Grandmother has a magical pair of hands, which can reproduce sister’s childhood memories by cutting paper. Do you remember the flying butterflies in summer? And also the singing birds, sounds of growing and blossom? I want to keep their figure in my mind, and capture the butterflies on the leaves just like sister does. However, only grandmother can catch the flying birds, the curves of wings and phantom of fairy tales. The small pieces of paper was given life and power in her hands. Grandma’s hands grasp the rhythm of life.

Dong people believe that all the nature beings are dominated by gods, thus the harvest, climate are all influenced. 

Dong people worship various kinds of god including God of land which they will hold worship activities through offering sacrifices of pig, sheep, chicken etc; God of water, the Dong woman has to burn paper beside the river and well before taking water home; God of ox, to feed the ox with specially made rice to demonstrate thankfulness.  

Sponsored by the Markor Furnishings, Hunan University and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the “New Channel & Huayao Flower” Design and Social Innovation Workshop held an unique Achievement Exhibition in Hengling, Pingtan village of Tongdao, Hunan in 30^th of July, 2014, during which the promotional video about Tongdao local folk culture was first played.

The video not only recorded the entire design and innovation activities in Hengling of our whole team, the natural scenery of each Dong village, but also showed the process of independent creation of Dong traditional culture and humanities. Based on the work status of every design group, the video tracked the whole procedure of growing out of nothing, developing from concept to matter, and generating traditional culture to modern innovation.

Additionally, aerial equipment was first applied to the shooting of this video, making it possible to record the wisdom of Dong people in a brand new perspective.

Huifu Bridge is the local bridge which bless the Dong village in Dong language.

The color of the bridge is based on the material nature, showing the simple and elegant culture of Dong. After hundreds of years, though the building methods are simple, the bridge still keeps solid and stable.

Plaques are hanging all over the top of the bridge.

Colorful paintings are hanging all over the cedar wall of the bridge which mostly tell stories about folklore and national heroes.