The composition of Dong customs!

Most Dong people's houses are wooden structures. The walls of the house are filled with cedar boards, and some like to brush the outer walls with tung paint. The roof is covered with Chinese fir bark or tiles, the eaves are white, and some are carved with flower and bird patterns. It is the most common building, with three floors, and the room in the middle is the hall, which is dedicated to ancestors. The left and right rooms can be divided into two or three intercropping fire pits, bedrooms and kitchens, and the upstairs rooms are used as granaries and guest rooms. Some houses have a wing or annex room, which is used to cook pig food, or as a shack or woodshed. Generally, families with two or three small rooms share a big house. Most men live upstairs and women live downstairs. In Jinping Enlightenment Area, people lived upstairs and animals were fed downstairs.

Dong people can be divided into southern Dong people and northern Dong people. The southern Dong people have exquisite costumes, and women are good at weaving and embroidering. Dong brocade, Dong cloth, flower picking and embroidery are very distinctive. Women wear collarless clothes with large rows of buttons, and their skirts and cuffs are embroidered with delicate ponytails. The patterns are mainly dragons and phoenixes, with water cloud patterns and flowers and plants patterns in the middle.

Short skirts, pleated skirts, shoes with upturned feet. The bun is decorated with a silver crown of a ring hairpin, a silver hairpin or a dragon dancing phoenix, with multiple layers of silver collars and earrings.

Bracelets, waist pendants and other silver ornaments. Dong women in Sanjiang wear long skirts and short skirts. The robes are double lapels, and the lapels and cuffs are beautifully embroidered. Lapel unbuttoned, open in the middle, revealing embroidered bib, wearing green pleated skirt, embroidered leggings, flower shoes, a big bun on the head, flowers, wooden combs, silver hair pins and so on. Women in Luo Xiang wear blue collarless clothes, black skirts and lace-lined dresses during the Spring Festival, with a sky-blue bib at the front and a white ribbon and a red ribbon at the back. Men's wear is blue cloth head, stand collar, belt, short vest without buttons, trousers, leggings, sandals or barefoot, with embroidery on lapels. Dong people's horsetail back fan can be called first-class embroidery, with Gu Zhuo shape, exquisite embroidery, rigorous patterns and rich colors, which fully shows the intelligence and superb skills of Dong women.

Dong people's diet is mainly rice, but people still like glutinous food. When relatives and friends visit, they often send glutinous food to each other; Most wedding auspicious gifts are made of glutinous rice, and festival zongzi and Ciba are made of glutinous rice. There are many hillsides and far fields in the south, so glutinous rice is not only easy to carry, but also difficult to deteriorate. Many villages feed on glutinous rice. Glutinous rice is divided into glutinous rice, black glutinous rice, white glutinous rice, long-bearded glutinous rice, bald glutinous rice, dried glutinous rice and Xianghe glutinous rice, and the same kind is divided into different varieties. Among them, "Xianghe Nuo" is the king of glutinous rice paste and is known as "a steamed rice fragrance in the village". When eating glutinous rice, it is inconvenient to put it in a bowl because of its high viscosity. You should wash your hands and knead the rice into a ball, which is exactly the record of "fighting for rice with your hands" in historical materials. When eating, it is the same as eating steamed stuffed buns without bowls.

This is the Dong nationality, a strange nation.