Hongqiao Market is located in the eastern gate of the Phoenix Ancient City, a living museum of the fusion of Miao and Han cultures. At dawn, silver jewelry glistens on the eaves of the hanging houses, while Miao mothers use indigo and wax to draw butterfly patterns on cloth, and the fragrance of wild mushrooms blends with the sound of silver jewelry clinking on the stone pavement. It’s not just a shopping paradise, but a folk theater – within the three-meter-high Miao Silver House, silversmiths hammer silver sheets using ancient methods, each pattern concealing the epic of the Miao people’s migration; in the indigo dyeing workshop, the indigo dye vat reflects the faded silver jewelry, and the sound of the loom carries the singing of “Miao Folk Songs.”
