Tujia people are known as "twoty-eight, fighting." Every Spring Festival is coming, at the end of the Lunar New Year, every family has to fight rice. According to the local records, "the glutinous rice is smashed in the stone trough, and it is shaped like a full moon. The larger one is 1 foot 5 in diameter, the ordinary one is about 4 inches, and the thickness is 3 to 8 minutes." After the completion, the women who will do the tricks by the ingenuity will make a few big shackles, ranging from three to five kilograms to over ten kilograms. This is called "broken cage", which symbolizes "grain harvest" and shows that the Tujia people are generous. Playing glutinous rice bran is a labor-intensive physical activity. It is usually a man who is born in a mandarin. Two people stand on the ground and fight first, even if they are sweating in the snow and ice. It is also very particular about doing cockroaches. Sticky beeswax or tea oil, hand smashed, then pressed by hand or wooden board, to be smooth and beautiful.

Rice tofu is a famous snack in the Phoenix area of ​​Xiangxi. It is washed with rice and soaked in water to grind it into rice syrup, then added with alkali to make it cool, and form a block of "tofu" Serve. When eating, cut into small pieces and put them into cold water and remove them. After filling into the container, put the cut kohlrabi, salted vegetables, crispy soybeans, crispy peanuts, chopped green onion, etc. Tofu can be.

Hunan rice noodles refer to the characteristic rice noodles in Hunan Province. It is easy to store, delicious, and easy to cook. It is one of Hunan's favorite breakfasts. It has four major mainstreams: Changde rice noodles, Changsha rice noodles, Xiangxi rice noodles and Xiangtan original stone grinding rice noodles.