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What are the important festivals of Tujia nationality?

Important Tujia festivals include: Festival (catching up with the New Year), Lantern Festival, social day in February, Flower Festival, Cold Food Festival in March, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Niuwang Festival on the eighth day of April, Dragon Boat Festival in May, Wangwang Festival on the sixth day of June, Qiaoqiao Festival in July, Daughter's Party, Half Moon Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival in August, Double Ninth Festival in September and "Cold Clothes Festival" on the first day of October.

Tujia nationality is a nation with a long history in China, living in Wuling Mountain area adjacent to Hunan, Hubei, Chongqing and Guizhou. Tujia people call themselves "Bizka". "Tujia" is the name of the Han nationality "Bizka". The northern branches of Tujia nationality (Xiangxi, Zhangjiajie, Hubei, Enshi, Wufeng, Changyang, southeastern Chongqing and northeastern Guizhou) call themselves "Bizika, Bizika, Mizika, etc.". Tujia people planted in the south are only distributed in several villages in luxi county, Xiangxi, Hunan. Claiming to be "Muntz", the southern branch of Tujia language cannot communicate with the northern Tujia language, and now it is only used by more than 900 people in Luxi.