Abstract: "Maugus" ritual culture is a collective memory of the descendants of the Tujia ethnic group on the history and cultural evolution of the Tujia.It not only artfully reproduces the natural state of the production and life of the Tujia ancestors,but alsos become the best carrier and approach for the protection,inheritance,and development of intangible cultural heritage.In the interaction and restriction between ecological environment and ritual culture,it is appropriate to achieve organic coupling between "Maugus" and human environment by taking ceremony,habitat,heritage,and economy as media,avoiding disadvantages and promoting advantages to achieve living inheritance and to promote the development of ethnic culture and ecotourism industry.

Key words: ecological environment, Maugus, ritual culture, coexistence and symbiosis