1. In the past, the materials of Dong costumes were mainly self-spun, self-woven and self-dyed Dong cloth.

Since 1980s, woven fine cloth has been widely used, and self-woven Dong cloth has become a gift for relatives and friends. Dong costumes are diverse, with different decorations at different ages and seasons, such as left hand, right hand and double-breasted buttons. There are cloth buttons, copper buttons and silver buttons; There are pants and skirts; Like green, blue, black and white; There are headdresses, neck ornaments, chest ornaments, waist ornaments, hand ornaments, foot ornaments and so on.

2. Architecture

The villages where Dong people live are generally characterized by mountains and rivers. Dong village is generally located in the mountainous area, surrounded by terraced fields, with a long stream at the foot and towering trees at the end of the village. There are six or seven hundred large Dong villages and twenty or thirty small ones. Houses in Dong Village are generally wooden buildings built by fir trees, ranging from small buildings with one or two floors to buildings with three or four floors.

Step 3 travel

Where the Dong people live in compact communities, where there is a river, there is a bridge. Bridges are mostly built on the main road at the end of the village, including wooden bridges, stone arch bridges, stone slab bridges and bamboo raft bridges. Among them, the long corridor wooden bridge named "Wind and Rain Bridge" or "Flower Bridge" is famous at home and abroad for its unique artistic structure and superb architectural skills.

4. Family

Dong people's families are monogamous individual families with men as the center, and extended families with two or more generations are also common. This kind of extended family usually consists of grandparents, parents and the youngest son.

5. Language and writing

The national language of the Dong nationality is Dong language, which belongs to the Dong Shui branch of the Zhuang Dong language family of Sino-Tibetan language family.

Dong language is divided into two dialect areas, north and south, with the mixed area of Dong, Miao and Han in the south of Jinping County as the boundary, and each dialect area is divided into four dialects because of the different pronunciation in different places. The formation of Dong language is obviously influenced by Chinese. Relatively speaking, the Dong people in the northern dialect area have close contacts with the Han people, and there are more people who know Chinese and Chinese, and the Chinese culture level is also high.