CHINA. Dong's Land [2009]
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CHINA. Dong's Land.
The Dong ethnic group lives in a small mountainous region of southern China where maintained their ancestral and traditional way of life. The union of the family is the most important thing, and the elderly, a very valuable part to achieve its narrow cohesion. Surrounded of valleys and hills where they cultivated rice, small villages maintain true architectural gems such as the towers of the drum or the covered wooden bridges built without the use of any single nail and that after several centuries, still remain standing.
The Dong ethnic group lives in a small mountainous region of southern China where maintained their ancestral and traditional way of life. The union of the family is the most important thing, and the elderly, a very valuable part to achieve its narrow cohesion. Surrounded of valleys and hills where they cultivated rice, small villages maintain true architectural gems such as the towers of the drum or the covered wooden bridges built without the use of any single nail and that after several centuries, still remain standing.
