Mutual attachment and assistance prevails. The village chief is the most respected person, managing all village affairs and representing the villagers. In some areas inhabited by the Xo dang, multi-generation families live in elongated houses. Today, a nuclear family is always free to leave the extended one and set up a separate home. Male and female adults, after having their teeth filed - now this custom is rarely observed are allowed to seek love.
Weddings are simple.
After wedding, the married couple live in rotation in each family over a few years. Cases of definitive settlement in one family are rare. Among traditional ceremonies and festivities, the buffalo-stabbing rituals are the most vivid. The Xo dang like songs, dances, gongs beating and old tales. Men not only have martial skills but also are good at architecture, sculpture and painting as expressed in the style of the communal house and the decorative pole at the buffalo-stabbing ceremony.