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ethnic minority is also called Deang. Most of Deang people dwell in Zhenkang
County in Lincang area and mingle into other minorities.

You can recognize a Deang woman from her special beautiful waist-hoops.
Red and black waist-hoops are tied around the part of the waist. The red
and black hoops are made of thin bine strip, sometimes you will also see
on the former half of a strip is made of thin bine strip and the second
half of which is made of silver thread. When walking, the waist-hoops
would flex freely with the steps. From the view of a Deang person, to
wearing waist-hoops present beautiful and a woman who does not wear waist-hoops
will be teased. A Deang man wraps his hair with black or white cloth.
He decorates himself by wear big earbobs and silver chaplet. His trouser
is short and wide. He has the custom of tattoo. Today, a Deang man has
keep the same hairstyle as a Hans' man, and he has not worn heave ornaments.

A bamboo storied-building is the common construction. A family with a
courtyard is being at Dehong area. The upper floor is for residence and
the nether floor is for livestock. The attached house is for firewood
and other tools of pounding rice. Some families in Zhenkang area live
in one big building with wide corridor. Each family lives on either side.
Nowadays, some bamboo building has the same style with the Hans'.

The Deang people respect the old person and take it as a kind of virtue.
In festivals, the young people will send the best food to the oldest in
the village. When new paddy comes down, the junior will hold the new rice
before the seniority. Only after the seniorities have some words spoken,
the whole family can eat. In Water-splash Festival, the young should make
the old a footbath.

Tea is important, and heave tea deserves the reputation. The Deang people
are addicted to drinking heave tea. Tealeaf is a kind of conventional
present to show goodwill.

Taboo should be careful. The quilt cannot be upside down. Caps, frock
and pillow cannot be sited under arse. The stranger couldn't pat and touch
the shoulders of a man. Touching a woman's wrapped hair and clothes is
banned. A couple couldn't sleep in one room when lodge in a Deang's family.
A reed-pipe wind instrument of Lusheng can only be played at night 'Chuang
Guniang' and on holidays.
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