Introduce the customs and habits of Qiang people

Qiang people have a rich diet. The staple food is mainly corn, potato, wheat and highland barley, supplemented by buckwheat, oil wheat and various beans, and the variety of vegetables is diverse. The traditional diet includes stirring, steaming corn, "gold covered with silver" or "gold covered with silver", potato Ciba, boiled potatoes and pork chops. People generally smoke orchid cigarettes, but they also like to drink mixed wine, "corn steamed wine" and honey wine. ?

2. clothing?

Qiang costumes are simple and beautiful, with unique style. It varies slightly from place to place. Among them, Longxi, Mianzi and Yanmen in Wenchuan County, Puxi in Lixian County, Chibusu, Hei Hu, Sanlong and Weimen in Maoxian County, Qingpian in Beichuan County and Town Equality in Songpan County are representative. ?

Headdress, Baotou handkerchief for men and women. "One tile" is popular among women in Chibusu. The tile-shaped green cloth is embroidered with patterns and decorated with silver medals and rings. Women in Hei Hu Township are wrapped in white cloth (commonly known as "ten thousand years of filial piety"). ?

3. architecture?

Most Qiang people build houses in sunny, leeward, cultivated land and Shui Gu areas, and several or dozens of households form natural villages. Buildings can be roughly divided into two categories: diaolou and diaofang. ?

Diaolou is a relic of ancient architecture, which was called "Qionglong" in Han Dynasty. Most of them are located in the center of a pass or village and are built of stone. They are gorgeous in appearance, strong and practical. The building is quadrangular, hexagonal or octagonal, with thin top and thick bottom, prominent edges and corners and tight structure. There are six or seven floors inside, and the highest reaches thirteen or fourteen floors. ?

Diaofang, also called "Zhuangfang", is a kind of residential building. Square, generally divided into three layers (there are also two layers and four layers). The upper layer piles grain, the middle layer lives in people, and the lower layer raises livestock. ?

4. get married?

Before the founding of New China, the marriage of Qiang men and women followed the instructions of parents and matchmakers, and there appeared such marriage forms as "belly marriage", "embrace marriage", "boy marriage" and "buying and selling marriage". Marriage pays attention to the right family, and there are customs of changing rooms, adopting children and robbing marriage. After the founding of New China, autonomous marriage gradually became the majority. But the traditional etiquette procedure has been preserved to this day. ?

5. Folk arts and crafts?

Qiang people's folk crafts are unique, especially flower picking and embroidery. The ingenious Qiang women do not need drawings, but hand-draw letters into various beautiful patterns and embroider them into colorful finished products. ?

The theme is taken from all things in the world, and embroidered in headscarves, clothes, belts, stomachs, waists, shoes, socks, sachets and other local places with various stitches such as picking, knotting, hooking, picking, lifting, spelling, fastening and fiber, which is beautiful and durable. ?

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