First, most areas have the habit of eclipsing three meals. Of course, there are also some places that have the habit of eating four meals during the solar eclipse. Dong is a member of 56 ethnic families in China, with a population of about 3 million. Dong people mainly live at the junction of Hunan, Guizhou and Guangxi provinces. Li Bai, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, said, "A hundred flowers blossom and five streams cross, and I am worried about the bright moon and blow to the west." We can appreciate the traditional culture of Dong people from poems.

Secondly, the four traditional dishes of Dong people refer to red meat, burdock, grilled fish and frozen fish. These four dishes have been handed down from ancient times. They are still used as food for families to celebrate festivals, celebrate and entertain guests. It tastes delicious and has a certain Dong cultural connotation. Dong nationality is a nation that loves beauty and is good at creating beauty. The local people have the habit of having two teas and two meals. Two kinds of tea refer to camellia oleifera unique to Dong people. Camellia oleifera is a thin soup made of tea, fried rice flower, fried peanuts (or crisp soybeans), glutinous rice, meat or pig water, salt and chopped green onion. (Some places are spinach and Artemisia), which can quench thirst and satisfy hunger, so it is often called "eating camellia oleifera".

Three or seventy-two villages are the four major dishes of the Dong people. Nowadays, they are constantly respected. In some towns, they have even entered the restaurant menu and are favored by foreign guests. These four dishes are authentic, with local materials, local fires and various seasonings made by Dong people. They are really fresh. The four traditional dishes of the Dong nationality have been handed down from generation to generation, which have both the food culture and the wisdom of the Dong nationality. It is the most intuitive expression of minority cultures such as Dong nationality. Together, it constitutes the national culture with a long history in China.

The Dong people belong to the "Max Loehr" of the Baiyue nationality in southern China in ancient times. It is generally believed in academic circles that Dong people migrated from Nancangwu, Guangxi. The local residents called their leaders "Tongshan leaders" or "Tongshan leaders", so they called the Dong people "Tongshan people", and later renamed them "Dong people" and "Dong people".