They also cook local delicacies with fish and the game they hunt. Their clothing is almost the same as that of the Chinese Han, and the only difference is in the material they use. They are fond of wearing clothing made from hides in the winter, which is long and cold. When they go fishing, they wear trousers made from fish skin because it's water-proof. Actually only big fish weighing about 50 kilograms are good enough for making trousers.
Women smartly process the fish skin as soft as fabric after they have scaled the fish and dried it.
In the past, the Hezhe people lived in crude birch-bark sheds, easily disassembled whenever they moved to a new area for fishing and hunting. Now, many like to construct a stone house with a tile roof. They also build a heated brick kang to keep warm in winter. By tradition, they regard the west as the honorable direction, thus putting pictures of their ancestors and gods on the wall of the western side in their room, or placing a wooden chest or wooden trunks against it. Almost every family raised several dogs.