Love custom between men and women in Xiangxi Tujia people: wooden leaves convey love

Miao men and women in western Hunan find a partner, fall in love, and "rush to the border." The full name of western Hunan is Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, which means that the Tujia people account for a relatively large proportion of the population. Tujia men and women fall in love not "rush to the border," but use wooden leaves to convey love.

The local family spends every day in the mountains with birds and cicadas. When they are lonely, happy, worried, or if they have any secret thoughts, they pick a wooden leaf and play Wuyu lyrics. These wood-leaf songs are either melodious or melodious, some are like weeping, some are happy and happy, or some are weeping bitterly and resentful. Listening from a distance, the birds are chirping, like a mountain spring is ding-dong, full of poetry. Blowing wooden leaves is not easy. It takes a long period of practice to blow the tune. Some young men and women love each other, but they are inconvenient to talk about it, and they don't like matchmakers to gossip. So they use wooden leaves to make love and write their love on them. The mountain people sing like this:

The mountains are piled with wooden leaves. Can you blow it?

One day I learned to use only wood leaves without media.

Thousands of taels of silver are worth tens of thousands of taels of silver, and it is difficult to buy a sister's heart.

The matchmaker's mouth is grinding and bleeding, but it is not worth a song of wood leaves.

Of course, other ethnic groups in western Hunan also use wooden leaves, but only young Tujia men and women use wooden leaves to convey love to fall in love.