Traditional culture of Tujia
Culture is the soul of a nation. In the long historical development process, Tujia people with their diligence, courage and wisdom, created rich and colorful culture, showing a distinctive cultural characteristics. For example, oral literature of ballads, myths, legends, stories, folk art in Baishou dance, jump funeral dance, percussion, drums, played with weeding gongs and other guys, flowers are full of strange and colorful national color, while the New Zealand Karp is Tujia unique folk art treasures; in religion, Tujia worship the earth king, all gods belief, folk belief and Buddhist, Taoist and phase permeability, demonstrated a strong national characteristics; Tujia customs, such as rush, daughter, wedding, life of taboos, have unique national characteristics.