What are the customs of the Tujia people?

1, the pendulum dance

The Tujia people are more popular in an ancient dance, hunting dance, agricultural dance, life dance, military dance, etc., which has a distinctive rhythm, beautiful image, simple dance, with significant national characteristics and a strong sense of life, y loved by the Tujia people. Pendulum dance can be divided into big pendulum and small pendulum according to the size.

2. Sheba Song

The song that accompanies the Pendulum Dance is commonly known as the "Sheba Song", which is the Tujia people's epic of the creation of the world, consisting of two parts: the ritual song and the accompanying dance song. The song describes the origin of mankind, traces the origin of the nation and the history of migration, glorifies the performance of ancestors and heroes, and expresses the Tujia people's love of life and pursuit of ideals.

3. Mountain Songs

The lyrics of the songs are mostly in two, four or five stanzas, and there are forms of singing, such as singing alone, singing in pairs, and singing by one person with a group of people. From the singing style, the Tujia mountain song "high cavity" lyric, called "shouting songs"; "flat cavity" narrative, "singing songs".

4, playing the skate

Tujia percussion "playing the skate", known for its unique flavor, a wealth of songs, mostly used for folk celebrations, and now because of being given a new era of content and shine, widely used in the construction of new houses, send new recruits, welcome the model worker, to celebrate the harvest and a variety of national festivals.

5, Maogus

Jumping "Maogus" is an ancient Tujia folk song, dance, speech as one of the "like a play like a dance" of the gods of the theater. Performers covered with straw, thatch, wrapped in leaves, pretending to be a family of children and grandchildren of the grandparents, the action is rude and funny, or broken step in and out, bending the knees and shaking the body, or left and right jumping pendulum, trembling, or shaking his head and shrugging his shoulders, and from the beginning to the end of the speech accompanied by the language of the bizarre vernacular, singing the vernacular song.

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