Top Ten Tujia Customs and Habits

As a tourist, do you have a lot of regrets in your heart? You don't know enough about Tujia culture and are often speechless by questions? There are as many as 10 national-level intangible cultural heritage items of the Tujia people in western Hunan! The Tujia people are really awesome. If you know this, you will definitely be proud of them!

1 Tujia Tima Song An encyclopedia of Tujia culture

↑ Tujia Tima Song is a long epic of the Tujia people. It integrates poetry, songs, music and dance, and expresses a wide range of historical, cultural and social life content such as creation, human reproduction, ethnic sacrifices, ethnic migration, hunting, farming, and food and daily life. When singing, Tujia is used as the main language of expression. In form, it is a synthesis of verse and prose. When singing, there are singing and chanting, duet and chorus, highlighting the precious cultural value with a unique and rare cultural form., it is known as the "Encyclopedia for the Study of Tujia Culture."

2 Tujia crying marriage song "I cried, I am yours!"

↑ Tujia Crying Marriage Song is a long narrative lyrical song in which Tujia girls thank their parents for their kindness in raising them by crying and singing before getting married. It has a long history and has a unique custom of replacing crying with songs and accompanying music with crying. The wedding ceremony was full of the feeling of parting from one's ancestors, and fully demonstrated the rich and delicate emotional world of Tujia women.

3 The Tujia traditional percussion music of the Tujia people walking around the world

↑ Tujia people beat luozi, Tujia people call it "qiaoha", and Chinese is commonly known as "beat squeeze cymbals". It is a traditional percussion music spread in the Tujia area of western Hunan. It is mainly played by two types of instruments: cymbals and gongs. Tujia Daluozi, like other music formations, has its unique music collection, including phrases, passages and quads. The pronunciation is unique and the rhythm is clear. There are more than 200 traditional qupai. The Tujia people's "Golden Rooster Out of the Mountain" has been performed in Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Italy and other countries. The performance is humorous and popular.

4 Tujia people blow out the world through the small bamboo pipe of quinquine

↑ Tujia Dongdongquine is an extremely ancient reed and gas-sounding instrument. Dongdongquine is easy to obtain materials and simple to make. It uses a thin bamboo tail with a diameter of about 1 cm as the tube body and is about 10-14 cm long. The upper end is left with knots, and the spring is cut and punched under the knots to form three holes and one barrel sound. Its pronunciation is crisp and crisp, with the characteristics of both beat and trill. It mimics the singing of birds, insects, and the sound of wind springs to form a freehand musical vocabulary and fixed musical tunes. There are more than 20 kinds of popular traditional qupai such as "Dongdongqu" and "Baliedong". There are words and songs, which can be played and sung. The combination of playing and singing is popular.

5 The Tujia waving dance is the most dazzling Tujia style and the most beautiful Tujia dance

↑ Tujia waving dance is the festival dance with the most Tujia national characteristics and ancient customs. The waving dance originated in the Tujia sacrificial ceremony. It integrates song and dance, music, and drama, and expresses extensive and rich social life contents such as the creation of the world, human reproduction, ethnic migration, pig hunting and fishing, land reclamation, farming, and diet. With its epic structure and fiery colors, it shows people majestic national historical scrolls and customs, and is known as an artistic portrayal of the history of the Tujia people.

6 Living Fossil of China Drama of Tujia Nationality in Western Hunan

↑ Xiangxi Tujia Maogus Dance, known as the "Gusbapa Dance" in Tujia language. Most of the performances are interspersed with the hand-waving dance. The performance content is to imitate the fishing, hunting, farming, etc. of Tujia ancestors. It has characters, dialogues, and simple The plot has both the rudiment of dance and the performance of drama. The two are mixed and intertwined to form a seamless original sacrificial dance drama, known as the living fossil of China drama.

7 The Tujia brocade weaving skills are comparable to China's "Four Famous Brocades"

↑ Tujia brocade weaving skills, commonly known as "flower-making" among people, can be divided into two categories: Xilankapu and flower belt. Among them, Silankapu is the most representative and typical. It uses an ancient waist-type diagonal loom and adopts the pattern digging technology of "passing through and breaking weft". It has the legacy of "Jing Brocade" in the Han and Tang Dynasties. Tujia brocade is named after patterns, such as single eight hooks, forty-eight hooks, rock wall flowers, chair flowers, etc., but "unique in name and shape" is one of its important artistic features. There are more than 300 traditional Silankap. The themes of the patterns involve animals, plants, labor and production, folk life, abstract geometric patterns, etc. It is comparable to the "four famous brocades" of Yun Brocades, Shu Brocades, Zhuang Brocades and Song Brocades, and can be regarded as a treasure of China's brocade.

8 Tujia Hanging Tower Construction Skills: Architectural Art of Building between the Mountains and Waters of Western Hunan

↑ Tujia penthouse has a unique structure, lively form, distinctive features and large-scale. It integrates art such as architecture, painting and carving. It is called the "living fossil" of traditional architecture by experts and scholars. Most of the Tujia penthouse buildings are wooden structures and are generally built on hillsides. They are gang-style buildings with flying eaves and angled corners. There are corridors on three sides. The hanging wooden railings are carved with patterns symbolizing good luck. Simple and elegant, beautiful and practical, with distinctive personality and complex craftsmanship. It has architectural characteristics such as "no building can be built without obstacles, no interesting without melons, and no building can be built without turning".

9 Tujia Year is the most solemn festival of the Tujia people

↑ Tujia Year is the most solemn festival of the Tujia people. One of the characteristics of the Tujia Year is that the time to eat Reunion Year meals is one day before the Han people. Second, it has a long history and has a variety of oral legends and documentary records. Some say it originated from the Five Dynasties, while some say it originated from the Ming Dynasty. It is said that after the New Year one day in advance, they will go to war against the enemy the next day; Third, it is widely distributed, and most Tujia people in the border area of Hunan, Hubei, Chongqing and Guizhou have the custom of Tujia Year; Fourth, it lasts for a long time. The New Year starts from the beginning of the twelfth lunar month to the fifteenth day of the first month."After eating climbing meat and going out to work", the New Year is considered complete; The fifth is to include rich activities, including holding New Year's Eve, cooking New Year's meals, visiting relatives to pay New Year greetings, making Sheba (Handing Festival), etc.

10 Tujia folk songs in western Hunan have come from ancient times and are the voice of an endangered nation

↑ Xiangxi Tujia folk songs are the only existing traditional folk songs sung in Tujia language in Tujia areas of my country. Tujia language is the most valuable and endangered language recognized by UNESCO. The Tujia people are good at singing and dancing. Traditional folk songs, passed down orally from generation to generation, are the most favorite and simplest form of artistic singing among the Tujia people. "Yongshun County Chronicles·Customs Chronicles" records Peng Shiduo's "Bamboo Skills Ci":"Fushicheng City is a nest with brocade, and there are aquatic waves beside the Tuwang Temple. Thousands of red lights are lit and thousands of people are stacked, and a piece of brocade is wrapped around with waving hands and singing." This is a true portrayal of the folk song and dance singing scenes of the Tujia people.