20 10 "Zhangjiajie yangxi" declared by Yongding county, Zhangjiajie city, Hunan province was selected as the third batch of national intangible cultural heritage list with the serial number of 18. Tujia's arts and crafts are colorful and brilliant. Fully embody the wisdom and creativity of unearthed family members. Among ethnic handicrafts, handicrafts and architectural handicrafts are particularly prominent. As far as handicraft art is concerned, there are mainly textiles, knitting, embroidery, bamboo weaving and so on. As far as textile is concerned, Tujia ancestors learned to weave fine cloth when they played in the Han Dynasty, which is called "cloth" in history. "Xilankapu" with Tujia characteristics, also known as "Tujia Brocade" (called "Tuhua Bedding" in Chinese), is a treasure of Tujia traditional arts and crafts. It has a long history, exquisite patterns, bright colors, strong contrast, rich imagination and unique technology. It has wide practical value and high aesthetic value. It is an artistic representation of the historical evolution and customs of Tujia people, and it can be regarded as an excellent textile handicraft for ethnic minorities in China and even the world. Tujia girls began to pick flowers and embroider at the age of eleven or twelve, and later became experts in weaving colorful embroidery. When a girl gets married, she must have her own hand-woven earth flowers as a dowry, otherwise she will be looked down upon by the people in the stockade. Tujia woven cotton is composed of three pieces of colored cloth with colored lace at both ends, forming a beautiful pattern. Its weaving patterns can be divided into three categories: one is taken from the images of all things in nature; The second is the geometry of various customs; The third is the original pictographic pattern. Among them, most of them are geometric patterns of local customs. Brocade themes include wild flowers, insect-shaped birds, auspicious clouds and rosy clouds and other natural scenery and creatures. In the Qing Dynasty, an anonymous poet wrote a poem on a bamboo branch in Xizhou, saying, "It is no coincidence that the peony is elegant, and eight peonies bloom." The Tujia brocade produced by Dayong Wulingyuan Zhangjiajie National Craft Factory was selected for the Beijing Asian Games, which shows the exquisite craftsmanship of Tujia brocade.
Picking flowers, pulling flowers, embroidering and weaving bamboo and wood products are very popular among Tujia and Bai people. Flower-picking and flower-holding (also known as flower-holding) is mostly based on white earth cloth, and various pictures are made on the ground cloth with various colors (black lines are often used for flower-picking, and colors are often used for flower-holding), which fully embodies the love of life and unique aesthetic consciousness of white women in unearthed families. "Embroidery" is mostly used for decoration. Bedsheets, curtains, pillow towels, curtains and ribbons are all artistic treasures embedded with exquisite and generous patterns. There are folk songs to prove it: "White cloth handkerchief has four corners, and the four corners embroider geese;" The veil is rotten, and the goose is there. Don't look at talent, look at hands and feet (process). "It can be seen that Tujia girls are good at embroidery and have superb craftsmanship. Bamboo art is a traditional craft of Tujia nationality. Bamboo baskets, bamboo baskets, bamboo screens and bamboo baskets woven by Tujia people are exquisite in craftsmanship, elegant in appearance and durable. Paper-thin bamboo chips, soft as silk, fragrant and refreshing. When weaving, the bamboo waterfall spouts and dances in the hands of craftsmen, which is really beautiful. All kinds of bamboo art products are woven into beautiful and poetic exotic flowers with the artist's rich imagination and unparalleled creativity, which makes the viewers all admire. These baskets, baskets, baskets and other exquisite bamboo arts are not only famous for their craft modeling, but also indispensable partners in the lives of people of all ethnic groups. Especially Tujia people who live in the mountains, they never leave their backs and shoulders; That is to say, even the new daughter-in-law who "returned from three dynasties" will feel honored to add luster with a basket of red and green "gifts". Tujia nationality has always maintained its own artistic style in painting, architecture and carving techniques. Their basic characteristics are simple and heavy, simple and deep, quiet and distant. It is these ancient buildings that have preserved the best and most beautiful national culture and craft treasures for us, such as wood carving, stone carving, painting and rock painting.
Dietary characteristics:
With the rapid rise of tourism, hotels and restaurants have mushroomed. There are only 22 star-rated hotels in Yongding City (9 in Yongding County), with 4,500 beds, and 280 non-star hotels, restaurants and guest houses (including individuals), with beds/kloc-0.4 million. There are more restaurants. Family hotel is a new type of tourism service. Staying in a family hotel can not only taste the original Tujia cuisine, but also experience and feel the Tujia family's home life. The diet menu is mainly Hunan cuisine, and general hotels also have Sichuan cuisine (spicy) and Cantonese cuisine (sweet). Tujia cuisine is the most local cuisine, mainly in the series of preserved vegetables, and the series of dried vegetables is also a typical Tujia cuisine. Braised pork is an indispensable main course of Tujia noodles. There are also black-bone chicken stewed in rock ear and black-bone chicken stewed in chestnut, all of which are excellent dishes of Tujia nationality.