Taoping Qiang Minority Stockaded Village Travel Guide

Taoping Qiang Stockaded Village locates in Taoping where has the most preserved Qiang Minority building culture and over 2000-year of history. The village is the only well-preserved stockaded village of Qiang nationality in the world. Because of the typical Qiang building and complicated passageways, it's also called "the Easten Castle". there are some folk houses that has 2 or 3 storey, people usually live in the second floor and the first floor is for livestocks. The biggest building is watchtower, and there are only two watchtowers left. The structures of the two watchtowers are 9-storey and very complicated, tourists will get lost if they don't have local people to guide them. The whole village is connected into a whole, thus it has very good defense function, not to mention that it also has tunnels.

This village still maintains the old traditional customs, like wearing their folk costume, women brocading embroidery, men drinking barley wine. The hospitable Qiang people serve tourists with their home-made preserved meat barley wine, and wild vegetable and sing toasting songs.