The Present Situation of Tujia People's Crying Wedding Songs in Tongren

1. Inheritance status: Tujia wedding songs have been well inherited and protected in tongren city. Some areas have collected, arranged and published wedding songs, which has spread this traditional folk culture. At the same time, local schools and cultural departments have also carried out some education and inheritance activities of crying wedding songs, and trained a new generation of inheritors.

2. Singing form: tongren city Tujia people's crying wedding songs are mainly in the form of oral singing, which is passed down by women's oral literature. At the wedding, the bride and her relatives will sit around and sing a wedding song to express their feelings of parting and their wishes to the bride.