Lichuan folk culture

Swing dance is one of the most representative national dances of Tujia people, and it is a kind of dance that Tujia people celebrate the harvest and victory. Tujia language is called "Sheba" and Chinese is called "wave". Mainly popular in the Tujia area of Youshui River valley, it is in sharp contrast with the funeral dance of Tujia people in Qingjiang River valley, so it is called "waving hands in the south and mourning in the north".

Hedong, laifeng county, Enshi, still retains the authentic and primitive custom of swing dance. During the Dance Festival, men in homespun robes and blue silk handkerchiefs and women in homespun costumes gathered in front of the Dance Hall to dance heartily. Laifeng county has also built the "China No.1 Handcrank Hall", where a grand Handcrank Dance Festival is held every year.

Tujia clothes

Tujia costumes are close to life and practical. Since the Republic of China, Tujia men and women have worn headscarves all year round. Men are mainly made of blue, blue, white or striped cloth, which is two or three meters long and turns around their heads. Most women are green silk handkerchiefs or self-printed headscarves. Silk handkerchief is as thin as cicada's wings and as long as 77 meters. She is a woman's lifelong companion and will be buried with a handkerchief after her death. The clothes are mainly blue, white and printed cloth. Men wear a pair of corsets, with seven to eleven buttons in two rows, commonly known as centipede buttons, and lace at the cuffs, neckline and ends of trouser legs. Women, on the other hand, have right lapels, big sleeves and short sleeves, decorated with lace and silver and copper ornaments, commonly known as "full lapels", which have Manchu style: unmarried girls wear flowered clothes and pay attention to red and green; Children like to wear bodhisattva hats and tiger hats; Men's shoes are mostly blue cloth, and women wear embroidered shoes: girls must wear "dew clothes" when they get married, wearing bright pink embroidery and eight-Luo skirt, similar to the eight-Luo skirt of toast. According to the textual research of Shen Congwen, a great writer, the eight-Luo skirt is an authentic home decoration.

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"Maugus" dance

"Maogusi" means "Labu" in Tujia language, which means old people. It is an ancient dance created by Tujia people to commemorate their ancestors' pioneering and fishing. Formal style, extremely simple and unique.

The performance of "Maugus" requires 15 and 16 people. The ancestor is called "Labu", and the others are junior children and grandchildren. Regardless of generations, the whole body should be wrapped in straw, thatch and leaves, even the face is covered with straw leaves, and five huge palm leaves are tied on the head, four of which are slightly bent and drooping in all directions. "Maugus" dance is unique in action and content. From beginning to end, the performance was funny, speaking dialects and singing local songs. Step forward and backward, bend your knees and shake your body, jump left and swing right, and tremble all over. Shaking his head and shrugging his shoulders, the thatched brush rustled, all imitating the rude behavior of the ancients.

The form of "Maugus" is quite free, and it is not limited by the content. Known as the "living fossil" of ancient culture and art.

Rouxiang

Roulianxiang is produced in Duting, Wang Ying and Nanping of Lichuan City, and is popular in the national folk dances in the whole city. Dance mainly uses the palm to hit the forehead, shoulders, face, arms, elbows, waist, legs and other parts, making a rhythmic sound, which people are used to calling "meat ring".

There is no detailed study on the origin of meat association. The main movements of the meat chain are: yangko step, palm-leg jump, head shaking, duck step, doubles, ten ring, seven rings, four rings and three rings. Pay attention to the "circular rotation" in the dynamic law, and constantly change the inclination angle of the body along the hitting part, which is soft and harmonious. There is no singing accompaniment in the slaughterhouse. According to the needs of the performance, the artist added the voice accompaniment of tongue and fingers to increase the joyful atmosphere of the dance.

Tusi system

From the Tang Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, the feudal dynasty successively carried out the system of Jimi county and chieftain to the southwest ethnic minorities. In the early years of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, he began to set up shelters in ethnic minority areas, holding Confucianism, "Civil and military harmony, soil and fluid harmony." By the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were many villages 10 in * *, such as Zhiluo, Guandu, Zhusha, Maqiao, Zhan Mu, Sun Jia, Jiudu, Sandu, Xiao Zhong, Madao, Pine, Yuanli, Zhongba, Banggu and Taiping, which gradually broke through the long-standing state of "not leaving the country and not entering the cave". In the forty-fourth year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty (1565), Huang Zhong, the chieftain of Zhiluo, was pacified by the Ming Dynasty and transferred to Zhiluo. In the 14th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1586), the toast of Longyangdong returned to the stream and was compiled in Wanxian County. In the 13th year of Yongzheng in Qing Dynasty (1735), all the five chieftains in China, such as Heather, Xiao Zhong, Zhonglu, Jiannan and Shaxi, were converted to native land and settled in lichuan county the following year.

End the history of the domestic toast system. During the period of the Republic of China, a situation of multi-ethnic groups living in small settlements has been formed. Tujia, Miao and Dong are the main ethnic minorities living in China for a long time. In the old society, they were collectively called "aborigines" or called themselves "Tujia", "Miao" and "Dong", and they kept some national customs and habits in their own small areas.