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The Travel News column gathers travel tips, destination news and local culture for Zhangjiajie and Hunan, for travellers planning a trip to Zhangjiajie and Hunan.

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The Tujia — Social Customs Folk Customs
The Tujia — Social Customs
🗓️ 2011-12-23 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
X. Social Customs. Beginning in the 1950s, the author conducted social and histo
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The Tujia — Population Distribution and Ethnic Name Folk Customs
The Tujia — Population Distribution and Ethnic Name
🗓️ 2011-12-20 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
I. Population Distribution and Ethnic Name. In the inland mountain valleys where
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The Earth God Folk Customs
The Earth God
🗓️ 2011-04-16 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Tourists visiting Zhangjiajie often see small stone huts made of a few slate sla
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Flowers as Matchmaker Folk Customs
Flowers as Matchmaker
🗓️ 2011-04-16 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
"Flowers as Matchmaker" is not a play, not an anecdote, nor a script—it is a liv
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Blocking the Gate Folk Customs
Blocking the Gate
🗓️ 2011-04-16 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
When Tujia families in the countryside marry off a daughter, they set up a squar
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Stealing a Wife Folk Customs
Stealing a Wife
🗓️ 2011-04-16 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
In some Tujia villages in Houping, Maogang, and other areas of Zhangjiajie, ther
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Village Bird-Fighting Gatherings Folk Customs
Village Bird-Fighting Gatherings
🗓️ 2011-04-16 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
In the lofty mountains of Zhangjiajie, Tujia villages often hold bird-fighting g
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Chen Wen (Hunting Tattoos) Folk Customs
Chen Wen (Hunting Tattoos)
🗓️ 2011-04-16 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
In winter, when heavy snow sealed the mountains, it was the best time for Tujia
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The Chongshan People Don't Eat Eel Folk Customs
The Chongshan People Don't Eat Eel
🗓️ 2011-04-16 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Eel stewed with lettuce is a famous Tujia dish. But the Chongshan people of Zhan
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The Nine-Segment Ox Horn Folk Customs
The Nine-Segment Ox Horn
🗓️ 2011-04-16 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
The founding ancestor of the Tian surname in Zhangjiajie was Tian Chengman, orig
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"Yanmen Hall" and "Redbud Hall" Folk Customs
"Yanmen Hall" and "Redbud Hall"
🗓️ 2011-04-16 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
As the principal major surname of the Tujia people, the Tian clan had two ancest
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The Wa Villagers Folk Customs
The Wa Villagers
🗓️ 2011-04-16 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
In the area of Yuanguping Town, Yongding District, the Gong surname is most nume
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"The Ring-Bearing Sparrow's Repayment" and "Four Knowledges Declining Gold" Folk Customs
"The Ring-Bearing Sparrow's Repayment" and "Four Knowledges Declining Gold"
🗓️ 2011-04-16 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
The Yang clan of the Tujia people had their ancestral seat in "Hongnong Commande
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The Fu Family and the Carp Folk Customs
The Fu Family and the Carp
🗓️ 2011-04-16 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
The Fu family of Zhangjiajie was originally surnamed Fu . Legend has it that dur
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Three Catties of Yellow Wax Hiding Out Folk Customs
Three Catties of Yellow Wax Hiding Out
🗓️ 2011-04-16 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Among the Fu, Zhang, and Mei clans of Zhangjiajie, one branch belongs to the Tuj
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Sanxiaguo (Three-Pot Stew) Folk Customs
Sanxiaguo (Three-Pot Stew)
🗓️ 2011-04-16 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Sanxiaguo (Three-Pot Stew). Anyone visiting Zhangjiajie always asks, "What speci
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Gathering Rock Ear Fungus Folk Customs
Gathering Rock Ear Fungus
🗓️ 2011-04-16 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Gathering Rock Ear Fungus. "Rock ear fungus stewed with chicken" is a famous Tuj
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Corn Liquor Folk Customs
Corn Liquor
🗓️ 2011-04-16 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Corn Liquor. Long ago, an old man surnamed Xiang who grew corn at the "Hanging F
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Chenzhou Talismans Folk Customs
Chenzhou Talismans
🗓️ 2011-04-16 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Chenzhou Talismans. At the Tujia Folk Custom Park in Zhangjiajie, a Tima shaman
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Corpse Driving Folk Customs
Corpse Driving
🗓️ 2011-04-16 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Corpse Driving. Among the three great ancient mysteries of Xiangxi, corpse drivi
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Miao Women Casting Gu Poison Folk Customs
Miao Women Casting Gu Poison
🗓️ 2011-04-16 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Miao Women Casting Gu Poison. The so-called "gu" first appears in historical rec
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On the Three Great Ancient Mysteries of Xiangxi Folk Customs
On the Three Great Ancient Mysteries of Xiangxi
🗓️ 2011-04-16 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
On the Three Great Ancient Mysteries of Xiangxi. Chenzhou talismans, corpse-driv
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Chisongzi Refines Elixir at Tianmen Folk Customs
Chisongzi Refines Elixir at Tianmen
🗓️ 2011-04-16 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Chisongzi Refines Elixir at Tianmen. Around Tianmen Mountain, sixteen peaks clus
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Sacrificing a Son to Save an Orphan Folk Customs
Sacrificing a Son to Save an Orphan
🗓️ 2011-04-16 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Sacrificing a Son to Save an Orphan. In early July of the fifth year of Hongwu i
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