1. Clothing
Both men and women wear cotton or brocade (in the past it was homemade soil cloth or linen) long shirts, right-over-right, relatively loose, similar to a cheongsam.
Men's clothes over the knee, women's shirts, some to the instep. Color varies according to age, middle-aged and old people are mostly a single blue, black, young girls like bright colors. Collar, cuffs and lapels with flowers, oblique lapels embedded with one to three fingers wide pattern, some set with plum-shaped silver, all handmade.
2. Diet
The Qiang people have a rich diet. The staple food is corn, taro, wheat, barley, supplemented by buckwheat, oil wheat and a variety of beans, a variety of vegetables. Traditional diets include churning, corn steaming, "gold wrapped in silver" or "silver wrapped in gold", taro patties, boiled taro, pork fat.
3, travel
Qiang region, high mountains and narrow valleys, the traffic is dangerous, the Qiang people with the wisdom to set up a bamboo bridge, "hanging tube across the rope" of the slipper and the wooden frame of the picket bridge, excavated the trestle. Rope bridge in ancient times called "board", is tied to the bamboo rope on both sides of the river valley on the strong objects, without iron nails, no piers, just with a number of bamboo cables, side by side across the river, on the board, in order to pass the people and animals.
4. Dance
The Qiang dance style is simple and elegant, rough and beautiful. It is mainly divided into four categories: self-indulgent dance, ritual dance, ceremonial dance and assembly dance, with the basic movements being more consistent and distinctive. Self-indulgent dance is the most representative dance "Shalang" and "Xi Bu Cu", and festivals, celebrations are closely related.
5. Marriage
Before the founding of New China, the Qiang men and women followed the "order of parents and words of matchmakers" in marriage, and there existed the "finger marriage", "bosom marriage" and "child marriage". Before the establishment of the Qiang nationality, men and women's marriages followed their parents' orders and the words of matchmakers. Marriages were characterized by the importance of matching the family, and there were the customs of transferring houses, entering the family, and robbing marriages. After the founding of New China, independent marriages gradually became more common. But the traditional ceremonial procedures have been preserved to this day.
With the economic development of the Qiang village, people's lives have been improved, and new contents have been added to the marriage ceremonies of the past. The combination of tradition and modernity brings the traditional culture of the Qiang into full play and adds to the festive atmosphere.