Kaili Ethnic Minorities Museum is located in Downtown Kailim, it is actually a collection of Ethnic Minorities culture in Guizhou, where you can have a background knowledge of all minority native culture in this area. It is one of the "100 Distinctive Museums of China", is entitled "the Origin of Chinese Folk Arts". The Kaili Ethnic Minorities Museum has a collection of over ten thousand items of different ethnic groups.
Kaili Ethnic Minorities Museum, which itself is a work in progress, will have 11 exhibition halls when it is completed. Currently there are only 4 exhibition halls open to the public, of which the Minority Customs Hall and the Dragon Boat Hall are the most noteworthy. In the museum human culture, geography, and the national minorities' customs in the south-eastern areas of Guizhou Province are displayed in detail. Writings, pictures and objects of interest are also exhibited here.
In the Kaili Ethnic Minorities Museum, you will not only see the minor nationality women doing craft jobs, such as embroidering, plaiting, brocading, spinning, batiking and cross-stitching, but also taste the delicious local nationality food and enjoy dances and sports games organized in traditional way especially for reception.
In the Kaili Ethnic Minorities Museum, people can get a glimpse of the culture and history of Miao, Buyi, Shui, Dong minority ethnic areas by their buildings, food and drink, costumes, festivals, production, recreation, etiquette, morals and beliefs etc.
The bronze drum dance, Fengyu Bridge, Baoye Bridge, Beauty Cushion, wine songs, culture of ox, culture of fish, Jiqiao Festival and Chixin Festival of Kaili Miao Village, attract hundreds and thousands of tourists from both home and abroad. |
