There are three eclipses in most areas, and four eclipses in some places, that is, two teas and two meals. Second tea refers to the unique camellia oleifera of Dong nationality. Camellia oleifera is a thin soup made of tea, flowers, fried peanuts (or crisp soybeans), glutinous rice, meat or pig water, salt and chopped green onion. (There are spinach and Artemisia in some places), which can quench thirst and satisfy hunger, so it is often called "eating camellia oleifera". ?
2. clothes
Men wear double-breasted coats, and some have no collars on the right side and big headscarves. This woman is wearing a big shirt, no collar, no buttons and a skirt or trousers. Get used to girding your waist, Baotou Pa. Use four colors: black, cyan (blue), deep purple and white. Black and cyan are mostly used in spring, autumn and winter, white is mostly used in summer, and purple is mostly used in festivals. No matter what season, women's skirts are mostly black.
Pay attention to color matching, generally with one color as the main color, analogy color as the vice, and then decorate with contrast color. Prioritize, bright and quiet colors, soft and exquisite. 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.
On the Traditional Festival Customs of Dong Nationality
1, Spring Festival
The biggest festival of the year. But festivals are celebrated in different places. Dong people in the northern Dong towns of Xinhuang, Zhijiang, Yuping and Jinping spend the Spring Festival almost as much as the local Han people. Every village with Satan in the south will go to Satan to offer sacrifices to grandma on the first or second day of the New Year's Day. On New Year's Eve, Dong people in Tongdao celebrate the New Year, and the whole family gather around the fire pit to eat porridge, which is called annual sugar rice.
When the cock crows for the first time, men set off 12 firecrackers in order to have a good year. The women go to pick new year's water to make new year's tea. They don't want to pay New Year's greetings. They don't visit on the second day of the first grade. They are invited to eat Camellia oleifera in the third grade and eat in the fourth grade. Xuanen Dong people spend two years a day, which is called Lunar New Year. From the 30th to 15th of the first month, the louder the gong, the better.
2. Dong Nian
According to the Dong people's New Year. It's usually the end of October or the beginning of November in the lunar calendar. At present, most Dong people don't live for more than one year. Only some places still celebrate the Year of Dong. There are two years in these places every year. Call Dong Nian off-year. The Spring Festival is a new year.
The Dong village among the 72 villages in Rongjiang celebrates the Year of the Dong in early November of the lunar calendar. Before and after cleaning the house in October, kill pigs and cattle to prepare for the New Year. 1 1 From the first day of the month to the fifth day of the month, large-scale karaoke bars, Lusheng dances and bullfighting activities will be held. In some places, surname festival is also called Dongnian, and each surname festival has a different period. But it's usually in November of the lunar calendar.