Dong is a minority in China, and its national language is Dong, which belongs to the Dong Shui branch of the Zhuang Dong language family of Sino-Tibetan language family. The ancestors of the Dong nationality were called "Thousand Hands" in the documents of the pre-Qin period, and it is generally believed that the Dong nationality developed from a branch of ancient Baiyue. Dong people mainly focus on agriculture, mainly planting rice, with a long history, running forestry, and agricultural and forestry production have reached a fairly high level. There are many basins called "bazi" in Wanshan Congling in Dong nationality area.
Dong people are mainly distributed in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture and Tongren Prefecture of Guizhou Province, xinhuang dong autonomous county, Huitong County, Tongdao Dong Autonomous County, Zhijiang Dong Autonomous County and Jingzhou Miao and Dong Autonomous County of Hunan Province, Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Longsheng Ethnic Autonomous County, Rongshui Miao Autonomous County and Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture of Hubei Province.
Dong nationality history
Historians have different views on the historical origin of the Dong nationality. There are four main viewpoints: one holds that the Dong people are an indigenous people, who have lived and worked in this land since ancient times and are the same people formed in this land; The second view is that the Dong people migrated from Wuzhou in the lower reaches of Duliujiang River to today's Dong township, because the Dong people in the southern dialect have a migration ballad of "Gong Zu Xiajiang".
The third view is that the Dong people migrated from Wenzhou in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River along the Yuanjiang River through Dongting Lake, because there is such a legend in the song "Gong Zu enters the village" circulated among the Dong people in the northern dialect; The fourth view holds that the main component of the Dong nationality is local, and it is integrated with other ethnic components that moved in from other places in the long-term historical development process.