Tujia Qigong is one of the transitional folk sports. Distinguished with its thrilling occasion, people also call it as hard Qigong. While performing, a man of bare belly lies on a upturned steel fork with suspension of two hands and legs, without any wound at all.
    There are so many other examples like spearing throat, cleaving stone by hands etc. They are all distillate of Tujia traditional civilization.

    Tujia people respect local gods very much, which consists of ancestors, kitchen god, earth god, Tima and so on.
    Being offered on the altar or in the holy shrine, ancestors are considered to be a powerful god of ability to shelter. As kitchen god, it is said to be the most hones.
    God that never tell a lie and is usually serviced in the shrine together with ancestors. Tujia people are always asking their children to learn from kitchen god to be honest and loyal.
    Earth god is offered in the earth temple where meat, fish, apples and pears display on the first day of every new year or other festivals. Tujia people fall on their kneels to pray for good harvest or happiness before it.
    Tima is the leader of Tujia people in ancient time. It is also the symbol of saving, worshiped piously by Tujia people.

    People are used to bear rather than shoulder because of Wulingyuan's special location. The local people always make bamboo into tube-shaped basket, which is on back to bear tools for work or living. The basket varies in size and making for different usage. The one for working is big, rough but enduring, while the smaller one is more delicate and elegant. The one for firewood was made of thick bamboo, the one for washing clothes is made of thinner one, and the upper is bigger than the bottom, the one for wedding is much more elegant than the washing one, with red-painted, 3cm-width-rings in the middle part to show celebration. The fine bamboo, the particular designs show the bride's skill and cleverness. The one for bearing child is chair-shaped and made of mao bamboo with cloth-made suspenders.