Xishuangbanna's folklore and folk style how to have what historical relics

The Dai people have a long history and have created a splendid culture in their long life, especially the Dai calendar, the Dai language and colorful national folklore.

As early as a thousand years ago, the ancestors of the Dai people wrote many beautiful and touching myths and legends, fables, novels, poems and so on on the shell leaves, cotton paper, only with the Dai written in the Dai language, there are more than 550 long poems.

"Shao Shu Tun and Nangmu Nona", "Hulu Letter", etc. are its representative works, which have been adapted into movies, plays, etc., and are very popular among the masses.

The dance of the Dai ethnic group has a high artistic level and distinctive national characteristics, and the movements are mostly analogous to and glorify the behavior of animals, such as the popular "Peacock Dance" and "Elephant Foot Drum Dance", etc.

The Dai ethnic group has a high artistic level and distinctive national characteristics, and the movements are mostly analogous to and glorify the behavior of animals.

The music of the Dai people is pleasant to the ear, in addition to accompanying the dance, often combined with poetry.

Sculptures and paintings also have distinctive features.

The Dai believe in Theravada Buddhism, and pagodas and Buddhist temples can be found everywhere in the Dai area.

The Dai residence, the Bamboo House, is the most typical dry-rail building in China, with an elegant and chic shape, which is cool and refreshing to live inside.

Dai men have the custom of getting tattoos, which indicates bravery, beauty and attracts the love of the opposite sex.

History and Culture

Legend of the Water Festival Folklore says that in ancient times, the place where the Dai people lived suffered a disaster.

No rain in summer, no wind in spring, no sun in autumn, and obscene rain in winter.

The need for sunshine is not clear, the need for rain is not rain, the four seasons are confused, the crops can not be planted, the fields are barren and turnover, people and animals were infected, and mankind is facing a catastrophe.

The man known as Paya Night, seeing such a situation, resolved to go to the heaven to find out the reason, and reported to the king of heaven, Indrakriti.

He made wings of four wooden planks, rose up in the air, and rushed into the court of heaven, and reported to Indatila, the king of heaven, the disaster that had befallen the human race.

On hearing this, Indatila realized that the god of the sky, Bhuma Dharaja, who was in charge of wind, thunder, lightning, rain, sunshine, and shade, had ignored Bhuma Dharaja's rule of three seasons of drought, rain, and cold, and had intentionally created a chaos with his vast power.

And this Huma point Dharaja, the magic skill, all the gods can not do anything to him.

In order to penalize this *** god, Indatila dressed up as a handsome boy and went to the house of Hema Dharaksha to string girls.

The seven daughters, who had been confined in the palace for a long time, fell in love at first sight with this handsome boy.

Indatila then Huma point Dharaja descended to the earth, so that mankind is facing a catastrophe of the truth, 7 usually have been in the mood of their father's resentment of the good girls, determined to justice, to save mankind.

They surrounded the father every day, pampered, to find out the secret of his life and death.

In the face of the petite girl, holding the horse point Dala Zha finally revealed the secret: he was not afraid of the knife, arrows, and not afraid of the fire water flooding, he was afraid of their own head of hair.

The girls probed the secret, their father drunk, took the opportunity to cut a handful of his hair, made a "bow Sai Zai" (directly translated as the heart-string bow, jacket must string bow), they just put the bowstring on the neck of the point of Dharaja Hema, his head will fall abruptly.

However, the head of Hema Dharamshala was A devil's head, and it fell to the ground and burst into flames.

7 girls see this, regardless of the safety of pouncing on the head to hold in the love, the magic fire suddenly extinguished.

In order to extinguish the magic fire, seven girls had to hold the magic head in their arms, constantly rotating, until the head rot.

Sisters and sisters every rotation, they splash each other with water to rinse the body stains, to eliminate the stench.

After the death of hunchback point Dala Chad, Shuruba's Maha cupping reworked the calendar, ruling the wind and rain, so that the earth's wind and rain, the people live in peace and work.

