Qiang folk religion

[1]: 14  It is pantheistic, involving the worship of a variety of gods of nature and of human affairs, including Qiang progenitors.

White stones are worshipped as it is believed they can be invested with the power of some gods through rituals.

[2]: 140–144 Religious ceremonies and rituals are directed by priests called duāngōng in Chinese.

They also administer the coming of age ceremony for 18-year-old boys, called the "sitting on top of the mountain", which involves the boy's entire family going to mountain tops to sacrifice a sheep or cow, and to plant three cypress trees.

[1]: 14–15 Two of the most important religious holidays are the Qiang New Year, falling on the 24th day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar (though now it is fixed on October 1), and the Mountain Sacrifice Festival, held between the second and the sixth month of the lunar calendar.