The marriage of the Dong ethnic group, through the process of "talk", "betrothal", "marrying" and so on. Before the liberation of the country, there was a popular aunt-uncle cousin marriage, aunt's daughter to be married to the uncle's family as a priority daughter-in-law.
Women after marriage, there is a "not fall husband's home" custom, after marriage, the bride that is to return to her mother's home, in the event of agricultural work, festivals or important things, to take back to the husband's home to live a few days after returning to the mother's home, some round-trip for several years, until the pregnancy and birth of a child to live with their husbands long after the home.
Young men and women in Dong society are free to socialize. Every festival, farming or labor, girls and boys will get together to sing and play, with songs to sow the seeds of love. This social activity is different in the north and south, the northern region is carried out in the daytime on the slopes, known as "play mountain" or "catch pass", the gathering place is called "garden"; the southern region usually In the southern region is usually carried out in the evening at home, the male side called "go Zhai", the female side called "sitting night", customarily known as "singing sitting night".
The Dong family is a small, monogamous individual family centered around a man, and extended families with two or three generations are also common. Such extended families are usually inhabited by grandparents and parents with the youngest son. Generally, after the son marries and has children, he separates from his parents and siblings.
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The customs of the Dong people:
1. The costumes of the Dong people are varied, with different decorations for different ages and seasons, such as left-over-oblique, right-over-over-oblique, and lapel; cloth buttons, copper buttons, and silver buttons; pants and skirts; green, blue, black, and white; and headdresses, neckdresses, chestdresses, waistdresses, handdresses, and footdresses, etc. The Dong people are also known as the Dong people. The footwear is decorated with headdress, neck, chest, waist, hand and foot ornaments, etc.
2, the Dong ethnic dietary practices are very distinctive. Dong people to rice as the main food, but also eat millet, corn, wheat, sorghum, potatoes, but generally for the taste and match. Meat is mainly domesticated livestock, including pigs, cows, sheep, chickens, ducks, geese, etc., especially fish. There are many varieties of vegetables, with bok choy, cabbage, radish, eggplant, cowpea, cucumber, pumpkin, winter squash, white squash, and chili peppers being the most common.
3. The villages in which the Dong live are characterized by mountains and water. Dong villages are generally located in the mountains surrounded by terraced rice paddies, village foot streams and rivers, village trees in the sky. The big ones have six or seven hundred households, while the small ones have twenty or thirty.
Dong village house building, mostly with cedar tree construction of wooden buildings, there are one to two-story small buildings, there are also three to four-story large high-rise. The villages near the river or on steep slopes build footstools according to the terrain.
China.gov.cn - Dong Ethnicity