Legend has it that the revised calendar was announced by Paya late in the sixth month of the Dai calendar dream to his father.

Therefore, the Dai people take the June of the announcement of the new calendar as a yearly festival to celebrate the old and welcome the new.

When people celebrate the New Year, they splash water on each other as a way to forget the seven kind-hearted girls who killed their parents, and to drive away evil spirits and seek good luck and good fortune, which has been passed down to this day.

The Dai New Year, generally three days or four days, usually called "Wanmai", "Wanwu", "MaiPaYaNianMa".

"Wan Mai" is the resignation of the old year, some similar to the lunar New Year's Eve.

On this day, people have to clean up, prepare food for the New Year, and celebrate the new year.

The Dai are the most populous ethnic minority in Xishuangbanna, with their elaborate bamboo buildings and beautiful peacock dance.

The Dai girls, with their exquisite costumes, beautiful appearance and ability to sing and dance, are one of the fascinating sights in Xishuang.

The bamboo buildings in which the Dai people live are a kind of dry-structure.

The bamboo building is nearly square, supported by dozens of large bamboo, suspended pavement floor; the roof is covered with thatched rows, the bamboo wall gap is very large, both ventilated and light, the roof of the two sides of the slope is very large, was "A" shape.

The bamboo building is divided into two floors, with people living upstairs and raising livestock and stacking sundries downstairs, as well as a place for pounding rice and weaving cloth.

Dai men usually wear collarless shirts with lapel sleeves and long pants, and wrap their heads in white or blue cloth.

The costumes of Dai women vary greatly from place to place, but basically they are all characterized by bundled hair, tube skirts and short shirts.

The tube skirt is as long as the top of the foot, and the shirt is tight and short, with the hemline only reaching the waist, while the sleeves are long and narrow.

The Dai people eat rice as their staple food, and the most distinctive feature is the bamboo tube rice.

The production method is to put the rice into a fresh bamboo tube and add water, put on the fire barbecue, eat up the fragrance and delicious.

Pu-erh tea is a specialty of Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, and was exported to all parts of China in the Tang Dynasty, and was exported to Southeast Asia and South Asia in the Qing Dynasty, and has now entered the markets of Japan and Western Europe and other countries and regions, and has become a famous tea in China and abroad.

Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture is very rich in specialties, only fruit has more than 110 kinds, where there are many varieties of plants and animals, is known as the "Kingdom of Plants" and "Animal Kingdom".

In 1991, Xishuangbanna National Nature Reserve was officially opened to the outside world, so that people can personally travel to the treasure house of nature and experience the rich subtropical flavor.

Water-loving Dai The Dai people of Xishuangbanna are the people who have a bond with water, called the people of water.

Proverbs say, "Foam floats with the waves, and the Dai follow the flowing water" and "Water creates the world, and the world relies on water".

The water in the mind of the Dai people is the milk that nurtures everything and the blood source of life.

The Dai epic of the creation of the world, "Batamagga hold Shangluo", said that the Yingba God of heaven and earth, it is water mixed with other substances caused by the earth.

It is water that forms the earth, and water is the source of everything.

In the Dai medical treatise Hui Ta Wu Yun, it is said that "Batavi Tadu" (earth), "Abo Tadu" (water), and "Dai Zhuo Tadu" (fire), "Wa Yotadu" (wind) are explained as the material origin of the human body.

Water acts as a glue in it and acts as a source of life.

The Dai recognize that water not only has the functions of drinking, washing, shipping, irrigating, and driving a waterwheel, but also has the function of nourishing all things in the world.

The Dai people have a deep love with water.

The Dai code states, "There should be a thousand rivers in Jian Meng." Abundant water is one of the important conditions for the Dai to choose a site to build a fortress and settle down.

As the folk proverb says: "Fish before the village, hunt after the village, and set up the village according to the mountain and the water" "No mountain is not hunting, no river is not building a village", so all the Dai villages are built along the water.

