Liuzhou is a settlement for minorities with long history, strong ethnic style and deep cultural accumulation, producing a large number of cultural heritages. In June 2006, the four projects including wood construction skill of the Dong people, galmags of Dong people, the slope meeting group of Miao nationality in Rongshui and Caidiao opera declared by Liuzhou are all selected in the 518 protection lists of the first national intangible cultural heritage promulgated by the state council.

Wood construction skill of the Dong people

The Dong people are born maestros. The woodiness structure buildings of the Dong are not only beautiful but also drum and residential building and wind-rain bridge have quite mature structures without any drawings. Buildings and bridges with different style and attractive feature by only simple bamboo sticks and common tool can be designed and manufactured. Even more, although the entire buildings are only jointed by rivet and tenon without iron nails. It is still firm. The exquisite designs and artistic shapes are astonishing.

The wood construction skills are facing the danger of extinction due to the old ages and death of craftsman, deficient wood source and weak fire-rated ability etc., therefore only promptly rescue and protection enable them to heritage from generation to generation.

Galmags of the Dong people

Galmags of the Dong people is an old style sing by the whole team with many people together.

It is an old poly-voice-part folk song acted by the Dong people together without command and accompanying and usually sing in antiphonal style by men and women sitting around the drum-tower or fireplace to express their feelings or praise the nature in festivals. Galmags of the Dong people with a great variety, popular in the Dong village in Meilin of Sanjiang, Fulu and Xiangxi town along the Rongjiang River in Guangxi province, is hailed as the most charming polytonal music in the world because of its rich content, wide varieties and dulcet melody.

The Dong people have no written language of their own. As a result, the inheritage has to rely on the verbal taught by the singers from generation to generation. However, it has already been affected by the market culture since the reform and opening as well as development of the marketing economy.