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thursday, august 29, sunny

it was past 5 pm when we came out of xiaoqikong stone bridge scenic area. after a brief dinner, we took a bus to xijiang qianhu miao village.

xiao xu, the tour guide on the bus, introduced that xijiang qianhu miao village is a beautiful scenic spot in leishan county, guizhou province. the village is connected by more than ten natural villages and is surrounded by mountains and picturesque scenery.

the most distinctive wooden structure is the stilt house. there are more than a thousand stilt houses built on the mountain. they are well-proportioned and look like a beautiful picture. diaojiaolou is a traditional miao building. because the back half is built on a steep hillside, and the front half is supported by wooden pillars to form a stilt, it is called "diaojiaolou". due to the large local population and scarce fertile land, the miao people in xijiang built their houses on the mountains in order not to occupy the fertile land. this is indeed a miracle in the history of architecture!

tour guide xiao xu also introduced that the miao people are a troubled nation like the jews, and at the same time they are a tenacious nation that cannot be beaten to death. they have been constantly migrating through wars for thousands of years, and were finally scattered in different places such as hunan, guizhou, and yunnan. area. xijiang qianhu miao village is a microcosm of the history of the miao people. the original people of xijiang are the shang clan, a branch of the miao people. about 600 years ago, the xi clan, another branch of the miao people, moved here and conquered the shang clan, living together in this valley. middle. the original name of "xijiang" is "chishuo", which is a miao language. "chishuo" in chinese does not sound good, so it was changed to "xijiang" when the qianhu miao village was developed. "xi" represents the xi clan, and "jiang" is a business name in miao language, and together they are "xijiang".