The Dai people's attachment to water is also related to customs and habits and the climate of the place of residence.

The Dai over the new year festival, there are bathing Buddha, splashing water, rowing dragon boats and other activities, can not be separated from the water; subtropical high temperature, people have to be a few baths a day; the Dai open paddy fields to plant rice, irrigation also need water.

The Dai can not live without water.

Because the Dai people regard water as an important substance that makes up the human body, they attach great importance to the cleanliness of drinking water.

The Dai live close to the rivers, but they only use the river water for bathing and washing instead of drinking.

They have to find another source of water and build wells for drinking.

To prevent pollution, all wells had to build well bars and well houses to prevent dirt from falling into the well water.

Many wells are also built with well towers, which enclose the mouth of the well tightly, leaving only a water intake to prevent mountain water from rushing into the well.

The water on the Daijia Bamboo House, there are also "Mangjing", "Mansa fire" (drinking water, water) points.

"Mangjing" is often placed in the eaves of the higher place; people never use "Mansa fire" to cook, boil water, soup.

The Dai people noticed the importance of preventing water pollution at an early stage and took effective measures to prevent pollution, which is really commendable.

Travel Tips 1, in order to prepare for mosquitoes and strong sunlight, umbrellas, needless to say, but also need to prepare mosquito repellent and sunscreen products, anti-heatstroke medicines (such as Huo Xiang Zheng Qi capsule) are indispensable.

2, visit to respect the living habits of the Dai and other ethnic minorities.

3, Xishuangbanna area more jewelry and jade, need to be careful when shopping.

4, travel to Myanmar and other border areas, must pay special attention to safety and health.

5, Xishuangbanna region belongs to the tropical rainforest climate, no summer heat, no winter cold, warm and pleasant in all seasons.

The best time to visit is from October to June.

The average annual temperature is 21°C. It never snows here and the daytime temperatures are high even in January.

6, be sure to bring enough cool T-shirts and shorts, it is best to bring a thin jacket, because the morning and evening will be a little cool, slippers are a must, to the side basically every day wear slippers, sneakers are absolutely unbearable.

7, have to remind everyone to pay attention to is never pack cab to attractions, taxi drivers will give you a relatively low charter price at the beginning, but will force you to go to a number of commercial attractions and shopping places, they pull the tourists to these places will have a few tens of dollars of benefits, if you are resolute not to go, they will reduce your trip, for example, promised to come back to the airport to send you to the airport, you if you do not go to the attractions or shopping places they recommend, back to the city, you will not have to go to the airport, you will not have to go to the airport, you will not have to go to the airport. The first thing you need to do is to find a way to get to the airport, and you'll be able to do it on your own.

Folk craft

A: national brocade 1, Dai Tongba and flower bags Tongba, that is, satchel.

The Dai Tomba, with various colors of wool, cotton thread as raw material weaving.

The bag is more than 30 centimeters long and 20 centimeters wide.

Bag front, side, back.

Or weaving flowers, birds and animals, or weaving geometric shapes, the bottom of the bag is decorated with colorful spikes, colorful and beautiful, fine workmanship, small bags, ethnic characteristics are distinctive, it is a popular souvenir goods for tourists.

In addition to sales in the state, the products have been exported to Myanmar, Laos.

The flower bag, known as "scolding tube" in Dai language, is a toy for young men and women for entertainment and love.

After the Song and Dance Restaurant moved the bag throwing activity to the stage, the flower bag then turned into a small and exquisite souvenirs, loved by tourists.

Dai women in Mangjinglan and other places seized the opportunity to produce flower bags, so that the flower bags into the market for tourist goods.

2, ethnic clothing beautiful, elegant and simple Dai women's clothing; embroidered with a variety of color patterns, inlaid with silver jewelry of the Hani, Jinuo men's clothing; simple and simple Lahu, Brown women's clothing, is loved by domestic and foreign tourists favorite clothing.

