What are the festivals of the Dai people?

The traditional festivals of the Dai people are mostly related to religious activities, mainly related to the door god festival, the opening ceremony, the water splashing festival, the flower street festival and the field patrol festival. Among them, the Songkran Festival is the most grand, which is equivalent to the Dai New Year. On this day, people get up early in the morning, bathe in front of the Buddha, and then start celebrating for several days. In the meantime, everyone threw water at each other and prayed to wash away the bad days of the past year.

Dai people like to live by the water, love cleanliness, often take a bath, and women like to wash their hair, so they have the reputation of "water nation". Most Dai people have the habit of eating two meals at a time. Rice and glutinous rice are the staple foods, which are usually eaten immediately. They rarely eat overnight meals and are used to kneading rice with their hands.

Dai people in China mainly live in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Dehong Autonomous Prefecture and Gengma and Menglian Autonomous County, and the rest are scattered in Jingdong, Jinggu, Pu 'er, Lancang and Xinping counties.

Dai special food

The specialties of the Dai nationality include: pineapple purple rice, citronella grilled fish, steamed stuffed bun, Dai hand-grabbed rice, fried chicken feet, fragrant bamboo glutinous rice, fried moss, Mi Nan cowhide, steamed pork with leaves, bamboo rice, sour bamboo shoot roast chicken, citronella roast chicken, fried cowhide, fried pork slices with pineapple and spiced Dai carp. These are the traditional dishes of the Dai people, and I hope they can help you.