Meet Oriental Valentine's Day: Tujia Dating Party-Enshi Daughters 'Club

Enshi Tujia Daughters 'Association, referred to as Enshi Daughters' Association, originated from the lime kiln and mountain top in Enshi City. The two places are two 1800-meter-long alpine mountains in the east and west of Enshi City. The two places have become the hometown of medicine kings renowned at home and abroad for producing the precious Chinese medicinal materials Angelica and Codonopsis pilosula respectively. At the same time, the two places have also given birth to a unique wedding custom "Daughter's Club", becoming the hometown of Daughter's Club. This custom has been passed down for nearly 300 years. Limekiln and Dashanding are both under the jurisdiction of Enshi City, and most of the city are Tujia. Therefore, the daughter club that people are accustomed to calling is called the "Enshi Tujia Daughter Club."

As a kind of marriage and love festival, there are different opinions on what year it originated. But there is one origin theory that researchers agree on. That is, in 1952, Mr. Qi Shuqing, then a statistical assistant to the People's Government of Ji 'an District (located in Shuanghe Market Town, 30 kilometers away from Limekiln), and now a retired cadre of the Municipal Forestry Bureau, went to Shihuiyao Township to carry out field inspections and production determinations, land reform review, filling and issuing land certificates, etc. On December 6 of the same year, a corner of old manuscripts, genealogy, contracts and various magazines collected by the Farmers 'Association was discovered in the Shihuiyao Township Government (Huangjiaping). That night, Qi Shuqing read through them one by one. When I saw a manuscript of Huang's "Daily Magazine" in the first year of the Republic of China (1912), I found that it contained the account of "Ten Shacks Girls 'Meeting." The main idea is that the lime kiln area was still in a period of barren mountains and mountains during the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, and no one lived in the area and cultivated it. At that time, floods occurred frequently in rivers and lakesides, and the Qing government encouraged land reclamation and farming. Therefore, refugees from the disaster areas fled to high places to pick up grass as a reminder, land reclamation, and build homes and properties. At that time, ten families including Zhang, Xue, Li, Teng, and Yang mainly came to the lime kiln, all of which built sheds and built houses here, so it was called the "Ten Shades". Ten shed families thrive here. With the development of society, they began to elect leaders, called "Xiangshi", to manage the affairs of Shipeng. Each tent often gathered together for meetings and discussions, so some people here also called it the "Shihui Kiln".