State Ethnic Arts and Crafts Factory, according to the needs of tourists, the development of the Fu, Hani, Brown, Lahu and Jinuo ethnic clothing production, traditional fabrics and modern fabrics combined; traditional styles, colors, accessories and modern styles, accessories, design and sewing out of the national characteristics of ethnic clothing into the market, the sales are excellent.

Second, wooden handicrafts 1, woodblock prints with delicate wood.

Brightly colored wood and high-quality laminates as raw materials, the use of drawing samples, sawing, spelling, etc., reflecting the Xishuangbanna ethnic minorities dress, living customs, residential buildings, natural scenery of the carving of the works of art, spelling in the into the plate frame, carefully polished, trimmed and become.

This kind of woodblock prints, both guest carving art and relief art features, distinctive ethnic characteristics, the picture color and lustre natural, simple, elegant.

Large woodblock prints are mostly used to decorate halls and apartments.

Small woodblock prints are regarded by tourists as gifts with distinctive national characteristics, and are used as gifts for friends and relatives and kept as souvenirs.

2, wood carvings, root carvings Traditional wood carvings, mostly wood carvings of Buddha, sacred cows, golden elephants, mainly used to worship Buddha.

Into the 80s, wood carving appeared.

The main wood carving products are wooden elephants, wooden lions, wooden cows, wooden horses, human statues, deformed people, wooden bracelets, wooden collars and so on.

Root carving products, one is based on the original shape of the tree roots processed and produced into a god-like or shape of animals, plants, buildings and other selections; the other is strangled plant aerial roots naturally formed by a variety of shapes, by artificial modification of the artwork made.

3, black ceramics In May 1991, Menghai County Township Enterprise Bureau to meet the needs of tourism development, in the Jingzhen Bajiao Pavilion where the construction of crafts and ceramics factory production of black ceramics.

In 1992, started out altar, cans, pots, bottles, smoking utensils, tea utensils, ceramic horses, ceramic cattle and other 63 series of products.

The products are novel and chic, with fine carvings, ancient and elegant patterns and beautiful appearance.

4, silver jewelry and butterfly decorative products Traditional silver jewelry, mainly hairpin, earrings, collars, bracelets, bracelets, armlets, chest, anklets, rings, belts and so on.

Butterfly decorative products, the Department of the 90's Lu developed a new type of handicrafts.

The products are mainly butterfly prototype crafts.

The main products for the butterfly plate, butterfly specimen card; another is to color butterflies as raw materials, collocation production of 56 nationalities of ancient and modern character modeling decorative butterfly painting.

The products are fine workmanship, small and exquisite, colorful and beautiful, popular among tourists.

Dai Buddhist Architecture

Hundreds of years ago, Hinayana Buddhism was introduced to Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, and became the religion of all Dai people.

Here, Buddhist temples can be found everywhere, almost every village has a Buddhist temple, and some of them have pagodas next to them.

The Buddhist temples and pagodas have become the center of the Dai people's life and the sanctuary of their hearts, and the art of Buddhist architecture has also become a valuable cultural and artistic treasure of the Dai people.

Xishuangbanna dancing Buddha Temple Xishuangbanna Dai Buddhist temple architecture, with heavy eaves multi-slope flat tile building.

Most of the Buddhist temples into a square, sitting in the west towards the east, the roof slope by three layers stacked together, the high hall, the east and west sides of the diminishing, staggered ups and downs.

The roof is made of rectangular tiles, the tails of which are hooked on the flat bamboo rafters.

The ridge of the roof and the ridge between the eaves are smoothed with lime, and various tile decorations are arranged on it.

The tiles on the main ridge are flame-shaped, and most of the bumps have the image of a phoenix at the tip of the ridge, which is a unique style.

