The Dong ethnic group has a history of more than 2,500 years. They inhabit Guizhou, Hunan and Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. With a population of 2.6 million, the Dong people mainly engage in agriculture and forestry.
As night falls, a young man takes a wooden ladder and leans it against a closed window on the second floor of a house. Playing a guitar-like instrument, he sings romantic lyrics as his beloved looks on from the other side of the window.