Ethnic Culture

Tujia Spring festival is the most important festival for Tujia people. They celebrate the lunar new year one day earlier than the Han people . When the last month...

Wine Bar is a tradition of Miao people to welcome guests. Whenever Miao family held important festivities, they would invite a lot of respected patriarch and singers to celebrate...

Thousands of mountains and verdant trees are the classic mark of Zhangjiajie. Among the countries, girls and boys sing songs to express their love to each other. So Sangzhi...

Bewitch people with Gu in Xiangxi is an ancient and vicious witchcraft. Chun Qiu Zuo Zhuan , an ancient chronicle written 2000 years as records about Gu: various venomous are put inside one pot...

Sisters Day, also known as Day of Sisters Meal, falls on each March 15. On this day girls have the custom to eat Sisters Meal made of glutinous rice colored with wild flowers and leaves they have collected on the mountain. It is also a good time for young girls and boys to know each other and build a love relationship Usually, boys would receive Sisters’ Meal wrapped in a handkerchief or a basket from girls. If a boy finds a pair of red chopsticks inside, it implies that the girl cares for him and would like to be his girlfriend; if there is...

As the most important traditional festival In for Miao people, the Miao’s New Year is celebrated once a year, remaining from three Dok days to approximate two weeks according to different clans....

According to Chinese lunar calendar July7 is the“ Girls Gathering” of Tujia.it is named as Eastern Valentines Day this day, boys and girls are all well dressed With the sunshine and moonlight, they look for...

As a branch of sorceries of Miao ethnic group as well as a component of wichery culture of ancient Hunan and Hubei provinces the corpse-driving custom was said to be popular in four areas in Xiangxi, namely Yuanling,Luxi, Chenxi and Xupu. Dating back to the Qing Dynasty(1616–1901), the legend of corpse driver in xiangxi was widely spread: when people left their hometown and died away aboard, a corpse A driver-a Taoist priest-would make the corpse jumping by himself and transport the corpse back to their hometown for proper burial .Usually, the Taoist priest led in front of the corpse in his robe instead of driving behindthem . No lantern was needed, but a ghost-absorbing bell would be used to notigy other pedestrians...

Back to over 50 thousand years ago, thewitchcraft Culture (Wunuo in local language ) in the five stream area was more developed than that in the central plains of China, with Chenzhou (Today it ‘s Yuanling in Hunan Province)being the leader. Covering a total area of 580 square km,  Yuanling, the biggest county in Hunan, consists of a number of high moutains and deep valleys , exuberant forests limestone caves, however, today’s Yuanling...

Happiness accompanied with sadness is a complex emotion of Human Beings. Girls are going to get married in Xingxi of Hunan province dould be best ones to explain such...