Everyone laughed and laughed, and the whole city was enjoying the cheers of victory, which lasted until dawn, and this time it was also a kind of venting, after all, everyone's nerves were tense for a long time, and they still needed to face three alien races in the future, although it was easy to say, it seemed that as long as Karasuma was solved, then the rest of the alien races were nothing, but the remaining three alien races were also extremely powerful, after all, they were the same name as Karasuma, Xiqiang, Nanban, and Baiyue, which of the three major alien races could be underestimated, Although it is true that it may be worse than Karasuma, but in their respective regions, they are also very powerful alien races!

Moreover, the Xiqiang are also a horse people, and they also have cavalry, and even because they came into contact with the Han people earlier, their weapons and equipment are more modern, although they are not as good as Karasuma's equestrian skills, and there are many people, but they are not to be underestimated!

As for the Nanban, this is known from the famous Zhuge Liang's seven captures of Meng Huo, as one of the leaders of the Nanban, Meng Huo, it is so difficult to surrender sincerely, because he has the biggest backer, that is, his Nanban alien race, these Nanban alien races, in the mountain area, can be said to be absolutely the king, over the mountains and mountains like walking on the ground, from which you can see their strength!

As for Baiyue, it is the biggest enemy of Dongwu in history, so that Dongwu did not hesitate to consume huge manpower and material resources, and even raised tigers for trouble, so that Baiyue was eliminated, so that Baiyue surrendered, which can be said to be an extremely powerful enemy, although Dongwu is sparsely populated and not strong, but it can be so difficult to deal with, and you can also see the strength of the two races!

Therefore, it can be said that Xiqiang and Nanban. As well as Baiyue, none of them are easy to deal with!

After a day's rest, the army delivered good news. Then after everyone discussed, they went to Xiqiang, Xiqiang This is the second most difficult opponent, of course, it is also an opponent that can be quickly resolved, unlike Nanban and Baiyue, although the strength is not strong, but it takes some time to encircle and suppress them.

Xiqiang is different. Although it is more powerful, because it has been mixed with the Han people for a long time, it can eliminate them more quickly.

The word "Qiang" in Xiqiang. In Chinese literature, it is interpreted as a shepherd, so the font is from sheep to man. The Qiang people are engaged in animal husbandry and are characterized by sheep raising, and their culture also has strong characteristics of sheep herding. In the past, men generally wore blue and white headscarves. Wear a knee-length white linen or blue gown. He wore a leather coat and straw sandals. Or a few people wear cloth shoes or cowhide shoes, leggings wrapped in wool or linen, and girdles. Women like to wrap blue and white headscarves, or put a stack of tile-like green cloth on the top of their heads, and then wrap two braids around them to make a bun, and wear a linen or cotton gown that reaches to the instep, and a sheepskin coat. Wrapped leggings, the cuffs and placket of the dress are embroidered with bright and beautiful lace. The collar is inlaid with a row of small plum blossom-shaped pattern silver, embroidered aprons and streamers are tied around the waist, and more human earrings, collars, hairpins, silver medals and other ornaments are worn. Embroidered shoes are shaped like a boat, the tip of the shoe is slightly warped, and the upper is embroidered with various cloud patterns, commonly known as "cloud shoes".

