"Yue Ye" is a social activity in which people from one village visit another village and enjoy playing the Lusheng, singing or performing operas.

Bullfighting in farm leisure time is one of the collective entertainments.

At that time, people of all ages will gather together, with huge crowds of people, cheers everywhere, gongs and drums, and iron cannons shaking the valley.

When guests from other villages pass by the village, they block them at the edge of the village and respond with songs, which is called "blocking the village gate".

"Sitting on the moon while singing" is also called "sitting on the moon while singing", which is a general term for young men and women to socialize and fall in love.

The northern Dong area is called "Wanshan", where young men and women gather in groups to sing love songs on the hillside after work.

In the southern Dong area, it is called "Zouzhai" or "Zou girl". In the evening, the girls go together to do needlework in the house. The young men from the Hakka village come with instruments to accompany and sing duets, telling each other about their love. When they are in love, men and women "change notes" with each other.

(Giving gifts) To confirm love and make an appointment as husband and wife.

The Dong people in Fulu and other places in Sanjiang County often gather in Guangping on March 3 or February 2 of the lunar calendar. They use a special fire bag to fly into the air with an iron ring. When it lands, everyone will grab it, and the winner will be heavily rewarded.

, called "grabbing fireworks".

Marriage among the Dong people is monogamous.

Marriage between aunts and cousins ??is more popular, and aunts and cousins ??cannot intermarry if they are of different generations.

It is a custom for women to "stay at home" (that is, "not to leave their husband's house") after marriage.

Before liberation, the basic social unit of the Dong people was the feudal patriarchal patrilineal family.

Women's status in society and family is lower than that of men, and women are not allowed to touch the bronze drum; men or elders are not allowed to go upstairs if they are downstairs.

Only after marriage can Dong girls enjoy the "private houses" accumulated by their parents and themselves, as well as a small amount of "girls' land" and "girls' land".

Men inherit the family business, and those who have no heirs can raise adopted children.

Funerals are generally the same as those of the Han people, with burial in the ground.

There is also a burial custom in some areas. After a person dies, the coffin is parked in the suburbs. After everyone of the same clan and generation of the deceased has died, they can then choose a day to bury the deceased together.

They believe in many gods and worship natural objects. Ancient trees, boulders, wells, and bridges are all objects of worship.

With the female surname "Sa Sui" (meaning the first grandmother who founded the village) as the supreme god, every village has established a "Sa Sui Temple".

Use chicken divination, grass divination, egg divination, snail divination, rice divination and hexagram divination to determine good or bad luck.

Some places are influenced by the Han people and still believe in some Han gods.

Believe in the immortality of the soul.

Buddhism is also spread, and there are nunneries and temples, but not many people believe in it.

Christianity and Catholicism were also introduced, but there were not many believers.

The most common festivals of the Dong people are the Spring Festival, worshiping the Cow God (on the eighth day of the fourth lunar month or the sixth day of the sixth lunar month), and eating new foods (in the seventh lunar month).

In some areas, the Dong New Year is celebrated in October or November.

Due to the exchanges between ethnic groups, the Dong people also have festivals such as Qingming, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and Double Ninth Festival.

Among them, the annual festival of Dong people is called Xingnian.

Eating communal meals (Spring Community Day in February) The Dong people have the custom of eating communal meals, but do not engage in any activities.

Pick fresh and tender Artemisia annua (Artemisia annua, Artemisia annua) from fields, streams and hillsides and bring them home, wash and chop them into pieces, knead out the bitter water, dry them, and mix them with wild garlic (scallions), ground rice vegetables, dried wax beans and dried bacon.

Other auxiliary ingredients are mixed with glutinous rice (part of the sticky rice can be mixed, but the sticky rice needs to be half-cooked before adding the glutinous rice) and steamed or stewed. It tastes unique and has a unique flavor. Its function is to prevent and eliminate epidemics and promote health.

The indoor shrines dedicated to ancestors are the most sacred places.

All weapons, including knives, pine trees, swords, halberds, daggers, spears, bows, crossbows, and even palm ropes, are not allowed to be placed on it.

Otherwise, it will be disrespectful to God and will result in punishment.

During the ritual activities held in the village, outsiders are prohibited from entering the village.

The taboo symbol is to tie four knots with zebra thatch to form a cross and hang them at the entrance of the village.

Food Customs The Dong people are distributed in the adjacent areas of Guizhou, Hunan and Guangxi provinces in southern China.

The Dong people grow rice, raise fish in the rice fields, and do both fish and food business.

Produces fungus, mushrooms, magnolia slices, watermelon, etc.

Most of the Dong people eat four meals a day, two rice and two tea.

Rice is the main ingredient.

People in Pingba eat more Japonica rice, while in mountainous areas, they eat more glutinous rice. There are many types of glutinous rice, including red glutinous rice, black glutinous rice, white glutinous rice, bald shell glutinous rice, dryland glutinous rice, etc. Among them, Xianghe glutinous rice is the most famous.

They make various kinds of rice into white rice, flowered rice, light porridge, flowered porridge, and rice dumplings.

When eating glutinous rice cakes, etc., you do not need chopsticks, but use your hands to knead the rice into balls and eat it, which is called "eating kneaded rice".

The Dong people are generally accustomed to preparing meals for the day early in the morning and taking them to the mountains to eat.

Among them, the "steamed rice" made from fragrant rice is particularly delicious. There is a saying that "one family steams rice and the whole village is fragrant".

The tea that the Dong people drink refers specifically to Camellia oleifera, which is a thick soup made from tea leaves, rice crackers, fried peanuts, crispy soybeans, glutinous rice, meat, pig offal, salt, chopped green onion, camellia oil, etc. It can not only quench thirst, but also

It can also satisfy hunger.

Along with rice and tea, there are vegetables, fresh fish, meat, fruits, game, mushrooms and beverages. The food sources are wide and varied.

Most of the vegetables are made into pickled vegetables.

There are two types of sauerkraut making: the jar system and the tube system. The jar system means to put the rice washing water into a jar, put it next to the fire pond to heat it, let it ferment, and make a sour soup, and then use the sour soup to cook fish, shrimp, and vegetables.

As the most common daily dish.

Fresh fish include carp, crucian carp, grass carp, eel, loach, shrimp, crab, snail, clam, etc., which can be made into fire-roasted rice carp, grass carp soup, fresh fried crucian carp, sucking snail, sour shrimp, sour crab

And other famous dishes.

The shrimp paste that is often eaten by the people is also mostly made in jars.

Pickled fish, pickled pork chops, steaks and pickled chicken and duck are mainly made in tubes.

There are two types of barrels: wooden barrels and bamboo barrels.

Winter is the best time to make pickled fish. The longer the pickled fish is, the mellower its flavor will be.

In addition to eating a lot of sour fish and shrimps, they are also often eaten fresh.