Danzhai is a multi-ethnic county dominated by Miao nationality. Located in the upper reaches of Duliujiang River and Qingshuijiang River, it combines the characteristics of Miao culture in Duliujiang River and Qingshuijiang River, and still retains its quaint, rich and unique ethnic customs. Miao, Shui and other nationalities in the world have created their own unique culture through thousands of years of changes and reproduction. The national culture of Danzhai is distributed in seven towns in the county, and the characteristic national culture of many villages is the best in Guizhou and even the national folk culture. Traditional folk dances, such as Golden Rooster Dance, Mang Drum Lusheng Dance, Wooden (Bronze) Encouragement Dance, Geha Dance, Bench Dance, etc. Participated in art festival competitions held by provinces, states and countries for many times and won the highest prize. Batik, ancient paper making, paper cutting, brocade, flower picking, embroidery and other folk crafts.

Miao golden pheasant dance

Golden Rooster Dance originated in Paidiao Town, Danzhai County, and spread among the sub-ethnic groups wearing short skirts of hemp birds in Gan 'ao branch of Miao nationality. They live in Ma Bird, Yang Xian, Ye Gai, Dangzao, Yang Wu and other villages. Fiona Fang is about 50 square kilometers with a population of more than 20,000.

Golden rooster dance plays an important role in the once-a-year ancestor worship activities in 12, and festival entertainment is the biggest content of golden rooster dance performance. Young men and women's wedding ceremony, welcome etiquette and "jumping on the moon" all depend on golden pheasant dance. Lusheng accompanied by Golden Rooster Dance is called "Gengla" in Miao language, also known as "four drops of water". When performing the golden pheasant dance, the males take the lusheng as the leader, and then the females line up and dance in a circle counterclockwise.

In 2007, Danzhai Golden Rooster Dance won the highest prize in the first colorful Guizhou Dance Competition, and in 2009, the second colorful Guizhou Dance Competition. Danzhai Mangzhong Lusheng Sacrificial Music and Dance won the Golden Guizhou Award again, which established Danzhai County's prominent position in the original ecological dance in Guizhou Province and even the whole country. At the 2nd Chengdu International Intangible Cultural Heritage Festival in 2009, Golden Rooster Dance won the Silver Award of Sun God, and at the Hangzhou China Intangible Cultural Heritage Festival, Golden Rooster Dance won the Gold Award of Chinese Traditional Dance with the highest score.

Danzhai Miao batik

Miao batik is an art created for producers' own needs, and its products are mainly daily necessities, including women's clothes, sheets, quilts, wrapping cloth, headscarves, backpacks, bags, suspenders and funeral sheets.

Miao batik and batik techniques can be divided into geometric patterns and natural patterns. The authors of Danzhai Miao batik prefer large flowers with natural patterns, which are vivid, concise and vivid, lively and smooth, full of exaggeration and strong local flavor. Anshun Miao batiks are mainly geometric patterns, with loose pattern structure and vivid modeling. The batik of Zhijin Miao nationality is mainly white, covered with geometric spiral patterns, and the pattern structure is staggered. Batik experts Wang Yu 1983 and 1984 went to the United States twice to carry out batik, and were praised as "artists from the East", and batik was called "the first batik in the East".

Shiqiao ancient papermaking

Shiqiao is named after a natural stone arch bridge connecting cliffs on both sides. The oldest paper mill site is located under the rock wall at the foot of Dayan, 20 meters opposite the natural stone bridge. The stone wall is about 100 meters wide and 80 meters high. The stone wall leans forward to provide shelter from the wind and rain. This is an excellent natural workshop. There is a clear spring in it, which is the best water source for papermaking. 1985, ancient papermaking sites were listed as provincial key cultural relics protection units.

The ancestors of Shiqiao Miao people used the ancient papermaking technology for reference, and used the local rich raw materials such as bark, Chinese fir roots, wax leaves, slippery trees and kiwi vines. And integrate it into the local Miao cultural elements. After soaking, pulping, cooking, cooking, rinsing, selecting materials, bagging, grooving, papermaking and pressing. Therefore, Shiqiao ancient paper has the characteristics of long fiber, large tensile force and pure nature. In the production process of ancient French papermaking, most processes, from river retting, pulping, paper loading, pan discharging to material selection, were manually operated, without using any modern tools, which had its unique historical and cultural value and was known as the living fossil of ancient China papermaking technology.

Miao costume

There are seven sub-nationalities in Gan 'ao branch of Miao nationality in Danzhai county. Since ancient times, there has been a custom of wearing one's own totem as an ornament. The best way to keep the original appearance is the "elegant gray" bird suit. With the extension of time, the differences between the sub-nationalities are getting bigger and bigger, but they all have one thing in common: they all try their best to express their totem-bird patterns with embroidery or batik techniques, and develop the bird patterns incisively and vividly. It is this extreme worship of birds that has created the artistic image and charm of the Miao nationality's "Gan Ao" branch clothing and revealed the ethnic origin information of the "Gan Ao" branch. Batik costumes such as "Hundred Birds Clothing" and "Golden Rooster Clothing" have become the concentrated expression of this branch of bird worship and the classics of bird culture and art.

Miao oral classic "Home"

"Jia" spread in Danzhai County, Kaili, Taijiang, Leishan, Duyun and other counties and cities. "Jia" is a phonetic translation of Miao language, which means Miao classics. It is a unique genre with the most authoritative and far-reaching influence in the local Miao society, and it is also a literary style of poetry and ode. "Jia" is divided into twelve branches, and some branches are divided into several "strings" or "flowers", which are equivalent to "chapters" and "knots" in Chinese, with a total length of about 24,000 lines. Home contains the procedural contents of the truth, origin, philosophy, argumentation and judgment of the ancient Miao people about society and nature, and reflects the ancient Miao people's views on nature, ethics and values. Jia is the most important and representative intangible cultural heritage left by Miao ancestors, a comprehensive integration of Miao ancient literature, history, philosophy, law and witchcraft, and an encyclopedia of Miao ancient society.

Hmong

Miao Year (Miao language "nengxnix" and "nengxnixnaol") is the most important festival for Miao people in Qingshui River and Duliujiang River Basin. Since ancient times, the Miao society in this area has used the earliest calendar of mankind-Miao calendar, which is obviously different from the "lunar calendar" in Han areas. The beginning of the Miao calendar is the Miao New Year. Due to the Miao nationality's special clan consciousness and the social management principle of "negotiating lang", the "Miao Year" has the habit of being carried out in order in all Miao villages in a region. This habit also makes these different Miao villages turn into carnival centers in Miao areas in different "Miao Year" days.

The main activities of "Miao Year" include killing Nian pig, making glutinous rice cakes, offering sacrifices to ancestors, eating "Nian Tuan Fan" and dancing Lusheng. In some areas, bullfighting activities are also carried out.