Batik is a traditional skill passed down from generation to generation by the Miao people in Danzhai County, Anshun County and Zhijin County of Guizhou Province. It was called "waxie" in ancient times and "wutu" in Miao language, which means "batik clothing". Danzhai County, Anshun County and Zhijin County are multi-ethnic settlements with the Miao people as the main body. In the long-term difficult environment isolated from the outside world, the residents here gradually formed a self-sufficient lifestyle, and the ancient batik skills were preserved. According to Miao customs, all women have the obligation to pass on the batik skills, and every mother must teach her daughter to make batik. Therefore, Miao women learn this skill from an early age. They plant indigo and cotton, spin yarn and weave cloth, draw wax, pick clothes, dip and dye, and cut clothes, which are passed down from generation to generation. Under this situation, these Miao settlements have formed customs and cultures such as clothing and attire dominated by batik art, marriage and festival customs, social methods, and funeral customs. Miao batik is an art created for the needs of the producers themselves. Its products are mainly daily necessities, including women's clothing, bed sheets, quilt covers, cloth wraps, headscarves, backpacks, handbags, straps, funeral slips, etc. Miao batik has two techniques: wax dotting and wax painting. The patterns can be divided into two categories: geometric patterns and natural patterns. The authors of Danzhai Miao batik prefer large flowers with natural patterns as the main pattern. This pattern is vivid, concise and vivid, lively and smooth, full of exaggeration, and has a strong local flavor. Anshun Miao batik is mainly geometric patterns, with loose pattern structure and vivid shape. Zhijin Miao batik is mainly fine white, covered with geometric spiral patterns, and the pattern structure is intertwined and integrated. The main tools for batik production are copper knives (crayons), porcelain bowls, basins, large needles, bone needles, straw, dye vats, etc. When making, first soak the cloth with water filtered by plant ash to remove the lipids in the fiber, making it easy to dot wax and color. Then put an appropriate amount of yellow wax in a small porcelain bowl and place the porcelain bowl on hot wood ash. When the yellow wax melts into liquid due to the heat, you can paint on the cloth. Soak the cloth with wax flowers in warm water and put it into the indigo dye vat. Soak it repeatedly for several times. After confirming that the cloth has been dyed, you can take it to the river to rinse it, let the water wash away the floating color, and then put it in a pot and boil it to melt the yellow wax and float on the water surface. Recycle it for reuse. After that, rinse the batik repeatedly to remove the residual yellow wax, and it is considered finished. Danzhai batik also needs to apply red and yellow after this. The red is generally painted with madder root, and the yellow is extracted from gardenia. In order to avoid fading, it is generally not colored until the batik is made. In addition to the above steps, batik also has processes such as making indigo and dyeing vats. Each process is connected before and after, forming a complete and mature set of skills and operating procedures. With the development of science and technology, the types of textiles are constantly enriched, and the status of batik as the mainstream textile in the Miao area of Guizhou has gradually shaken. With the development of tourism, batik handicrafts are marketed as special tourist souvenirs. In order to meet market needs and pursue economic benefits, a large number of inferior batik products have emerged, posing a threat to the orderly inheritance of skills. It can be seen that the Miao batik skills are in urgent need of real protection and reasonable development. (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.) (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.)