What are the national cultures and characteristics of Tujia nationality?

Tujia's national culture and characteristics are: swing dance, Sheba songs, folk songs, playing yo-yo and Maogusi.

1, wave dance

It is an ancient dance popular among Tujia people, such as hunting dance, farming dance, life dance and military dance. It has a distinct rhythm, beautiful image, simple dance, remarkable national characteristics and strong life atmosphere, and is deeply loved by Tujia people. According to the scale, waving dance can be divided into big waving dance and small waving dance.

2. Sheba song

The song of waving hands accompanied by waving hands, commonly known as "Sheba Song", is a creative epic of Tujia people, which consists of two parts: sacrificial songs and dance songs. Handmade songs depict the origin of human beings, trace the origin and migration history of the nation, praise the merits and heroic deeds of ancestors, and express the Tujia people's love for life and pursuit of ideals.

3. Folk songs

The lyrics are mainly two, four and five sentences, including solo, duet and one-man chorus. From the perspective of singing style, Tujia folk songs are "high-pitched" and lyrical, which is called "shouting folk songs"; "Pingqiang" narrative is "singing folk songs", carefully classified, with different musical forms such as picking tea songs, wearing songs and wearing mountains, with ups and downs in rhythm.

4, hit the valve

Tujia percussion "Da Liu Zi" is famous for its unique charm and rich tunes, and is mostly used in folk festivals. Now it has been given a new era content and shines brilliantly. It is widely used to build new houses, send new recruits, welcome model workers, celebrate bumper harvests and various ethnic festivals.

5. Maugus

The dance Maogusi is an ancient Tujia folk drama offering sacrifices to gods, which integrates singing, dancing and speaking. The performers, wrapped in straw, thatch and leaves, dressed up as a family of three generations of grandparents and grandchildren, acted rudely and comically, or stepped forward and backward, bent their knees and shook their bodies, or jumped left and right, shook their heads and shrugged their shoulders, and sang local songs with strange words from beginning to end.