What is the Miao culture? What are the ethnic cultures and customs of the Miao people?

Miao is an ancient nation, Miao culture can be traced back to thousands of years ago in the era of Yanhuang legend, after thousands of years of baptism, the inheritance of Miao culture can still be clearly seen and felt in the current minority settlements.

If we want to experience and feel the Miao culture, now we go to Qianhu Miao Village in Xijiang, Guizhou, Wudong Miao Village in Leigong Mountain, and Nanhua Miao Village in Sankeshu Town, Kaili City. These places will allow you to be amazed and experience the special culture of the ancient Miao people.

First of all, when you go to Miao Village, you will definitely see a lot of Miao men and women wearing festival national costumes, those dazzling embroidered clothes and shiny silver jewelry are particularly eye-catching, which have been inherited for a long timeThe costume culture of the Miao people。Miao costume culture is colorful, including clothing, embroidery, silver jewelry, batik, etc. And there will be some subtle differences in different Miao village costumes, these costumes from ancient times to the Ming and Qing dynasties, there are costumes imprinted in it.

Miao embroidery and Miao silver jewelry is a lot of people's preference, not only in the Miao village, many urbanites also like these simple and primitive jewelry.

In Miao Village, in addition to appreciating the characteristic costumes and singing and dancing performances, the most worthwhile thing is to feelThe architectural culture of Miao VillageMost of the Miao villages we see are surrounded by mountains and rivers, and the scenery is beautiful and magnificent; The building they live in is what we call it.

Stilted building, the scientific name of this stilted building should be called semi-dry column building, in addition to this architectural feature, Miao architecture also has a bucket type dry column building, and Miao costume culture is the same, different Miao village buildings are also different. Miao architecture is the crystallization of wisdom in the living and living environment for thousands of years, and the stilted building is not only suitable for the rainy and humid climate in the south, but also suitable for the mountainous and hilly terrain.

There are also some less common onesMiao medicine culture, the essence of which is estimated to be impossible to experience from a trip without personal experience.

<> for this question, Yu Fan has also seriously thought about it, the architecture here? The landscape here? The humanities here?

The costume here? The singing here? The long table here?

The mountains and rivers here? Feel it carefully, it seems to be, and it doesn't seem to be enough to summarize, and finally after thinking about it for a long time, I think it is a large-scale Miao style party of "Beautiful Xijiang". Why?

Because the others may only be one of them, and the large-scale party of "Beautiful Xijiang" contains many Miao elements, and the history, culture, customs, products, and character of the Miao people are ......This is undoubtedly the best answer to be presented in front of the eyes of visitors in an art form that is easily accepted by people.

As we all know, the Miao nationality is a nation that can sing and dance, the so-called "can speak and sing, can walk and dance" is its true description, for thousands of years, song and dance accompanied by the history of the Miao people, vividly reflecting the life of the Miao people. The songs and dances of the Miao nationality are the most rich in mountain and wild taste, with a simple and rough migration imprint, which can best express their sincere and simple thoughts and sentiments, and can also make people feel the truth, goodness and beauty of folk art.

At half past seven o'clock every night, when the thousands of Miao villages just happened to be on the lanterns, "Beautiful Xijiang" was grandly staged in the performance center in the center of the village, it is a large-scale original ecological Miao scene song and dance party, the party lasts about one and a half hours, divided into four parts, namely: maple butterflies, migration, Xijiang customs, Miao Township splendor. The panorama shows the long history and customs of the Miao people.

Including sacrifices, copper drums, long table feasts, wooden drums, etc., as well as Miao costumes full of characteristics. It basically covers history, culture, customs, food, clothing, ......and other aspects of Miao culture.

The stage is open-air, the scene is very grand, and the visual effects are extremely shocking, but since I don't have a tripod, the shooting effect of the mobile phone camera is not satisfactory to me, so everyone will take a look first:

In the evening, we came to the observation deck of the scenic area, where we could see the whole picture of the Xijiang River.

The brightest place in the middle is the performance venue of "Beautiful Xijiang".

The first part, the maple leaf butterfly, comes from ancient historical legends, that is, the origin of the Miao people, ** is somewhat underexposed.

The stage is a circular open-air stage, with two levels in the middle, and a semi-circular display screen at the back.

After the event, Southern Satellite TV's "Trendy Holiday" column also interviewed me, and I took this dance as an example to talk about my feelings at that time.

