Dong'sCustoms and habitsDong festival information and clothing characteristics

Dong, dong language Gaeml) is a minority of the People's Republic of China.Residential area mainly on the border of guizhou, hunan and guangxi, hubei enshi has part of dong.Dong's population of 2.96 million people (the fifth population census in 2000).Dong have a branch in Laos, called "kang".

Dong has its own language, more than Chinese.The original text, 1958 alphabet writing, in the form of the Latin alphabet, is designed.Have their own folk drama - dong operas.

Dong flute and flute is one of the traditional Chinese Musical Instruments.Dong in architectural art.Each stockaded village has MuLou chic modelling.The without a nail riveting timberwork building absorbed part of the essence of Chinese ancient pavilions, halls architecture.

The habits and customs of dong

"Month", is it takes people away, one to another village and delights in ethnic or act in an opera in singing, the social activities.In the pit, is one of the collective entertainment.And then set, people mountain people sea, cheers, gongs, iron cannon shock valley.There are foreign guests passing through the village village, is the resistance to the ZhaiBian, song to answer, "the" village gate ".Song "row sit on" also called "song ZuoYe", is a general term for young men and women and love affairs and social interaction.The northern dong area called the play "mountain", young men and women in labor, groups, meet on the hillside singing love songs.Southern dong area referred to as "village", or "girl", the girls in the evening together in the house sewing, guest village young men carry instruments to accompany singing, talk to each other love, deep feeling when men and women "in" to each other (gifts) promise, about husband and wife.Sanjiang county rich eloth, dong people on March 3, often in a summer or on February 2nd collection Yu Guangping, rushed a bag with a special fire hoop taking off, landing, let you rob, winner of the prize, is called the "this".

Dong for monogamous marriage.GuJiu table marriage is relatively popular, maternal cousin brother and sister can't marry and generational different.Married women have "sit" (that is, "don't fall in-laws").Before liberation, dong a basic unit of society is the feudal patriarchal patriarchal family.The status of women in society and family lower than men's, women's touch the tonggu forbidden;Man or elders downstairs, are not allowed to go upstairs.Dong girl after marriage to enjoy their parents and the accumulation of "private" and get a small amount of "miss tian", "girl".Have no heir to do men share uxorilocal adopted son.

Funeral generally with the han nationality, burial.Individual regions and burial customs, people after death to their willThe coffinPark in the suburbs, and other native and the dead are on the same level in the same year after death, only day buried together.

Dong national diet

Dong people eating rice as the main food, PingBa region with japonica rice is given priority to, the mountains are eating rice.Common to eat chili and sour.Processed by "fermented grains fish", "fermented grains meat", storage ten several years not bad.Indicated in camellia, is a hospitable dong people habit.Dong village, the most distinctive in southern area.Tail with a more ancient village, village stream across "rain bridge", village fish ponds in four cloth.According to the family name is populated, drum tower stands.Live "dry column" room, upstairs, downstairs in captivity livestock and piled up sundry.

In most of the three meals a solar eclipse, there are some parts have a solar eclipse four dishes of acquisition, namely two tea and bread.Two tea refers to the dong folk peculiar camellia.Camellia is to use tea leaves, flowers, Fried peanuts (or crisp soya), sticky rice, add meat or pig water, salt, chopped green onion and so on as raw materials (some places have add spinach bamboo artemisia), soup made of thin food, can not only quench thirst, and can cure hunger, reason often say "eat camellia".

Everyday is very rich in vegetables, in addition to fresh pumpkins, balsam pear, leek, most salt sauerkraut.Such as: the pickles, acid turnip, acid knife bean, acid fern vegetables etc.Dong daily food is given priority to with sour.Not only have sour soup, and made all sorts of sour pickled cabbage, sour sour soup chicken meat, fish, acid, acid, ducks, etc.Pickled pickles began in the song dynasty.

Production have places two cylinder and sauerkraut, altar system refers to the water that clean out rice into the barrel, put all heating, make its fermentation, make sour soup, and then use sour soup fish, vegetables, as the most common dishes everyday.

Folk often eat shrimp paste is to make it more.Salted fish, salted pork chops, steak, and pickled chicken duck is given priority to with tube system.Drum has two kinds of buckets and nanzhu buckets.Make fish in winter best, the longer the curing time, its taste is alcohol.In addition to a large number of fish and shrimp and acid food, also often table.

Dong adult male, universal love drinking, drinking classes are mostly home brewed rice wine, degree is not high, light and flavour.

Dong's important festivals

Holiday to dongThe Spring Festival, the cow god (people) April 8th lunar month or June, eat a new section (lunar July) is relatively common.In some areas and dong year in October or November.Because of the national communication between, dong and the tomb-sweeping day, dragon-boat festival and the Mid-Autumn festival, double ninth festival.

Club dinner: (February) on the day of the spring club dong has the vulgar of club dinner, but don't do any activity.Club cooking method is to use wild vegetables, wild artemisia, bacon, peanuts, carrot...And a variety of vegetables chopped fiddling with steamed glutinous rice, add necessities, namely taste, its function is epidemic prevention to blast, promote health.

Yesterday: "the winter solstice, the day all dong dong area people years, equivalent to the Spring Festival, regional activities of jollification, sai lusheng, Doyle, dong opera, song, such as rich and colorful activities, in guangxi nanning failed to dong years friends back home," winter solstice this day every year in nanning many dong compatriots will together singing, communication.

Planting section: poly living in hunan, guangxi, guizhou, near the border of the dong people, each in the lunar calendar in March third day, the traditional planting festival event takes place.Because people's hobby is different every village activity content and mode is not the same.Some in the stockade now put firecrackers;Some hit the lusheng, sit song hall;Some visit friends invited guests.And the most funny is ChunNiu "dance".Then the agricultural team also show seed farming activities.The ring as a field, the few of farmers, some back plough, some Dutch hoe, bamboo basket and back.They put Tian Kan, ploughing and planting, harvesting, lifelike, beautiful, with singing and dancing performance of field cultivation in dong.

Wedding day: on October the first frame of the lunar calendar is "wedding day" of dong people, dozens of young men and women are common in the day of their marriage, similar to today's "collective wedding".Guizhou jian river county small widely, such as to retain the customs.

Bridge section: according to legend of dong ZuGong progenitor milk for bridging standeth upon the sun, the day of the bridge is lunar calendar in February.Dong people to commemorate this day, to this day as the bridge section.