| People in a certain period of time to maintain their own life and the formation of the strategy or approach called livelihood, the way of life is affected by the natural and social environment of people living in the region. Life in the Wuling Mountain region of the Tujia people, due to local geographical conditions and the majority of the Han areas vary, so life in the Tujia people in here for a long time sustained a set of farming, fishing and hunting, forestry, acquisition is equal to one compound livelihood patterns. And as this paper surveys the field, Furong Town since ancient times has a Tujia Nationality in Wuling mountain area with the same traditional means of livelihood, at the same time, the traditional means of livelihood also has a distinction from other Wuling mountain area is unique. The author hopes that through combing the unique traditional means of livelihood to spy on different Tujia traditional means of livelihood. Of course, there is a change in the local social environment and ecological environment in the local social environment and the ecological environment. After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, due to the social and economic development, especially after the reform and opening up, the market continued to promote, so that the way of life in the town of lotus has a continuous change. People based on independent consciousness began to choose more diversified livelihoods, and national policy tilt and support also greatly promoted the Tujia People’s life meter mode selection diversity, local Tujia Ren of unique ecological and human resources development, in order to maintain the life, has gradually formed a new way to make a living.The through the field investigation method, combing Furong Town unique traditional means of livelihood, since contrast was founded 70 years in Furong Town of contemporary Tujia nationality livelihood changes and conduct research in order to find the reason of the change, demonstrates the rapid social development and times progress gradually under the environment, the development of the market economy gradually expanded the scope of people communication, Furong Town of Tujia people exchanges with the outside world are becoming more and more frequent. Under the dual influence of the natural and social environment changes, the different ways of living also provide more choices for the local people. Of course, the changes in the way of living also caused the local social structure changes, which greatly influenced the cultural and social consciousness of Tujia area. |