I. Customs
1, the Dulong people, whether drinking, eating and eating meat, the family within the housewife to share the food, the guests also come to an average share. After nightfall, men drink by the fire and recite toasts, then throw the bowl of wine on the bamboo shelf over the fire, with the bowl's mouth facing the sky as an auspicious omen.
2, the Dulong people are very hospitable, such as in the case of hunting beasts or a family to kill pigs and cows, it will form a kind of distant relatives and neighbors *** gathering feast. In addition, the Dulong people also have the custom of entertaining unknown passers-by, and guests who pass by and stay with us, as long as they come to their homes are warmly received. Think there is rice does not give the guests to eat, darkness does not stay guests live, is a kind of shameful thing.
3, there are no road, no night, a good traditional habits, as theft as the most shameful behavior. In the Dulong people to carry out some primitive ritual activities, tourists can not visit the ritual activities.
4, the Dulong original original group marriage customs, now does not exist. Men and women are emanating, young girls have the habit of tattoo face. Dulong people believe that everything has a spirit, worship of natural objects, believe that there are ghosts.
Second, the origin
The Dulong people's origin and the formation of the nation, so far there is no clearer vein and clues, but from the language family, as the Sino-Tibetan Tibetan-Burmese Dulong, should be originated from the diziqiang ethnic group.
There are two main types of legends circulating within the Dulong ethnic group: one is that the Dulong are an indigenous people. The second is that the Dulongs initially lived along the Nujiang River, and then came to the Dulong River valley by chance because of hunting, and saw that there was not only a wide hunting ground, but also a relatively flat terrace, so they moved here one after another, and gradually developed from north to south.
Among about 15 clans of the Dulong, legends of eight clans say they came from the Nu River. And the Dulong are also very similar to the Nu of Gongshan in terms of language and cultural features such as the cultural practices they had in the past.
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Distribution of the Dulong:
The Dulong are one of the less populous ethnic minorities in China, with a total population of 6,930 according to the 2010 Sixth National Population Census. The Dulong are distributed in Gongshan Dulong Nueru Autonomous County in Yunnan Province, of which Dulongjiang Township in the Dulongjiang River Valley is the most important Dulong settlement area in the county. There are also a small number of Dulongs in neighboring Weixi County and Tsavaluo Township in Tsumang County, Tibet.
Dulongjiang Township, Gongshan County, Nujiang Prefecture, Yunnan Province, is not only the most important settlement area of the Dulong ethnic group in China, but also a protected area for the cultural heritage of the Dulong ethnic group in China (which has been listed in the National Intangible Cultural Heritage Catalog), and is also one of the core areas of the GaoLiGongMountains National Nature Reserve and the "Parallel Streams of the Three Rivers" World Natural Heritage Site.
Baidu Encyclopedia - Dulong People