{"id":6531,"date":"2019-11-20T10:03:15","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T10:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/china-039-s-minority-peoples-the-dongs-dong-zu\/"},"modified":"2019-11-20T10:03:15","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T10:03:15","slug":"china-039-s-minority-peoples-the-dongs-dong-zu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/china-039-s-minority-peoples-the-dongs-dong-zu\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#039;s Minority Peoples &#8211; The Dongs \u4f97\u65cf"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span>  <\/p>\n<p>The Dong people, with a population of 2,514,014, make  their homes in Qiandongnan, Yuping, Xinhuang, Tongdao, Zhijiang and  Sanjiang counties wher Guizhou, Hunan provinces and the Guangxi Zhuang  Auto<em><\/em>nomous Region meet.<\/p>\n<p>Dong people are excellent farmers. They plant rice and breed fish in  paddy. A small number cultivate trees. The I Do<em><\/em>ngs grow delicious  glutinous rice; the best-known is the Xianghe glutinous rice.<\/p>\n<p>The Dong people were known as the Yilings in the historical docu<em><\/em>ments  of the Song Dynasty. Later in the Ming &#8216; and Qing dynasties, they were  variously called &quot;Dongman&quot;, &quot;Dongmiao&quot;, &quot;Dongren&quot; or &quot;Dongjia&quot;. After  the founding I of the People&#8217;s Republic of China, these people were  formally named the Dong Nationality, but folks prefer Dongjia.<\/p>\n<p>The Dong language belo<em><\/em>ngs to the Dong-Shui branch of the Zhuang-Dong  group of the Sino-Tibetan family. It had | no written form until the  1950s. But most Dong people now use Chinese.<\/p>\n<p>The Do<em><\/em>ngs say that every one of them can sing and improvise lyrics.  Dong so<em><\/em>ngs have strict rules of rhyming, but people manage to express  whatever they sec and feel quite easily. The most splendid is the  traditio<em><\/em>nal Dage, normally sung a cappella with many parts. It possesses  great value both in literature and music.<\/p>\n<p>The Do<em><\/em>ngs are especially skilled in building bridges and in Dong  territory exquisite drum towers and wood bridges with painted pavilions  are common and represent the achievements of the Dong architecture. Many  Dong people can also do silk embroidery, cross-stitch work, silver  ornaments and weave elaborate cloth and brocade.<\/p>\n<p>  <span>Dong people welcome their ho<em><\/em>nored guests by putting  road-blocks in front of their village. Every guest must empty a bowl of  glutinous rice wine before his entrance.<\/p>\n<p>  <br type=\"_moz\" \/>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-1730084195\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dong people, with a population of 2,514,014, make  their homes in Qiandongnan, Yuping, Xinhuang, Tongdao, Zhijiang and  Sanjiang counties wher Guizhou, Hunan provinces and the Guangxi Zhuang  Autonomous Region meet.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2836],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture","category-ethnic-minority"],"views":178,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}