What festivals do Dai people have?

Closed Day is the same festival for Dai, Bulang, De 'ang and Wa people who believe in Buddhism and spread to the south. The time is on September 15 of the Dai calendar (mid-June of the lunar calendar), which originated from the habit of living in rainy season in ancient Indian Buddhism.

2. Opening Day

Kaimen Festival, also known as "Summer Festival", is the same festival for Dai, Bulang, De 'ang, Wa and other nationalities who believe in Buddhism and are introduced to the south. The time is December 15th in the Dai calendar, which corresponds to the Closed Moon Festival (Summer Festival), which originated from the habit of living in rainy season in ancient Indian Buddhism.

3. Water-splashing Festival

Songkran Festival, also known as "Buddha Bath Festival", is also known as "Cold River Fever Festival". People get up early in the morning, bathe in front of the Buddha, and then start celebrating for several days. In the meantime, everyone sprinkled purified water on each other and prayed to wash away the troubles of the past year.

4. Flower Street Festival

Huajie Festival, a grand exchange activity of people visiting the park, is mainly distributed among Huayao Dai and Wenshan Zhuang in Yunnan. One is the flower market in Yiliang, Yunnan, which has different time and form, but has its unique charm.

5. Field Patrol Dam Festival

Youtianba is an annual traditional Spring Festival gala of Dai people. The content of the festival is to promote farming and protect trees through mass demonstrations.

The origin of Dai nationality

Dai people originated from Ailao people in the middle and upper reaches of Nujiang River and Lancang River.

Ailao people are one of the ancient humans in Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau. Around the fifth century BC, Ailao people established Daguang and other tribal alliances in the middle and upper reaches of Lancang River and Nujiang River. At the end of the second century BC, Daguang Kingdom began to contact with the Han Dynasty. Because the Great Light King at that time was called "Ailao", the Han Dynasty began to call the Great Light Kingdom "Ailao Country".

Prior to this, because the mourners were good at riding elephants, their living environment was similar to that of the Vietnamese in the south of the Han Dynasty, and they were mistaken for a branch of the Vietnamese in the Han Dynasty. Daguangguo was called "Yunnan and Vietnam riding elephants".

Since the first century A.D., the conflict between Dian State in the east of Daguang State and its suzerain (Han Dynasty) has been constant, and a large number of Dian people (also known as "Dian Yue people" because of absorbing Yue culture) have poured into the territory of Ailao. After the Ailao people absorbed and merged with the Dian people, the embryonic form of the modern Dai people was initially formed.