Description: Tu nationality (土族), with a population of 290,000, mainly distributes in Tu Autonomous County of Huzhu, Minhe Hui and Tu Autonomous County, Datong Hui and Tu Autonomous County and Tongren County in Huangnan Tibet Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai province. It engaged in agriculture.
Language: Trran.
Religion: Tu nationality believes in Lamaism. There are more than 40 Lama monasteries in Tu region such as well-known Youning temple, Guanghui temple and so on.
Clothing Character: Clothing of Tu nationality is special and unique. Jacket both man and woman has embroidered high collar. Man is used to wearing robe with two black edge sleeves and tying embroidered waistband. Cnemis is tied a band with top black and below white. They wear yurt hat on head and cloth shoes with the pattern of cloud.
served as the principle food, while wheat takes the second place. Milk tea is the favored drink. On festivals, each family makes various fried food and hand-grabbed meat (both pork and mutton). Most of them brew barley wine by themselves.
Festivals: Just like Han, they celebrate festivals such as the Spring Festival and Dragon Boat Festival. Their own traditional festivals are Leitai Meeting, Nadun Meeting and Danma Opera Meeting. They hold horse race, wrestling, wushu, etc. to celebrate the festivals.
Customs: Tu people held cremation. After the funeral, man of the family should not wear hat, woman could not wear colorful clothes, which lasts for 49 days.
Forbid presenting tea with flawy bowl or cup. Forbid quarreling and beating children in front of the guests. It is not allowed to smoke, spit expectorate, rummage and make noise in Buddha Hall.
Arts: Tu women are skilled in embroidering. They like to embroider various patterns on collar, cuff and robe. Tu people draw pictures with the symbol of harvest on the wall, window and pillar of temple.
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