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Tujia Language and Culture website
Maybe the best Web about the Tujia, with some introductory articles about the Tujia, and photo exhibitions.
This page
is run by Philip & Cecilia Brassett, authors of maybe the only monograph
about the Tujia in any western language: Imperial Tiger Hunters: An Introduction
to the Tujia People of China
http://www.brassett.org.uk/tujia/ehome.html
"The Tujia are well known for a hand dance with over 70 ritual gestures to indicate war, hunting, farming and feasting."
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/data/minorities/Tujia.html
"The Tujia people also have their unique White Tiger Worship.The white tiger occupies an important status in the mind of the Tujia people ... call themselves "offspring of the White Tiger."
http://library-thinkquest.org/05aug/01780/chinese-ethnic-group/tujia.htm
Tujia - Science Museums of China
With six articles about the Tujia:
- The descendants of the Ba people.
- Xilankapu.
- Cogon grass goose and Waving Dance
- "Catching the New Year"
- "Dong Dongkui" and "Da Liuzi"
- Cry and Marry.
http://www.kepu.net.cn/english/nationalitymse/tuj/index.html
Funeral Dance of the Tujia People
"Men and woman, old and young, gather aound the coffin and sing, dance and enjoy themselves through the night... thinking death as natural as the rotation of the four seasons"
http://english.cri.cn/1521/2006/05/10/60@86996.htm
The wedding lament of the Tujia people in Western Hubei Province, China: Music and context.
"It is customary for the Tujia bride and her female relatives to conduct the ritual of wedding lament to grieve for their separation from one other."
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