The staple food of Xiqiang is corn and potatoes, supplemented by wheat, barley, buckwheat and so on. Vegetables include round roots, radish, cabbage, peppers, peas, mixed beans, etc., accompanied by sauerkraut made from round root leaves and cabbage. Commonly prepared foods include corn porridge with vegetables, roasted corn or wheat bran buns, steamed cornmeal, "gold-coated silver" rice-based cornmeal, and rice-based cornmeal. After the pig is killed, the internal organs are the dishes of the New Year's Festival, and the pork is cut into small pieces, and after drying, it becomes "pig fat", and the longer it is stored, the more precious it is. Men and women of all ages like to drink home-brewed smack made by boiling barley and barley and fermenting it. When drinking, pour boiling water into the altar, insert a thin bamboo tube, take turns to suck and drink, and then add water into it until it is light and has no wine taste. Among the Xiqiang foods, corn dumplings, potato glutinous cakes, bracken, wild vegetables, bacon, and smacking are the most distinctive. Xiqiang is famous for its unique and exquisite architectural skills, among which watchtowers, stone houses, rope bridges and plank roads are the most famous. The construction of Qiang Village is not only a concrete expression of its construction technology, but also a typical representative of Xiqiang material culture. As early as in the middle of the record, the Xiqiang ancestors "all live by the mountains, the stone is the room, the height is more than ten zhang, and it is the Qiong cage". The houses are made of local materials, made of stones, yellow mud, good at masonry stone walls, the houses are mostly square or rectangular, two to three floors, the bottom is a corral, the middle lives people, the top is the drying field, and the saw-shaped stairs are cut up and down with a single plank. The center of the house is the "pot village", that is, an iron, copper, and stone tripod is placed on the fire pond for cooking. The fire is endless, and it is known as "10,000 years of fire". Above the pot is the ancestral shrine, and the whole family gathering, eating, receiving guests, festival singing and dancing, and ancestor worship are usually carried out next to the pot village. Generally, thirty or fifty families gather together to form a village. There is a stone watchtower built in the wall, square, the bottom is big and the top is small, up to several zhang. Qiang Diao, with the function of the Zhan Diao, the whistle Diao, the boundary Diao, Feng Shui Diao, the official village Diao, to the shape of the four corners, five corners, hexagonal, octagonal Diao, etc., to the material is divided into stone Diao, rammed earth Diao, wooden Diao. The stone buildings are built by taking advantage of the topography, and they are scattered and lined up one after another, like castles, which is magnificent.

Ziplines, rope bridges and plank roads are also the crystallization of the wisdom of the working people of Xiqiang. Zipline is an ancient and primitive method of crossing the river, that is, using a bamboo cable across both sides of the river, using the tilting momentum, people hang on the chute, and slide from one bank to the other bank. The rope bridge is to lay stones on both sides of the bridge for the bridge cave door, with several or more than ten bamboo ropes in parallel, the rope head is fixed on the stone foundation or wooden pillars on both banks, and the bamboo ropes are paved with wooden planks to facilitate people to pass guò. Another achievement of Qiangtuan construction technology is digging wells, building weirs, digging beaches, and good water management. The Xiqiang family is mainly an individual family, and the son will be separated after he grows up and gets married. Patrilineal patriarchy is practiced in the family, and monogamy-wife is prevalent. The marriage ceremony is complex and grand, and the engagement process includes "opening wine", "small wine" and "large wine". There are three forms of marriage: "Female Flower Night", "Banquet", and "Thanks". Before the Xiqiang funeral, there were cremation, burial, etc. Cremation is a long-standing tradition, but burial is now more prevalent.

Xiqiang has its own traditional ethnic festivals, most of which are related to agricultural activities and religious beliefs. Among them, the most important are the "Mountain Festival" on the first day of April and the "New Year" on the first day of October. When the "sacrificial mountain meeting" is sacrificed to the gods, the sorcerer (also known as "Duangong", the Qiang language is called "Xu") to beat the sheepskin drum, sing the national epic, slaughter the sheep as sacrifices, the men, women and children in the village should drink wine, sing wine songs, and jump the pot village, which is an activity to pray for a good year. "Celebrate the New Year" is very grand, the whole village people stop working, the wizard slaughters the cow, the sheep sacrifice to the gods, the people in the village carry the white stone all over the village. In addition, Xiqiang also retains special etiquette such as coming-of-age ceremony. Every year from the third lunar month to the third day of June, Qiang Village also holds a tower meeting in order to worship the mountain god. Every year in summer, in case of drought, it is necessary to hold a prayer for rain, that is, "searching the mountains for rain" or "rushing to the morning".

