Introduction of the Tujia
The vast majority of the Tujia live in the areas of Yongshun, Longshan, Baojing and Guzhang in Hunan Province, as well as in the areas of Laifeng, Lichuan, Hefeng, Xianfeng and Yien in Hubei Province and in Sichuan Province. The population is 5,704,200 (1990 4th Census).
The Tujia people call themselves "Bizka" (meaning natives), have their own language, the Tujia language belongs to the Sino-Tibetan Tibetan-Burmese language family, close to the Yi language branch. The majority of the people speak Chinese, and only a few settlements still retain the Tujia language. There is no national script, and the Chinese language is commonly used. They worship their ancestors and believe in many gods.
Mainly engaged in agriculture. The art of weaving and embroidery is the traditional craft of Tujia women. The traditional crafts of the Tujia people also include carving, painting, paper-cutting and batik. Tujia brocade, also known as "Silankappu", is one of the three famous brocades in China.
The Tujia people love to sing mountain songs, including love songs, wedding songs, hand-waving songs, labor songs and pan songs. Traditional dances include the "Pendulum Dance", the "Eight Treasures Copper Bell Dance" and the "Maogus". Musical instruments include suona, wooden leaf, "dongdong quin" and "playing guy".
Etiquette: meet to greet each other, the family has guests, will be hospitality. If there is a New Year's Day to the Tujia people home guests, the host will also take out the snow-white patties to bake, to be baked on both sides of the golden blossom, blowing pat clean, into the filling of sugar or honey, hands to the guests.
Some places give guests to eat patties there are also some instructions, that is, the baked patties to the guests, the guests shall not blow pat fire ash, to take over the bite, then the host will snatch back to blow pat clean, dipped in sugar and then to the guests.
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Tujia food culture
Tujia daily staple food in addition to rice, the most common to the baguette rice, the baguette rice is the main baguette flour, moderately mixed with some rice with the tripod, boiled or steamed in a wooden retort. Sometimes also eat beans rice, that is, green beans, peas and other rice cooked into rice to eat.
Pa and deep-fried noodle cake is also a seasonal staple food of the Tujia people, some even eat until the planting of rice seedlings, in the past, the red campsis has been taken as a staple food in many areas. In the past, red camas has been regarded as the staple food in many areas. Now it is still the regular food in some areas after winter. Tujia cuisine is characterized by sour and spicy dishes.
Folk every family has a pickle jar, used to pickle pickles, almost every meal is not away from the pickles, pickled chili pepper fried meat as a delicacy, chili pepper is not only a dish, but also every meal is not away from the condiments. Soybean products are also very common, such as tofu, tempeh, soybean leaf skin, tofu milk and so on.
Particularly happy to eat the combined residue, that is, soybeans ground fine, pulp residue is not divided, boiled and clarified, plus vegetables cooked can be eaten. Folk often put beans rice, rice with rice plus the slag soup to eat together. Tujia usually three meals a day, generally eat two meals at leisure; spring and summer farming, labor intensity is greater when eating four meals. Such as rice-planting season, the morning to add a meal "over the morning", "over the morning" is mostly made of glutinous rice dumplings or mung bean powder a snack.
It is said that the "morning" meal to eat dumplings have a good harvest, good luck. Tujia people also like to eat oil tea soup.
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