What is the holiday on April 15th

April 15 every year is the National Security Education Day, Dai Sand Pile Festival, Water Festival and so on.

I. National Security Education Day

National Security Education Day (English: National Security Education Day) is a holiday set up to enhance the national security awareness of the whole nation and to safeguard national security.April 15, 2023 is the eighth National Security Education Day.

The Second Dai Sand Piling Festival

The Dai Sand Piling Festival generally refers to the Sand Piling Festival. Dai folk festival in Jinping County, Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province. Pile of Sand Festival is actually the local Dai traditional Dai annual festival, time in the Gregorian calendar every year before and after the 15th of April three days, folk often inserted after the early rice seedlings for the day of the festival.

Three, the Water Festival

The Dai Water Festival, popular in Yunnan Province, the traditional festival of the Dai people, one of the national intangible cultural heritage. It is also known as the "Buddha Bathing Festival", and is called "Sangkan Bimai" (meaning New Year) in Dai language.

Splashing Water Festival Splashing symbols:

1, splashing on behalf of the blessing: in the Water Festival, splashing wet all over the body, happiness for life, symbolizing good luck, happiness, health of a flower bloomed in the air, the people splashed splash to their heart's content. Laughing loudly, wet all over the body, the excitement is high. The wetter the water is, the more water is splashed, the more blessings are received.

2, splashing water on behalf of love: the Water Festival is also unmarried young men and women looking for love, cultivation of happiness in the beautiful season. During the festival, the Dai unmarried young men and women in addition to the "throw bag" game, splashing each other, splashing more on behalf of the more blessings and care in the back-and-forth between the splashing, so gradually selected each other, a romantic love story began.