Get to know Liping County
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- Administrative area
- County · 县
- Part of
- Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture
- Chinese name
- 黎平县
- Local areas
- County guide
Area & population
- Area in the source
- 4,439.00 km²
- Population · 2013
- 538,294
- Administrative seat
- Defeng Subdistrict (:zh:德凤街道)
Source: cited geographic source, as of the dates shown.
Dong villages and music
The county has 98 villages on the national list of traditional villages. Zhaoxing (肇兴侗寨) is known as the "first village of the Dong", and Tang'an (堂安侗寨) holds a Dong ecomuseum that keeps its culture and old buildings intact. Huanggang (黄岗侗寨) was chosen by the UN World Tourism Organization as a Best Tourism Village.
The Dong grand song (侗族大歌), polyphonic choral singing without conductor or accompaniment, was placed on the first national intangible heritage list in 2006 for Liping. It belongs to the villages of southern Liping, including Yandong (岩洞), Koujiang (口江), Shuangjiang (双江), Yongcong (永从), Zhaoxing, Shuikou (水口) and Longe (龙额), and neighbouring northern Congjiang (从江). Choirs sing it when one village or clan visits another; the Song poet Lu You (陆游) already recorded Dong people visiting and singing together. Local festivals include the Dong New Year (侗年).
History
The name Liping dates from 1283 under the Yuan. In the Qing, Kaitai County (开泰县) here was the seat of Liping Prefecture (黎平府), and Liping County was set up in 1913. In December 1934 the Central Red Army on the Long March reached Liping, its first town in Guizhou, and on 18 December the Politburo met on Qiaojie (翘街) and adopted Mao Zedong's proposal on strategy; Xinhua describes the meeting as laying the ground for the Zunyi Meeting.
The meeting site at 52 Erlangpo (二郎坡) in Defeng (德凤), once the Hu Rongshun (胡荣顺) shop built in the Qing Jiaqing reign with three courtyards and nine light-wells, became a national key protected site in 2006 together with Mao Zedong's former residence at 3 Erlangpo. Qiaojie is listed as a famous historic and cultural street of China.
Food and local products
Xinhua names Liping rice noodles (黎平米粉) and Dong sour soup (侗族酸汤) as local dishes. Liping fuling fungus (黎平茯苓) and Xianghe glutinous rice (香禾糯) carry national geographical-indication status, and Liping is known as a home of Chinese fir (杉木). Indigo dyeing, silverwork, embroidery and lusheng pipes are among its living crafts.
Highlights
- Zhaoxing Dong Village 肇兴侗寨: Known as the "first village of the Dong"; one of the villages where the Dong grand song is sung.
- Tang'an Dong Village 堂安侗寨: Holds a Dong ecomuseum that keeps Dong culture and traditional buildings intact.
- Qiaojie street 翘街: Famous historic and cultural street of China, where the Liping Meeting was held in December 1934.
- Dong grand song 侗族大歌: Polyphonic choral singing without conductor or accompaniment; national intangible heritage (2006).
Sources for this guide
黎平县亮相《300秒看家乡》：侗乡之窗展古韵 曙光之城启新程-新华网 · Xinhua (news.cn)
侗族大歌 - 中国非物质文化遗产网·中国非物质文化遗产数字博物馆 - 中国非物质文化遗产网非遗 · China Intangible Cultural Heritage Network (ihchina.cn)
黎平县 - 维基百科，自由的百科全书 · Wikipedia (Chinese) · CC BY-SA 4.0
黎平会议会址 - 维基百科，自由的百科全书 · Wikipedia (Chinese) · CC BY-SA 4.0
黎平会议 - 维基百科，自由的百科全书 · Wikipedia (Chinese) · CC BY-SA 4.0
Original English written from the listed sources and checked sentence by sentence against quoted extracts by a separate reviewer. Updated 2026-09-25.
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Places to explore around Liping County
Tang'an Dong Village · 堂安侗寨Tang'an Dong Village堂安侗寨
Tang'an (堂安侗寨) is a Dong village in Zhaoxing town, Liping County, in the Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture of eastern Guizhou. It stands on the mid-slope of a hill above a fall of stone-built terraces and is the seat of a Dong ecomuseum.
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A drum tower and traditional wooden houses beside the pond at Zhaoxing Dong Village, Liping County · 贵州黔东南州黎平县肇兴侗寨鼓楼与吊脚楼 Source-recorded photograph date: Taken on 3 October 2006.Zhaoxing Dong Village肇兴侗寨
Zhaoxing fills a narrow valley with timber houses, covered bridges and five drum towers. Each tower belongs to a different community within the village, giving a walk through the lanes a series of distinct gathering places. The…
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Liping Qiaojie Old Street · 黎平翘街Liping Qiaojie Old Street黎平翘街
Qiaojie (黎平翘街), also called Dongmen Street, is the old merchant street of the county town of Liping in south-eastern Guizhou, a Qing-period quarter of courtyard houses and fire gables running a little over a kilometre from the east gate of the city wall south to Hehuatang at Erlangpo. The Chinese Communist Party's Politburo met on this street on 18 December 1934, in the first such meeting of the Long March.
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Getting there
Liping County is about 120 km in a straight line from central Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture. Search for 黎平县 in a map app to find stations and your accommodation.
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Tang'an Dong Village and Zhaoxing Dong Village are both listed here. The linked place guides have entrance and visit details.
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Sources & geographic information
Administrative names and parent areas: Official geographic directory · Reference date 2026-09-06.
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