Enshi Tujia Daughter City

introduce

Enshi Tujia Daughter City combines antiques with Tujia stilted buildings, reflecting the folk customs of Tujia. There are hundreds of shops and style inns, dozens of restaurants operating special catering and delicious snacks, landscaped lawns, a comprehensive sports center, an indoor scene theater Daughter City Grand Theater, and a large water park.

Ancient town layout

The streets are built along the mountain and along the water, paved with gray breccia. Daughter Street is a representative of Daughter City. It is located in the core of the ancient city. The overall layout of the Tujia Daughter City is oriented north-south, and the light is fully utilized. The various blocks in the urban area are connected to each other, and the transportation is convenient, which is very convenient for tourists to visit.

Folk Culture

bowl of wine

"Bowl throwing wine" originated from the Tujia family. In ancient times, it was a kind of wine for the Tujia children before they went to the battlefield. Now it has been transformed into an expression of friendship. The distance between people is closer, and the heart-to-heart closer. The Tujia Daughter Chengba Rentang Folk Custom Garden is one of the concentrated manifestations of the culture of throwing bowls and wine in Enshi Prefecture.

waving dance

Tujia waving dance has a long history. According to the "Huguang Tongzhi" reprinted in Volume 32 of Tongzhi's "Laifeng County Chronicles", it is recorded that in the Five Dynasties, "There was a tree named Pushe tree in Manshui Village in Shizhou, and the Pushe people were also Chinese. The ancestor of the Qin family was in the east gate. Cut down a different tree at the pass, follow the flow to the cart, regenerate roots and live, and bloom a hundred kinds of flowers at four o'clock. The descendants of Qin's family dance and dance, and the flowers fall by themselves. Take it and use it as a hairpin. His surname is Xiangge, and the flowers never fall again. It’s very different.” This text vividly describes the scene of Manshui Tujia people waving their hands around the Pushe tree more than a thousand years ago. It is the hand-waving dance of the Tujia people in Laifeng recorded in history books.

Tujia Daughter Association

The Enshi Daughter's Meeting is also called the Tujia Daughter's Meeting, and is known as the Oriental Valentine's Day or Tujia Valentine's Day. Generally, the days from July 7th to 12th of the lunar calendar are the traditional auspicious days for the "Daughter's Meeting". Daughter's Meeting is one of the representative regional ethnic traditional festivals of the Tujia people in Enshi Prefecture, and it is a unique and novel festival culture. At first, it was popular in Enshi Lime Kiln and Dashanding area, and now it has developed into a state-wide national festival.

Top Ten Tujia Bowls

The Top Ten Tujia Bowls have been handed down in Tujia for hundreds of years. It comes from the customary way of local folk festivals and banquets. It is characterized by half meat and half vegetarian, one dish with two flavors, oily but not greasy. There are no plates on the table, and all meals and dishes are served in large blue-rimmed bowls. Tujia people are hospitable by nature and care about saving face, but because they lived in poverty in the past, they were unable to arrange a sufficient amount of dishes, but they also wanted to make the number of dishes on the table large and save face, so generally ten bowls of dishes are arranged on each table, and meat dishes are served below. Vegetarian dishes are at the bottom, and over time it has become a fixed dish when local weddings and weddings are held. In the past, there were no plates on the dining table of the Tujia people. All the dishes on the table were blue-rimmed bowls, and there were ten bowls of vegetables on the table. Over time, the Tujia people named the banquet "Tujia Ten Bowls".

Tujia Crying Marriage

Tujia girls must be able to cry when they get married, which is called crying marriage. Girls who cry beautifully and touchingly have a special "crying marriage song", which is a traditional skill. Tujia girls start learning to marry by crying at the age of twelve or thirteen. In the past, girls who did not cry were not allowed to marry. Now, this custom still exists only in remote mountain villages. Tujia daughters must cry when they get married, which is called crying marriage.