The Forest Culture Of Xiangxi Minority And Research Of Its Tourist Value

Forest Culture refers to the sum of all human knowledge and use of material and spiritual achievements arising from the forest. It features with regional, national, ecological and humanities. With the advent of era of ecological civilization, People concerned about forests increasingly, Forest tourism has become a widely popular way to travel. Cultural connotation of forest tourism originated in the forest culture, forest tourism can be said is the process that tourists experienced from forest culture. Xiang xi Autonomous Prefecture is rich in forest resources, forest tourism has developed rapidly. This is largely due to the forest culture of Xiang xi Tujia, Miao, Dong and other ethnic minorities. Xiang xi national minority dependence on material production, subsistence and survival and development from providing, and the formation of a unique national character comes from living along with forests. These forests cultural of minorities manifestation in the theory of morphological including philosophical of the forest, forest ethics and forest aesthetics, the core of spirit is the harmony between man and nature and forests. As a particular type of culture, forest culture, especially the manifestations of material culture to performance through their clothes culture, food culture, architecture culture; their forest acts mainly through the production of cultural life, folk customs, etiquette as well as to the performance of religious rituals; their forest system culture mainly through original taboo of regulation and pacts to show; their forest spirit of cultural expression mainly through philosophy, aesthetic thought, literature, art and religion. The cultural tourism value of Xiang xi national minority manifested in forest culture through the course of the economic value of tourism activities, ecological values, norms recognize the value, the aesthetic value of art, history, scientific value to be achieved. This process includes two aspects: First, the main object of the process of tourism, which became the subject of the role of tourism resources through the forest and forest cultures on the basis of the formation; Second, the main tourist object of the process, he incurs presented tourism resources to meet the needs of tourists and tourism activities in tourism, so tourists to find some kind of meaning. By Western tourists sampling survey, we found that the basic Western tourists can recognize the significance of forests for human and visitors the most impressive tourism resources and the most satisfying travel experience basically from Western original ecological scenery, ancient town and local customs. Survey data also show that by the few people in Xiangxi area travel experience, most visitors to forests and forest culture has a new understanding and awareness of these mostly from the forests themselves, Western folklore and local diet. Meanwhile, most of the visitors also said that the future will continue to conduct forest tourism, they still come back to the forest tourism and experience the beauty of the forest and the beauty of culture.