Enshi custom

Daughter's Club: Daughter's Club, with a long history, is a national grand gathering of Tujia people in Enshi and one of the most representative regional traditional festivals in China. The time is usually on the twelfth day of the seventh lunar month. It was first popular in Enshi Lime Kiln and Dashantou, and has now developed into a national festival in the whole state. Daughter's party, known as Tujia Valentine's Day, retains the legacy of ancient Ba people's original marriage customs and conveys the pulse and soul of Tujia people's truth, goodness and beauty. It is a self-determined way of choosing a spouse for the purpose of love, which is spontaneously formed by Tujia people in Enshi under the pretext of going to the market, in the form of singing. If two of a kind, hand in hand to the Woods, streams, hillside trysts, and even set a life;

Mid-Autumn Festival: Also known as Ghost Festival and Day of the Dead, it falls on July 12th of the lunar calendar, and Tujia people are known as "the small moon and the half moon". Its main activity is to worship ancestors, and burn paper money to express condolences to their deceased relatives. After half a month, the whole family must reunite and take back their married daughter;

Send to Mi Zhu: When Tujia people give birth to children, they will hold a warm celebration for the birth of a small life, commonly known as Mi Zhu wine. The time is set on the day of washing three, or at the full moon. No matter what the status, the baby's grandmother will enjoy the honor of being a superior guest on this day;

Weeping marriage: Tujia daughters should cry before getting married. It is the most attractive cultural feature in Tujia marriage customs. Weeping marriage was initially a rebellion against the feudal ethics that replaced Tujia people's free marriage custom, and later gradually formed a cultural form of expressing happiness with sadness;

White Tiger Totem: According to the records in China literature and Mr. Pan Guangdan's inference, perhaps in the early Xia Dynasty 4,200 years ago, the first king of Ba people appeared-Lin Jun, which indicated that Ba people had entered the era of patriarchal clan's transition to slavery. Lin Jun is dad's son. It is generally believed that Lin means tiger, and Lin means tiger. Baihuba people mainly have five surnames. Baihuba people have always worshipped the white tiger, regarded it as a totem and a god, and believed that Lin Jun was the incarnation of the white tiger. Their religious beliefs were branded as white tigers. As a symbol of courage and strength, they praised it as the soul of victory, which reflected Lin Jun's brave spirit and the perseverance of the whole tribe, boldness and boldness, and constituted the basic characteristics of Ba culture.