Gourd kettle

　　Tujia household technology equipment. Production is very simple, to hoist for materials, selection of large end is removed for fruits fall off when ripe. At the head end tip through a small hole, hanging in the Kang rack drying, or hanging from the eaves let it dry, gourd pot color from green to become white, gradually turned to brown yellow.

　　Second years of spring season, with a small piece of bamboo will gently mashed seeds can be sown gourd pulp is poured out, an antique bottle gourd pot is made. If the host likes show off literary skill, but also in the gourd pot with a knife cut a few lines of pastoral poem or strike a landscape pavilion, it will more be full of wit and humour. The gourd carving can be comparable with Hainan coconut thai.

　　Gourd hull has a layer of dense fiber sponge network, so Tujia people use it to buy wine, can maintain winey, for cold water, can keep cool sweet. [ ] this paper cutting process throughout the city. Paper cutting cut and filed flower two, used for decorative windows and doors, modeling simple Xilian, variety.