A Daur hunter

The Daur people mainly engage in agriculture, along with stock breeding and hunting. Their major crops include maize, sorghum, wheat, soybeans and rice. Their diet consists of millet and buckwheat. Favorite dishes of the Daur people are millet or buckwheat noodles mixed with milk, buckwheat cakes and oat porridge cooked with soybeans. They also enjoy pork, beef, mutton, fish and chicken.

In summer, men of the Daur ethnic minority wear fabric jackets topped with gowns, wrap their heads with a piece of white cloth and wear straw hats. In winter, they wear caps with two erect ears made of leopard scalps or fox fur, and leather shoes. When hunting, men wear clothes made of roe fur. Women wear long gowns, mainly in blue. The gowns do not have a waistband. They do not wear a short jacket. In winter, women wear leather boots and in summer they wear trousers and embroidered shoes. In the Spring Festival or other festivals, women wear red, green or other embroidered silk clothes topped with waistcoats, which are similar to Manchu costumes of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), and embroidered shoes with brocade vamp. Women aged 40-50 usually wear a fresh, light colored flower during these festivals.