Hezhes take fish as their staple food and have many cooking methods. They can fry or stew fish, and they like to make fish floss for storage, such as stir-fried fish, raw fish, sashimi and fish shavings, etc.

Quite unique are Hezhe traditional clothing, which include long fish leather gowns, fish leather leggings, and fish leather boots lined with “wula” sedge. Characterized by lightness, warmth, durability and being water-proof, such clothing is made by sewing together soft fish leather, which is processed by flaying the carp or silver carp completely, and having the skin air-dried, scaled, and thrashed with a women’s fish leather clothing is in the style of cheongsam and look bright and beautiful when it is hemmer with colorful cloth, or decorated with embroidered designs or copper bells. The men wear fish leather clothing to catch fish and wear animal lather clothing for hunting. Nowadays, Hezhes wear more of cotton=padded garments, just like Han Chinese.