Does Tujia have its own language?

Tujia people have their own language, but they don't. Chinese is widely used and most people speak it. At present, only a few inhabited areas still retain Tujia language.

Tujia people call themselves "Bizka", "Mijika" or "Bejinka", which means "an indigenous people".

Historically, Tujia ancestors were called "barbarians" or "barbarians". Before the Song Dynasty, Tujia people living in Wuling area, together with other ethnic minorities, were called "Wu Lingren" or "Wuxi people".

After the Song Dynasty, Tujia people were called "Tu Ding", "Tu Ren", "Tu Min" or "Tu Man" separately. After the reform, with the increase of Han immigrants, "Tu", "Ke" and "Miao" are often opposed in Wuling area to distinguish Tujia, Han and Miao.

As a clan name, "Tujia" appeared in a late period. The records of Xianfeng County in the Republic of China stated that "the home of Tusi descendants is Tujia, and the local Han immigrants are Hakka".

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Culture:

1, faith:

Tujia people believe in many gods, such as nature worship, totem worship, ancestor worship, local king worship and so on. Witchcraft and witchcraft are particularly fierce, and the introduction of Taoism, Buddhism and Christianity has also had a certain impact on Tujia belief.

2. Diet:

Tujia people's daily staple food is corn and rice, supplemented by sweet potatoes and potatoes.

Tujia people like drinking, and the common ones are sweet wine and mixed wine brewed with glutinous rice and sorghum.

3. Clothing:

In terms of clothing, Tujia people are still frugal and like to be loose.

Traditional fabrics are mostly self-woven and self-spun blue homespun or linen, which are called "creek cloth" and "hole cloth" in history books.

4. Architecture

There are four types of Tujia traditional houses: thatched houses, adobe houses, wooden frame houses and hanging houses. In addition, there are stone houses and caves.

5. Rules

Tujia people pay great attention to etiquette. In the past, when a woman was pregnant, she had to ask Teacher Tu to perform "pregnancy prevention" and exorcism ceremonies. When giving birth to a child, a "midwife" is usually invited to worship the mother-in-law Bashan, the goddess of fertility. After the baby was born, the father went to his mother-in-law's house with a "good news chicken". The boy uses a rooster and the girl uses a hen.

6. Language

Tujia language belongs to the Tibeto-Burman language family of Sino-Tibetan language family, close to Yi language branch, and is divided into southern dialect and northern dialect.

Except Tujia in Tanxi Town, luxi county, Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, all of them speak northern dialects.

Tujia people have no mother tongue and use Chinese for a long time.

Most Tujia people speak Chinese, and some people speak Miao language. Only some Tujia people in Yongshun, Longshan and Laifeng counties in Youshui River Basin can speak Tujia dialect.

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