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Tujia Folk Beliefs and Culture — Auspicious Object Worship (Part 2) Ethnic History & Culture
Tujia Folk Beliefs and Culture — Auspicious Object Worship (Part 2)
🗓️ 2012-05-21 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
The Youshui River is another important river in the Tujia heartland. It originat
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Tujia Folk Beliefs and Culture — Auspicious Object Worship (Part 3) Ethnic History & Culture
Tujia Folk Beliefs and Culture — Auspicious Object Worship (Part 3)
🗓️ 2012-05-21 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
The Tujia have a venue for ancestor worship and hand-waving dance called the Bai
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Tujia Folk Beliefs and Culture — Auspicious Object Worship (Part 4) Ethnic History & Culture
Tujia Folk Beliefs and Culture — Auspicious Object Worship (Part 4)
🗓️ 2012-05-21 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
The ancient Tujia ox-deity auspicious object takes the ox horn as its form of ex
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Tujia Folk Beliefs and Culture — Auspicious Object Worship (Part 5) Ethnic History & Culture
Tujia Folk Beliefs and Culture — Auspicious Object Worship (Part 5)
🗓️ 2012-05-21 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
6. Chopsticks. Chopsticks symbolize wealth among the Tujia, probably because the
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Tujia Folk Beliefs and Culture — Goddess Worship (Part 1) Ethnic History & Culture
Tujia Folk Beliefs and Culture — Goddess Worship (Part 1)
🗓️ 2012-05-21 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Chapter 4: Goddess Worship. Tujia goddess worship is extremely rich, with numero
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Tujia Folk Beliefs and Culture — Goddess Worship (Part 2) Ethnic History & Culture
Tujia Folk Beliefs and Culture — Goddess Worship (Part 2)
🗓️ 2012-05-21 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
II. Production Goddesses. In the Tujia people's hunting, farming, weaving, and o
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Tujia Folk Beliefs and Culture — Goddess Worship (Part 3) Ethnic History & Culture
Tujia Folk Beliefs and Culture — Goddess Worship (Part 3)
🗓️ 2012-05-21 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
III. Fertility Goddesses. Fertility goddesses were often also clan ancestor deit
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Tujia Folk Beliefs and Culture — Nuo Deity Worship (Part 1) Folk Arts
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) Folk Arts
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) Folk Arts
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) Folk Arts
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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Tujia Folk Beliefs and Culture: Totem Worship (Part 1) Ethnic History & Culture
Tujia Folk Beliefs and Culture: Totem Worship (Part 1)
🗓️ 2012-05-21 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Chapter One: Totem Worship. A totem is a primitive object of worship taking the
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Tujia Folk Beliefs and Culture: Totem Worship (Part 2) Ethnic History & Culture
Tujia Folk Beliefs and Culture: Totem Worship (Part 2)
🗓️ 2012-05-21 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
II. The White Tiger Totem. Beginning with Lin Jun, the Ba people changed from a
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Tujia Folk Beliefs and Culture — Totem Worship (Part 3) Ethnic History & Culture
Tujia Folk Beliefs and Culture — Totem Worship (Part 3)
🗓️ 2012-05-21 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
III. Reasons for the Ba People's Totem Change: Why did the Ba people abandon the
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Tujia Folk Beliefs and Culture — Tujia Taboos Ethnic History & Culture
Tujia Folk Beliefs and Culture — Tujia Taboos
🗓️ 2012-05-21 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Chapter 12: Tujia Taboos. Taboos are products of folk belief. As various deity b
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Tujia Folk Beliefs and Culture — Tuwang Worship (Part 1) Ethnic History & Culture
Tujia Folk Beliefs and Culture — Tuwang Worship (Part 1)
🗓️ 2012-05-21 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Chapter 8: Tuwang Worship. In a broad sense, Tuwang worship is still the worship
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Tujia Folk Beliefs and Culture — Tuwang Worship (Part 2) Ethnic History & Culture
Tujia Folk Beliefs and Culture — Tuwang Worship (Part 2)
🗓️ 2012-05-21 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
2. The Sanfu Gods of Laifeng and Other Places in Western Hubei. The Sanfu Gods a
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Tujia Folk Beliefs and Culture — Wizard Worship (Part 1) Ethnic History & Culture
Tujia Folk Beliefs and Culture — Wizard Worship (Part 1)
🗓️ 2012-05-21 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Chapter 9: Wizard Worship. In folk belief, the wizard is a half-human, half-divi
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Tujia Folk Beliefs and Culture — Wizard Worship (Part 2) Ethnic History & Culture
Tujia Folk Beliefs and Culture — Wizard Worship (Part 2)
🗓️ 2012-05-21 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Songs of Ethnic Migration. This portion of the Hand-Waving Songs reflects the hi
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Tujia Folk Beliefs and Culture — Wizard Worship (Part 3) Ethnic History & Culture
Tujia Folk Beliefs and Culture — Wizard Worship (Part 3)
🗓️ 2012-05-21 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
IV. Wizard Worship and Tujia Culture. Wizard worship — that is, worship of the T
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Tujia Folk Beliefs and Culture — Worship of the Xiangwang Tianzi (Part 1) Ethnic History & Culture
Tujia Folk Beliefs and Culture — Worship of the Xiangwang Tianzi (Part 1)
🗓️ 2012-05-21 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Chapter 5: Worship of the Xiangwang Tianzi. The Xiangwang Tianzi, also known as
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Tujia Folk Beliefs and Culture — Worship of the Xiangwang Tianzi (Part 2) Ethnic History & Culture
Tujia Folk Beliefs and Culture — Worship of the Xiangwang Tianzi (Part 2)
🗓️ 2012-05-21 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
"Before the Statue of Xiangwang Tianzi" tells the story of a statue of Xiangwang
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Tujia Folk Beliefs and Culture — Worship of the Xiangwang Tianzi (Part 3) Ethnic History & Culture
Tujia Folk Beliefs and Culture — Worship of the Xiangwang Tianzi (Part 3)
🗓️ 2012-05-21 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
V. Xiangwang Tianzi Worship and Tujia Culture. The Xiangwang Tianzi is an ethnic
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Tujia Folk Beliefs and Culture — The Coming-of-Age Meaning of the Tujia Bridal Lament (Part 1) Ethnic History & Culture
Tujia Folk Beliefs and Culture — The Coming-of-Age Meaning of the Tujia Bridal Lament (Part 1)
🗓️ 2012-05-21 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Appendix: The Coming-of-Age Meaning of the Tujia Bridal Lament. The bridal lamen
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