1. Clothing

Both men and women wear cotton or brocade (home-made homespun or linen in the past) gowns, which are loose and look like cheongsam.

men's clothes are knee-high, and some women's shirts reach the instep. Colors vary with age. Middle-aged and elderly people are mostly single blue and black, while young girls like bright colors. The collar, cuffs and lapels are inlaid with flowers, the oblique lapels are inlaid with patterns one to three fingers wide, and some are inlaid with plum blossom-shaped silver ornaments, all of which are hand-made.

2. Diet

The Qiang people have a rich diet. The staple food is corn, potato, wheat and highland barley, supplemented by buckwheat, oil wheat and all kinds of beans, and the variety of vegetables is diverse. Traditional diets include stirring, steaming corn, "gold wrapped in silver" or "silver wrapped in gold", potato Ciba, boiled potato and pork chop.

3. Traveling

In the Qiang area, the mountains are high and the valleys are narrow, and the traffic is dangerous. With wisdom, the Qiang people set up a bamboo cable bridge, a "hanging barrel crossing cable" slide rope and a wooden frame bridge, and dug a plank road. In ancient times, the cable bridge was called "Mao", which tied bamboo ropes to solid objects on both sides of the river valley. There were no nails or piers, but a number of bamboo ropes were used to cross the river side by side and spread wooden boards to connect people and animals.

4. Dance

The dance style of the Qiang people is simple and elegant, rough and beautiful. It is mainly divided into four categories: self-entertainment dance, sacrificial dance, ceremonial dance and assembly dance. The basic movements are consistent and have their own characteristics. The most representative types of self-entertainment dance are "Sharon" and "step by step", which are closely related to festivals and festive activities.

5. Marriage

Before the founding of New China, the marriage of Qiang men and women followed the "parents' orders, the words of the matchmaker", and there were such marriage forms as "finger marriage", "embrace marriage", "boy marriage" and "buying and selling marriage". Marriage pays attention to the right family, and there are customs of changing houses, adopting children by adoption, and robbing marriage. After the founding of New China, autonomous marriages gradually became the majority. But the traditional etiquette procedure has been preserved to this day.

With the economic development of Qiangzhai, people's lives have been improved, and the old marriage ceremony has added new content. The combination of tradition and modernity has brought the traditional culture of Qiang nationality into full play and added a festive atmosphere.