What are the customs of Tujia nationality

Tujia customs include festivals, crafts, marriage and childbearing, transportation and diet.

First, the festival folk customs

Tujia festivals include Tujia Year, April 8th, June 6th, Dragon Boat Festival and July 15th. Tujia people celebrate the New Year one day earlier than Han people, with 29 more months and 28 fewer months.

To commemorate the establishment of Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, all citizens in the administrative area of Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture have a two-day holiday on September 20th every year.

Second, craft folklore.

The history of Tujia brocade is called "printing cloth", "Xizhou patchwork" and "Tujia brocade". Tujia language is called "Xilankapu" and Chinese is called "flower bedding" or "soil flower bedding". It takes cotton yarn as warp, self-dyed silk, cotton and wool as weft, and is woven by warping, weft breaking and reverse picking.

Picking flowers, also known as picking yarn, counting yarn, cross-stitch, picking flowers and pulling flowers, is a basic needling method of Xiangxi folk arts and crafts. Single-sided picking only shows the front pattern, while double-sided picking shows the inner and outer patterns. There is no difference between right and wrong, it is powerful and beautiful. The flower picking patterns in Xiangxi are novel, neat and symmetrical, while those in Hua Die are mostly birds and animals.

Third, the folk custom of marriage and childbearing.

Tujia marriage customs have distinct national characteristics. According to historical records, the marriage phenomenon of "marriage with the same surname, marriage without sedan chair, carrying new people and mixed men and women" appeared in the Tang and Song Dynasties. After "returning to the motherland", the parents' orders were issued and they were greeted by sedan chairs.

Fourth, traffic folklore

Most villagers in Xiangxi live in mountainous areas and valleys, with steep slopes and dangerous roads, which makes it inconvenient to travel. As the saying goes, it takes half a day to walk. In the long years, the people of Xiangxi have built roads and bridges in different forms, created land and water transportation and transportation tools adapted to their regional characteristics, and formed a unique traffic folk custom.

Verb (abbreviation of verb) diet folklore

Xiangxi, located in the west of China, not only likes to eat sour and spicy food, but also gradually forms its own characteristics. Such as trembling rice, social rice, rice tofu, pork stir-fry, braised eel with bacon, honey beef soup pot, stewed mutton with radish, etc.