Dong customs: belief in mountain gods, land gods, water gods, well gods, tree gods, stone gods, Vulcan gods and Raytheon; The way to entertain guests is to take wine as a gift, take wine as a pleasure, and usually use wine to eliminate fatigue.

Features: Dong people use self-spun, self-woven and self-dyed Dong cloth as clothing material, and women's hair styles are divided into front, back, left and right bun or braid on the top of their heads. The villages where Dong people live are generally characterized by mountains and rivers.

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.

Dong people's diet

Dong people take rice as their staple food, and also eat millet, corn, wheat, sorghum and potatoes, but they usually eat them in a mixture to adjust their tastes. Meat is mainly domestic animals, including pigs, cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks, geese, and especially fish. There are many kinds of vegetables, among which green vegetables, Chinese cabbage, radish, eggplant, cowpea, cucumber, pumpkin, wax gourd, white melon and pepper are the most common. Women often go up the mountain to collect wild bamboo shoots, mushrooms, bracken and other side dishes. Men hunt wild boar, bamboo rats, pheasants, birds and so on during the slack season.

Wine plays an extremely important role in the diet of Dong people. Wine is mostly made of glutinous rice, and every family will brew and bake it. Dong Jia is a good guest, taking wine as a gift, taking wine as a pleasure, and usually using wine to eliminate fatigue. Glutinous rice, camellia oleifera, pickled cabbage and fish are the favorite traditional foods of Dong people, which are closely related to national customs and are recognized as Dong family flavors.

In most areas, we eat three meals a day. In many places, camellia oleifera is eaten for breakfast and breakfast is called for lunch. When eating, people usually put short tables and stools, use bowls and chopsticks, and the whole family eats around the table. There are "flat beef", grilled fish, plasma duck, red meat and other specialties.

Treat guests with "Camellia oleifera", "acid banquet" and "closed meal".

Dong architecture

Dong village is generally located in the mountainous area, surrounded by terraced fields, with a long stream at the foot and towering trees at the end of the village. There are six or seven hundred large Dong villages and twenty or thirty small ones. Houses in Dong Village are generally wooden buildings built by fir trees, ranging from small buildings with one or two floors to buildings with three or four floors.

Drum Tower is the most distinctive building in Dong Village. Generally, there are one or two villages, and there are four or five larger stockades. Drum Tower is a double-eaved building with wood structure, and its construction technology integrates the technologies of "dry well", "barrel-piercing" and "beam-lifting" of China wood structure.

Where the Dong people live in compact communities, where there is a river, there is a bridge. Bridges are mostly built on the main road at the end of the village, including wooden bridges, stone arch bridges, stone slab bridges and bamboo raft bridges. Among them, the long corridor wooden bridge named "Wind and Rain Bridge" or "Flower Bridge" is famous at home and abroad for its unique artistic structure and superb architectural skills.