What are the musical instruments of the Dai people?

The Dai musical instruments include hulusi, elephants' foot drums, tingqin, mangong, wicker, wicker xiao, dingle, horizontal drums, paixiang, hulusheng, ox-horn zither, mouth strings, muye, dingguang, doluo, xi dingling, dingguana, dingguana, dingguana, dinghei, etc. The Dai music is a pentatonic scale with relatively flat and fixed tunes.

The music of the Dai people is pentatonic, and the tunes are relatively flat and pure and fixed. The tunes of Dai Opera mainly come from the rich folk songs of the Dai people, especially when the young men and women in the play talk about love, they directly adopt the tunes of the most familiar folk songs of the Dai people.

In Yingjiang, the birthplace of Dai opera, the earliest opera tunes were "Chengzi opera tunes" and "Damzi opera tunes". With the spread of Dai opera, it gradually melted into different areas and styles of Dai folk songs, which enriched the tunes of Dai opera. For example, after Yingjiang Opera was spread to Mangshi, it absorbed the folk song "Shouting Half Light" (with the drum tune) and formed the "Mangshi Opera Tune".

The Dai (Roman: Dai), also known as the Thai (Thai:, Roman: Thai), Shan (Roman: Shan), etc., the national language for the Dai (Thai), belongs to the Han-Tibetan language Zhuang Dong language Zhuang Dai language branch.

The Dai people regard peacocks and elephants as mascots, and their folk stories are colorful and colorful. The Dai people like to live by the water, love cleanliness, often bathe, and women love to shampoo their hair, so they are known as "the people of the water", and they used to believe in the Theravada Buddhism and primitive religions in the south.