Dai festival customs

1. Dai crystal display (Dai calendar New Year Festival)

The New Year Festival in Dai calendar is January Festival, which is called "crystal display" in Dai language and is a traditional festival of Dai people. In Buddhism, it is called "Baiga Pavilion", and the first day of the first month of the Dai calendar (the same as the first day of the tenth lunar month of the Han nationality) is the beginning of the Dai calendar. In ancient times, the first horse day of this month was regarded as New Year's Day. In this festival, the Dai people have the custom of observing the age. In the old days, they were mainly feudal lords, chiefs or castellans.

2. Dai people taste the new rice festival

In February of the Dai calendar ("cold-dried" in Dai language), the Dai family put the washed rice into the barn, and every household of the Dai family chose auspicious days to offer sacrifices to Buhuhao and Yahuhao (Grandpa Gu Shen and Grandma Gu Shen) and taste the cooked new rice. This is the New Rice Festival of the Dai people, which is a traditional festival of the Dai people.

3. Dai patrol dam festival

The traditional festival of Dai people in Lvchun area of Yunnan Province is on the 13th day of the first lunar month every year.

Patrol the dam to welcome the spring. During the festival, Dai people all wear holiday costumes and gather under the lush Daqing tree to form a wreath. In the sound of gongs and drums, the celebration of the Dai people began. When singing, singers dance traditional dances.

4. Dai egg festival

This is a traditional festival for Dai children, which is held every year on the 10th day of the second lunar month.

On the festival day, every child of the Dai nationality hangs a small pocket on his chest, which contains several hard-boiled eggs, which are dyed yellow, red, green and purple respectively. They go to play in the shade near the village or by the river in droves, and then have dinner together. protein, who brought his own eggs, left the yolk for his parents or brothers to eat, to show his respect for them.

5. Dai Water-splashing Festival

Also known as "Cold River Merchants". Dai language is June New Year or Dai calendar New Year, which is a traditional festival of Dai people in Yunnan Province. It is usually held in the middle of June in the Dai calendar.

The Dai people's water-splashing festival lasts for three or four days. On the first day, the Dai language was called "wrist mulberry publication", which means to send it to Japan. On this day, the Dai people went to the temple to worship Buddha, and piled up three or five pagoda-shaped sand piles in the temple with sand, about three or four feet high. Eight bamboo branches wrapped in colored paper are inserted on the spire, and people sit around and listen to chanting and historical legends.