The religion of Xiqiang basically retains the core of the primitive religion, which is a polytheistic belief, except for the god of fire represented by the pot village, and the rest of the gods are symbolized by the white stone. White stone is widely enshrined on the mountain, on the roof, in the ground, and in the stone towers. The sacrificial activities are most frequent in the worship of the gods, and the most solemn in the sacrifice to the mountains. The gods are represented by the white stones enshrined in the small spires of the roofs of each house, and the cypress branches are burned every morning and dusk as a sign of reverence. There is a "sacred forest" composed of a cluster of old trees near Qiang Village, and there is an open space in front of the tree as a place for sacrificing to the mountain, and the sacrificial mountain is also a sacrifice to the sky, that is, praying for the year or repaying the wish. Generally at the beginning of the first month of the lunar calendar, sowing seeds in May, and harvesting in October and autumn, under the auspices of the sorcerer, all the members of the village except the women are dressed in full costumes, carrying steamed buns, or killing cattle and sheep, or hanging white dogs, sprinkling blood on the tip of the white stone, and then dancing "sirloin", drinking wine, eating beef and mutton, and dispersing happily. Xiqiang shaman is a kind of sect teacher who has not been separated from agricultural production, almost one in every village, such as sacrificing mountains, vows, calming the nerves, exorcising ghosts, curing diseases, removing filth, summoning spirits, eliminating disasters, marriage, naming babies, burial of the dead and transcendence, etc., are inseparable from them. Wizard magic tools include monkey skin hats, sheepskin drums, magic sticks, knives, monkey heads, gongs, tokens, beast teeth and bone hexagrams, etc. It is rumored that the golden snub-nosed monkey is the god of expansion of the sorcerer, so the ancestors they worship and use monkey head magic weapons and wear monkey skin hats are all related to the golden snub-nosed monkey, even the pace of jumping the god also symbolizes the monkey's movements. The witchcraft of shamans includes divination, sending ghosts, stepping on red pots, stepping on ploughshares, etc.

Although Xiqiang does not have its own national script, the content of oral history and oral literature is very rich, including myths, legends, fables, stories, fairy tales, proverbs, songs, etc. The myth of "opening the heavens and the earth" reflects the initial victories of mankind in the early struggle with nature. "The creation of mankind" and "the flood to the sky" are both a reflection of ancient blood marriages. "Dou An Zhu and Mu Jie Zhu" is a mythical story of "Tianxian Pei" who succeeded through a bold struggle against divine power and the mandate of heaven. The legend of the "Qiangge War" reflects the historical fact that Xiqiang experienced the migration of ethnic groups in history, and the worship of the Baishi god originated from this legend.

Xiqiang singing and dancing are colorful and colorful, and singing and dancing is an important way for young people to socialize. Folk songs include bitter songs, carols, mountain songs, love songs, drinking songs, festive songs and mourning songs. There are various forms of dance, generally based on foot movements, such as "dancing sirloin", "jumping armor", "dancing pigu drum", "lan ganshou" and so on. "Dancing Shaloin" is also dancing Xiqiang Guozhuang, and its dance is to sing and dance in a circle. Musical instruments include Qiang flute, sheepskin drum, small gong, handbell, suona, yueqin, huqin and bamboo strings. Exquisite peach blossoms, embroidery is the traditional folk arts and crafts of Xiqiang, but also the folk crafts of our country - a strange wonder, in the history of arts and crafts occupies a certain position. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, embroidery was extremely popular in the Xiqiang region, and later picking flowers gradually became common and replaced embroidery. Xiqiang women have been picking flowers since they were young, but they can not proof, do not draw lines, and embroider various geometric patterns or floral linmao with national style and colorful colors. These very decorative flower patterns can be seen everywhere on the belts, skirts, waistbands, laces, headbands, cuffs, and socks of the Xiqiang masses.

This alien race, if it can, but it doesn't need to fight, maybe it is very possible to recover them, if so, it is naturally a supreme achievement! (To be continued......)