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Songkran Festival is the most solemn festival of the Dai people, which is held in the middle of April every year, that is, the first month of the Dai calendar. Songkran Festival is the New Year of Dai people. Festivals usually last three to ten 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" (empty day); The third day is the New Year, which is called "Overlord Horse" (meaning the beginning of a year). People think this day is the most beautiful and auspicious day. On the morning of the festival, all the men, women and children in the village dressed up to worship Buddha in the Buddhist temple and built towers in the temple. There are several bamboo schools wrapped in colored paper with cloth on the spire. People sat around the tower, listening to the Buddha chanting and explaining historical legends. Young men and women flocked to the mountains to pick wild flowers to make greenhouses. At noon, the women each picked a load of clear water and poured it on the Buddha to welcome the dust. Then, men, women and children carry buckets and washbasins, splashing water on each other to pray, thinking that this can eliminate disasters and diseases, and be safe and auspicious. Thousands of people danced to the beautiful Dai music and shouted "water! Water! The sound of aquatic products, shouts and gongs and drums resounded through the sky, and the scene was spectacular. During the Songkran Festival, Dai youth like to play games by losing their bags in the open space in the forest. The flower bag is made of beautiful flowers, and it contains cotton paper, cottonseed and so on. , and decorated with five sharp nails in the corner and center. This is a symbol of love. First, I threw it around aimlessly, and then I gradually got a fixed goal. After the girl consciously let the young man lose, the young man gave the prepared gift to his mother, and both of them left the crowd and went to a quiet place to fall in love. There will also be a dragon boat race at the Songkran Festival. Thousands of Chinese and foreign tourists gathered by the Lancang River to watch the red and green dragon boat races in droves. Dai children sang "Hi! Hi! Hi! "The whistle, breaking the waves, added a lot of tension and joy to the festival.

There is also a beautiful legend about the origin of the Songkran Festival: a long time ago, there was a magical demon king in the Dai area. He did many evils and the people suffered greatly. He occupied six girls successively, and later became the most beautiful princess of South Brom in the world. Seven girls are humiliated and waiting for revenge. The clever seven girls got the devil drunk at the party and learned his achilles heel from him. One night, the demon king was drunk and fell asleep. The southern brown cloth pulled out a hair of the demon king and tied it around his neck. The demon king's head immediately fell to the ground. But the blood dropped by the devil turned into a raging fire, which quickly spread all over the world. South Brown Cloth quickly picked up the devil, and the fire on the ground went out. Hardly had it been put down when the fire started again. So seven girls took turns holding the devil's head, while others poured water on her. It took 999 days to put out the fire, and the villagers lived a happy life again. In memory of these seven girls; Therefore, in the days of putting out evil fires every year, water is splashed on each other to wash away the fatigue and filth of the year, congratulate each other and welcome the arrival of the new year, thus forming the water-splashing festival.