What are the traditional festivals of the Tujia people?

The traditional festivals of the Tujia people: Catch the New Year, Lantern Festival, Social Day, Flower Morning Festival, Cold Food Festival, Qingming Festival, Cow King Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Xiangwang Festival, Beggar's Day, Daughter's Day and so on. Catch the New Year: Tujia had the custom of catching the New Year, that is, one day earlier than the Han Chinese, month small Lunar New Year 28, month big Lunar New Year 29, eat the New Year's dinner, to the Lunar New Year's Eve Eve the same vigil, so there are Tujia over the two New Year's saying. Cow King Festival: April 18th this day, legend has it that is the cow king bodhisattva birthday, plowing cattle to take a day off to rest, and give the cattle feed good material, such as soybeans, etc., clean up the cattle pen, people also want to kill chickens, slaughter pigs, sacrifices to ancestors.

Duanwu Festival

There are the first, second and third Duanyang. That is, the first five, fifteen, twenty-five, to the head of the Dragon Boat Festival is the most solemn, this day generally have to push the bean curd package dumplings, married daughters and son-in-laws to go home "over the Dragon Boat Festival". The so-called "have the heart to pay homage to the New Year, Dragon Boat Festival is not late", indicating the importance of this festival. Over the Dragon Boat Festival, each family should collect mugwort, calamus, wind vine, etc. hanging in the door, with these grasses and vines to boil water to take a bath, you can go to the wind and dampness, cure herpes sores. Thus, there is "Ai leaves such as the flag invites a hundred blessings, calamus like a sword, Nachanxiang" of the coupling language. Drinking andrographis wine, to the child body smear andrographis, as well as around the well house spread andrographis is also an important folklore of the Dragon Boat Festival, because andrographis has the function of preventing mosquitoes, snakes and scorpions.

Daughter will

Out of the city of Enshi, southeastbound more than a hundred kilometers, there is a four sides surrounded by a bright river flowing along the mountain, the ancient name of the Shihe to be, along with the harmonic today called Lime Kiln. It and Jianshi official store, Hefeng in the camp, Enshi Shuanghe, Xuanen Tsubaki camp adjacent to the 12th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar every year, is the traditional festival of the Tujia people here, "daughter will". On this day, many young men and women will come out of the path to the meeting, looking for the dream lover.

To the King Festival

To the King is the distant ancestor of Exi Tujia. Legend has it that he was born in Wulu Zhongli Mountain in the Red Cave and was shipwrecked in the Qingjiang River on the sixth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar. In order to commemorate him, people on both sides of the Qingjiang River built to the king of the temple, more than 40 existing. Every year on the sixth day of the sixth month, people have to change into clean clothes, to the King's temple to burn incense into the fruit.