Main Features of the Thirteen Walled Villages of Tujia

Folk crafts are passed on to the nine states. In the Thirteen Walled Villages, there is a wide array of Tujia handmade goods such as brocade kapoks, embroidered shoe insoles, and ethnic clothing. Tujia women have the embroidery craft of handmade insoles and cloth shoes, which have been handed down by the Tujia for thousands of years.

The national songs and dances are like an ocean. The Tujia people are famous for their hospitality. In the thirteen cottage, at any time you can hear the villagers singing songs. It is understood that the villagers of the thirteen cottages can sing and dance, and the songs here have been listed as intangible cultural heritage in Chongqing. Thirteen Walled City has a folk art performance team, members of the team consists of more than 30 villagers, every large-scale activities they will participate in the performance.

Science and culture set three Zhai. In the Walled City's Pendulum Hall, there are local celebrities Mr. Lu Moujia transcribed the "Golden Proverbs of the World", "Model Rituals", "Anan sends rice" and "Three Filial Piety Records" and so on. In the "Golden Proverbs", there is the "Exhortation to Abstain from Foreign Cigarettes", which discusses the harmful effects of smoking foreign cigarettes and gives examples to prove it. There are also "planting flowers", "planting bamboo", "planting melons" and "Jigongshan", "Xiaonanhai" and other self-written articles, recorded hundreds of years of farming techniques and encyclopedic knowledge for the thirteen Zhai of the encyclopedia.