What are the characteristics of the folklore of the Tujia?

The Tujia are mainly engaged in agriculture. The art of weaving and embroidery is the traditional craft of Tujia women. Other traditional crafts of the Tujia include carving, painting, paper-cutting and batik. Tujia brocade, also known as "Silankappu", is one of the three famous brocades in China.

The Tujia people love to sing mountain songs, which include love songs, marriage songs, swinging hand songs, labor songs, and pan songs, etc. The Tujia people also love to dance, and the Youyang Folk Dance, which is one of the most popular dances in China. The Pendulum Dance, Youyang Folk Songs and Youyang Ancient Songs have been listed in the national intangible cultural heritage list.

The traditional festivals of the Tujia people include: Eat New Festival, Sheba Day, Catch the New Year, Cow King Festival, Flower Dynasty Festival, and Wash the God Festival, etc.

The Tujia people love to sing mountain songs.

The main etiquette is to meet and greet each other, and if there is a guest in the house, they will be treated with hospitality. If there is a New Year's Day to the Tujia people home guests, the host will also take out the snow-white patty cake to bake, to be baked on both sides of the golden blossom, blowing pat clean, into the filling of sugar or honey, hands to the guests. Some places for guests to eat patties also some attention, that is, the baked patties to the guests, the guests shall not blow pat fire ash, to take over the bite, then the host will snatch back to blow pat clean, dipped in sugar and then to the guests.

Dietary habits

Tujia daily staple food in addition to rice, the most common to the baguette rice, the baguette rice is the main baguette flour, moderately mixed with some rice with tripod cans to cook, or steamed with a wooden steamer into. Sometimes also eat beans rice, that is, green beans, peas, etc. and rice cooked into a meal to eat, poop and deep-fried noodle cake is also the seasonal Tujia