At the end of the road is a small Qiang village called "Black Tiger". The first thing that caught our eyes was a dam with an open river valley. On both sides of the dam are two unique mountains. What is particularly interesting is that one of the mountains is called Eagle's Mouth River, which is a yin mountain, and the other is called Ergongmi, which is a yang mountain. There is the only wooden bridge over the river, which has been connecting these two mountains since ancient times and also maintains the connection between the people of Qiangzhai. At the foot of the mountain there is a river flowing quietly; in the mountain is the material source for people's survival; at the top of the mountain is a dense and green forest, which provides people with materials for housing. The whole Qiangzhai is sometimes cloudy and foggy, like heaven and earth; sometimes the sun shines brightly, like the temple of God. Therefore, it is known as "the nation on the clouds".
? In the Qiang village, the imprint of clouds can be seen everywhere. The clothes worn by Qiang women have cloud patterns, and the shoes worn by their feet are also embroidered with cloud patterns. Therefore, whenever someone gets married, people in the village will prepare in advance and embroider happiness with a needle and a thread. Therefore, the Qiang people have famous handmade shoes called "Yun Yun Shoes". Qiang costumes are colorful and each kind of costume has its unique charm, but many outsiders are puzzled why the Qiang costumes are colorful while the headdress is just a simple and plain white cloth handkerchief. This has to start from the ancient times, please listen to me in detail.
Heihu Qiang village, legend has it that it is called "Black Cat Village". The source of the "black cat", legend has it that the local rocks are black, so it is called "black cat village". In the local has been circulating such a legend: the cliffs of the cottage there is a huge gecko, after training to become a fine, often scourge of the people, bringing a lot of trouble to the people. One day, the Li family father and son returned from the market on the way to this cliff. Suddenly, the wind blew furiously, lightning and thunder, and the sky suddenly changed from a clear sky to a gloomy and terrifying one. Father and son were panicked, looking around for shelter from the rain, and saw a pair of dragon claws like things falling from the sky. Shortly after, the wind and clouds cleared, the sun was shining, but the father and son disappeared. To the Republic of China, a woman uphill digging vegetables, just came to this place. She saw a huge tiger-shaped black shadow pouncing on her, and suddenly, something like a hand shook in front of the black shadow, and the black shadow disappeared. The woman was saved, in order to thank the mountain god for saving her life, here, built a temple. People often came to the temple to burn incense and worship, begging for the protection of the mountain god. Since then, the people here have been peaceful, never seen the black tiger spirit. This is where the name "Black Cat" came from.
What is the relationship between this and the Qiang women's simple white bandana? It is said that the people here are fulfilling a promise, a promise that lasts for ten thousand years. In today's Heihu Qiang village, many stories about General Heihu have been passed down. The Han Dynasty here is only a small tribe, "living on the mountain stop, base stone for the room", to hunt for a living. After the Tang Dynasty, agriculture and animal husbandry, began to develop. In the middle of the Tang Dynasty, Tupan often disturbed to the residence of the earth sheikhs as the center of the "Qiongcang" (stone towers). To the Ming Dynasty, due to the need for defense, people under the leadership of General Heihu, spending huge amounts of labor, in the important passes built towers. Then later, towers are even scattered in the surrounding mountains and cliffs, as far as the eye can see, towers. Wherever people live, there is the shadow of the towers. These towers are built with local stone, the highest 12 layers, 36 meters high; the lowest 5 layers, also about 15 meters. Each floor has only a very small window to facilitate the building of the people to observe the entire village, but the people outside the building can not be identified, and can not see the situation in the towers, which provides a convenient defense. Each floor up and down the stairs are used is a wooden ladder, has been extended to the top of the towers. Watchtower is directly across the steep cliffs, as far as the eye can see, the distribution of villagers living room as if ambushed on the hillside warriors. The establishment of the towers, preserving the safety of the Qiang village, but also to protect the Qiang culture. This has been passed down to the present day "black tiger eighteen pass".
? But unfortunately, the Qiang village preserved, but the black tiger general was unfortunately killed. The court officials and soldiers tricked the Qiang people to work on the opportunity to use poisoned arrows to kill General Heihu on the high mountains. In order to commemorate the merits of General Heihu, all the Qiang people in the village buried him, and all the adult women performed mourning for the general with white cloth handkerchiefs on their heads. Since then, all the Qiang women in Heihuzhai wore white cloth handkerchiefs, and the knots they tied resembled a tiger's head, so they were also called "tiger's head handkerchiefs". Therefore, with the development and progress of the society, the clothing of the Qiang people changed from simple hemp clothes to colorful ones, but their headdress remained unchanged for a thousand years, which was still a simple and plain white handkerchief. This is the most essential quality of the Qiang people, keeping promises. Nowadays, no matter cooking at home or working in the field, the women of Heihu Qiang village wear the "Tiger Head Paw" as they always do, and wearing the "Tiger Head Paw" has become a custom passed down from generation to generation in Heihu Qiang village. Ancient and modern ancient fortress is still preserved in the tall and majestic several blocks of Qiang Dia, it still maintains the wind and smoke rolling the enemy's momentum.
? Perhaps this closed natural environment, so that people have no desire, rest in this primitive and ancient farming life, day after day, year after year. Few people go out of the village, and there are few foreign "invaders". So when educational institutions began to appear, many people were reluctant to send their children to school because few could escape the poison of traditional and corrupt thinking. So there were many people like Vivian who could not go to school. So when her friends put on their backpacks, Vivian could only sit in front of her house envious and yearning. Her parents told her that it was useless for a girl to study, and that helping her parents with their labor was the most practical thing to do. Besides, it was a time of collective labor, a time of earning work credits and using food stamps. One more person working meant one less family member going hungry. Her mother, Xiuhua, had seven children, and very often only her husband, Ah Sheng, worked. There was only one person's work credit for a day's labor, so often the whole family saved the food portion given to one person. The family had to make do with either rice or vegetable soup, which made life very difficult for them. The first time I saw this, I was in the middle of a long journey, and it was a long time ago that I was in the middle of a long journey, and I was in the middle of a long journey.
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