Jinxiu Town & Yao Culture Square
金秀县城·瑶族文化广场
A Yao county town in a mountain valley, where you will see the Yao Culture Square, Yao-style buildings and people in traditional dress. The Pan King Festival brings long drum dances and song gatherings.
Jinxiu town sits in a river valley in the Dayao Mountains. It is the county seat of China's first Yao Autonomous County, and many buildings along its streets are in Yao style. Residents often perform the long drum dance and yellow mud drum dance in the Yao Culture Square. During festivals such as the Pan King Festival on the 16th day of the tenth lunar month, the town holds sacrifices to Pan King, long-table banquets and song-and-dance shows. In town, you can taste Chashan Yao dishes, Yao-style cured meat and bamboo-tube rice, and buy Yao herbal medicine and embroidery. The town is the base for visits to Lianhua Mountain, Shengtang Mountain and Yinshan Park, with most accommodation and restaurants concentrated here.
Opening hours
All day
Nearby sights
- Jinxiu Yao Museum
- Lianhua Mountain, Jinxiu
- Guzhan Yao Village
- Luohan Mountain
- Shengtang Lake
- Silver Fir (Cathaya) Forest Park
- Shengtang Mountain
- Mentou Village, Liuxiang (Fei Xiaotong Research Site)