The La Chi live a sedentary life in small villages, in which each family uses a shift house as living quarters and an adjoining mud house as the kitchen. The shift house has three rooms and only one stairway, near the kitchen. The ancestral altar is in the largest room. La Chi attire is simple and elegant. The women usually wear a four-panelled dress with a belt and a bra, a long turban, and a pair of trousers or a skirt.
Ornaments are bracelets for men and bracelets and earrings for women.
La Chi women usually carry a pack over their forehead made of cloth or bamboo plaits, while men carry shoulder baskets. Each family lineage has its own drums and gongs used in ritual ceremonies, conducted by the head of the lineage. Children take the family name of their fathers. As wedding present, the groom's family has to offer an amount of money as the cost of the girl's upbringing. Every year, the La Chi hold periodical ceremonies in accordance with the lunar calendar, to provide rice seeds for the entire village, to open the store to invoke the spirit of the rice seeds, to celebrate the completion of the harvest, the new rice ritual and the 7 th lunar month and New Year festivals.