Enshi toast the city

The Tusi city wall has the grandeur of the great wall and the mystery of the Great Wall in the south, which means that the Tujia people rely on the danger and stand on their own. The Jiujin hall at the foot of the city wall is decorated with the supplies of Tusi Yamen and the simple furnishings of Tujia people's clothing, food, housing, transportation, weddings and funerals. It is the epitome of Tujia people's social culture and material culture.

Enshi Tusi city is the exhibition area of Tujia culture and Tujia Miao Village Customs Museum. It is the largest Tujia first city in China with unique style, magnificent landscape, leisure and study tourism as the main function, and the integration of Tujia, Miao and Dong architectural art.

Enshi Tusi city is built on the mountain, covering an area of more than 300 mu, only 500 meters away from the center of Enshi City. It is divided into four functional areas: Square Business District, ethnic culture exhibition area, leisure and entertainment area and hotel reception area. The main landscapes are gate tower, Fengyu bridge, Huijun temple, Tujia residence, Tusi Palace (Jiujin Hall), city wall, beacon tower, bell tower, Drum Tower, hexagonal pavilion, Baihua garden, white tiger statue, Wolong cable bridge, etc.

Enshi toast the city

Enshi Tusi city is located in the northwest of Enshi City, Hubei Province, a small place called Tusi Road, 500 meters away from the seat of the municipal government. It is the only Tusi cultural landmark project with the largest scale, the most magnificent project, the most unique style and the most beautiful landscape in Tujia area.

There are 12 scenic spots and more than 30 scenic spots, including gate tower, Dong Fengyu bridge, Jujun temple, school yard, Tujia folk house, Tusi Palace Jiujin hall, city wall, bell tower, Drum Tower, Baihua garden, white tiger statue, Wohu iron bridge, Tingtao teahouse, national art garden, etc. Mr. Fei Xiaotong, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and a famous sociologist, inscribed it as "Enshi Tusi city".

Historical evolution

Tujia nationality has a long history and is the descendant of ancient Ba people. The Ba people lived in Jianghan Plain in their early years. After Chu people were strong, they fought with each other and failed. The Ba people retreated into the area now called Qingjiang River, which was called Yishui in ancient times, and moved westward along the Yishui River, reaching Eastern Sichuan. In the spring and Autumn period, the first slave vassal state of BA was established. In 361 BC, it was destroyed by the powerful state of Qin, and some Ba people retreated to Wuling area adjacent to the mountains and waters of Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan and Guizhou. Tujia people call themselves "Bizika" or "beijingka". In the Song Dynasty, the Ba people living in this area were called "local people", and later the local people called the foreign Han people "Hakka", and called themselves "Tujia".

Tusi system is a kind of political management system in the history of the central feudal dynasty, which belongs to the central government and has the power of autonomy. The Tusi system in Tujia area began in the Yuan Dynasty and ended in the 13th year of Yongzheng in the Qing Dynasty. It went through the yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties for more than 450 years. The relationship between chieftains and the central feudal dynasty is that the chieftains paid tribute to the central feudal dynasty, and the central dynasty canonized the chieftains and granted autonomy. Tusi land is not included in the central dynasty, and the population is not in the registered residence of the central dynasty. Tusi Wang: actually, he is the local emperor.

There are 29 chieftains in Yuan Dynasty, 31 in Ming Dynasty and 20 in Qing Dynasty. The chieftain's jurisdiction includes the area to the south of Qingjiang River in Enshi and some areas of Changyang and Wufeng in Yichang.

However, in order to strengthen the rule of the central government, the Qing Dynasty carried out the policy of changing the land to flow. Therefore, there is little trace of Tusi city after the Qing Dynasty's reform. The Tusi city is planned and constructed by Enshi Prefecture People's Committee in 1998 and opened up in 2002. This antique Tusi manor complex aims to reproduce the politics, economy and culture of the Tusi period in the Tujia area, reflect the historical origin of the Tujia people, and show the ancient and honest folk customs of the Tujia people.

Practical information

Opening Hours:

Summer: 8:00-18:30

Winter: 8:30-17:30

Ticket price: adult ticket: 50 yuan; discount ticket: 25 yuan

Best time: all year round

Enshi Railway Station No. 30 bus directly to tusicheng station, a total of 13 stations.

Main attractions

Chieftain gate building

When you enter Enshi Tusi City, you will see a towering Tusi city gate building. Chieftain gate building, also known as chieftain chaomen or Kanlou, is a memorial building to show the prestige and merits of chieftain. It pays great attention to the solemnity and magnificence of the appearance, while the content of the building embodies the Tujia people's humanistic thought, space concept and technical intelligence.

In front of the gate tower, there are two statues of gods and men holding dragons, which are called "Heavenly King sending sons", which shows that Tujia people generally have the psychology of "expecting sons to become dragons". Among the three murals on the right side of the wall, except the one in the middle shows national unity, the one on the right is "Maogusi", which reflects the life of Tujia ancestors. "Maugus" is called the God of rice. Rice is closely related to human survival. The worship of rice God reflects the strong consciousness of Tujia ancestors to the existence of life in the early days of farming. The two big men on the left are eyeing every passer-by. They are called "nuribaga" and "kedoumaoren" in Tujia language. They are the patron saint of Tusi city gate.

