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Tujia Folk Beliefs and Culture — Nuo Deity Worship (Part 1)

Tujia Folk Beliefs and Culture — Nuo Deity Worship (Part 1)

🗓️ 2012-05-21 📄 Source：Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)

Chapter 10: Nuo Deity Worship. Nuo is an ancient practice of expelling plague de

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Tujia Folk Beliefs and Culture — Nuo Deity Worship (Part 2)

Tujia Folk Beliefs and Culture — Nuo Deity Worship (Part 2)

🗓️ 2012-05-21 📄 Source：Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)

The Guangxu-era Longshan County Gazetteer records: "When performing the great Nu

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Tujia Folk Beliefs and Culture: Nuo Deity Worship (Part 3)

Tujia Folk Beliefs and Culture: Nuo Deity Worship (Part 3)

🗓️ 2012-05-21 📄 Source：Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)

That autumn, the empress fell ill with dysentery, and no treatment worked. After

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Tujia Folk Beliefs and Culture: Nuo Deity Worship (Part 4)

Tujia Folk Beliefs and Culture: Nuo Deity Worship (Part 4)

🗓️ 2012-05-21 📄 Source：Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)

The main repertoire of the 'Zhongdong' section is 'Gansheng Takes the Exam,' com

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Fulfilling the Nuo Vow

Fulfilling the Nuo Vow

🗓️ 2011-04-16 📄 Source：Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)

The Tujia people practice "fulfilling the Nuo vow," worshipping the Nuo deities.

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Tujia Weeping Wedding Songs

Tujia Weeping Wedding Songs

🗓️ 2011-04-16 📄 Source：Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)

Drinking the clear mountain spring water, Tujia girls grow up. When a young man

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Hand-Waving Dance

Hand-Waving Dance

🗓️ 2011-04-16 📄 Source：Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)

Hand-Waving Dance: In early times, every New Year, in the Tujia villages of west

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🗓️ 2011-04-16 📄 Source：Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)

Zhanggu Dance: Why do the Bai people of Sangzhi County in Zhangjiajie love to da

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Tujia Tima Divine Songs

Tujia Tima Divine Songs

🗓️ 2009-10-23 📄 Source：Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)

Tima is a Tujia word, commonly known as Tulaosi, meaning "one who worships gods.

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Zhangjiajie Folk Dance: Zhanggu Dance

Zhangjiajie Folk Dance: Zhanggu Dance

🗓️ 2009-06-06 📄 Source：Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)

Zhanggu Dance is a unique ethnic dance of the Bai people in Sangzhi County, Zhan

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Ancient Tujia Ritual Art in Zhangjiajie: Eight-Treasure Bronze Bell Dance

Ancient Tujia Ritual Art in Zhangjiajie: Eight-Treasure Bronze Bell Dance

🗓️ 2009-06-06 📄 Source：Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)

This is an ancient sacrificial dance of the Tujia people. Legend says the Eight

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Tujia Folk Art in Zhangjiajie: Daliuzi

Tujia Folk Art in Zhangjiajie: Daliuzi

🗓️ 2009-06-06 📄 Source：Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)

Daliuzi, commonly called "da jiahuo," is a unique folk instrumental music of the

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Zhangjiajie Folk Art: Three-Stick Drum

Zhangjiajie Folk Art: Three-Stick Drum

🗓️ 2009-06-05 📄 Source：Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)

Sanbanggu, called Sanzhanggu in the Tang Dynasty, was introduced to Zhangjiajie

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Zhangjiajie Folk Performance Art: Weigu

Zhangjiajie Folk Performance Art: Weigu

🗓️ 2009-06-05 📄 Source：Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)

Weigu (including suona). Also called daliuzi or da paigu, it is an indispensable

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Zhangjiajie Folk Performing Art: Yugu

Zhangjiajie Folk Performing Art: Yugu

🗓️ 2009-06-05 📄 Source：Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)

Among folk performing arts, yugu is the most popular form of entertainment singi

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Arts and Crafts of Zhangjiajie

Arts and Crafts of Zhangjiajie

🗓️ 2009-06-05 📄 Source：Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)

Zhangjiajie crafts mainly include brocade, embroidery, bamboo weaving, and stone

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Zhangjiajie Folk Performing Art: Flower Drum

Zhangjiajie Folk Performing Art: Flower Drum

🗓️ 2009-06-05 📄 Source：Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)

Miao flower drum originated in the Tang Dynasty and has a history of over a thou

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Xilankapu: The Beautiful Story of Tujia Culture in Zhangjiajie

Xilankapu: The Beautiful Story of Tujia Culture in Zhangjiajie

🗓️ 2009-06-04 📄 Source：Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)

In the Tujia language, 'Xilankapu' refers to Tujia brocade. 'Xilan' means 'quilt

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Zhangjiajie's Ancient and Mysterious 'Nuo' Culture

Zhangjiajie's Ancient and Mysterious 'Nuo' Culture

🗓️ 2009-06-04 📄 Source：Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)

'Nuo,' according to Ciyuan, originally refers to rituals of welcoming gods and d

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Zhangjiajie Yangxi Opera: Emerging from Shamanic and Chu Traditions

Zhangjiajie Yangxi Opera: Emerging from Shamanic and Chu Traditions

🗓️ 2009-06-04 📄 Source：Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)

Zhangjiajie Yangxi Opera, commonly known as 'Yanghualiu,' arose in a region that

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Zhangjiajie Gaohuadeng: A Living Fossil in Chinese Dance History

Zhangjiajie Gaohuadeng: A Living Fossil in Chinese Dance History

🗓️ 2009-06-04 📄 Source：Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)

Gaohuadeng, also known as Gaohuangdeng, is a dance with strong ethnic characteri

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Maogusi and Baishou Dance in Zhangjiajie: Lifting the Veil on the Mysterious Tujia Ancestors

Maogusi and Baishou Dance in Zhangjiajie: Lifting the Veil on the Mysterious Tujia Ancestors

🗓️ 2009-06-04 📄 Source：Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)

'Maogusi and Baishou Dance' is a primitive theatrical form in which the Tujia pe

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Zhangjiajie Ethnic Martial Arts

Zhangjiajie Ethnic Martial Arts

🗓️ 2009-01-13 📄 Source：Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)

The Tujia people value martial prowess as an age-old tradition. Hongjiaguan in S

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Zhangjiajie Ethnic Song and Dance

Zhangjiajie Ethnic Song and Dance

🗓️ 2009-01-13 📄 Source：Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)

Gaohuadeng is a dance with strong ethnic characteristics popular in the Yuangupi

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