1. Folk customs
1. Tujia lunar New Year: the tujia people worship their ancestors very much, which is called "Spring Festival". In the year of the clan, worship the ancestral rites in the ancestral hall, first to the king of the earth, and then to the ancestors of the ancestors. In the ancestral hall, the whole day firecrackers, the iron system roar, the horn sound, "ho" blast, its pomp is other festivals incomparable; After that, he gradually changed to the family sacrifice, the sacrifice of the sacrifice, the village and the village, the visiting relatives and friends, the song banquets, really "the whole mountain full of the village is a song, the guests are like a lot of joy", lasting three or five days.

2, "March 3" in the day: on the first three months of the qingming festival, it is xiushan folk festival. People pinch the onion garlic, meat, and glutinous rice into BaBa offerings, to the tombs grave ancestor worship, miss someone, call for an outing, and offerings as xiushan tujia, miao, the festival of the han people of all ethnic groups like tasting BaBa.

3, the song of crying marriage: "crying marriage" is a kind of marriage customs of xiushan tujia and miao, tujia girl married a few days ago, my girlfriends are gathered in the bride's family, along with the bride cry, honor their parents, elicits the brotherhood, brothers and sisters even leaving room for action. The girls cried and sang, often crying for days and nights, which was the tujia "crying marriage song".

Ii. Folk culture:
1, xiushan lantern: xiushan lantern has a long history and goes back to ancient times, after jumping lantern ceremony, lanterns guest (folk flower-lantern artist) must first set the lamp don, ancestor worship lanterns, to worship the lanterns ancestors can rear ZouCunChuanZhai to jump the lamp. The ceremony of xiushan flower lamp is more, the style is not identical.

2, tujia waving dance: waving dance is a unique art characteristics of tujia folk dance, is a tujia folk dance form, the hand-shaking dance of time for the third day to 15 Lantern Festival every year, usually the original originated in tujia waving dance ritual activities, the activities held in the ancestral temple, through the long-term evolution, gradually become the dance of tujia people's ZiYuXing.