Women wear black jackets with buttons down the front and skirts with red and black flower patterns. For charm, they add on rattan waistbands and silver earrings. A De'ang folk tale tells the significance of the rattan waistbands by explaining that all babies were born in gourds. A fairy goddess cast a spell to make the boys look different. The boys then trapped the girls by casting rattan hoops around them.
Children attend primary schools.
Large numbers of illiterate adults have learned to read and write, and now many De'Ang attend college, teach or practice medicine. Young men and women share their love for one another through song. A moonlit night may find a young man under a woman's window singing a song of love. She invites him in by tossing a blanket down to him and opening her door to let him in. They chat until dawn.