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What are the traditional folklore of Liupanshui, Guizhou? Urgent!

Liupanshui is a multi-ethnic settlement, the Miao, Buyi, Yi, Shui and other ethnic minorities living on this piece of land have created a distinctive ethnic culture.

The Miao, with a current population of 7.398 million, are mainly distributed in Guizhou, Hunan, Yunnan, Guangxi and other provinces (regions).

The Miao Mountains and Wuling Mountains, where the Miao people live, have a mild climate, surrounded by mountains and water, and dotted with large and small fields and dams. Produces rice, corn, grain, wheat, cotton, roasted tobacco, rape, oil tree and so on. In addition to this, it is also rich in timber resources and mineral resources.

The ancestors of the Miao people can be traced back to the primitive social era active in the central plains of the Chi tribe. During the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, the Miao ancestors began to establish the "three Miao country" in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, engaged in agricultural rice cultivation. The Miao people have migrated many times in history, the general route is from the Yellow River Basin to Hunan (Hunan), to Guizhou (Guizhou), to Yunnan (Yunnan).

The Miao have their own language, which belongs to the Miao branch of the Miao-Yao language family of the Sino-Tibetan language family. Originally, there was no national script, but in the late 1950s, they created the Latinized Pinyin script. Nowadays, most people use Chinese as their common language.

The Miao have a long history of music and dance, and the Lusheng Dance, a favorite of the masses, is highly skilled. The Miao's arts and crafts, such as flower picking, embroidery, brocade weaving, batik, and jewelry making, are magnificent and colorful, and are internationally renowned. There are many Miao festivals, the more grand festivals have been "Miao New Year", "April 8", "Dragon Boat" festival.

Whenever there is a traditional festival, the hospitable compatriots of all ethnic groups dressed in national costumes gather in the green mountains and fields, dance the rough and beautiful copper drum dance, Po stick dance, flower stick dance and Lusheng dance, sing the melodious mountain songs and ballads, and organize rich and interesting recreational activities such as wrestling, bullfighting, cockfighting, birdfighting and other fun activities, which is a fascinating experience, and you will enjoy the simple and mellow ethnic customs.