What is the clothing of the Dong people?

The clothing material for Dong costumes used to be mainly self-spun, self-woven and self-dyed Dong cloth.

After the 1980s, it has become common to use fine machine-woven cloth, and the self-woven Dong cloth has become a gift for friends and relatives. There are various kinds of Dong costumes, with different decorations for different ages and seasons, such as left-over-obeam, right-over-obeam, and lapel; cloth buttons, copper buttons, and silver buttons; pants and skirts; green, blue, black, and white colors; and headdresses, neckdresses, chestdresses, waistdresses, handdresses, and footdresses, and so on.

There are more than 50 kinds of headdresses, mainly silver, including silver flower crowns, silver hairpins, silver combs, silver hair chains, silver earrings, silver earrings, silver earrings, silver ear wires and so on. When women are in full costume, the only thing that can be seen is the glitter of silver. Women's hair style is more special, divided into front, back, left and right bun or disk braid on the top of the head, there are obvious regional differences.

Dong Introduction:

The Dong (Dong: Gaeml) is a minority ethnic group in China, whose language is Dong, belonging to the Dong Shui branch of the Zhuang-Dong language family of the Sino-Tibetan language family, and whose beliefs are in many gods.

The ancestors of the Dong people were called "Qianshou" in pre-Qin literature, and it is generally believed that the Dong people developed from a group of the ancient Baiyue people. The Dong people are mainly engaged in agriculture, which is based on rice cultivation, which has a long history, and forestry, which has reached a fairly high level of agricultural and forestry production. There are many basins called "dams" interspersed with the mountains in the Dong region.

The Dong are mainly found in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture and Tongren area in Guizhou Province, Xinhuang Dong Autonomous County, Huitong County, Dong Autonomous County, Zhijiang Dong Autonomous County and Jingzhou Miao and Dong Autonomous County in Hunan Province, Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County, Longsheng Autonomous County and Rongshui Miao Autonomous County in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, and Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture in Hubei Province.

According to the 2010 Sixth National Population Census, the total population of the Dong is 2879974