Tujia oil tea soup is a snack similar to tea soup. It is fragrant, crisp, smooth, fresh, beautiful, refreshing and thirst-quenching. It is a traditional flavor food that Tujia people love. Therefore, there is a folk saying: "If you don't drink camellia soup, your heart will panic" and "Three meals and three bowls a day, it's hard". At the same time, drinking oil tea soup is a traditional etiquette for Tujia people to entertain guests. Whenever a guest comes to the door, Tujia people will offer a bowl of fragrant oil tea soup to entertain them.

2. Zhang Guan slag

Slag, also known as lazy tofu. Tujia people in Enshi have deep feelings for slag, especially in the years of war. Due to the shortage of food, dregs saved many people's lives. There is a folk saying that "Chili is salt and dregs are used for the New Year". Nowadays, it is no longer a "luxury" for Enshi people to eat dregs on holidays. They can eat dregs at home at ordinary times, and many restaurants regard it as a special dish, which is very popular with customers.

3. Tujia bacon

Tujia people are interested in feeding pigs in New Year, mainly because they want to have meat to eat in New Year. If you can't finish eating it during the Chinese New Year, Tujia people will make bacon, which is not only convenient for preservation, but also more beautiful in color. Boiled bacon in the pot is fragrant and appetizing, and it is the main course for Tujia people to entertain guests at ordinary times.

4. Dried white poplar bean curd

Dried white bean curd is named after it is produced in Baiyang Village, Baiyangba Town, Lichuan City.

Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Bai Yang Town in Lichuan has produced a large number of dried tofu. Among them, the dried bean curd produced by Ji Shen Haochipo Workshop is the most famous, which is listed as a tribute by local officials and deeply loved by the royal family. Emperor Kangxi personally wrote a gold plaque for the dried beancurd of Ji Shen's delicious woman, named "Strange Food in the Deep Mountains". Since then, the dried beancurd of Ji Shen Haochipo has been renamed as the dried beancurd of Shenchipo, and is proud of its royal gift, making it a traditional craft.

5. social meals

Social dinner has existed since ancient times, and it is a kind of food for Tujia, Miao, Dong and other ethnic minorities to sacrifice to the motherland. Eating club meals is mainly held on club day (the fifth day after beginning of spring), which is called "crossing the club" and "stopping the club" in folk customs. May Day belongs to the earth, so this day is a day to worship the earth bodhisattva. People pray for a smooth year, a bumper harvest and family harmony.

6. Chili

Tujia people in Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture especially like to eat hot and sour. There is a folk saying that "if you don't eat hot and sour for three days, your heart will scratch like a cat." Guang Tai Pepper was invented under this background and has a long history in Enshi.

7. Ge Xianmi

Gexianmi is commonly known as Xianmi, ceramium, Shuimu fungus and Tianmu fungus. It is an aquatic algae plant, belonging to a kind of blue-green algae. It is single-celled, rootless, leafless, dark green, beady and pure wild, and it is a veritable pure natural green food. According to legend, in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Ge Hong, a alchemist, a medical scientist and a Taoist theorist, lived in seclusion in the south, and occasionally gained the function of strengthening the body during the famine years. Later, Ge Hong went to Korea to present it to the emperor. The weak prince became ill after eating, but he was strong. In order to thank Ge Hong for his contribution, the emperor named Ge Xianmi "Xianmi", which has been called since then. Zouma town, Hefeng County, Enshi Prefecture is the largest Gexian rice producing area in the world. There are more than 670 hectares of paddy fields and ponds suitable for the growth of pueraria lobata. Because the growth of Gexianmi requires extremely high natural conditions (such as climate, soil, sunshine, latitude and longitude, altitude, etc.). ), there are only a few discoveries in Africa today. Ge xianmi is really rare in the world.

8, rockhopper ginger

Named after the shape of a phoenix head, it is also called "Laifeng Ginger", which is a stable and excellent local ginger variety selected by laifeng county people for a long time. Its ginger handle is like a finger, its tip is bright red and purplish, and its tuber is white.

Ginger with phoenix head is crisp and tender, rich in selenium and juicy, moderately spicy, delicious and appetizing, with unique flavor and strong and lasting fragrance. It is a unique product among the ginger varieties in China, so it has been a best-selling product in Southeast Asian market for a long time. 1998 obtained the certificate of "green food" from the Ministry of Agriculture and became the first ginger of green food in China. Eichhornia crassipes is rich in vitamins, amino acids, protein, fat, carotene, sugar, gingerol, phenol, alcohol and trace elements such as iron, zinc, calcium and selenium.

9. Fubaoshan Water Shield

Fubaoshan water shield is also called horseshoe, nettle and sunflower. It is a higher perennial aquatic plant with oval leaves, green front, dark red back and slender petiole. Fubaoshan Water Shield is said to be a treasure in the water given by the ancient sacred mountain. Since the Jin dynasty, it has been a tribute to the palace and a delicious banquet in the palace. It can be cooked, fried and cold, especially mixed with fish, cooked chicken, ham and sausage to make soup. Fresh and delicious, sticky and refreshing, with good color, fragrance, taste and shape.

10, Nianrou

According to legend, meat-eating in those days began with a war. One year before New Year's Eve, the Tujia hut was suddenly attacked by the army. Tujia people are cooking a reunion dinner in full swing. They never dreamed that they would encounter such a great disaster on such a day, and abandoned their homes and businesses one after another, dragging their children around. Some people who escaped into caves in the mountains escaped from the tiger's mouth by luck, but suffered from the cold. Fortunately, an elderly man hurriedly brought out a large piece of cooked pork, so everyone was given a small piece of meat, which made us spend this sad year with tears in our eyes. After the war subsided, in order to remember the lesson of this bloody incident, every household should steam several large pieces of cooked meat during the Chinese New Year to prevent similar disasters from happening again. Since then, the annual meat has entered the menu of Tujia people's Spring Festival.