As an ancient and great nation, the Qiang nationality has created rich and colorful material culture and spiritual culture in its own development and historical changes, and gradually formed a unique cultural system, which was almost devastating in the "5. 12" Wenchuan earthquake. The purpose of this paper is to deeply discuss the influence of earthquake on Qiang culture and explore the measures of cultural reconstruction. The "512" Wenchuan earthquake caused the Qiang people to be in a catastrophe, and the Qiang people suffered heavy losses in population, culture, economy and society. Among them, the material and intangible cultural heritage of the Qiang nationality has been seriously damaged, which has caused greater difficulties for the protection of the Qiang culture, which is already in crisis, and the reconstruction of the Qiang culture is imminent. 65,438+0. The population of the Qiang nationality suffered heavy losses. "According to the proportion of the Qiang population to the total population, only about10.6 million Qiang compatriots were killed in Wenchuan, Maoxian and Beichuan counties, and it is estimated that at least 20,000 Qiang compatriots were killed in the earthquake." [1] According to the survey data of the research group of the Ethnic Affairs Committee of the National People's Congress, the total number of Qiang people decreased by more than 10% in this earthquake. [2] This is a huge loss for the Qiang people with a total population of just over 300,000. 2. The quality of the Qiang population is affected, first of all, the brain drain of the Qiang people. Due to social and historical reasons, it is not easy for the Qiang people to cultivate highly educated talents, and they have special significance in the knowledge and cultural structure of the Qiang population. In this earthquake, many Qiang people were unfortunately disabled or killed, which was a great loss to the Qiang people. Secondly, the death of Qiang teenagers. In terms of knowledge and culture structure, the parents and the older generation of Qiang people generally have a low level of education and a relatively low level of education. A new generation of young Qiang people benefit from the development of national economy and the strengthening of national education, and they have the opportunity to receive a good education. Compared with their parents, their cultural level and cognitive ability have been greatly improved. However, the death of a large number of teenagers in this earthquake will inevitably reduce the proportion of the overall educated population of the Qiang nationality and the educational level of the existing population of the Qiang nationality. 3. The decrease of cultural inheritors In the earthquake, a large number of Qiang inheritors who were familiar with the Qiang language, history, culture and traditional skills were killed. According to the survey data, all 66 amateur literary and artistic creation backbones of "Yufeng Poetry Society" in Beichuan were killed in this earthquake. The director, deputy director and several on-the-job business backbones of the county cultural center failed to survive; A group of about 30 representative inheritors and researchers of intangible cultural heritage projects, represented by Yu and Qiang cultural expert Xie Xingpeng, died or disappeared, including two Qiang Duangong who were also killed in the earthquake. Many cultural inheritors who played Qiangdi were also killed in the earthquake. There are not many people who can play Qiangdi now. Since the Qiang culture is mainly passed down by word of mouth, the number of inheritors has decreased due to death, which may mean that some cultural heritages have been "scented" since then. Source: Young writers, Chinese and foreign literature and art.