Qingman Miao Village

Qingman Miao Village sits in Mandong Village, Zhouxi Town, Kaili City, Qiandongnan Prefecture, Guizhou, nestled in Changlinggang Mountain's central area. Made up of 4 hamlets across 5 groups, the village has 365 households with 1,618 residents—mostly Miao (96%) and some Mulam. Known for nice views, long history and lively ethnic traditions, it acts as a living museum showing how Miao culture mixes with farming life.

Highlights of Qingman Miao Village

Textile and Embroidery Experience

Known as "the Home of Chinese Brocade and Embroidery", Qingman Miao Village keeps ancient textile arts like weaving, embroidery and dyeing. Its Miao brocade techniques are listed as China’s National Intangible Cultural Heritage, with complex weaving, bright colors and symbolic patterns—dragon-phoenix for luck, grains for good harvests. Miao embroidery is also amazing: artisans stitch lifelike plants, animals and stories on fabric just from memory. At places like Manluo Indigenous Art Center, visitors can join workshops, learning from masters to make their own souvenirs and seeing the artisans’ wisdom and care.

Unique Architecture and Natural Scenery

Nestled on the mountainside, Qingman Miao Village has tiered stilted wooden houses with overlapping trapezoidal eaves, looking stunning from afar. Their clever design and detailed wood carvings show Miao architectural culture well. The clear Qinglang River winds through the village, adding to its peacefulness. With lush greenery around, the scenery changes with seasons: spring blooms, summer rice fields, golden autumn harvests and quiet winters make it an idyllic retreat like a hidden paradise.

Vibrant Ethnic Festivals in Qingman

Qingman's biggest celebration is the Spring Lusheng Festival, with great lusheng plays, bronze drum dances, Miao singing matches, and exciting bull/cock/bird fights. Melodic reed-pipes and loud drums make lively rhythms, pulling crowds to join in. July's Rice Tasting Festival has ancestral sacrifices and new grain tastings to ask for good harvests. At the Slope-Climbing Fair, Miao youth in fine clothes sing on hills to find partners. October's serious Chiyou Ancestral Rites honor their ancestor through sacred ceremonies, showing deep respect for forefathers.

Miao Wellness Experience at Qingman

Qingman's Manluo Miao Herbal Wellness Center combines traditional checks, herbal treatments, and medicine displays. Visitors try real Miao wellness practices: herbal steam baths, medicinal soaks, and moxibustion. Healers use old ways—looking, listening, asking, pulse-checking—to make personal health plans. Using local herbs carefully prepared, these therapies help condition the body and stop illness. Great for seniors, sub-health people, and city workers wanting whole-body care, this experience brings mind-body rest and a better understanding of Miao medicinal traditions.

Educational Value

Qingman keeps Miao cultural ecology whole—brocade weaving, silver making, lusheng plays and ancient epics, each a lively part of intangible heritage. Visitors see women make swastika-patterned brocades on backstrap looms, hear elders chant migration epics in Miao, and experience oral epics with no written scripts. This immersion goes beyond textbook ideas, showing ethnic culture not as static museum pieces, but living heritage kept alive in daily life, building real respect for diverse cultural values.

Activities to do at Qingman Miao Village

Enjoy Miao Dances：During the Stepping-on-Drum Festival from the 13th to the 15th of the first lunar month, and at festive celebrations like the Spring Festival Lusheng Fair, one can witness captivating performances of Bronze Drum Dancing and Lusheng Dancing. On these occasions, Miao young women, dressed in splendid attire, dance to the rhythm of the Lusheng. Meanwhile, married Miao women and mothers perform the Bronze Drum Dance. Hand in hand, moving in sync with the rhythmic beats of the bronze drums, they advance five steps forward and retreat three steps back in a continuous sequence, progressing slowly. Through this dance, they pray for peace, prosperity, and favorable weather in the coming year.