What kind of nation is the Qiang nationality?

Qiang people are mainly distributed in the mountainous areas in the northwest of Sichuan Province. Qiang people live in high mountains and steep slopes, with many stones, thin land and low temperature. Qiang people mainly produce corn, potato, wheat, highland barley, buckwheat and all kinds of beans, but the output is not high. Vegetables include cabbage, radish, green vegetables and so on. Qiang people eat two meals on weekdays, mostly "steamed corn" (coarse grain corn, cooked first and then braised), and dinner is mostly porridge and steamed bread. At night, they also like to eat "steamed meat" and drink white wine. "De-fleshed" is to cut pork fat (bacon) into fists. It's cooked with beans and vegetables, and each person eats a lump.

The staple foods of the Qiang people are covered with gold, buckwheat noodles, dough bumps, sour soup noodles, corn jiaozi, fried noodles, steamed stuffed buns and so on. Common non-staple foods include sauerkraut, meat, white tofu, potato chips and bacon. Qiang people eat horse meat, dog meat and wild animal meat. "Notopterygium fish" produced in Beichuan. Looks like a four-legged snake, and Qiang people eat it. I also like to eat pork belly bones. The method of making pork belly bones is: when killing pigs, chop them off, put them in the pork belly, put them in a fire pit to make bananas, then hang them outdoors to dry, and take out some bones to make soup when eating.

The famous local products of Qiang nationality are pepper and tea in Mao Wen and Beichuan. The Qiang people's drinks are mainly wine and tea. The drunkenness brewed with highland barley and corn is smoked with a long bamboo tube when drinking. Qiang people in towns also have the habit of drinking morning tea.