Characteristics of Dong people’s dwellings
The villages where the Dong people live are characterized by being close to mountains and rivers. The Dong village is surrounded by mountains, with layers of terraces beside the village, long streams at the foot of the village, and towering trees at the end of the village. The large Dong village has six to seven hundred households, and the small one has twenty or thirty households.
The houses in Dong Village are wooden buildings made of fir trees, ranging from small buildings with one to two floors to large buildings with three to four floors. In villages near rivers or on steep slopes, stilted buildings are built according to the terrain. People live upstairs, and livestock are kept or fodder and debris are piled downstairs.
Dong villages are generally composed of buildings and facilities with different functions such as residential buildings, drum towers, village gates, village walls, stages, grain warehouses, grain drying, wells, stone roads, ponds, drainage ditches, etc. In the southern region, most villages have altars dedicated to "Sa". When the grandfather built a village, he first had to choose a site to build a drum tower and a "Sa" altar, and then planned roads and laid out private houses.
Extended information:
The Dong people hold no less than a hundred (times) festivals throughout the year. There are various festivals and festivals in the Dong region in southeastern Guizhou alone. 84 times. There are festivals that are universally celebrated by the whole nation, and there are also festivals that are celebrated by one village, one tribe, one clan, one surname.
Spring Festival, Huolu Festival, Taste the New Festival, March 3rd, Linwang Festival, Ox God Festival, Lusheng Festival, Fireworks Festival, Dawu Liang Song Festival, Forty-Eight Village Song Festival, Bullfighting Festival and other festivals are the most popular. grand.
The festival has a wide range of contents, involving seasonal, production, ancestor worship, beliefs, surnames, heroes, love, entertainment, sports, etc. With the blending of national cultures, the Dong people also have traditional Han festivals such as Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and Double Ninth Festival.