What ethnicity are the Turks?

Tujia is an ethnic minority.

The Tujia are one of the traditional ethnic minorities in China, mainly located in the Wuling Mountains in the Xiang-E-Chu-Guizhou border area. The Tujia do not have a mother tongue and generally use Chinese. It has two national languages, Biji and Mezi. It belongs to the Tibeto-Burman language group of the Sino-Tibetan language family and is close to the Yi branch.

The traditional dwellings of the Tujia are of four types: thatched houses, earth-brick houses, wooden-framed houses, and hammock houses, in addition to stone houses and kilns. The structure of the dwellings is divided into the main house, the compartment, and the division of the eaves; the main house is mostly three rooms, and the two rooms in front of and perpendicular to the two ends of the main house are the compartments; the Tujia inhabits many ethnic groups, whose settlements form their own neighborhoods.

Tujia language belongs to the Tibeto-Burman language family of the Sino-Tibetan language family, close to the Yi language branch, which can be divided into the southern dialect and the northern dialect. The Tujia in Tansi Township, Luxi County, Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, except for speaking the southern dialect, all other Tujia speak the northern dialect. The Tujia do not have a mother tongue and have long used Chinese. Most Tujia people speak Chinese, and some speak Miao.

Customs of the Tujia People

1. Marriage of the Tujia People

Generally, it is divided into the procedures of proposing marriage, betrothal, gift-giving, wedding ceremonies, and thank-you banquets. The ceremony is solemn and warm, and is carried out with songs and dances from the beginning to the end. Whether it is a free love affair or a parental decision, the man's parents have to ask a matchmaker to propose to the woman's family. When the woman's family agrees, they invite the parents of each family and the father or uncle of the man's family to come with the matchmaker to discuss the marriage. "Nadon" (harvest celebration) and so on, of which the ring, Danma theater and "Nadon" is the most ethnic characteristics.

Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Turkish People