“Saye’erhe”, known as funeral dance among Han people, is the funeral folk songs and dances of Tujia nationality in the middle reaches of Qingjiang River in Hubei Province.

　　It is a very unique funeral ceremony: the villagers of the surrounding mountains and ridges gather together in front of the coffin in the central room of the dead’s house. Among them, men sing and dance, and women in bright red and green costumes crowd around for entertainment day and night. In the view of Qingjiang Tujia people, the life and death of man is as natural as the change of four seasons. The death of an old man who lived through the ages conforms to the laws of nature and deserves celebration. Its biggest features are that it truly holds the funeral as a happy event, and it also has wonderful style of songs and dance, which fully reflect the open-mind life view of Tujia people.