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There are different accounts of their origins, though their history can be traced back over twelve centuries, and possibly beyond, to the ancient Ba people who occupied the area around modern-day Chongqing some 2,500 years ago. Over the centuries they have come into extensive contact with the country's Han Chinese majority, but it was only after the Qing Dynasty imposed direct rule in the 1730s that the Tujia's native culture began to disappear as a result of acculturation and assimilation. Today there are at most 70 thousand speakers of the Tujia language, all of whom live in the northern part of Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture in north-western Hunan Province. The vast majority of the Tujia use Chinese language|Chinese; a few speak Miao. Today, traditional Tujia customs can only be found in the most remote areas. The Tujia are renowned for their singing and song composing abilities and for their tradition of the Baishou hand dance, a 500 year old collective dance which uses 70 ritual gestures to represent war, farming, hunting, courtship and other aspects of traditional life. They are also famous for their richly-patterned brocade, known as 'xilankapu', a product that in earlier days regularly figured in their tribute payments to the Chinese court.
CEG fr:Tujia ja:トゥチャ族 zh:土家族 http://www.brassett.org.uk/tujia/ehome.html This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Tujia".
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