Manfeilong stupa west of that open "Busu" (precepts hall, monks chanting, deliberations place) is another style: in the heavy eaves of the three-side slope of the rectangular Buddhist temple on one side of the part of the nave, built the same high, two eaves, the other side of the end of the slope of the hall, the two sides of the short one-eave, each built in a herringbone-shaped roof of the room.

The above three parts linked to the place, the eaves are connected to a whole, into an open preceptor hall.

The gate pavilion that you have to pass through to enter the stupa is also unique.

On the side of a two-gabled herringbone roof, at right angles to the building of a similar roof, connected together to form a pavilion.

The eaves are only supported by pillars, no walls, all the way for people to enter and exit, although it is a repetitive building, due to the ingenious layout, it shows the special architectural style of the Dai people.

From this, we can see the remarkable features of Dai architecture.

That is, none of these buildings are set in the wall columns.

14 kilometers away from the Menghai County, Jingzhen octagonal pavilion (also known as the precepts hall), the shape is unique and exquisite: the base for the folded corners of the square, the pavilion for the brick and wood structure is octagonal.

The pavilion body has 31 faces, 32 corners, each corner is covered with Maung Maung tile.

The 8 pavilion corners are off the Xia, from bottom to top, layer by layer contraction, overlap beautifully, until the top, staggered, structural precision, unique.

Because the pavilion was built in Jingzhen place, it is called Jingzhen octagonal pavilion, is the Dai in honor of Buddha Sakyamuni and imitated him to wear the gold wire table hat "card Zhonghan" building.

The Octagonal Pavilion was built in 1701 AD, and has a history of more than 300 years, is the center of the Jingzhen region of the Buddhist temple.

On the fifteenth and thirtieth days of each month of the Dai calendar, the Buddhist monks of the Jingzhen region concentrate in the pavilion to listen to the monks teach sutras and agree on major religious activities, and is also the place where monks are promoted to the Buddhist monks.

Most of the Buddhist temples are built next to or near the pagoda.

Pagodas are mainly: Burmese bell-shaped stupa, pavilion stupa, Thai Vajrapani stupa, octagonal dense eaves stupa, a variety of forms.

These pagodas are basically made of bricks with lime and paint on the outside, mostly solid.

The Manfeilong Stupa in Jinghong City is a Thai-style vajra-seated pagoda.

The pagoda, which looks like a spring shoot rising out of the ground, was designed by three Indian Buddhist missionaries and built under the auspices of the Dai headman, built in 1204 AD, 800 years ago.

The base of the pagoda is in the shape of a plum blossom, with a circumference of 42.6 meters, and the main pagoda is 16.29 meters high, surrounded by 8 small towers, 9.1 meters high, distributed in octagonal shape, and the pagoda is multi-layered gourd-shaped.

Each small tower tower seat there is a niche, the niche has a clay phoenix flying in the air.

The whole group of pagodas is white and flawless, beautiful and incomparable.

This is a national key cultural relics protection unit and a sightseeing destination for people.

The Dai family of Olive Dam

Olive Dam is located in the southeast of Dong, Jinghong City, and was originally a farm mainly planting rubber and rice.

In 1998, under the state *** "tourism to develop the state" policy, the farm introduced funds to the local Dai village as the basis for the construction of the Dai cultural traditions and customs of life as the characteristics of the Dai Garden.

On August 1, 1999, Dai Garden was officially opened, and in just two or three years, it grew into a national tourist attraction.

The original sugar presses, the legendary Bay Leaf Scriptures, and the delicious Dai dishes in the Dai Garden have opened a large number of tourists for the Dai people, and also created numerous employment opportunities for the Dai people.

The Dai people's pockets bulging, to Manchun Manzai word for example, in 1998, the average household income of the Dai people in general in 15,000 yuan, in 2000 the average household income grew to 20,000 yuan.

As part of the overall planning of the scenic area, the Dai family's house was covered with a thick green shade, and the village was paved with a wide asphalt road.

The life of the Dai family has changed, become rich, solid, become calm, confident.

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