The Nu people are one of the ethnic minorities with a small population in China. Their traditional festivals include the Spring Festival, Fairy Festival, Forest Festival, New Rice Festival, worship of the Grain God, and the Rain God, etc.

The angry language of the Spring Festival is called "Jijiam". Before the festival, every family must clean the yard and remove the remaining ashes in the firepit.

On New Year's Eve, the elderly should be invited to dinner.

In the early morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, young men rush to the well to draw auspicious water and pay New Year greetings to their elders.

The Fairy Festival is also called the Flower Festival. On the day of the festival, people dress up in costumes, bring sacrifices and picnics, and carry flowers to the caves to offer sacrifices.

The Forest Festival is usually held in June and July. It is presided over by a wizard and a black sheep is sacrificed to pray to the gods to protect the forest from various pests, fires and other hazards.

The New Rice Festival is held every year when the rice is ripe. Each family has to kill a chicken and make a meal of new rice. The chicken and rice are given to the dogs first, and then the whole family eats the new rice.

The ethnic characteristics of the Nu people. The clothing culture of the Nu people is unique. There are obvious regional differences in the clothing of the Nu people. They can be roughly divided into three types: namely, the "Nusu" and "Anu" types in Fugong County, and the "Nu" type in Gongshan County.

"Along" type, "Ruorou" type in Lanping County.

Adult males of the Nu ethnic group in Fugong County like to wear a machete on their right waist, and often carry a crossbow and animal skin quiver on their left shoulder. They wear linen gowns and trousers as tops. They often wear leggings when working. They also used bamboo leg cages as leg protection.

The four seasons are full of bare feet.

The dietary structure of the Nu people varies from place to place, and most of them rely on corn, buckwheat, and indica rice as their staple food.

Influenced by the Tibetan people, the Gongshan area has a lot of highland barley cultivation, mainly corn and green barley; the Lanping area has a variety of rice, mainly corn and rice.

In the past, wild ginger, wild garlic, wild lily, bamboo leaf vegetable, dong palm and wild root and tuber foods were collected for food to survive the spring famine.