Many traditional festivals in China are closely related to eating. For example, having a reunion dinner on New Year's Eve, eating Yuanxiao on Lantern Festival, eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival and eating moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival are all outstanding manifestations of "eating culture". The same is true of Tujia people eating in clubs. The folk custom of celebrating social day is called stopping the society. Social Day is an important traditional festival in ancient China. In ancient times, the land gods and the places where they were sacrificed were called "society". Farmers used to sacrifice to the land god in spring ploughing and autumn harvest every year, so they agreed to call the day of sacrificing to the land god "social day". Generally speaking, the Tujia people in Xuanen entered the society on the fifth day after beginning of spring. On this day, we should sacrifice to the land god. According to the Tongzhi edition of Xuanen County Chronicles, "Country Day is a feast for the gods of the country. On the fifth day, it is forbidden to hoe the plow, otherwise the cloud will prevent farming, and the sausage, glutinous rice and Artemisia will be cut into rice, which is called social rice and given to each other. Every time you sweep a new grave, it's just society. "

Judging from this record, the custom of crossing the society was still very popular at least in the late Qing Dynasty. In the past, Tujia people would kill pigs and sheep on the eve of the social day, and gather in the local land temple on the social day to set up offerings and make sacrifices, praying for the land god to bless the harvest of crops and the prosperity of six livestock. After the sacrifice, the whole family will get together to drink. In Tan Yang Zhi Zhu's Ci in Qing Dynasty, "After entering the spring, I treated the deaf for so long. Ten thousand years later, the smoke started and the rice was sweet. " It is a true portrayal of Tujia people's "crossing society".

Tujia people attach great importance to clubs. When the club is over, every household is eager to make delicious club meals. Although the sacrificial activities have disappeared now, the custom of eating club meals has still been passed down to this day.

Tujia people are also very particular about making social meals, and their work is very complicated. The main ingredient of commune meal is Artemisia annua. Before crossing the commune, Tujia children collected fresh and tender Artemisia annua from the countryside, streams and hillsides, washed and chopped it, then repeatedly rubbed it in clear water to squeeze out bitter juice, then put Artemisia annua together with all accumulated water into the pot and cooked it with slow fire, then washed and cooked the excellent bacon, sausage and dried bean curd, cut it into small-fingertip-sized dices, added salt into the oil pan and put the chopped wild onion. Social meals also have exquisite rice, generally four sticky rice (dialect, ordinary rice) and six sticky rice. Boil the glutinous rice until it is 70% cooked, and then take out the rice soup. Soak glutinous rice in warm water for an hour or two and then drain. Finally, dried Artemisia annua, fried diced meat and so on. Mixing with the processed two kinds of rice, uniformly mixing, and steaming with wood.

Social meals have the unique fragrance of wild vegetables and the taste of bacon, which can be described as full of color, flavor and taste. You can eat two big bowls without eating. Tujia people not only cook public meals for their families, but also give them as gifts to relatives and friends. Therefore, there is a folk proverb: "If you give yourself food, you can't finish it." It fully shows the simple and friendly folk customs of the unearthed family. Because of its good pharmacological action and bitter and cold taste, Folium Artemisiae Argyi can treat and prevent many diseases, such as traumatic injury, swelling and pain, tuberculosis, malaria, dysentery and hemorrhoids. Social meal is also a common variety in Tujia traditional medicated diet.