Tujia Folk Customs Park

The Tujia Folk Customs Park near Zhangjiajie city preserves traditional architecture, crafts, and performance traditions of the Tujia minority people who are the historical inhabitants of the Wulingyuan area. The park includes reconstructed Tujia village buildings, including the stilted hanging-leg houses characteristic of western Hunan mountain communities, and regular performances of Tujia music, dance, and the "shaking hand dance" — a group dance performed at festivals.

The park sits between the city and the Wulingyuan park entrance and can be combined with a morning in the forest park and an evening at the folk park for a reasonably full day. It operates as both a cultural preservation site and an entertainment venue; the cultural content is genuine even if the staging is commercial. Admission around ¥120.

things to do sight museum
A story
The Tujia are the third-largest ethnic minority in China by population and the dominant group throughout the Zhangjiajie area, where they constitute a majority of the rural population. Their traditional architecture, the "diaojiaolou" or hanging-leg house — timber structures built on stilts over slopes or water — is the characteristic vernacular form of western Hunan. Most surviving examples are in rural areas, but the Folk Customs Park preserves a cluster within reach of the city.

Other places in Things to Do