Girls make elaborate tobacco pouches and slip them into the pockets of young men who take their fancy. Wrestling, horse racing and archery are popular sports among the Daurs. They also play a kind of football with a ball made of ox hair. Daur villages are neat, usually built on mountain slopes and facing streams, and the houses have courtyards surrounded by wickerwork fences. The women have always been renowned for their needlework, decorating their clothing with fine patterns.
Men wear straw hats in summer or simply tie a piece of white cloth around their foreheads.
In winter they wear leather caps with ear flaps. 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.