A long time ago, the Tujia people held a grand song festival, a group of young men and women came to the Pendulum Hall, danced the Pendulum Dance, blew the Dongdongqui, and sang the song in their hearts: the painting of the eyebrow meets the spring only to open the sound, the girl meets the brother to be happy.
Sister is a saffron brother is a leaf, flowers and leaves how not a pong? The sound of the song alarmed the Toastmaster Xiangtiange.
He came in a sedan chair to the singing contest.
But the most beautiful camellia girl in the village went to Jinji Cliffs for a date with the singer.
The Toji then chased him to Jinji Cliff with his dogs.
Geilang was unable to attend the appointment because his father was sick, so Toji told his dog to pick a camellia flower and put it on the rocky cliff, while he himself hid in the bushes.
The camellia girl rushed to Jinji Cliff, saw the camellia, thought it was put by Gelang, and sang the song of chasing the flower; there are clouds in the sky before thunder, and there is wine on the table before the cups are set.
There are fish in the pond before the net is lowered, A-mei has the heart of a flower as a matchmaker.
Toji saw the beautiful Camellia girl and pounced on her at once.
The camellia girl knew that she had been tricked, and flew up and kicked the toji in the face.
Herself jumped down the Jinji cliff.
The beautiful camellia girl died, but the Tujia cottage is full of camellias.
People in order to commemorate the steadfast camellia girl, they gradually formed a "flower love" custom.
Whenever the camellias are in full bloom, young men and women put on their festive attire and begin to chase the flowers by singing songs in honor of their love.
The man first goes to the agreed place and puts a flower on it, then hides, and when the woman arrives, she stands by the flower and lures the man out with her song.
After the man comes out, the woman picks up the flower, the man runs ahead and the woman chases after him, singing as she does so, and when she catches up, the man replies with a song.
The girl gave the flowers to the singer to take with her, and the two were set for life.