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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.

Rescue Rations
Rescue Rations
🗓️ 2011-02-05 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Rescue Rations: Legend says after King Xiang Tianzi withdrew from Baizhang Gorge
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Luoma Valley
Luoma Valley
🗓️ 2011-02-05 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Luoma Valley: About a mile and a half down from Shuirao Simen lies a valley. Leg
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Splitting the Mountain to Retrieve the Sword
Splitting the Mountain to Retrieve the Sword
🗓️ 2011-02-04 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Splitting the Mountain to Retrieve the Sword: Legend says after Xiang Dakun rais
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Horse Hoof Rock
Horse Hoof Rock
🗓️ 2011-02-04 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Horse Hoof Rock: Long ago, Zhonghu in western Zhangjiajie was still a sizable la
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Baizhang Gorge
Baizhang Gorge
🗓️ 2011-02-04 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Baizhang Gorge: Legend says after Xiang Dakun obtained four treasures—the heaven
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Zhang Liang's Tomb
Zhang Liang's Tomb
🗓️ 2011-01-22 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Legend says Zhang Liang cultivated Taoism on Qingyan Mountain for decades and ev
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Golden Whip Rock and Lobster Flower
Golden Whip Rock and Lobster Flower
🗓️ 2011-01-22 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Legend says that when Qin Shi Huang built the Great Wall, countless common peopl
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Meeting After a Thousand Miles
Meeting After a Thousand Miles
🗓️ 2011-01-22 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
To tell the origin of "Meeting After a Thousand Miles," one must start with Qin
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The Three Sisters
The Three Sisters
🗓️ 2011-01-22 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Legend tells that long ago, three magnolia trees on Zhangjiajie cultivated into
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Water Surrounding Four Gates
Water Surrounding Four Gates
🗓️ 2011-01-22 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
At the end of Golden Whip Stream where water winds around four gates lies an oas
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Lamp Wick Rock
Lamp Wick Rock
🗓️ 2011-01-22 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Lamp Wick Rock: In Ten-Mile Gallery stands a stone peak shaped like a lamp wick,
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The Heavenly Book Box
The Heavenly Book Box
🗓️ 2011-01-22 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
The Heavenly Book Box: On the way up Huangshi Fort stands an isolated stone peak
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On Qu Yuan's Exile to the Li River
On Qu Yuan's Exile to the Li River
🗓️ 2011-01-16 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Qu Yuan, given name Ping, courtesy name Yuan, was born on the 23rd day of the fi
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Zhangjiajie was originally called Qingyan Mountain, not Zhangjiajie
Zhangjiajie was originally called Qingyan Mountain, not Zhangjiajie
🗓️ 2011-01-16 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Zhangjiajie was originally called Qingyan Mountain, and at that time no one surn
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The Alchemy Gourd
The Alchemy Gourd
🗓️ 2011-01-16 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Legend says Zhang Liang withdrew to the magical Tianmen Mountain, where he indee
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The "Great, Second, and Third Gods" of Zhangjiajie
The "Great, Second, and Third Gods" of Zhangjiajie
🗓️ 2011-01-08 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Among the Zhang family Tujia people of Zhangjiajie, every household enshrines th
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Candle Lake and Qu Yuan's Recitation
Candle Lake and Qu Yuan's Recitation
🗓️ 2011-01-08 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Legend says after Qu Yuan questioned heaven at the Heavenly Platform, he lost fa
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Bai Ethnic Deity Parade Custom in Sangzhi, Zhangjiajie
Bai Ethnic Deity Parade Custom in Sangzhi, Zhangjiajie
🗓️ 2009-12-03 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Sangzhi Bai Ethnic Deity Parade originated from sacrificial activities commemora
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Tujia Children's Rhymes of Zhangjiajie
Tujia Children's Rhymes of Zhangjiajie
🗓️ 2009-11-09 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
"Woodpecker, pecking the treetop, pecked a carp weighing two and a half jin. Mot
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Three Great "Dark Arts" of Xiangxi
Three Great "Dark Arts" of Xiangxi
🗓️ 2009-10-23 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Xiangxi has three great dark arts: first, "Xiangxi corpse driving"; second, "poi
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Miao Village Gate-Blocking Wine
Miao Village Gate-Blocking Wine
🗓️ 2009-10-23 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Gate-blocking wine is an ancient custom of Miao villages, most prevalent and dis
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Zhangjiajie's Big Bowl — Wine
Zhangjiajie's Big Bowl — Wine
🗓️ 2009-09-16 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Big bowls of wine, filled to the brim; big bowls of wine, carried to the brim; b
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Zhangjiajie's Big Bowl of Meat
Zhangjiajie's Big Bowl of Meat
🗓️ 2009-09-16 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
Big bowls of meat, steaming hot; big bowls of meat, mouths open wide; big bowls
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Zhangjiajie's Big Bowl of Rice
Zhangjiajie's Big Bowl of Rice
🗓️ 2009-09-16 📄 Source:Zhangjiajie Tour Guide (Specialties / Food / Folk Customs)
"Man is iron, rice is steel, skip one meal and you'll starve!" "A tiger is fierc
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