The folk song "Sister Huang" is deeply loved by the masses and highly entertaining. The performers are a man and a woman or two men and two women. When singing, it is accompanied by a simple dance, and shows Tujia people's enlightened attitude towards marriage and love with humorous performance tone and movements.
Gaoping, Lisan and Hongyan, which were established at the beginning, are the gateway of Enshi Prefecture to Yichang. As early as the seventh year of Yongzheng in Qing Dynasty (1729), there were shops in Gaoping, Lisan and Hongyan, and the business was once prosperous. In the late Qing Dynasty, a group of Han businessmen came from Yichang, Shashi, Wuhan and other places every spring and autumn to sell foreign cloth, needle and thread, silk handkerchief, leggings, headrope and other goods, shoulder to shoulder with cloth, playing tambourines, peddling along the street, or rushing to rural houses to sell goods.
A long time ago, there were 120 Huang families living in ancient villages. One day, a handsome peddler from other places came, and Huang's sisters surrounded him to buy a needle and thread brain. Brother peddler is very happy. He comes to the stockade from time to time to meet Huang's sisters. Brother peddler often dallies with Huang sisters. One of the girls, Huang Yaogu, ranks fourth in the family and is beautiful and watery. Brother peddler is very happy. In the long run, Huang Yaogu also had a good impression on Brothers Salesman. Soon, they fell in love and got married.
Later, people gave Huang Yaogu the news of the pledge from the salesman, and made it into a festive drum "Brother Salesman" to sing. After they got married, they got a son to hold a wedding banquet to celebrate. The relatives and friends who came to congratulate them adapted the salesman's brother into Sister Huang. The emergence of the Four Bazi in Enshi during this period undoubtedly provided themes and inspiration for folk literature and art, and also endowed Sister Huang with strong regional color and profound national heritage.
The "Happy Flower Drum" is named after the birth of a child, and it is "to celebrate dancing and reveling when drinking". Tujia people regard giving birth to a person as a top priority. Tujia girls give birth to children after marriage, and both families are happy, so they set an auspicious day to celebrate (also known as "all-toast rice wine"). On auspicious days and nights, people get together after eating their fill and don't have so many beds to sleep in. In order to spend the long night, the guests laughed and played with their neighbors and sisters-in-law, holding straw hats, cattail leaf fans, or touching the ashes under the stove, painting the children's grandmothers, aunts and menstruation into painted faces to cater to the main room. Everyone teased each other, sang and danced, performed in a relaxed and lively manner according to the lyrics and melody rhythm, and greeted the dawn with beautiful songs and laughter.
Huagu "Huang Sijie" has attracted the attention of the world with its unique national characteristics. Tujia people have been singing hard for generations, and gradually formed "Flower Drum Opera", and finally formed more than 30 folk songs of Flower Drum Opera, such as "Huang Sijie" and "Noisy Five", among which "Huang Sijie", which is vivid, cheerful and meaningful, is the most outstanding and has become a must-sing song for every banquet.
Because "Sister Huang" is easy to remember, catchy and humorous, villagers sometimes improvise "Sister Huang" in the fields. From the first generation of descendants Huang Qixing to the present Huang Zongjie, Huang Zongding and Huang, Sister Huang has been passed down for eight generations.