What traditional festivals do Dong people have?

The Dong people have more than 100 festivals a year, and there are 84 festivals in the Dong area in southeastern Guizhou alone. There are festivals celebrated all over the country, and there are also festivals with one village and one surname.

The biggest festivals are Spring Festival, Living Road Festival, Nianwei Festival, March 3rd, Wanglin Festival, Niushen Festival, Lusheng Festival, Fireworks Festival, Foggeliang Festival, Forty-eight Village Song Festival and Bull Running Festival.

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.

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Traditional customs of Dong nationality:?

Love, Marriage

Social freedom of young men and women in Dong society. Every holiday, leisure time or after work, girls and boys get together to sing and play, and sow the seeds of love with songs. This kind of social activity is different in the north and the south. In the north, it is held on the hillside during the day, which is called "beating the mountain" or "driving the depression", and the meeting place is called "garden". In the south, it is usually done at home at night. The man called it "entering the village", the woman called it "sitting at night", and it was customary to call it "singing at night".

funeral

The Dong people's burial method is soil burial. Adults who died normally can be buried in ancestral graves, and those who died abnormally or died young can be buried in secluded wilderness. In the past, there was a custom of "stopping coffin burial" in Congjiang, Liping and other places in Guizhou. After a person dies, the coffin stops outside the primary school, waiting for his family and the deceased's contemporaries to die, and then buried together.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Dong Nationality