The Yao observe weddings, funerals and New Years with great enthusiasm, dressing in their best fineries and doing much feasting and drinking. They are not given to sung and dance, although they do have a casual form of dancing as well as songs. They enjoy telling tales and folk stories, and the main event of each day is the time of visiting each other in their homes for this purpose. They drink meat quantities of green tea (usually plucked from the wild trees ) and smoke the water pipes ( tobacco) at such times, as well as daring the day when there is leisure time. They never chew the betel nut nor do they drink liquor frequently, and why the older mcn might become addicted to opium. Many men actually smoke opium. but few of them really become addicted to the drug.