The Miao nationality is a rich ethnic group of singing and dancing, and the costumes are very distinctive, different dances, different costumes, different headdresses, with a strong national atmosphere.

At the end of the party, everyone collectively took a curtain call!

Miao culture is diverse, there are more than 100 branches, even if the different Miao tribes are separated by a village, they do not interact with each other, and the cultural festivals between different branches are also different, anyway, there are too many to count, each branch has a few festivals, if you count the festivals of the Miao people of more than 100 branches, there are hundreds, and there are more than 100 languages that can not communicate with each other

The ethnic culture and customs of the Miao people include eating oil tea, living in stilted buildings, eating mountain loaches, etc. The Miao people are an ancient ethnic group scattered all over the world, mainly in China's Guizhou, Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Qiong and other provinces and regions.

and Laos, Vietnam, Thailand and other countries and regions in Southeast Asia.

Age of legends

The Miao people can be traced back to the legendary era of Yan and Huang five or six thousand years ago. At that time, in the lower reaches of the Yellow River and the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, there was a Jiuli tribal alliance headed by Chiyou, and on the Gansu-Shaanxi Loess Plateau, two other tribal groups were formed headed by the Yandi Shennong clan and the Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan clan.

Emperor Yan and Emperor Huang developed along the Yellow River from west to east, and successively fought with Chiyou in the Zhuolu area. Chi You defeated Emperor Yan first, and Chi You chased the emperor, fighting for Zhuolu, and there were nine corners. Later, Emperor Yan and the Yellow Emperor jointly defeated Chiyou, when Xuanyuan, Chiyou was the most violent, and he could not be killed, so the Yellow Emperor was the prince of the army, and Chiyou fought in the field of Zhuolu, and then killed Chiyou.

After Chi You's death, the world was in turmoil, and the Yellow Emperor painted a portrait of Chi You to intimidate the world, and the world settled down. After the defeat of the Jiuli group, most of the Chiyou group migrated southward, and began the history of the Miao people's migration with many hardships and difficulties.

Miao ethnic culture: Miao people pay attention to sincerity, are very enthusiastic, and avoid flashiness and hypocrisy. The host does not take the first step when he encounters a guest, and does not walk in front; Use honorifics in conversation.

Guests are greeted in festive attire; For distinguished guests, they should go to the outside of the village to set up wine to greet them; When the guest arrives at the door, the male host will call the door and inform the hostess at home, and the hostess will sing to open the door to welcome the guest; In front of the guests, the hostess does not ascend upstairs; At the banquet, chicken and duck are the most valuable dishes, especially the heart and liver, which should be given to the guests or the elderly, and the guests will be shared with everyone to enjoy, in the order of the eldest and then the youngest. Guests don't call the host "Miaozi", they like to call themselves "Meng".

The custom is: guests come to visit, must kill chickens and ducks to entertain them, if they are distinguished guests from afar, Miao people are accustomed to invite guests to drink horn wine first. When eating chicken, the head of the chicken is given to the elder of the guests, and the legs are given to the youngest guest.

In some places, there is also the custom of dividing chicken hearts, that is, the eldest owner in the family uses chopsticks to throw chicken hearts or duck hearts to guests, but the guests cannot eat them themselves, and must divide the chicken hearts equally among the elderly present. If the guest drinks a small amount of alcohol and does not like to eat fatty meat, it can explain the situation, and the host is not reluctant, but does not eat and drink enough, it is regarded as looking down on the host.

The Miao people are an ancient ethnic group scattered all over the world, mainly in Guizhou, Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Qiong and other provinces and regions in China, as well as Laos, Vietnam, Thailand and other countries and regions in Southeast Asia.

According to historical documents and Miao word-of-mouth data, the ancestors of the Miao people first lived in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, and their ancestors were Chiyou, who migrated to the Jianghan Plain in the "Sanmiao" era, and then gradually migrated to the south and west due to war and other reasons, entering the southwest mountainous area and the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau. Since the Ming and Qing dynasties, some Miao people have migrated to Southeast Asian countries, and in modern times, they have migrated from these places to Europe and the United States.

The Miao people have their own language, which belongs to the Miao branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family, which is divided into three major dialects: Xiangxi, Qiandong and Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan. Due to the long-term interaction between the Miao and Han people, some Miao people are fluent in both Chinese and Chinese. The religious beliefs of the Miao people are mainly nature worship and ancestor worship.

According to the China Statistical Yearbook-2021, the population of the Miao ethnic group in China is 11067929.