What festivals do Dai people have?

Dai festivals: closing festival, opening festival, water splashing festival, flower street festival, etc. Among them, the Songkran Festival is one of the most solemn traditional festivals of the Dai people.

Songkran Festival, also known as Gan Song Festival, has a history of 700 years and is the largest traditional festival of Dai and De 'ang. On that day, people in Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia, China and Yunnan got up early in the morning to bathe in Buddhism, and then began to celebrate for several days. During the period, everyone sprinkled purified water on each other, praying to wash away the frustrations of the past year and start over in the new year with good wishes.

Songkran Festival is the biggest festival of Dai people, and it is also the most influential festival with the largest number of participants in ethnic festivals. Water-splashing Festival is a Dai New Year, which usually lasts for 3 to 7 days. On the first day, the Dai language was called "Mairi", which was similar to the Chinese New Year's Eve. The next day, the Dai language is called "angry day"; The third day is the first day of the new year, which is called "overlord hemp", which means to grow old together. People think this day is the most beautiful and auspicious day.

Dai costumes and elephant foot drums

Dai costumes are elegant and beautiful, which not only pay attention to practicality, but also have strong decorative meaning, which can reflect the national personality of loving life and advocating the beauty of neutrality. There is little difference in men's wear across the country. Generally, you often wear a collarless double-breasted or large-breasted small sleeve coat, long-sleeved trousers and white cloth, pink cloth or blue cloth. Dai women's clothing varies from region to region.

A long time ago, the Dai area suffered from floods every year, and people could not live and work in peace and contentment. Later, I learned that it was the dragon that did evil. Everyone hates this dragon, and a brave Dai youth is determined to kill the people. With the help of the villagers, he finally killed Xiaolong. When celebrating the victory, in order to express their hatred of the dragon and their longing for a happy life, people peel off the skin of the dragon and make it into an elephant foot drum, imitating the feet of a white elephant symbolizing good luck.