Folk literature of Tu is very colorful. It has banquet songs, narrating poem, fable, nursery rhyme, riddle, etc.

Some banquet songs are performed in welcoming the guests, with elegant and praising lyrics. Some are about history, geography, chronometer, meteorology as well as religion and habitude. The banquet songs are also sung in wedding ceremony with strong ethical and local style.

Larenbu and Jimensuo is the representative of narrating poem, solemn but elegant, expressing the young people’s desire for freedom and love and full of complaint about feudalism.

In festivals and wedding ceremony, Tu people get together singing and dancing happily, especially on the harvest and praying safety ceremony holding in July.

There are many stories unmasking the devil landlord, about Tu people’s struggle with the landlords and expressing young people’s yearning for freedom and love. Many fables also satirize the landlords and prefects’ hypocrisy and atrocity.