The Tusi gate building is 25 meters high and 12 meters wide. It is a wooden building with pure mortise and tenon structure. It is tall and magnificent with excellent structure and exquisite and reasonable layout. Both sides of the horse corner stairs can circle to the top, layer upon layer connected. The doors and windows of the gate tower are composed of 200 doors and 189 hollowed out and carved patterns. The contents are mostly dramas and legends. Interestingly, there are many ingenious and puny figures in the whole gate tower, such as four stories, 12 columns and 24 beams. What does that mean? It means four seasons, 12 months and 24 solar terms in a year. There is also a decorative sculpture of an ancient coin arched by several bats on the roof of the gatehouse, which is called "blessing in front of us". Fortune means borrowing bats, and money is the copper coin. It's better to have no words than to have words.

Fengyu Bridge

This antique Fengyu bridge, with two pavilions towering over the Bridge Gallery, cornices and corners, painted pillars and carved beams, is very exquisite and beautiful. Fengyu bridges are mostly built at River ferries. Railings and long sitting boards are specially set on both sides of the bridge corridor to provide rest, shade and shelter for business travelers on their shoulders. "Although there are no pedestrians passing by, this Fengyu bridge is an excellent place for tourists to rest or enjoy a cool, chat, set up a dragon's gate array or have a romantic tryst.

Linjun Temple

Located on the mountain opposite to the cruise ship wharf is the Tujia's ancestor Lijun temple. It is a three story, three entrance, double eaves and pillar style building, facing east from the West and standing on the hillside, majestic and majestic. Close to the temple, there is a huge scroll of murals painted along the mountain wall. The murals record the heroic deeds of the emperor in his life, which is called "the picture of the great achievements of the emperor in opening up his territory".

There is also a very magical and moving legend about Jue Jun advocated by Ba people and their descendants. It is said that he is the son of a man of the Ba family who lives in Zhongli mountain, Wuluo, Changyang. His name is bawuxiang. There are two red and black caves on Zhongli mountain, where five surnames of Ba, fan, Qin, Xiang and Zheng live respectively. The Ba family lived in chixue, and the other four lived in heixue. At the beginning of the wilderness, there was no leader. So the five surnames agreed to throw the sword at the cave, and the person who threw the sword was the leader. After comparison, only Ba Wuxiang, the son of Ba family name, hit with one sword, but none of the other four family names hit. Unconvinced, the four surnames once again agreed to take a boat to swim in the river, and the boat did not sink as the leader. The result of the competition is that the earthen boat that Ba Wuxiang took did not sink, and the other four surnamed earthen boats sank when they were launched. At this point, the four surnames believed that it was the will of heaven, so they elected the Prime Minister of Ba affairs as the leader to lead the Ba people. He was determined to create a new foundation for the Ba people. He led the Ba people of five surnames up the Qingjiang River, which was called Yishui in ancient times, to open up territory. On the way, he passed by a place called Yanyang. A goddess in Yanyang, who specializes in boiling salt to help the world, admires bawuxiang's extraordinary heroism and promises to marry bawuxiang. She also advises bawuxiang to stay in Yanyang. Although bawuxiang felt that the goddess was sentimental, he still felt that Yanyang was not broad enough. It's not the place where Ba people stay for a long time. Keep going up the river and keep going. The goddess was helpless, so she came to stay with her at night. In the morning, she turned into a flying insect and flew with all the insects to block out the sky and the sun, so that the Minister of Ba affairs could not argue with all the Ba people, and it was difficult to move. Ba Wuxiang was worried and decided that the goddess was obstructing him. He took the opportunity of the goddess to accompany him and cut off a lock of his hair as a token to the goddess. The goddess will tie her hair between her necks. When the insects fly again the next day, Bawu aims at the flying insects with hair, bows and arrows, and shoots down the goddess who turns into flying insects, and the sky opens bright. The Prime Minister of Ba Wu continued to lead the Ba people to Enshi, which was called Yi City in ancient times. He thought Yi city was a vast place, so he stayed and established Ba state. Thus, Ba people changed their primitive and backward life style from fishing and hunting to more advanced farming life.

When the wish of bawuxiang was fulfilled, he ascended to heaven and became a white tiger after his death. In order to commemorate the merits of bawuxiang, the Ba people built a statue to offer sacrifices, and at the same time felt the kindness of the goddess boiling salt to help the world. They also made a statue of the goddess to accompany him. They called bawuxiang Lijun, and the goddess Deji Niang. There were endless fireworks in the spring and Autumn period. From then on, he became the God of life respected by Ba people and Tujia people.

Tusi school

Chieftain school yard, also known as shepu, is the place where chieftain soldiers practice martial arts. Besides ordinary swords and halberds, there are also barefoot climbing facilities

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