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The Bidayuh people have all equal standings in wealth and position.The Bidayuh people must share everything they have with their tribe. It is a taboo for a tribesman to go work in the farm when a family member has passed away. It is also the same when they have bad dreams.

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Traditionally, Bidayuh men are in charge of head hunting in the family. However, in this modern era, head hunting activity is slowly reducing. Instead, they will hunt for animals or even farming them.

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The Bidayuh people are masters of bamboo carving and skillful in producing bamboo handicrafts such as kabe bamboo basket, tambok basket, bamboo flutes and other musical instruments.

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Carried out work in the paddy field. They are also more responsible in household jobs, such as cooking, cleaning and caring for children.

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Involved in physical jobs such as hunting, fishing and gathering.

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The main agriculture activity for Orang Bidayuh would be paddy field plantation. Their traditional methods of planting paddy are often accompanied by a series of rituals and taboos.  The Bidayuhs view the world as not his alone but is shared by him with other orders of beings.  These rituals and taboos are necessary in paddy cultivation so as to appease these beings or to invoke them for aid so that the land will be unmolested and the crops flourished. For instance, Hari Gawai is an enormous celebration for them to please the god for a good harvest throughout the year. The Bidayuhs also regard paddy as a living thing with its own soul.  In addition to nourishment and physical care, paddy needs spiritual guardian to ensure its prosperity.

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The Bidayuh community incorporate the spirit of cooperation in the jobs carried out by their people. Gender segregation of jobs are practiced in this tribe.

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The Bidayuh has a strong sense of community. Henceforth, their tribe structure is rigid and organized whenever it comes to the matters in the Long House. Several leaders of the Bidayuh Tribe includes Ketua Kampung, Nyamba Dukun, Tukang Tuta, Tua Gawai, and Dayang Rajak.

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Bidayuh people do not call their parents name and instead uses "excuse me" to get their parents attention. It is a known taboo to the Bidayuh tribe as bad luck would be inflicted upon themselves if they were to call their parents by their name.

The Bidayuh people have all equal standings in wealth and position.The Bidayuh people must share everything they have with their tribe.

It is a taboo for a tribesman to go work in the farm when a family member has passed away. It is also the same when they have bad dreams.

The Bidayuh people have to bow down whenever they pass through an elderly. If they do not, it means that they are not respecting them.

It is prohibited to enter a longhouse when there is a white flag outside of it. This is because a family member of the longhouse has passed away.

When one family member passed away, the action to dance, sing or even to wear jewelry is prohibited.

When entering a longhouse, it is a encouraged to take off shoes before entering.

The Bidayuh people must throw away a cooking pot with food if a stranger visits and looks at it. This is due to the fact that they believe that the food would not be edible.

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Stealing is prohibited because the Bidayuh tribe believes that the newborn would be a thief later in life.

The pregnant mother cannot eat venison because it is believe that the newborn would be born crazy.

The pregnant mother is not encouraged to walk outside during the twilight as it is believe that ghost can potentially possess the mother.

It is not allowed to clean water canals as the child as they believe that the child might be hare-lipped.

The husband is not to dry a lake,well or river because the Bidayuh people are scared that the wife would  bleed a lot more when giving birth to the newborn.

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Marriage would mean to be a member of the "Biik" or "Ramin".

Bidayuh people practice only monogamy and prohibits a polygamous family structure. However, it is okay for the Bidayuh people to divorce and get married again.

Bidayuh has a strong prohibition with incest relationship, thus marriage only outside of their family tree is allowed.

Bidayuh has a strong prohibition with incest relationship, thus marriage only outside of their family tree is allowed.

The Dayak Ukar-Sadong tribe have relatively loose rules about marriage. Men and women can freely mingle and get to know each other before they got married while other tribes do not share same behavior.

Legal age according to Bidayuh culture would be 18 years old for boys and 16 years old for girls.

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Preservation of traditional Bidayuh language and dialects have become an issue in the community as the new generation adopts other languages particularly Malay and English.

Efforts are made to introduce the Bidayuh language education in schools.

There are still villages that suffers poverty, therefore little access to modern facilities.

The community are known to still lagging behind other ethnics in education.

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許多Bidayuh村莊都可以使用現代設施。

他們現在能夠獲得清潔水，電力，道路網絡以及學校。

一些村莊之間也建有連接道路，如Mambong到Sitang。

這些設施的可用性使許多Bidayuh能夠改善他們的生活方式。

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Many of the Bidayuh community live in the rural areas. Their educations were based on teachings by their families and grandparents (homeschooled).

Education focused on the language.

At the beginning of the 1970s, the community started to become more educated as they were exposed to urban lifestyle. A lot have since migrated to urban areas looking for higher education and better jobs.

There is a good improvement in the education status for Bidayuh as new facilities such as public schools are introduced into their villages. They are also encouraged to adopt Malay and English languages.

Many modern day Bidayuh are better educated, and gained employment in the government sector as well as private sector.

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- Each Village will have one Roman Catholic Church or Anglican Church or Mosque
- Unique one village only one church and multiple church wont be seen in one village
- Churches and Mosque were split into few village
- Roman Catholic Church can be seen among people of Bau village
- Anglican Church can be seen at village of people of Biatah around kuching area

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- Education and medication knowledge pass to Bidayuh.
- Majority of Bidayuh converted from Animist to Chirstian
- While some minority converted to Muslim

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The elder are talking about how they make their clothes and what are their made of. Enjoy.

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Dead bodies are hung on the tree as a reminder of the dead

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People hung skulls in their house which symbolised the warrior rank and the more skulls they had hanging outside their house would indicate a higher rank.

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Wore scary mask while dancing to chase away the crop pests and the bad spirits.

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Believe souls or spirits exist not only in humans but also in animals, plants, rocks and natural phenomena.

