Traditional festivals of Dong nationality

Ye Wei Festival, Paradise Ba Festival, Wufan Festival, Lusheng Festival, Bitter Wine Festival, Incense Festival, Dong Year, menstruation Festival, etc. Dong is a minority in China, and its national language is Dong, which belongs to the Dong Shui branch of the Zhuang Dong language family of Sino-Tibetan language family, and has polytheism. The ancestors of the Dong nationality were called "Thousand Hands" in the documents before the pre-Qin period, and it is generally believed that the Dong nationality developed from a branch of ancient Baiyue. Agriculture is the mainstay of the Dong people, and rice cultivation is the mainstay of agriculture. Rice planting has a long history, and forestry, agriculture and forestry production have reached a fairly high level. There are many basins called "bazi" in Wanshan Congling in Dong nationality area. Dong people are mainly distributed in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture and Tongren Prefecture of Guizhou Province, xinhuang dong autonomous county, Huitong County, Tongdao Dong Autonomous County, Zhijiang Dong Autonomous County and Jingzhou Miao and Dong Autonomous County of Hunan Province, Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Longsheng Ethnic Autonomous County, Rongshui Miao Autonomous County and Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture of Hubei Province.

History: Historians have different views on the historical origin of the Dong nationality. There are four main viewpoints: one holds that the Dong people are an indigenous people, who have lived and worked in this land since ancient times and are the same people formed in this land; The second view is that the Dong people migrated from Wuzhou in the lower reaches of Duliujiang River to today's Dong township, because there is a migration ballad of "Gong Zu Xiajiang" in the southern dialect among the Dong people; The third view is that the Dong people migrated from Wenzhou in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River along the Yuanjiang River through Dongting Lake, because there is such a legend in the song "Gong Zu enters the village" circulated among the Dong people in the northern dialect; The fourth view holds that the main component of the Dong nationality is local, and it is integrated with other ethnic components that moved in from other places in the long-term historical development process.