People of Jiuzhaigou are dainty about their headpieces, chest wears, jewelry, waist adornments, and shoes. On big occasions, ladies will put on their best headpieces, earrings, and silver coins on pigtails. Their head is smooth and lubricous, and they appear splendid. Well dressed girls are often targets of young men's gazes.

Necklaces are welcome by both men and women, as well as bracelets and fingers rings. Metal coins and gems hang on the back of ladies, while men like to wear broadswords, pipes, neck articles, silver coins, and other ornaments.

Of various styles of the Tibetan hat, the commonest is a felt hat. In the middle of the last century, western hats were introduced and have been in fashion in Tibetan inhabited areas, today.

Boots are one of the top favors of Tibetans. Men or women, old or young, all wear boots like those of officials and generals in traditional pageant dramas.

Tibetan costume is both practical and colorful, serving a means to demonstrate their wealth. A fine set of clothes may cost over 10,000 or tents of thousands RMB.

It is a carnival best representing ethnic customs and tourist culture of Jiuzhaigou, being held at a number of hotels outside the valley. At the party, you will have a taste of Tibetan and Qiang food, like roasted mutton, qingke liquor, buttered tea, and milk tea. This song and dance show adds to Jiuzhaigou much cultural appeal, and becomes an integral part of a full tour of Jiuzhaigou.

Sculptors work on clay, wood, stone, root, bamboo and metal, for buildings and daily articles, for dragon lantern, lion dance and Tibetan dramas. Of a long history, the Tibetan sculpture demonstrates a strong artistic appeal.

Guozhuang Dance is the most popular style of dances in Jiuzhaigou. According to Tibetan historical records, in the 3rd Century B.C., people went crazy about dancing everywhere in Tibet. It originated from the form by which they danced around a campfire all the time. And this dance has been with the Tibetan nationality throughout their history.

Guozhuang has three kinds: Temple Guozhuang, Pastoral Guozhuang and Farm Guozhuang. The Temple Guozhuang event is organized for religious purposes in temples or monasteries, or for greeting and sending-off the Living Buddha. It is solemn of strong religious implications, through which, believers dance in honor of the Living Buddha, grateful for their expected bliss in their afterlife. The Pastoral and Farm Guozhuang are enthusiastic, unrestrained, and somewhat complacent. It is organized for festivals and big occasions when men wear loose trousers dancing like an eagle spreading its wings; women expose their right arms dancing with the right sleeve waggling behind. Moving around a circle, they sway their joined hands frontward and backward, keep beats of their steps, until very late at night.