Women wear white cloth socks and patterned shoes in summer, donning leather boots and long gowns in winter. Typical of the daily diet of the Daurs is millet or buckwheat noodles mixed with milk, buckwheat cakes and oat porridge cooked with soybeans. Game figures high on the list of Daur delicacies, especially deer meat, pheasant and duck. They cultivate a variety of vegetables. The Daurs have a rich repertory of folk dances which they love to perform during festivals.
Men play a similar instrument, but the women are the most accomplished players.
Daur folk literature is mostly based on observations of nature, but it also contains a wealth of legends and fables. It tells of the struggles of the Daurs against national oppression and their feudal rulers in the latter part of the 19th century. Also well known are tales adapted from classical Chinese novels. The Daurs have a love for poetry, which they compose in several unique verse forms. Their long winter evenings are also enlivened by oral literature, riddles and proverbs, as well as handicrafts such as toy making, embroidery and paper cuts.