Tianzhu County is a typical Dong nationality area in the north, and its customs and habits are different from those of the Dong nationality in the south. In terms of clothing, the Dong nationality in the north is "sinicized" seriously. Dong women in the north don't wear skirts and trousers, and their clothes are simple. Not as delicate as the Dong people in the south. Architecturally, there is no drum tower and wind and rain bridge in North Dong. On holidays, Dong people in the north don't play Lusheng either. The famous northern Dong villages in Tianzhu County are Sanmentang, Wolong Valley, Ganxi Dong Village, Kelie Dong Village, Yangzhai Village and Liuzhai Village.
Ganxidong Village, located in Gonghe Village, Duma Township, Tianzhu County, has 123 villagers. Everyone in the village knows Kung Fu, which is praised as "Kung Fu Village" by CCTV. It has been more than 20 generations since the ancestors of Dong Village in Jiangxi took refuge here from Jiangxi during the Hongwu period. There are dense vegetation, majestic waterfalls, deep canyons, streams around mountains and small dams in front of the village, which is a paradise on earth. Dozens of families here are almost isolated from the world and live in seclusion in the mountains.
Liuzhai Village, located in the southwest of Shidong Town, Tianzhu County, is located on the north bank slope of Lianhuashan Reservoir in the lower reaches of Bagua River, surrounded by mountains and waters. The village consists of four natural villages: Liuzhai, Liong, Tianba and Tangdai. Li Weng, Liu Zhai and Tian Ba are in the north of Cenyou Slope, and the Tang Formation is in the south of Slope. There are more than 300 families in the village, and the villagers are all surnamed Long. The terraced fields in Liuzhai Village are beautiful and worth visiting.
The famous Bawang Shidong Waterfall Group in Tianzhu County is located near Liuzhai and is known as "Tianzhu Tibetan". The scenery here is beautiful and the original ecology is well protected; There are many natural primitive waterfalls, the waterfalls in the western regions are magnificent, Longdong Waterfall is mysterious and deep, and Liuzhangdong Waterfall is steep and majestic.
Tianzhu county in ancient times was the hub of Qingshui River. With the upstream of Qingshui River, the Han culture took root in Tianzhu County and merged with the local northern Dong culture. In 2004, an archaeological excavation was carried out in Guizhou Province along the Qingshuihe River in Tianzhu County, and the sites of the Warring States, Qin and Han Dynasties, Song and Ming Dynasties were discovered, collectively known as Qingshuihe Cultural Site. Among them, the site of Cibingzhou is located opposite Yuping Mountain in Baishi Village, and it is said that the descendants of the old, weak, sick and disabled soldiers who resigned from Wu Sangui lived there.
On both sides of Qingshui River, the towns and villages that are prosperous due to water transportation are Sanmentang, Qinglang, Tang Bao, Lailai, Yuankou and Jiangdong, and many ethnic customs and traditional cultures have been preserved in these areas. For example, Qinglangtang has always been a trading place for wood merchants, and merchants who buy "Miao" gather here. Tangbao Village retains a large number of Miao ancient dwellings and ancient buildings in Ming and Qing Dynasties, which is a must of Qingshui River. There used to be many guild halls in Yuankou Town, such as Lianghu Pavilion, Baoqing Pavilion, Hengyang Pavilion, Jiangxi Pavilion and Guizhou Pavilion. There are wooden stacks specializing in timber trading. There are three Yangjiayuan in Jiangdong, which retain the cultural customs such as Yang Opera, Flower Drum Opera, Nuo Opera and Bench Dragon.
There is a saying that there is a drum tower in the south and a family shrine in the north in the Dong nationality area of Guizhou. Influenced by Han culture, a large number of ancestral temples have been left in northern Dong, among which Tianzhu and Jinping are the majority. There are about 100 ancient ancestral temples in Tianzhu county, of which more than 50 are well preserved, 2 are listed as national cultural relics protection units, 2 are provincial, 9 are national100 and 27 are county-level. Tianzhu is therefore called "the cultural treasure of ancestral temple in Southwest China". Among them, the most famous are Sanmentang Liu's Ancestral Hall, Xinzhou Song's Ancestral Hall, Baishi Yang's Ancestral Hall, Yuankou Wu's General Ancestral Hall and Xinzhou Wu's Ancestral Hall.
Sanmentang is located on the Qingshui River in the southeast town of Tianzhu County. It is surrounded by mountains and waters. It is the gateway of three rivers and nine streams and the throat of Neijiang. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Sanmentang became an important timber trading port with the rise of water transportation. Many Hunan businessmen poured into Sanmentang to build ancestral halls here, so that Han culture and northern Dong culture blended here. Sanmentang Liu's Ancestral Hall was built in the Qing Dynasty, which is a building that integrates western architectural styles. 20 13 is listed as a national key cultural relics protection unit.
Tianzhu ancestral hall is mostly quadrangular layout with two patios. There are ancestral halls, theatres, halls, wings, flower windows, nave and main hall in the ancestral hall. The outer wall of the ancestral hall is connected with the archway, and the wooden structure crosses the beam. Many or even dozens of relief paintings based on historical celebrities and stories with surnames are often painted on the walls of each ancestral temple archway, which is full of cultural connotations. Historical figures and stories reflected in ancestral temples all occupy an important position in the family. For example, the Shi Yang Ancestral Temple in Baishi was built for Yang Hong and his Longyang Wan Chao, who made outstanding contributions to the Southern Song Dynasty. The Wu family in Yuankou was built to commemorate Cheng Wusheng of Dali Temple in the Southern Song Dynasty. Sanmentang Liu Ancestral Hall was built to commemorate the "brave general" Liu Wang in the early Ming Dynasty. The Song clan in Xinzhou was built by Jinshi and Hanlin Song Renpu in Qing Dynasty. The Wu family in Xinzhou was established.
The food in Tianzhu county also reflects the color of integration. The main cuisines are camellia oleifera, tofu, Tianzhu navel orange, Tianzhu native duck, Tianzhu Sargentodoxa fruit and so on. Among them, the fruit type of Hongteng is aggregate fruit, which looks like a football. Primitive forest originated in Tianzhu area is a specialty of Tianzhu County.
Jianhe: a pearl on Qingshui River, which is famous for Asha statue in China.
Jinping: the county town that rose because of Qingshui River's water transportation, and the place where Miao and Dong cultures merged with Han culture.