Enshi Tujia daughter town

Tujia daughter town is the epitome of Chinese Tujia culture, including the Tujia folk customs in Enshi. Located in the center of the ancient city, daughter street is the representative of the ancient city. The street is built along the mountain and the current. It is paved with gray breccia. The antique buildings and the layout of small bridges and flowing water make it more gentle. Daughter integrates entertainment, shopping, accommodation, tourism and leisure. There are more than 100 small shops, custom inns, many special restaurants and delicious snacks in the city. In addition, there are open lawn, comprehensive sports center, snack street, Folk Museum, bar street, China's first indoor situational theater, daughter City grand theater, and the largest water park in Hubei Province. Walking in the city, visitors can not only see beautiful scenery, but also enjoy Tujia customs such as bowl throwing wine, hand waving dance, etc. at the same time, they can eat all kinds of Tujia dishes.

Enshi Tujia daughter town

The world man not two heart, the world daughter first city! Enshi Tujia daughter Town, located in Qiliping, Enshi City, Hubei Province, is a national Tujia culture gathering center, as well as an urban entertainment consumption center and tourism distribution center in Wuling area.

As the eighth man-made ancient town in China, Tujia daughter town reasonably and meticulously plans the overall architectural style. The combination of antique and Tujia stilted building perfectly reflects the Tujia folk customs.

geographical environment

Tujia daughter town includes 300 small commodities, 500 style hotels, 30 special restaurants, 40 delicious snacks, 8000 square meters of landscape lawn, 10000 square meters of comprehensive sports center and the first indoor scene theater in China - daughter Town Grand Theater. It also has the largest water park in Hubei Province. Enshi Tujia's most famous characteristic folk blind date activity, the daughter meeting, will also be permanently settled in Tujia daughter city!

Since the opening of the city on October 19, 2013, tourism and Commerce in the ancient city have developed rapidly, mainly including tourism, catering, accommodation, commerce, leisure and entertainment, culture and other formats. These types of business can be roughly divided into four categories, namely accommodation (special inn), catering (theme restaurant, special restaurant, local snacks), shopping (special shopping store) and leisure and entertainment (bar, coffee shop, book bar, etc.). From the perspective of format matching, the number of basins of the four types of formats is relatively balanced, and there is no absolutely overwhelming type of formats.

Tujia daughter city is located in Qiliping, Enshi City, adjacent to the urban area of Enshi, with convenient transportation. Although it is an artificial ancient town, it fully embodies the harmony between man and nature. Tujia daughter city includes the folk customs of eight counties in Enshi Prefecture, and is the embryonic form of national Tujia culture.

Layout of ancient towns

The street is built according to the mountain, along the water flow, and paved with gray breccia.

Daughter street is the representative of daughter City, located in the core of the ancient city. It is the most prosperous street in the city, and also one of the most prosperous commercial blocks in Enshi City.

The overall layout of Tujia daughter town is north-south orientation. The light is fully utilized. All blocks of the city are connected with each other, and the transportation is convenient, which is very convenient for tourists to play.

climatic conditions

Tujia daughter Town, located in Enshi, Southwest China, has a subtropical monsoon and monsoon humid climate. The general characteristics are: less severe cold in winter, no severe heat in summer, more or less fog, humid all year round, abundant precipitation, and hot rain in the same period. However, due to the complexity of the terrain and the great disparity between the high and low terrain, there are extremely obvious vertical regional differences in climate. To Tujia daughter city tourism, all seasons are suitable.

The annual average temperature is 16.3 ℃ in the low mountains, 13.4 ℃ in the two high mountains and 7.8 ℃ in the high mountains; the annual precipitation is 1100-1300 mm in the southeast, 1000-1900 mm in the northwest and 1400-1600 mm in the middle; the annual average sunshine is 1300 hours in the low mountains, 1200-1350 hours in the two high mountains and 1000-1350 hours in the high mountains; the frost free period is 238-348 days in the low mountains and 237-1350 days in the two high mountains The relative humidity was 82% in low mountain, 85% in second mountain and 82% in high mountain.

folk culture

A bowl of wine

"Bowl wine" originated from the Tujia people. In ancient times, it was a kind of Zhuang Xing wine used by Tujia people before they went to war. The folklore of bowl wine is that in a certain era, there was a grudge between two Tujia clan leaders or brothers. For the survival and development of the nation, they decided to let go of the grudge, so they drank a bowl of wine together to show their friendship and harmony in the future. After drinking, they broke the bowl to eliminate the grudge, which also showed their magnanimity and heroism. But from today's bowl of wine, it has been completely transformed into an expression of friendship. The distance between people is closer, and the heart to heart is closer.

