Dong Family

The Dong Family (一族) is a fictional family in the Shaman King Red Crimson and Shaman King The Super Star manga series.

About
The Dong Family are an ancient Chinese family who rose to power during the Shang dynasty and were known as Teijin—an ancient term for Daoists. The Tao Family later rose in prominence and subjugated the Dong Family, along with the other shamanic families in China. In retaliation, the Dong Family rallied the people of China against the Tao Family and forced them into exile.

Afterwards, the Dong Family began to secretly rule over the continent and cultivated power by using their connections to accomplish tasks for the government. Their main focus has been the research and development of natural resources and new energy sources. With its array of research and industrial facilities around the world, the Dong Family, alongside Daremoine, manipulated the world by creating "accidents" at the right time in order to cause natural disasters that affected the global economy. According to Luchist Lasso and Lyserg Diethel, they are the actual rulers of the world and are more dangerous than even the Lasso Family.

After the Shaman Fight in Tokyo 2000, Tao Ren has brought the Tao Family out of the shadows with the Leidi Group. This has resparked the Dong Family's animosity for the Tao Family.

Red Crimson
The group within the family that is focused on the elimination of the Tao Family is called Red Crimson (レッドクリムゾン). In anticipation of the Flower of Maize, they work with YVS in order to destabilize the Tao Family. Although they assist in killing Tao Jeanne and stealing her spirit, the Dong Family fails to eliminate the Tao Family before a ceasefire is called. Additionally, the Four Holy Beasts were chosen by YVS to be the four captains of Team YVS, with Dong Honhon serving as one of Kamogawa Yohsuke's helpers.

Abilities and Powers
The Dong Family has existed for over 3500 years and has a large variety of shamanic abilities. In particular, their Dàoshì practice a method of creating Jiang Shi out of living people, instead of corpses, like the Tao Family.

The family also has four Kami class spirits, the Four Holy Beasts.

Trivia

 * Dōng (東) means "east" in Chinese and Japanese.
 * The family's precept "When you die, it's all over" comes from Takei's ULTIMO series, from which many of the family members' designs also come.