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Local Specialties, Food & Folk Customs

Local specialties, food and folk customs of Zhangjiajie and Xiangxi (sources noted per article).

About This Column

This column gathers local produce and folk culture of Zhangjiajie and Xiangxi, covering local specialties, local food, local legends, folk arts, folk customs and ethnic history & culture, for reference on local food, produce and the cultures of the Tujia and Miao peoples.

Sources & credibility

This column is compiled from public source material and is local-culture/historical in nature; some price, business and statistical data may reflect earlier years. For specialties purchasing and dining, please refer to the latest notices of the merchants. Each article notes its source and date; legends and folk-custom accounts are local historical lore, provided for cultural reference.

Tujia Folk Beliefs and Culture — Auspicious Object Worship (Part 3)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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: Totem Worship (Part 1)
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)
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)
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
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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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Tujia Folk Beliefs and Culture — The Coming-of-Age Meaning of the Tujia Bridal Lament (Part 2)
Tujia Folk Beliefs and Culture — The Coming-of-Age Meaning of the Tujia Bridal Lament (Part 2)
🗓️ 2012-05-21 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
The second characteristic is that the process of the woman's spiritual ordeal is
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A Study of the Institutional Culture of Ancient Tujia Society — The Basic State of Tujia Cultural Research
A Study of the Institutional Culture of Ancient Tujia Society — The Basic State of Tujia Cultural Research
🗓️ 2012-05-08 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Introduction. The Tujia are an ethnic minority long settled in the Wuling Mounta
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A Study of the Institutional Culture of Ancient Tujia Society — The Contemporary Significance of Research on the Institutional Culture of Ancient Tujia Society
A Study of the Institutional Culture of Ancient Tujia Society — The Contemporary Significance of Research on the Institutional Culture of Ancient Tujia Society
🗓️ 2012-05-08 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
II. The Contemporary Significance of Research on the Institutional Culture of An
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Study of Institutional Culture in Ancient Tujia Society—Political System Culture (I)
Study of Institutional Culture in Ancient Tujia Society—Political System Culture (I)
🗓️ 2012-05-08 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Chapter 1: Political System Culture. In the relatively closed and independent an
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Study of Institutional Culture in Ancient Tujia Society—Political System Culture (II)
Study of Institutional Culture in Ancient Tujia Society—Political System Culture (II)
🗓️ 2012-05-08 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Section 2: The Chieftain System. Based on summarizing past dynasties' governance
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