Customs, characteristics and traditional festivals of the De'ang people: Most of the De'ang people eat rice as their staple food, with cereals and potatoes mixed in some areas.

They are all eaten by steaming and stewing, and are good at making various grain products, such as pea flour, tofu, rice noodles, rice cakes, dada, glutinous rice balls, etc.

There are many kinds of vegetables. Bamboo shoots are one of the vegetables that are available all year round. In addition to being eaten fresh, they are often processed into sour bamboo shoots or dried bamboo shoots for consumption.

When eating other vegetables, it is customary to cook them with sour bamboo shoots, cook them into sour (fire + bar) dishes, or add oil, black beans, and salt to make a mixed stew.

Sour bamboo shoots are very versatile and can be used as seasoning when stewing chicken, stir-frying meat or cooking fish.

Influenced by the local Han people, many Han-style pickles and fermented bean curd are also common side dishes on the tables of the De'ang people.

The De'ang people have a long history of growing tea. Tea is not only a common beverage among the De'ang people, but also the best gift for relatives and friends.

When you go out, you must cut a piece of bamboo, cut it into a diagonal shape, add tea leaves, inject spring water, boil it over fire and drink it, which will have a unique fragrance.

The De'ang people also drink sour tea, also known as wet tea, which was called valley tea or Gu tea in ancient times.

When making sour tea, add a little betel nut to the tea, put it into a large bamboo tube and compact it, seal the mouth of the tube, store it for one to two months and then take it out for fermentation.

The De'ang people have a long history of making pottery and using bamboo products. Most of their cooking utensils are homemade pottery and bamboo wares.

Festivals, Sacrifice, Etiquette, Food and Customs Most of the Deang people believe in Theravada Buddhism, and most villages have their own Buddhist temples, worshiped Buddhas, and young monks.

All the young monks' fasting meals are donated by the whole village in turn.

Some De'ang people have always had the habit of refusing to eat when they see someone being killed or not eating when they hear someone's voice.