Pepper Pepper, or pepper, is an indispensable home-cooked dish for Tujia people. Eat more fresh peppers in summer and autumn. In addition to being used as seasoning, there are some kinds of single food, such as fried peppers, raw peppers wrapped in salt, hot peppers cooked with fire and turned red with salt, paste peppers cooked in a pot and mashed into paste, and "fish peppers" with all peppers fried but not mashed. There are fried spicy food processed into powder, spicy food fried with crisp oil, and pickled rice spicy food filled with glutinous rice made of fresh peppers.

Tujia people like to eat Chili noodles, which is a habit formed by alpine climate conditions. According to local chronicles, "the mountain spring is itchy and steaming in the cold hills, but it is not spicy enough to warm the stomach and strengthen the spleen." Explain Tujia people's custom of eating Chili. Tujia love songs also sing: "if you want to eat Chili, you are not afraid to eat spicy food;" If you want to love a good sister, you are not afraid of killing people; " Knife on the shoulder and neck, skull through him! "It reflects the strong character of Tujia people and their tenacious hobby of eating Chili.