The Dong people take rice as their staple food, and also eat millet, corn, wheat, sorghum, and potatoes, but they usually mix them to adjust their taste.

Meat is mainly domesticated livestock, including pigs, cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks, geese, etc. They especially like to eat fish.

There are many varieties of vegetables, with vegetables, cabbage, radish, eggplant, cowpea, cucumber, pumpkin, winter melon, white melon and pepper being the most common.

Women often go up the mountain to collect wild bamboo shoots, fungi, bracken, etc. to accompany their meals.

Men hunt wild boars, bamboo rats, pheasants, birds, etc. for food during their leisure time.

Wine plays an extremely important role in the Dong diet.

The wine is mostly made from glutinous rice, and every family brews and bakes it themselves.

Dong people are hospitable and treat wine as a courtesy and pleasure, and usually use wine to relieve fatigue.

Glutinous rice, camellia oleifera, pickled sour fish and fish are the favorite traditional foods of the Dong people. These foods are closely related to ethnic customs and are recognized as Dong flavors.

Extended information: Among the religious beliefs of the Dong people, the most important one is Sa worship.

The female deity commonly worshiped in the southern Dong Township is called Sa Sui, which means first grandmother, and is the highest protective deity.

People believe that she has great supernatural powers and can dominate everything in the world, can influence wind, rain, thunder and lightning, can protect the environment and the people, and can control the house and drive away ghosts.

There are Buddhist altars built in Dong villages in Liping, Rongjiang, Conglongsheng, Sanjiang, Tongdong and other places.

The altar is built in a relatively quiet place in the middle of the village. It is usually an open-air altar, a semi-garden-shaped mound surrounded by stones.

Sacrificial altars are often guarded by dedicated personnel.

Those who keep the altar are either hereditary or born from divination.

Sa is the biggest protector of the village. When building the village, the existence of Sa must be taken into consideration. The establishment of the Sa altar is a major event in the village, which is called Andian.

After the altar is built, a ceremony to install it will be held.

All the men and women in the village dressed in costumes went to the singing hall in front of the altar of Sasha, singing "Song of Sa", praising Sa's merits and praying for Sa's blessing.

The Dong people are the most devout to Sa and worship this old grandmother from time to time.

On the first and tenth day of the lunar month, incense is burned and tea is served.

Every New Year is the day for worshiping Sasha, when all the men and women in the village gather at the Sacrifice Altar.

Young women held hands or put their hands on shoulders and sang and danced around the stone flat in front of the altar, praying for blessings and disasters in the new year, security for the village and people, and good weather.

After the sacrifice, everyone sat around the sacrificial altar to eat, indicating that they were having lunch with the sacrificial minister.

At this time, gongs are sounded and cannons are fired, the men play the sheng in the lead, and the women then sing and dance.

During the Spring Festival, when the male and female singing groups, opera troupes or reed pipe troupes in the village are leaving for other villages, they must first go to the altar to offer sacrifices in order to ensure smooth travel.

In ancient times, when the villagers sent out troops to defend against foreign enemies, they would sacrifice to Sa, praying for Sa's protection and victory.

Regarding the life experience of this first grandmother, according to legend, she was a heroine who sacrificed her life to safeguard the interests of the Dong ancestors.

Dong people's worship of Sa Sui is actually a kind of ancestor worship.

For a long time, a complete set of Sa culture has been formed among the Dong people, including legends and songs about Sa, singing in the singing hall, playing the Lusheng and various activities of worshiping and worshiping Sa, etc., which occupy an important position in the cultural history of the Dong people.