The Shui people call themselves Sui (suǐ). They are one of the ethnic minorities in China. They have their own language and traditional writing. They mainly live in the upper reaches of the Longjiang and Duliu rivers at the junction of Guizhou and Guizhou. The Sandu Shui people in Qiannan, Guizhou Province

Autonomous counties, Libo, Dushan, Duyun and other counties and cities are the main residential areas.

The Shui people have three treasures: water script, Duanjie and horsetail embroidery.

Shui Shu is the general name for the Chinese translation of Shui people’s ancient writings and their compiled classics. These classics record the Shui people’s folk customs, beliefs and culture, and their content is extensive and profound, covering astronomy and calendars, philosophical thoughts, literature and art, languages, formations and offensive and defensive formations.

, ethics and morals down to agricultural production, house repair, marriage luck and misfortune, it is equivalent to an "encyclopedia" to understand the history of the aquarium.

It is also a precious reference material for the study of religion, history, ethnology, folklore, linguistics and other disciplines in my country. It is a precious cultural treasure left to the public by the Shui people.

The Duanjie is the most solemn festival of the Shui people. The Duanjie is called "Jie Duan" in Shui language, which means eating Duan. It is the beginning of the new year, saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new, celebrating the harvest, worshiping ancestors, and gathering relatives and friends. Its meaning is equivalent to

The Spring Festival of the Han people.

The Dragon Boat Festival is the longest and most numerous festival in the world.

Shui Nationality's Duan Festival has a long history and is a legacy of ancient tribal celebrations of rice crops. During the Duan Festival, people avoid eating meat and vegetables. When worshiping their ancestors, they will place production tools such as hoes and sickles to reflect people's reverence for labor.

The Duanjie horse racing is a legacy of the Shui people's battles in their birthplace. It serves to commemorate the sacrifices made by our ancestors to achieve national unity, and also serves as a warning to future generations to be prepared for danger in times of peace and to maintain fighting strength at all times.

Duanjie is one of the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage.

Horsetail embroidery is a special embroidery technique passed down from generation to generation by Shui women, using horsetail as an important raw material.

The craftsmanship of horsetail embroidery is very complicated. This kind of embroidery uses horsetail as the core and needs to go through four processes in one day before it is finished. It is precisely because of this unique process that horsetail embroidery has a bas-relief feel, abstract, general, and

exaggerate.

It is the oldest and most vital primitive art in existence, and is known as the "living fossil" of embroidery.