After marriage, women have the custom of "staying at home". After marriage, the bride goes back to her family. In case of busy farming, festivals or important events, she went back to her husband's house for a few days, and some went back and forth for several years until she got pregnant and gave birth.
Social freedom of young men and women in Dong society. Every holiday, leisure time or after work, girls and boys get together to sing and play, and sow the seeds of love with songs. This kind of social activity is different in the north and the south. In the north, it is held on the hillside during the day, which is called "beating the mountain" or "driving the depression", and the meeting place is called "garden". In the south, it is usually done at home at night. The man called it "entering the village", the woman called it "sitting at night", and it was customary to call it "singing at night".
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. Under normal circumstances, after a son gets married and gives birth to a child, he will be separated from his parents, brothers and sisters.
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Customs and habits of the Dong people:
1, Dong costumes are diverse, with different decorations at different ages and seasons, including left, right and double; 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. Dong people's dietary customs are very distinctive. Dong people take rice as their staple food, and also eat millet, corn, wheat, sorghum and potatoes, but they usually eat them in a mixture to adjust their tastes. Meat is mainly domestic animals, including pigs, cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks, geese, and especially fish. There are many kinds of vegetables, among which green vegetables, Chinese cabbage, radish, eggplant, cowpea, cucumber, pumpkin, wax gourd, white melon and pepper are the most common.
3. The villages where Dong people live are 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.
The houses in Dong Village are mostly wooden buildings built by fir trees, ranging from small buildings with one or two floors to buildings with three or four floors. The stockade near the river or steep slope can be built with hanging feet according to the terrain.
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