Among the 54 ethnic groups stretching across Vietnam, my favorite is the Dao. They have a very unique way of dressing: In the past, men had long hair, a bun at the back of their neck or had long tufts of hair on top of their heads, and shave around around. Dao groups usually have different ways of wearing towels. there are two types of shirt, long dress and short shirt
Dao women wear a variety of clothes often wearing overalls, skirts or pants. The clothes are very colorful. They do not follow the pre-drawn pattern on the fabric but rely entirely on memory, embroidered on the left side of the fabric so that the pattern emerges on the right side. Many types of patterns such as swastika, pine trees, bird shapes, people, animals, leaves. The way to print patterns on fabric with beeswax in the Dao is very unique. If you want a picture, people use a pen to paint or dip a printing mold into hot beeswax and print it on the fabric. The fabric after dyeing indigo will show a blue pattern because the beeswax coating does not absorb indigo. Dao people usually eat two main meals a day, lunch and dinner. Breakfast is available only during busy season. The Dao mainly eat rice, in some places they eat more corn than eat rice or porridge. Commonly used rice mill is a wooden mill made of bamboo shavings. There are many types of mortar such as cylindrical wooden mortar, hand pestle mortar, foot pedal mortar, water force mortar. They like to eat boiled meat, dried meat dishes, pickled and sour bamboo shoots soup. When finished eating, people abstain to keep chopsticks across the mouth of the bowl because it is a sign that someone in the house has died.
Popular is distilled wine, in some places it is soggy drink, the wine that has not been preserved, has a sour taste and less spicy.
The Dao often smoke cigarettes and pipe tobacco with a candle or pipe.
