What kind of customs do the Dong people have?

The Dong people mostly wear self-spinning, self-woven and self-dyed Dong cloth, preferring green, purple, white and blue. Men's attire, near the towns and Han Chinese, only the remote mountainous areas slightly different, wearing right-over-right collarless short coat, wearing pants, around the large headgear. Some of the head stay top hair. Women's attire varies from place to place, there are tube pants, clothing set to shoulder, nail silver beads, large buttons, plaits plaiting the head; there are knee-length clothes, lapel cuffs and trouser legs with piping or lace, pulling the plate hair; there are large lapel clothes, large trouser tube, Cambodia belt, wrapped in the head of the Pa, pulling the head of the bun; there are lapel clothes, lining the chest cloth, pleated skirts, tie the waist, a foot set or wrapped in the legs, buns inserted in a silver vertebrae; there are wide-sleeved large lapel, clothes embroidered with dragons and phoenixes and flowers, long skirt Knee-length skirt, combed hair; also has a Han Chinese costume. Generally like to wear silver jewelry.

The diet of the Dong people takes rice as the main food, with round-grained rice as the main food in the Pingba area, and more glutinous rice in the mountainous areas. Generally like to eat chili peppers and sour taste. Self-processed "grains of fish", "grains of meat", storage for more than ten years. Using oil tea to treat guests is a kind of hospitality habit of the Dong people. The villages of the Dong ethnic group are situated on the mountains and surrounded by water, which is the most characteristic of the southern part of the country. There are ancient trees at the end of the village, "wind and rain bridges" across the streams, and fish ponds in the villages. According to the clan name of the settlement, the drum tower towers towering between them. Live in the "dry bar" room, upstairs people, downstairs livestock and stacking debris.

"Moon also", is the village of the masses to another village as a guest, and to play the reed-sheng or singing, singing for fun social activities. Bullfighting is one of the collective entertainment. At that time, young and old gathered, a sea of people, the sound of joy, drums and gongs, iron cannon vibration valley. If there are guests from outside the village passing through the village, they will be blocked at the side of the village and answer with songs, which is called "plugging the gate of the village". The "singing and sitting on the moon", also known as "singing and sitting on the night", is a common name for young men and women to socialize and talk about love. In the northern part of the Dong ethnic minority area, it is called "Playing Mountain", where young men and women meet in groups of three or five to sing love songs on the hillside after labor. The southern Dong ethnic area called "go Zhai", or "go girl", the girls in the evening in the house with the needlework, the guest cottage young men and women with musical instruments to accompany the singing, tell each other about their love, love, men and women each other "for the record! When in deep love, men and women "exchange memories" (send gifts) to settle their love and become husband and wife. Sanjiang County, Fu Lu and other places of the Dong people often in the summer calendar on March 3 or February 2, gathered in Guangping, with a special fire bag rushed an iron ring up in the air, landing, so that everyone grab, the winner of the award, called the "grab the firecracker".

The Dong marriage is monogamous. Aunt-cousin marriage is more popular, aunt-cousin siblings and different generations can not intermarry. After marriage, women have the custom of "sitting at home" (i.e., "not fall into the husband's home"). Before the liberation, the Dong's basic social unit was the feudal patriarchal patrilineal small family. Women's status in society and in the family was lower than that of men, and women were forbidden to touch the bronze drums; men or elders were not allowed to go upstairs when they were downstairs. Only after marriage can a Dong girl enjoy the "private house" accumulated by her parents and herself, as well as a small amount of "girl's field" and "girl's land". Men inherit the family business, and if they have no heirs, they can recruit adopted sons.

Burials are generally the same as those of the Han Chinese, with earth burials. In some areas, there is also the custom of burial, people die into the funeral coffin parked in the countryside, and so on the clan and the deceased with the same year and generation after the death of the same, only together to choose a day of burial.