It is an important bearer of Miao traditional culture.
In order to improve the feng shui conditions of the village and facilitate residents' lives, most Miao villages have built wind and rain bridges near the villages to collect wind and energy and block wind and rain. There used to be wind and rain wooden bridges in Xijiang, mainly including the Pingzhai Wind and Rain Bridge from Pingzhai to Oga and the Nanshou Wind and Rain Bridge in Nangui Village, which blocked the Feng Shui of Dazhai in Xijiang. Because it was a wooden structure, it was destroyed by floods after several repairs. There were five wind and rain bridges built in Xijiang in 2008. They are the bow-shaped cement wind and rain bridge connecting Dazhai and Xijiang Middle School, the bow-shaped cement wind and rain bridge on the main road No. 1, and the bow-shaped cement wind and rain bridge No. 2 and No. 4 on the opposite side of Dazhai. , connecting the Nangui bow-shaped cement wind and rain bridge. Since the previous wind and rain bridge was built with an all-wood structure, it was easily washed away by floods. The current wind and rain bridge is entirely made of a mixed structure of cement and wood, which makes the wind and rain bridge more solid and more durable. The ability to withstand floods is greatly increased.
Every evening, thousands of households light up their lights. As the sky gets darker and darker, the Qianhu Miao Village in Xijiang turns into a sea of lights, and you can see that the Miao Village takes on the shape of a bull's head. In order to allow tourists to better appreciate the night view of Qianhu Miao Village in Xijiang, the scenic spot has built a viewing platform on the roadside high on the hillside and also opened sightseeing buses.
The Xijiang Miao people are one of the important components of the Miao people in southeastern Guizhou. Currently, they are mainly inhabited by the "Xi" clan of the Miao people. As the largest Miao village in the world, Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village has a profound Miao cultural heritage. Miao architecture, clothing, silverware, language, food, and traditional customs are not only typical, but also well preserved. The Miao people in Xijiang used to wear long robes and turbans with black colors, so they were called "black Miao" or "long skirt Miao". The language of the Xijiang Miao people belongs to the northern sub-dialect of the central dialect of the Miao branch of the Miao-Yao group of the Sino-Tibetan language family. The characters currently used here are common Chinese characters. Although Chinese language is an essential language tool for the Xijiang Miao people to communicate with the outside world, Language communication among the Miao people still uses the traditional Miao language.
It is also one of the important Miao ethnic groups and one of the important representatives of southeastern Guizhou.
Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village has won the China Rural Tourism "Feiyan Award" and the Best Folk Culture Award, and has been rated as "China's 100 Most Beautiful Custom Towns" and "Guizhou's Top Ten Charming Scenic Areas" , "Guizhou's most charming ethnic village", "National 4A Scenic Tourist Area", "China's New Cultural Tourism Landmark", the most beautiful "original" open-air museum among the top ten tourist towns (villages), and China's outstanding international rural tourism destination and China’s civilized ecological scenic spots, new business opportunities for international tourism along the Belt and Road in 2019, and the most popular mainland tourist destinations among overseas tourists.