Tujia "Crying Wedding Song" Tujia "Crying Wedding Song" is a farewell song sung by Tujia girls before they get married. Crying wedding is an important procedure in the marriage process of Tujia girls. That is, the girl starts crying and singing one month or ten days and a half months before her marriage. At that time, relatives and neighbors, young and old, gather at the bride's house, some gather to cry and sing, and some watch, often until late at night. Until the day of the wedding, her brother or younger brother carries the bride out of the door of her own house, and the crying and singing stop. "Crying Wedding Song" can be roughly divided into two categories: one is a lyrical and sad song that uses crying instead of singing, with crying in the singing, and is composed while crying; the other is a lyrical and free song with a long poem structure that uses singing instead of crying or only singing without crying. The content of "Crying Wedding Song" mainly includes six parts: "Crying for Parents", "Crying for Ten Sisters", "Crying for Guests", "Crying for the Mother's Meal", "Crying for Combing Hair", and "Crying for Getting into the Sedan". In the past, most of the crying lyrics expressed the bride's dissatisfaction with feudal ethics and the feeling of parting with her relatives. Nowadays, they mainly express the pain of separation and thank the parents for their upbringing. The accompanying weepers mainly cry words of congratulation and comfort, flattering the bride to get married with good luck and happiness, etc. The form of "crying songs" is generally that the bride takes the lead in crying and singing, and the accompanying weepers start crying or singing in the second half of the sentence. The artistic characteristics of "crying songs": the lyrics are based on the scene and the emotions are often used. There are relatively regular seven-character sentences and relatively free long and short sentences. The tone is ancient and has strong characteristics. The "crying songs" of the Hedong Management District of Baifusi Town are based on ladomi. While emphasizing the two notes of yu (6) and gong (1), the minor third b3 above the gong tone is mixed to form a characteristic interval of a continuous minor third three-tone series. This diminished fifth interval makes the emotions more sad, and the emotions are more intense and unstable when crying. In January 2009, it was selected into the second batch of Enshi Prefecture's intangible cultural heritage list; in June 2011, it was selected into the third batch of Hubei Province's intangible cultural heritage list.