Xiqiang first village

Xiqiang first village

Xiqiang No.1 village is a Heba Qiang village with well preserved ancient customs and beautiful scenery. It is also the nearest Qiang village to Chengdu. Located in Qiangfeng village, Mianhe Town, Wenchuan County, Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, the whole Qiang village is built along the slope, unique and orderly, like an ancient castle. The ground is connected by zigzag roadways, the houses are accessible to every family, and the Qiang blockhouse stands in the village. The Qiang women in the village are skillful and skillful. There are many kinds of Qiang embroidery with high grade, strong national characteristics and local flavor. In addition, orchards, Qiang songs and Qiang dances make people feel isolated.

Human resources

The first village of Western Qiang is regarded as an extremely precious treasure house of human resources. With its ancient customs, exquisite architectural art and unique Qiang embroidery, it is named "the hometown of Chinese folk art - the hometown of Qiang embroidery" by the Ministry of culture.

The ancient Qiang people who first knew Qiang village originally lived on the grassland to the north of the great wall and were nomads. At that time, the nomads outside the Great Wall would invade the Central Plains whenever they met with famine. In addition, the increase of population often resulted in the lack of grassland, which prompted the nomads to seek regional expansion and inevitably led to wars among tribes for territory. In the war, the ancient Qiang people were obviously the losers, so they went east and West. The ancestors of the modern Qiang people first traveled westward, then moved southward over the big snow mountains and into the warm Minjiang River Valley.

geographical environment

The great migration from northwest grassland to Minjiang River Valley is a kind of survival choice. Since they moved to the valley where farming is not suitable, Qiang people began to shift from nomadic farming to fixed farming. The Minjiang River valley was originally inhabited by the Geji people. After the arrival of the Qiang people, they drove them away through the war and occupied the territory of the Geji people. It was stipulated that "where it rains for a long time, I live; where it snows for a long time, GE Juzhi" was the Geji people. However, the Qiang people defeated the goji people on the battlefield, but they had to learn from the goji people in culture.

From nomadism to farming, the cultural structure of Qiang people has changed correspondingly. The most obvious point is reflected in the housing. From the nomadic period of "wool tent on the riverside", to the gradual collection of soil, rocks and wood, the construction of three-story flat roof housing on the mountain, and then gradually to the new form of Chinese style herringbone frame housing and flat roof housing.

Most of the Qiang people's stockades are located on the hillside of the river. They are close to the mountain and water. They use the broken stones on the mountain as building materials. They use local materials according to local conditions. However, they are far away from the water source, so it is very inconvenient to get water. From the terrain, they can be built lower and closer to the water source. This first village is very typical. Later, I learned that Qiang people's villages, especially the old villages with a long history, prefer inconvenient water supply, and most of them choose places with dangerous terrain, which are easy to defend and difficult to attack. They have obvious military defense functions. This may have something to do with the fact that the ancient Qiang people migrated, were often in a state of war, and their life order was not stable. Every village has a tall watchtower, which also proves this point. Where there are Qiang villages, there are watchtowers, which are particularly conspicuous. In terms of shape, there are four corners and multi corners, single blockhouse and double blockhouse, but most of them are four corners and single blockhouse. These watchtowers, standing in the Qiang village, have become a unique cultural landscape in this area. In history, Diaolou played a great role, but it can only be preserved as a kind of historical culture for people to visit and study.

On the contrary, the cable-stayed bridge flying over the Minjiang River is still playing its own role. It not only has ornamental value, but also plays a traffic role. In terms of geographical conditions, because the Minjiang River Valley is surrounded by high mountains, the valley is narrow and the slope is large, most of the Qiang people live in the middle of the mountain, so the external traffic can only go along the river. As the saying goes, the mountain is not far away, thousands of miles away from the water, the river can only rely on the bridge. The terrain of Western Sichuan rises greatly from east to west, and the drop of the river is also large, and the flow of water is fast. Needless to say, the Minjiang River is very difficult to build bridges on such rivers because the technical and material conditions are limited. It is the most scientific and convenient way to build bridges. Almost every Qiang village in the valley is connected to the other bank by a cable bridge.

Address: Qiangfeng village, Mianchi Town, Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture

Longitude: 103.48850337302

Latitude: 31.348414

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