Sanjiang Dongtian Palace

Sanjiang Dongtian Palace

Sanjiang Dongtian Palace is a national AAAA-level tourist attraction.

The name "Dongtian Palace" in Sanjiang originates from the region’s only and precious "Dong Ancestral Song," *Gama Mangdao Shijia*. As one of the most treasured cultural heritages of Sanjiang, a Dong Autonomous County, it represents the long and ancient history of Dong culture, embodying the Dong people’s cosmology, worldview, and philosophy of life, highlighting the richness and vastness of Dong culture, and standing shoulder to shoulder with the histories and cultures of peoples around the world.

A new experiential tourism landmark that encompasses both the spiritual and material culture of the Dong people in China;

A magnificent tapestry of the history, culture, customs, and traditions of the Dong people in Sanjiang;

A living, panoramic, and international eco-museum of Dong culture;

A richly distinctive and uniquely identifiable cultural feast featuring the Chinese Dong people’s “clothing,” “food,” “dwelling,” “customs,” “songs and dances,” “entertainment,” “narratives,” “rituals,” and “shopping”;

A new global calling card for Sanjiang’s Dong cultural tourism industry, integrating travel, experience, study, and appreciation

1. Creating a panoramic living museum of Chinese Dong culture

Relying on the Dong architectural complexes in Sanjiang—especially the iconic structure hailed by the media as the “World’s No.1 Drum Tower”—Dongtian Palace deeply explores and prominently displays the historical culture and folk customs of the Chinese Dong people. With the goal of holistically preserving the Dong people’s natural environment, humanistic environment, tangible heritage, and intangible heritage, and benchmarked against international living museums, it showcases the craft culture, decorative culture, food culture, festival culture, opera culture, song and dance culture, painting culture, music culture, and craftsmanship culture of the Dong people.

2. Leading the experiential tourism of Dong culture in China, and shaping a high-quality, high-tech, and highly creative cultural calling card for Sanjiang’s Dong culture

Closely aligning with Sanjiang’s tourism development strategy of the “one axis, two wings, and two belts” layout and the concept of “integrating culture and tourism to support poverty alleviation,” Dongtian Palace innovatively produces high-quality Dong cultural products that attract and influence the cultural tourism market. It creates a fresh highlight in the contemporary Dong cultural eco-museum, offering a deeply immersive and uniquely identifiable cultural feast featuring the Dong people’s “clothing,” “food,” “dwelling,” “customs,” “songs and dances,” “entertainment,” “narratives,” “rituals,” and “shopping,” and presenting a magnificent tapestry of Sanjiang’s Dong history, culture, and customs.

3. Creating a new classic cultural landmark for Sanjiang tourism

Dongtian Palace will break away from traditional song and dance performance models, pioneering the integration of Dong culture with tourism, experience, study, and appreciation. It enables visitors from all regions to fully understand the natural environment, history, and humanity of the Chinese Dong people through immersive experiences in sight, sound, entertainment, and shopping, delivering aesthetic pleasure, artistic impact, and lasting impressions. It leaves behind quality experiences and heartfelt emotions, establishing a classic cultural landscape for Sanjiang tourism, and becoming a beautiful calling card for both Sanjiang tourism and contemporary Dong culture.