In most areas, there are three eclipses, and in some places there are four eclipses, that is, two teas and two meals. Two teas refer to camellia oleifera unique to Dong people. 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 jackets. Some of them have no collars on the right and wear big headscarves. This woman is wearing a big shirt, no collar, no buttons, and a skirt or trousers. Baotou pa is used to wearing a waist belt. 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, usually with one color as the main color, the analogy color as the secondary color, and then decorate with the contrast color. Prioritize, bright and quiet colors, soft and exquisite. Women in Luo Xiang wear blue collarless clothes, black skirts, lace-lined dresses, sky-blue bibs at their waists and white and red ribbons at their backs during the Spring Festival.
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 worship his grandmother on the first or second day of the new year. 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 New Year's soup rice.
When the cock crows for the first time, in order to have a good year, men will set off 12 big firecrackers. The women went to pick new year's water to make tea. They don't want to pay New Year's greetings. They don't visit in grade one and grade two. They are invited to eat camellia oleifera in grade three and dinner in grade four. Xuanen Dong people live 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 will not survive this year. Only some places still celebrate the Year of Dong. There are two years in these places every year. Call the Dong Year a small year. The Spring Festival is a new year.
Dong villages in 72 villages in Rongjiang celebrate the Year of Dong in early November of the lunar calendar. Clean the front and back of the house in October, kill pigs and cattle, and prepare for the New Year. From the first day of 1 1 month to the fifth day of 1 1 month, large-scale karaoke bars, Lusheng dances and bullfights were held. In some places, surname festival is also called Dong Year, and each surname festival has a different period. But it's usually in November of the lunar calendar.