Widows and widowers also get choice meats. The villagers carry water for the widows and widowers and give them preferred treatment at festivals with gifts and sacrificial meat. When the old die, villagers work together to make arrangements for them. The dead are buried in the ground within hollow logs. Those who had a serious disease are cremated or disposed of in a river.
All relatives attend the funerals and sacrificial offerings of food are brought.
Dulong women are known for spinning hemp into yarn. They dye their yarn red, yellow, blue, green and purple and hand-weave blankets of narrow width. Both sexes wrap themselves in a blanket fastened with straw ropes or bamboo needles. When they cross streams, men cover their legs with white puttees to protect their legs against leeches. A chopping knife hanging at the waist symbolizes bravery.