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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.

Baofeng Lake
Baofeng Lake
🗓️ 2011-04-16 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Baofeng Lake: Legend says long ago, three immortal birds—a phoenix, a mountain e
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Maoyan River and Qin Hou
Maoyan River and Qin Hou
🗓️ 2011-04-16 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Maoyan River and Qin Hou: The Maoyan River lies within the territory of the Maog
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Banggāo
Banggāo
🗓️ 2011-04-16 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Banggāo: On a calm-lake cruise of Maoyan Lake, visitors can see a stretch of rui
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Wulei Mountain
Wulei Mountain
🗓️ 2011-04-16 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Wulei Mountain, Cili County: Wulei Mountain was originally called Dawei Mountain
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Pythons Devouring People at Xianren Stream (Ancient Text)
Pythons Devouring People at Xianren Stream (Ancient Text)
🗓️ 2011-04-16 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Pythons Devouring People at Xianren Stream (Ancient Text): In Tianmen Commandery
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Yuhuang Cave Grottoes
Yuhuang Cave Grottoes
🗓️ 2011-04-16 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Yuhuang Cave Grottoes: One year, a feng shui master drove a golden horse from Yo
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Puguang Zen Temple
Puguang Zen Temple
🗓️ 2011-04-16 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Puguang Zen Temple: Legend says there are only two Puguang Zen Temples in China—
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Chongwen Pagoda
Chongwen Pagoda
🗓️ 2011-04-16 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Chongwen Pagoda: People used to say that Dayong was a place of fierce mountains
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Half-Side Street
Half-Side Street
🗓️ 2011-04-16 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Half-Side Street: In the old city area of Dayong there was a Half-Side Street. W
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The Water-Carrying Bird
The Water-Carrying Bird
🗓️ 2011-04-16 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
The Water-Carrying Bird: In Zhangjiajie there is a very strange bird that looks
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The Knife-Knife Bird
The Knife-Knife Bird
🗓️ 2011-04-16 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
The Knife-Knife Bird: Long ago, in Black Dragon Bay of Zhangjiajie, there lived
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The Righteous Monkey Saves Its Master
The Righteous Monkey Saves Its Master
🗓️ 2011-04-16 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
The Righteous Monkey Saves Its Master: In Suoxi there was an old monkey catcher
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Monkey's Delight
Monkey's Delight
🗓️ 2011-04-16 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Monkey's Delight: In Zhangjiajie, there is a type of oak tree whose fruit closel
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Monkey Funerals
Monkey Funerals
🗓️ 2011-04-16 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Monkey Funerals: When a monkey dies for unknown reasons, its companions bury it
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Monkey Weddings
Monkey Weddings
🗓️ 2011-04-16 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Monkey Weddings: The monkeys of Wulingyuan live in tribes. Each tribe has its ow
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Ginkgo Flower
Ginkgo Flower
🗓️ 2011-04-16 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Ginkgo Flower: Not far from Luoguota in Zhangjiajie stands a ginkgo tree (also c
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Lobster Flower Tea
Lobster Flower Tea
🗓️ 2011-04-16 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Lobster Flower Tea: Visitors touring Zhangjiajie all like to go to the 'Slowly S
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Tujia Taboos
Tujia Taboos
🗓️ 2011-04-16 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Tujia Taboos: Travelers who don't understand local taboos easily offend them, an
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Celebrating 'Gan Nian' in Tujia Villages
Celebrating 'Gan Nian' in Tujia Villages
🗓️ 2011-04-16 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Celebrating 'Gan Nian' in Tujia Villages: 'Spring snow fills the sky, and flower
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Tianzi Festival
Tianzi Festival
🗓️ 2011-04-16 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Tianzi Festival: The grandest and oldest festival in Zhangjiajie is none other t
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Shentang Bay
Shentang Bay
🗓️ 2011-02-07 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Shentang Bay: After King Xiang Tianzi broke out from Luoma Valley, he originally
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The Herb-Gathering Old Man
The Herb-Gathering Old Man
🗓️ 2011-02-07 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
The Herb-Gathering Old Man: In Ten-Mile Gallery stands a stone peak shaped like
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White Sand Well
White Sand Well
🗓️ 2011-02-07 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
White Sand Well: By the Pipa Stream, there is a well whose spring water flows fr
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Flower Stream
Flower Stream
🗓️ 2011-02-05 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Flower Stream: After King Xiang Tianzi fought a hundred battles with the governm
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