丧葬仪式是生者与死者之间的灵魂对话,也是人间情感在幻想境界中的阴阳交流。土家族的葬礼,既有社会习俗的特点,也有对处理死者的信仰。土家先民曾实行火葬、岩墓葬、悬棺葬等方式,他们哀悼死者的方式之一是鼓踏后而歌,叫啸以兴哀。不过民族历史的悠久,民族杂居的融合,使土家族的葬俗不断发生演变,但他们依然保留了其先民悼念死者的方式,以跳丧、歌丧来哀悼死者,慰籍生者。其鲜明的民族特征,有着重大的研究价值。 Funeral ceremony is the soul dialogue between the living and the dead, as well as the exchange of yin and yang in the realm of fantasy. Tujia funeral, both the characteristics of social customs, but also to deal with the deceased’s faith. Tujia ancestors had practiced cremation, rock tombs, coffins and other means of coffin, one way they mourn the dead is the drum after the song, shouts to grief. However, due to the long history of ethnic groups and the integration of ethnic groups, the burial customs of the Tujia people continue to evolve. However, they still retain the ways in which their ancestors mourned the deceased. Its distinctive national characteristics, has a great research value.