Tujia legend

It is a part of the "Wuman" who moved from Guizhou to Xiangxi in ancient times. According to the record of Xizhou Copper Pillar, it says: "Gavin's sister-in-law joined the border, and Pan Hu was a legacy. Because the six sons are divided into five streams, they gather into one. " Tujia people are from Guizhou. There has always been a "Bizi" ethnic group in Guizhou. For example, Volume 5 of Dading County Records of the Republic of China said: "Biji is the name of white snail, because of its name, its place is Biji, which has been mistaken for Bijie for a long time."

In the Yuan Dynasty's Collection of Shi Jing Grand Ceremony, it is also said that there is a "Biji" clan between Guiyang and Huishui today. "Biji" and "Biji" are immediately "Bizi", similar to Tujia people's self-assertion. According to historical records, after the Middle Tang Dynasty, the "Wuman" in the "Zhang Yue" area once entered Guizhou.

"Soldiers laid out and invaded thousands of miles of land." Some local aborigines were conquered by them, which is the origin of the title "Bailuoluo". Some of them fought with them for a long time and were finally forced to move to Xiangxi and Yunnan. The name "Tujia" refers to the newly invaded "Wuman". The language of Tujia people is close to that of Southwest Yi people, which is also a proof that Tujia people come from Guizhou.

Extended data

Tujia culture

prescribe a diet

Tujia people's daily staple food is corn and rice, supplemented by sweet potatoes and potatoes. The main characteristics of vegetables are sour and spicy, especially love grinding soybeans, separating pulp residue, boiling and clarifying, adding vegetable leaves, and cooking to make residue. Other special foods include Baba, bacon, camellia oleifera, miscellaneous vegetables and jiaozi.

Tujia people like drinking, and the common ones are sweet wine and mixed wine brewed with glutinous rice and sorghum. Our wine is usually sealed with snow koji and miscellaneous grains in a jar, which lasts for six months to two or three years, and it will become wine after a long time. When the guests arrived, they took the hall as the center and bamboo as the pole.

Put a box at the bottom of the altar to put chicken, duck, fish and so on. On both sides, and put a pair of chopsticks on each side instead of sitting. The housewife opened the altar. The host invited the guests to suck up the wine in turn, and then raised chopsticks for dinner. They don't think this is too much for each other. They ate and smoked, sang and danced.

Dress

In terms of clothing, Tujia people are still frugal and like to be loose.

Traditional fabrics are mostly self-woven and self-spun blue homespun or linen, which are called "creek cloth" and "hole cloth" in history books.

The blouse has a short collar and a right slit, with three laces embedded in the neckline (commonly known as "three strands of ribs") and three small lace railings attached to the hem and cuffs; Wearing a "eight-character skirt", the skirt is pleated and straight.

Later, it was changed into pants with three colored shoelaces on the trouser legs; The girl's plain dress is a black cloth coat, and she wears white clothes in spring and autumn. The coat is black and the color is like a crow and magpie, which is called "crow and magpie clothes". He wears his hair in a bun, wears a hat or cloth around his head, and likes to wear silver ornaments such as ears, necklaces, hands and feet.

Men's jackets were "pipa lapels", and later they gradually wore double-breasted jackets and collarless jackets; The belt is wrapped around the waist; Pants are big and short, all blue, and leggings are used more; The head is covered with a green silk handkerchief or a white cloth five or six feet long, showing a "human" shape; Wear slant-ear sandals, full-ear sandals, cloth shoes or spikes.

With the development of the times, Tujia people in many places have dressed almost like Han people. Only in grand gatherings and festivals, or in remote mountain villages, can we see Tujia traditional costumes.

Reference source Baidu Encyclopedia-Tujia nationality