Hung pieces of cloth to prevent the village from evil influence.

Head hunting as symbols of warrior’s strength and bravery. Head placed on fireplace to prevent evil spirits from harming the living.

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The principal article of dress amongst the women is the jomuh, which is a short petticoat. The necklaces made of beads and the armlets of shell are the common ornaments. In some areas, for instance, in the right tributary of Sg. Sadong in Serian District and in the upper reaches of Sg. Sarawak Kiri and Sg. Sarawak Kanan, the copper bangles sarim are worn on the legs from the knees downward. In some villages, they also wear copper bangles on their arms and forearms as well. These are called tankis. They wore these sarim or tankis for status symbol and protection. Girdles of silver coins and coils of fine red and black rattans are commonly worn. In some villages, however, broad belts called sodar are also worn.

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The Bidayuh men dresses a long loin-cloth called tahup, which is wrapped tidily around the body with one end hanging down in front and the other end hanging down behind. The tahup is usually made of blue cotton cloth with red, blue and white band at the end. They also wear the headgear burang sumba, which is made of a red cloth with a narrow border of golden lace. Generally, men have no ornaments on their bodies except for the armlets kima and an occasional earring because they believes that it will bring good luck and protection for them. Bidayuh men wear the necklace that made by animal teeth as a symbol of a warrior.

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The traditional costume of the Bidayuh were made of the soft inner barks of trees that called the barkcloth. However, after recent years, this costume have been replaced with cotton costumes.

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This is another dance done during the harvest festival . This dance is done as a sign to welcome the souls of the paddy into the paddy field as a sign of good harvest. This dance which is also used to welcome visitors into the village is performed by gongs and gulintangs as the musical intruments.

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This dance is dance before the harvesting season starts as a method of seeking blessing good harvest and also in manner to protect the tribe from the evil spirits.

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Persembahan etnik terbaik 2012. Koreografer etnik terbaik 2012 Tarian ini merupakan sebuah tarian ritual yang dipersembahkan untuk menghindar musibah serta menghalau semangat-semangat jahat selepas musim menuai. Selain itu, tarian ini juga bertujuan memohon hasil tuaian yang lebih banyak pada tahun akan datang. Dulang, "taya", dan perahu digunakan sebagai alat yang membawa persembahan (makanan) kepada semangat nenek moyang.

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Ritual dance that is used as a sign of worship where the gestures in the dance is used as symbols for messages whereby these messages cannot be said in ordinary words.

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Made using a pair of edible paddy snail shells and played with a bamboo stick as a method to end a lengthy drought as legend claims for it to be.

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Basket made of interwoven buru or pasak bamboo. They are fine lidded baskets. Some include patterns interwoven with painted strips.

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A rattan mat made from good quality strips of rattan known as the 'segah emas'. Good quality kesah has a rustic look, and is made of mainly rattan and tree barks.

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Believed to be first tribe or earliest to be found in Sarawak before any tribe was found.Bidayuh is the second largest indigenous tribe after Iban. Bidayuh is known as “inhabitant of lands” and Bidayuh was once known as “Land Dayak” People of Bidayuh live in town and villages around Kuching and Samarahan division. Area of bidayuh people mainly stay is around basin of Sarawak river and hill close to mountainous forest which they believe the geographic location may give them protection.

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Tepui is a Bidayuh alcoholic sugar cane drink. Bidayuh families will usually drink it right after dinner. It has a sweet and soothing taste.

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Kersem is an unique fermented pork delicacy where it can be kept for several months. Pork meat will be mixed with rice and salt before fermenting it in a porcelain pot called urn. The smell and taste is rather strong.

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Asam Siok is an authentic Bidayuh dish served during special occasions such as Gawai or when they are serving special guests. It is a chicken and rice dish cooked in a bamboo over burning charcoal. Main ingredients in preparing this dish would be raw chicken, salt, rice, ginger, lemongrass and shallots.

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Consist of 3 main linguistic groups: Biatah Language. Singai-Jagoi, Bukar and Sadong Language. These main groups can be broken down into many other smaller groups which have different dialects altogether. The numbers shown on the map represents a dialect from the Bidayuh tribe. The dialects below are known as :

1.Stungkor        10. Kuap               19. Anak Rais            28. Rayang

2.Serasot           11. Giam              20. Sembaan             29.  Ta’ee
3.Krokong          12. Sitaang          21. Tringgus              30. Kendaie

4.Stass               13. Benŭk            22. Sejijak                  31. Pasai Ilir

5.Grogo              14. Bengoh          23. Tebakang            32. Pueh
6.Peninjau         15. Padawan       24. Mayang Kawan
7.Gumbang       16. Kiding            25. Bunan Gega
8.Apar                17. Sepug            26. Mujat
9. Daun              18. Gayu              27. Terbat

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The ancestral background of the Bidayuh tribe are from Kalimatan Barat. They used to reside in Sungkung, Bugau and Sungai Selakau before migrating inland to hills and mountains to escape from Skrang Iban, Malay Pirates, and Brunei Nobility. They eventually migrated to Sarawak before the boundary between Sarawak and Kalimatan Barat were created. The Bidayuh tribe consist of 6 main groups : Bisadong, Bibukar, Biatah, Bijagau, Bisingai, and Selako-Lara. The tribes were separated as they explore new lands which makes them slightly different to one another in terms of language. The groups evolve their language and culture after the isolation from one another for a long time which means each group would consist of a different dialect.

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Bidayuh tribe is a collective name for several tribe located in southern Sarawak due to the reason of their languages and culture is similar. Before British era, bidayuh was known to believe “animist” but now a days some of them were Christian or Muslim. Most of the bidayuh applied traditional rotational agriculture hunting based around the farm for living.