The folk custom garden of Ba Ren Tang in Tujia daughter city is one of the most important places of bowl throwing wine culture in Enshi Prefecture.

waving dance

Tujia hand waving dance has a long history. According to the records of Huguang Tongzhi reprinted in Volume 32 of Laifeng County annals, the root cause of Tongzhi, it is said that in the Five Dynasties, "there were trees in Manshui village of Shizhou, which were named pushe trees, and pushe people were also romantic in Chinese. In the past, Qin's ancestors cut down a different tree at Dongmen pass. When they came to that car, they revived their roots and lived. At four o'clock, there were hundreds of flowers. The descendants of the Qin family sing and dance, and the flowers fall. Take it and hold it. His surname goes to song, the flower does not fall again, particularly different also This passage vividly describes the scene of manchui Tujia people waving their hands around the pushe tree more than 1000 years ago. It is the earliest recorded hand waving dance of Tujia Nationality in Laifeng.

It is said that hand waving dance originated from religious sacrifice. Tujia people respect their ancestors and love their leaders. In order not to forget the achievements of their ancestors, they created a hand waving dance to commemorate them. In Laifeng and other areas where hand waving dance is popular, the custom of hand waving sacrifice is still preserved. Apart from the eight gods in some places, most of the objects of sacrifice are to the king of Tusi, such as Duke Peng, Tian Haohan, and Xiang Laoguan. These are all well-known figures in the history of Tujia from the Five Dynasties to the Song Dynasty. The tenth year of the volume of "the collation and annotation of Manshu": "the Bashi worship their ancestors by beating drums." It is considered that hand waving dance is a kind of dance for Tujia people to sacrifice their ancestors.

The second is the evolution and development of white tiger dance and Bayu dance. According to the records of Huayang state, Ba Zhi: "Ba Shi is brave and sharp, singing and dancing to impress the Yin people. The former apprentice Yang Ge, so it was called King Wu's cutting of Zhou, singing before and dancing after. " According to the research of experts, the song and dance of Wu Zhu's cutting Zhou is Bayu dance, and Baihu dance is the predecessor of Bayu dance. The characteristic of hand waving dance "throwing the same side hand" is based on the imitation of "dragon walking tiger step", and its basic action is to show the white tiger. It is also said that the "spear Yu" and "crossbow Yu" in du you's "Tongdian" are the same as the military dances such as "armour", "line up", "bow pulling and Archery" in the hand waving dance. Therefore, it is inferred that the hand waving dance and the Bayu dance have the same origin and different branches, and should have originated in the Zhou Dynasty.

The third theory originated from war. There are many folk legends about this. Generally speaking, Duke Peng led the army to fight. In order to inspire the army and morale, he ordered his subordinates to lure the enemy with songs and dances, or to wave their hands and sing songs to drive away homesickness. After the victory of the battle, this hand waving dance spread to the people.

Fourth, Tujia people are fond of singing and dancing. Hand waving dance is purely an artistic activity of Tujia people's self entertainment.

Fifth, in order to conquer nature and resist foreign invasion, the ancient Tujia ancestors used a kind of "hand waving" to keep fit and strengthen their bones, and gradually evolved into the later hand waving dance.

In the tombs of the Song Dynasty in Tieluping, Hefeng County, Enshi Prefecture, there are twelve dancing maids on the edge of a pottery jar. Some of them bend and squat, some swing from left to right, and some dance long clothes and sleeves. The dance posture is very similar to the existing single swing, double swing, whirl swing and the same side swing. It shows that in Song Dynasty, Tujia hand waving dance is very mature and group dance. In the Qing Dynasty, there were detailed records and live descriptions of Tujia hand waving dance in the "Laifeng County annals" of Western Hubei, the "Longshan County annals" and "Yongshun County annals" of Western Hunan, as well as literati poetry.

Tujia daughter Association

Enshi daughter club, also known as Tujia daughter club, is known as Oriental Valentine's day or Tujia Valentine's day. Generally, the days from July 7 to 12 of the lunar calendar are the traditional auspicious days of "daughter club". Daughter's meeting is one of the representative regional traditional festivals of Tujia Nationality in Enshi Prefecture, which is a unique and novel festival culture. Originally popular in Enshi lime kiln, the peak area, now has developed into a national festival.

Known as "Oriental Valentine's Day", Tujia "daughter's meeting" preserves the legacy of ancient Ba people's primitive marriage customs. It is a way of love opposite to feudal arranged marriage in remote Tujia villages. It is a festival event spontaneously formed by Enshi Tujia youth in the process of pursuing free marriage with the main purpose of collective mate selection. Its main feature is to use songs as a medium and choose a mate independently. At that time, mainly young girls, but also married women to participate, through the form of songs to find a lover or dating with an old lover, to express their feelings.

When participating in the daughter's party, young women wear festival costumes and put on their most beautiful clothes. They are used to wearing the long ones inside and the short ones outside. One by one, they can be seen layer by layer, which is called "bright fold" or "three drops of water", and wear their best gold and silver jewelry.

On the day of the girls' meeting, the girls put the local products and mountain products on both sides of the street, while they sat down on the upside down basket, waiting for the right person to buy things. The young man was carrying a basket on his shoulder, which was like a basket

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